Art

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The fourth volume of Hegel’s Aesthetik is a systematic treatise that begins with a dense comparison of poetry…

Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler

Arthur Jerome Eddy

Arthur Jerome Eddy’s work is a memoir‑like collection of personal recollections, anecdotes, and observations…

Hellenistic sculpture

Guy Dickins

Guy Dickins’s Hellenistic Sculpture is a scholarly survey that began as a series of unfinished chapters,…

Shepp's Photographs of the World

Shepp, James W.; Shepp, Daniel B.

Shepp’s Photographs of the World is a sweeping visual compendium that strings together a globe‑spanning…

The Story of Nuremberg

Cecil Headlam

Cecil Headlam’s work is a guide‑book‑like survey of Nuremberg, blending description, history and travel…

The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time

Henri Bouchot

Henri Bouchot’s work is a scholarly survey of the printed book as an object of art rather than a technical…

Fine Books

Alfred W. Pollard

Alfred W. Pollard’s Fine Books is a scholarly survey of the history of printing and illustration, presented…

Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

F. Morley Fletcher

This work is a practical handbook on wood‑block printing that treats the craft as both a technical skill and…

Granada and the Alhambra A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palace

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s Granada and the Alhambra is a richly illustrated guide to the Moorish capital and…

Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers

Louis Raemaekers

Louis Raemaekers’ Cartoons presents the Dutch artist’s wartime caricatures together with commentary from a…

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework

Emily Leigh Lowes

Emily Leigh Lowes’s Chats on Old Lace and Needlework is a scholarly survey of the history, technique, and…

A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation

G. G. Zerffi

The work is a concise manual intended for both the general public and students, born of the author’s…

The Theory and Practice of Perspective

G. A. Storey

The work is a practical treatise on the art and science of perspective, written by G. A.

Marionettes, masks and shadows

Mills, Winifred H. (Winifred Harrington); Dunn, Louise M.

Marionettes, Masks and Shadows is a sweeping cultural history that traces the development of puppetry from…

Ancient Art and Ritual

Jane Ellen Harrison

The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character

John Ruskin

Chats on Japanese Prints

Arthur Davison Ficke

On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan

Henry P. Bowie

Historic Ornament, Vol. 2 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament

James Ward

Acrobats and Mountebanks

Le Roux, Hugues; Garnier, Jules

The Chinese Dragon

L. Newton Hayes

Essays towards the history of painting

Lady Maria Callcott

Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306

William Henry Holmes

Portraits and Speculations

Arthur Ransome