This compilation of a master engraver's designs presents a versatile array of borders, frames, scrolls, cartouches, arches, corners, and crests, in motifs featuring floral, animal, fantasy, and rococo patterns.

This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.

Richly detailed compendium offers glimpses of social history as reflected by historical periodicals, trade catalogs, architectural graphics, William Morris patterns, Crystal Palace exhibits, and many other sources. Includes color and black-and-white images, detailed bibliographies, and artist biographies.

Hundreds of beautiful copyright-free line illustrations of intricately carved furniture trimmings. Delicate floral wreaths, scrolls, more.

Shows forty decorating styles and demonstrates special painting techniques.

DIVOver 320 elegant, royalty-free images depict floral and foliated sprays, frames and borders of intricate scrollwork, elaborate wall plaques, ceiling roses, cornices, friezes, and much more. /div