Items matching title pages, greyscale (results page 11)

Title PageThe Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897)

The title page has a red border with Maltese Cross ornaments at the corners. There is a stamp at the bottom, English Book Exchange, 333 Florida 333, Buenos Aries although I bought the book in St. Cath [...]

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

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Added: 2018-07-09

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Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boyMy Boy Life (1882)

This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a section of the book. It features diamond knotwork branching into grape vines with rococo stylized leaves, but the pro [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, sadness, grief, boys, people, headpieces, ornaments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2018-08-20

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Bookplate detail: family crestThe Holy Court (1663)

The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from the Bookplate image.

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page, The Sun’s BabiesThe Sun’s Babies (1910)

A fairly plain title page but with the title in a box, and a double line border around the whole page.

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Title Page, the Leisure HourThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley. The Leisure Hour 56 Paterno [...]

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Added: 2006-12-15

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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image [...]

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Added: 2008-07-29

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Victorian vine-leaf page borderRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design.

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-29

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Title PageWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Wreck and Sinking of the TITANIC The Ocean’s Greatest Disaster A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the greatest Floating Palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,50 [...]

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Added: 2007-09-25

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Title Page, Pentateuch of PrintingPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

Two stern figures hold up an ornate title page. The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges. Biblia Sacra Psalterium Moguntianum by William Blades, Typographer Gutenberg Zell Aldus Verard Cost [...]

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Added: 2006-07-02

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Bishopric of St. AsaphThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

A woodcut of two vintage keys (skeleton keys), crossed one over the other, their handles towards the bottom, taken from an heraldic shield. St. Asaph is a city in Denbigh in Wales, and is one of the s [...]

Keywords: heraldry, keys, symbols, bishops, greyscale

Places shown: St. Asaph; Flint; Wales

Added: 2019-01-20

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Title PageOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

The Book Of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval, from the eighth century, with numerals, including Gothic; Church Text;, Large and Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, monograms, [...]

Keywords: title pages, colour

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Added: 2006-03-29

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FrontispieceCuriosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Chained Bible in Cumnor Church

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books, greyscale

Places shown: Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-01-18

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FrontispieceLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Title PageChild Classics of Prose (1893)

Unusually, this title page has an even number of text blocks; the wide spacing of the two lines of the main title might have been thought enough to split the title into two and create a fifth block or [...]

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Added: 2018-07-14

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Chapter head: cherubs playing gamesDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book.

Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, borders, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-03

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Foliated chapter-head with geometric borderDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Egyptian-inspired geometric border containing a fleur-de-lys in a circle between two vine branches. It was at the head of the first index page. The border style was popular in the nineteenth centur [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, fleurs de lys, vines, geometric borders, greyscale

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Added: 2013-07-10

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Decorative initial letter IDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A decorative initial capital letter “I” used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. This was probably cut into the side of a block of wood, which might explain why the letter is not quite vertical; [...]

Keywords: initials, letteri, floriated initials, criblé, greyscale

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Added: 2013-07-12

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Title PageTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs From the “DE SS MARTYRUM CRUCIATIBUS” OF THE REV. FATHER GALLONIO Now for the first time translated and adapted By A. R. Allinson, M.A. Oxon. “others had [...]

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Added: 2006-03-26

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Title Page: Andrews’ CuriositiesCuriosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

The text reads as follows:Curiosities of the ChurchStudies of Curious Customes, Services, and Records.By William Andrews, F.R.H.S., author of “Old Church Lore,” “Old-time Punishments,” “Historic Yorks [...]

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Added: 2005-01-18

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Title PageOud Nederland (1927)

A photograph (not a scan) of the title page. The text reads as follows: OUD-NEDERLAND EEN VERZAMELING DER BELANGRIJKSTE GEZICHTEN, STEDEN, DORPEN EN KASTEELEN UIT VROEGER EEUWEN INLEIDING VAN Prof. D [...]

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Added: 2005-10-14

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