Classic Book Covers

Elegant front covers of classic literature, featuring ornate designs and titles from Victorian-era authors, reflecting the artistic style of book publishing.

The story of a bad boy Front cover ,

A native of Winby and other tales Front cover ,

The life of Nancy Front cover ,

A Victorian anthology : 1837-1895 Spine and front cover ,

The queen's twin and other tales Front cover ,

ANNUAL DINNER held by MANUFACTURERS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA at "PHILADELPHIA, PA" (OTHER (PRIVATE AREA);). Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. 1906. Rare Book Division

The story of a bad boy Front cover ,

Harbours of England, 1856. Author: J M W Turner. Engraver: Thomas. Lupton. Author: John Ruskin. Publisher: E. Gambart and Co. Printer: Spottiswoode & Co

The despot of Broomsedge Cove Front cover ,

Sweet clover Spine and front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

The second son Front cover ,

The country of the pointed firs Front cover ,

Portfolio cover and colophon page, from Max Linde's House 1902 Norway. . Edvard Munch

Just sixteen Front cover ,

A week away from time Front cover ,

The making of pictures Spine and front cover ,

A golden gossip Front cover ,

Vintage Book Cover for Moby Dick, or, The white whale / by Herman Melville. 1920 publ. Page Company

The Writings of Bret Harte Front cover. The Writings of Bret Harte Front cover

Ballads, lyrics, and sonnets Front cover ,

Lyrics, idylls, and romances ,

Odes, lyrics, and sonnets Spine and front cover ,

The king of Folly Island and other people Front cover ,

Strangers and wayfarers Front cover ,

The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs, J.B.T. Marsh, 1877 London paper. cardboard. linen (material) letterpress printing London paper. cardboard. linen (material) letterpress printing

The North Shore watch and other poems Front cover ,

Such as they are Front cover ,

Vintage Book Cover. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne 1870s

Poems Front cover ,

Paul Patoff Front cover ,

ANNUAL DINNER held by CORNELL ALUMNI IN NEW YORK & VICINITY at "WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, NEW YORK, NY" (HOTEL;). Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. 1901. Rare Book Division

Day and night stories : series 2 Front cover ,

The Pencil of Nature, by H. Fox Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877); London, England; 1844; Salted paper print from a paper negative; Closed: 30.5 x 24.2 cm (12 x 9 1,2 in.)

Day and night stories : series 2 Front cover ,

Lucky Mischief. Burgwyn, Mebane Holoman, 1914-1992. text. Books, Children's literature, Illustrations. 1949. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African American children , North Carolina

Vintage Book Cover for The jungle book / by Rudyard Kipling ; with illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny.. Macmillan and Co 1894

The martyrs' idyl Front cover ,

Smith College stories Front cover ,

S. Falkowska, Lilje cemetery, Vilnius 1911; Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936); 1911 (1911-00-00-1911-00-00);Partage Plus, cover designs, purchase (provenance)

The making of pictures Front cover ,

The golden Justice Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

The poetical works of Lucy Larcom Spine and front cover ,

Bayou folk Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

Street Incidents. John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921) and; Adolphe Smith (English, 1846-1925). Date: 1881. Dimensions: 28.3 x 21.9 cm (covers). Book with text and mounted woodburytypes (21). Origin: Scotland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Life and letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe Front cover ,

The Pencil of Nature, by H. Fox Talbot.. William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877)

The Peckster professorship Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

A marsh island Front cover ,

Thoreau's thoughts : selections from the writings of Thoreau Front cover ,

Country Life Stories: Some Rural Community Helpers. Cannon, Elizabeth Perry. text. Books, Children's literature, Illustrations. 1938. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Readers

Odes, lyrics, and sonnets Front cover ,

Sights and insights Spine and front cover ,

Lady's almanac 1861. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljmem. Pomroy, Rebecca, 1817-1884, Associated objects, Women, 1860-1870, Advice, 1860-1870, Poetry, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Women.

