Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books

• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894); over 17,000 entries! New 15th February 2008
• Smiley's Recipe and Housekeeping Guide, historical recipes transcribed and annotated by CatamountClyde Studios; New 2nd November 2007
• Canting Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1736), a dictionary of the slang of the underworld, of thieves, gypsies and vagrants.
• Dictionary of the Canting Tongue by Francis Grose (1811)
• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536-1896] edited by John S. Farmer Updated 30th October 2006
• A Political Dictionary by Charles Pigott (1795) a political satire; partial transcription with 351 entries Updated 24th August 2007
• The Nuttall Encyclpædia, by the Rev. James Wood (1907) (over 14,000 entries; the claim of over 16,000 entries appears not to be correct) Updated 4th August 2007
• Gesta Typograhica by Chas. T. Jacobi, 1897 [various facts about printing; I am still working on the formatting] Updated 30th January, 2008
• Oratio Dominica, or, The Lord’s Prayer in over a hundred Languages, Versions and Characters (Scripts). I have scanned every page, and also an insert folded in the back, so this book is complete.
• Nathan Bailey’s 1721 Dictionary of Proverbs, 1721, the whole book in text and images (complete)
• The Grammar of Heraldry, by Samuel Kent 1718. I have typed the first chapter on how to Blazon, etc., and will do more if requested. See below on this page for a link to the page images for this book.
• Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey, 1736. A little under 500 entries, but very incomplete; this is a transcription I started in 1991. It is a different book than the dictionary containing the Canting Dictionary.
• The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary edited by Thomas Hearne, 1745. 122 page images including cover and title page; I have started to transcribe names that appear in the text. Updated 20th May 2007

