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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
So if this can be made clear to me. I'm looking at a book for which the text is definitely in the public domain. My question concerns the illustrations. The copy I have lists an original copyright date of 1912 with the actual copy issued in 1927. Would the illustrations also be public domain?
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You don't say where you are, so let's assume you're in the United States of America.
In that case, a book published before 1923 is in the public domain, inlcuding the illustrations.
Now, if your 1927 book is reprint of a 1912 edition, with the interior in all aspects identical to the 1912 book, it's in the public domain, including the illustrations.
If, however, the 1927 is a new edition with , perhaps, new illustrations that didn't appear in the 1912 edition, those illustrations might not be in the public domain - it rather depends on whether the copyright on the new edition was renewed in 1956 or so.
If you're not in the US, the copyright on the illustrations depends on who made them - in most countries they remain in copyright for the lifetime of the creator + 70 years.