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The Antiquities of Athens, James Stuart, 1825
Architectural and ornamental details of ancient Rome, 1919
Architecture civile et domestique au moyen âge et à la renaissance, v. 1 & v. 2, 1855-57
A Book of architectural and decorative drawings, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, 1914
Byzantine architecture and ornament, 1890
Color schemes for the home and model interiors, 1922
Colour schemes for modern interiors, 1923
Della magnificenza ed architettura de’ Romani, [On the grandeur and the architecture of the Romans], Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1835?
Édifices de Rome moderne, [Modern Roman Buildings], v.1 / v.2 / v.3, 1874
Examples of Gothic Architecture, Selected from Various Ancient Edifices in England, Augustus Pugin, v.1 / v. 2, 1850
The gardens of Italy, 1905
Le Grand Trianon, architecture, décoration, ameublement [The Grand Trianon, architecture, decoration, furnishings], Leon Deshairs, 1908
The Homebuilder, 1923
An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture, John Henry Parker, 1874
Italian villas and their gardens, Edith Wharton; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, 1904
The lure of the garden, Hildegarde Hawthorne; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish & others, 1911
Masterpieces of Spanish architecture, Romanesque and allied styles, 1925
The modern home: a book of British domestic architecture for moderate incomes, 1906
Monograph of the work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915, v.1, v. 2, v. 3, v.4
More small Italian villas and farmhouses, 1920
Motifs & details choisis d'architecture gothique [Patterns and selected details of Gothic architecture], 1858
One hundred selected plates from Fragments d' architecture antique, 1923
Le Petit Trianon, architecture, décoration, ameublement [The Petit Trianon, architecture, decoration, furnishings], Leon Deshairs, 1908
Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediaeval styles, 1882
Pompei vor der Zerstoerung: Reconstructionen der Tempel und ihrer Umgebung [Pompei before the destruction:
Reconstruction of the temples and their surroundings], 1898
Premier photographic view album of London: containing over 350 selected views, 1907
Quarterly papers on architecture [Weale's], 1844-45
Religious art in Finland during the Middle Ages, 1921
Renaissance architecture and ornament in Spain: a series of examples selected from the purest works executed between the years 1500-1560, 1908
The Aldine, 1872,1873, 1876-77
The Art-Journal (London), 1871
Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin], 1870
Birds: illustrated by color photography, v. 1 / v.2 / v.3 (1897)
Birds and All Nature, v.4 / v. 5 (1898)
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, [German art and decoration] v. 15 & 18, 1904-05
Every Saturday, 1871
The Illustrated American, 1897
Moderne Kunst, 1895
Nature and Art, v. 1, 1866
Nature and Art, v. 2, 1867
Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1896
The Print-collector's quarterly, incomplete, 1911-42
Quarterly papers on architecture [Weale's], 1844-45
Album Forain, 1896
American boyhood & Remember these?, 1910
Bairnsfather, a few fragments from his life, 1917 (World War I)
Le Diable à Paris [The Devil in Paris], George Sand (text, in French), illustrated by Paul Gavarni, 1845-6
English Society, George Du Maurier, 1897
Fragments from France, Bruce Bairnsfather, 1917 (World War I)
The Gibson Book, Charles Dana Gibson, 1906
Hornby's etchings of the great war, 1921 (World War I)
Kultur in Cartoons, Louis Raemaekers, 1917 (World War I)
More Fragments from France, Bruce Bairnsfather, 1918 (World War I)
Oeuvres nouvelles de Gavarni [New Works by Gavarni], 1850
Raemaekers' cartoon history of the war, 1919 (World War I)
Rossetti and his circle, Sir Max Beerbohm, 1922
Tony Sarg's New York, 1926
Adventures of the black girl in her search for God, Text by George Bernard Shaw, illustrations by Lynd Ward
Clair de lune, and other troubadour romances, 1913
Edmund Dulac's fairy-book : fairy tales of the allied nations, 1916
The Girl and the Faun, Eden Phillpotts ; illus. by Frank Brangwyn, 1916
Green-wood illustrated, In highly finished line engraving, 1847, bound with
Mount Auburn illustrated : in highly finished line engraving, 1847 (both are cemeteries)
Harper's pictorial history of the great rebellion, v.2, 1866
The Hudson, Wallace Bruce; illustrated by Alfred Fredericks, 1881
