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Frontispiece illustration from FrankensteinFrontispiece illustration from Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Date: first published 1818
Market in the Gate of Ravenna in Bologna. Street traders. MiMarket in the Gate of Ravenna in Bologna. Street traders. Frontispiece of codex Marticola dei Mercanti, 1470. Museo Civico. Bologna. Italy
Dream of GerontiusA Visitant is knocking his dire summons at my door
Zodiac with winged male, poss. Cupid / ErosZodiac with winged male, poss. Cupid/Eros. Engraving by J. vander Schley, from Pierre de Hondt, Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere avec la description du Cabinet du Roy
Twelve breeds of pigeon. Drawing / Engraving from Daniel Girton, The new and complete pigeon-fancier; or, Modern treatise on domestic pigeons. Frontispiece. Date: circa 1804
Hercules honoured by the Hesperides.. Engraving by Johann Friedrich Greuter, from Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides: sive, De malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quator. Frontispiece. Date: 1646
Frontispiece illustration, Peter, the fox terrier. Date: 1912
Frontispiece design by Cecil Aldin, Old Manor Houses -- Moreton Old Hall, Congleton, Cheshire, also known as Little Moreton Hall, a moated, half-timbered manor house dating back to the 16th century
Kate GreenawayPrissy from frontispiece of Little Wide-Awake Date: 1888
Kate GreenawayLittle Misses from frontispiece of Little Wide-Awake Date: 1882
Kate GreenawayThe Royal Progress of King Pepito by Beatrice F Creswell. Frontispiece. Baby Pepito with his mother and father Date: 1889
Kate GreenawayOrient Guide'. Frontispiece Date: 1888
Kate GreenawayPages from A Painting Book'. Frontispiece depicting in colour a circle of happy children with two mothers and toddlers as a centrepiece Date: 1884
Kate GreenawayPages from The English Spelling Book by William Mavor. Frontispiece depicting a teacher with two of her young pupils. Date: 1884
Kate GreenawayTales from the Edda by Helen Zimmern. Frontispiece. The Giant Lay Sleeping on the Ground Date: 1883
Kate GreenawayFlowers and Fancies, Valentine Verses by B Montgomerie Ranking and Thomas K Tully. Frontispiece, depicting a boy, girl and posy of flowers Date: 1882
Kate GreenawayThe Library by Andrew Lang. Frontispiece. Depicts a group of children in a garden with a baby. Date: 1881
Kate GreenawayAmateur Theatricals by Walter Herries Pollock and Lady Pollock. Frontispiece. Comedy depicting a young girl on stage with a fan Date: 1879
Kate GreenawayBaby's Birthday Book. Frontispiece. Five boys and girls holding the birthday book Date: 1879
Kate GreenawayMaster Troublesome by Leslie Keith. Frontispiece Date: 1879
Kate GreenawayTopo'. A tale about English Children in Italy by GE Brunefille. Frontispiece. The book contains 44 small illustrations also by Kate Greenaway. Date: 1878
Kate GreenawayPoor Nelly by Elizabeth Anna Hart. Frontispiece Date: 1878
Kate GreenawayMelcomb Manor by F Scarlett Potter. Frontispiece Date: 1875
Kate GreenawayA Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Frontispiece Date: 1875
Kate GreenawayChildren of the Parsonage by Henry Courteney Selous. Frontispiece. Leonard's Return Date: 1874
Kate GreenawayPuck and Blossom by Rosa Mulholland. Frontispiece. Date: 1874
Kate GreenawayFairy Gifts or a Wallet of Wonders by Kathleen Knox. Frontispiece Date: 1874
Kate GreenawayMy School Days in Paris by Margarets Jeune. Frontispiece Date: 1871
Kate GreenawayInfant Amusements or How to Make the Nursery Happy by WHG Kingston. Frontispiece. Date: 1867
Oval portrait of John Milton, English poet, aged 62, 1608-1674. Frontispiece to an edition of Paradise Lost. With long hair, collar and gown. Joannis Miltoni Effigies Aetat 62
George Gascoigne, English poet and soldier, 1534-1577George Gascoigne, English poet, soldier and courtier of the Elizabethan era, 1534-1577. In ruff collar and suit of armour, with books on a shelf. Tam Marti Quam Mercurio
Oval portrait of Oliver Cromwell, Lord ProtectorOval portrait of Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658, parliamentary leader in the English Civil War, Lord Protector
