Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books

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• A Provincial Dictionary by Francis Grose (1790); 66 regional proverbs. New 2008-07-04
• 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; New 2007-11-02
• Canting Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1736), a dictionary of the slang of the underworld, of thieves, gypsies and vagrants. Text complete; new image added 29th June 2008
• 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. Updated 2006-10-30
• A Political Dictionary by Charles Pigott (1795) a political satire; partial transcription with 351 entries Updated 2007-08-24
• The Nuttall Encyclpædia, by the Rev. James Wood (1907) (over 14,000 entries; the claim of over 16,000 entries appears not to be correct) Updated 2007-08-04
• Gesta Typograhica by Chas. T. Jacobi, 1897 [various facts about printing; I am still working on the formatting] Updated 2008-01-30
• 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. See below on this page for a link to the page images for this book.
• 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. Updated 2007-05-20

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• Scribner's Magazine, November, by Various writers, 1903. 13 ads from 100 years ago, Updated 2009-01-05
• Elementary mechanics by Oliver J. Lodge, 1880. 4 Victorian diagrams; Updated 2009-01-04
• A Record Of Work: 1840-1890 by the Dalziel Brothers, 1901. 16 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-12-23
• Cotswold Country by S. W. Colyer, 1939; 4 vintage photographs; updated 2008-12-17
• Old England: A Pictorial Musem of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities, by Charles Knight, 1844 251 images including 10 plans/maps, title page and photograph; also a partial transcription; Updated 2008-12-09
• Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw, 1845. 14 images; Updated 2008-11-30
• Description of the Americas by Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671. 8 images, including cover and title page; Updated 2008-11-14
• The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, by Francis Barrett, 1810. 7 images; Updated 2008-11-12
• De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, 1543. 4 woodcuts; New 2008-11-03
• Chatterbox Annual by Various writers, 1916. 7 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-10-30
• London by Gustave Dore and Gustave Jerrold, 1872. 4 wood engravings; Updated 2008-10-27
• The Rylands Haggadah, Anonymous, circa 1575 3 fantastical creatures from the margins; New 2008-10-14
• The Antiquities of England and Wales by Henry Boswell, 1786; 62 images including 6 woodcuts and 50 or more antique maps; Updated 2008-10-09
• The History of Wales, by B. B. Woodward, B.A., 1853. 28 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-09-28
• York, Anonymous, an undated book of photographs c. 1920. 8 antique photographs; Updated 2008-09-23
• Some British Ballads, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919; 9 images including title page; Updated 2008-09-22
• La Vita Nuova (The New Life) by Dante Alighieri, translated by Gabriel Rossetti and illustrated by Evelyn Paul, with music by Alfred Mercer (1910). 123images; Updated 2008-09-14
• English Cathedrals by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer, illustrated by Joseph Pennell, 1910. 2 engravings after Pennell's drawings; New 2008-09-11
• Old English Country Cottages Edited by Charles Holme, London, 1906 24 images including title page and book-plate; Updated 2008-08-24
• Sample Gallery showing how Various People have used some of the images; 2008 and earlier. 24 images; Updated 2008-08-24
• The National and Domestic History of England Vol II, by William Hickman Smith Aubrey, circa 1878; 14 images Updated 2008-08-19
• The National and Domestic History of England Vol III, by William Hickman Smith Aubrey, circa 1878; 6 images Updated 19th Aubrey 2008
• Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers by Sydney F. Walker, 1890. 12 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-08-07
• Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A., 1896. 23 images; Updated 2008-08-04
• In Search of Scotland by H. V. Morton, 1929. 3 photographs and title page, Updated 2008-08-02
• Days with the Victorian Poets Anonymous, circa 1910; 4 images, including cover, title page and two paintings; New 2008-07-25
• Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts by F. A. Paley, M.A., 1844. 4 wood-engravings of fonts; New 2008-07-24
• Ornamental Alphabets edited by F. Delamotte, 1879 46 images including covers and title page; updated 17th July 2007
• The Leisure Hour, a magazine with articles by Various writers, 1896. 12 images including title page and cover; Updated 2008-07-17
• The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White, 1788; 1879 edition. 13 images including cover; Updated 2008-07-16
• The British Isles Depicted by Pen and Camera, by Various writers, published by Cassell and Company Ltd., c. 1900. 14 images including 1 map, cover and title page; Updated 2008-07-14
• Manuel Typographique (Manual of Typography) by Le Jeune Fournier, 1790; 3 images; New 2008-07-13
• Cathedral Cities of France, by Herbert Marshall and Hester Marshall, 1907. 7 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-07-09
• A Short History of the English People by J. R. Green, M.A., 1898 and 1902. 11 images including cover and one map; Updated 2008-07-07
• Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick by Thomas Bewick [images between 1753 and 1828] 3 wood engravings; New 2008-07-02
• Goetia, or the Lesser Key of King Solomon, translated by L. S. Mathers, 1904 80 demonic sigils, Updated 2008-06-24
• A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs by John Ray, 1737. 11 images including title page; Updated 2008-06-23
• Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia by Various writers, 1904. 59 images including 55 maps; Updated 2008-06-19
• Callot's Etchings, edited by Howard Daniel (Callot lived from 1592--1635); 4 images New 2008-06-14
• A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, illustrated by Maurice Leloir, 1885. 8 images, Updated 2008-05-15
• The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I, by Francis Grose, Esq., FAS., 1783 49 images including 5 maps and 1 plan, title page and cover; Updated 2008-04-23
• Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, 1871 15 illustrations; Updated 2008-04-14
• Myths Every Child Should Know, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1922 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-04-10
• A description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, With their Figures Engraven in Brass, by Dr. John Johnston (Jonstonus, Joannes), London, 1678. 10 engravings; Updated 2008-04-02
• Castles by Charles Oman, 1926 30 images including 5 castle plans; Updated 2008-03-06
• The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Symms, 1860. 60 images including cover; Updated 2008-03-04
• English Homes Vol III, No. 1, Late Tudor & Early Stuart, 1558 - 1649, by H. Avray Tipping, 1922. 18 images; Updated 2008-02-29
• The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts by Alexander Speltz, 1915. 4 images; New 2008-02-26
• Travels in the Far East, by Ellen M. H. Peck, 1909. 7 images including cover; Updated 2008-02-17
• Religion in the Home by Charlotte M. Yonge, USA, 1913. 7 images; Updated 2008-02-05
• Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey, 1736; 4 images including cover and title page; Updated 2008-01-31; there are also some 500 dictionary entries This is a different book than the dictionary containing the Canting Dictionary of thieving slang.
• The Works of Jane Austen, by Jane Austen, of course, edited by R. Brimley Johnson, 1906. 2 images; New 2007-09-24
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women by William C. King, 1897; 6 images; Updated 2008-01-17
• Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by General U.S. Grant, 1885; 1 image and 1 handwriting sample, New 2008-01-07
• A Treasury of Verse for Little Children edited by M. G. Edgar, illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1923; 12 images; Updated 2007-12-18
• The Illustrated London News vol. 56, by Various writers, 1870. 27 images; Updated 2007-12-15
• The Real Mother Goose illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright, Chicago, 1916 3 images; Updated 2007-12-13
• Monumental Architecture (Anonymous, c. 1910). 3 images; Updated 2007-12-11
• Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages by Allan Fea, 1914. 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 2007-12-05
• The First Book of Urizen by William Blake, 1794. 6 page images with transcriptions, New 2007-11-17
