Items matching maps, colour (results page 5)

Front Cover, Cambridge Cambridge (1920)

The front cover; my copy has a dust jacket which is in place in this scan.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Front Cover, Myths Every Child Should Know Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

The front cover shows King Midas, an illustration that also occurs in the book itself.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-29

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Front Cover of “England Beautiful” England Beautiful (1936)

Light brown buckram (cloth) binding with dark red/purple illustration.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-02

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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill Some British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare.This beautiful [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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Front Cover South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

Red buckram (I think) with gold leaf.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-17

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Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

The book was bound with quarter-leather at one time.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes anornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images ingreen-brown(most like the original),black(easiest to re-use) a [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, typography

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North. Venice (1907)

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Title Page, Benson Stock Images Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

The titlepage has the title and imprint information, the number 141 indicating a limited number of copies were made, and a subtle decorative border with lumps of dog vomit around the edges.Stock Desi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-16

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End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-21

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Red border from Page 27 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

The first chapter of the book has a decorative border around each page. This is a floral red border. You could use it as a photo border, although you might want to change the colour if you do that.S [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-26

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

This is a version of thered border from Page 27coloured green. There are also abrownand ablack and whiteversion. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the Red an [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements, frames, cartici, victorian borders, turquoise, teal

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-04

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

This is a version of thered border from Page 27coloured a sepia brown. There are also agreenand ablack and whiteversion. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for th [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-04

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

This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding.In the transcription here, the Latin came from Go [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-23

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Shabby-Chic Cartouche! Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This cartouche or frame is supported by two winged cherubs orputti, each holding rope with many tassels that connects to a broad-brimmed hat surmounting the frame. There is also a small cross. You can [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-18

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Title Page, Cosmography and Astrology The Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

The title page to the section ofThe Gentleman’s Recreationis well-known for having the misspellingCosmgrarhyat the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy (whi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-12-12

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Titlepage Illustration: The Faithful Guardian. The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

A small child, presumably a little girl, wearing a frilly lace bonnet, a dress, white stockings and tiny slippers, sits or half-kneels on the floor clutching a small dog—a puppy judging by the size of [...]

Keywords: children, infants, animals, dogs, cute, affection, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-12-13

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The Great Court, Trinity College Cambridge (1920)

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Victorian border around page 49 (detail, coloured) The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

I coloured this detail from aVictorian borderto give a better idea of the detail, and to show something that could be done with it. If you have used one of these borders, use the Comment link below t [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-24

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