Franz Michael Regenfuss was born in Nuremberg, Germany & baptised in 1713. His 'Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere..', was published in 1758. The frontispiece shows sea gods & products of the sea surrounding a bust of King Frederick V of Denmark & Norway.

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Royal Feast in a Garden, left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), c. 1440 https://t.co/M0yAMVzrl3

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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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Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer'

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Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 https://t.co/PipLc3mo2y

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How lovely: 'God spede the & sende us korne enow' - even the oxen look happy (though the ploughmen less so), and we’re suddenly in the room with the scribe illustrating the frontispiece to his 14thC manuscript of Piers Plowman (https://t.co/9KJTxTGLCX, f.001v).

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Cover, frontispiece back flap and back of Hajime RomCom Ogabebe volume

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Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer'

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Beautiful frontispiece to Louis XIV et son Siècle by Alexandre Dumas

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Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Old Tales (Les Vieilles Histoires), Cover-Frontispiece, 1893 https://t.co/NAlhTQnAA8

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Frontispiece for Washington Irving's Diedrich Knickerbocker's A History of New-York, 1849

Illustrated by Felix O.C. Darley

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Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer'

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I still wish clean versions of these Archie Sonic frontispieces circa 1997 without writing on top of them were available somewhere...

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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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Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 https://t.co/PipLc3mo2y

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Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer'

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elles: Frontispiece, 1896 https://t.co/VCL96YjTLs

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A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators is today looking at Blackie's Children's Annual "24th Year" (mid 20s) with some lovely pieces within...Here it's colourful Contents Pages images by an unnamed hand and frontispiece by Cicely May Barker

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