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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

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

He blew out his lantern

Haunted Chest of Drawers

11. Seal of Gusion.

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome

Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs

Sir Isaac Newton

Initial letter V with a mermaid

Avenue of Sighs

Christmas Still Life

53.8.—IHS

A schoolroom in Tunisia

The giants tore up trees

Dark brown fantasy watercolour border

Dark Passion Flowers

Winged Skeleton with Hourglass on a Tombstone

Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from Austria

Stoke Pogis Churchyard

Edward Kelly, A Magician

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Begging Monk at the Door of a Mosque

Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua

Stock block: deer skull

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

Little people at the door—wallpaper

Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house

Fig. 41.—Un loculus ouvert. (A loculus, or Roman tomb, open.)

Full-page border with hearts and moons

A Tower of Silence

September Harvest Page Template.

The Witch

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred More justly

Then Satan First Knew Pain

Rosenthal’s Elaine.

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Initial letter T with sundial and scythe

Ornate Victorian border or frame

Zpíval Slavik (A Nightingale Sang)

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Padalo listí (fallen leaves)

Zvetly Fialky (Violets were blooming)

528.—Prior Rahere’s Tomb.

Scrollwork Border from page 227

525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.

Jailer walking into the dark

Panik! Detail: Medusa

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Dunstan and the Devil

Old family bible in country churchyard

Two benches under an old tree with a Bible (black and white)

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Open Bible and cross in graveyard

Open book with iron cross on grave

Iron cross and open book on grave

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Bible and cross on bench under tree

1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.

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

Ruins and tombs and withred grass

The Picket’s Off Duty Forever

The Owl

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

Evil Demons: The head of an evil demon

Vessels of Wrath: The Incubus

The Columbarium.

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

The Old Ruined Abbey

Evil Daemons: Mammon

238.—Ploughing, Sowing, Mowing, Gleaning, Measuring Corn, and Harvest-Supper.

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Evil Daemons: Astaroth

Silent they stood

Do not eat the bat.

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Cherub wth harvest fruit

Full Page Border With Alchemical And Zodiacal Symbols and Signs

The Ancient Yew

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

289.—Coffin and Grave Clothes.

The Condition of the Turkey

In a Gloomy Wood

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

The Catacombs at Palermo

Gnomes hide under toadstools

Plate XV.—Anatomy.

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

The Patchwork Girl

There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)

There Sleeps Titania

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.

Vessels of Wrath: Asmodeus

164. Skeleton with Skull

Victorian vine-leaf page border

606. The quivering brain.

18. Five Skulls

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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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Pictures of Old Books