Items matching page images, colour (results page 7)

Title PageThe Land and the Book (1894)

The Land an the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of THE HOLY LAND By W. M. Thomson, D.D>, Thirty years missionary in Syria and Palestine. [i [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2021-01-11

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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

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Added: 2015-12-13

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The Great Court, Trinity CollegeCambridge (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 a Victorian border to 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 [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Victorian floral border, redThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A version of a printed floral Victorian border used to surround the page of an 1860 book. This version is coloured red like the original. Like many late nineteenth-century designs, this border is cle [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Types of ArmourThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears, colour

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Added: 2004-02-22

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Religious OrdersThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A note on page 90 reads: The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards th [...]

Keywords: monks, cathedrals, churches, interiors, colour

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Added: 2004-02-20

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and BrownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape VersionThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornamental book cover, with its baroque border, is marked Munich (München) 1922; presumably the book was either rebound or reissued in 1922.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2011-03-01

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Front cover, Gems by the WaysideGems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878)

Buckram or cloth with stamped pattern, with a gold inlay. I have made a separate image for the Victorian border formed by the stamped gold.

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Added: 2010-01-28

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Front CoverThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A Victorian binding.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2008-08-19

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Front Cover, SussexSussex Painted (1906)

By 1906 most books were being sold already bound, and cover designs were very much part of attracting sales. This book is bound in dark green cloth, with greenish-yellow writing and designs that might [...]

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-09-19

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Bible Symbols CartoucheBible Symbols (1908)

A detail from the front cover of the “Bible Symbols” book, with the words Bible Symbols in gold. If you want to replace the ettering, first clone out the existing lettering, or use the resynthesizer p [...]

Keywords: colour, cartouches, lettering

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Front CoverParis Avant l’Histoire (1885)

My copy of Paris avant l’Historire is bound in quarter-leather with marbled boards.

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Added: 2014-01-21

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Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of armsAlt-England (1888)

The endpapers of this German book about England have the royal coat of arms printed in gold on a field of a gold repeated stylized oak leaves motif. Endpapers are gloed to the inside of the front and [...]

Keywords: endpapers, gold, page images, coats of arms, crests, heraldry, patterns, colour

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Added: 2025-02-04

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Frontispiece: The Right Hon. Lord Penzance.National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

A colour portrait of Mr. James Plaisted Wilde, the fourth son of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., born in 1816. He became Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863; he wa [...]

Keywords: portraits, colour, people

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Added: 2010-07-28

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Front Cover, The British Isles (Vol 1)The British Isles (1905)

My copy is in 6 separate volumes, each bound in green with gold, and with one sections of the book in each volume.

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Added: 2006-07-05

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Bookplate in Volume 1Dictionnaire (1815)

The same bookplate is pasted into each of the four volumes. It has an heraldic crest, family shield, or coat of arms, with the motto tenax in fide, which is, “Steadfast in [the] faith” and is the mott [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour

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Added: 2007-10-12

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Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the OathRoyal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

Keywords: kings, people, beards, royalty, colour, robes, costumes, crowns

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Added: 2012-09-08

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