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The emperor meets the three sisters. The violet fairy book. 1906 ed. H.J. Ford, ill.
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Jacques Wély (1873-1910) - Frontispiece for 'Edgar Allan Poe: Contes étranges', 1910
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Her chariot ready straight is made, Frontispiece from Michael Drayton's Nymphidia, the Court of Faerie by Thomas Maybank (1906)
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Jay Van Everen (1875-1947), ''Mighty Mikko'' by Parker Fillmore, 1922 Source
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"Starlight", frontispiece
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Fly leafs for Spirou and Fantasio albums by André Franquin, 1950s-1970s.
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Epitaphs From The Abyss #2 frontispiece (2024)
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What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! (frontispiece from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1899
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Medieval passion plays were often performed with Godzilla as a metaphor for the Devil.
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Aurum superius et inferius aurae superioris et inferioris hermeticum (1675) by Christiani Adolphi Balduini.
This is a second, slightly enlarged edition of Aurum Aurae, Vi Magnetismi (1674) and contains a folding frontispiece engraved by C. Dekker (1675) and two copperplates by C. Dekker.
#rare books#old books#frontispiece#engravings#17th century books#science#alchemy#history of science#books#pretty books#title page tuesday
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"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her." The whisper on the stair. 1924. Frontispiece.
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The Werewolves
frontispiece from Sabine Baring-Gould's 'The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition', 1865
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Frontispiece, from The Arabian Nights by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1928)
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A. Touchet, ''Sakountalâ, d'après l'oeuvre indienne de Kalidasa'' by Franz Toussaint, 1922 Source
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Ivypool in the Dark Forest
"Night Whispers", frontispiece
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La Dame ovale, Leonora Carrington, 1939
Illustration by Max Ernst
#art#max ernst#leonora carrington#1930s#la dame ovale#surrealism#writing#books#literature#frontispiece#eyes#illustration#short stories
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