The British Library has uploaded more than one million images to Flickr from 65,000 books spanning from the 17th to the 19th century.
Here is a selection of Bristol images:
Image taken from page 14 of The Bristol Guide; being a complete ancient and modern history of the city of Bristol … Fifth edition, revised, published 1825
Image taken from page 176 of The Bristol Guide; being a complete ancient and modern history of the city of Bristol … Fifth edition, revised, published 1825
Image taken from page 317 of Arrowsmith’s Dictionary of Bristol, edited by H. J. Spear and J. W. Arrowsmith, published 1884
Image taken from page 14 of Some account of the oldest plans of Bristol, and an inquiry into the date of the first authentic one … With three illustrations, published 1881
Image taken from page 178 of Picnic: an illustrated guide to Ilfracombe and North Devon, with notes on Lynmouth, Clovelly, Lundy, etc, published 1890