• The Holy Court, by Nicholas Caussin, 1663; 6 images including front cover, title page and bookplate; Updated 2007-11-06
• Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods, edited by Charles Holme, London 1908 12 images including 1 map, title page and cover; Updated 2007-10-30
• The World’s Best Music: Famous Songs and Those Who Made Them edited by Helen Kendrick Johnson, Frederic Dean, Reginald DeKoven and Gerrit Smith, Vol I, The University Society, New York, 1900. 12 images; Updated 2007-10-26
• A Textbook on Ornamental Design, issued by International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, PA., USA, 1901. 11 images; Updated 2007-10-16
• Dictionnaire François-Anglois & Anglois-François by Louis Chambaud, London, 1815 1 bookplate; New 2007-10-12
• The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards, Anonymous, an almost-complete set of Tarot cards from 1450 or so. 74 images; New 2007-10-06
• Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford (Miss Mitford), 1893 2 images including cover; New 2007-10-05
• Edinburgh painted by John Fulleylove R.I., and described by Rosaline Masson, 1907. 6 colour images including cover; Updated 2007-10-01
• A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by E. Sibly, M.D. F.R.H.S., Embellished with Curious Copper-Plates, London, 1806. 35 images; Updated 2007-09-28
• Life of Anthony à Wood by Anthony à Wood, 1772. 8 images including title page; Updated 2007-09-27
• Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic edited by Marshall Everett, 1912. 4 images including title pages New 2007-09-25
• Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records, by William Andrews, London, 1891. 7 images including cover and titlepage; Updated 2007-09-21
• Steam and the Steam Engine, by Henry Evers, 1880. 9 images including front cover; Updated 2007-09-20
• In Unfamiliar England, by Thos. D. Murphy, Boston, 1910. 9 images including cover; Updated 2007-09-18
• Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger Smith, 1896. 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 2007-09-17
• Quarles' Emblems, Divine and Moral, by Francis Quarles, 1866 edition. 4 images; New 2007-09-16
• Pictures of Old Books photographed by Liam Quin, (2008) 19 images; Updated 2007-09-12
• A Popular History of Rome by D. Rose, Edited by H. W. Dulken, Ph.D., 1886. 6 images; Updated 2007-09-03
• The Everyday Book and Table Book, by William Hone, 1826, London. 36 images including cover; Updated 2007-08-31
• Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown, 1921. 46 images including cover; Updated 2007-08-28
• Farm Weeds by George H. Clark, B.S.A. and James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S. with illustrations by Norman Criddle, 1906. 6 images including covers and title page; Updated 2007-08-27
• Magazine of Art, Illustrated, by Various writers, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880 9 images including cover; Updated 2007-08-20
• The River Dee: Its Aspect and history by J. S. Howson, 1875. 8 images including cover and title page; Updated 2007-08-16
• Antwerpia (by an Anonymous author and undated, c. 1910. 4 images; Updated 2007-08-15
• The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III, by Francis Grose, Esq., FAS., 1783. 5 images including one map; Updated 2007-08-13
• South by South East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe by G. F. Rodwell, 1877. 9 images including cover; Updated 2007-08-06
• A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 1905). 6 images; Updated 2007-07-31
• England Beautiful by Wallace Nutting, 1936. 18 images; Updated 2007-07-22
• Sussex Painted by Wilfred Ball, 1906. 8 images including cover & title page; Updated 2007-07-19
• Out to Old Aunt Mary’s, by James Whitcomb Riley, 1904. 5 images including cover; Updated 2007-06-21
• Look at the Bright Side by Joanna H. Matthews, 1883. 4 images including cover and title page; New 2007-06-18
• Picturesque Views of the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland, volume I, by F. O. Morris, circa 1870. 6 images including cover; Updated 2007-06-16
• Oxford by Ernest Haslehust & F. D. How, 1936; 14 images including cover and title page; Updated 2007-06-10
• Geneva Bible (Anonymous), 1581. 5 images including cover and bookplate; Updated 2007-06-06
• Fry’s Pantographia by Edmund Fry, 1799; a book showing samples of languages and scripts (very incomplete) 53 page images including cover; Updated 2007-06-05
