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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. M

Man with hand in darkness

Christmas Choir

Bibury, Arlington Row

11. Seal of Gusion.

In the Forest Cathedral

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

Ornament with Roses

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Danaë

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Family with barefoot boy

Sir Isaac Newton

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The Dragon of Putrefaction

castle medallion with ribbons

53.8.—IHS

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

Dark Passion Flowers

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

The Catapult, Painted by E. J. Poynter, R.A.

Don Quixote in his Study

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Reconciled

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

Art Nouveau Bookplate

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Bookplate without name

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

Effect of the League

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

Three Queens

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

Full-page border with hearts and moons

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Constantinople Firemen

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

Owl border

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Happy New Year!

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Hexagram of Solomon

The insects look upon a giant dam

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

Scrollwork Border from page 227

First tube train passengers

Omnibus Carriage

Queen Alice Knocking at the Door

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Birth of the League

When the angel blew the other trumpet

At Laundry

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Front Cover

Tomb of Hiram.

Packing a Trunk

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Nazareth

The First Lesson

M. Scevola se abrasa voluntariamenta la mano.

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

Cartouche by Gravelot

The Temptation

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

Letter A With Topless Woman

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

King’s College, Cambridge

The Virgin Mary

Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

Two brownies mix liquids in a crucible

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

The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed

Decorated. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire

Title-border with peasants and dragons

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Empty border with peasants and dragons

Doorway, Royton Lenham, Kent

Turtle Skeleton

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

yyy

Descendants of William the Conqueror

Frontispiece: The Barbican, Sandwich

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

331.—Switches and Crossings

On The Beach

Ludwig Richter-Haus in Loschwitz

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

An imp or devil or demon laughing and pointing

The Secret Seal of Solomon

St. Ives Bridge

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

ront Cover

Frontispiece: Portrait of William H. Seward

Antique British Isles Map: Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Hannibal from an old coin

Hannibal Crossing the Rhone

Cylinders, Steam Pipe, Blast Pipe, etc.

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

Maid in the Forest

Nebuchadnezzar

The Magical Circle of King Solomon, Coloured

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Fish-plating of rails

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

Old Riverside Farm, Závist

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Polkerris, Cornwall

Christmas-tide on the Road

Lutterworth.

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Cherub ascending

Hush! Central Will Hear!

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Gothic Window

Gargoyle, brighter version

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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
See all initials, or all alphabets, or the Decorative borders and frames

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

The Pictures: Woodcuts, Engravings & Clip art

Pictures of Old Books