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Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge
11. Seal of Gusion.
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
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
Sir Isaac Newton
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs
One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln Cathedral
53.8.—IHS
Initial letter I with Transitional Capital
Title Page
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
Dark Passion Flowers
Front Cover
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Front Cover
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Summary of the Law, in gold
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Title Page
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Fig. 86.—Curves.
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
And then began a murder, grim and great
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
Scrollwork Border from page 227
December Night (Dezembernacht)
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Battle of Knights
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Votivkirche, Vienna
Avenue of Sighs
Christmas Still Life
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
The Seranade
A schoolroom in Tunisia
Llanthony Priory, Valley of the Honddu
The Virgin Mary
initial letter R with small girl
Adrift from The Snow Queen
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
The giants tore up trees
Leicester Hospital, Warwick
Scheuerfest - Spring Cleaning
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Monroe Colliery Co.
Title Page
Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Banner with ribbons and Snitch
Front Cover
Chaldee Woman
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.
Rustic floral border with trellis and grapevines
Peasant Girl of Pays de Vaud—Type.
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Cheerful double-page spread vintage colour border
Cheerful full-page vintage colour border
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Nazareth, Palestine
Klara Küry as Maya in The Greek Slave
Full-page border with roses, black and white
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
The thoughts of my spirit seek you
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
A Reminiscence
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Cherub playing a grand piano
Ornate Victorian Border
Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Banner, or Banderole
Wandering Minstrel
Christmas Mass
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)
Seal of Coin of Libra
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Seal of Coin of Leo
Seal of Coin of Virgo (obverse)
Seal of Coin of Leo (obverse)
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Seal of Coin of Virgo

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