Art

Kabuki: The popular stage of Japan

Zoë Kincaid

Zoë Kincaid’s Kabuki: The Popular Stage of Japan is a scholarly survey of the art form, first published in…

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Graham Everitt

Everitt’s work is a scholarly survey of English caricaturists and graphic humourists from the Napoleonic era…

The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3)

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice is a scholarly survey of Venetian architecture, written in the…

How to make rugs

Candace Wheeler

Candace Wheeler’s “How to Make Rugs” is a practical treatise that opens with a sweeping commentary on the…

Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston

John Ruskin

This work is a collection of letters exchanged between John Rus‑on and the sisters Mary and Susie Beever,…

Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters

This work is a scholarly survey of women artists from antiquity through the twentieth century, beginning with…

Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs

William Gates

The work is a scholarly commentary on the Maya‑Tzental Perez Codex, authored by William E.

A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright’s A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art is a scholarly survey that traces…

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture is a concise, essay‑like treatise that grew out of notes he…

A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical

Chatto, William Andrew; Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George); Jackson, John

The book is a scholarly treatise that combines a historical survey of wood‑engraving with a practical manual…

Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works

John Nichols

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation by John Nichols that began as a brief memoir of the artist’s…

Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter

Ernest Govett

Ernest Govett’s Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting is a scholarly treatise that opens with a…

Auguste Rodin

Rainer Maria Rilke

The work is an essay‑like tribute by Rainer Maria Rilke to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, first published in a…

Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings

Theodore Sutro

The work is a richly illustrated historical study that pairs Edward Moran’s monumental series of thirteen…

The Dance of Life

Havelock Ellis

The work is a reflective essay on philosophy, ethics and the conduct of life, presented as a series of “arts”…

The Life of James McNeill Whistler

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins; Pennell, Joseph

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of James McNeill Whistler, written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) The Revival of Learning

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of the Italian Renaissance’s intellectual resurgence, the second volume in a…

The Romantic Composers

Daniel Gregory Mason

The work is the second volume of Daniel Gregory Mason’s three‑part series that surveys the evolution of…

A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles

The work is a scholarly survey of Egyptian visual culture, produced by the classicist Georges Perrot and the…

History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe

H. Sutherland Edwards

The work is a sweeping survey of opera’s evolution from its fifteenth‑century Italian roots to the present…

Historic Paris

Jetta Sophia Wolff

Historic Paris is a detailed guide to the capital’s ancient architecture, written by Jetta S.

Mosaics of Grecian History

Willson, Marcius; Wilson, Robert Pierpont

The work is a scholarly survey of Greek history that begins with a polemic on the shortcomings of…

Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1

Joseph Grego

Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Volume 1 is a scholarly compilation edited by Joseph Grego that presents a…

Illuminated manuscripts in classical and mediaeval times, their art and their technique

J. H. Middleton

The book is a scholarly survey of illuminated manuscripts from antiquity to the sixteenth‑century advent of…