The literary scholar Samuel Weller Singer (1783–1858) was largely self-taught, but his enthusiasm for reading caused him to open a bookshop, and he developed a wide circle of bibliomaniac friends, including Francis Douce (who later left him enough mo...Loe edasi...
This fascinating 1873 publication is a version of the catalogue produced by the Wedgwood company almost one hundred years earlier, in 1787. A brief history of the catalogues is provided, followed by a long list of the cameos, intaglios, figurines, va...Loe edasi...
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was arguably the first British industrial designer, working in a variety of media, and this 1862 work was his most influential book. Highly illustrated, it describes how to incorporate ornament into design, and encoura...Loe edasi...
An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the High Victorian Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. This illustrated two-volume work, reissued here in its 1914 version, takes the reader on...Loe edasi...
Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1727, Thomas Gainsborough was perhaps the best-known portrait painter of the eighteenth century. This 1856 work by George Williams Fulcher (1795–1855), bookseller and poet, also of Sudbury, was seen through the press by h...Loe edasi...
This 1890 books prologue is an extract from the review by Ruskin leading to the libel case in which Whistler was paid one farthing in damages, and it continues in the same vein, offering correspondence between Whistler and the critics, edited to a...Loe edasi...
The literary scholar Samuel Weller Singer (1783–1858) was largely self-taught, but his enthusiasm for reading caused him to open a bookshop, and he developed a wide circle of bibliomaniac friends, including Francis Douce (who later left him enough mo...Loe edasi...
The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (17551842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 18357, and this English version...Loe edasi...
This two-volume 1791 work discusses the picturesque qualities of trees and forest landscapes, and the Hampshire New Forest in particular....Loe edasi...
This two-volume work on the picturesque qualities of forest landscapes, inspired by William Gilpins walks and rides around his New Forest home, was published in 1791. In Volume 1 he discusses different forests and tree species, the results of mainte...Loe edasi...
This two-volume 1791 work discusses the picturesque qualities of trees and forest landscapes, and the Hampshire New Forest in particular....Loe edasi...
The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (17551842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 18357, and this English version...Loe edasi...
Following publication in 1826, this illustrated one-volume translation of Vitruviuss ten-book architectural treatise was long considered the standard English edition....Loe edasi...
This brisk and amusing 1922 autobiography by the military painter Elizabeth Butler (1848–1933), illustrated with her own sketches, takes the reader from her peripatetic childhood through her artistic success to her life and travels as the wife of a s...Loe edasi...
This four-volume work by Gustav Waagen, translated by Lady Eastlake, was published between 1854 and 1857. Waagen was crucial to the adoption in Britain of the new approach to art history pioneered in Germany. Volume 1 describes the treasures of the B...Loe edasi...
This four-volume work by Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868), translated by Lady Eastlake, was published between 1854 and 1857. Waagen was crucial to the adoption in Britain of the new approach to art history pioneered in Germany, and his work is sti...Loe edasi...
The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a third on church vestments. Bloxam records his concern that: In the so-called restorations...Loe edasi...
This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510–c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissys extraordinary art had been brought before the Victor...Loe edasi...
This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510–c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissys extraordinary art had been brought before the Victor...Loe edasi...
