Dover Publications

Especially designed for the beginning student, this handy volume helps students learn Spanish by presenting simple, easy-to-read adaptations of classic Spanish stories and other material with complete faithful English translations on the facing pages.

Royalty-free architectural ornaments, decorative motifs and border elements, engraved after drawings by l7th-century French artist. 46 illustrations.

Forty beautiful designs by one of Victorian era's most influential designers. Modestly priced, royalty-free collection of richly detailed patterns, faithfully reproduced from rare 1890s publication. Superb designs for wallpapers, chintzes, velveteens, tapestries, tiles, carpets, more.

Rare treasury of floor plans, elevations, perspective drawings for houses and cottages in Queen Anne, Eastlake, Elizabethan, Colonial, other styles. Large engraved plates also contain scaled drawings of nearly 700 architectural details. Invaluable resource for restorers, preservationists, students, etc. 734 black-and-white illustrations. Preface.

Choice drawings — from early impressions of peasant life to studies for Starry Night, other masterpieces. 44 black-and-white illustrations. Captions.

This thoroughly tested reference work provides an unusually comprehensive guide to the reading, speaking and writing of Russian for both advanced and beginning students. Using the new orthography, it is most useful for literary, scientific, political, and commercial translation.

What American men, women, and children wore shown in fully illustrated pages with original captions selected from rare copies of Sears catalogs, reproduced in large format on high-quality glossy stock. Hundreds of detailed drawings depict hats and shoes, suits and dresses — from lingerie and playclothes to bridal ensembles.

Primary authority on what was proper, beautiful, efficient in all aspects of mid-19th-century interior design. Originally published in 1868. Over 100 illustrations.

Superb reproductions of 44 of Holbein's finest portrait drawings: Sir Thomas More, Jane Seymour, the Prince of Wales, Anne Boleyn, dozens more personalities from the court of Henry VIII. 44 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's Note. Captions.

Exquisite renderings of baobab tree, quaking grass, winged pea, many other unusual plants. Selected from classic Victorian botanical volumes.

21 full-size patterns for beautiful floral woodcarving projects include extensive notes, line drawings, photographs of finished projects. Bluebells, Orchid, Rose, Tulip, Iris, Pine Cones, Aztec Lily, more. Expert tips on wood selection, finishing techniques, and tools. Instructions.

Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.

Over 500 copyright-free frames, borders, vignettes, and more culled from a major Art Nouveau showcase. Abstracts, geometrics, animals, plants, people — especially sensuous female figures — have myriad design uses. Invaluable for artists, illustrators, advertisers, craftsmen. 514 black-and-white illustrations.

Lush, full-color reproductions of 56 dazzlingly inventive silkscreens reflect the richness of color and sensuous theatricality which have become Erte's trademark. Exquisite visions of The Seven Deadly Sins, The Four Emotions, The Zodiac, At the Theatre, and more will delight enthusiasts and win new admirers for the legendary designer. Preface.

Collection of portraits, selected from public and private holdings by art historian Trevor J. Fairbrother, reveal the technical skill and intuitive eye for which American portrait painter John Singer Sargent is renowned. Drawings in pencil, pastels and charcoal — a lesser-known aspect of Sargent's oeuvre — are shown. List of Plates. Introduction. Captions.

Splendid selection of 218 black-and-white inventions from legendary designer's productions for Harper's Bazar, 1918-32. Also 8 pages of full-color covers, originals now prized collector's items. Captions. Publisher's Note.

Comprised of 40 full-page, two-color plates of finished drawings in several media, this new volume reproduces Mucha's extraordinary 1905 style book, Figures Decoratives, a summation of Art Nouveau art and design. New introduction.

This classic work explores the full range of Art Nouveau ironwork. It includes 137 photographic illustrations of railings, gates, balconies, doorways, staircases, and much more.

A supreme master of landscape drawings, Rembrandt's extraordinary draftsmanship possessed a vitality and power that few artists ever achieve. This excellent volume displays in sharp, quality reproductions 60 authentic landscapes chosen from the great facsimile editions. Publisher's Note. Captions. 60 black-and-white illustrations.

A hundred garden favorites rendered in black-and-white line illustrations will suggest numerous design and artistic uses to artists, designers, craftsmen, needleworkers. Amaryllis, anemone, begonia, cinquefoil, peony, snapdragon flow and weave, many forming borders and frames. All drawings royalty-free.

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.

Outstanding collection of 400 motifs of rich Persian tradition, ready to use in many areas of design. The motifs include floral designs, geometrics, arabesques, mythical creatures, rosettes, paisley patterns, palmettes, medallions, border and marginal decorations, scrolls, curves, and hunting scenes.

Seventy large-size illustrations trace Mucha's skills as a draftsman over more than 40 years. Among the more famous examples are original plans and drawings for The Seasons, sketches for the Sarah Bernhardt poster, studies from Mucha's stunning and innovative stylebooks, and a sketch for the St. Louis World's Fair poster.

These rare pictures, both real and imagined, of relics, rituals, people, animals, and geometric shapes and designs provide much-needed material for collage and illustration, material of the highest quality that is difficult if not impossible to find elsewhere. There are 25 full-page scenes of historic, natural and city vistas that are ideally suited as backgrounds for collages and other projects. All of the pictures are sharply defined and clearly printed on one side of each page to allow for optimal use of their lines and textures and to eliminate the possibility of «show-through».