Your creativity will bloom with this beautiful garden of books about real and imagined flowers and plants.
Recommendations... |  | Victorian Foliage Designs by James K. Colling 300 black-and-white foliage designs. Based on painted motifs found in woven textiles, woodcarvings, iron- and stonework, the lovely images depict leaves from oak to thistle, as well as designs incorporating fruits, flowers, and animals.
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Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations by Maggie Kate Over 600 royalty-free illustrations for artists, desktop publishers, and craftworkers accurately depict wildflowers, trees, herbs, cacti, tropical blooms, garden flowers, medicinal plants, and much more. Identifying captions.
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Products in Flowers, Floral Designs |  |  | | |  | 600 Decorative Floral Designs by F. B. Heald Exquisitely detailed and stylistically rare, 72 pages of decorative floral motifs — gathered from a stunning 19th-century collection — depict lush blossoms and plants surrounded by magnificent design elements.
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|  | Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Tubulariidae, Siphonophora, Semaeostomeae, star corals, starfishes, much more. All images in black and white.
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| | |  | Big Book of Nature Stencil Designs by Dover 850 attractive cuts depict fish, amphibians, dinosaurs, exotic birds, waterfowl, roses, wildflowers, and scores of other nature-related subjects. Suitable for any decorative need.
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|  | Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations by Maggie Kate Over 600 royalty-free illustrations for artists, desktop publishers, and craftworkers accurately depict wildflowers, trees, herbs, cacti, tropical blooms, garden flowers, medicinal plants, and much more. Identifying captions.
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|  | Decorative Flower and Leaf Designs by Richard Hofmann Rich selection of 124 stylized designs from rare German collection includes lush blossoms, tropical fruits, graceful foliage. Low-cost royalty-free motifs for textiles, surface decoration, more.
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|  | Exotic Flowers for Artists and Craftspeople by Yuko Green Splendid sourcebook of 135 accurate black-and-white illustrations of tropical flowers, including such spectacular specimens as the African tulip, rainbow shower tree, safari sunset, glory bush, Madagascar periwinkle, and much more.
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| | |  | Floral Ornament by Carol Belanger Grafton Over 350 handsome floral designs, selected from rare Victorian-era magazines, depicted as embellishments on mirrors and wall sconces, as flowing patterns easily adapted for use as frames and borders, and much more.
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|  | Floral and Decorative Allover Patterns by Dan X. Solo This treasury of 93 royalty-free allover patterns offers a multitude of applications in fabrics, packaging, textile and wallpaper designs, and many other artistic and commercial areas. The patterns include rosettes, fruits, geometrics, abstracts, and other motifs.
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|  | Flower Designs by Charlene Tarbox Over 80 lovely blossoms — wild sunflowers, columbine, peonies, orchids, roses, and more — in sprays, wreaths, clusters, single blossoms, and other configurations. A handy source of design inspiration.
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| |  | Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees by Ernst Lehner, Johanna Lehner Comprehensive archive of rare, royalty-free illustrations — from ancient Chinese lotus buds to a basket of flowers in a 19th-century Valentine silhouette. Table summarizes symbolic meaning of every known species — from absinth to zinnia.
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| | |  | Microscopic Art Forms from the Plant World by R. Anheisser This extraordinary collection will magnify artistic sensibilities with 400 detailed illustrations of nature's minute but magnificent handiwork. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all of the images in the book.
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