This collection of ceiling designs cover both the creative and practical side of ceiling decoration. Subjects range from day and night skies, animals and birds, cloud formations, and flowers, to allegorical scenes in the grand manner, and trompe l'oeil architectural patterns. The text demonstrates how to choose the right design for the area for painting and features step-by-step stages and practical tips.
Sackville-West's lovely descriptions of flowers, originally published in 1937 & photographed in b&w, are freshly depicted with the botanical watercolors of illustrator Graham Rust in this beautiful & instructive gardening book. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Color illus.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom. If only the old man's heart would soften toward Cedric's estranged mother, the family would be healed at last. And when another potential heir to the earldom makes a claim, it seems that everything is lost.... But all things are possible through a child's innocent trust, true friendship, and unconditional love.
Die Eltern von Mary Lennox sterben in Indien an der Cholera, und das kleine Mädchen wird zurück nach England geschickt, um bei seinem Onkel zu leben. In dessen düsterem Herrenhaus Misslethwaite fühlt sich Mary todunglücklich: Sie ist einsam, sie vermisst die Wärme ihrer früheren Heimat - und sie fürchtet sich vor den schrecklichen Schreien, die nachts durch die vielen leeren Zimmer gellen. Nur Martha, ein Zimmermädchen, kümmert sich um die Kleine, schickt sie zum Spielen an die frische Luft und erzählt ihr Geschichten über die herrlichen Gärten, die den Landsitz umgeben. Nur von einem Garten spricht sie nie: dem geheimen Garten, dem Zentrum aller Geheimnisse von Misslethwaite. Mary entdeckt ihn selbst, und dort findet sie Kraft, um ihren Cousin Colin zu retten - vor Verzweiflung und Einsamkeit, die ihren eigenen Kummer bei Weitem übertreffen.
