Victorian Goods and Merchandise: 2,300 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive)

I like this book for reference as an artist. I really enjoy old Victorian items because they have an element of creepy. It's good to have a quick reference at your fingertips when illustrating.

The book is just amazing. Everytime I pick it up new things pop out at me and I have looked through it many times already.

I purchased the book for Victorian inspiration for use in ATCs, collage work, and steampunk art material. Wonderful ideas and features for use with mermaids, sirens, and other collage projects.

My daughter-in-law enjoyed this for Christmas, she has an interest in Victorian ephemera, though not of the "steam punk" variety!

It's a great book, here you will find many quality and beautiful pictures for your design.I really liked it, this is very useful for the designer.

this is a very comprehensive book of images, but they are all super tiny and you can tell they were shrank down from much larger images and not edited well. the lines are very close together on a lot of the drawings and make the effect a little blurry. i still like having it around for reference.

If you want to learn anything about Victorian Goods & Merchandise, it would help to know something more than that a thing is in a chapter called "household products." Literally nothing is labelled beyond being included in a generic chapter. There is no orgnization by date, no attribution be brand and aside from the two pages called "napkin rings," you can spend an eternity guessing at the proper name for things, but it wouldn't do any good because there is no answer key. Things are grouped by room or use, but never named or identified. For example, a page could have 5 things that you can generalky guess are grinders from a wheel and dial, but there is nothing ANYWHERE that identifies the object as such, letalone stating if it is a coffee bean, meat, cranberry or corn grinder.Seriously - it is a book of pictures. Without titles, captions, indices, clues or any words other than chapter headings. It is knowledge-proof and worthless. If you want to see thingsas drawings without anything telling you what it is, sit in a cave and stare at the pictograms on the wall - you will be more enlightened, less frustrated, and a few dollars richer.

Work as supposed to - best one

The pictures are too dark and look rather like a bad photocopy. Also this is not a first 1997 edition but 2017. Wrong / misleading description.

So far this is my fave of these source books. Ive used many of the pics coloured and plain in my collages. Such fun to see so many utensils being used today just in fancy colours and plastics.

Look like photocopies on the pages of the book so details are not easy to see. Informative but disappointed the pictures are so dark.

Good

This book comprises a most a comprehensive collection of Victoriana and ephemora. A dream of source material for those wishing to use really good clipart black & white line drawings.Over 2000 illustrations covering a very wide scope. Excellent value for money.