See the list of books sorted by author

• The Antiquities of England and Wales by Henry Boswell, 1786; 8 images including 5 antique maps; Updated 26th April 2008
• The Antiquities of England and Wales by Francis Grose, Esq., FAS., 1783 49 images including 5 maps and 1 plan, title page and cover; Updated 23rd April 2008
• Goetia, or the Lesser Key of King Solomon, translated by L. S. Mathers, 1904 55 demonic sigils, Updated 21st April 2008
• Description of the Americas by Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671. 6 images, including cover and title page; Updated 16th April 2008
• Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, 1871 15 illustrations; Updated 14th April 2008
• Myths Every Child Should Know, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1922 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 10th April 2008
• A description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, With their Figures Engraven in Brass, by Dr. John Johnston (Jonstonus, Joannes), London, 1678. 10 engravings; Updated 2nd April 2008
• Old England: A Pictorial Musem of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities, by Charles Knight, 1844 239 images including 10 plans/maps, title page and photograph; also a partial transcription; Updated 1st April 2008
• Chatterbox Annual 1916; 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 21st March, 2008
• The National and Domestic History of England by William Hickman Smith Aubrey, circa 1878; 8 images Updated 11th March 2008
• Castles by Charles Oman, 1926 30 images including 5 castle plans; Updated 6th March 2008
• The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Symms (1860) 60 images including cover; Updated 4th March 2008
• English Homes Vol III, No. 1, Late Tudor & Early Stuart, 1558 - 1649, 1922. 18 images; Updated 29th February 2008
• A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs by John Ray, 1737. 8 images including title page; Updated 28th February, 2008
• THe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts by Alexander Speltz (1915) 4 images; New 26th, 27th February 2008
• Old English Country Cottages Edited by Charles Holme, London, 1906 21 images including title page and book-plate; Updated 19th February 2008
• Travels in the Far East, Ellen M. H. Peck, 1909. 7 images including cover; Updated 17th February 2008
• Religion in the Home by Charlotte M. Yonge, USA, 1913. 7 images; Updated 5th February 2008
• The Leisure Hour, a magazine from 1896 11 images including title page and cover; Updated 1st February 2008
• A Sentimental Journey through France and italy by Laurence Sterne, illustrated by Maurice Leloir, 1885. 7 images, Updated 29th January 2008
• Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey, 1736; 4 images including cover and title page; Updated 31st January 2008; there are also some 500 dictionary entries This is a different book than the dictionary containing the Canting Dictionary of thieving slang.
• The Works of Jane Austen, edited by R. Brimley Johnson, 1906 2 images; New 24th September 2007
• Scribner's Magazine, November 1903 9 100-year-old ad pictures, New 28th January 2008
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women by William C. King; 6 images; Updated 17th January 2008
• In Search of Scotland by H. V. Morton (1929); 2 photographs and title page, New 13th January 2008
• Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by General U.S. Grant, 1885; 1 image and 1 handwriting sample, New 7th January, 2008
• A Treasury of Verse for Little Children edited by M. G. Edgar, illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1923; 12 images; Updated 18th December 2007
• The Illustrated London News vol. 56 (1870). 27 images; Updated 15th December 2007
• The Real Mother Goose illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright, Chicago, 1916 3 images; Updated 13th December 2007
• Monumental Architecture (c. 1910). 3 images; Updated 11th December, 2007
• Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages by Allan Fea (1914) 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 5th December 2007
• the First Book of Urizen by William Blake (1794) 6 page images with transcriptions, New 17th November 2007
• The Holy Court, by Nicholas Caussin, 1663; 6 images including front cover, title page and bookplate; Updated 6th November 2007
• Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods, edited by Charles Holme, London 1908 12 images including 1 map, title page and cover; Updated 30th October 2007
• Atmospheric and Gothic images from The World’s Best Music: Famous Songs and Those Who Made Them edited by Helen Kendrick Johnson, Frederic Dean, Reginald DeKoven and Gerrit Smith, Vol I, The University Society, New York, 1900. 12 images; Updated 26th October 2007
• Sample Gallery showing how people have used some of the images; 23 images; Updated 20th October 2007
• A Textbook on Ornamental Design, issued by International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, PA., USA, 1901. 11 images; Updated 16th October 2007
• Dictionnaire François-Anglois & Anglois-François by Louis Chambaud, London, 1815 1 bookplate; New 12th October 2007
• The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards, an almost-complete set of Tarot cards from 1450 or so. 74 images; New 6th October 2007
• Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford (Miss Mitford), 1893 2 images including cover; New 5th October 2007
• Edinburgh painted by John Fulleylove R.I., and described by by Rosaline Masson (1907) 6 colour images including cover; Updated 1st October 2007
• A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by E. Sibly, M.D. F.R.H.S., Embellished with Curious Copper-Plates, London, 1806 35 images; Updated 28th September 2007
• Life of Anthony à Wood by Anthony à Wood, 1772. 8 images including title page; Updated 27th September 2007
• Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic edited by Everett, Marshall, 1912 4 images including title pages New 25th September 2007
• Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records, by William Andrews, London, 1891 7 images including cover and titlepage; Updated 21st September 2007
• Steam and the Steam Engine, by Henry Evers, 1880 9 images including front cover; Updated 20th September 2007
• In Unfamiliar England, by Thos. D. Murphy, Boston, 1910 9 images including cover; Updated 18th September 2007
• Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger Smith, 1896 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 17th September 2007
• Quarles' Emblems, Divine and Moral, by Francis Quarles, 1866 edition 4 images; New 16th September 2007