Royal Navy captain and midshipman with BritanniaFrontispiece with Royal Navy captain and midshipman before Britannia and a British lion. Britannia with plumed helmet, lance with flags, Union Jack shield
Allegorical frontispiece with personifications of the arts. Sculpture with chisels, Painting with palette, brushes and canvas, and Architecture with compasses and plumb line
William Curtis collecting plant specimens, 18th centuryWilliam Curtis and other gentlemen botanists collecting plant specimens in a rural landscape, England, 18th century. Frontispiece to Flora Londinensis
Oval portrait of William Curtis, botanist and publisherOval portrait of William Curtis, FLS, apothecary, botanist and publisher, author of the Flora Londinensis and The Botanical Magazine, 1746-1799
Oval portrait of William Curtis, botanist and publisherOval portrait of William Curtis, FLS, botanist and publisher, author of the Flora Londinensis and The Botanical Magazine. 1746-1799
Allegorical figures of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceAllegorical frontispiece with figures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance meeting. A herald angel with trumpet introduces them. Bishops, soldiers, page boys, courtiers watch them
Jean Mielot offering his book to the Duke of Burgundy, 1457Jean Mielot offering his manuscript to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, 1457. The duke in chaperon and mantle in a palace with throne and coat of arms
Allegorical figures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A lady in crown holding a cathedral greets a woman with a long string of pearls. A winged angel sounds a trumpet
Male costume of the 16th centuryMan in a cape with staff and purse, and two men in velvet doublets and hose, sword and purse Costume of the 16th century. From the frontispiece of the Great Bible designed by Hans Holbein, 1539
Men and women look at a Memento Mori, 18th centuryMen and women look at a Memento Mori, the Grim Reaper or a skeleton with scythe, 18th century. The figures include a soldier in uniform, priest with hat, gentlewoman with fan, etc
Renaissance art: miniatures from manuscripts, 16th century
Title page with French crusader and Napoleonic soldierFrontispiece with calligraphic title on stone and figures of a 13th century French crusader knight and Napoleonic era infantry soldier. Crusader in helm, chainmail, tunic, with pennant and shield
Animals and insects before a statue of Ephesian ArtemisAnimals, amphibia and insects in a woodland clearing before a statue of the many-breasted Ephesian Artemis. With frog, beetle, lizard, snail, dragonfly, moth, crocodile, and others
Design elements from the era of King Louis XVI, 18th century
Initial letters, design elements from illuminated manuscripts, 1Coat of arms with angels from the frontispiece of Rene I d'Anjou's Book of Tournaments, border details from a manuscript, and 45, from a miniature book of hours
Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners, Irish poet and criticLady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), Irish poet and critic, daughter of Francis Gray, and wife of Sir William Manners Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, Baronet of Hanby Hall
Putti garlanding oval portraits of artists with laurels. In the foreground, putti write on scrolls and books with quill pens
Title page to the Oviparous Quadrupeds volume with vignette of a fanciful species of crocodile, Crocodilo Terrestri, Aegyptico vel Arabico
A man and woman looking up at the stars, 18th centuryA bourgeois German man and woman looking up at the stars in the night sky. 18th century
Two young ornithologists studying bird prints, 18th centuryFrontispiece with two young cherub ornithologists writing in a book while looking at prints of birds, 18th century
Memorial to the poet John Gay in Westminster Abbey by sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. Inscription by Alexander Pope
Allegorical print showing a game of four-handed chess, The Royal Game or Le jeu du Roi
Scene in a lottery office, Amsterdam, 17th centuryA boy draws winning tickets above, clerks write papers below. Frontispiece to Gregorio Leti's Critiques sur les lotteries, Amsterdam, 1697
