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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 Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears

Tailpiece with Fisherman

Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Neptune and Mermaids

Chapter end decoration: cherubs

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

Frontispiece: The Kirk collection

The Shepherd

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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The Twa Corbies

The Gardener

Title Page

Young Bekie

Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill

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. 8.—Anglo-Saxon Initial letter N

Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels

Border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School

Inhabited Initial letter B, Anglo-Saxon

Byzantine Saint seated, with book

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 with books 2

Stone bench under a tree with Bible, books and cross

Open Bible and cross in graveyard (portrait version)

Stone bench with books 1

Old family bible in country churchyard

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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Pillar

Bookplate

Memories

Withered Love (romantic version)

Against the Light

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

The Invocation.

Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve.

Emblem 2.  Sin brings forth death.

Oval frame, scalloped

Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles

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

Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool

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

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 “H”

folio 4/recto, illumination, woman writing

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “Q”

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “P”

calligraphy: mediaeval pen-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

Title Page

Ichabod Crane’s Gobline

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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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta

V. The Columns of Castor and Pollux, Girgenti

VI. Sunrise Behind the Temple of Concord, Girgenti

IV. From Temple to Temple, Girgenti

XXXII  The Temple of Nike From Mars Hill, Athens

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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Woodcroft House in Etton Parish in Northamptonshire where Dr. Michael Hudson was murthered 6 June 1648

Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.

Burghley House from the Gardens

Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version

Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata

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

132b.—Temple ofthe Sacred Tooth in Kandy

Elephants cayying logs at Rangoon

A Tower of Silence

The fort and castle at Osaka

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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Title page

Seal of Coin of Leo

Seal of Aries (back of coin)

Seal of Coin of Virgo

Seal or Coin of Gemini (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.

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Alphabetum Egiptiorum

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

Lured with hope of some Diviner Drink

Earth Could Not Answer

A Potter thumping his wet clay

Myself when young

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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Plan of Kenilworth Castle

Raglan Castle

Plan of Pembroke Castle

A Siege of the Fifteenth Century

Stokesay Castle—The Solar Room

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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Cæsar treating with the Britons

Crest of a Popular Knight

Title page detail: Scholarly King

detail: swinging corpse: silhouette

The Discovery of Tin in Britain

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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Haddon Hall

Tintern Abbey

Framlingham Gate

Woodland Water

Ilfracombe