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Dedication page With Cartouche Art-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text.At the foot of the page, under the text, and su [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Oval or Elliptical Victorian Frame Art-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from thededication pageof the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text.At the foot of the page, und [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M. Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-03

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The Thames Illustrated: Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore.The Thame [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-20

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Title Page Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home CyclopediaHand-book of the useful arts; includingagriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art:being an exposi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-04

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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on thetitle page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2009-03-07

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Book Inscription Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite thebookplatethere is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

Keywords: handwriting, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Detail from title page Cambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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typographic ornament: rosette The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book.full title page-detail: the decorative rosette-detail: the right-pointing flower-detail: th [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing right The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book.full title page-detail: the decorative rosette-detail: the right-pointi [...]

Keywords: ornaments, typography, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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Title Page Some British Ballads (1919)

“Some British BalladsIllustrated by Arthur RackhamDodd Mead & Co.New York.”There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth is of [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Frontispiece: Cathedral o Messina South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt.In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

ArchitectureGothic and RenaissanceBy T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A.Professor of Architecture at University College, London.LondonSampson Low, Marston and Company, LimitedSt. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Household Treasures. The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving shows a woman one arm about a girl and the other about an older girl who in turn cuddles a small dog. There’s an ornate couch and a curtain held back with a rope in the background and th [...]

Keywords: children, people, animals, dogs, affection, cute, greyscale

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Added: 2016-12-05

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of thered border from Page 27in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened).There are also agreenand abrownversion. To make your own version of this old page borde [...]

Keywords: borders, decorative elements, greyscale

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Cartouche from Dedication Page Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or wingedputti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significan [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, ornaments, nudity, bare feet, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2013-04-19

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Cherub (cutout) Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

A cherub or “putto” isolated from his background.

See also thecherub in context.

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, boys, bare feet, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2013-04-21

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Title Page, Craftsman’s Plant Book Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of PlantsSelected fromthe herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2021-07-16

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