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Vintage Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

Over 4,200 free images from old, rare, antique and vintage books. High-resolution images for sale.

Maid in the Forest

Nebuchadnezzar

The Magical Circle of King Solomon, Coloured

11. Seal of Gusion.

Fish-plating of rails

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

Old Riverside Farm, Závist

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

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Christmas-tide on the Road

Lutterworth.

Sir Isaac Newton

Cherup ascending

Hush! Central Will Hear!

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

53.8.—IHS

Gothic Window

Gargoyle, brighter version

Cherub with paintbrush

Dark Passion Flowers

Cairo, from the East

Inside a feudal castle hall

Harvest Time

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Field Worker

891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wire

Drawn Picture Frame

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki

Schoolwork

Cherub Facing Right

clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

Portrait of Ludwig Knaus

Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Naked angel with caduceus

Front Cover

Alchemical dragons fighting

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum

Alchemy Full Page Border

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)

60.—Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)

The Battle

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Haigha and Hatta

Give me a Ham Sandwich

Map XIX. Ireland

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Map XVII. british Isles; Showing places of greatest Historical Interest.

Hymn to the Seasons

Bless the Lord O My Soul

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

The front cover, with gold foil

Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue

Helmsman on a Vltava steamer

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Title Page

157.—Uncial Gothic Letters. 14th Century.

Front Cover

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

The Storming of Jerusalem by Titus

Buddhist Priest of Annam—TYPE

Chaldean Slaves

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

A Christmas-Box From China

Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow

Indra, God of Atmosphere

Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century No. 1

The Keep, Walmer

The Stocks. Monkton

Title Page

The Virgin Mary

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death

The Engraver

The Painter

Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels

The Novel

Front cover in red and gold

The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Frontispiece: Don’t Cry

Tortured with feet to the fire

Zeus and Europa

Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century No. 1

Poppies and Tiger Lillies

Menu Card 1: Court Jester

Menu Card 3: Celler Master

Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century No. 1

Menu Card 4: Waitress

Menu Card 2: Chef

Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls

Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves

Venus danced for Apollo

Chapterhead with Boy’s Head

Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

English Manufacturing

Helen and Paris

Front Cover

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

That wall of stone

Title page, The Defence of Guenevere

Jesus and Moses

Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century No. 1

145.—Leading a Horse

Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured

Oval frame, scalloped

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Tailpiece with peacock

Front Cover With Alice

Foliated Initial Letter S

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia

Convolvulus Tricolor

70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Classical full-page border with goddess

Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse

Buckingham Palace

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Heralds’ College

Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet

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Vintage Borders and Initials

Decorative Initials and Drop Caps: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Th U V W X Y Z
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Quirky Old-Time Holiday Images

Curious Old Texts, Slang and Dictionaries

A Provincial Dictionary by Francis Grose (1790); 66 regional proverbs.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894); over 17,000 entries! New 2008-02-15.
Smiley's Recipe and Housekeeping Guide, historical recipes transcribed and annotated by CatamountClyde Studios.
Canting Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1736), a dictionary of the slang of the underworld, of thieves, gypsies and vagrants. Text complete
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, 1896.
The Nuttall Encyclpædia, by the Rev. James Wood (1907) (over 14,000 entries)
Oratio Dominica, or, The Lord’s Prayer in over a hundred Languages, Versions and Characters (Scripts) by Dan Brown (1713). I have scanned every page, and also an insert folded in the back, so this book is complete.
Dictionary of Proverbs by Nathan Bailey, 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.
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.
More wonderful old texts at words.fromoldbooks.org

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