Jack the fisherman Spine and front cover ,

The poetical works of Lucy Larcom Spine and front cover ,

Thornley Portfolio Cover 1889-1890 France. Portfolio cover . Georges-William Thornley

The hanging of the crane and other poems of the home Front cover ,

Old Kaskaskia Front cover ,

Land of the lingering snow Front cover ,

Barker's luck and other stories Front cover ,

Illustraties uit: Andrew Lang, Fairy Books, 1890-1892, anonymous, after Henry Justice Ford, after George Percy Jacomb-Hood, after Lancelot Speed, c. 1890 - 1892 photomechanical print A total of 72 pages from three publications from the 'Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books' series. It concerns sixteen illustrations from 'The Blue Fairy Book', sixteen from 'The Red Fairy Book' and forty from 'The Green Fairy Book'. Only from 'The Blue Fairy Book' is a title page. The majority of the illustrations is printed in the text; Fourteen of the illustrations are page large. paper printing block / letterpress printing tales and fairy tales. illustration ~ printed matter, book

Passe rose Front cover ,

The Vicar of Wakefield Spine and front cover ,

The Benjamin Altman collection hand-book. text. Posters. 1887 - 1922. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Posters, American

Cover to La Forêt de Fontainebleau Published 1908 France. Wood engraving in ochre, tan, brown, green and black on cream laid paper . Louis Auguste Lepère

Colonel Carter of Cartersville Front cover ,

Twenty years at sea Spine and front cover ,

The one hoss shay : with its companion poems How the old horse won the bet & The broomstick train Front cover ,

Cover of: W. Zaalberg, De Rots on which we build, 1899, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1899 photomechanical print paper printing block

A fellowe and his wife Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

Leporelloalbum with seven photos of Scotland, Anonymous, Anonymous, 1860 - 1880 Leporelloalbum with seven faces in places in Scotland. The album contains six stuck together, cardboard sheets and a separate sheet with photos. In principle, the album should consist of two leporellos that fold out to the left and to the right, but the leporello on the left is incomplete and only contains the last leaf. Shown are faces on Edinburgh, Abbottsford and Balmoral Castle. Scotland cardboard. linen (material). photographic support. albumen print prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city. street. castle. study; 'studiolo'; library. bridge

Portada de la revista Herinnerings, editada en Holanda, conmemorando los cuarenta años de reinado de Guillermina I de los Países Bajos, en el año 1938.

Smith College stories Front cover ,

The great remembrance and other poems Front cover ,

Front cover of George Du Maurier 'Trilby', London, 1894, showing with the eponymous heroine.

Under the man-fig Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

George Fuller : his life and works Front cover ,

Kings handbook of New York City, title page. text. Title pages. 1893. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. New York (N.Y.)

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). English novelist. Front page of a 1883 edition of 'Oliver Twist' or 'The Parish Boy's Progress' by Charles Dickens.

The soul of the Far East Front cover ,

Wharncliffe, Wortley, and the Valley of the Don. Photographically Illustrated by Theophilus Smith.. Theophilus Smith (British, active 1860s)

The soul of the Far East Front cover ,

Ten New England blossoms and their insect visitors Front cover ,

The yoke : a romance of the days when the Lord redeemed the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt 1904 Margaret Neilson Armstrong "Signed Margaret Armstrong binding of an Egyptian-themed design in orange and gold on dark blue cloth with the author's name blind-stamped below the design. Single floral motif from cover design repeated on spine with titles in gold. A romance set during the period of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt. A beautiful copy of an unusual Armstrong design. " -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.Bound in dark blue diagonal fine rib cloth; front board stamped in orange and gold with stylized Egyptian figures and gold title within a symmetrical floral border; author blindstamped at foot; spine with title and author in gold and orange floral element; signed at right with the monogram "MA" (Margaret Armstrong).Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/4108. The yoke : a romance of t

Three tales Front cover ,. Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Collection

Polly Oliver's problem : a story for girls Front cover ,

A Japanese interior Front cover ,

Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations 1851 : reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided Vol. II, 1851 book London paper. leather. photographic support salted paper print

The message ,. Graupner and early Boston Musical Scores plus Boston Music Hall Ephemera

Leaves of grass, Front cover. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Book covers. 1855. Rare Book Division. Book covers

Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life..

