Men: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive)

I love this collection of Victorian prints. It's (surprisingly) far better than the female version.Huge complaint though... I just wish I knew what I was looking at. I wish the editor who collected the prints had included some sort of informative reference to the prints. Even if I just knew the year the print was from... or which magazine it ran in... or (in my wildest dreams) an actual description of what the person is wearing.But I paid only $3.99 so it's good eye candy for the price. I would have been willing to pay five times that, however, to get more info on the clothing.

the other Dover Pictorial Archive came with discs, which made it easy to import into my computer for design projects.due to the outstanding price i can understand why a disc was not included, so i was ready to scan the images i liked, but the paper they used for the book is low quality, the printing inks bleed and the true lines were lost, the images are some what blotchy. The book are great if your ready to rebuild the images in vector, but the images as is will not match up with the crisp edges of the fonts you use while designing. over all i'm happy because they were priced so low and i always re-build Dover work in illustrator, but if your looking to cut and past scanned images into photoshop, the Dover are will look soft.

I have bought a lot of Dover over the years and it never disappoints.

Can't beat the price, the images are very cool, can be used for many different mixed media or decoupage projects.

I really believe that this and the other Dover collections of similar illustrations, in terms of the wonderful art contained in these books, deserves 5-stars. However...I purchased two collections compiled by Jim Harter to use on some of my Websites. The publisher, Dover owns the copyrights and permits one to use up to 10 illustrations in the same publication, without written permission.Question: what constitutes a "publication"? Are we permitted scan and reduce the size of the images? Colorize them? Cut them out and use them in collages? Most copyright laws permit you to use the images in certain ways and not in others. Some of these images would look really nice printed on a shower curtain. Is that curtain considered a "publication".I'm bringing this up because there is a move on the part of some publishers and entrepreneurs to secure copyrights for other public-domain books and illustrations like these and get the term of copyrights extended to 100 years. They are also trying to get penalties strengthened for copyright violation.Amazon currently offers many "classic" public-domain Kindle books for free. The new owners of the copyrights would likely charge "whatever the market will bear". Unfortunately, this will prevent perhaps millions of potential readers from not only enjoying but "learning" from these great books!Up commerce! Down Culture!

Excellent

Good stuff, plenty of interesting images for art projects.

Love it, great book, cheap and brand new. Lots of great pics to use for reference, clip art for collages and flyers.

A little gold-mine this is. For collage, reference and all things steam-punk. To my surprise, I recognized original after original sampled for some of my favorite comic books: Asterix, Tintin and Prince Valiant. Seems like the comic book masters had access to some of the pearls collected here.

Great Book, Love it

Great book

La Editorial Dover, ya legendaria siempre han sido unos verdaderos maestros en todos los trabajos que editan, las ilustraciones, la forma de montar sus páginas, lo agradable que resulta consultar toda la información que contiene cada libro rústico, el precio es muy asequible para los estudiantes y el público en general, no tiene desperdicio, yo compre el primer libro con 14 años y tengo 63 y soy un cliente habitual, gracias Dover.Guillermo Chamorro

É uma viagem passear por essas imagens. Excelente para artistas e tatuadores, ou como eu: apreciadores de imagens. Não testei no scanner para ver se as imagens "vazam".