Art

Normandy: The Scenery & Romance of Its Ancient Towns, Complete

Gordon Home

The volume is a travel‑and‑description work by Gordon Home that surveys the towns, countryside and historic…

Prints and their makers: Essays on Engravers and Etchers Old and Modern

Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs

Alfred C. Haddon

Alfred C. Haddon’s Evolution in Art is a scholarly survey of decorative motifs, especially those of the…

History of the Fan

G. Woolliscroft Rhead

The work is a scholarly survey of the fan as an object of art, ritual, and fashion, presented as the first…

The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827

Various

Women artists in all ages and countries

E. F. Ellet

The work is a sweeping survey of women who have practiced the visual arts from antiquity to the late…

The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)

George P. Upton

The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers is a handbook that surveys the operas most…

The wonders of the world: A Complete Museum, Descriptive and Pictorial, of the Wonderful Phenomena and Results of Nature, Science and Art

John Loraine Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century compendium that sets out to catalogue the myriad “wonders” of nature,…

Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time

Frederick Litchfield

Frederick Litchfield’s Illustrated History of Furniture is a scholarly survey that pairs a careful selection…

The Book of Curiosities

John Platts

Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

The work is a scholarly defence of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, framed as an essay on “Art…

Old world masters in new world collections

Esther Singleton

The book is a richly illustrated survey of European master paintings that have passed into American private…

The Art of Interior Decoration

Wood, Grace; Burbank, Emily

The book is a practical guide to interior decoration written by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank, published in…

The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

P. L. Jacob

The work is a scholarly survey of visual culture from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries, presented…

The manufacture of mineral and lake pigments: Containing directions for the manufacture of all artificial artists' and painters' colours, enamel colours, soot and metallic pigments

Josef Bersch

The work is a comprehensive technical manual on the chemistry of colour production, written by Dr Josef…

French Book-plates

Walter Hamilton

Walter Hamilton’s work is a scholarly survey of French ex‑libris, the decorative book‑plates that signal…

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture

Benvenuto Cellini

Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a richly illustrated guide that blends travel narrative, historical…

English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters

Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John); Koehler, S. R.

This work is a scholarly survey of English painting, supplemented by a concise chapter on American artists.

The history of the harlequinade, volume 1 (of 2)

Maurice Sand

Maurice Sand’s The History of the Harlequinade is a scholarly survey that traces the evolution of comic…

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Luigi Lanzi

Luigi Lanzi’s The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 is a scholarly survey of the Roman School from the…

Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)

John Ruskin

Modern Painters IV is the fourth installment of John Rus Ruskin’s extensive survey of nineteenth‑century…

The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This volume presents the English translation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Introduction to his…

Goya, an account of his life and works

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a scholarly survey of the Spanish master Francisco Goya, presented as a…