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Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old books.

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With elegant hats and up-to-date rackets, they did look a handsome pair!
Cecil Aldin, from "Cecil Aldin's Merry Party" by May Byron, London: 1913 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/handsome-pair/

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The Queen's dwarf.
Paul Gavarni, from "Voyages de Gulliver" by Jonathan Swift, Paris: n.d. (after 1862) https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/queens-dwarf/

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Hippopotamus.
Friedrich Specht, from "Brehms Tierleben," vol. 3 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna: 1900 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hippopotamus/

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Giraffe.
From "Brehms Tierleben," vol. 3 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna: 1900 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/giraffes/

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The two bulls and the frog.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Fables de La Fontaine," vol. 1 by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris: 1838 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bulls-frog/

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The grasshopper and the ant.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Fables de La Fontaine," vol. 1 by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris: 1838

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Paolistas, soldiers of the east bank of the Plata.
From "Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video" written & illustrated by Emeric Essex Vidal, London: R. Ackermann, 1820 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/paolistas/

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The beggar's oak.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/beggars-oak/

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The Tutbury wych elm.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826

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The Tortworth chestnut.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tortworth-chestnut/

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Egyptian N° 3.
From "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/egyptian-3/

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Byzantine Ornaments (N° 3)
Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer, John Burley Waring, from "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Jones, London: 1868 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/byzantine-3/

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Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests.
Arthur Rackham, from "Irish Fairy Tales" by James Stephens, London: 1920 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/wild-monstrous-creatures/

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We found the parson rebuking the grey-headed sexton...
Randolph Caldecott, from "Old Christmas" by Washington Irving, London: 1886 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/reaching-church-porch/

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But there is no time for laughing.
Lorenz Frølich, from "A Butterfly Chase" by P.-J. Stahl (Pierre-Jules Hetzel), New York: 1869 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/no-time-laughing/

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Lorenz Frølich, frontispiece to "A Butterfly Chase" by P.-J. Stahl (Pierre-Jules Hetzel), New York: 1869 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/butterfly-chase/

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In Bury Street, Edmonton.
From "Remarks on Rural Scenery" written & illustrated by John Thomas Smith, London: 1797 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bury-street-edmonton/

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"Mrs. John Dumont," she said, "doesn't it sound queer?"
Harrison Fisher, from "The Cost" by David Graham Phillips, Paris: n.d. [1871?] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sound-queer/

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Androcles and the lion.
John Dickson Batten, from "Europa's Fairy Book" by Joseph Jacobs, London, New York: [ca. 1916] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/androcles-lion/

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Snow White and the three dwarfs.
John Dickson Batten, from "Europa's Fairy Book" by Joseph Jacobs, London, New York: [ca. 1916] https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/snowwhite-dwarfs/

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Rhododendron javanicum.
From "Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe," vol. 6 under the direction of Louis Van Houtte, Ghent: 1850-1851 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rhododendron-javanicum/

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Part 3, plate 8.
Jean Midolle, from "Album du moyen-âge," Strasbourg: 1836 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/album-galerie-8/

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Overcoming these chimerical terrors, Isabelle went on her way.
Gustave Doré, from "Le Capitaine Fracasse" by Théophile Gautier, Paris: 1860 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/went-on/

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Black-crested titmouse.
George Gorgas White, from "Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America" by John Cassin, Philadelphia: 1862 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/black-crested-titmouse/

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Steller's sea eagle.
George Gorgas White, from "Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America" by John Cassin, Philadelphia: 1862 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/stellers-sea-eagle/

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