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Inigo Jones The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

Inigo Jones, along with Sir Christopher Wren, is surely one of the most famous of architects in England.“Inigo Jones was born on July 15, 1573, in the Parish of St. Bartholemew’s Smithfield, and was c [...]

Keywords: portraits, architecture, people, architects, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-28

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Title Page from Royal Children of English History Royal Children of English History (1904)

Royal Children of English HistoryFrom Alfred the Great to Edward SeventhTold for boys and girlsA True and Instructive Story of England’s Royal Princes Who Became Famous. A History of Nearly One Thous [...]

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Added: 2012-09-08

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Title Page, The Brothers Dalziel Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

The Brothers DalzielA Record of fifty years’ work in conjunction with many of the most distinguished artists of the period 1840—1890With selected pictures by, and autograph lettersfrom Lord Leighton, [...]

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Added: 2006-11-09

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Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . .Tate GalleryFrom a painting by Rossetti.Because mine eyes can never have their fillOf looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gazeThat I may become bless’d, behol [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Printer’s Mark: Gryphon Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

The printer’s mark from the title page is in the form of a winged lion with the head of a bird,en passent, one paw raised, standing on a plinth on whic is inscribed a date,MSCSL, which is, 1690, presu [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, printers marks, gryphons, greyscale

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Added: 2014-03-21

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Boy thumbing his nose out of a window Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose, or perhaps pretending to play the flute. He has curly hair.I am not [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Titlepage from Works of Goethe Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

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Added: 2009-10-18

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleep A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry, colour

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Added: 2007-08-24

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Bookplate from Leland’s Itinerary Vol I The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

My copy has this book-plate (ex libris) pasted inside the front cover. It has a family crest with the motto “Pour Y Parvenir” (just do it) and the nameLouisa Julia Mannersbeneath it. This is the crest [...]

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Added: 2007-05-20

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Title Page The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Title page from volume I:The Life of Anthony à WoodFro the Year 1632 to 1672,Written by Himself, and Published byMr. Thomas Hearne.Now Continued to the Time of his Death from Authentic Materials.The w [...]

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Added: 2006-03-11

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Title page, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How Oxford (1910)

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Added: 2006-10-19

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Title Page, Art In England Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart PeriodsWritten by Aymer Vallance, With a Note on the First Century of England Engraving by Malcolm C. Salaman. Illustrations after drawings by Wilfrid [...]

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Added: 2006-10-09

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Title Page, Memorials of Old Hampshire Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

MEMORIALS OF OLD HAMPSHIREEdited by G. E. Jeans, M.A., F.S.A.Vicar of Shorwell and Rector of Mottiston, Isle of WightFellow of Hertford College, OxfordAuthor and Editor of“Murray’s Handbooks for Linco [...]

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Added: 2006-10-11

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves. Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book.I will add the table of conte [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Frontispiece: “Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!” Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

“At length—not that he was weary, but only idle and luxurious—Pegasus folded his wings, and lay down on the soft green turf. But, being too full of aërial life to remain quiet for many moments togeth [...]

Keywords: mythology, mythical creatures, people, illustrations for children, colour

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Added: 2006-07-29

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Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-18

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Title Page Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

Bill Nye’s History of EnglandFrom the Druids to the Reign of Henry VIII.Illustrated by W. M. Goodes and A. m. RichardsPhiladelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company1900There is a drawing of a king scratching [...]

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Added: 2006-06-10

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A Siege of the Fifteenth Century Castles (1926)

From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum.The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by th [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, people, weapons, soldiers, towers

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Added: 2010-08-13

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Title Page A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

Title Page from John Ray’s book of English proverbs.a compleatCOLLECTIONofEnglishProverbs;alsoThe most CelebratedProverbsof theScotch,  Italian, French, Spanish,and other Languages.The whole methodica [...]

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Added: 2007-07-31

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Title Page These Be Your Gods (1929)

These Be Your Gods

By Leslie Roberts

Illustrated by A. G. Racey

The Musson Book Compamy Ltd.
Toronto

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Added: 2006-09-03

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