#frontispiece

[nemfrog]

The emperor meets the three sisters. The violet fairy book. 1906 ed. H.J. Ford, ill.

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[weirdlookindog]

Jacques Wély (1873-1910) - Frontispiece for 'Edgar Allan Poe: Contes étranges', 1910

[the-evil-clergyman]

Her chariot ready straight is made, Frontispiece from Michael Drayton's Nymphidia, the Court of Faerie by Thomas Maybank (1906)

[thefugitivesaint]

Jay Van Everen (1875-1947), ''Mighty Mikko'' by Parker Fillmore, 1922 Source

[warriors-official-russian-art]

Midnight

"Starlight", frontispiece

[dustinweaver]

Here's the piece I made for Epitaphs From The Abyss #5 (2024)

[bilibliophl]

Fly leafs for Spirou and Fantasio albums by André Franquin, 1950s-1970s.

[lionofchaeronea]

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! (frontispiece from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1899

[yeoldegodzilla]

Medieval passion plays were often performed with Godzilla as a metaphor for the Devil.

[othmeralia]

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.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FrogFriday 🐸:

"Pond Life" - frontispiece to Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (German, 1705-1759), Nuremberg, 1758. British Library collection

More about this work on the BHL blog: An Illustrated Natural History of German Frogs: Rösel’s Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium

[nemfrog]

"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her." The whisper on the stair. 1924. Frontispiece.

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[weirdlookindog]

Emeric Timar (1898–1950) - Esmeralda, Quasimodo & Frollo

frontispiece for Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris', 1942

[the-evil-clergyman]

Frontispiece, from The Arabian Nights by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1928)

[thefugitivesaint]

A. Touchet, ''Sakountalâ, d'après l'oeuvre indienne de Kalidasa'' by Franz Toussaint, 1922 Source

[warriors-official-russian-art]

Ivypool in the Dark Forest

"Night Whispers", frontispiece