Animal alphabets, architectural lettering, exquisite florid expressions, the well known, the whim...

Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormous variety of offensive and defensive weapons...

Women's fashions of the 1920s continue to fascinate artists, couturiers, and students of fashion,...

Over 340 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings selected from two classic Victorian pu...

An ancient art form dating back to cave paintings in the Paleolithic age, silhouettes were extrem...

Grace your next needlework, craft, or graphic art project with just the right floral motif from t...

Quaint, royalty-free images of 19th-century items: fans, corsets, toiletry kits, sewing machine, ...

Wondrous panorama of the animal kingdom, with detailed reproductions of over 600 rare engravings:...

The aesthetic achievements of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which dominated decorative a...

The realms and reveries of the Middle Ages unfold in more than 750 black-and-white illustrations....

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A profound sense of the aesthetic beauty in all things pervades the whole of Japanese culture, fi...

This book presents more than 2,000 illustrations of shoes, hats, and fashion accessories reproduc...