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Front CoverBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

Moroccan red leather with gold tooling; highly stylized acanthus leaves make an intricate and ornate foliated border round the edge of the front cover of this book. The spine and back cover were simil [...]

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Added: 2016-11-30

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Front Cover, Le Musée Artistique et LittéraireMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

The front cover for the 1880 collected editions is made from marbled cardboard with a leather spine.

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Added: 2022-07-29

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Front Cover in blue and gold.The Table Book of Art (1880)

The front cover of this luscious illustrated Victorian book has a crest and the names of various artists in gold, all embossed onto blue cloth. The spine is similarly gilt.

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Added: 2012-11-15

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Front Cover, The Lost BoyThe Lost Boy (1913)

The front cover is green with gilt lettering and a gilt illustration, presumably intended to be Jerusalem.

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Added: 2007-05-16

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Front Cover for English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This copy of the book is bound in blue buckram cloth with gold (foil-stamped) lettering: ENGLISH CATHEDRALS BY Mrs. Schvyler Van Rensselar With Illustrations bu Joseph Pennell. The writing (after the [...]

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Added: 2020-10-15

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Front CoverThe Old Peabody Pew (1907)

The front cover of “The Old Peabody Pew” includes a picture from a scene in the story, along with a christmas wreath and various borders. The christmas wreath motif of holly berries and leaves is avai [...]

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Added: 2011-01-06

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Front CoverElements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Front cover of this 1820s schoolbook; it was once quarter-leather, probably with marbled paper pasted down, but two hundred years have taken their toll.

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Added: 2016-11-12

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Front Cover, Art of Decorative DesignThe Art of Decorative Design (1862)

The front cover of The Art of Decorative Design. Note: I took the cover, the title page, and the colours of the plates, from a copy on archive.org, and the detail of the plates from a copy on Hathi Tr [...]

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Added: 2025-01-14

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Front CoverCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Front cover from “The Craftsman’s Plant-Book.”

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Added: 2011-04-12

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Front CoverThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Brown cloth binding with gold foil and colour printing. The illustration on the cover depices water lillies in flower.

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Front Cover, Family BookIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The copy of this book that i have is bound is bound in black, with gold lettering on the spine. The size i have given is approximate.

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Front CoverEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Front Cover of the 1770 Encylopædia BritannicaEnclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

My copy is actually a fac-simile bound in full leather. Well, let’s say it’s full leather...

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Added: 2012-08-03

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Front Cover, Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales, Vol IThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

My copy of volume I is bound in full leather, but the boards are detached. I have Volumes one and three (and vol. three is missing the maps).

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Added: 2006-11-22

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Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

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Added: 2012-05-23

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OrnamentThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a knight’s helmet with a sword and arrows.

Keywords: weapons, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Bookplate with CrestThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This bookplate seems to have had the owner’s name cut off, perhaps when the book was sold. It features an heraldic crest with a fleur-de-lys and a chief ermine in a bearing with a lion en passant (or [...]

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Added: 2011-10-09

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Jugend EndpaperJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The end-papers of this bound collection of German art magazines from 1900 is a surreal natural scene with fruit, nuts, berries, pine cones, flowers and I think snow, by an unknown artist.

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Added: 2012-05-23

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book coverThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Showing the binding with intricate gold tooling.

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Added: 2004-08-01

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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vineThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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