[vivaldirules]

Thanks, Ralph Sir Edward. I understand that illustrations may enter the public domain at a different time than the text. But my intended question was about using images (which might not be in the public domain) of illustrations (which are in the public domain). If I could lay my hands on a physical copy of The Last American, I could scan it today and make an illustrated ebook that would be perfectly legal. But I don't have access to a copy of it so I would have to use someone else's scanned images which might (?) be intellectual property. I certainly don't want to do anything that would cause MR problems or that would infringe on someone else's business.