Publisher's description:
Pictorial archive of precisely detailed engravings of architectural elements — doors, windows, moldings, statuary, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, rosettes and more — mostly from German Gothic churches, reprinted from a rare original 19th-century German volume, with new English translations of captions. Royalty-free.

From the back cover:
The decorative arts of the Middle Ages - richly ornate, filled with religious and mythic symbolism - were especially remarkable for the complexities of their design and the inspired craftsmanship they exhibited. This fascinating volume presents nearly one thousand illustrations of medieval ornament, mostly architecturaì elements from German Romanesque and Gothic churches and other buildings.
Originally compiled by the German architect, painter and engraver Karl Alexander von Heideloff (1788-I865) as a source of study and inspiration for practicing artists and architects, this grand pictorial archive has been exactingly reproduced here from a rare original edition, complete with new English translations of the German captions.
The book is filled with precisely detailed engravings of doors, windows, moldings, statuary, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, rosettes and more. It remains a richly varied resource of authentic images of medieval ornament, ideal for students of architecture and the decorative arts, essential for graphic artists and designers in search of copyright-free illustrations.
Dover (1995) republication of Carl Heideloff's Ornamentik des Mittelalters, published by C. Geiger's Verlag, Nuremberg, n.d. (19th century). Translation of original German captions.