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A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (London, 1737)

By Ray, John

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 14

Last updated: 2015-01-15

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Chapter end decoration: eagles

Chapter Heading woodcut featuring a flaming heart

Chapter end decoration: cherubs

Initial Letter T With Angels and Devil

Chapter head with musical instruments

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (London and Edinburgh, 1911)

By Ramsay, Dean

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 3

Last updated: 2009-02-08

A Guid Gangin’ Plea

The Shepherd

Frontispiece: The Kirk collection

Some British Ballads (New York, 1919)

By Rackham, Arthur

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 9

Last updated: 2008-09-22

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Young Bekie

Get Up and Bar the Door

O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel

The Gardener

The Twa Corbies

L’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (Paris, 1869)

By Racinet, M. A.

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 12

Last updated: 2021-02-02

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Fig. 99 No. 7.—Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.

Byzantine Saint seated, with book

Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels

Seventeenth-Century Tapestry

Fig. 99 No. 8.—Anglo-Saxon Initial letter N

Books in Milford Graveyard (2012)

By Quin, Liam R. E.

Status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Total items from this source: 22

Last updated: 2012-09-27

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Stone bench under a tree with Bible, books and cross

Open book with hint of tombs

Stone bench with books 1

Open book with iron cross on grave

Old book on gravestone

Dumbledore’s Wizarding Spell-book

Pictures of old books (Toronto, 2003)

By Quin, Liam

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 33

Last updated: 2014-02-16

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He was taking notes until he died

Stack of old books, light background

Old Books 2: Chambaud

Green and Gold books on polished wood

Withered Love (clinical version)

Emblems Divine and Moral (London, 1866)

By Quarles, Francis

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 5

Last updated: 2025-05-17

Oval frame, scalloped

Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles

The Invocation.

Emblem 2.  Sin brings forth death.

Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve.

The Tricolor on the Atlas; Algeria and the French Conquest (New York, 1855)

By Pulszky, Ferenc Aurelius

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 2

Last updated: 2018-05-05

Algiers

Bougie and the Atlas Mountains

Front Cover

Legends of the Seven Seas (New York and London, 1929)

By Price, Margaret Evans

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 3

Last updated: 2025-03-07

The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea

Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool

Works, BL Harley MS 4431 (1414)

By Pizan, Christine de

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 6

Last updated: 2010-08-06

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calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “P”

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “Q”

calligraphy: mediaeval pen-letter “A”

folio 4/recto, illumination, woman writing

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “A”

Front Cover

Child Classics of Prose (Boston, 1893)

Edited by Pierce, Mary R. Fitch

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 3

Last updated: 2018-07-14

Ichabod Crane’s Gobline

Title Page

In the Land of the Temples (London, 1915)

By Pennell, Joseph

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 7

Last updated: 2011-01-25

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XXXII  The Temple of Nike From Mars Hill, Athens

I. Aetna over Taormina

VI. Sunrise Behind the Temple of Concord, Girgenti

IV. From Temple to Temple, Girgenti

II. The Theatre, Segesta

Desiderata (London, 1779)

By Peck, Francis

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 7

Last updated: 2012-06-04

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.

Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata

View at Leicester, Background Version

View at Leicester

Burghley House from the Gardens

Front Cover

Travels In The Far East (New York, 1909)

By Peck, Ellen M. H.

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 9

Last updated: 2017-04-22

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Fort Dufferin and the moat, Mandalay

Agra Palace and part of wall and gateway to the fort.

A Tower of Silence

The fort and castle at Osaka

132b.—Temple ofthe Sacred Tooth in Kandy

Front Cover, Leather

Archidoxes of Magic: Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature (London, 1656)

By Paracelsus

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 16

Last updated: 2023-08-22

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Seal of Aries (back of coin)

Seal of Coin of Cancer (obverse)

Seal of Coin of Leo (obverse)

Seal of Coin of Libra

Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)

Libro Nuovo [The New Book] (Rome, 1561)

By Palatino, Giovanbattista

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 4

Last updated: 2018-04-27

Imitation vellum or paper scroll border

227.—Alphabetum Indicum.

Alphabetum Egiptiorum

Scrollwork Border from page 227

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (New York, 1905)

By Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward Fitzgerald

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 9

Last updated: 2007-02-26

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A Ruby kindles in the vine

Poured Millions of Bubbles

Fill the cup that clears

Lured with hope of some Diviner Drink

Did the Hand then of the Potter shake

Castles (London, 1926)

By Oman, Charles

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 33

Last updated: 2010-08-14

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Caerphilly Castle from the South.

Stokesay Castle—The View from the Pool

Broughton Castle

Raglan Castle

Plan of Caerphilly Castle

Front cover

Bill Nye’s History of England (Philadelphia, 1900)

By Nye, Bill

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 14

Last updated: 2007-02-18

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Bust of Cæsar.

Title page detail: Scholarly King

Front Cover detail: jester reading a book

The Vigil of Arms

detail: swinging corpse

Front Cover of “England Beautiful”

England Beautiful (Garden City, New York, 1936)

By Nutting, Wallace

Status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Total items from this source: 20

Last updated: 2009-11-23

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Ilfracombe

Under the Beeches

Framlingham Gate

Old Framlingham

Haddon Hall