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Vintage Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

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Nebuchadnezzar

The Magical Circle of King Solomon, Coloured

Fish-plating of rails

11. Seal of Gusion.

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

Old Riverside Farm, Závist

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Christmas-tide on the Road

Lutterworth.

Cherup ascending

Sir Isaac Newton

Hush! Central Will Hear!

Gargoyle, brighter version

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

53.8.—IHS

Gothic Window

Cherub with paintbrush

Cairo, from the East

Dark Passion Flowers

Inside a feudal castle hall

Harvest Time

Field Worker

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wire

Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki

Drawn Picture Frame

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Schoolwork

Cherub Facing Right

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

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

Portrait of Ludwig Knaus

Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)

Front Cover

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Naked angel with caduceus

Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum

Alchemy Full Page Border

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Alchemical dragons fighting

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

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

Give me a Ham Sandwich

The Battle

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Haigha and Hatta

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

Map XIX. Ireland

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Hymn to the Seasons

Bless the Lord O My Soul

The front cover, with gold foil

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue

Helmsman on a Vltava steamer

Title Page

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

157.—Uncial Gothic Letters. 14th Century.

Front Cover

The Storming of Jerusalem by Titus

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Buddhist Priest of Annam—TYPE

Chaldean Slaves

A Christmas-Box From China

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow

Indra, God of Atmosphere

The Keep, Walmer

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

Title Page

The Stocks. Monkton

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death

The Virgin Mary

The Engraver

The Painter

The Novel

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

Front cover in red and gold

The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)

Frontispiece: Don’t Cry

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Tortured with feet to the fire

Zeus and Europa

Poppies and Tiger Lillies

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

Menu Card 4: Waitress

Menu Card 3: Celler Master

Menu Card 1: Court Jester

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

Menu Card 2: Chef

Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls

Venus danced for Apollo

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

Chapterhead with Boy’s Head

Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids

English Manufacturing

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Helen and Paris

That wall of stone

Title page, The Defence of Guenevere

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Front Cover

Jesus and Moses

145.—Leading a Horse

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

Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured

Oval frame, scalloped

Tailpiece with peacock

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Front Cover With Alice

Foliated Initial Letter S

Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Convolvulus Tricolor

70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees

Classical full-page border with goddess

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse

Buckingham Palace

Heralds’ College

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet

The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh

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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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