frontis

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  • Consisting of 189 pages, including frontis material, this book is not a photographically illustrated encyclopedia of patterns. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Never-before-seen art by Christopher Paolini (Glaedr's eye as frontis piece across from the title page) —  Shur'tugal.com Stories
  • 'Ah!' she exclaimed, 'I have been looking for you, Tancred Illustration: frontis-p72 CHAPTER VIII The Decision THE duke returned rather late from Bellamont, and went immediately to his dressing-room. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • ALROY OR THE PRINCE OF THE CAPTIVITY By Benjamin Disraeli Illustration: cover Illustration: alroy-frontis-174 Illustration: frontis-label AUTHOR'S PREFACE Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the Kings of Israel, my thoughts recurred to a personage whose marvellous career had, even in boyhood, attracted my attention, as one fraught with the richest materials of poetic fiction. —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
  • In confirmation of his opinion, he pointed out to me the following passage in Tacitus, Ne armentis quidem suus honor, aut gloria frontis (De mor. —  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
 

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