• Ornamental Alphabets edited by F. Delamotte, 1879 44 images including covers and title page; updated 6th, 14th September 2007
• Pictures of Old Books 19 images; Updated 12th September 2007
• A Popular History of Rome, D. Rose, Edited by H. W. Dulken, Ph.D., 1886 6 images; Updated 3rd September 2007
• The Everyday Book and Table Book, William Hone, 1826, London 36 images including cover; Updated 31st August 2007
• Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, 1921. 46 images including cover; Updated 28th August 2007
• Farm Weeds by George H. Clark, B.S.A. and James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S. with illustrations by Norman Criddle, 1906. 6 images including covers and title page; Updated 27th August 2007
• Magazine of Art, Illustrated, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880 9 images including cover; Updated 20th August 2007
• The River Dee: Its Aspect and history by J. S. Howson, 1875. 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 16th August 2007
• Antwerpia (unknown author and date) 4 images; Updated 15th August 2007
• The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III, by Francis Grose, Esq., FAS., 1783 5 images including one map; Updated 13th August 2007
• South by South East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe by G. F. Rodwell, 1877. 9 images including cover; Updated 6th August 2007
• A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 1905) 6 images; Updated 31st July 2007
• England Beautiful by Wallace Nutting, 1936 18 images; Updated 22nd July 2007
• Sussex Painted by Wilfred Ball, 1906 8 images including cover & title page; Updated 19th July 2007
• Out to Old Aunt Mary’s, by James Whitcomb Riley, 1904. 5 images including cover; Updated 21st June 2007
• Look at the Bright Side by Joanna H. Matthews, 1883 4 images including cover and title page; New 18th June 2007
• Picturesque Views of the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland, volume I, by F. O. Morris, circa 1870 6 images including cover; Updated 16th June 2007
• The History of Wales, by B. B. Woodward, B.A., 1853 27 images including cover and title page; Updated 15th June 2007
• Oxford by Haslehust & How, 1936; 14 images including cover and title page; Updated 10th June 2007
• Geneva Bible, 1581. 5 images including cover and bookplate; Updated 6th June 2007
• Fry’s Pantographia, a book showing samples of languages and scripts (very incomplete) 53 page images including cover; Updated 5th June 2007
• London (Vol IV) by Charles Knight, 1841 1 image; New 4th June 2007
• The Grammar of Heraldry, by Samuel Kent 1718. Images and scanned pages. 55 images, (mostly page images) and a transcription of the main body of the text with another 40 images; Updated 2nd June 2007
• The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers, E. Beresford Chancellor, 1909; 3 images including title page; New 28th May 2007
• The Entirely New cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom, 1905, by Mumford, Hertford & Mizner. 4 images; New 25th May 2007
• Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs by the Rv. Father Gallonio, 1591; First English edition 1903. 10 images including cover and title page; there is also the beginnings of a transcription of the text of the book. Updated 22nd May 2007
• Book of Hours from the Library of Congress Rosenwald Collection, c. 1530, France. 15 images; Updated 21st May 2007
• The Lost Boy by Henry van Dyke, 1913 (6 images including title page and cover; New 16th May 2007]
• Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L'Episode de Panouille by Frédéric Goupil, 1843 5 images; Updated 10th May 2007
• Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire: Revue Hebdomadaire Ilustrée, edited by J. Roam, Paris, 1880 12 images; Updated 6th May 2007
• Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A., 1896. 22 images; Updated 30th April 2007
• These Be Your Gods by Leslie Roberts, illustrated by A. G. Racey, 1929 5 images including cover and title page; Updated 29th April 2007
• The Life of Mansie Wauch by David Macbeth Moir (1911). 3 images; Updated 19th April 2007
• Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers by Sydney F. Walker, 1890. 9 images including cover and title page; Updated 16th April 2007
• Turrets Towers and Temples (The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers) edited and translated by Esther Singleton. 7 images including cover; Updated: 2nd April 2007
• Ornamental Alphabets edited by F. Delamotte, 1879 40 images including covers and title page; updated 28th March 2007
• England, by John Richard Green, 1898 2 images; New 27th March 2007
• Travels Around the World, William Seward, 1870. 8 images; Updated 27th March 2007
• Round The Coast, 1895 6 images including title page and cover; Updated 27th March 2007
• The Works of Shakspere by Charles Knight (1873) 3 images; Updated 17th March 2007
• The Charm of Oxford, by J. Wells, 1920 4 images including title page and cover; Updated 13th March 2007
• The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Symms (1860) 49 images including cover; Updated 26th February 2007
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, New York, 1905 9 images; Updated 25th February 2007
• Bill Nye's History of England, 1900 14 images including cover and title page; mostly humorous cartoons. Updated 18th February 2007
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol (1865), with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. all 42 images; Completed 10th February 2007
• The Gnome King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly (after L. Frank Baum), illustrated by John R. Neill, 1929 4 images; Updated 6th February 2007
• Cathedral Cities of France, by Herbert Marshall and Hester Marshall, 1907. 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 5th February 2007
• Cambridge and its Story, by Charles Williams Stubbs, 1912 6 images including cover; Updated 22nd January 2007
• The Story of Some English Shires, by Mandell Creighton, 1897 9 images; Updated 17th January 2007
• Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey, 1736 497 entries, but very incomplete; this is a transcription I started in 1991. New 1st December 2006
• London (Vol VI) by Charles Knight, 1841 2 images; Updated 14th November 2006
• Albrecht Duerer Dürer (various engravings) 4 images; Updated 12th November 2006
• A Record Of Work: 1840-1890 by the Dalziel Brothers, 1901. 9 images including cover and title page; Updated 9th November 2006
