Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Youngsters will delight in this magical forest and its adorable woodland sprites. Thirty black-and-white illustrations depict fairies and elves at play amid toadstools, flowers, and other forest settings.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Detailed, comprehensive account of swords, knives and bayonets, staff weapons, bows, crossbows, guns and other miscellaneous arms — dating from the Middle Ages to modern times. Over 280 contemporary illustrations catalog the spear of a Roman hunter, a medieval broad arrow, a harpoon gun fired by whalers, and much else.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 285) Аннотация: Old Testament, St. Jerome, Passion, Life of Virgin, Apocalypse, 346 in all. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson. It was in woodcut design that the creative genius of Durer reached its highest expression... the only available source for many of these works.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: This excellent collection of historic decorative ornament contains over 3000 examples ranging from the cultures of the Greeks and Romans through the Victorians. Among the many different kinds of objects depicted are fine line drawings of chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldic emblems, altars, armor, architecture, and scores of objects used in everyday life. 3002 black-and-white illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Rich selection of scaled dressmaker's patterns from the popular late 19th-century magazine The Voice of Fashion details Fifty garments for women, from handsome daytime and evening dresses to casual tennis outfits, a riding habit, and undergarments. Of practical use for costume designers and students of fashion; will also delight browsers. 498 illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Over 300 outstanding illustrations — thoughtfully selected and excellently reproduced — depict ornate altar screens, doors, chandeliers, balcony railings, candelabra, tombstone crosses, pulpits, gates, window screens, and more. Brief captions identify the types, origins, and dates of pieces in this excellent collection for artists, interior designers, craftspeople, and lovers of antiques.
Скачать книгу (размер 24 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 6) Аннотация: Excellent reproductions of works originally created for magazines and literary classics as well as personal paintings, landscapes and other subjects. Includes The Wreck of the Covenant (from Kidnapped), The Fight in the Forest (The Last of the Mohicans), Still Life with Onions, House in Maine, Pyle's Barn and 19 others.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: Egypt, Babylon, Greece up through 19th-century Europe; based on surviving pieces, art work, much more. Includes many clear, measured patterns for reproducing historic costumes. Full text. 595 illustrations... landmark in the field of Western European costume... exceptional value for its price.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Hundreds of attractive royalty-free designs from all periods and styles — from Renaissance and Baroque to Art Deco and Geometric. The virtually inexhaustible supply of dynamic, black-and-white graphic devices includes elegantly rendered miniature flowers and leaves, everyday objects, holiday and abstract motifs, classical designs, and other decorative elements.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Written with grace, delicate humor and a keen understanding of the female psyche are 9 portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Includes A Night in Acadie, A Respectable Woman, The Dream of an Hour, and the title story. A masterful collection of Chopin's short stories.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Graphic artists in need of hard-to-find foreign-language alphabets will find what they're looking for in this latest collection from noted typographer Dan X. Solo. Included in the immensely practical and attractively printed volume (one of the largest archives of its kind available) are 100 alphabets in 43 different languages-from Arabic to Welsh. Thirty-three alphabets are in accented Latin…
Скачать книгу (размер 458 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 91) Аннотация: Over 1,500 handsome black-and-white illustrations, taken from authentic examples of ornamental ironwork in the architecture of Bordeaux. Drawn from balconies, gates, grilles, stair railings, and elsewhere, this affordable treasury features lovely images incorporating floral and foliate designs, human and animal figures, musical motifs, heraldic crests, mythological figures, geometrics, and much…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris was a famous training ground in the classical arts, and the best of the drawings of its architects sent to study in Rome and Greece are collected here.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A celebration of the past in stories dealing with female friendships and tales that portray the resilience with which her female characters respond to poverty. Includes The Town Poor, Miss Peck's Promotion, The Passing of Sister Barsett, The Denham Ladies, Miss Tempy's Watchers, and 5 more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination. Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Alan Poe's The murder in the Rue Morgue, widely acknowledged as that detective story; Charles Dickens' The Detective Anecdotes. in which a policeman is the detective-hero Jack…
Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Over 1,000 designs in rare 19th-century catalog of impressive architectural ornaments and statuary — rendered in zinc, brass, and copper — includes rosettes, historical figures, angels, gargoyles, knights, eagles, griffins, cornices, friezes, much more. Captions supply measurements and prices. Great browsing for antique and nostalgia buffs; excellent source of royalty-free illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 130) Аннотация: The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
Скачать книгу (размер 621 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 123) Аннотация: Over, 1,500 detailed cuts — selected from Harper's Bazaar, La Mode Illustree, Life, The Delineator, and other vintage publications — span nearly 100 years of fashion history. On display are delightful examples of Victorian footwear and millinery, beaded handbags from the early 20th century, stylish high-heeled evening shoes from the 1920s, and much more.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l'oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Stunning sourcebook of 60 full-page, royalty-free designs — 30 in full color and 30 in black-and-white — depict a marvelous selection of allover, subtly colored patterns for textiles, wallpaper, rugs, and wall hangings. Imaginative, Art Nouveau-inspired renderings of ferns, flowers, berries, human figures, masks, exotic dancers and a host of other subjects.