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biglam/british-library-book-images

British Library Book Images 1,080,814 images cut out of 49,455 digitised books (65,227 volumes, ~25 million pages) published between c. 1510 and c. 1900, digitised by the British Library in partnership with Microsoft and released by British Library Labs on Flickr Commons as the "1 Million Images from Scanned Books" release. The books cover geography, philosophy, history, poetry and literature, in several languages. The four image types British Library Labs… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/british-library-book-images.

Author / organizationbiglam
License (as declared)cc0-1.0
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Created6 August 2026
Last updated at source18 August 2026
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