Книги видавництва Dover

Stunning treasury of 369 black-and-white, secular stained glass motifs — adapted from actual Victorian, Edwardian, and early-20th-century windows — includes geometric patterns incorporating circles, squares, and triangles; Art Nouveau curves and oval...

Rare, versatile, copyright-free volume offers the largest, finest collection of Art Nouveau typographic material: 137 complete alphabets; 23 upper-case fonts; 33 sets of decorative initials; 1951 monograms; 146 signet designs; 179 miscellaneous desig...

The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital, Byzantium (Constantinople), found expression throughout the ancient world, particularly in Italian architecture. This superb archive of Byzantine ornament contains a wealth of decorative archite...

Practical archive of over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements.

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 ...

Rich collection of attractive, highly usable folk motifs spans broad range of historical periods and cultures — from ancient Egypt to early 20th-century Japan. Over 700 designs, brimming with native imagination and invention, include examples of deco...

Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art N...

The enormous diversity and enduring beauty of ornamental ironwork is celebrated in this singular sourcebook.   Sixty antique plates showcase metal doors, balconies, window arches, gates, corner pieces, decorative embellishments, and more, many wrou...

Originally published over 130 years ago by one of America's leading architectural firms, this volume provided prospective homeowners and other customers with a wide range of design alternatives. While the collection includes elevations and floor ...

Over 1,000 designs in rare 19th-century catalog of impressive architectural ornaments and statuary — rendered in zinc, brass, and copper — includes rosettes, historical figures, angels, gargoyles, knights, eagles, griffins, cornices, frie...

541 beautiful full-color architectural drawings illustrating the imaginative use of brickwork and terra-cotta appliqués in Victorian revival styles, reprinted from a rare portfolio by a well-known 19th-century French architect. Includes front and sid...

Reprint of rare catalog by one of America's most successful, late-19th-century domestic architects, with more than 100 designs for 68 houses. Elevations and floor plans for custom-designed homes in the Colonial, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles, as ...

More than 160 exquisitely rendered color illustrations offer a fabulous array of decorative borders and panels in a tremendous variety of styles: Byzantine, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, Louis XIV, and other historical fashions. Many of these enchanti...

Victorian architecture, with its quirky diversity, eclectic origins and exuberant ornamentation, continues to exert a strong attraction on today's architects, builders and homeowners. For those interested in restoring, preserving, or even recreating ...

The continual demand among graphic artists for floral and botanical illustrations, combined with the perennial popularity of the Victorian style, have inspired this practical royalty-free collection. Artist Carol Belanger Grafton has selected 344 han...