In the dawn of the world : being twenty-five pictures illustrative of a portion of the book of Genesis, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1903
Lamia, by John Keats; with illustrative designs by Will H. Low, 1885
Old French fairy tales, Sophie, Comtesse de Ségur, 1799-1874; illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett,1920
One hoss shay, with its companion poems How the old horse won the bet & The broomstick train, Oliver Wendell Holmes; illustrations by Howard Pyle, 1892
Our river... By George D. Leslie, RA, 1888
Picturesque America, 1872-74
Picturesque Europe, v. 1-2. The British Isles, 1876-9
Poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, 1921
Punishments of China, 1804
The Rime of the ancient mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; illustrations by Gustave Dore, 1878
The Rime of the ancient mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; illustrations by Willy Pogány, 1910
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Elihu Vedder, 1886
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzerald; illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1909
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1930
The Sleeping beauty; told by C.S. Evans; illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920
Tannhäuser: a dramatic poem; by Richard Wagner; illustrated by Willy Pogány, 1911
The Vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré, 1866
Wonder book for girls and boys, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; with sixty designs by Walter Crane, 1910
The Art of the Book, Charles Holme, 1914
The art of writing, 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D., Maggs Bros., 1930 (Limited to search only)
Book bindings: historical and decorative, no. 489, Maggs Bros, 1927
British Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1895
Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1896
Reliure moderne artistique et fantaisiste [Modern, artistic and whimsical binding], 1887
Some American college bookplates, 1915
Universal classic manvscripts; fac-similes from originals in the Department of manvscripts British mvsevm, of royal, historic and diplomatic docvments, letters, avtographs of kings, qveens, princes, statesmen, generals, avthors, etc., 1901
Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin], 1870
Broderies Chinoises [Chinese embroidery], 1901
Costume Design and Illustration, Ethel Traphagen, 1918
Le Costume Historique, [Historic costume], A. Racinet (6 vols.), 1888
The Costume of China by George Henry Mason, 1800
The Costume of Hindostan [India], Frans Baltasar Solvyns, 1804
The Costume of the Russian Empire, William Alexander, 1803
The Costume of Turkey, Octavian Dalvimart, 1804
Etoffes byzantines, coptes, romaines, etc. du IV au X siècle [Byzantine fabrics, Coptic, Roman, etc. from 4th to 10th century], 1900
Fancy Dresses Described, Or What to Wear at Fancy Balls, 1887
The Follies and Fashions of Our Grandfathers, 1886
Histoire de la Dentelle [The History of Lace], 1892
The Military Costume of Turkey, 1818
Modern Design in Jewelry and Fans, 1902
Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1896 [colored fashion plates]
Decorations Polychromes, Ernst Ewald, 190?
Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs, [Shapes and colors: twenty color plates containing sixty-seven decorative motifs],192-?
Inspirations : twenty-four plates, with 128 compositions, c1928
L'ornement polychrome...motifs de tous les styles, art ancien et asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance, XVIIe et XVIIIe sièce, [The polychrome ornamental patterns ... all styles, old and Asian art, medieval, Renaissance, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries],188-?
Der Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen [The treasure ornaments, a pattern book of stylish ornaments from all periods of art] ,1887
La plante et ses applications ornementales, [The plant and its ornamental applications], 1898
Gli stili nella forma e nel colore [The styles in form and color], Giulio Ferrari, 1925
Variations : quatre-vingt-six motifs décoratifs en vingt planches, [Variations: eighty-six decorative motifs twenty plates],1924
Antique works of art from Benin, 1900
Decoration primitive, Afrique, Portia Conrad Lepage, 1922
Décoration primitive Océanie, Daniel Real, 1922
Design Decade, Architectural Forum, October 1940. A treasure trove of Art Deco/Art Modern industrial and interior design.
