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Title: Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1087 Renderings from Historic Sources (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Richard Huber ISBN: 0-486-24174-2 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: well, it's a start
Comment: On the one hand, the book does offer wide-ranging coverage. There isn't a region of the world that isn't covered to some extent.

On the other hand, the textual information provided is sparse and occasionally *wrong*, and some of the inclusions are questionable.

Each illustration has a one-sentence caption, varying considerably in detail provided. Some give you all the information you would need to find the source of the original illustration, some are a single word identifying the type of creature, others are somewhere in-between. It's unclear how much of this dearth of information is because of the reliance on secondary rather than original sources, and how much of it is because the author and/or his editor over-did the cutting.

Also, some of the captions are mis-assigned. Going through the book, I easily spotted several occasions where two of the illustrations on the same page were clearly given each other's captions. I only spotted this a few times but it begs the question, how many other such errors are there in the book that I didn't spot?

Finally, some of the illustrations included really don't belong. Details from Bosch paintings make sense, they're demons ("fantastical and mythological creatures") from hundreds of years ago ("from historic sources"). But there are some figures from modern art included that don't seem to belong, particularly a Picasso that's just an abstract rendering of a normal human.

It may well be more useful for its bibliography than for its content.

Rating: 4
Summary: one of a kind, but not very special.........................
Comment: at first, i was terribly dissapointed at the simple black and white renderings and 1 sentance descriptions. however, i learned to appreciate it as a one of a kind book. it is not very insightful, special, creative, or informative, and i want to let let it be known that this book is not going to be good for a little kid who just likes little baby fairy tales or other things like that. this is especially for the advanced fan of mythological and fantastic creatures. i know that i tresure my copy though! love ya'!

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