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"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her." The whisper on the stair. 1924. Frontispiece.
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Her chariot ready straight is made, Frontispiece from Michael Drayton's Nymphidia, the Court of Faerie by Thomas Maybank (1906)
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Tales of Terror ~ Skeletons, 1808
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Midnight
"Starlight", frontispiece
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What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! (frontispiece from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1899
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Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938), ''Songs and Poems of Fairyland'', 1888
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Medieval passion plays were often performed with Godzilla as a metaphor for the Devil.
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Fly leafs for Spirou and Fantasio albums by André Franquin, 1950s-1970s.
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Aurum superius et inferius aurae superioris et inferioris hermeticum (1675) by Christiani Adolphi Balduini.
This is a second, slightly enlarged edition of Aurum Aurae, Vi Magnetismi (1674) and contains a folding frontispiece engraved by C. Dekker (1675) and two copperplates by C. Dekker.
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La Dame ovale, Leonora Carrington, 1939
Illustration by Max Ernst
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Leviathan 99 (Easton Press Edition Frontispiece) by Mark Zug
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Ethics of the trees. 1921. Frontispiece.
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Frontispiece, from The Arabian Nights by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1928)
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Norman Lindsay - Colombine (frontispiece)
illustration from Hugh McCrae's "Colombine", 1920
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Ivypool in the Dark Forest
"Night Whispers", frontispiece
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The Temple of Janus, perhaps by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, a preparatory study for the engraved frontispiece by Lucas Vorsterman to Volume III of Franciscus Haraeus’ Annales Ducum Brabantiae (Annals of the Dukes of Brabant)
Flemish, c. 1620-1623
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk
Royal Collection Trust
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