Baroque Ornament and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

One of my all time favorites for firearms engraving -I've run borders (see Dover Book on Borders) into corner elements with astonishing results - and what DO you put on that forward flat area of the Yellow Boy? Or behind or in front of the plate on the 1873 (or even ON the plate)? You'll find it here -- and it will be beautiful!

Great book! I've learned allot of different way of carving!

A good book needed for my work. It will inspire me to my sculptures in stone. Ornaments are fantastic. Are the basis for further work.

While filled wit beautiful illustrations I was looking for more of the style shown on the cover. There are several pages that have rather flat renditions of the designs. While they are still beautiful I would have liked the whole book to be more shaded, three-dimensional designs.

Great designs, it the quality if the images are pretty poor. Hard to see some of the details...okay, most of the details if you are trying to replicate the design.

Nice resource for artists!

great artistic ideas

Cool book, they just gave me a beat up copy. Hard to imagine anyone sending a book in this condition. Won’t be ordering from these folks anymore.