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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

Souls on the Acheron River

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

He blew out his lantern

11. Seal of Gusion.

Haunted Chest of Drawers

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs

Sir Isaac Newton

Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome

Initial letter V with a mermaid

Avenue of Sighs

53.8.—IHS

Christmas Still Life

A schoolroom in Tunisia

Dark brown fantasy watercolour border

Dark Passion Flowers

The giants tore up trees

Winged Skeleton with Hourglass on a Tombstone

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

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

Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from Austria

Stoke Pogis Churchyard

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Edward Kelly, A Magician

Begging Monk at the Door of a Mosque

Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua

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

Stock block: deer skull

Little people at the door—wallpaper

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

Full-page border with hearts and moons

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

A Tower of Silence

September Harvest Page Template.

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

The Witch

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

Then Satan First Knew Pain

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Rosenthal’s Elaine.

Initial letter T with sundial and scythe

Ornate Victorian border or frame

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Zpíval Slavik (A Nightingale Sang)

Padalo listí (fallen leaves)

Zvetly Fialky (Violets were blooming)

Scrollwork Border from page 227

528.—Prior Rahere’s Tomb.

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

Jailer walking into the dark

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Panik! Detail: Medusa

Dunstan and the Devil

Stone bench with books and cross

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Stone bench with books 3

Tree with benches and Bible

Stone bench with books 2

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Two benches under an old tree with a Bible

Open book with tombs

1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.

Ruins and tombs and withred grass

The Picket’s Off Duty Forever

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

The Owl

Evil Demons: The head of an evil demon

Vessels of Wrath: The Incubus

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

The Columbarium.

The Old Ruined Abbey

Evil Daemons: Mammon

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

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

Evil Daemons: Astaroth

Silent they stood

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Do not eat the bat.

Cherub wth harvest fruit

Full Page Border With Alchemical And Zodiacal Symbols and Signs

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

The Ancient Yew

289.—Coffin and Grave Clothes.

The Condition of the Turkey

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

In a Gloomy Wood

The Catacombs at Palermo

Gnomes hide under toadstools

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Plate XV.—Anatomy.

The Patchwork Girl

There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

There Sleeps Titania

Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.

Vessels of Wrath: Asmodeus

Victorian vine-leaf page border

18. Five Skulls

606. The quivering brain.

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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
See all initials, or all alphabets, or the Decorative borders and frames

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