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

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

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Added: 2009-03-07

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The Thames Illustrated: Title PageThe 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 Tham [...]

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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 the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

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 PageThe 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 [...]

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Added: 2011-03-20

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Title PageHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home Cyclopedia Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exp [...]

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Added: 2006-04-04

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Title Page, Benson Stock ImagesStock 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 Des [...]

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Added: 2020-11-16

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

Ths ornament is on the title page.

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Added: 2009-03-07

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Frontispiece: Don’t CryMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A curly-haired boy squats with one arm around his younger sister, whose face is full of sadness. The boy is trying to cofort thegirl. They are dressed as poor people from Italy, so that perhaps they h [...]

Keywords: children, grief, sorrow, costumes, squatting, curly hair, boys, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2025-07-04

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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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Book InscriptionCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite the bookplate there is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

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Added: 2011-05-21

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typographic ornament: rosetteThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-pointing flower - det [...]

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Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing rightThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

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Added: 2011-03-17

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Title PageSome British Ballads (1919)

“Some British Ballads Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Dodd Mead & Co. New York.” There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth i [...]

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and RenaissanceArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

Architecture Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London. London Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter [...]

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Household Treasures.The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving shows a woman one arm about a girl and the other about an older girl who in turn cuddles a small dog. There’s an ornate couch and a curtain held back with a rope in the background and th [...]

Keywords: children, people, animals, dogs, affection, cute, greyscale

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Added: 2016-12-05

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Red border from Page 27The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

The first chapter of the book has a decorative border around each page. This is a floral red border. You could use it as a photo border, although you might want to change the colour if you do that. [...]

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Added: 2007-02-26

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique greenThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured green. There are also a brown and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements, frames, cartici, victorian borders, turquoise, teal

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured a sepia brown. There are also a green and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes [...]

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and WhiteThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened). There are also a green and a brown version. To make your own version of this old pag [...]

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Dedication PageEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding. In the transcription here, the Latin came from G [...]

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Added: 2013-04-23

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