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

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