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The Beginner's Handbook of Woodcarving
With Project Patterns for Line Carving, Relief Carving, Carving in the Round, and Bird Carving
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
"An excellent book for all carvers." — The Mallet"A woodcarver is one who can take a scrap of wood, breathe life into it with patient, skilled hands, and make it a warm object of lasting beauty. That is creativity," say award-winning craftsmen Beiderman and Johnston in this well-organized and highly...
by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Using five basic construction techniques: conventional wood-frame, A-frame, pole-frame, concrete masonry, and log cabin, here are 16 complete plans for cabins, vacation homes, and low-cost permanent homes.
Designed for economy of material and labor and for efficiency and usefulness, the buildings...
500 Years of Illustration
From Albrecht Dürer to Rockwell Kent
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
An unrivaled treasury of the methods, techniques, and examples of the great illustrators, this volume covers five centuries of decorations for the printed page. Ranging from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century, it offers working artists and students an unsurpassed reference and source of...
by Arthur M. Hind
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Arthur Mayger Hind (1880–1957) was a leading historian of engraving, one of the most highly respected art historians of modern times. Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum and Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, he was the author of the most complete history of etching and engraving that...
Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen
A Classic Survey of the Medium and Its Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In this comprehensive study of the art of drawing with a pen, artist and author Joseph Pennell highlights his opinionated "technical suggestions" with more than 400 illustrations by 250 famous artists, including Titian, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rodin, Manet, Renoir, Beardsley, Pyle, Hiroshige,...
by Edmund Dulac
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
One of the most influential (and most prolific) illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century, Edmund Dulac brought countless fairy tales to life through his distinct artistic style, subtle use of color, and fanciful compositions. This archive of masterworks by the renowned illustrator...
Manhattan Moves Uptown
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This fascinating chronicle traces New York City's growth from Wall Street at the end of the Revolutionary War to Harlem at the turn of the twentieth century. Documenting the frantic construction and speculative frenzy that swept through Manhattan in the nineteenth century, it explores the development...
by Bloomingdale Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
In the spring and summer of 1886, a popular New York department store advertised its wares in a finely illustrated catalog featuring everything from clothing, accessories, and housewares, to jewelry, leather goods, school supplies, and dry goods. This excellent reproduction of that now-rare Bloomingdale...
The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958
Who Wrote Them and What They Did
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Styles in advertising will change, but there is no copywriter, artist, or campaign planner who will not profit by studying proved successes, whether of 50 years ago or today. In this single volume are 100 of what are probably among the most successful advertisements ever to appear in print, plus an...
Noa Noa
The Tahitian Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa — a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that...
by Theodor Herzl
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
"It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. If the present generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer and better generation will arise to understand it. The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will...
The Male and Female Figure in Motion
60 Classic Photographic Sequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Now artists, illustrators, photographers, and scientists can have Eadweard Muybridge's rare, unparalleled true action photographs in an inexpensive paperbound edition. Sixty classic photographic sequences of the male and female figure in motion, selected from the monumental original collection of...
The Official Rules
5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
This new, vastly expanded and enriched version of The Official Rules presents precisely 5,427 laws, principles, rules, proverbs, and aphorisms collected by Paul Dickson and the esteemed Fellows of the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law. This often amusing, sometimes...
The Story of American Railroads
From the Iron Horse to the Diesel Locomotive
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce...