Public Domain/Free for Commercial Use Initials?

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Calithena:
I am wondering if any of you know of or can link me to any. Thanks for any help you can provide. "Initials" in the sense I mean are the big capital letters that often occur at the headings of chapters etc. in older books, FYI.

David Artman:
You can actually make Initials out of any font (even automating it, in certain DTP applications) so I'm guessing that you want a woodcut font or similar. There's a bajillion free font sites you can search for woodcut fonts.

Calithena:
I was thinking artistically attractive ones - for example I used Holbein Dance of Death in Roll the Bones. There are a lot of free font sites out there although many of them are only free for non-commercial use when you read the fine print.

Eero Tuovinen:
Remember that for initial use you don't need most features of font files (kerning etc.), so there's no reason not to use image files instead. You well might find your perfect initials in a simple image format somewhere.

Other than that, I've myself found that I want to choose highly divergent styles of lettering for initial use in different projects, which means that I don't really have a particular favourite.

kensanata:
How about this one?

"Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books

Over 3,100 high-resolution free images scanned from more than 180 different old or rare books, with extracts, by Liam Quin. If you use these pictures, let me know. Link back here, and send me a copy!"

Starting with Letter A:

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Search/?kw=lettera

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