Items matching handwriting, greyscale (results page 3)

Cambridge: Title Page Cambridge (1920)

“CAMBRIDGE Described by Noel Barwell / Pictured by E. W. Haslehust

Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow”

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-21

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typographic ornament: flower pointing left 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, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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Title Page, Family Book Vol 5 Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The title page has at least five different lettering styles, and also includes a vignette, a small illustration, aPaddle steamer on stormy seas.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung h [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, lettering, vinettes, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Title Page, South by South East South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The title page uses at least three typefaces in a range of sizes, and includes an emblem for Marcus Ward, the publishers.Southe By East:Notes of Travel in Southern Europe.ByG. F. RODWELL,science maste [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-18

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Title Page Image (detail) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on [...]

Keywords: knights, horses, animals, people, dragons, battles, mythical creatures, armour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page The Land and the Book (1894)

The Land an the Book; or,Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery ofTHE HOLY LANDBy W. M. Thomson, D.D>,Thirty years missionary in Syria and Palestine.[image] [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2021-01-11

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Title Page Detail: Basket of Flowers Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

Keywords: flowers, ornaments, roses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-12

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Victorian border - floral The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A Victorian border (from 1860); the book has these borders printed around each page in the introduction, with several different borders used in sequence. I combined the borders for the left and right [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Paddle steamer on stormy seas Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on thetitle page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in t [...]

Keywords: ships, boats, storms, waves, water, lighthouses, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!The original (this version) was black; there are alsobrown and green borderversion, and asidways, or portra [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).

Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright.

Keywords: portraits, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-30

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Title Page for “Old English Country Cottages” Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Old English Country Cottages

Edited by Charles Holme

Offices of ‘The Studio,’ London, paris and new York, MCMVI

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-13

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Title Page Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

THE MEDIÆVAL STYLESOF THE ENGLISHPARISH CHURCHA Survey of their Development, Designand FeaturesbyF. E. HOWARDJoint Author of “English Church Woodworkduring the Mediæval Period.”Illustrated from Photog [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-10

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Chester, from the Alford Road. The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee.

Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2018-08-07

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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867.Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based on [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Title Page The Leisure Hour (1904)

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated MagazineforHome Reading.Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C.Atists in this volume:Barraud, AllanCopping, HaroldDunlop, M. P.Forestire, A.Finnemore,R.I., J.Fu [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Frontispiece: United States Capitol, Washington Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...]

Keywords: buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Washington; DC; USA

Added: 2009-01-25

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Frontispiece 1: A Titan of the polar sea lazily drifting with the current Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of an iceberg; it is not, I think, the one that sunk the Titanic; there is a photograph of that iceberg elsewhere in the book.

Keywords: icebergs, water, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers.I also m [...]

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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