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"Estinien Wyrmblood Artwork" by Frontispiecee
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2020-10-23

Elles: Frontispiece, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896 https://t.co/FPFrPku7HV

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2020-10-11

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” ― G.K. Chesterton

🐉📗💚

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2020-10-01

What, pray, is the pleasure of doing an easy thing?
THE GODS OF MARS, Ch. 10

in 1918, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover.

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2020-09-29

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://t.co/4SjvDybz2i

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2020-09-27

Dragon Magazine's theme frontispieces for 1990. My faves are March's pixie, August's falconer (or should I say "owler"?), and November's enchanter. (1/3)

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2020-09-21

Oinkly thanks.
Off-topically, this book of emblems, published in several sets of languages, has a wonderful frontispiece in which Cupid has run amok with his arrows, piercing anyone & everything, moon, elephant & sea monster included (but no pigs)
https://t.co/MPV3IfMea0

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2020-09-17

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), for The English Dance of Death by William Combe (1815).

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2020-07-22

Today's H's fab design for frontispiece to Henry Fielding's 'The Tragedy of Tragedies' engraved G van der Gucht 1730/1. Princess Huncamunca inspects her love rival, Amazon Glumdalca by candlelight w/ their hero, wee Tom Thumb, standing by, arms folded

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2020-07-15

Books were booming at this time & causing a revolution in learning & information (a more dramatic & transformative version of our digital revolution). He illustrated the Dance of Death, the Icones & the title page of Luther’s bible. Young Woman (1522) & Bible Frontispiece (c1523)

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2020-07-08

How did the site of a gallows, dump, & quarry become a picturesque public park in Read a Q&A w/ professor Ann Komara: https://t.co/rBIKdcEfxZ.

📷 📖: "amazing" frontispiece & "enormous banana plants." 99003386229, 99001173612.

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2020-07-06

Portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell, wearing a hood, monkey over her right shoulder; frontispiece to 'Court and kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell' (1664).

British Museum

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2020-07-05

Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (Frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass), Master of Otto van Moerdrecht, c. 1440-1450 https://t.co/Jbc0zPkpVs

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2020-07-04

Harry Clarke's 'The Last Hour of the Night' (1922), the frontispiece for 'Dublin of the Future'
'Nosferatu' theatrical program book cover illustration by Albin Grau (1922)

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2020-07-01

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/DrgAdVo3Vc

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2020-06-28

Slave market in Rio de Janeiro by Augustus Earle, 1823, in . Earle (1793-1838), a British artist, spent 4 years in Brazil in the early 1820s. His watercolour of a slave market was repr. as a frontispiece to Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824).

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2020-06-25

Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd

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2020-06-21

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (England, 1756-1827), for the frontispiece of 'The English Dance of Death' by William Combe (1815). To get you in a weekend mood.

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2020-06-20

Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece illustration to Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1933)

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2020-06-16

Today's frontispiece for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy engr Ravenet 1760. Dr Slop snoozes, Walter Shandy & Uncle Toby smoke, while Corp Trim stands 'his knee bent, but that not violently-but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'😉

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2020-06-12