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The Novel
Front cover in red and gold
The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)
11. Seal of Gusion.
Frontispiece: Don’t Cry
Tortured with feet to the fire
Zeus and Europa
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Poppies and Tiger Lillies
Menu Card 4: Waitress
Menu Card 2: Chef
Sir Isaac Newton
Menu Card 1: Court Jester
Menu Card 3: Celler Master
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
53.8.—IHS
Venus danced for Apollo
Chapterhead with Boy’s Head
Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids
Dark Passion Flowers
English Manufacturing
Helen and Paris
That wall of stone
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
Front Cover
Jesus and Moses
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
145.—Leading a Horse
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Oval frame, scalloped
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Tailpiece with peacock
Front Cover With Alice
Foliated Initial Letter S
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
Convolvulus Tricolor
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Classical full-page border with goddess
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Buckingham Palace
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Heralds’ College
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
The Cow Doctor
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Gold endpaper
Scrollwork Border from page 227
Faust
Thought Icon
Mephistophiles
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Faust, detail from title page
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
On the Terrace
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Usk Bridge
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Mount Edgcombe
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln Cathedral
Initial letter I with Transitional Capital
Title Page
The Virgin Mary
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
Front Cover
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
Front Cover
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Title Page
Summary of the Law, in gold
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
Fig. 86.—Curves.
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Title Page
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
And then began a murder, grim and great
Gibeon
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Cupid with a Butterfly
December Night (Dezembernacht)
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Taymouth Castle
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Old Bologna (1850s)
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Battle of Knights
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Votivkirche, Vienna

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