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Pictures and short extracts from The National and Domestic History of England Volume III (A.D. 1399 – 1603), by William Hickman Smith Aubrey (1858 – 1916). The book is undated, but is probably 1878, since I found someone selling a copy with an inscription dated 1879. The engravings are mostly anonymous, and hence out of copyright; the author died more than 75 years ago, and so the text is out of copyright; any photographs were taken more than 50 years ago and are out of copyright. The status of signed engravings would depend on the artist, but I have not yet uploaded any such items. Check the individual image descriptions for more information.
I originally had a Volume 3 that was only a third of the thickness of volume 2; it turns out to have been from a slightly different edition that had lots of thin volumes instead of three fat ones. I now have all three volumes from the same edition, so some of the images are moving around to their proper places.
Title: The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3)
City: London
Date: 1878
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
John Bunyan’s chained leg in prison
This detail from John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol shows a manacle or leg-iron around John Bunyan’s black-stocking’d leg fastened to a heavy chain which is set into the wall of the prison. [more...] [$]
An sketch or line-drawing of an ornate clock from the early eighteenth century (C18, 18th C., the Queen Anne period). This is a detail from Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne. [more...] [$]
Cavalier Costumes, Time of Charles II. A.D. 1670.
The coloured engraving shows four adults in a room decorated with pictures in ornate frames and wallpaper; the room has pillars leading to an entrance with a view. [more...] [$]
Rustic twig and leaf border (landscape, or wide version)
This full-page border features rustic twigs and stylized acanthus leaves at the corners. It was used to frame portraits of the Victorian Royal Family. [more...] [$]
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