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Images and short extracts from Lucille (1882) by Owen Meredith; this was actually a nom de plume for Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1831–-1891). The poems were very popular in the late Victorian era, and have a melancholy gothic feel.
Title: Lucille
Published by: James R. Osgood and Company
Date: 1882
Total items: 11
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 has a border with dark flowers, and a gold-leaf inset for the title; this was an expensive edition. [$]
Ruins and tombs and withred grass
Stone crosses of graves on a hill, with some trees or perhaps a ruined church to the right, and hills in the background. This melancholy sketch was at the end of a a chapter in this gothic novel. [more...] [$]
Borders with posies of flowers on either side.
This border, with bunches of flowers on either side, was used to surround a woodcut of a forest. [more...] [$]
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