Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This inexpensive Dover edition brings together 5 of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, all filled with humor, joy, and, above all, happy endings. From the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor, these masterpieces are in demand by students of literature and by general readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Stunning graphics, selected from a great 18th-century classic of natural history, accurately depict nearly 500 authentic winged beauties. Ideal for scrapbooks, memory books, and other decorative uses, the detailed, royalty-free images will be highly valued by commercial artists and illustrators. 490 full-color illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This dual-language anthology features more than a dozen, 20th-century tales translated into English for the first time. Contents include The Fugitive by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, The Present by Leonid Andreev, Trataton by D. Mamin-Sibiryak, and The Life Granted by Alexander Grin, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Alexander Kuprin, Arkady Gaidar, and others.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Corsets became the foundations of fashion more than 500 years ago, and they're with us still. This collection of three dolls and 29 historically accurate costumes demonstrates the influence of lingerie on modern couture. Side-by-side comparisons range from a 16th-century bodie to 1950s waspies and even underwear as outerwear in the 21st century. Also includes a gentleman dandy doll.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Fine selection of plates from rare catalog — advertising elegantly illustrated fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings — depict wood carvings, mouldings, and furniture trimmings. Includes 538 black-and-white illustrations of borders, garlands, and other decorative elements, ideal for use by artists, designers, woodworkers, and other craftspeople.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In this comprehensive study of the art of drawing with a pen, artist and author Joseph Pennell underscores his opinionated technical suggestions with more than 400 exhilarating illustrations by Titian, Durer, Rembrandt, Rodin, Manet, Renoir, Beardsley, Pyle, Hiroshige, Van Gogh, Rackham, and other masters from around the globe.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encylopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld,…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Elaine Pogany recounts a beloved Russian fairy tale of a king, a wizard, and a magic bird in charming prose that will delight readers of all ages. This classic also receives a stunning artistic treatment from one of the masters of book illustration, her husband Willy Pogany, whose color and black-and-white pictures adorn every page.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: An inspiring sourcebook for all skill levels, this guide helps artists discover a wide variety of subjects and ideas for their next sketch. More than 140 of the author's own drawings include partially finished details that illustrate how to achieve the desired visual effects. Stimulating topics include nostalgic scenes, old engravings, atmospheric effects, photographs, landscapes, and life itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Saki's «Tobermory» tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's «The Fiddler of the Reels,» Dickens' «The Haunted Hotel,» Trollope, «The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne,» Lawrence, «The Prussian Officer,» Kipling, «The Phantom Rickshaw,» Wells, «Under the Knife,» and others.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: More than 200 beautiful illustrations from the most famous herbal of all time. Includes magnificent renderings of at least 40 herbs as well as many fruits and flowers. Includes index of common names. Dover Electronic Design series: permission-free illustrations and designs for art, craft, business and educational use. Hundreds of designs scanned at 300 dpi and saved in TIFF format; can be used…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: These rare 17th-century views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens constitute some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The only edition in print, this compilation of outstanding engravings will be of immense interest to architectural historians as well as travelers to Rome and lovers of art and architecture.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Includes 4 of the playwright's greatest works: Hamlet, featuring the drama world's most discussed and contentious character; Macbeth, concerning a Scots nobleman's overweening ambition; Othello, in which a gallant soldier is undone by jealousy; and Romeo and Juliet, the tale of the lovers whose names are synonymous with star-crossed romance.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The finest collection of art by one of the greatest English book illustrators. A stunning full-colour treasury of the finest illustrations by the famed English artist. Rackham's subjects ranged from fairy tales and children's stories to Wagner's operas. This superbly printed work includes more than 80 full-page plates that span his entire artistic output. The illustrations in this handsome volume…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: While Leo Tolstoy is best known for his brilliant (and lengthy) novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, his short stories are also masterful works of literature. This affordable Dover edition includes six powerful stories including, Family Happiness, Three Deaths, The Three Hermits, The Devil, Father Sergius, and Master and Man. Each story is rich with detail, shrewd observations, and vivid…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Ilustrated with diagrams and numerous examples by artists and students, this easy-to-follow guide for drawing animals offers a systematic approach to learning proportion, rules of repose and motion, and basic forms. Using the anatomic details of such representative animals as the horse and the cow, the student learns how to modify these drawings to portray a dog, lion, and other subjects.…
Скачать книгу (размер 24 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 6) Аннотация: From one of the great book illustrators of the early 20th century, 24 captivating illustrations for tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Snow Queen, The Nightingale, The Real Princess, The Mermaid, The Garden of Paradise, The Wind's Tale, and The Emperor's New Clothes, all reproduced from rare 1911 edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: One of the greatest book illustrators of all time, the19th-century artist Gustave Doré was particularly noted for his brilliantly imaginative scenes of fantasy and the fantastic. Among his most frequently portrayed characters were angels. This collection includes dozens of dramatic illustrations depicting Doré's celestial beings, as created for such great works of literature as the…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: One of the most influential (and most prolific) illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century, Edmund Dulac brought countless fairy tales to life through his distinct style, subtle use of colour and fanciful compositions. This collection of 55 masterworks by that renowned illustrator includes a selection of his beguiling images for The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Snow…