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Imprint Page The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image,Fox and Goose.

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Added: 2009-01-27

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations The Holy Court (1663)

Detail fromthe spine of the book(the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Irregular border of flowers, birds and nature Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves even has a pairof nesting birds in it. It came from thetitle pageof the second half of this book.There is also a version of theborder coloured gree [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Fox and Goose Decoateive Element The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.

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Added: 2009-01-27

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Green floriated border Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves even has a bird in it. It came from thetitle pageof the second half of this book.The original was ablack and white floral borderaround the title pa [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Bible Symbols Title Page Bible Symbols (1908)

Some people say that a good title page should contain an odd number of clumps of text; here there are five, so this must be good, right? I have also made a separate image out of thepurple borderaround [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border Bible Symbols (1908)

This vine-leaf border is characteristic of the late Victorian era; although this book was printed in 1908, it was first published in 1904, and is on the cusp between Victorian and Edwardian. It is pr [...]

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Title Page, Error’s Chains Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken (1884)

The title page is very typical for an 1880s reference work in the USA:ERROR’S CHAINS:How forged and broken.A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen in [...]

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Added: 2023-03-10

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Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897)

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley engraved by Francis Holl after a miniature in the possession of Shelley’s son.

Keywords: portraits, people, men, writers, poets, authors, youth, books, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-09

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Bookplate The Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page The 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 Ariesalthough I bought the book in St. Catheri [...]

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 boy My 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 crest The 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 theBookplateimage.

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page, The Sun’s Babies The 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 Hour The 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 Hour56 Paternost [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-12-14

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

GOOD WORDSFOR 1872The 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 t [...]

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Added: 2008-07-28

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Victorian vine-leaf page border Record 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: 2008-07-28

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Cover of the book Oud Nederland (1927)

Transcription of the text:

OUD-NEDERLAND

EEN VERZAMELING DER
BELANGRIJKSTE GEZICHTEN,
STEDEN, DORPEN EN KASTEELEN
UIT VROEGER EEUWEN

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Added: 2005-10-14

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The book cover for “The Story of Some English Shires” The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Green and gold book cover.

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Added: 2005-06-20

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Front Cover Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Showing the front cover of the book.

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Added: 2006-05-28

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