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Historical Examples

Beautiful frontispieces:

1. Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938), Le elegie romane, 1905 (external scan) page 4-5 in Latin and Italian
2. Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796), Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772) (external scan)
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 (external scan) (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

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  Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1754)
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  The Social Contract (1762)
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  Confessions (1782)

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  "An Academic Sketch" by Gladstone (1892)
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  "Evolution and Ethics" by Huxley (1893)
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  "Effects of External Influences upon Development" by Weismann (1894)
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  "Obligations of the Universities towards Art" by Hunt (1895)

Title	Size	Comments
An Academic Sketch	6297 words,
Evolution and Ethics	9431 words

Romanes Lecture

THE ROMANES LECTURE

1892

An Academic Sketch

BY THE

Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.

DELIVERED

IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OCT. 24, 1892

WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

Oxford

CLARENDON PRESS DEPOSITORY, 116 HIGH STREET

LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, AMEN CORNER, E.C.

1892

An Academic Sketch (wiki) 1892

THE ROMANES LECTURE

1893

Evolution and Ethics

BY

THOMAS H. HUXLEY, F.R.S.

DELIVERED

IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, MAY 18, 1893

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1893

The Rights of Translation and Reproduction are Reserved

Evolution and Ethics (wiki) 1893

THE ROMANES LECTURE

1894

The

Effect of External Influences

upon Development

BY

AUGUST WEISMANN, M.D., PH.D., D.C.L.

PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG IN BREISGAU

DELIVERED

IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, MAY 2, 1894

WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

London
HENRY FROWDE, AMEN CORNER, E.C.

OXFORD: CLARENDON PRESS DEPOSITORY, 116 HIGH STREET

1894

The Effect of External Influences upon Development (wiki) 1894

THE ROMANES LECTURE 1895

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The
Obligations of the Universities
towards Art

BY

W. HOLMAN HUNT

DELIVERED
IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, MAY 30, 1895

London HENRY FROWDE, AMEN CORNER, E.C.
OXFORD: CLARENDON PRESS DEPOSITORY, 116 HIGH STREET
1895

The Obligations of the Universities Towards Art (wiki) 1895