Victorian Graphic Design

I have been looking at Victorian graphic design as part of my H.G. Wells brief. While the brief asks for no 'Victoriana' designs, I have decided to look at the style to see if there are elements I can lift and use in my covers, to link back to the stories' heritage, while staying and feeling contemporary.

There is a post over at the Attitude Design Journal that catalogs some of the Victorian styles:

First thoughts seem to be common usage of heavy display/title fonts, mixing more than one typeface in a single design (that would anywhere else clash together, but in this style it seems to work) and use of decorative elements such as lines, thick-thin boarders, wavy lines, etc.