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Some pictures from Alt-England: Eine Studienreise (Old England: A Study Tour) by Adolf Brennecke, circa 1885.
I also have Im Wechsel Der Tage (In the change of our days) by the same author.
Title: Alt-England
Published by: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn.
City: Leipzig
Date: 1888
Total items: 7
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
The front cover of this book about Old England features sailing ships at the coast, near a cliff surmounted by a lighthouse. [$]
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
The endpapers of this German book about England have the royal coat of arms printed in gold on a field of a gold repeated stylized oak leaves motif. [more...] [$]
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain was printed in black and gold leaf possite the inside front cover (on the end page) of this book. [more...] [$]
View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the Thames
This is an unusual view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, which replaced an earlier cathedral founded in A.D. 64 after it burned down in the Great Fire of London. [more...] [$]
This is a spectacular view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I found a photograph from approximately the same angle in a page on the Historic UK Web site. [more...] [$]
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