Reuben Rattle the younger son: holograph, 1847-1848. 1847 - 1848. Crispin, John. text. Manuscripts, Drawings, Books. George Arents Collection. Great Britain , Social life and customs , 19th century

Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions.

Flower of the dusk 1910 Margaret Neilson Armstrong Lavender, vertically ribbed cloth stamped in white and gold flower between outlined trees with stylized linked roots, title and author stamped in gold with black outlines; title, author, publisher, and scroll work stamped in gold on spine; top edge gilt. In slipcase, white textured paper over board with same image as cover printed in lavender on front and back. Signed MA Margaret Armstrong. Series binding.Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/2601. Flower of the dusk. Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867-1944 New York). 1910. Published by G.P. Putnam & Co., New York. New York, New York

Leporelloalbum with 12 photos from Amsterdam, Andries Jager (attributed to), c. 1860 - c. 1900 Leporelloalbum in red linen band with the title on the front in gold pressure. The frontplate is decorated with geometric and plant motifs in black. The album contains twelve stuck together, fold -out cardboard sheets with a total of twelve photos. They are recordings of cityscapes in the old center of Amsterdam: buildings, squares, streets and canals. Amsterdam linen (material). cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Amsterdam

Bookplate: Ruthven Deane, 1901. overall: 9.6 x 5.6 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.).

Knitting pattern book, 'Her Excellency's Knitting Book', 1915, New Zealand, by Annette Foljambe, Countess of Liverpool, Ferguson and Osborn, Ltd. Gift of Miss Molly Gambrill, 1990.

The Bishop collection: investigations and studies in jade 1906 De Vinne Press American The Catalogue of the Bishop CollectionThe Bishop Collection. Investigations and Studies in Jade, a catalogue of Heber R. Bishops collection, was completed in 1906, four years after he bequeathed more than a thousand pieces of jade to the Metropolitan. Massive in size, the two volumes measure twenty-six by nineteen inches each and weigh seventy and fifty-five pounds, respectively. The books document Bishops entire collection and cover an extensive variety of subjects, ranging from the physical properties of jade and how it was worked and used in many parts of the world, to its archaeological history. The catalogue was printed privately in a limited run of one hundred copies, which were presented to the heads of states in Europe and Asia, including the Emperor of China, and to important public institutions and libraries. A testament to his passion for the art of jade carving, this monumental work als

Moon's hardy trees & plants for every place & purpose, Morrisville, Pa, The Company, berries, catalogs, climbing plants, evergreens, flowering shrubs, fruit trees, moonwilliamhco, morrisvillebuckscounty, nurseries horticulture, nursery stock, nut trees, ornamental trees, pennsylvania, perennials, Pinopsida, Rosa, shade trees, shrubs, trees, garden stories, in bloom, g, The cover design showcases elegant typography and decorative elements typical of early 20th-century graphics. At the top, the title 'MOON'S HARDY TREES AND PLANTS' is prominently displayed, emphasizing the focus on horticulture. Below, the year '1910' is noted, indicating the publication date. An intricate illustration of a plant sprouting from a decorative pot adds a botanical theme, while stylized flourishes and a crescent moon symbol enhance the overall aesthetic. The bottom section features the name of the company, 'THE WM. H. MOON COMPANY,' along with its location in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia o

Sheffield and its Neighborhood. Photographically Illustrated by Theophilus Smith.. Theophilus Smith (British, active 1860s)

Band design for: P.G. BUEKERS, Our birds, 1900, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1900 print Band design with two birds that are facing each other on either side of the book title with the beak. paper printing birds

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