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Cover of Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places: Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painting, art-decoration, and art-manufacture

Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places: Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painting, art-decoration, and art-manufacture

F. W. Fairholt

Frederick William Fairholt’s Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places is a scholarly…

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 Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Facing Each

The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Facing Each

The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete is a visual anthology that assembles one hundred of Gustave Dore’s most…

The Tapestry Book

The Tapestry Book

Helen Churchill Candee

The Tapestry Book is a comprehensive survey of woven art, beginning with a foreword that frames tapestries as…

The Handbook to English Heraldry

The Handbook to English Heraldry

Charles Boutell

The Handbook to English Heraldry, authored by Charles Boutell, is a scholarly survey of the development of…

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Royal Palaces and Parks of France

M. F. Mansfield

Royal Palaces and Parks of France is a guide‑book‑style survey that blends travel narrative with…

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 Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

Giorgio Vasari

The volume is the first of Giorgio Vasari’s ten‑part “Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and…

Cover of The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession

The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession

Ned Wayburn

The Art of Stage Dancing is a practical guide written by celebrated choreographer Ned Wayburn, published in…

A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles

The work is a scholarly survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Chaldæa and Assyria, written by the…

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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 classical sculpture…

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L'art roman dans le Sud-Manche: Album

Marie Lebert

Dans cet album, Marie Lebert propose un tour d’horizon des petites églises romanes du Sud‑Manche, loin des…

The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 09 1895 Pulpits of Southern Italy

The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 09 1895 Pulpits of Southern Italy

Various

The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. I, No.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

The Legacy of Greece is a scholarly collection of essays that treats the whole of Greek civilization as a…

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

John Ruskin

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 is a miscellany of John Rus‑kin’s essays and articles that turn a close‑up on the…

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

da Vinci Leonardo

The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians

Douglas Cockerell

This handbook, first issued by Appleton in 1910, is a practical guide for anyone who binds books or cares for…

Line and Form (1900)

Line and Form (1900)

Walter Crane

Line and Form is a practical treatise on drawing and decorative design, originally delivered as a series of…

The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers

The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers

George P. Upton

The Standard Oratorios is a reference handbook that sets out concise sketches of the most widely performed…

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Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

Elizabeth W. Champney

The work is a richly illustrated survey of the great Renaissance villas that once served as the sumptuous…

I manifesti del futurismo

I manifesti del futurismo

F. T. Marinetti

Il volume è il manifesto poetico‑politico del Futurismo, scritto da Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Cover of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10)
 Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Giorgio Vasari

Cover of Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (Jg. 26, 1879) Neue Folge

Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (Jg. 26, 1879) Neue Folge

Various

Der „Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit“ ist ein wissenschaftlicher Jahresbericht des Germanischen…

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Cités et ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Ce volume est une étude exhaustive des cités et ruines majeures du Yucatán – Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal,…

Cover of Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)

Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)

Arthur B. Chamberlain

This volume is a scholarly biography that sets out to give the most complete account possible of Hans Holbein…

Chats on Household Curios

Chats on Household Curios

Fred. W. Burgess

The work is a nonfiction guide to the small, often overlooked objects that once filled ordinary British…