Dictionary of English Furniture, v. 1, Percy Macquoid, 1924-7
English and Scottish wrought ironwork, 1904
Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age, 1914
Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901 [Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and the exhibition of the artist colony in Darmstadt from May to October 1901], 1902
A history of English wallpaper, 1509-1914, 1925
Kultur und industrie südamerikanischer völker; nach den im besitze des Museums für völkerkunde zu Leipzig, [Culture and industry of South American Peoples] 1889-90
Peasant art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland, 1910
Pottery-painting, a course of instruction in the various methods of working on pottery and porcelain, 1885
Sculpture décorative moderne, documents réunis par Henri Rapin, 1925
Le tre porte del Battistero di San Giovanni di Firenze, incise ed illustrate [The three doors of the Baptistry of San Giovanni of Florence, engraved and illustrated], 1821
Aus Cranachs Holzschnitten, [Cranach's Woodcuts], 1907
A biographical dictionary; containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, Joseph Strutt, 1785-86
Complete works of William Hogarth, in a series of one hundred and fifty steel engravings, 18??
Contemporary English Woodcuts, 1922
Della magnificenza ed architettura de’ Romani, [On the grandeur and the architecture of the Romans], Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1835?
Discours historique sur la gravure en taille-douce et sur la gravure en bois [Historical discourse on intaglio and wood engraving], 1808
Eaux-fortes sur Paris, [Etchings of Paris], Charles Meryon, 1920 (original 1852)
Essays on Physiognomy, v.1 / v.2, pt. 1 / v.2, pt.2 / v.3, pt.1 / v.3, pt.2, Johann Casper Lavater, 1794-99 (Hunter edition)
The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, 1922
Exhibition of English mezzotint portraits from circa 1750 to circa 1830, 1902
Holzschnitte [woodcuts]: 1833-1870, Honore Daumier, 1918
Art treasures of England, the master-pieces of the best English, Irish and Scottish painters and sculptors, 1876
Beautiful women of twelve epochs, by Mrs. Frank Leslie; water color facsimiles by Lydia Frances Gwin, after Racinet 1890
Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1899
Domestic and artistic life of John Singleton Copley, 1882
Done in the open. drawings by Frederic Remington, 1903
Drawing for young children, 1853
Famous Paintings as Seen and Described by Famous Writers, Esther Singleton, 1909
France under Louis XIV (Le grand siècle) its arts, its ideas, 1897
The Galleries of the Exposition (Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco), 1915
Great pictures as seen and described by famous writers, Esther Singleton, 1899
Groot schilderboek [Manual on the art of painting by Dutch artist Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)], 1740
History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, v.1 / v.2, William Dunlap, 1834
Impressions of the art at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (San Diego, CA), 1916
Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists, 1907
Madame Vigee-Lebrun. peintre des grandes dames, 1919
Manual of artistic anatomy, for the use of sculptors, painters, and amateurs, 1852
Masterpieces of European art, 1876
The masterpieces of French art illustrated: being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1882, v.1
The masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA,1876; v. 1 Fine arts / v. 2 Decorative arts / v.3 History of Exhibitions & Mechanics/Science
Paintings of George Bellows, 1929
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen, their work and their methods, Joseph Pennell, 1894
The theory and practice of color; Bonnie E. Snow, 1920
Tibetan Painted Scrolls, 1949
Whistler as I knew him, Mortimer Menpes, 1904
Why expressionism?, 1946
Egyptian obelisks, 1882
The funeral papyrus of Iouiya, 1908
The monasteries of the Wadi ʼn Natrûn: Part II, the history of the monasteries of Nitria and Scetis, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1926-33
The monasteries of the Wadi ʼn Natrûn: Part III, The architecture and archaeology, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1926-33
The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes: Part I & II, 1926
The tomb of Nakht at Thebes, 1917
The tomb of two sculptors at Thebes, 1925
The tomb of Hâtshopsîtû, 1906
The tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou, 1907
The tomb of Ḳen-Amūn at Thebes, 1930
The tomb of Puyemrê at Thebes: volume I, the hall of memories, 1922
The tomb of Puyemrê at Thebes: volume II, the chapels of hope, 1922
The tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht, 1916
The tomb of two sculptors at Thebes, 1925
The tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou, 1912
The treasure of El Lahun, 1934