• London (Vol IV) by Charles Knight, 1841. 1 image; New 2007-06-04
• The Grammar of Heraldry, by Samuel Kent, 1718. Images and scanned pages. 55 images, (mostly page images) and a transcription of the main body of the text with another 40 images; Updated 2007-06-02
• The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers, by E. Beresford Chancellor, 1909; 3 images including title page; New 2007-05-28
• The Entirely New cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom, by Ethel Watts Mumford, Hertford & Mizner, 1905. 4 images; New 2007-05-25
• Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs by the Rv. Father Gallonio, 1591; First English edition 1903. 10 images including cover and title page; there is also the beginnings of a transcription of the text of the book. Updated 2007-05-22
• Book of Hours, drawn by an Anonymous illuminator; from the Library of Congress Rosenwald Collection, c. 1530, France. 15 images; Updated 2007-05-21
• The Lost Boy by Henry van Dyke, 1913. 6 images including title page and cover; New 2007-05-16
• Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L'Episode de Panouille by Frédéric Goupil, 1843. 5 images; Updated 2007-05-10
• Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire: Revue Hebdomadaire Ilustrée, edited by J. Roam, Paris, 1880. 12 images; Updated 2007-05-06
• These Be Your Gods by Leslie Roberts, illustrated by A. G. Racey, 1929 5 images including cover and title page; Updated 2007-04-29
• The Life of Mansie Wauch by David Macbeth Moir, 1911. 3 images; Updated 2007-04-19
• Turrets Towers and Temples (The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers) edited and translated by Esther Singleton, 1899. 7 images including cover; Updated 2007-04-02
• England, by John Richard Green, 1898 2 images; New 2007-03-27
• Travels Around the World, by William Seward, 1870. 8 images; Updated 2007-03-27
• Round The Coast, 1895, by an Anonymous photographer; 6 images including title page and cover; Updated 2007-03-27
• The Works of Shakspere by Charles Knight, 1873. 3 images; Updated 2007-03-17
• The Charm of Oxford, by J. Wells, 1920. 4 images including title page and cover; Updated 2007-03-13
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, New York, 1905 9 images; Updated 2007-02-25
• Bill Nye's History of England by Bill Nye, 1900. 14 images including cover and title page; mostly humorous cartoons. Updated 2007-02-18
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865, with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. all 42 images; Completed 2007-02-10
• The Gnome King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly, (after L. Frank Baum), illustrated by John R. Neill, 1929. 4 images; Updated 2007-02-06
• Cambridge and its Story, by Charles Williams Stubbs, 1912. 6 images including cover; Updated 2007-01-22
• The Story of Some English Shires, by Mandell Creighton, 1897. 9 images; Updated 2007-01-17
• London (Vol VI) by Charles Knight, 1841. 2 images; Updated 2006-11-14
• Albrecht Duerer Dürer (various engravings by Dürer, c. 1560). 4 images; Updated 2006-11-12
• Wonderful PRODIGIES of Judgement and Mercy by Robert Burton, 1684. 9 images including cover and title page; Updated 2006-11-04
• Handbook of The Useful Arts by T. Antisell M.D., 1852. 6 images including cover; Updated 2006-10-23
• Britannia Depicta, by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen, 1720. 2 maps; Updated 2006-10-18
• Memorials of Old Hampshire edited by G. E. Jeans, London, 1906. 12 images including 1 map, cover and title page; Updated 2006-10-11
• The Leisure Hour, a magazine from 1904/1905 with articles by Various writers. 13 images; Updated 2006-10-08
• The Pentateuch of Printing by William Blades, 1891. 15 images including cover and ornamental title page; Updated 2006-09-17
• Historic Byways and Highways of Old England by William Andrews, 1900. 3 images including cover; Updated 2006-09-14
• The Scott Country (Beautiful Scotland), by Gaddie & Ernest Haslehust, 1920. 10 images including cover; Updated 2006-09-10
• The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journeying from Richmond to Oxford, by John Leyland, 1897. 6 images including cover and title page; Updated 2006-09-09
• Cambridge, Described by Noel Barwell and Pictured by E. W. Haslehust, circa 1910. 8 images including front cover and title page; Updated 2006-09-07
