Bulkington Books

the archive · preserved as-found

Books we host, not books we made.

The archive is our hosted collection of public-domain books — sourced from the great digital libraries, preserved as-found. We did not typeset or restore these; we curate and serve them. Read them free.

the collection, by measure

The Octavo

the working volumes

The Duodecimo

the pocket sort

where we dig

More gems than a lifetime can re-issue.

We dig through archives and directories to find our titles. We have found many gems there — more than we could ever hope to re-issue in a lifetime.

The Library of Congress
Especially good for American content and anything pre-1900.
Google Books
An endless plethora of books, newspapers, and periodicals.
The Internet Archive
An immense database of music, films, news footage, newspapers, and books.
The Rijksmuseum
An extremely well organized archive of prints and arts.
Tufts Perseus Digital Library
A great resource for Greek and Latin works.
The Getty Open Content Collection
Another very well maintained archive of images and paintings.
The Marxists Internet Archive
A volunteer-run free library of many books, texts, and articles.
Wikimedia Commons
Huge open-source archive of photos and links to other wikis.