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Cover of Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform"

Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform"

Sir Ebenezer Howard

Howard’s “Garden Cities of To‑Morrow” is a reformist treatise that opens with a series of lofty quotations…

Cover of The life and works of Sir Charles Barry

The life and works of Sir Charles Barry

Alfred Barry

The work is a biographical memoir of Sir Charles Barry, the eminent 19th‑century British architect, compiled…

Cover of A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Clara Erskine Clement Waters’s A History of Art for Beginners and Students is a survey of visual culture that…

Cover of Leon, Burgos and Salamanca: A Historical and Descriptive Account

Leon, Burgos and Salamanca: A Historical and Descriptive Account

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a scholarly survey of the architecture and history of three historic…

Cover of The Alhambra
 being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration

The Alhambra being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a richly illustrated survey of the Alhambra, intended as a compact…

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Picturesque Germany First Series

Anonymous

Picturesque Germany First Series is a visual compendium that celebrates the nation’s architectural and…

Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck

Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck

Harrison Williams

The work is a regional history that blends a survey of Loudoun County’s early inhabitants, geography, and…

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The Story of Rouen

Theodore Andrea Cook

The work is a scholarly travel‑history of Rouen, presented as a series of chronological chapters that…

Architectural Antiquities of Normandy

Architectural Antiquities of Normandy

Cotman, John Sell; Turner, Dawson

The work is a scholarly survey of Norman architecture, compiled by the artist‑antiquary John Sell Cotman with…

The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 (of 3)

The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 (of 3)

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice concludes its three‑volume survey with a dense, essay‑like examination of…

Cover of The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester
 A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

R. J. King

Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2

Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2

Dawson Turner

The work is an antiquarian travelogue that sets out to catalogue the historic churches and monastic sites of…

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Hardware, estimating, and mill design

The volume is a practical handbook assembled for the International Correspondence Schools, combining three…

Portuguese Architecture

Portuguese Architecture

Walter Crum Watson

Walter Crum Watson’s Portuguese Architecture is a scholarly survey of the nation’s built heritage, written…

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History of Indian and Eastern Architecture

James Fergusson

James Fergusson’s work is a scholarly survey of Indian and broader Eastern architecture, framed as the third…

Cover of Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"

Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a richly illustrated guide that blends travel narrative, historical…

Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914

Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914

Georg Dehio

Das vorliegende Werk ist ein systematisches Handbuch zur Erfassung und Beschreibung der Kunstdenkmäler…

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Florentine villas

Janet Ross

The work is a scholarly travel‑guide to the villas that crown the hills around Florence, a subject the author…

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The Decoration of Houses

Wharton, Edith; Codman, Ogden

Cover of Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces

Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces

M. F. Mansfield

Cover of Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses

Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses

James Fergusson

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Cathedral Cities of Italy

W. W. Collins

Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

T. Roger Smith

Cover of The Architecture of Colonial America

The Architecture of Colonial America

Harold Donaldson Eberlein