Items matching title pages, greyscale (results page 9)

Victorian Border, Black on White.Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

This Victorian Floral Border is taken from the front cover. Gold border on a black background. Red border on a white background. Black border on a white background. Moody silver border on a black back [...]

Keywords: borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-09

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Frontispiece: Watering My FlowersOur Village (1893)

A lady stands in the path of an English thatched country cottage garden; she wears a dress, a bonnet and dainty shoes, and holds in one hand a watering can, with which she is watering the garden.

Keywords: people, gardens, rural elegance, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-05

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Title page detail: Scholarly KingBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled.

Keywords: cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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Title pageArchidoxes of Magic: Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature (1656)

PARACELSUS[:] Of the Supreme Mysteries or Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. Of Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, an Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-03-15

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Title Page, ProverbsDictionary of Proverbs (1917)

DIVERS PROVERBS With their explication & illustration Compiled and Methodically Digested as well for the Entertainment of the Curious as the Information of the Ignorant and for the Benefit of Young St [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2006-10-10

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Title Page Detail: Francis QuarlesEmblems Divine and Moral (1866)

A supposed portrait of the author, Francis Quarles, taken from the title page. He is shown with a goatee beard in appropriate seventeenth-century style, and holding a book. Short biography of Francis [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-16

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Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Neptune and MermaidsA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative woodcut from above the Introduction; it is not related to the text. The engraving features Neptune, the God of the Ocean; he is naked, crowned, complete with trident, and rides a chariot [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, water, horses, transport, chapterheads, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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Title Page, Le Musée Artistique et LittéraireMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-31

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Title page, English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

ENGLISH CATHEDRALS Canterbury · Peterborough · Durham Salisbury · Lichfield · Lincoln · Ely · Wells Winchester · Gloucester · York · London by Mrs. Schuyler van Renssalaer, author of “Henry Hobson Ric [...]

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-16

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Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

The title page of the 1879 edition is as follows: The “Chandos Classics.” The Natural History of Selborne, and The Naturalist’s Calendar. By the Rev. Filbert White, A.M. A new edition, edited with not [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2005-11-08

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Full-page arts and craft movement borderThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This ful-page border, frame, or surround is made with an intricate design of grape leaves and swirling vines and includes bunches of grapes. It’s taken from the title page of the William Morris editio [...]

Keywords: foliated borders, borders, arts and crafts movement, arts and crafts, grapevines, grapes, vines, leaves, surrounds, frames, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-08

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Bible Animals Title PageBible Animals (1877)

Wood’s Bible Animals. A description of the habits, structure, and uses of every living creature mentioned in the scriptures, from the ape to the coral; and explaining all those passages in the old and [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-07-07

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Frontispiece: Hindoo Temple at GoruckinathThe Youth’s Instructer and Guardian (1830)

A small pair of buildings next to each other in the foreground have two flagpoles raised in front of them, although the flags themselves are drawn plain white in this engraving. One of these buildings [...]

Keywords: temples, religion, hindu temples, people, domes, trees, banyan trees, mango trees, greyscale

Places shown: Gorakhnath Math; Gorakhpur; Uttar Pradesh; India

Added: 2026-08-30

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Goblin Market Title PageGoblin Market (1933)

The title page of Goblin Market uses hand lettering by an uncredited artist, and also includes two woodcuts, one showing goblins with bowls of fruit after Arthur Rackham’s painted illustrations, and t [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-11

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Goblins with bowls of fruitGoblin Market (1933)

This woodcut from the title page shows several goblins bearing fresh fruit, probably from a drawing by Arthur Rackham.

Keywords: goblins, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-11

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Printer’s Ornament, bunch of grapesGoblin Market (1933)

This woodut of a bunch of grapes was taken from the title page of the book; it is sketched in the style of the other illustrations in this children’s book, but is used as if it were a printer’s flower [...]

Keywords: ornaments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-11

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Frontispiece 3: Capt. E. J. SmithWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, uniforms, costumes, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-25

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Title page from A Child’s Garden of VersesA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A small boy kneels next to a watering-can and a (dangerously) upturned rake; he holds a flower to examine. On either side of him, two tall stalks grow with flowers; perhaps they are hollyhocks. The [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, flowers, children

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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Title page for Circling the YearThe Circling Year (1870)

The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry s [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, spring, summer, autumn, winter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-18

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Border of Roses and ThornsDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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