• Christian Parlor Magazine, Vol III, 1846/1847, by Various writers. 6 images; Updated 2006-09-05
• Great Men and Famous Women edited by Charles F. Horne, 1894 5 images including cover and title page; Updated 2006-09-02
• Bygone Punishments by William Andrews, London, 1899 and 1931. 5 images including cover; Updated 2006-08-21
• Desiderata by Francis Peck, 1779. 5 images; Updated 2006-08-18
• Picturesque Egypt Vol II, by Prof. G. Ebers, 1878. 2 images; Updated 2006-08-17
• South Wales and the Wye District of Monmouthshire, edited by C. S. Ward and M. J. Baddeley, 1892, as part of the Bartholomew Thorough Guide series. 4 images, including one plan and one map; Updated 2006-08-11
• Youth’s Instructer and Guardian, by J. Mason, 1830. 6 images; Updated 2006-07-16
• English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, 1915. 12 images; Updated 2006-06-27
• Warwick and Leamington, by Geore Morley, illustrated by Ernest. W. Haslehust, Glasgow, circa 1920. all 12 images plus the cover; Updated 2006-06-20
• Rome, by M. A. R. Ruker and Hope Malleson with paintings by Alberto Pisa, 1905. 6 images, including cover; Updated 2006-06-06
• Venice, by Beryl de Sélincourt and May Sturge Henderson, illustrated by Reginald Barratt, 1907. 5 images including 2 watercolours, cover and title page; Updated 2006-05-22
• In the Land of the Temples, by Joseph Pennell, 1915, London. 6 images; Updated 2006-03-16
• Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... by Girolamo di Manfredi, Bologna, 1564. 6 images including cover Updated 2006-03-15
• A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Lynton, Lynmouth, Exmoor, Minehead and the Land of “Lorna Doone.”, Anonymous, published by Ward, Lock & Co., 1910 4 images including maps + 1 old advert; Updated 2006-03-01
• Picturesque Egypt Vol I, by Prof. G. Ebers, 1878. 4 images including cover; Updated 2006-02-10
• The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I, edited by Professer W. L. Renwick, 1930. 7 images; New 2006-02-08
• The Growth of the English House by J. Alfred Gotch, London, 1909. 32 images including 9 plans + cover; Updated 2006-02-03
• MediaevalRome by Norwood Young, 1904. 5 images including one map; Updated 2005-12-29
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Leonardo Da Vinci, edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1888; transcription; I have scanned all the images from the first three sections of the notebooks so far.
• Stratford on Avon, a map by J. Ross Brown, in about 1908. 1 image New 2005-10-23
• Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888. 8 images including cover; Updated 2005-10-17
• Oud-Nederlands by Prof. Dr. H. Brugmans, 1927. 4 images including title page and cover: New 2005-10-14
• The Cathedral Churches of England by A. Hamilton Thompson, 1926, London. 5 images; Updated 2005-08-07
• London (Vol II) by Charles Knight, 1841. 1 image and one castle plan; New 2005-07-15
• Laws and History of the New Forest by Percival Lewis, 1811. 1 image, 1 map, titlepage and picture of the book; New 2005-07-13
• Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley & Margaret M. Elliot, 1929. 3 images including cover; Updated 2005-07-08

• Pictures of Old Books
• Finally, a cool title page.

• Pictures of some of my old books
  Clyde and I photographed one of my bookshelves. I’ll take some more photographs of the antiquarian books when I have a chance. I buy books because the content interests me rather than because they have smart bindings or are valuable, and I prefer copies with a broken spine if I plan to scan from them, so they are not always very pretty. Let me know (liam at holoweb dot net) if you would like me to do this.

I buy old books (or you can give me some) and scan the pictures. When I can, I type (or OCR) the text.

Are you interested in helping out? If you are good at image editing and have a fast net connection, you could help me clean up scans. Or maybe you have some old images to share? Or some old books you don’t want? Let me know, liam at holoweb dot net. Mention the colour of your socks in the Subject line. (You can also see some pictures by Liam himself if you like.)

I list on a separate page some of the books in the scanning queue. Let me know if you’d like me to scan specific images, or higher resolution copies, or have any interesting uses for these images, or like them.

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