Clip Art Books

I use the pictures in this book for collages. I love the vintage look of the pictures and find that there is a good variety of sizes and subject matter.

I liked this book very much - it was a good mix of vintage images showing women in a very wide range of settings. i plan to use it for altered books and art journals and I forsee it being very useful because of the variety. I liked this better than several of the other clip art books of the same publisher; this is one of the most useful.

Wonderful selection. Clear illustrations, easily reproduced for pixels, a little more complicated for vectors because the paper is ever so slightly porous, but it is nicely opaque. And the paper does not change!! My copy dates back and the paper is still white. Great job.

i never have read the book i just need to see it for a school projec

You can't beat a Dover Publication for quality of information, quantity of information, and a fantastic price. This book is filled with well 1001 Illuminated letters. I have gotton many ideas from this book for my own Illuminations. This book is filled with many different painting styles and designs that you can get many ideas from. I definately would recommend this book to anyone trying to see what a wide variety of different painting techniques actually looks like.

This is a nicely done book of woodcuts and pen and ink illustrations for anyone looking for a different style of illustration. There is little clean-up involved on these nice clean illustrations if you decide to scan them. They also convert nicely to vector with the Live-Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

This book is a collection of images and engravings of mythological animals. For the artist who is in search of period imagery, I highly reccomend this book; the engravings are beautiful and wierd--enough to stimulate anyone's imagination! For one who wants content and description of these creatures, this book isn't for you--there is not much text. Overall, a great resource book for artists.

This is a publication I was very familiar with and it was a delight to be able to track down a new copy. The examples are a wonderful source of pictorial reference for earlier times and trades and the craftsmanship involved in their execution is exquisite.

The good thing is you can get all of Bewick's (or more precisely his workshop's) engravings, not only the mammals, birds and vignettes but also some miscellaneous designs, with such a cheap price. The bad thing is the images are arranged thematically, with the whole book giving an impression of hotchpotch. The arrangement can be confusing: Bewick's famous vignette depicting a little girl pulling a horse's tail find itself under the theme "Agriculture", instead of "Children and Animals". Of course we can't complain too much as it's not easy to arrange such a great number of designs, most of which being impossible to be dated. And the printing is good considering the low price. All in all, a good bargain as usually with the Dover series.

This is a fantastic resource book and the CD makes everything so easy! I have wanted to have clip art for my collages and cards and I was thrilled with the variety of clip art available--nearly everything works! I ordered a larger, hard-bound book in addition to this book, but I found more of the clip art here more usable and classic than in the more expensive, hardbound version. I have been looking for something like this forever and was pleased to find it and find it at such a great price!

I was looking for copyright free art for a publication I was working on...Dover never lets me down!

The assortment of styles and topics in this edition is great. It will serve me well in future projects as well as the one I purchased it for!

Today no family establishes itself without getting a van. But over a hundred years ago, the family had carriage or waggonet.

A well illustrated little book. Most informative on the pre-motor technology of horse drawn transport. I found it a joy to go through.

A must for anyone interested in this period.

This book is a nice reference for anyone with an interest in common types of American Victorian Coaches.

I found it very informative with a clear line drawing of each coach included description of the item, some history, information on the maker, and some historical data to indicate what the use was. The clear black and white drawings are supplemented by plans and by photographs where available, which helps to give a feel of the scale of the vehicles.

I was very pleased to find that not only was information on colors included but they were careful to indicate how many horses pulled the vehicle, and show pictures of the shafts as well as the vehicle.

Generally if you're looking for a simple pictoral reference to show you what these vehicles looked like, and/or gain some feeling of the color and history, you'll be very pleased.

Since I am really for pencils and charcoal, this book is very high in appeal. I think the artist liked to draw cats, 'cause he draws a lot about them. The book is definetly not just about cats, I just had to point that out. The drawings are crisp, and any fool can see M. Meheut knows a fair amount on animal anotomy. The drawings are extremely well detailed, such as it is that you can easily see the difference between feathers, fur, scales, slimy skin (amphibians), shell materal, you get the idea.

They're also easily distinguishable, not some mass blob in the shape of a peacock. Some of the drawings are sketches, others look almost like advanced black and white photos. Most are closer to the photos, though. Some animals I would like to see that are not here are gorrilas, horses, panthers, dolphins, whales,rhinos, and some others. I do realize that many of these animals a re hard to study, so its very forgivable. I like it.

in it's approach, this book is crisp and accessible. It describes a good variety of animals in a manner more familiar to an industrial designer than a fine artist. All the images read beautifully with strong visual communication skill apparent in every regard. As a student in Entertainment Design I hold this to be an invaluable reference.

Have searched wide and far for some decent Art Deco designs. This CD-ROM is brilliant to say the least! It has inspired a group of people who are doing charity work for their decorations for a fundraiser. Great book/CD can absolutely recommend it - great value!

Carlie

This book was exactly what I needed. It has tons of clip-art from the Art Deco era. I don't know why but it seemed harder for me to find a good compilation of Deco images, than it is to find Art Nouveau.

This book was initailly published with the intent of allowing a builder to construct an entire town. Therefore, there are examples of single family houses (mostly), apartments, duplexes, churches, barns, and commercial buildings. Most elevations have floor plans attached as well as ornamental detail for the elevations. An interesting aspect of the book is the inclusion of contracts for constuction- if only things could be that simple again! I recommend this book for victorian architecture lovers.

Just about any of the many Victorian plan books reprinted by Dover is an excellent investment, but this is one of my top favorites. Within a single slender volume you'll find houses ranging from tiny "cheap" cottages (they could be built for $750) to a pair of opulent $30,000 mansions (an 18-room Mansard and a towered 19-room Gothic masonry "farm house"). There are also carriage houses and stables (from a two-stall, $500 board-and-batten back-yard style to a sprawling cupolaed masonry version), schoolhouses with two and six classrooms, churches from village to cathedral size, two dignified courthouses, a jail with keeper's quarters, and elevations (though unfortunately no floor plans) of several "business blocks" (store-and-office buildings). If you've ever wanted to get an idea of the kinds of buildings among which our small-town Victorian ancestors moved, this is a great book to start with.

It's a good book where I could find lots of chinese designs. I find much more than I could expect in a product like this. All my friends want to buy the book for them. It was a nice selection of designs. I recommend this book to each one who wants to practice and make beautiful chinese designs.

This books has some of the most detailed paper cuts I have seen. They are wonderful and very challenging. If you are looking for a Paper cut book...this is the one! I give it five stars!