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Dover Publications
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In page after page of dazzling geometrics, an interesting design is spotlighted and split into multiple vibrant, dancing variations. Take motifs from this visual feast to rev up graphics projects, or use them to build your own unique designs Need to enlarge an image? Black-and-white illustrations are vector-based for ultra-clear enhancements. |
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This lovely hardcover edition conjures up marvelous visions of Carroll's fantasy world. Luxuriously illustrated with 92 watercolors, it's a wonderful introduction to Alice's adventures as well as a splendid volume for collectors. Available for sale in the United States only. |
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This well-researched guide traces the evolution of English fashion for men and women through hundreds of illustrations. More than a history of style, it's a dressmaker's delight, filled with scaled-down patterns for 67 authentic costumes. |
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These 468 authentic designs come from a rare volume published during the 1930s in Tokyo. Includes flowers, landscapes, flappers, birds, and a host of other stylized images. CD-ROM includes each image in a solid color as well as in black-and-white. |
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«Recognized internationally for their subtlety, delicate lines, and enduring beauty, artistic Chinese designs have long been regarded as more than simple ornamentation. The distinctive motifs represented in this superb collection of 218 permission-free patterns are typical of a vital art tradition that is experiencing a worldwide renaissance in popularity. Selected from various illustrated booklets published throughout the People's Republic of China and in Hong Kong, these motifs are derived from a vast selection of Chinese artifacts-dating from prehistoric pottery to the present day. Many of the patterns, which come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and styles, were originally conceived for decorating textiles, ceramics, metalwork, woodcarvings, basketry, cut paper, in addition to carved stone, tiles, and other architectural elements. Commercial artists and graphic designers will find an abundant supply of useful borders, frames, and corners as well as intricate floral displays that include peonies, lotus, chrysanthemums, pine, bamboo, and plum blossoms. Also available in this unique collection are: Real and fabulous Chinese animals-dragons, tigers, phoenixes, lions, butterflies, mandarin ducks, and bats Cloud and water motifs Geometric and abstract patterns Two frequently used Chinese ideographs representing «double happiness» and «long life» ...and much more. These patterns can be used as is, rearranged, combined, enlarged, or reduced. Illustrators, textile designers, craftpeople, anyone looking for authentic Chinese designs, will find this rich and easily affordable collection an invaluable addition to their working libraries.» |
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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 script, while 10 are in non-Latin scripts. The former include Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Frisian, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Croatian, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and more. Among the non-Latin alphabets are Arabic, Celtic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Irish Traditional, Japanese, and Korean. Most alphabets feature upper- and lower-case letters; many also include numerals and punctuation marks. An invaluable resource for artists and illustrators, these inexpensive, copyright-free fonts are ideal for use in display ads, on posters, signs, menus-almost any graphic or printed communications. |
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Features various motifs, reprinted from a 1910 portfolio, depicting florals, abstract designs, and more. |
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«Wonderful collection of fairy tales from Mother Russia includes seven stories with wicked witches, nasty stepmothers, lovely maidens, magic spells, and more. Included are «Vasilisa the Beauty», «The Little Sister and Little Brother», «The White Duckling», «The Bright-Hawk's Feather», «Ivan and the Gray Wolf», «Marya Morevna», and «The Frog-Queen».» |
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A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama. |
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«Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes «Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman», «Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp», «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves», «The Fisherman and the Jinni», «Judar and His Brethren» and «Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad».» |
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As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But Richard Branson has met many of them. He has worked with them, funded them, and flown with them. He admires them, and trusts them, and thinks they and their kind are our future. In this book Richard Branson looks at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired him throughout his life. In these pages you will find tales of miraculous rescues; of records made and broken; of surprising feats of endurance and survival, including some of his own adventures, as well as developments in the future of air (and space) travel. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it includes the world famous Montgolfiers and the Wright brothers, but he also wants to describe some of the lesser-known trailblazers. People like Tony Jannus, who in 1914 created the first scheduled commercial flight in the world, flying his passengers over the waters of Tampa Bay at an altitude of just fifty feet! The 'bird man' Leo Valentin, who in the 1950's jumped from 9000 feet with wooden wings attached to his shoulders. And Branson's friend Steve Fossett, who dedicated his life to breaking records and having adventures. This is their story. It is also, in a small way, his own. |
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Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19'th and 20'th century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. |
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«This volume provides a fascinating sample of Erte's very best graphic work, offering every plate from his most popular collections: «The Alphabet» (1977); «The Numerals» (1968); «The Aces» (1974); «The Precious Stones» (1969); and «The Seasons» (1970). Each plate has been painstakingly reproduced from the autographed, limited-edition lithographs.» |
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Striking compendium of Chinese art and design culled directly from rare sources includes animals, birds, fish, abstracts, and patterns in a remarkable diversity of styles, elegantly simple to intricately complex. 200 full-color and black-and-white illustrations. |
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An introduction to algebraic geometry and a bridge between its analytical-topological and algebraical aspects, this book explores fundamental concepts of the general theory of algebraic varieties: general point, dimension, function field, rational transformations, and correspondences as well as formal power series and an extensive survey of algebraic curves. 1953 edition. |
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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. |
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Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 108 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Damsels, knights, grotesque monsters. 208 black-and-white illustrations. Captions, introduction. |
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Dore's engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more — are all rendered in a powerful manner. Full text and 38 plates. |
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135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation. |
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By the time he began this work, Rackham (1867-1939) was England's leading illustrator, famous throughout the world for his fantastic interpretations of fairy tales and myths. This, his masterpiece, is regarded by some as the greatest representation of Wagner's drama ever produced. Includes 64 illustrations and 9 vignettes. |
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