Your creativity will bloom with this beautiful garden of books about real and imagined flowers and plants.
Recommendations... |  |  Plants and Flowers: 1761 Illustrations for Artists and Designers
by Alan E. Bessette, William K. Chapman
One of the finest, most extensive sources of royalty-free illustrations of the world's plants and flowers, chosen for scientific accuracy, artistic style. Common and botanical Latin names specified. 1,761 black-and-white illustrations.
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by Christian Stoll, Alan Weller
Reproduced from a classic of natural history, 154 creatively stylized floral and animal images were designed with distinctive drama. The bonus CD-ROM includes individual files of all of the images in the book.
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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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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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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 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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| |  | 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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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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|  | Natural Art Forms
by Karl Blossfeldt
Unique, dramatic images of seed pods, buds, stems, and other botanical items appear in this remarkable collection. Excellent source of royalty-free pictures and design ideas for artists, craftspeople. 120 full-page black-and-white plates.
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