MacGregor Mathers's edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon though some of the images were removed. Many of these images were later used in S. These illustrations are drawings which try to depict the descriptions of the appearance of several demons. There were several editions of the book, but perhaps the most famous is the edition of 1863, in which sixty-nine illustrations were added to the book. It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818.
Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.The Dictionnaire Infernal ( English: Infernal Dictionary) is a book on demonology, organised in hellish hierarchies. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books.
These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high.
We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. We have 100s of Royalty-Free Fantasy and Sci-Fi illustrations for your project, in themed sets or bargain bundles! Click here for our listing! If you choose to credit these revisions, please credit as "Dictionnaire Infernal image restoration by S. If you get use out of this product and did not acquire it through this source, please consider a purchase through that site to get the full-resolution versions of the files and as a thank you for the image cleanup/revision work. This image set is being offered through () as a "pay as you like" item. Where any of the adjustments to these images might bring the images out of the pubic domain, we release these versions of the images back into the public domain.Īs such, there are no restrictions on the use of these images for commercial or individual use. For previews of the entire collection, click here.Īs the source material is within the Public omain. This stock art collection features 90 remastered illustrations from the Dictionnaire Infernal, including many of the illustrations that would later be reused in the Lesser Key of Solomon. Each image is in PNG format and has been processed, cleaned, and up-scaled to a uniform 3000px on the longest side. Illustrations from the Dictionnaire Infernal