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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. M

Decorated. Stoke Golding. Leicestershire.

257.—Harrowing and Sowing (Bayeux Tapestry.)

The Royal Porter dressed for an event

11. Seal of Gusion.

Border with cherubs, arrow piercing hearts, flowers and leaves

Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate

At the Wine Festival

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Mazeppa

Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage

Lions in a Cage

Sir Isaac Newton

Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon

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

Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art

53.8.—IHS

Harvest-time

Border with flowers

Penrhyn Castle

Dark Passion Flowers

Jesus with raised hand: holy admonition

owl from full-page border

Angel with thurible from full-page border

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing with labels

Full-page border with flowers, vines, figures

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

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

A giant wooden statue of a warrior with shield and sword

Front Cover, Pied Piper of Hamelin

Into the cellar, into the dungeon!

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

Chilren on the beach, with full-page border

Sounding the irons

London Driving

Full-page border with hearts and moons

The founding of Paris

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

Decorated Initial letter C with holly

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Old College, Warwick Lane, London

Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren

Haunted Chest of Drawers

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

He blew out his lantern

Man with hand in darkness

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Christmas Choir

Bibury, Arlington Row

In the Forest Cathedral

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

Ornament with Roses

Danaë

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Family with barefoot boy

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Lady Justice (Justitia)

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

The Dragon of Putrefaction

castle medallion with ribbons

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

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

Don Quixote in his Study

Reconciled

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

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

Bookplate without name

The Virgin Mary

Art Nouveau Bookplate

Effect of the League

Three Queens

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

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Constantinople Firemen

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

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

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

Happy New Year!

Owl border

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

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

Hexagram of Solomon

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

Omnibus Carriage

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

First tube train passengers

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

The insects look upon a giant dam

Queen Alice Knocking at the Door

Birth of the League

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

At Laundry

When the angel blew the other trumpet

Front Cover

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

Tomb of Hiram.

Packing a Trunk

Nazareth

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

The First Lesson

M. Scevola se abrasa voluntariamenta la mano.

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Cartouche by Gravelot

The Temptation

Letter A With Topless Woman

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

King’s College, Cambridge

Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Two brownies mix liquids in a crucible

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

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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