Items matching handwriting, greyscale (results page 8)

Title page for Circling the Year The Circling Year (1870)

The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry s [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, spring, summer, autumn, winter, greyscale

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Added: 2018-02-18

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Border of Roses and Thorns Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-23

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General Grant’s signature Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)

This was underneath the frontispiece showing the young Grant at the age of 21.

Keywords: handwriting, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-07

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Frontispiece: Alice and the White Knight Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“It was a glorious victory, wasn”t it?’ said the White Knight, as he came up panting.“I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.”“So you will, [...]

Keywords: knights, alice, horses, armour, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Fanny in the Library. Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A girl sits in a chair gazin out of the window. She rests her chin on her arm. She has a ribbon in her hair tied in a bow, a dress that goes just over her knees, stockings, and shoes. The window has [...]

Keywords: children, boredom, windows, people, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-18

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Initial Letter T Woodcut A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap (drop capital). It features palm trees and buildings in the background, perhaps intended to be evocative of the Holy Land.

Keywords: initials, lettert, greyscale

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Added: 2007-07-31

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Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized The Circling Year (1870)

This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds thetitlepageof the book.This version is proport [...]

Keywords: borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2018-02-20

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From Her Boy A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

The picture shows a boy holding a large book open, as if to read, or to offer the book to someone. He has his head cocked to one side as if listening, or perhaps asking for permission. The book’s ded [...]

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

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Added: 2007-03-08

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Rococo headpiece My Boy Life (1882)

This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a chapter (in this case, the table of contents). It features curly vines with syilized leaves surrounding a central cir [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, ornaments, pouring water, aquarius, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-01

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Title Page, New Testament Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

The title page has a floriated border full of wild flowers (including thorns), a bird (possibly a partridge) and flowers. There’s some decorative Victorian type, too.There is a version that’s just the [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Irregular border of flowers, birds and nature Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves even has a pairof nesting birds in it. It came from thetitle pageof the second half of this book.There is also a version of theborder coloured gree [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Title Page, Error’s Chains Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken (1884)

The title page is very typical for an 1880s reference work in the USA:ERROR’S CHAINS:How forged and broken.A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen in [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2023-03-10

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Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897)

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley engraved by Francis Holl after a miniature in the possession of Shelley’s son.

Keywords: portraits, people, men, writers, poets, authors, youth, books, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-09

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Bookplate The Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, handwriting

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boy My Boy Life (1882)

This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a section of the book. It features diamond knotwork branching into grape vines with rococo stylized leaves, but the pro [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, sadness, grief, boys, people, headpieces, ornaments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2018-08-20

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Bookplate detail: family crest The Holy Court (1663)

The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from theBookplateimage.

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page, The Sun’s Babies The Sun’s Babies (1910)

A fairly plain title page but with the title in a box, and a double line border around the whole page.

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Title Page, the Leisure Hour The Leisure Hour (1896)

Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley.The Leisure Hour56 Paternost [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-12-14

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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872 Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

GOOD WORDSFOR 1872The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image t [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-28

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Victorian vine-leaf page border Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design.

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-28

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