I found an awesome set of book cover images registered in the public domain over at FromOldBooks.org and thought I'd dirty them up a bit and post them for you guys. Just a forewarning: these textures aren't super high-res, most are around 1200px-1500px.

Also, don't forget about our previous book cover posts:

15 Old Book Cover Textures - high res and free

17 More Old Book Cover Textures

Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

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These textures were made using a high quality textured card, coffee granules and boiling water. The card was soaked in a strong, black coffee over night until completely dry, and the same process was repeated to create the coffee blotches. After creasing, the card was stored flat to dry and scanned in at 600dpi, leaving you with high resolution textures to use for your personal and commercial projects!

Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

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I've partnered with Evan from DinPattern to make this awesome set of vintage, patterned textures. This is the first set of "premium" textures I'm offering here on Lost and Taken.

If you like all of the freebies I give away around here and would like to show some support, this is a great way to do it. I'll still be serving up the free textures just as often as I do now, and future premium texture packs will be limited to one per month. Thanks in advance for the support, I really appreciate it!

If you'd like to purchase the textures just use the button below. After payment, you'll receive a download link in your email. There's a preview of all ten textures after the break.

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A couple of weeks back I posted a smaller set of experimental grunge textures over on Bittbox and I had a lot of fun creating them in Photoshop...so much that I decided to do an encore set here.

As with the other set, all of these textures were made in Photoshop by combining 5-10 different textures together in different blending modes. I attempted to make some "funky" grunge textures that are hopefully a little different than the other grunge textures you've came across, while being useful at the same time.

Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

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I thought it might be time to give you a little update on my plans for Lost and Taken and blogging in general for the next couple of months. I have all kinds of cool projects in the works, some of them that I know you'll like. Here's a quick rundown of what I'll be working on and releasing in the near future:

Lost and Taken

Lost and Taken will remain my main area of focus for now, the site has steadily been increasing in popularity over the past couple of months and now averages around 2000 unique visitors a day. For the most part I don't plan on making any significant changes to this site (see below), I'm just going to keep pumping out high quality textures as often as I can.

Two things I'm going to introduce in the near future:

• Regular Guest Posts - I'm going to be bringing on another person or two to post texture packs a couple of times a month so I can have a little extra time to devote to other projects. Don't worry though, I'm going to make sure that all of the textures released here remain of the highest quality.

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