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Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy is a series of lectures that treat…

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…

Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

Martin Quigley

Martin Quigley’s Magic Shadows is a scholarly survey of the long, winding road that led from primitive…

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Edward Luther Stevenson

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of terrestrial and celestial globes, focusing on the…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10) Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

Giorgio Vasari

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, dated April 1852, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

A History of the Old English Letter Foundries with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

Talbot Baines Reed

The work is a scholarly history of English type‑founding, written by Talbot Baines Reed and first issued in…

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

This work is a scholarly guide to the National Gallery’s foreign‑school paintings, first issued in 1888 and…

Arts and crafts in the Middle Ages: a description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early Renaissance

Julia de Wolf Addison

Julia de Wolf Addison’s work is a scholarly survey of medieval craftsmanship, framed as a corrective to the…

A Text-Book of the History of Painting

John C. Van Dyke

This work is a compact textbook intended for classroom use, offering a streamlined survey of painting history…

The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 3 (of 3)

Leonard Williams

The volume is a scholarly survey of Spain’s medieval textile industry, focusing on the decorative arts that…

Mammonart: An essay in economic interpretation

Upton Sinclair

Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)

John Ruskin

The work is John Rus‑Ruskin’s fifth and concluding volume of Modern Painters, a sprawling treatise that…

Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry

John Vinycomb

The work is a scholarly survey of the fanciful beasts that populate British heraldic art, written by John…

The Pencil of Nature

William Henry Fox Talbot

The Pencil of Nature is William Henry Fox Talbot’s pioneering treatise on photography, written in the early…

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 Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

George Hart

The work is a scholarly reference on the violin, its historic development, and the lives of its most…

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…

William Blake: A Critical Essay

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne’s work is a scholarly supplement to the existing biography of William Blake,…

Heraldry as art: An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

G. W. Eve

Heraldry as Art is a scholarly survey of the development and practice of heraldic design, with a particular…

Six Centuries of Painting

Randall Davies

Plague and pestilence in literature and art

Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd

Raymond Crawfurd’s Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art is a scholarly survey that began as the…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings

Giorgio Vasari

Jewels and the woman: The romance, magic and art of feminine adornment

Marianne Ostier

Marianne Ostier’s Jewels and the Woman is a comprehensive reference work that treats jewelry as both cultural…