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Vintage Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

Over 4,200 free images from old, rare, antique and vintage books. High-resolution images for sale.

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

Old Riverside Farm and the Game of Envy

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11. Seal of Gusion.

Christmas-tide on the Road

Lutterworth.

Cherup ascending

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Hush! Central Will Hear!

Gargoyle, brighter version

Gothic Window

Sir Isaac Newton

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

Cherub with paintbrush

Cairo, from the East

53.8.—IHS

Inside a feudal castle hall

Harvest Time

Field Worker

Dark Passion Flowers

891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wire

Drawn Picture Frame

Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Schoolwork

Cherub Facing Right

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Portrait of Ludwig Knaus

Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)

Naked angel with caduceus

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

Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum

Alchemical dragons fighting

Front Cover

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Alchemy Full Page Border

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

60.—Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)

Give me a Ham Sandwich

Haigha and Hatta

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

The Battle

Map XVII. british Isles; Showing places of greatest Historical Interest.

Map XIX. Ireland

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Hymn to the Seasons

Bless the Lord O My Soul

The front cover, with gold foil

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue

Helmsman on a Vltava steamer

Title Page

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

157.—Uncial Gothic Letters. 14th Century.

Front Cover

The Storming of Jerusalem by Titus

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Buddhist Priest of Annam—TYPE

Chaldean Slaves

A Christmas-Box From China

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow

Indra, God of Atmosphere

The Keep, Walmer

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Title Page

The Stocks. Monkton

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death

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

The Engraver

The Painter

The Novel

The Virgin Mary

Front cover in red and gold

The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)

Frontispiece: Don’t Cry

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

Tortured with feet to the fire

Zeus and Europa

Poppies and Tiger Lillies

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Menu Card 1: Court Jester

Menu Card 4: Waitress

Menu Card 3: Celler Master

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

Menu Card 2: Chef

Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls

Venus danced for Apollo

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

Chapterhead with Boy’s Head

Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids

English Manufacturing

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

Helen and Paris

Front Cover

That wall of stone

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Title page, The Defence of Guenevere

Jesus and Moses

145.—Leading a Horse

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured

Oval frame, scalloped

Tailpiece with peacock

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

Front Cover With Alice

Foliated Initial Letter S

Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Convolvulus Tricolor

70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees

Classical full-page border with goddess

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse

Buckingham Palace

Heralds’ College

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet

The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh

The Cow Doctor

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine

Gold endpaper

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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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