The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
THE GODS OF MARS, Ch. 7

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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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
Frontispiece for Conversations on the
Plurality of Worlds. c1686.

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The Ancient of Days is a design by William Blake, originally published as the frontispiece to the 1794 work Europe a Prophecy. There are currently 13 known extant copies, because of production process of hand colouring each print, each image has its own unique qualities.

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Today’s severed head comes from an etched frontispiece in 'Notizie al Pellegrino della Basilica di Santa Prassede' ("News for the Pilgrim of the Basilica of Saint Praxedes"), printed in Rome by Antonio De Rossi in 1725. More severed heads here: https://t.co/tISSRyFyff

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THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE Arabella Buckley instructs on geology & natural history via (1878)
They remember yet the tales we told them
of fairies, long ago,
When they loved in fancy to behold them
Quick dancing earthward in the feathery snow (Frontispiece).

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Rackham frontispiece: 'Hey! Up the chimney, Lass! Hey after you!

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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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for frontispiece
扉絵用

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A closer look at the frontispiece in the 1730 Ed of Maria Sibylla Merian's work on the insects of Suriname: just to the left of the cherub's bum, I've only just noticed a miniature version of the book plus the pineapple from one of the plates growing in a pot!

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Salvador Dali's frontispiece illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from 1969.

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A Memory of from the Irish Builder and Engineer [1931], George Harrap, publisher of Fairy Tales of London, 1916. Frontispiece.

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A rather poorly copy of The English Gentlewoman (1631) requested today, featuring an upside down frontispiece and manuscript annotations from former owners. (Broughton.57)

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100 years ago today, 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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『大学の親分』(1978〜79)扉絵。Frontispiece from "Daigaku no Oyabun"

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"'Forgive me!' said the man in a low voice. 'Let my great love be my excuse—that, and the belief that I have but a moment more of life,' and with the words he turned to meet the foremost of the green warriors."
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS, Ch. 10
[J. Allen St. John frontispiece]

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in 1914, completed his fourth Mars novel, THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (originally titled CARTHORIS for its protagonist, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris). The first edition featured St. John interior art, including a frontispiece image from a scene in Chapter 10.

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Frontispiece by William Heath Robinson for The Book of Witches (1908)

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The Deluge. Frontispiece for Bible (c.1866-1900) by Gustave Doré https://t.co/VCroPCPIfk

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