Here is a grungy old cover of an antique book in my collection. The glue in the spine of the book has become dry and brittle and the cover has separated from the contents of the book. The book is Hooker’s Illustrated Natural History by Worthington Hooker, M.D. It was published in 1864. Click on…
Textures
Shabby, Grungy, Aged, Wrinkled Texture Page ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a shabby, grungy, aged, stained, wrinkled texture paper. It’s an endpaper from one of my volumes of Cassell’s Household Guide, circa 1869. Click on image to enlarge.
Grungy Aged Endpaper
This grungy, aged endpaper includes a bit of faded handwriting on the right edge. The page is from a book that was published in the late 1800s. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Images ~ Grungy Aged Endpapers
Here are two grungy aged endpapers from a baby book I have that is in very poor condition. The book was published in 1916. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Floral Book Endpaper
This beautiful floral patterned book endpaper is from a bound edition of St. Nicholas magazine that was printed in 1885. My original bound volume includes issues of the magazine dated May 1885 to October 1885. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Aged Patterned Endpaper
This shabby vintage endpaper is from the book A Round Robin, circa 1891. There is a faded grey floral pattern on the old yellowed paper. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Grungy Old Paper Texture
This grungy paper texture is from the back of an old receipt dated March 4, 1895. The front of this receipt is available on my blog here. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ 1860 Grocery Receipt
This vintage grocery receipt, made out to a Mr. White, goes way back to 1860. For a grand total of $2.23, Mr. White purchased sugar, salmon, syrup and rye meal from Henry A. Hatch. I’m only guessing but I imagine Mr. Hatch’s shop was a small general store with bare wood walls and wooden floors…
Free Vintage Image ~ Grungy Paper
I unearthed this wonderful grungy paper from my stash of old treasures for us this morning! I say “us” because I love this shabby old paper and I want to create some kind of digital cards for my Etsy shop using this in my backgrounds. I was so excited (it doesn’t take much to make…
Free Vintage Image ~ Grunge Paper
While going through some of my vintage French ephemera for the digital collage sheets I created for my Etsy shop this week, I came across one old invoice that has some wonderful grunge on the back of the page. I love it and thought some of you may as well. Click on image to enlarge.
Grungy Endpapers ~ Free Vintage Graphics
If you’re like me and enjoy working with grungy papers, here are a couple pages for you. They are scanned end papers from Six Hundred Receipts, Worth Their Weight in Gold, 1867. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Book Endpaper Graphics
These are scans of the front and back free endpapers from my antique copy of Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, published by McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1900. The book is one of the poorest quality in my personal library of antique books. It is brittle and fragile, falling apart, has a ton of foxing, some staining and warping throughout. None…
