I Image

Two birds hide among the leaves in this black and white fancy letter I drop cap image. Copyright free and in the public domain, this letter image can be used however you wish.

If you would like to see the other letters that accompanied this one, there are 17 other matching drop cap images here: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, M, O, Q, R, S, T and W.

Publishers back in the 1850s relied upon print foundries for fancy letters like theses from Anecdotes for Boys. Entertaining Narratives and Anecdotes Illustrative of Principles of Character. They were sold like movable type and could be inserted into the presses. Gould and Lincoln most likely used the letters in this set in that fashion. The author of the book was Harvey Newcomb.

I Image

This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.