Items matching trees, greyscale (results page 6)

Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain Cathedral Cities of France (1907)

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon,Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century.“Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and is [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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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

Places shown: none

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 [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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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 [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-03

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Frontispiece: She clipped a precious golden lock Goblin Market (1933)

Laura snips off a lock of her golden hair to give to the goblin fairy folk, so that she can buy something to eat and drink.But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste:“Good folk, I have no coin;To take were [...]

Keywords: goblins, people, trees, forests, colour, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Ornate rococo baroque capital letter M Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A rococo decorative initial letter “M” taken from the title page. It is repeated on page 66 as a drop cap (drop capital), where it is given this caption:Lettre tirée d’un livre italien du commencemen [...]

Keywords: letterm, initials, floriated initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-06

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Title Page, Round The Coast Round The Coast (1895)

ROUND THE COASTAN album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interst in Great Britain and Ireland.George Newness LimitedSouthampton Street, and exeter Street Strand, London, W.C [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-28

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Title Page A Textbook on Ornamental Design (1901)

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-15

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Frontispiece, Judges V. 20. Astrology (1806)

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...]

Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-23

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St. Mark’s. Turrets Towers and Temples (1899)

St Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, Italy.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-05

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Frontispiece: St. Paul’s Catheral from Cheapside. English Cathedrals (1910)

St. Paul’s Cathedral in London replaced a much older building that was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.In the foreground a boy with a dustpan and trowel is [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, domes, buildings, roads, street scenes, children, horses, carriages, carts, trees, greyscale

Places shown: London; Longon; England

Added: 2020-10-15

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Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers Electric Lighting for Ships (1892)

Electric Lighting for Marine EngineersorHow to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in orderWith 103 illustrationsBy Sidney F. Walker M.I.E.E., M.I.M.E., Assoc. M.I.C.E [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-06

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Title Page from The Charm of Oxford The Charm of Oxford (1920)

THE CHARM OF OXFORD

by J. Wells, M.A.
Warden of Wadham College, Oxford

Illustrated by
W. G. Blackall

Simpkin, marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co. Ltd., 4 Stationers’ Hall Court : : London, E.C.4

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-14

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Title Page, Kelmscott Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

The title page from the Kelmscott edition of the works of Chaucer is, unusually, printed on a verso (i.e. the left-hand page of a double-page opening), which is why the outer border is wider on the le [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, foliated borders, leaves, vines, william morris, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-08

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Frontispiece: The Ostrich. Bible Animals (1877)

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider”—Job xxxix. 18.

The engraving shows an ostrich fleeing from a group of men on horses brandishing spears.

Keywords: birds, ostriches, people, horses, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-07-06

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Frontispiece 2: Grand Dining Saloon—S.S. Titanic. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of the interior of the original Titanic itself; the dining room.

Keywords: interiors, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Frontispiece: A Dream: Tertiary Man. Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A naked man sits in a tree hugging his knees, his bare feet dangling. Behind him is a lake or river with elephants grazing. A bird wades through a marsh in the foreground. The man has short hair and a [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2014-01-21

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Title Page Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The ornate title page from the 1916Chatterboxannual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy c [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Title Page The Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

The title page has a border of oak leaves and acorns and uses at least seven different ornate styles of type with flourishes. I made a separate image with just theoak-leaf full-page border.The Select [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, john bunyan, borders, victorian typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-13

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