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Thomas Charles Farrer's portrait drawing of Clarence C. Cook, 1861, reproduced as frontispiece to Poems by Clarence Cook (1902). Names 'Rossetti' and 'Turner' on wall; prints of Hunt's Light of the World and Dürer's Melencolia I.
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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 #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/DrgAdVo3Vc #OTD
Peter Cross Frontispieces in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (1/2)
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.
A Memory of #HarryClarke from the Irish Builder and Engineer [1931], George Harrap, publisher of Fairy Tales of #HansChristianAndersen London, 1916. Frontispiece.
A rather poorly copy of The English Gentlewoman (1631) requested today, featuring an upside down frontispiece and manuscript annotations from former owners. (Broughton.57) #rarebookrequests
100 years ago today, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of #ERB's THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover.
This is the second book in the Barsoom series and many fans consider it the best.
『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 #ERB
[J. Allen St. John frontispiece]
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
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." William Blake, born #otd 1757
The Ancient of Days, published as the frontispiece to 1794's, Europe a Prophecy, shows the biblical character Urizen crouching in the sky, his outstretched hand setting a compass to the Earth below
Happy to share this frontispiece illustration I did for the limited edition of the new @RichardChizmar & @BillyChizmar novel : Widow's Point.
The limited edition sold out in less than 12h!
The classic St. John frontispiece illustrating the foregoing scene from #ERB's THUVIA, MAID OF MARS, 1st ed. (1920)
W. V. Cockburn illustration to #BramStoker stories Under The Sunset 1882 with frontispiece by William Fitzgerald