Jim Harter Knihy

This extraordinary collection of engravings provides designers and commercial artists with a magnificent sourcebook of Victorian-era plant images — all royalty-free. Included are 2,400 crisply detailed illustrations of hundreds of plants — from lilies, lichens, mushrooms and marigolds, to poppies, palms, maples, and mosses.Selected from rare publications dating from the 1840s to the turn of the century, the illustrations encompass a wide range of plant species and garden flowers, cactuses, bromeliads, ferns, deciduous trees, evergreens, grasses, legumes, orchids, nightshades, and many more. All are identified with Latin or common names and are arranged alphabetically by family. Also presented are specialized appendices on edible foods, medicinal herbs, and plants used in decoration and in graphic design, including borders and motifs.Created during a period when wood engraving had reached its zenith and become a greatly refined art, these splendid royalty-free illustrations will be an indispensable and inspirational resource for artists and craftspeople working in a variety of areas. The collection will also delight botanists, gardeners, and collectors of old engravings, all of whom are sure to treasure this tribute to the beauty and infinite variety of the plant kingdom.

Focusing on Early Automobiles, this collection features nearly 250 captivating illustrations from advertising line art spanning 1880 to 1930. Jim Harter, an image archivist and transportation historian, presents these gems of commercial engraving, showcasing the artistic evolution and marketing of early automotive history. This visually rich compilation offers a unique glimpse into the early automotive industry and its artistic representation.

Provides a comprehensive collection of images of architecture, including landscape and street scenes, facades, details, and interiors, from around the world from antiquity to the late nineteenth century

525 royalty-free illustrations for artists and craftspeople include trains, trolleys, cars, ships, airplanes, many exotic vehicles.

Over 300 authentic, rare 19th-century engravings selected by noted collagist for artists, designers, and decoupeurs feature machines, people, animals, and more. Printed on one side of the page only, 25 scene plates for backgrounds and 6 collages by Harter, Satty, Singer, and Evans are also included. Introduction.

Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting — an unusually rich sourcebook of feminine poses and activities, costumes, clothing, everyday life, and much more. Images selected from rare issues of Leslie's Weekly, The London Illustrated News, The Graphic, and more. 488 illustrations.

Abstract: Over 350 19th century line drawings depicting a wide range of food-related activities, individual illustrations of foods, and serving and cooking utensils comprise this collection of design ideas on the subject of food and drink. Activity scenes show people of all ages, countries and social classes cooking, dining or feasting on occasions from the elegant to the ordinary, from the comical to the sentimental. Cakes, porridge, hams, fruits, fine wines and fish are among the food drawings; glassware, cutlery, bowls and kitchen tools of many sorts, shapes and styles are included. These copyright-free drawings form a sourcebook for artists

Provides more than six hundred black-and-white engravings of angels of all descriptions in a wide-ranging clip-art book that is ideal for photocopying and computer scanning.