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Vintage Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

Over 4,400 free images from old, rare, antique and vintage books. High-resolution images for sale. Mastodon M

Front Cover, by Klimsch

Winged monster of the night

The Fairy Court

11. Seal of Gusion.

Weeping child

Template: knight and castle

Frontispiece: Hindoo Temple at Goruckinath

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

clipart: initial letter E from beginning of 16th Century

clipart: initial letter D from beginning of 16th Century

clipart: initial letter C from beginning of the 16th Century

Sir Isaac Newton

The man in the iron mask.

932.—Salisbury

Destruction of Printing Presses in Mayence

53.8.—IHS

Chapterhead: angel, or truth breaking free

Chapterhead for Opening of Chapter One of Homer’s Odyssey

Withdrawal from Troy

Dark Passion Flowers

Title page from Homers Odyssey

Front Cover, Homer’s Odyssey

Inside the Imperial Palace, Delhi

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Pentagram of Solomon

Decorated. Stoke Golding. Leicestershire.

257.—Harrowing and Sowing (Bayeux Tapestry.)

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

The Royal Porter dressed for an event

Border with cherubs, arrow piercing hearts, flowers and leaves

Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate

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

At the Wine Festival

Mazeppa

Lions in a Cage

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage

Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon

Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art

Border with flowers

Harvest-time

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Penrhyn Castle

Jesus with raised hand: holy admonition

owl from full-page border

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Angel with thurible from full-page border

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing with labels

Full-page border with flowers, vines, figures

Scrollwork Border from page 227

2113.—James I.’s Cradle. (From a Print inNichols’s Progresses.)

A giant wooden statue of a warrior with shield and sword

Front Cover, Pied Piper of Hamelin

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Into the cellar, into the dungeon!

Chilren on the beach, with full-page border

Sounding the irons

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

London Driving

The founding of Paris

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Decorated Initial letter C with holly

Old College, Warwick Lane, London

Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Haunted Chest of Drawers

He blew out his lantern

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

Man with hand in darkness

Christmas Choir

Bibury, Arlington Row

The Virgin Mary

In the Forest Cathedral

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

Ornament with Roses

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

Danaë

Family with barefoot boy

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The Dragon of Putrefaction

castle medallion with ribbons

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

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

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

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

The Catapult, Painted by E. J. Poynter, R.A.

Don Quixote in his Study

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

Reconciled

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Bookplate without name

Art Nouveau Bookplate

Effect of the League

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Three Queens

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

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

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Constantinople Firemen

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

Happy New Year!

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Owl border

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Hexagram of Solomon

First tube train passengers

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Omnibus Carriage

The insects look upon a giant dam

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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

The Pictures: Woodcuts, Engravings & Clip art

Pictures of Old Books