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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

Front Cover, Pied Piper of Hamelin

Into the cellar, into the dungeon!

Chilren on the beach, with full-page border

11. Seal of Gusion.

Sounding the irons

London Driving

The founding of Paris

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green

Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces

Decorated Initial letter C with holly

Old College, Warwick Lane, London

Sir Isaac Newton

Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren

Haunted Chest of Drawers

53.8.—IHS

He blew out his lantern

Man with hand in darkness

Christmas Choir

Dark Passion Flowers

Bibury, Arlington Row

In the Forest Cathedral

Full-page border, hillside path through ruined castle

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

Ornament with Roses

Danaë

Family with barefoot boy

Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The Dragon of Putrefaction

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

castle medallion with ribbons

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Córdova: The Door of the Mosque

Full-page border with hearts and moons

Chiquon and Cochegrue, from Count Dracula

Cupid’s Hunting Fields

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

Floriated initial capital letter “S”

Don Quixote in his Study

Reconciled

Queen Dagmar of Denmark

Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves

Bookplate without name

Art Nouveau Bookplate

An Orphan Family’s Christmas

The Magical Circle of King Solomon

Effect of the League

Three Queens

Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge

Scrollwork Border from page 227

Coucy Castle, Bird’s Eye Drawing

87.—Designs for Window Heads

Constantinople Firemen

Names of Angels and Days (overview)

Initial letter J with piper and rats

Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard

Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon

2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.

Owl border

Happy New Year!

The new chain of office for the Mayor of Wiesbaden

Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling

Hexagram of Solomon

The insects look upon a giant dam

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White

First tube train passengers

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill

Omnibus Carriage

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

Queen Alice Knocking at the Door

Birth of the League

At Laundry

The Virgin Mary

When the angel blew the other trumpet

Front Cover

Tomb of Hiram.

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

Packing a Trunk

Nazareth

The First Lesson

Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown

M. Scevola se abrasa voluntariamenta la mano.

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

Cartouche by Gravelot

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

The Temptation

Letter A With Topless Woman

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

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

King’s College, Cambridge

Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900

Skeletons—Do Not Handle

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

Two brownies mix liquids in a crucible

The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed

Decorated. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire

Decorative initial (drop cap) D

Title-border with peasants and dragons

Empty border with peasants and dragons

Doorway, Royton Lenham, Kent

Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border

Turtle Skeleton

Drakelowe Hall

Descendants of William the Conqueror

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

Frontispiece: The Barbican, Sandwich

331.—Switches and Crossings

On The Beach

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Ludwig Richter-Haus in Loschwitz

An imp or devil or demon laughing and pointing

The Secret Seal of Solomon

Early Victorian Border from Book Cover

St. Ives Bridge

ront Cover

Frontispiece: Portrait of William H. Seward

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia

Antique British Isles Map: Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae

Hannibal from an old coin

Hannibal Crossing the Rhone

Victorian vine-leaf page border

Cylinders, Steam Pipe, Blast Pipe, etc.

Maid in the Forest

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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

The Pictures: Woodcuts, Engravings & Clip art

Pictures of Old Books