FOBO - The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (page 1/2)

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typographic ornament: flower pointing right

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. [more...]

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94.—The Norman Tower

The Norman Tower at Windsor Castle.

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Medmenham Abbey

Medmenham is among the prettiest places on the Thames, and the Abbey, bogus structure though it really is, makes a picturesque feature upon the bank. Here was a Cistercian House colonised, the second time in 1212, by monks from Citeaux, [...]. In the beginning of the 16th century, [...] [more...]

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The Long Walk

“There remains to stroll in the famous Great Park, with its magnificent avenue of the Long Walk, three miles in length, flanked by its double lines of glorious elms, and terminating in the height of Snow Hill, which is crested by Westmacott’s [...] [more...]

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typographic ornament: flower pointing left

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. [more...]

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Pictures from The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (Richmond to Hampton Court) by John Leyland (1897).

The British Library catalogue says John Leyland was “of Forest Hill” but I have no more information than that.

The edition I have could be either 1897 or 1901. I am only guessing that he died no later than 1937, and that hence the images are out of copyright, but it seems likely.

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The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (page 1/2)

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