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Decorative initial letter T with cherubs hanging a wolf Fabrica... (1543)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap on the introduction to the “Epitome;” this version is coloured in red and blue and yellow (or gold) and comes from a copy at the University of Cambri [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, cherubs, children, nudity, historiated initials, inhabited initials, bare feet, animals, wolves, punishments, colour

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Added: 2014-11-24

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Front Cover Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

A simple binding with the title in gold on the spine.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-04-04

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Front Cover, Venice Venice (1907)

The book has (or had when I started) its original binding, blue with gold lettering stamped in place.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-04-12

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Front Cover, Benson Stock Images Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This catalogue was issued in a green cover with gold foil-stamped lettering to impress possible customers.STOCK DESIGNSPage Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display PagesBenson Printing Co. Na [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, green, gold, lettering, printing

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Front Cover Farm Weeds (1906)

The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906.

Keywords: flowers, page images, colour, book covers, pictures of books, wild flowers, weeds

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Added: 2006-01-14

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Title Page Farm Weeds (1906)

Dominion of CanadaDepartment of AgricultureBranch of the Seed CommissionerFarm Weeds of CanadabyGeorge H. Clark, B.S.A.andJames Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S.with illustrations byNorman CriddlePubl [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

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Added: 2006-01-14

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Bookplate of James Hall Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

There is a bookplate or “ex libris” pasted inside the front cover of this book; it includes the words, “EX LIBRIS JAMES HALLand a styilized pine tree or feather-based design.

Keywords: bookplates, colour

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Front Cover, Myths Every Child Should Know Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

The front cover shows King Midas, an illustration that also occurs in the book itself.

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-07-29

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Front Cover of “England Beautiful” England Beautiful (1936)

Light brown buckram (cloth) binding with dark red/purple illustration.

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-08-02

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M. Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-03

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Front Cover South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

Red buckram (I think) with gold leaf.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-03-17

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Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

The book was bound with quarter-leather at one time.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes anornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images ingreen-brown(most like the original),black(easiest to re-use) a [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, typography

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Added: 2009-03-07

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The Thames Illustrated: Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore.The Thame [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title Page The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-20

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Title Page Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home CyclopediaHand-book of the useful arts; includingagriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art:being an exposi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-04

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Title Page, Benson Stock Images Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

The titlepage has the title and imprint information, the number 141 indicating a limited number of copies were made, and a subtle decorative border with lumps of dog vomit around the edges.Stock Desi [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, borders, colour

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on thetitle page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2009-03-07

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End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

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Added: 2011-08-17

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