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

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book.full title page-detail: the decorative rosette-detail: the right-pointi [...]

Keywords: ornaments, typography, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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Title Page Some British Ballads (1919)

“Some British BalladsIllustrated by Arthur RackhamDodd 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 is of [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Frontispiece: Cathedral o Messina South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt.In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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

ArchitectureGothic and RenaissanceBy T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A.Professor of Architecture at University College, London.LondonSampson Low, Marston and Company, LimitedSt. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Household Treasures. The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving shows a woman one arm about a girl and the other about an older girl who in turn cuddles a small dog. There’s an ornate couch and a curtain held back with a rope in the background and th [...]

Keywords: children, people, animals, dogs, affection, cute, greyscale

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Added: 2016-12-05

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

This is a version of thered border from Page 27in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened).There are also agreenand abrownversion. To make your own version of this old page borde [...]

Keywords: borders, decorative elements, greyscale

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Added: 2008-03-04

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

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or wingedputti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significan [...]

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

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Added: 2013-04-19

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Cherub (cutout) Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

A cherub or “putto” isolated from his background.

See also thecherub in context.

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, boys, bare feet, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2013-04-21

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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

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Added: 2020-12-12

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

The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of PlantsSelected 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 Page Cambridge (1920)

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

Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow”

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-21

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

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book.full title page-detail: the decorative rosette-detail: the right-pointi [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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

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 East South 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.ByG. F. RODWELL,science maste [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-18

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Title Page Image (detail) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on [...]

Keywords: knights, horses, animals, people, dragons, battles, mythical creatures, armour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page The Land and the Book (1894)

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2021-01-11

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Title Page Detail: Basket of Flowers Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

Keywords: flowers, ornaments, roses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-12

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

A Victorian border (from 1860); the book has these borders printed around each page in the introduction, with several different borders used in sequence. I combined the borders for the left and right [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Paddle steamer on stormy seas Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on thetitle page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in t [...]

Keywords: ships, boats, storms, waves, water, lighthouses, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border The 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!The original (this version) was black; there are alsobrown and green borderversion, and asidways, or portra [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-17

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