Items matching handwriting, greyscale (results page 6)

Title Page A Textbook on Ornamental Design (1901)

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2007-10-15

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Frontispiece, Judges V. 20. Astrology (1806)

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...]

Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-23

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St. Mark’s. Turrets Towers and Temples (1899)

St Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, Italy.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-05

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Frontispiece: St. Paul’s Catheral from Cheapside. English Cathedrals (1910)

St. Paul’s Cathedral in London replaced a much older building that was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.In the foreground a boy with a dustpan and trowel is [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, domes, buildings, roads, street scenes, children, horses, carriages, carts, trees, greyscale

Places shown: London; Longon; England

Added: 2020-10-15

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Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers Electric Lighting for Ships (1892)

Electric Lighting for Marine EngineersorHow to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in orderWith 103 illustrationsBy Sidney F. Walker M.I.E.E., M.I.M.E., Assoc. M.I.C.E [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-06

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Title Page from The Charm of Oxford The Charm of Oxford (1920)

THE CHARM OF OXFORD

by J. Wells, M.A.
Warden of Wadham College, Oxford

Illustrated by
W. G. Blackall

Simpkin, marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co. Ltd., 4 Stationers’ Hall Court : : London, E.C.4

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-14

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Title Page, Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

The title page from the Kelmscott edition of the works of Chaucer is, unusually, printed on a verso (i.e. the left-hand page of a double-page opening), which is why the outer border is wider on the le [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, foliated borders, leaves, vines, william morris, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-08

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Frontispiece: The Ostrich. Bible Animals (1877)

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider”—Job xxxix. 18.

The engraving shows an ostrich fleeing from a group of men on horses brandishing spears.

Keywords: birds, ostriches, people, horses, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-07-06

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Frontispiece 2: Grand Dining Saloon—S.S. Titanic. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of the interior of the original Titanic itself; the dining room.

Keywords: interiors, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Frontispiece: A Dream: Tertiary Man. Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A naked man sits in a tree hugging his knees, his bare feet dangling. Behind him is a lake or river with elephants grazing. A bird wades through a marsh in the foreground. The man has short hair and a [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2014-01-21

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Title Page Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The ornate title page from the 1916Chatterboxannual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy c [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Title Page The Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

The title page has a border of oak leaves and acorns and uses at least seven different ornate styles of type with flourishes. I made a separate image with just theoak-leaf full-page border.The Select [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, john bunyan, borders, victorian typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-13

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Frontispiece: View Near Selborne The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

View looking, I imagine, towards the distant Church in the village of Selborne. There are deer in the foreground, under the shade of a large tree.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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A Dream: Tertiary man (Ultra HD TV version) Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A detail cropped to a widescreen format from theFrontispieceshowing the naked youth sitting in a nest in a tree, with the river and elephants behind him.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, people, prehistory, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-21

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Children with their teacher Chatterbox Annual (1916)

A group of boys and girls surround a grown-up woman, perhaps their grandmother or perhaps their teacher, or perhaps both. The children are holding books; perhaps it is a reading lesson, or perhaps the [...]

Keywords: children, people, books, illustrations for children, greyscale, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Full-page oak-leaf border The Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

This engraved border of oak leaves and acorns would be ideal for an invitation to a sacred druidical confluence, but it’d also make a great frame for a wedding invitation or a certificate relating to [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, leaves, oak leaves, acorns, surrounds, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-13

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View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop Wallpaper The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

A detail taken from theFrontispieceshowing the deer under the tree, with ducks swimming on a pond in the background.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, ducks, wallpaper, backgrounds, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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Title Page from My Boy Lfe My Boy Life (1882)

MY BOY LIFE,PRESENTED IN A SUCCESSION OF TRUE STORIES,BYJOHN CARROLL, D.D.“The child is father to the man” – Wordsworth.A BOOK FOR OLD OR YOUNG[ornament]TORONTO: / WILLIAM BRIGGS, / 78 & 80 King Stree [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-02

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Victorian floral border from title page National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The title page of “National Portrait Gallery” is surrounded by this ornate and intricate floral border. The border contains four inset designs: the three lions of England, the rampant lion (i.e. side [...]

Keywords: borders, heraldry, victoriana, decorative elements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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Title Page The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

This title page is interesting in that the pieces of metal used to create spacing between the letters have in some places dropped down and carried ink, in the name of the publisher.

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-28

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