Lady With A Unicorn, by Raphael

I just wrote about the wonders of Dover Publications. With some of the samples they e-mailed me this week came a painting from their 120 Italian Renaissance Paintings CD-ROM and book called Lady With A Unicorn, by Raphael. Amazingly, last week Emma Alvarez posted a very interesting and informative article about unicorns on her blog entitled Unicorns, Symbols of Purity .

With unicorns mentioned in a number of cultures, literature, and even nines times in The Bible, did these mythical animals really trot and gallop here on earth?

Romance and Beauty Offered By Dover Publications

Amazon.com gets plenty of attention from many book lovers like myself, but Dover is a rare treasure that is probably overlooked.

I discovered Dover Publications a number of years ago after running across a copy of one Andrew Lang's colorful fairy tale books at the public library. Lang's fairy tale series is published by Dover, and after getting four of his books, I went on to purchase other books on the subject of Islamic art.

Dover publishs books on a wide range of subject matter. If you are particularly interested in the arts, literature, and just the plain Romantic, Dover provides items for plenty of escapism, craft, artistic, literary, and learning ideas. Since I ordered several items from them last summer, including the Braun and Schneider book on historical fashion on which my Monday post was about, Dover sends me weekly e-mails of samples from some of their book and CD-ROM collections.

Below is what I have recently received.

If you are an aficionado of the Romantic and the beautiful go to Dover and explore other interesting and inexpensive rarities.

From Erte's Theatrical Costumes

Nautical Vignettes

Pet Illustrations

Celtic Stencil Designs

Geometrical Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople

African Designs

Victorian Houses

Historic Textile Design

Mehndi Designs

Floral Ornament

Fashion of the 1930s