Three Caldecott winners include The Big Snow, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, and The Mighty Hunter. Written and illustrated by the gifted husband-and-wife duo, the stories combine imaginative color drawings with
This collection of luxuriant patterns and designs in the distinctive and popular Art Nouveau style consists of 49 full-page illustrations, plus 11 pages with numerous individual images. Handsomely rep
This compilation from a style-conscious decade features scores of illustrations with their original captions specifying colors, sizes, prices. Items include apparel for men, women, and children ̵
Treasury of rare Victorian-era designs for borders, wreaths, cushion squares, sprays, and other projects. Patterns for verbena, strawberry, lily, many more.
"Will delight both the gardener and the cook." — Library Journal. Versatile handbook for the wide range of American herbalists — from backyard gardeners to gourmet chefs — provides all the information
This introductory guide to the romance of spices and herbs offers historical, geographical, literary, and culinary details. More than 85 familiar and exotic plants are illustrated and examined for leg
Three of the author's most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English c
These pun-studded fables by a popular science writer make complicated mathematical concepts accessible and fun. Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating the topology of a wa
This clear, handsomely illustrated guide introduces the history, materials, tools, and techniques of glass engraving and other forms of glass decorating. Techniques include diamond point, copper-wheel
In this amazing cache of designs, arresting displays of geometrics explode into thousands of fascinating variations. Each of 41 original black-and-white motifs is spun into three pages of adaptations,
Useful reference covering several varieties of plants includes more than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns, along with detailed descriptions of physical features and g
More than 260 high-impact, permission-free designs that exploit to their fullest the dramatic potential of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and other elements. Invaluable for wallpaper and tex
99 puzzles built around the chessboard. Arithmetical and probability problems, chessboard recreations, geometrical puzzles, mathematical amusements and games, more. Solutions.
Detailed volume includes 100 front and side elevations, floor plans for five city houses, a country house with a French roof, a summer house, various cottages, more.
From tiger and water lily, to snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, and thistle, these 163 North American wildflowers areboldly rendered in full-page and half-page sizes as individual blossoms and in borders
The first comprehensive treatment of relativistic electrodynamics, this volume remains essential reading. This graduate-level text was written by a distinguished theoretical physicist. It deftly revea
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 p
Fifty-three full-color plates capture the earthy, often primitive art forms of ancient Irish and Anglo-Saxon culture. Selected from incredibly rare manuscripts, this wondrous variety of ornamental art
Lawrence began the two essays as responses to psychoanalytic criticism of his novel Sons and Lovers, but they progressed into a counterproposal to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious
Assembled by a noted organ scholar and performer, this compilation features some of Dupre's most popular pieces ? previously available only in an expensive European edition. Contents include 3 Prelude
These masterworks range from seven early settings of texts from Goethe's Faust to the touching songs that were sketches for Tristan und Isolde, featuring verses by Wagner's lover and patroness, Mathil
Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profusion of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fr
Versatile collection of 136 floral designs for royalty-free use. Ready-to-use illustrations of lily, African violet, holly, dogwood, many other flowers and plants.
Wealthy shipping merchant Paul Dombey runs his family like he runs his business, with coldness and calculation. When his wife dies giving birth to their second child and long hoped-for heir, Dombey re
Molly Gibson is a small-town girl in England during the 1830s, kind-hearted but unwise in the ways of the world. Her widower father sends her to stay with the aristocrats of Hamley Hall, where she bef
A kind hound and a critical cat venture beyond their garden gate for a look at how other animals live in this endearing hardcover edition, which is charmingly illustrated by cult legend Edward Go
The ill-fated lovers Frankie and Johnny were already legends by 1930, the year of this illustrated drama's publication. The unique interpretation is a collaboration between John Huston, the future dir
Geared toward those who have completed a college course in basic algebra and seek an introduction to ring structure and homological algebra, this concise text is suitable for advanced undergraduate an
Ideal introduction to the eminent Victorian's writings features well-chosen examples of his thoughts on nature, art, and society. Includes excerpts from Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, and othe
"Love lasteth long as the money endureth." "The money paid, the work delayed." This original anthology is rich with hundreds of quotes on currency, greed, wealth, and poverty. Sources include the Bibl
This richly textured novel of romance and class conflict explores the dichotomies between the pastoral South and industrial North during England's mid-Victorian era. Praised by Dickens as "an admirabl
Includes the unabridged text of Austen's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes
Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always intriguing, these true stories describe the exploits of such notorious maritime marauders as Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Captain Kidd, and other
Signs, seals, and symbols — from the simplest drawings of heavenly bodies to the intriguing signs of the zodiac — are recorded here by two of the world's foremost experts in the field of graphic art.
From the depths of man's imagination comes a mesmerizing menagerie of fantastic beasts — griffins, werewolves, serpent monsters, dragons, mermaids, and other fabulous creatures of land, sea, and air.
Any investigation into vampire legends leads inevitably to the works of Montague Summers (1880-1948), whose research and writings in the 1920s established him as the subject’s preeminent authority. Th
10 brilliant essays by a Nobel Prize-winning philosopher challenge romantic mysticism and promote a scientific view of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witt
