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Front cover in red and goldPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

The front cover of this 1856 children’s book seems to have had something happen to it as some point to wear the gold off the bottom half.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, red, gold, colour

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Added: 2025-07-06

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Architecture fig. 1a, Column from LindisfarneThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This engraving of a fluted column is taken from Architecture, and is one of several columns in that picture that are taken from Lindisfarne Priory, built in (or slightly after) A.D. 1093. The columns [...]

Keywords: columns, norman architecture, greyscale

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Added: 2014-09-01

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Book Plate: Sproatt and RolphOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Sproatt and Rolph was a firm of architects based in Toronto; the bookplate (Ex Libris) is dated 1915. It shows a woman kneeling with a blueprint or plan of a building which is being constructed behin [...]

Keywords: bookplates, greyscale

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Added: 2007-11-09

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Front Cover, Biography of ShakespeareWilliam Shakspere Biography (1841)

The front cover of this book has the wrong title, “The Works of Shakspere” instead of “William Shakspere: A Biography.”

Keywords: book covers, victoriana, colour

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Added: 2010-09-22

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Title Page, La France IlustréeLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

The words La France appear in very large writing on this page, the F and E perhaps 5 inches / 12.5cm tall, in bold uneaven script that says 1880s France; beneath that ILUSTRÉE is in sans-serif type, [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, rustic borders, borders, lettering, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Front Cover With AliceAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The front cover of the copy of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland that i have features a gold design of Alice holding the baby/pig. The copy is dated 1939, and is inscribed “To Eric, from Sidney Quin;” [...]

Keywords: book covers, alice, gold, red, colour

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Added: 2025-05-15

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Front CoverRome (1905)

The text reads “ROME: Painted by Alberto Pisa Text by M. A. R. Tuker & Hope Malleson. SPQR” The SPQR here is a reference to Senatus Populusque Romanus, which is Latin for the Senate and People of Rom [...]

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-02-09

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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst 14Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

The cover for the year’s collected issues of this 1900 magazine is roughly A3 sized (11.5 by 16.5 inches or so), and features a drawing of a topless woman holding a branch of what appears to be a thor [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, women, nudity, cherubs, sunrise, romance

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Added: 2022-05-21

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Title Page, In Search of ScotlandIn Search of Scotland (1929)

The date is actually on the reverse of this leaf, which I have not scanned. I have the fourth edition; all four are dated 1929.

Keywords: title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-13

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Book cover of The Mother Goose, with tape repairThe Real Mother Goose (1919)

The front cover of this children’s book has been repaired with heavy binding tape at some point.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2014-01-22

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Front CoverGreat Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

This book was rebound, possibly for a library, and has a hand-written title on the cover. The cover is black; the label has red underlines for the races. Great Races of Mankind West Aryans, Semites, [...]

Keywords: book covers, covers, front covers, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-24

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Front cover, Out to Old Aunt Mary’sOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

The front cover of this small book for children is green, with a gray oval insert showing a picture of Aunt Mary herself. The lettering is in gold.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Front Cover from La Vita NuovaLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

There is also a rather plain dust jacket, not shown here.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2005-11-16

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Half-Title PageMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

The half-title page features an ornate decorative initial "M" available as a separate image. I have not cleaned up this scan at all; let’s have some antique paper! Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire, 1 [...]

Keywords: page images, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-31

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Front CoverDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The front cover of this late 1880s book is ornately decorated: it’s a dark blue-green with black printing and gold foil-stamping.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2017-09-18

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Front CoverA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

The front cover of “A Sentimental Journey in France and Italy” has gold lettering (stamped, I think, because it feels indented) and illustrations from the book.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2010-02-07

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Front Cover, PortfolioFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

The front cover of the book is brown with “Famous Scenes and Cities” in gold embossed capital letters onthe front.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, embossing, lettering, brown, gold, colour

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Added: 2020-09-19

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Front CoverMonumental Architecture (1910)

The front cover of this 1910 collection of 50 plates reproduced from photographs. The individual plates are not bound together: the cover makes a stiff envelope to hold them,.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2012-06-09

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Front CoverThe Brass Bowl (1907)

My copy of this novel is bound in green cloth with paper stuck on the front printed with the title and an illustration of a woman, in Edwardian dress, holding a golden or brass bowl in one hand.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2013-10-03

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Front cover for Home WordsHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

The front cover for the collected issues of Home Words for 1888 is blue with gilt decoration and lettering. It bears the text, “The Heart has many a dwelling place But only once a Home.”

Keywords: book covers, colour, lettering

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Added: 2016-07-14

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