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Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki
Drawn Picture Frame
Schoolwork
11. Seal of Gusion.
Cherub with paintbrush
Cherub Facing Right
Spring Song, Frühlingslied
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Portrait of Ludwig Knaus
Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)
Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum
Sir Isaac Newton
Front Cover
Alchemy Full Page Border
Naked angel with caduceus
53.8.—IHS
Alchemical dragons fighting
49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.
84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)
Dark Passion Flowers
60.—Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)
Haigha and Hatta
The Battle
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Give me a Ham Sandwich
Map XVII. british Isles; Showing places of greatest Historical Interest.
Map XIX. Ireland
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Hymn to the Seasons
Bless the Lord O My Soul
The front cover, with gold foil
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue
Helmsman on a Vltava steamer
Title Page
Full-page border with hearts and moons
157.—Uncial Gothic Letters. 14th Century.
Front Cover
The Storming of Jerusalem by Titus
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Buddhist Priest of Annam—TYPE
Chaldean Slaves
A Christmas-Box From China
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow
Indra, God of Atmosphere
The Keep, Walmer
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
Title Page
The Stocks. Monkton
Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death
Scrollwork Border from page 227
The Engraver
The Painter
The Novel
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Front cover in red and gold
The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)
Frontispiece: Don’t Cry
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Tortured with feet to the fire
Zeus and Europa
Poppies and Tiger Lillies
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Menu Card 4: Waitress
Menu Card 3: Celler Master
Menu Card 1: Court Jester
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Menu Card 2: Chef
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
Venus danced for Apollo
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Chapterhead with Boy’s Head
Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids
English Manufacturing
The Virgin Mary
Helen and Paris
Front Cover
That wall of stone
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
Jesus and Moses
145.—Leading a Horse
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Oval frame, scalloped
Tailpiece with peacock
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Front Cover With Alice
Foliated Initial Letter S
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Convolvulus Tricolor
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Classical full-page border with goddess
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Buckingham Palace
Heralds’ College
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Cow Doctor
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Gold endpaper
Thought Icon
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Faust, detail from title page
Faust
Mephistophiles
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Usk Bridge
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs

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