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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.

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

Bookplate without name

Art Nouveau Bookplate

11. Seal of Gusion.

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

Effect of the League

Three Queens

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Sir Isaac Newton

Constantinople Firemen

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

53.8.—IHS

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

Happy New Year!

Owl border

Dark Passion Flowers

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

Hexagram of Solomon

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

The insects look upon a giant dam

Omnibus Carriage

First tube train passengers

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

Queen Alice Knocking at the Door

Birth of the League

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

At Laundry

When the angel blew the other trumpet

Front Cover

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Tomb of Hiram.

Packing a Trunk

Nazareth

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

The First Lesson

M. Scevola se abrasa voluntariamenta la mano.

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Cartouche by Gravelot

The Temptation

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Letter A With Topless Woman

King’s College, Cambridge

Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

Two brownies mix liquids in a crucible

The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Decorated. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire

Empty border with peasants and dragons

Title-border with peasants and dragons

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Doorway, Royton Lenham, Kent

Turtle Skeleton

yyy

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

Descendants of William the Conqueror

Frontispiece: The Barbican, Sandwich

331.—Switches and Crossings

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

On The Beach

Ludwig Richter-Haus in Loschwitz

An imp or devil or demon laughing and pointing

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

The Secret Seal of Solomon

St. Ives Bridge

Frontispiece: Portrait of William H. Seward

The Virgin Mary

ront Cover

Antique British Isles Map: Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae

Hannibal from an old coin

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

Hannibal Crossing the Rhone

Cylinders, Steam Pipe, Blast Pipe, etc.

Maid in the Forest

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

Nebuchadnezzar

The Magical Circle of King Solomon, Coloured

Fish-plating of rails

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

Château Montjardin. Remouchamps.

Old Riverside Farm, Závist

Polkerris, Cornwall

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

Christmas-tide on the Road

Lutterworth.

Cherup ascending

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

Hush! Central Will Hear!

The Grotesque (Le Stryge)

Gothic Window

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Gargoyle, brighter version

Cherub with paintbrush

Cairo, from the East

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Inside a feudal castle hall

Harvest Time

Field Worker

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

891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wire

Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki

Drawn Picture Frame

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Schoolwork

Cherub Facing Right

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

Portrait of Ludwig Knaus

Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)

Front Cover

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Alchemy Full Page Border

Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum

Naked angel with caduceus

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Alchemical dragons fighting

49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.

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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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