When I began "Faith and Love" I worked for weeks and months and years, having but one thought, how to give artistic rendering to the great idea of the Renascence of Wonder in Art symbolised in the vignette in your father's third edition.
I felt that he who could design or suggest to a designer such a vignette must be inspired, and I bought the book: it was as an artist, not as a thinker, that I bought the book for the vignette.
He then asked me to draw something for him, and as I finished a vignette he pushed the book of superb Edinburgh towards me; on the first leaf he had written, "To John J.
The proportion of dated and undated editions is about equal, and with careful study it ought to be possible to trace the career of each of the important firms, noting when each new illustration or vignettemakes its first appearance.
Footnote 93: See vignette at the end of this chapter.
With Maclise's Portrait of the Author, a later Portrait on Steel from a recent Photograph, and a Vignette to each volume.
Footnote 80: See initial letter, and vignette at the end of this chapter.
Even her own elegant accomplishments are identified with her father's work, she having herself made the drawing of the vignette on the title- page of the Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse.
This structure is admirably exemplified in the second vignette in Rogers's Italy, and in Piacenza.
But the effect of the blow at the shore itself is given in the Land's End, andvignette to Lycidas.
In the vignette illustration to Jacqueline, we have another series of peaks, whose structure is less developed, owing to their distance, but equally clear and faithful in all points, as far as it is given.
All the grace and solidity of the white cloud on the right-hand side of the vignette before us, depends upon such outlines.
She is just like a vignette out of "Paul et Virginie.
He can vignette the life he knows in a few touches, and in this book shows an increased power of selection.
The vignette at the head of the present chapter was copied from a brick at Laughton Place.
Vide Vignette at the head of this Chapter for Maundevile's representation of an Ipotayne.
To make a vignette it is necessary, first, to make a large drawing on paper with great care, and a daguerreotype is then taken of the drawing the exact size of the engraving desired.
There was a second issue, with larger vignetteon title, and some additional pages to the Huron report, pp.
Has the storkvignette of the Cramoisy press on the title, and it is the last Relation in which that sign is used.
The title is without the usual vignette of storks.
In its course, too, it runs athwart the vignette surrounding the scale at the bottom of the map, as if added after that was made.
Another edition, in somewhat larger type and better engravings, with a vignette in place of the sphere on the title, appeared the same year.
You will see a vignette of it on the title-page of the recent English work entitled "The Washingtons.
For instance, the texture of the white convent wall, and the drawing of its tiled roof, in the vignette at p.
The decorative and illustrative frontispiece and vignette titles were engraved after Turner, Stanfield and others at a time when English line engraving was at its best.
A most superb work of printing and engraving; Author's autograph in vignette of title-page and his autograph inscription on fly-leaf presenting this copy to his Preceptor and Patron, the renowned Dr.
This fragment is engraved in the vignetteto Museum Marbles, Part vii.
The trunk was one of the Elgin fragments, and is also engraved in the vignette to Museum Marbles, Part vii.
Uniformly printed in 18mo, with Vignette Titles by J.
Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," with a Vignette by Sir NOEL PATON.
Illustration: Vignetteand Part of the XCIInd Chapter of the Book of the Dead.
While washing his hands, gazing absently at the green vignette framed by the dark opening, his attention was drawn to a movement of the foliage, stirred apparently by the rapid passage of two half-hidden figures.
Though a sufficiency of light still came through the window, and the mellow colors in a vignette border were surprisingly bright, there was not the slightest semblance of an apparition in the hall.
The vignette border of tendrils and vine-leaves was charming in design and rich in well-blended color, and an observer of critical taste could not fail to compare the gross offense of the portrait with the quiet beauty of its setting.
With their thirty-seven towers and seven gates, they lose themselves too much to make a picture that will compare with the admirable little vignette of Carcassonne.