Items matching page images, colour (results page 6)

The Thames Illustrated: Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. The Tham [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Title PageHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home Cyclopedia Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exp [...]

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Added: 2006-04-04

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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 ImagesStock 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 Des [...]

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

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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

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Added: 2011-08-17

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Book InscriptionCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite the bookplate there is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

Keywords: handwriting, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Title PageSome British Ballads (1919)

“Some British Ballads Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Dodd Mead & Co. New York.” There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth i [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and RenaissanceArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

Architecture Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London. London Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Red border from Page 27The 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. [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

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Added: 2007-02-26

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

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured green. There are also a brown and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the [...]

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

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Added: 2008-03-04

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

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured a sepia brown. There are also a green and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Dedication PageEccles. 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 G [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

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Added: 2013-04-23

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Gold endpaperNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

The endpapers of a book hold the cover to the body of the book. Older books, leather-bound, often have ridges on the spine; this is where string is threaded through to hold the signatures, the folded [...]

Keywords: endpapers, book binding, colour, vines, leaves, patterns, borders, page images, full-page borders

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Added: 2025-04-27

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

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

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

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Added: 2013-04-18

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Vintage endpaper border with flowering vineNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

This elegant border is taken from the endpapers of a deluxe printed book from 1881. It features stylized flowers and seed pods on a vine. The middle is solid white; if you want to ake it transparent i [...]

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, floriated borders, foliated borders, good, yellow, colour

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Added: 2025-04-27

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

The title page to the section of The Gentleman’s Recreation is well-known for having the misspelling Cosmgrarhy at the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy [...]

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

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Added: 2020-12-12

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Title Page, Craftsman’s Plant BookCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of Plants Selected fromthe herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2021-07-16

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Cambridge: Title PageCambridge (1920)

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

Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow”

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Added: 2006-06-21

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Title Page, Family Book Vol 5Illustrirtes 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, a Paddle steamer on stormy seas. Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung [...]

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 EastSouth 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. By G. F. RODWELL, science [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-18

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