Items taken from World’s Best Music (1900) (results page 1)

Front Cover, World’s Best Music World’s Best Music (1900)

A marbled cover with quarter-leather binding. There are some moiré effects in some sizes because of the interaction between the textured boards of the book and the digital images.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-10-24

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Crusaders attacking a castle World’s Best Music (1900)

Crusaders (Mediaeval [US. Medieval] soldiers) attack a castle. One of them has just been struck by an arrow. The man behind him wears a crown, and his hauberk bears the three lions of England. To the [...]

Keywords: castles, people, battles, weapons, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

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Added: 2018-07-25

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When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies World’s Best Music (1900)

Sheet music for piano, a setting of Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)’s poem:1When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies    Then most I pine for thee;;Bend on me then thy tender eyes,    As stars look on the sea!For [...]

Keywords: music, sheet music, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-24

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Edward Bulwer, (Lord Lytton.) World’s Best Music (1900)

“Edwars, Bulwer, Lord Lytton, who wrote these dainty lines, was an historian and a poet, although preeminent as a novelist; being author of about twenty romances. He wrote a few plays, among which is [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, sketches, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-24

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The Maid of the Mill World’s Best Music (1900)

An idyllic village scene with a church tower (complete with church clock) in the background and a water-mill with its water-wheel in the foregroud. In the centre is what looks like a canal lock, but [...]

Keywords: villages, water, mills, churches, towers, creeper, christmas, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2004-03-04

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The Picket’s Off Duty Forever World’s Best Music (1900)

A soldier lies dead under a full moon at the edge of a forest, with the river Potomac in the background, presumably the Potomac River in America. It appears to be a scene from the American Civil War, [...]

Keywords: american civil war, war, soldiers, death, spooky, full moon, moons, forests, trees, rivers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: America

Added: 2012-09-02

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The Rainy Day World’s Best Music (1900)

The poem as printed in the book reads:The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,An [...]

Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-27

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow World’s Best Music (1900)

An engraving of Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, used to illustrate his poem,The Rainy Dayset to music.

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-27

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The Rainy Day World’s Best Music (1900)

The second page of the sheet music (piano score) for the song by Wordsworth, “The Rainy Day.”

It’s a very “goth” song, all about how everyone must endure misery.

Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, songs, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-27

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Romantic and Atmospheric Graveyard World’s Best Music (1900)

Tombstones sit in long grass under a spreading tree. There is also a tomb visible, as well as a number of graves.

Keywords: gravestones, trees, churchyards, spooky, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2007-10-28

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Gravestone World’s Best Music (1900)

A graveyard (churchyard) with a single tombstone/gravestone in the foreground. A creepy burial site.

Keywords: gravestones, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2007-10-28

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Mark Lemon World’s Best Music (1900)

Mark Lemon was the founder and editor ofPunch, a long-running English magazine. He also wrote the song, “Oh Would I Were a Boy Again” which is printed in the book.Youth’s best gifts, hope and entusias [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2012-09-02

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Music: detail: cherub with violin World’s Best Music (1900)

In this detail taken fromMusic, a naked boy, a cherub or putti, sits on a rose briar (or a hydrangea maybe, which would be less painful); he is entirely naked, and has feathered wings. He plays the vi [...]

Keywords: nudity, music, musical instruments, romance, cherubs, bare feet, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-17

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Music World’s Best Music (1900)

A lady plays a 16-stringed sitar or guitar, or more likely achitarrone; she is sitting by a rosebush wearing a white dress, and plays from music. Behind her a cherub plays the violin; he is naked and [...]

Keywords: love, romance, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, music, musical instruments, people, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-17

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