Items matching title pages, greyscale (results page 133)

King reflecting in courtAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ [... the [...]

Keywords: alice, humour, courtrooms, royalty, kings, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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Nothing but a pack of cards!Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. ‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’ At t [...]

Keywords: alice, cards, games, people, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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New TestamentGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, Conferred diligently with the Greek, and best approved translations in diverse languages.Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queen’s M [...]

Keywords: books, bibles, page images, title pages, religion, colour

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Added: 2004-05-10

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Decorated. Stoke Golding. Leicestershire.Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

The baptismal font here stands on a raised stone platform and is next to a pillar. It does not feature angels, and hence is a sans-seraph font. The engraving is signed: the sketch was by the Reverend [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Stoke Golding; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2026-07-19

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Norman. Little Billing, Northamptonshire.Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Norman] LITTLE BILLING. This jar-like and singular Font may be placed early in the Norman period; both irregular in shape and rude in workmanship, it is chiefly interesting for [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, inscriptions, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Little Billing; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Chalk, KentIllustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

This pleasing specimen of a plain Norman Font is cut in Purbeck Marble, but now white-washed. It is 2ft. 5½in. high; 1ft. 6½in. across the top; the bowl is 12in. deep, lined with lead, and with a wa [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Chalk; Kent; England

Added: 2013-01-24

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Decorated. Strubby, LincolnshireIllustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural period: Decorated] STRUBBY. The design of the bowl of this Font was not unfrequent in the fourteenth century; it is octagonal, and every side is enriched with Decorated tracery, differi [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Strubby; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Early English. King’s Cliff, NorthamptonshireIllustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Early English] KING’S CLIFF Is a strong and massive Early English Font. The bowl is cupshaped, and supported on an octagonal shaft of nearly equal dimensions. It is ornamented [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: King’s Cliff; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Decorated. Market Bosworth, LeicestershireIllustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Early English] This Font stands at the west end of the nave, and is raised on two steps, with a third and a kneeling-stone attached. Its form is hexagonal, having each side of [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, carving, church architecture, greyscale, fonts, shields, heraldry

Places shown: Market Bosworth; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2025-10-27

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Gawdey of Norfolk: The silver tortoiseThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

An heraldic emblazon (a shield) showing an old woodcut of a tortoise.

Keywords: heraldry, animals, tortoises, shields, reptiles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-09

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Haynes School Charter from 1850Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

Somehow i ended up with this manuscript, which authorized the founding of a Church school for the poor in Haynes, Bedfordshire, UK, in 1850. Probably this was the school that’s in the South-West cor [...]

Keywords: ephemera, paper, contracts, calligraphy, copperplate, script, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Haynes Chrch End; Haynes; Milton Keynes; bedfordshire; England

Added: 2021-06-27

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Heraldic Crest and Symbols of ArtIl Museo Pio Clementino (1792)

This heraldic crest is from the title page to Volume IV of the huge book. If you are able to give a formal description of this image I’d love to hear from you; informally, it shows an armorial bearin [...]

Keywords: heraldry, shields, crests, science, symbols, mathematics, coins, money, nudity, people, cherubs, mythical creatures, centaurs, art, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-12

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Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from StuttgartVarious Initial Letters and Alphabets (1850)

Otto Weisert was a type-maker in Stuttgart, in Germany. Although he is best known today for the typeface Arnold Boecklin, he made many other designs; this one is Initialen No. 17, or Initial No.18. Th [...]

Keywords: alphabets, complete alphabets, decorative initials, initial letters, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-07-28

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Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent MoonModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1890)

A decorative initial, vignetted, inhabited: a drop cap. A large thin spidery letter W at the upper right of a picture of a naked man with wings and with horns on his head, a demon, perhaps, dragging a [...]

Keywords: initials, letterw, drop caps, demons, supernatural creatures, moon, nudity, bare feet, men, women, people, kidnapping, devils, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2026-05-21

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captions for plates 57 – 64Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The captions are in German, and I cannot understand them. If you want to send them to me (UTF-8 please!) I’ll put the transcriptions up on the pages for the corresponding plates.

Keywords: captions, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-11

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up aliveWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The chapter heading is Chap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page say The woful Deaths of Wi [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale

Places shown: Prague; Bohemia

Added: 2006-03-17

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A Blasphemer turned into a black dogWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog.

Keywords: religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-28

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A Woman torn in pieces by the Devil. pa. 14.Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, bo [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-29

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Avenue of SighsModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

In the Modern Kuinst book from which I scanned this full-page engraving, the picture is captioned (in German) Leaf Walk, but it was originally exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstaustellung in 1901 w [...]

Keywords: nature, trees, paths, forests, spirits, spirit, ghosts, spooky, peaceful, peacefulness, quiet, peace, people, walking, autumn, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2024-11-08

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G. Tornai: At the haremModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A woman, baring her breasts, is dancing in a harem, one arm over her heard, her feet bare. In the background a musician plays a lyre; another woman serves Moroccan-style tea on an octagonal side-table [...]

Keywords: harems, slavers, slavery, nudity, breasts, women, people, dancing, music, dance, oriental, middle eastern, interiors, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-05-17

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