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The Book Cover Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

The cover of the book is red and black with gold foil.

Keywords: pictures of books, book covers, colour

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Added: 2005-06-14

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The title page Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

The text (in German) reads as follows, as best as I can make it out; corrections and an English translation would be very welcome:Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums.Nach seinen Dichtern und [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2005-06-14

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Perseus und Andromeda. Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...]

Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Chapterhead with urns and winged lions Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

This chapterhead piece features winged lions (griffins, or gryphons), leaves and vines, and a central device that might be suggestive of a Medusa figure. It was used at the top of the page to help mar [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, griffins, gryphons, lions, mythical creatures, vines, urns, greyscale

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Added: 2019-09-15

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Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called acribléeffect; this style was popular in the sixteenth century [...]

Keywords: ornament, tailpieces, typography, criblé, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-04

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Herkules in Kampfe gegen die lernäische Schlange. Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

The mighty hero Herakles (Hercules) is about to slay the Hydra. He appears to be barefoot and naked, but there is a lion-skin cloak on his back part of which conceals his genitals. He doesn’t seem to [...]

Keywords: mythology, nudity, bare feet, heroes, monsters, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Achilles and the envoys of the Greeksengraved by M. Laemmel (?) after Jean August Dominique Ingres.

Keywords: musical instruments, bare feet, nudity, weapons, people, heroes, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Apollo beschuekt die Leiche Hektors Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Hector tried to tire [Achilles] by running around the walls of Troy with Achilles in hot pursuit. He caught him on the third lap around and killed him. He then took his armor, tied the corpse behind h [...]

Keywords: bare feet, heroes, nudity, chariots, people, horses, animals, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Odysseus und Polyphem Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Odysseus and Polyphem

In English I think this is Oedipus and Polypheme; Polypheme was a Cyclops, whome Odysseus blinded after getting him drunk.

Keywords: heroes, bare feet, nudity, people, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2005-07-05

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Odysseus toetet die Freier Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Keywords: bare feet, nudity, weapons, people, heroes, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2005-10-17

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