Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period by Frederick Knight

Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period Reviews

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  goodreads Customer

  Beautiful and helpful reference book
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  goodreads Customer

  This book is really a great collection of designs
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  Hugh Wheat

  Very educational
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  kirakira033

  値段が値段だから仕方ないのかもしれませんが、描線が潰れ気味というかクリアでないために、ただえさえごてごてと混み合っている絵柄がよりごちゃごちゃに見えてしまいます。何と言うか、わら半紙にガリ版で刷ったものを更にコピーして本にしたという感じの質感です。黒い線画が背景や輪郭に多用されているため、全体の印象も黒っぽいものが多いです。これくらいの質だと、コピーをするといっそう悪化するのは目に見えている感じです。まだ試してはいませんが…。同時に購入した類似の本ではもっとすっきりと綺麗に印刷されていましたので、この本の紙質の問題なのかな？図柄自体はとても綺麗で芸術的で美しいので、お仕事等で必要な方には十分使えると思います。大振りで荘厳（ダイナミック？）なものや、天使の登場する優美なもの、ボーダーに使えそうなもの、植物の蔦の絡まりのような意匠、西洋の宮殿建築でそこここに見られるような装飾デザイン、様々です。趣味として取り込んで印刷したりして使いたかった自分は、残念ながら眺めて楽しむだけに終わりそうです。
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  goodreads Customer

  I dont know an engraver anywhere who is not thankful for the non copyright status of the Dover Book. ANY Dover book. With a copy machine you can shrink or enlarge any image to fit what ever your project is. How to get it from paper to your object? Try, in order, Acetone, Alcohol (as from a paint store, not rubbing [isopropanol]) alcohol as it has too much water in it, or toluene. use q tips and put the ink side down, and youll master it pretty fast.Since I dont sketch well thats how I use it, others with greater skill use the books for ideas to set up the outlines or get ideas for sketches for engravings on firearms (Im a member of the Firearms Engravers Guild of America), knives, scrimshaw, western engraving, glass, etc. I have a fair library of Dover Books and they have been invaluable to me and my customers Often designs emerge for which I have to employ an artist to sketch the offspring of multiple parents, all of whom come from the dover book series.If just for delight at the amazing engravings, many of which take on imagined color from their shadings to reliving at the art from a former era, this book along with a few others, lift the soul, reduce the stress, and create awe and wonder in the viewer. And, heck, for the price they are cheap! AND its legal to copy their designs!
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  M.Khan

  Real beautiful designs