Art

Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles

This volume is a curated anthology of essays and articles on the history, craft, and aesthetics of books and…

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea is a cultural essay that treats the humble leaf as a gateway to philosophy, history, and…

The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition

Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson’s The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance is a scholarly survey that blends cataloguing…

Textile Fabrics A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum

Daniel Rock

Daniel Rock’s work is a scholarly catalogue of the South Kensington Museum’s extensive holdings of woven and…

Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture

Van Millingen, Alexander; George, Walter S.; Henderson, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward); Traquair, Ramsay

The work is a scholarly survey of the surviving Byzantine churches of Constantinople, written by Alexander…

The Burlington magazine: for connoisseurs. vol. II—June to August

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876

J. F. Loubat

The work is a scholarly survey of the United States’ official medals from the nation’s founding through the…

The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour

Konody, Paul G. (Paul George); Brockwell, Maurice W.

The book is a scholarly guide to the Louvre’s paintings, arranged by country, school and period, and…

Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2

Joseph Grego

Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Volume 2 is a reference work that gathers the titles of Thomas Rowlandson’s…

The Lighter Classics in Music A Comprehensive Guide to Musical Masterworks in a Lighter Vein by 187 Composers

David Ewen

The Lighter Classics in Music is a reference work that surveys a broad spectrum of “lighter‑vein”…

Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The work is a series of four lectures delivered in 1914 before the Art Institute of Chicago, in which Francis…

The Palace and Park Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court

Phillips, Samuel; Forbes, Edward; Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon); Owen, Richard; Scharf, George; Shenton, F. K. J.

The book is a Victorian guide‑book to the Crystal Palace and its surrounding park, first published in 1859…

The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 2 (of 2): Being a History of the Ancient and Modern Pottery and Porcelain Works of the Kingdom and of Their Productions of Every Class

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

The work is a comprehensive reference on British ceramics, the second volume of Llewellynn Frederick William…

Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

John Ruskin

The work is a series of three lectures in which John Ruskin, the famed Victorian critic, turns his attention…

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

Richard Muther

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 is a scholarly survey that traces the evolution of…

Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5)

John Ruskin

Modern Painters, Volume 1 is John Ruskin’s polemical essay on landscape painting, written as a response to…

Color Value

C. R. Clifford

Color Value is a systematic treatise on the principles of interior decoration, written by C. R.

Chinese Painters: A Critical Study

Raphaël Petrucci

The work is a scholarly survey of Chinese painting that begins with a translator’s preface explaining the…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

Various

This volume of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, dated December 1843, presents a scholarly essay that revisits…

Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

Albert A. Hopkins

This volume is a comprehensive reference on the mechanics of magic, stage illusion and the scientific…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

John Trusler

John Trusler’s work is a nineteenth‑century catalogue that gathers William Hogarth’s most celebrated series…

Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda

Charles Holroyd

The work is a scholarly edition that brings together Ascanio Condivi’s 1553 biography of Michelangelo, a text…

Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256

Garrick Mallery

The work is a scholarly report by Garrick Mallery, presented as the fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of…