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

Red buckram (I think) with gold leaf.

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Added: 2006-03-17

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Frontispiece: Cathedral o Messina South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt.In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Title Page, South by South East South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The title page uses at least three typefaces in a range of sizes, and includes an emblem for Marcus Ward, the publishers.Southe By East:Notes of Travel in Southern Europe.ByG. F. RODWELL,science maste [...]

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Added: 2015-09-18

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Decorative chapter head with styilized birds and green men South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative woodcut used above a chapter title at the start of the book. The image is a “foliate border” because it contains vines and leaves, but there are also two bird heads and two heads (in prof [...]

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Added: 2013-10-20

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Decorative chapter head with winged creatures South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative woodcut used at the start of the chapter on Milan; there are dragons, or possibly gryphons but with tails like serpents, and in the centre a face with hair done in pigtails; the whole is [...]

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Added: 2007-08-06

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Decorative initial letter “M” – Roman military standard South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This decorative initial letter “M” was used sa a drop cap at the start of the chapter; it is in the shape of a Roman standard that might have been carried by a legion of soldiers, and contains various [...]

Keywords: letterm, initials, people, symbols, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-28

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Milan Cathedral South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A very fine engraving of the exceptionally beautiful Milan Cathedral; the scaled-down versions don’t do it justice.

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Places shown: Milan; Italy

Added: 2007-08-06

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Decorative Initial letter F South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative initial capial letter “F” used as a drop cap atthe start of a chapter. It features a Greek urn, a Minotoar or Bull mask, vine leaves, and, at the top, a naked woman riding a creature that [...]

Keywords: letterf, initials, mythological creatures, nudity, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-29

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Cathedral of S. Mark, Venice South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

“The centre of life in Venice is the Piazza of S. Mark, which is not altogether unlike the Palais Royal in Paris. It is surrounded on three sides by lofty houses, the lowest parts of which are shops o [...]

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Places shown: Venice; Italy

Added: 2006-04-18

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Portrait of Michael Angelo South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

“Memorials of Michael Angelo meet one at every turn in Florence. His city is justly proud of him. Mrs. Oliphant speaks of him as “the greatest Florentine master, he who stands alone among the crowd, [...]

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Places shown: Florence; Italy

Added: 2006-03-17

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The Columbarium. South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

It is a funeral procession: the mourners walk in line down the steps and into the columbarium where the ashes of the dead will be placed. The chamber is lit by torches carried by mourners and also by [...]

Keywords: death, burial, interiors, gloomy, roman remains, spooky, people, music, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Decorative Chapter Head South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative panel above the opening of Chapter VI. A man and a woman—more properly a merman and mermaid—meet in the centre. And don’t tell me the man isn’t gay with that wrist, darlings!

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Added: 2006-03-17

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Initial Letter S South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative capital “S” used as a drop cap, or initial letter S, from the start of Chapter VI, showing a monk kneeling at prayer, with tonsure, robe and sandals. The desk at which he kneels is shaped [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-17

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Writing Desk South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A small illustration to enliven the space at the end of Chapter VI. A bearded man sits writing at a mediæval writing desk; there are scrolls in the foreground, and a gargoyle’d trifoliate carving on [...]

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The Catacombs of Naples South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The Catacombs of Naples are of great interest even after those of Rome; they are said to extend for several miles underground; and they consist of broad arched passages hollowed out of the rock, conta [...]

Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, roman remains, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Naples; Italy

Added: 2006-03-17

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Entrance to the harbour of Messina. South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The harbour of Messina, today a large and modern city, was in the 1870s protected by a fort (still present). Today there is a large stone column with a statue on top of it very prominently placed on t [...]

Keywords: harbours, water, boats, ships, forts, people, hills, greyscale

Places shown: Messina Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2015-10-14

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Chapterhead with Mer-Horses South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The Hippocampus has the upper body and head of a horse combined with the tail of a fish. They come from Phœnecian mythology and were known in the ancient world by peopls as far apart as the Romans, th [...]

Keywords: merhorses, hippocampi, mythological creatures, mythical creatures, chapterheads, animals, horses, criblé, greyscale

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Ornate initial letter “W” with silhouettes of naked women South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This ornate capital letter W has a long vertical tail or stem of trellis-work beneath the letter, which is an “inhabited initial” with two women inside it. One of the women, who are drawn as dark shad [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2015-10-12

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The Catacombs at Palermo South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

At the end of a long dark corridor, lined with coffins, chests, skulls, and the standing dead, we see an archway, and, through the arch, an old man, a monk, standing in a pool of light. This is a very [...]

Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, corridors, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Palermo; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2009-10-24

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