Calligraphic frontispiece to Gemmae et Sculpturae AntiquaeCalligraphic frontispiece with Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf in front of a carved stone. Le Gemme Antiche Figurate di Leonardo Agostini Senese
Pregnant nun Sister Jean sitting in her convent cell, her habit open to reveal her breasts. A picture of Saint Martha on the wall. Soeur Jeanne
WW2 - German Plane Attacking WarshipA frontispiece illustration to A Young Airmans Annual, showing a German WW2 bomber plane attacking a British warship. Date: circa 1940s
Miss Modern the pilot, Schoolgirls Adventure Book Date: 1938
Children on a fairground carousel Date: 1935
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, British-born conservationistArchibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888-1938), British-born conservationist, fur trapper and writer, disguised as Native American Grey Owl Date: circa 1930s
Joseph Grimaldi, actor and clownJoseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), actor and clown Date: circa 1810s
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite artist, self-portrait dated 20 September 1855 Date: 1855
Marconi - Master of Space, first edition biographyMarconi - Master of Space, first edition authorised biography by B L Jacot and D M B Collier. Date: 1935
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, main staircaseWhite Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, publicity booklet, main staircase. Date: 1912
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, dining roomWhite Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, publicity booklet, view inside a dining room. Date: 1912
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, booklet coverWhite Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, Largest Steamers in the World, publicity booklet cover design by Sam M Brown, 32 pages approx. 4.75 x 7 inches, bound with red ribbon. Date: 1912
The Minuet Dance of Long Ago Date: 18th century
Frontispiece, The Boys Book of Soccer for 1946 Date: 1946
Gallant Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks Date: 1871
Butterflies and Moths, Plate 1, Papiliones, Erycinidae, etcButterflies and Moths, Plate 1, Papiliones, Papilionidae, Nymphalidae, Erycinidae, Hesperidae. Date: 1896
A physician, his patient, a coffin and two skeletonsFrontispiece of Robert Poole's A physical vade mecum (1741). Depicting a physician, his patient acoffin and two skeletons
Frontispiece to Michelet's LA SORCIERE [1911 edition] with portrait of the author and a depiction of sensational goings-on, matching his somewhat extravagant text Date: 1911
Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to HMS VanguardMidshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to the HMS Vanguard near Gibraltar. Johnny in disgrace sent to another ship
Frontispiece with vignettes and medallions
Victorian tourists wading through dung on a farm looking for a rustic sight on their tour. The grotto and waterfall is just a barn. Ducks attack a child, a gentleman gets stuck in the mud
Frontispiece with two cherubs holding a bicorn and sword
Regency actor John Emery singing John GrousePopular Regency actor John Emery singing the comic song John Grouse and Mother Goose at Covent Garden Theatre, London, 1808
Frontispiece with skeleton of death seated with scythe and globe. Vignettes of death attacking a baby, an invalid, a glutton and a drunkard
Woman in scarf and kimono with maid walkingJapanese woman in scarf and kimono with maid walking in a wintry landscape with bare trees. Woodblock ukiyo-e print by Terasaki Kogyo, frontispiece from a book, Tokyo, circa 1910
Frontispiece with skull, hourglass and sacred heartFrontispiece of noble man and woman in 16th century Swiss costume standing beside an allegorical escutcheon with skull, helmet, Times hourglass, skeleton and sacred heart. Mortalium Nobilitas
Rodrigues solitaire and domed Rodrigues giantRodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria and domed Rodrigues giant tortoise, Cylindraspis peltastes, both extinct. Facsimile of the frontispiece of Francois Leguats Voyage, published 1708
JuvenalFrontispiece for Juvenal. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1890s
An Evil MotherhoodBlack & white frontispiece from An Evil Motherhood. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1890s