Victorian Goods and Merchandise: 2,300 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive) - Softcover

Grafton, Carol Belanger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486296989 ISBN 13: 9780486296982

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Quaint, royalty-free images of 19th-century items: fans, corsets, toiletry kits, sewing machine, meat grinder, ice cream freezer, typewriter, camera, lantern, carpet sweeper, high-topped "storm" slippers and much more ― all arranged according to category. A fascinating, inexhaustible supply of design inspiration.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This immensely usable archive of vintage illustrations not only offers a wonderful window on the goods and merchandise of a bygone era, but is an absolute treasure trove of easily reproducible graphic art as well.
Some 2,300 cuts culled from such rare nineteenth-century periodicals as The Art Journal, The Illustrated London News, The Scientific American, and The Youth's Companion have been organized in convenient categories: clothes, furniture, kitchenware, toys and games, musical instruments, stationery supplies, domestic accessories, and much more.
Among them are detailed and highly reproducible illustrations of fans, corsets, toiletry kits, jewelry, roller skates, a baby carriage, bicycles, baseball gloves, a pencil sharpener, crayons, fountain pen, typewriter, drafting tools, compass, microscope, feather duster, parasol, small table with smoking paraphernalia, high-topped "storm slippers," and hundreds of other objects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486296989
• ISBN 13: 9780486296982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128