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Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

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Front Cover
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
11. Seal of Gusion.
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Sir Isaac Newton
Summary of the Law, in gold
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
53.8.—IHS
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Title Page
Dark Passion Flowers
Fig. 86.—Curves.
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
And then began a murder, grim and great
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
December Night (Dezembernacht)
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Battle of Knights
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Votivkirche, Vienna
Avenue of Sighs
Christmas Still Life
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
The Seranade
A schoolroom in Tunisia
Llanthony Priory, Valley of the Honddu
Scrollwork Border from page 227
initial letter R with small girl
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
The giants tore up trees
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Adrift from The Snow Queen
Leicester Hospital, Warwick
Scheuerfest - Spring Cleaning
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Banner with ribbons and Snitch
Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses
Title Page
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Monroe Colliery Co.
Front Cover
Chaldee Woman
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.
Peasant Girl of Pays de Vaud—Type.
Rustic floral border with trellis and grapevines
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Cheerful full-page vintage colour border
Cheerful double-page spread vintage colour border
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
The Virgin Mary
Nazareth, Palestine
Klara Küry as Maya in The Greek Slave
Full-page border with roses, black and white
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
The thoughts of my spirit seek you
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
A Reminiscence
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Wandering Minstrel
Cherub playing a grand piano
Ornate Victorian Border
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Banner, or Banderole
Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit
Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt (At Christmasfest)
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Seal of Coin of Libra
Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Seal of Coin of Virgo
Seal of Coin of Virgo (obverse)
Seal of Coin of Leo
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Seal of Coin of Leo (obverse)
Vorfrühling - Early Spring
Title Page, Error’s Chains
Ancient Druidic Worship at Stonehenge, England
Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Front Cover
Front Cover, Morris, Picturesque Views
Cholmondeley Castle
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Frontispiece: Alnwick Castle
Title Page, Osteographia

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