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Vintage Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books

Over 4,400 free images from old, rare, antique and vintage books. High-resolution images for sale. M

Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate

At the Wine Festival

Mazeppa

11. Seal of Gusion.

Lions in a Cage

Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage

Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)

Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art

Border with flowers

Sir Isaac Newton

Harvest-time

Penrhyn Castle

Jesus with raised hand: holy admonition

53.8.—IHS

owl from full-page border

Angel with thurible from full-page border

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing with labels

Dark Passion Flowers

Full-page border with flowers, vines, figures

2113.—James I.’s Cradle. (From a Print inNichols’s Progresses.)

A giant wooden statue of a warrior with shield and sword

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Front Cover, Pied Piper of Hamelin

Into the cellar, into the dungeon!

Chilren on the beach, with full-page border

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Sounding the irons

London Driving

The founding of Paris

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

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

Decorated Initial letter C with holly

Old College, Warwick Lane, London

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren

Haunted Chest of Drawers

He blew out his lantern

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Man with hand in darkness

Christmas Choir

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Bibury, Arlington Row

In the Forest Cathedral

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Ornament with Roses

Danaë

Family with barefoot boy

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The Dragon of Putrefaction

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

castle medallion with ribbons

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

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

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Don Quixote in his Study

Reconciled

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

Bookplate without name

Art Nouveau Bookplate

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

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

Effect of the League

Three Queens

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

The Virgin Mary

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Constantinople Firemen

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

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Owl border

Happy New Year!

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

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

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

Hexagram of Solomon

The insects look upon a giant dam

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

First tube train passengers

Omnibus Carriage

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

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

Queen Alice Knocking at the Door

Birth of the League

At Laundry

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

When the angel blew the other trumpet

Front Cover

Tomb of Hiram.

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Packing a Trunk

Nazareth

The First Lesson

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

M. Scevola se abrasa voluntariamenta la mano.

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

Cartouche by Gravelot

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

The Temptation

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

Letter A With Topless Woman

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

King’s College, Cambridge

Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900

Two brownies mix liquids in a crucible

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed

Decorated. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Empty border with peasants and dragons

Title-border with peasants and dragons

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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
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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

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