Книги жанра Dover Publications
Название: Make Your own dress patterns
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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This profusely illustrated primer in pattern making is great for creating fashionable clothing as well as pretty necklines, pockets, and sleeves. Nationally acclaimed sewing expert Adele Margolis provides simple, step-by-step directions and more than 1,000 illustrations for making clothes for work, home, and play — everything from stylish skirts, dresses, and jackets to children's clothing.
Название: 120 Great Art Nouveau Posters (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2009
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These sophisticated images recapture the vivacity and optimism at the turn of the 20th century. Paragons of Art Nouveau style — advertising everything from cafes and bicycles to perfume — reflect the art of such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec, Cheret, Mucha, and Beardsley. You can print the images at poster size and play a stunning slideshow of the posters on your TV or computer.
Название: 120 Great Fairy Paintings (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Spritely revelers, gossamer-winged creatures, and fantastic goblins mingle with exquisitely rendered birds, flowers, and insects in this enchanting collection by top Victorian-era artists. Scores of delightful, full-color illustrations by Rackham, Dulac, and others for use by graphic designers, hobbyists, lovers of fine art, and devotees of fairy lore.
Название: 120 Great Orientalist Paintings (+ DVD)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
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The European art world of the 19th century experienced a rage for Eastern exoticism. These entrancing portraits and landscapes depict the harems, marketplaces, and mosques of the Middle East and North Africa. Featured artists include Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Leon Gerome, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, and scores of other masters.
Название: 1200 Ornamental Letters (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Ornate, bold, fanciful, lavish From Gothic characters and florid fonts to simple, elegant designs, this magnificent collection — meticulously reproduced from a rare 19th-century portfolio — offers graphic designers a dazzling choice of ornamental alphabets in color and black and white. Many feature both upper and lower cases.
Название: Curvilinear Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2012
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Originally published in the early Victorian era, this decorative tour de force marks the shift of popular taste from Neoclassicism, foreshadowing the development of Art Nouveau. An eclectic assembly of forty-seven engraved plates includes examples of Japanese and Hindustani styles as well as designs dating from the Gothic, Renaissance, and Elizabethan eras. Elaborate full-page illustrations abound in highly ornamented walls, doorways, staircases, and urns, all featuring curves that extend beyond mere circular patterns into increasingly complex ornaments. This is the only edition currently in print of a hard-to-find sourcebook. Professional and amateur designers and graphic artists will appreciate the versatility of its illustrations.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2011
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The follow-up to one of the most popular Pictura collections, this new sampling of rare and authentic sources features approximately 200 color and black-and-white images: richly decorated backgrounds, mythological figures, serpentine dragons, fearsome samurai, prancing peacocks, objets d'art, and other traditional motifs.
Название: Paisley Designs (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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Exotic and enduring, paisley patterns have decorated textiles and handicrafts for thousands of years. Boasting superb reproductions in vivid color and striking black-and-white, this treasury showcases 199 resplendent examples of traditional Indian and European paisley motifs. A spiritual affinity with the natural world is apparent throughout the collection, exhibited in lush designs inspired by trees, leaves, and flowers, as well as repeating geometric motifs. Brimming with a wealth of intricate details, this very special book is a unique and valuable resource for fashion and graphics designers, textile artists, needleworkers, and other craft enthusiasts, as well as art students and historians.
Название: Decorative Prints for Children's Rooms
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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Charming set of 9 x 12 watercolor prints filled with whimsical scenes featuring stuffed toys in playful poses: a panda and bunny having a spot of tea, a teddy bear and kitten astride a hobby horse, a natty nautical teddy propped up against a chestful of toys, and 3 more.
Название: American World War I Posters: 24 Cards
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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World War I posters used to promote the American war effort are today highly prized collectibles. This card collection reproduces 24 of those works, among them James Montgomery Flagg's classic depiction of Uncle Sam proclaiming I Want YOU for U.S. Army.
Название: Vermeer Paintings: 24 Art Cards
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Reproductions of 24 of the 17th-century Dutch master's most luminous paintings include Girl with a Pearl Earring, View of Delft, The Love Letter, The Music Lesson, more.
Название: Daddy Long Legs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2002
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The oldest at a dreary home for foundlings, Judy Abbott finds her life completely changed when, with the help of a mysterious benefactor, she is granted her wish to be able to go to college. A meeting with the rich, handsome uncle of her snobbish roommate sets Judy on the road to discovering her secret friend.
Название: The Jungle Book
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
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In this title, the Detmold Brothers' finest wild animal illustrations rejoined with Kipling's classic stories. This is an otherwise modest edition of the first volume of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book appeared in 1908, distinguished mainly by the inclusion of 16 breathtaking colour plates by the gifted artist twins Maurice and Edward J. Detmold. Calla's newly designed selection of the most beloved of Kipling's classic stories contains all of the Detmolds' original colour illustrations. The plates were scanned from a rare set of portfolio prints to ensure the greatest possible fidelity to the brothers' original conception for the art. This Calla Editions Original is based on the edition published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1908.
Название: Song of Hiawatha
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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America's most popular nineteenth-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing his country with a national mythology, poetic tradition and epic forms. Known and loved by generations of schoolchildren for its evocative storytelling, his 1855 classic is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature, combining romance and idealism in an idyllic setting.
Название: Classic Mystery Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1999
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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 London's The Leopard Man's Story, featuring an unusually grisly gut thoroughly plausible murder method; The Phantom Motor, by Jacques Furtrelle; as well as tales by Wilkie Collins, Gelett Burgeess, Susan Galspell, E. C. Bentley, Rodrigues Ottelengui, Barones Orczy, Samuel Hopkines Adams, Melville Davisson Post, and H. C. Bailey. Douglas G. Greene, a widely recognized authority in the field of mystery fiction, provides an introduction and informative notes for stories.
Название: Complete Poems
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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This complete collection of Marlowe's poetry includes his translations of Ovid's Elegies and the First Book from Lucan's Civil Hero. The celebrated Hero and Leander, left unfinished at Marlowe's death, is also featured (the poem was later completed by George Chapman), as is the poet's most famous creation, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
Название: Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1995
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For young and old alike — 8 captivating tales filled with whimsy, charm, and magic: The Fate of the Children of Lir, The Shepherd of Middvai, Beth Gellert, The Tale of Ivan, Morraha, The Story of Deirdre, The Llanfabon Changeling, and The Sea-Maiden. Reset in large, easy-to-read type.
Название: Favorite Greek Myths
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1996
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Exciting collection invites youngsters to relive the adventures, calamities, and conquests of fascinating characters created by Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles and other ancient storytellers. Includes imaginative tales of Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Hades and Persephone, Narcissus and Echo, and many more.
Название: Favorite North American Indian Legends
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1994
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Charming stories — brimming with humor, whimsy and imagination — include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; The Meeting of the Wild Animals, a Tsimshian myth recounting how all the animals came to fear the porcupine; The Man Who Married the Moon a Pueblo story; others. 6 full-page illustrations.
Название: Favorite Poems of Childhood
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
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Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Emily Dickinson's I' m Nobody Who are you?, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing, many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.
