To do this to a vintage book?

[AwkwardMary]

I have many vintage books...I love them; they are mostly childrens books and I bought them for my DDs when they were babies but I still buy them whenever I see them as DDs are only 7 and 4.

I know that none of them are rare as such...or valuable...I hae been looking for some nice prints for the DDs bedroom for ages and can't find ANY.

WIBU to cut three prints from a 1957 book of fairy tales? It has full colour, full page illustrations of some beautiful things...The Wild Swan in particular...is this wrong? I know I should preserve the book really...for future generations to enjojy...but the DDs never read this book and the pictures will be employed on the wall in frames...therefore more useful.

NOOOOOOOOooooooooo

[makes stabbing motions at delicate pages...cackles madly]

Well done! You could always replace it with a more well-preserved version in the future too E.g. Abebooks.co.uk or similar old bookseller

i know what you mean Mary, but a knackerd old book on a shelf is gives no pleasure to anyone.

You`ve already decided so go for it & hope you and your family have many years of joys from the piccys

I just cannot desecrate books. I have just collected three old books (1840, 1874 and another) from a bookbinder where they'd been for a bit of repair. They are probably not worth much either. I just love books too much.

Books from my childhood would become heirlooms for my grandchildren to enjoy in the future so I would support those posters who have suggested copying the pictures to put on the walls. If you have no colour printer, take them to your nearest printing company. There's bound to be one somewhere near you. They do photocopying as well.

I'd say go for it! (and I see you have) Like another poster said, loved art on the walls is as important as illustrations in a book.

Not all old books are rare and precious, most old books are a waste of space and resources, destined to go into landfill or as the base layer for building projects (most of the M6 is old Mills and Boon books). Honestly, if you could see what happens to most ex-library stock you would weep!

There are some really beautiful examples of old books being turned into art...my personal favourite being this...
mysterious book sculptures

Obviously all of the above only applies to your own books - anyone caught defacing my library books will feel the full force of my wrath.

How common.

aghhhh you cant do thAT!!

No idea why i feel so strongly about it, but i couldnt even highlight bloody text books, let alone cut a picture out of a proper fairytale book

Not neccesarily....my mum did that- from a book which is over 100 years old- very old fashioned comic strips ("Mimi la Garçonierre" :o )...she wanted to make a timeline of comic strips on my nursery wall. Now I've got two of them framed in my room. The paper is incredibly thin and very yellowed. They look a lot better in my room than swathed in tissue paper in the attic upstairs!

That is bordering on sacrilege on our house!

Oh and- coincidentally- not from an antique book, but maybe 50 years old and yellowed- I made my mother's day card by cutting out the letters from the pictures, which are lovely. It was a charity shop find from two years ago. I don't read the book much. My mum loved the card. Perfect!

If you take away the poncy 'vintage--, it's juts an old book and you are making it into something that will still be loved and looked at. Do it!

Ha ha ha ha ha! Obviously it was pony that should have been scrubbed out! Epic Fail

Why is it sacrilege?...bit snobby, isn't it? Do you also not dog ear books, drop them in the bath, underline bits and scribble in them? It's better to enjoy them!
But I do sort of get where you're coming from....although I know that until you've destroyed the last copy, burning books means nothing....my INFP self surges to the fore and revolts in horror....cutting and sticking, though, does mean nothing.

why don't you take them to the library and get a colour photocopy done?

We have a lot of publishers in the family... And you never ever dog ear a book or place it opened face down. Nonono.

I don't see why not, if they're not rare or valuable. If you have any spare prints you can even sell them on Etsy.