"The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection. The British Library's collections include 150 million items from every era of written human history beginning with Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to today's newspapers.
Images Online gives you instant access to thousands of the greatest images from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.
The British Library holds a vast array of “Treasures” including Shakespeare’s First Folio, the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook , Handel’s Messiah, Lewis Carrolls’s Alice's Adventures Under Ground [in Wonderland] as well as sacred texts such as the Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Golden Haggadah. Images related to all these texts are available to license via Images Online."
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