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Front Cover Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

Keywords: book covers, art deco, statuary, statues, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Ornament The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a knight’s helmet with a sword and arrows.

Keywords: weapons, ornaments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-06-15

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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vine The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-06-15

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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The caption reads,History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. HooperThe image is signed, S. Spurrow sc [...]

Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-28

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Title Page, Antiquities of England and Wales The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The Antiquities of England and WalesBy Francis Grose, Esq. F.A.S.Vol. I. New Edition.[picture of a tomb in a ruined castle or abbey]London Printed for S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holburn, facing Southamp [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-22

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Title Page Art-Journal (1850)

The title page of the collected issues of the Art-Journal for the year 1850.The title page is mostly taken up with a drawing (engraved) of a group of three topless women standing on an ancient sarcoph [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Ornate Rectangular Frame Art-Journal (1850)

This ornate rectangular frame or cartouche surrounded the volume number of the magazine on the title page. I liked the flourishes on the top and inside, with a hint of acanthus leaves.I have made sepa [...]

Keywords: frames, borders, cartici, acanthus, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and Architecture Art-Journal (1850)

This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing.A group of three topless women stand on an ancient sarcophagus; the women represent sculpture (with a hammer [...]

Keywords: cartici, frames, borders, art, architecture, sculpture, painting, people, statuary, circular, sarcophagi, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Dedication page With Cartouche Art-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text.At the foot of the page, under the text, and su [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Oval or Elliptical Victorian Frame Art-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from thededication pageof the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text.At the foot of the page, und [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M. Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-03

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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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The Thames Illustrated: Title Page The 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 Thame [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-20

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Title Page Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home CyclopediaHand-book of the useful arts; includingagriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art:being an exposi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-04

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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on thetitle page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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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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Detail from title page Cambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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typographic ornament: rosette The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book.full title page-detail: the decorative rosette-detail: the right-pointing flower-detail: th [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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