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

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