This is a very beautiful and interesting book of knitting patterns. These patterns match historical people and what they might have worn modernized for today’s woman. The patterns look gorgeous, and the layout of the book is fantastic. Overall I want to give this book 4 stars, but I have to knock it down to 3.

Dover Publications is probably ready to revoke my galley privileges because I tend to harp on the same problems I see throughout their books. The pictures in this book are gorgeous, and I would love them, if I was reading Vogue. They are high quality artistic pictures. That being said they are too dark to show off the sweaters well. Let me pick on specific pages. Pages 27, 33, 34, 36, and 37 the reader has no idea of what that sweater looks like. The sweater is either black or dark blue and you see nothing. On page 37 you can almost see a row of buttons down the back which makes me really want to see what this sweater looks like. If you like floating heads behind a bright blue fence, check out pages 119, 128, 129. I bet this is an awesome sweater, but the black yarn mixes with the black background. Lastly, I love the sweater on pages 149-159. Or at least I think I do. But I can barely see it. Plus I would have loved to see the entire look that was created. I was just as interested in what appears to be a blue plaid lined skirt as I was in the sweater.

This book is just a little bit away from dynamite. I love that Dover had fancy photos done, but they are too artistic and make the projects invisible. Like Goldilocks, I am looking for something that is just right.