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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: 2009-02-07

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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Young Bekie

Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill

Clerk Colvill (chapter head)

O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel

Title Page

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: 2021-02-01

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Inhabited Initial letter B, Anglo-Saxon

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

Byzantine Saint seated, with book

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

Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels

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: 2012-09-26

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Open Bible and cross in graveyard

Old family bible in country churchyard

Two benches under an old tree with a Bible (black and white)

Open Bible and cross in graveyard (portrait version)

Open book with tombs

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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Alphabet Book Pile

Against the Light

Codices by paintsmudger

Old Books 3: Chambaud Close-up

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula

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.

Oval frame, scalloped

Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles

Emblem 2.  Sin brings forth death.

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: 2018-05-04

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: 2025-03-06

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: 2010-08-05

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calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “Q”

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “A”

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “H”

folio 4/recto, illumination, woman writing

calligraphy: mediaeval decorative letter “P”

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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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta

V. The Columns of Castor and Pollux, Girgenti

IV. From Temple to Temple, Girgenti

I. Aetna over Taormina

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: 2012-06-03

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.

Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata

View at Leicester, Background Version

View at Leicester

Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version

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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Ruined Temple of Prambanam

Elephants cayying logs at Rangoon

The stairs leading to a Prambanam temple.

132b.—Temple ofthe Sacred Tooth in Kandy

A Tower of Silence

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 Coin of Cancer (obverse)

Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)

Seal of Aries (back of coin)

Seal or Coin of Gemini (front)

Seal or coin of Taurus

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

Alphabetum Egiptiorum

227.—Alphabetum Indicum.

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Imitation vellum or paper scroll border

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: 2007-02-25

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Fill the cup that clears

Helpless Pieces of the Game he Plays

Did the Hand then of the Potter shake

Earth Could Not Answer

Lured with hope of some Diviner Drink

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: 2010-08-13

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Plan of Kenilworth Castle

St Mawes Castle

Chirk Castle

Raglan Castle

Carew 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.

Front Cover detail: jester reading a book

The Discovery of Tin in Britain

Title page detail: Scholarly King

Ploughing 51 B.C.

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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Two Little Homes—Biddestone

Woodland Water

A Doorway Colloquy

Dryburgh Abbey

Ilfracombe

Front Cover, Nash, Mansions of England

The Mansions of England in the Olden Time (London, 1906)

By Nash, Joseph

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

Total items from this source: 5

Last updated: 2021-02-08

Cranbourne House, Dorset

Brereton, Cheshire

Title Page, Mansions of England

Aldermaston, Berkshire