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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 backgrou [...]

Keywords: borders, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-08

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Frontispiece: Jester and Monk The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

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Added: 2007-05-25

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Frontispiece: Watering My Flowers Our 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

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Added: 2007-10-05

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Title page detail: Scholarly King Bill 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

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Title page Archidoxes 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 AntipatheticalCureof Wounds and Diseases.The Mysteries of the twelve [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2023-03-15

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Title Page, Proverbs Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)

DIVERSPROVERBSWith their explication & illustrationCompiled and Methodically Digested as well for the Entertainment of the Curious as the Information of the Ignorant and for the Benefit of Young Stude [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2006-10-09

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Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles Emblems 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 Q [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-16

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Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Neptune and Mermaids A 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

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Added: 2007-10-10

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-30

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Music book and wreaths Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail fromthe musical borderfrom thetitle page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Title page, English Cathedrals English Cathedrals (1910)

ENGLISH CATHEDRALSCanterbury · Peterborough · DurhamSalisbury · Lichfield · Lincoln · Ely · WellsWinchester · Gloucester · York · Londonby Mrs. Schuyler van Renssalaer, author of “Henry Hobson Richard [...]

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-15

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Back cover The Leisure Hour (1896)

Even the back of this book has a floral decoration, in black against the blue cloth.

Keywords: book covers, flowers, colour

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Added: 2012-06-24

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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 notes, [...]

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Added: 2005-11-08

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Full-page arts and craft movement border The 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 thetitle pageof the William Morris edition o [...]

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

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Added: 2018-09-08

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Border of Peace from Front Cover. Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas

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Added: 2013-12-07

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Bible Animals Title Page Bible Animals (1877)

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Goblin Market Title Page Goblin Market (1933)

The title page ofGoblin Marketuses hand lettering by an uncredited artist, and also includes two woodcuts, one showinggoblins with bowls of fruitafter Arthur Rackham’s painted illustrations, and the o [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-10

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Goblins with bowls of fruit Goblin 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

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Added: 2010-05-10

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Printer’s Ornament, bunch of grapes Goblin 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

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Added: 2010-05-10

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

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

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Added: 2007-09-24

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