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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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He preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.
Arthur Rackham, from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, London, New York: 1919 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rising-generations/

They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, that his heart turned within him and his knees smote together.
Arthur Rackham, from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, London, New York: 1919 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/stared-him/

Taught them to fly kites.
Arthur Rackham, from "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, London, New York: 1919 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fly-kites/

Il arrive à point nommé pour le premier jour du printemps

It arrives at the perfect time for the first day of spring.

I fear thee and thy glittering eye.
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from "The Poems of Coleridge" London, New York: [1907] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/glittering-eye/

Round and round flew the raven and cawed to the blast.
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from "The Poems of Coleridge" London, New York: [1907] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cawed-blast/

The game is done! I've won, I've won!
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from "The Poems of Coleridge" London, New York: [1907] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/won/

Day 770

In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I've tried.
Peter Newell, from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/caverns/

Yet with a tinge of bitterness,
She said “The more exceeds the less.”
Peter Newell, from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/more-exceeds-less/