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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

Initial Letter A With Cock

Initial letter M With Stylized Flower

Initial Letter B With Feather

11. Seal of Gusion.

Initial Letter A with Feather

Letter A With Angel: The Transfiguration

The Prodigal Son: dog in snow

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

The Seal of the Vessel

Border of women gathering rosebuds with poem

Keyork Arabian in his Study

Sir Isaac Newton

Capstan turned by monks at the Metamorphosis Monastery

Death and the Cherubs

Front Cover

53.8.—IHS

Berlin’s Victory Avenue in Winter

Souls on the Acheron River

On Vacation (Auf Urlaub)

Dark Passion Flowers

Tea-Roses (Iheerosen)

Faith and Devotion

Johannes Kepler (1571‒1630)

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Dedication: art deco scroll in floral border

The dream they had laid out in their lives was over

King Ixion naked on the burning wheel

The Magical Circle of King Solomon, Coloured

Weeping child

Front Cover, by Klimsch

The Fairy Court

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Winged monster of the night

Template: knight and castle

Frontispiece: Hindoo Temple at Goruckinath

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

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

Full-page border with hearts and moons

The man in the iron mask.

932.—Salisbury

Chapterhead: angel, or truth breaking free

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Destruction of Printing Presses in Mayence

Chapterhead for Opening of Chapter One of Homer’s Odyssey

Withdrawal from Troy

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Front Cover, Homer’s Odyssey

Title page from Homers Odyssey

Inside the Imperial Palace, Delhi

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Pentagram of Solomon

Decorated. Stoke Golding. Leicestershire.

257.—Harrowing and Sowing (Bayeux Tapestry.)

Scrollwork Border from page 227

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

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

At the Wine Festival

Mazeppa

Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Lions in a Cage

Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon

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

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art

Harvest-time

Border with flowers

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Penrhyn Castle

Jesus with raised hand: holy admonition

owl from full-page border

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Angel with thurible from full-page border

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing with labels

Full-page border with flowers, vines, figures

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

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

The Virgin Mary

Into the cellar, into the dungeon!

Chilren on the beach, with full-page border

Sounding the irons

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

London Driving

The founding of Paris

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Decorated Initial letter C with holly

Old College, Warwick Lane, London

Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren

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

He blew out his lantern

Haunted Chest of Drawers

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

Man with hand in darkness

Christmas Choir

Bibury, Arlington Row

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

In the Forest Cathedral

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

Ornament with Roses

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Danaë

Family with barefoot boy

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The Dragon of Putrefaction

castle medallion with ribbons

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

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

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

Don Quixote in his Study

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Reconciled

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

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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