• Wonderful PRODIGIES of Judgement and Mercy, 1684. 9 images including cover and title page; Updated 4th November 2006
• A Short History of the English People by J. R. Green M.A., 1898 and 1902 10 images including cover and one map; Updated 2nd November 2006
• Handbook of The Useful Arts by T. Antisell M.D., 1852 6 images including cover; Updated 23rd October 2006
• Britannia Depicta, by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen, 1720; 2 maps; Updated 18th October 2006
• Memorials of Old Hampshire edited by G. E. Jeans, London, 1906 12 images including 1 map, cover and title page; Updated 11th October 2006
• The Leisure Hour, a magazine from 1904/5. 13 images; Updated 8th October 2006
• The Pentateuch of Printing by William Blades, 1891; decorative with cherubs. 15 images including cover and ornamental title page; Updated 17th September 2006
• Historic Byways and Highways of Old England by William Andrews, 1900 3 images including cover; Updated 14th September 2006
• The Scott Country (Beautiful Scotland) Gaddie & Haslehust 10 images including cover; Updated 10th September 2006
• The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journeying from Richmond to Oxford, by John Leyland, 1897 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 9th September 2006
• Cambridge, Described by Noel Barwell and Pictured by E. W. Haslehust, circa 1910. 8 images including front cover and title page; Updated 7th September 2006
• Christian Parlor Magazine, Vol III, 1846/1847 6 images; Updated 5th September 2006
• Great Men and Famous Women edited by Charles F. Horne, 1894 5 images including cover and title page; Updated 2nd September 2006
• The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White (1788; 1879 edition) 11 images including cover; Updated 29th August 2006
• Bygone Punishments by William Andrews, London, 1899 and 1931. 5 images including cover; Updated 21st August 2006
• Desiderata by Francis Peck, 1779 5 images; Updated 18th August 2006
• Picturesque Egypt Vol II, by Prof. G. Ebers, 1878 2 images; Updated 17th August 2006
• South Wales and the Wye District of Monmouthshire, edited by C. S. Ward and M. J. Baddeley, 1892, as part of the Bartholomew Thorough Guide series. 4 images, including one plan and one map; Updated 11th August 2006
• Youth’s Instructer and Guardian, 1830 6 images; Updated 16th July 2006
• The British Isles Depicted by Pen and Camera, published by Cassell and Company Ltd., c. 1900 12 images including 1 map, cover and title page; Updated 5nd July 2006
• Some British Ballads, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919; 8 images including title page; Updated 4th July 2006
• English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, 1915. 12 images; Updated 27th June 2006
• Warwick and Leamington, Geore Morley, illustrated by E. W. Haslehust, Glasgow, circa 1920. all 12 images plus the cover; Updated 20th June 2006
• Rome, by M. A. R. Ruker and Hope Malleson with paintings by Alberto Pisa, 1905. 6 images, including cover; Updated 6th June 2006
• Venice, by Beryl de Sélincourt and May Sturge Henderson, illustrated by Reginald Barratt, 1907. 5 images including 2 watercolours, cover and title page; Updated 22nd May 2006
• La Vita Nuova (The New Life) by Dante Alighieri, translated by Gabriel Rossetti and illustrated by Evelyn Paul, with music by Alfred Mercer (1910). 11 images; Updated 21st April 2006
• In the Land of the Temples, Joseph Pennel, 1915, London 6 images; Updated 16th March 2006
• Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... by Girolamo di Manfredi, Bologna, 1564. 6 images including cover Updated 15th March 2006
• A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Lynton, Lynmouth, Exmoor, Minehead and the Land of “Lorna Doone.” published by Ward, Lock & Co., 1910 4 images including maps + 1 old advert; Updated 1st March 2006
• Picturesque Egypt Vol I, by Prof. G. Ebers, 1878 4 images including cover; Updated 10th February 2006
• The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I, edited by Professer W. L. Renwick, 1930 7 images; New 8th February 2006
• The Growth of the English House by J. Alfred Gotch, London, 1909 32 images including 9 plans + cover; Updated 3rd February 2006
• MediaevalRome by Norwood Young, 1904 5 images including one map; Updated 29th December 2005
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1888 transcription; I have scanned all the images from the first three sections so far
• Stratford on Avon, a map by J. Ross Brown in about 1908. 1 image New 23rd October 2005
• Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888 8 images including cover; Updated 17th October 2005
• Oud-Nederlands by Prof. Dr. H. Brugmans, 1927 4 images including title page and cover: New 14th October 2005
• The Cathedral Churches of England by A. Hamilton Thompson, 1926, London 5 images; Updated 7th August 2005
• Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904) 56 images including 55 maps; New 19th July 2005
• London (Vol II) by Charles Knight, 1841 1 image and one castle plan; New 15th July 2005
• Laws and History of the New Forest by Percival Lewis, 1811 1 image, 1 map, titlepage and picture of the book; New 13th July 2005
• Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley & Margaret M. Elliot, 1929 3 images including cover; Updated 8th July 2005
• York, an undated book of photographs. 4 images; New: 27th April 2004

• Pictures of Old Books
• Finally, a cool title page.

• Pictures of some of my old books
  Clyde and I photographed one of my bookshelves. I’ll take some more photographs of the antiquarian books when I have a chance. I buy books because the content interests me rather than because they have smart bindings or are valuable, and I prefer copies with a broken spine if I plan to scan from them, so they are not always very pretty. Let me know (liam at holoweb dot net) if you would like me to do this.

I buy old books (or you can give me some) and scan the pictures. When I can, I type (or OCR) the text.

Are you interested in helping out? If you are good at image editing and have a fast net connection, you could help me clean up scans. Or maybe you have some old images to share? Or some old books you don’t want? Let me know, liam at holoweb dot net. Mention the colour of your socks in the Subject line. (You can also see some pictures by Liam himself if you like.)

I list on a separate page some of the books in the scanning queue. Let me know if you’d like me to scan specific images, or higher resolution copies, or have any interesting uses for these images, or like them.

Some links to sites that link here; contact me to be added here or to the gallery.