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Historical Examples

 * Beautiful frontispieces:


 * 1) Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938), Le elegie romane, 1905   page 4-5 in Latin and Italian
 * 2) Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796), Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772)
 * 3) Diderot and d’Alembert, Encyclopédie by  Frontispiece to the 1772 edition. At the center, crowned Reason attempts to remove the veil from Truth. Commons:File:Encyclopedie_frontispice_full.jpg
 * 4) Didot, Ambroise Firmin, (1790-1876), Essai typrographique et bibliographique sur l'histoire de la gravure sur bois by  open library  (1863) page 6
 * 5) Wigstand, Henry, Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797, page 10
 * 6) Woodberry, George Edward A History of Wood-Engraving including Didot in index

Romanes Lecture
 An Academic Sketch (wiki) 1892  Evolution and Ethics (wiki) 1893

 The Effect of External Influences upon Development (wiki) 1894

 The Obligations of the Universities Towards Art (wiki) 1895