Clip Art Books

Overall a solid resource book. However I find it missing some of more useful elements, such as plain realistic images of body parts or full body images in different poses. It contains a lot of imagery but they afre of more vintage/anatomical nature. So in this respect the book is a bit limiting.

Although this book is devoid of any prickings, patterns, or line drawings it is worth owning just for the sheer number (243 to be exact) of beautiful, close-up photos of antique laces. The photographs are quite clear enough, I believe, that the advanced lacemaker should be able to replicate many of the laces. And the novice lacer, like me, will enjoy thumbing its pages and dreaming of future projects.

This is a typical Dover book containing interesting and useful, but hard to find information in an economical format. This is not an instructional book; There is no text other than a reference to the century from which the numerpous examples come, nor are there layout or page examples. The print quality of my copy is somewhat pale and poorly aligned, but the illustrations are mainly large and the detail is easy to see for copy practice.

I purchased this book to use in our Book of the Fantastical and it proved highly useful. Great for publishers looking for good clip-art work.

Page after page of creatures of myth and ancient culture, yet not a single name to go with the face (or fish, or stone carving, etc.). What a disappointment. As a picture book, its ok. As an art tool, its a bit frustrating. Many of the images are instantly recognizable, but many more are a mystery - I would have loved to see a brief notation stating where and when each of the creatures contained in this book originated. All told, if you just want a book of strange things to look at, this is for you. If you have any interest at all in what it is exactly that you are looking at, please pass this book over.

I purchased this book with the hope of viewing some very well designed graphics only to find that they are of poor quality; some of them resembling stick drawings by children. Definitely not worth the price since there's nothing really special about this particular `Pictura' series.
I was very disappointed, especially owning several CD editions of art from Dover which I simply loved.

I was disappointed with this book. It is not brimming with natural pictures as I had hoped it would be, it is a meager collection of black and white photos that didn't seem worthy of a whole book.

This book is OK ... but a lot of the motifs are very much the same. Some instruction on how to use them and where would have been helpful. I really wanted something to help me with a wainscoted dining room and this was not it!

When I saw this book, I immediatly realized what a great idea it could be to keep track of the places I travelled to. The book contains over 120 black and white photographs that capture the most famous sites of the world: in USA, Mexico, Europe, North Africa, Asia, Australia and Pacific. What I do is I record in the book a date when I visited the specific place and brief memories associated with my visit. The book also keeps me motivated to go places where I have not gone yet. What is not great about the book is that there are much more other beatiful places which are not included. But... maybe you could be the one to update the book for any new places you have discovered.

A decent collection of ornaments (a bit repetetive, but very useful and well drawn), but you would be better off skipping this edition and getting "Calligraphic Ornaments CD-ROM and Book (Dover)" instead. It has the same contect (exactly the same) plus a CD.