Lessons in Flower and Fruit Modelling in Wax (Classic Reprint)

Lessons in Flower and Fruit Modelling in Wax (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. H. Mintorn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780331800883

Excerpt from Lessons in Flower and Fruit Modelling in Wax The conviction that a more practicable and explanatory guide to modelling flowers and fruit in wax 'than any hitherto obtainable would be acceptable to my pupils and others who practise this interesting branch of the Plastic Arts, and the feeling that I could supply the want, have prompted me to pub lish the following Lessons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Art of Botanical Illustration

The Art of Botanical Illustration
Author: Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486272658

This beautiful book surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the 20th-century. 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.

Liza of Lambeth

Liza of Lambeth
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770488588

Following the publication of Liza of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham would go on to establish himself as one of the most prolific, best-selling novelists of the twentieth century. For all that Liza did not dramatize life in a thieves’ den or depict the poor as atavistic brutes, its honest treatment of working-class pastimes and appetites offended middle-class readers as much as the bludgeonings and chivings of Arthur Morrison’s violent A Child of the Jago had one year before. Maugham vividly captured a working-class couple’s illicit romance and a neighborhood’s collective surveillance and punishment of the woman’s promiscuity and the man’s marital infidelity. Today, the novel’s treatment of women’s experiences, working-class life, and health and medicine in the Victorian city are freshly relevant.