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Title Page, New Testament

1056x1400, 151x200, 528x700

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

The title page has a floriated border full of wild flowers (including thorns), a pair of nesting birds (possibly partridges?) and flowers. There’s some decorative Victorian type, too. There is a vers [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-01

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Irregular border of flowers, birds and nature

1256x1664, 151x200, 2512x3328, 604x800, 906x1200

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

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. There is also a version of the border col [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-01

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page, Error’s Chains

1051x1550, 136x200, 509x750

Title Page, Error’s ChainsError’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 falle [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-03-10

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Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley

148x200, 1933x2605, 556x750, 966x1303

Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-09

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boy

1752x422, 3504x844, 812x200

Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boyMy 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Bookplate detail: family crest

1268x1699, 149x200, 2535x3398, 634x850

Bookplate detail: family crestThe 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 the Bookplate image.

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-21

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page, The Sun’s Babies

148x200, 555x750, 919x1241

Title Page, The Sun’s BabiesThe 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page, the Leisure Hour

1046x1558, 134x200, 572x852, 763x1137

Title Page, the Leisure HourThe 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 Hour 56 Paterno [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-14

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872

133x200, 408x613, 545x818, 726x1091, 968x1454

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

GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 The 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 [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Victorian vine-leaf page border

126x200, 1311x2087, 553x880, 737x1174, 983x1565

Victorian vine-leaf page borderRecord 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page

138x200, 523x755, 701x1012, 934x1349

Title PageWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Wreck and Sinking of the TITANIC The Ocean’s Greatest Disaster A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the greatest Floating Palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,50 [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing

151x200, 597x792, 796x1056

Title Page, Pentateuch of PrintingPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

Two stern figures hold up an ornate title page. The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges. Biblia Sacra Psalterium Moguntianum by William Blades, Typographer Gutenberg Zell Aldus Verard Cost [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-01

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Bishopric of St. Asaph

1296x1175, 221x200, 259x235, 2591x2350, 750x680

Bishopric of St. AsaphThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

A woodcut of two vintage keys (skeleton keys), crossed one over the other, their handles towards the bottom, taken from an heraldic shield. St. Asaph is a city in Denbigh in Wales, and is one of the s [...]

Keywords: heraldry, keys, symbols, bishops, greyscale

Places shown: St. Asaph; Flint; Wales

Added: 2019-01-19

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece

1169x1375, 170x200, 2080x2446, 658x774, 877x1031

FrontispieceCuriosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Chained Bible in Cumnor Church

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books, greyscale

Places shown: Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-01-17

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Frontispiece

155x200, 701x905, 935x1207

FrontispieceLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page

157x200, 549x700, 940x1200

Title PageChild Classics of Prose (1893)

Unusually, this title page has an even number of text blocks; the wide spacing of the two lines of the main title might have been thought enough to split the title into two and create a fifth block or [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-14

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Chapter head: cherubs playing games

1161x321, 1548x428, 653x181, 725x200, 871x241

Chapter head: cherubs playing gamesDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book.

Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, borders, ornament, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-02

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Foliated chapter-head with geometric border

1000x277, 2000x553, 412x200, 700x194

Foliated chapter-head with geometric borderDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Egyptian-inspired geometric border containing a fleur-de-lys in a circle between two vine branches. It was at the head of the first index page. The border style was popular in the nineteenth centur [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, fleurs de lys, vines, geometric borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-07-09

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Decorative initial letter I

1032x1025, 200x200, 2064x2050, 750x745

Decorative initial letter IDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A decorative initial capital letter “I” used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. This was probably cut into the side of a block of wood, which might explain why the letter is not quite vertical; [...]

Keywords: initials, letteri, floriated initials, criblé, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-07-11

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Frontispiece: Map of England

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Frontispiece: Map of EnglandA Short History of the English People (1902)

This 1902 map shows an England of over 100 years ago. It is attributed to Stanford’s Geographical Establishment.

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-08-26

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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