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

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Description

This immensely usable archive of vintage illustrations no longer handiest offers a phenomenal window at 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 provides, domestic accessories, and a lot more.
Among them are detailed and highly reproducible illustrations of fans, corsets, toiletry kits, jewelry, roller skates, a child carriage, bicycles, baseball gloves, a pencil sharpener, crayons, fountain pen, typewriter, drafting tools, compass, microscope, feather duster, parasol, small table with smoking paraphernalia, top-topped “typhoon slippers,” and hundreds of different objects.

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