Excellent Design Source Books

[Steece]

Here are several design source books that have excellent material on Family Crest, Scroll Work and Wood Carving Styles. Some of these are sources others on the forum have shared with me. The books are very inexpensive and chock full of very high quality illustrations. All are from Dover Publishing.

Family Crest Designs

Heraldic Crests
by James Fairbairn
$18.95 Retail

A 320 pages of almost any family crest detail you would ever want.

Heraldic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
by John M. Bergling
$10.95 Retail

Great book of family crest designs.


Scroll Work and Wood Carving Designs

Manual of Traditional Wood Carving
by Paul N. Hasluck
$16.95

A manual for wood carving with illustrations mixed with wood carving instructions

835 Victorian Designs and Emblems
by Palm & Fechteler
$5.95

Very good book of illustrations of Scroll work and family crest material

Florid Victorian Ornament
Karl Klimsch
$12.95

Good book of floral type scroll work

Ornamental Borders, Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles
by the Syracuse Ornamental Company
$11.95

Material in this book is taken from a catalouge of wood carvings, mouldings and furniture trims. Great source for sculpted scroll work we have been discussing.

These books can usually be bought off of Amazon for less than retail. I don't know about the rest of you but I am addicted to material like this. Hope it is helpful for those looking for great, inexpensive design sources.

Steece

 

[sam]

Thanks for the list, Steece. I've copied this post to the Tips archive. ~Sam

 

[Glenn]

Thanks Steece. My mother always said there were nice guys like you around.

 

[Steece]

Glenn,

As I mentioned a few days ago...your mother must have been some kind of a woman!!! Hope you are still blessed to have her around.

Steece

 

[ihsfab]

If you watch with Dover they have some good sales quiet often. Just like before Christmas and after they had some of the books listed here for up to 50% off and if you bought more than $50 worth it was free shipping. If you couldn't tell I like Dover.

Kulley

 

[Steece]

Kulley,

I agree...Dover has some outstanding materials and they are a great company. I feel like there are many hand engravers who are not aware of Dover's resources. Please post any of there books that have been a great benefit to you.

Steece

 

[Sandy]

One of Dovers best series is thier Electronic Clip Art CD Rom & Book Set. There web site is www.doverpublications.com. The winter 2007 catalog says "library of over 400,000 royalty-free clip art". I have 20+ of there books/cd. Cant say enough about them. Titles like
Florid Victorian ornaments by Karl Klimsch; 700 Victorian Ornamental Designs by F. Knight; Victorian Monograms; Ornamental Initials; Victorian Decrotive Letters. The list goes on and on. Check out the web site. You wont be sorry.