Книги издательства Dover Publications
Название: Vintage Label Art (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2007
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Miniature works of art, these old-fashioned labels beckoned consumers from cigars, fruit crates, wine bottles, and well-traveled luggage sets. This convenient collection features 270 unusual logos, trademarks, and advertisements in full color, promoting products from international luxury hotels to Duck Brand lemons, Wenoka apples, and Jack Daniel's whiskey.
Название: Favorite Jane Austen Novels
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1997
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Three of the author's most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.
Название: Simplified Grammer of Arabic
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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With just a few hours of diligent study, this concise and practical book will enable students to analyze sentences in all 3 languages. Alphabets, numerals, verb parts, and tenses are given for each language, along with English equivalents, pronunciations, and explanations for forming compound words. Technical terms, arbitrary rules, and old classifications into declensions and conjugations are excluded.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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This fascinating reference offers a crisp pictorial record of foods found on our tables today that emerged thousands of years ago in faraway lands. Scores of rare woodcuts enhance intriguing anecdotes about the origins of grains and coffee, the odysseys of pineapples and peanuts, and the mysteries behind breadfruit, pomegranates, others.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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In this amazing cache of designs, arresting displays of geometrics explode into thousands of fascinating variations. Each of 41 original black-and-white motifs is spun into three pages of adaptations, offering strikingly different variations on the original theme. More than 4,200 images form kaleidoscopic designs, optical illusions, and hypnotic abstracts.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2007
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This bountiful collection of vibrant spot graphics features a delightful array of motifs that you'll turn to again and again for just the right pictorial touch. Finely drawn black-and-white images include geometrics, fleurs-de-lys, celestial illustrations, frames and borders, crosses, anchors, butterflies, and many other decorative themes.
Название: Full-Color Japanese Designs and Motifs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Dragons, tigers, cranes, peacocks, and peonies abound in this dazzling collection of popular Japanese motifs. So do other designs featuring flowers, plants, and animals. Geometric, abstract, and allover patterns are also included. More than 130 authentic illustrations serve as a wonderful source of inspiration for original design work.
Название: Medieval Life and People (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2007
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Nobles, knights, serfs, and beggars — people from all walks of life populate the pages of this excellent archive. Derived from paintings, woodcuts, engravings, and other sources, these 283 black-and-white illustrations offer lively perspectives on the way people looked and dressed as well as their celebrations, ceremonies, work, and pastimes.
Название: Fantasy (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Wily wizards in pointed hats, demonstrative dragons, the gentle unicorn and other figures from the realm of fantasy fill the pages of this versatile and virtually inexhaustible supply of easy-to-reproduce art. Dover Electronic Design series contains permission-free illustrations and designs for art, craft, business and educational use. Hundreds of designs scanned at 600 dpi and saved in the most popular formats; can be used for Mac and Windows. Each set contains CD-ROM and book with every image on the CD printed large for easy reference or direct use.
Название: Seguy's Art Deco Designs (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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From the Parisian studio of E. A. Seguy comes this dazzling portfolio of authentic Art Deco designs of the 1920s. This essential set gathers 152 full-color examples of the French artist's best and most beautiful work, featuring vivid floral patterns, exquisite butterflies, and colorful animal motifs originally designed for textiles and wallpaper.
Название: Volpone
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1994
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Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune. Many complexities of plot and connivance ensue, but in the end, the guilty parties are exposed and punished. Explanatory footnotes.
Название: French Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1991
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10 unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: Micromegas, by Voltaire; The Atheist's Mass, by Balzac; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler, by Flaubert; Spleen of Paris, by Baudelaire; Minuet, by de Maupassant; The Guest, by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.
Название: White Heron and Other Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1999
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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.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1995
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Add Art Nouveau flair to any graphic project with the beautifully rendered royalty-free designs in this collection. Sinuous, organic shapes are perfect for highlighting announcements, catalog copy, advertisements, more. Also included is a selection of miscellaneous cuts and sections of frames useful as spots, tailpieces and other decorative elements.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2009
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The Victorians were enthralled by fairies and angels, and their fascination with benevolent spirits is reflected in their art. These full-color paintings from the 19th and early-20th centuries feature Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist, and Narrative works by such noteworthy artists as Waterhouse, Burne-Jones, Draper, Watts, and Grimshaw.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
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In this treasury of decorative accents for machine embroidery, 100 images are presented in three different color combinations. The dainty designs can be stitched automatically in minutes and are compatible with all major brands of embroidery machines. Plus, the designs can be used in print and web projects as well!
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2011
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A comprehensive look at a prominent artist from the Golden Age of Illustration, this volume features 110 color plates of Edmund Dulac's cover work from 1908 to 1928. Featured titles include Shakespeare's The Tempest, The Arabian Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Название: Vintage Valentines (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2011
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Drawn from authentic valentines of the early 20th century, this selection of more than 150 romantic greetings includes postcards and valentine-based die cuts of apple-cheeked children, cherubs, cupids, bouquets, and adorable animals. In addition to traditional Victorian-influenced styles, these illustrations include popular retro images that circulated in the '40s, '50s, and later.
Название: Rackham Postcards
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
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Famed as The Beloved Enchanter, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was the preeminent artist of the Golden Age of Illustration in the early 20th century. These full-color postcards recapture his characteristic whimsy, romance, and sophistication with a dozen memorable scenes from fairy tales and nursery rhymes, Shakespeare's plays, and other literary classics.
Название: 390 Traditional Stained Glass Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Finely rendered line drawings, based on photographs of authentic Victorian and Edwardian era designs, depict lovely floral and foliate motifs, a remarkable array of geometrics, transitional designs showing Art Nouveau influence, and much more — all in a wide range of sizes and shapes.
