.:Customer review
What the text fails to mention is that this is NOT Jean-H-P Pouget's original illustrations, it is relatively new (and poor) pen drawings traced from the originals. Why? Because the original was strictly a pattern source book for jewelry, and most patterns seem to have been covered in faceted stones. These have now been redrawn as shapeless blobs in the motifs, and all details pretending to jewelry have been omitted. The result is ugly, style-less, and devoid of historical interest. Dover must have decided that the market was to narrow for a goldsmiths' guide, and tried to expand it to "Artists and Craftspeople" by redrawing the whole thing.
Maybe you can find some use for it if you need some very simple floral patterns to trace your woodcarving from, otherwise, stay clear. The poorest Dover book I've ever seen.
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