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old book art is another project similar to this one, run by a bookseller in Wilmington, NY, USA.
Arachnea's Attic has some fun public domain images, although at muh lower resolution.
Bibliography of on-line neo-latin texts links to many digitised texts. Many of the scans are lower resolution than I like, but some of them are every bit as good as mine :-) and higher resolution files are available on request.
Rare Book Room has lots of medium-resolution images taken from the Octavo project.
BibliOdyssey is a blog about old books and images, but does not take care to report the copyrights, so be careful.
Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts
Words and phrases for book collecting and spine and corner bumps and their effect on whether a book is Fine or Very Good. Lots of good stuff.
oldmapsonline.org is an interesting portal/mashup site
Sacred-texts note on copyrights
US Catalog of Copyright Entries (Renewals)
US Copyright renewals quick search by Mike Lesk. Something found here is in copyright; things not found may or may not be out of copyright.
Wikipedia on US copyright law but be careful, since anyone can edit this page!
Library of Congress catalog search; the Basic Search is the most useful.
Wikipedia on UK copyright (unreliable)
UK government page on copyright
Victorian Peridicals Research Site
Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers [full text online]
Some sites that link here or that use the images. Since fromoldbooks.org is a very visible site, I have added these links as a courtesy, and also because visitors might be interested in the sites.
Les Vieux Jours features hand-made paper craft goods (including some games) that use images from www.fromoldbooks.org.
This site is listed in the About.com Clip Art Dierectory under Black and White and also in Mixed Clip Art and Icons.
Blog Directory at allaboutblog.com
Greg Vilk used some images from Fry's Pantographia for the Golem Web site.
yougeek.ca said, on 10th August 2005, Old school clip art, Pictures from old books.. all public domain.
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History of inkI am Liam at holoweb dot net; 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. Tell me what colour socks you are wearing.