CCAD Packard Library: 19th Century and Modern Art: CCAD Historic Art Book Collection

Making an appointment

Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies.

Architecture & Sculpture

For more titles, see the Architectural History LibGuide

Egyptian obelisks by Henry H. (Henry Honeychurch) Gorringe, 1882

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England, v.1-3, 1850 Pugin, Augustus

Green-wood [Cemetery] illustrated. In highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot,1847 James Smillie

Monograph of the work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915, v.1-4, 1914-15

Octagon, Dr. William Thornton, architect, drawings and text made under direction of Glenn Brown ... for the American institute of architects Brown, Glenn, 1917

Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediæval styles by W. (William) Audsley, 1882

Works of Antonio Canova in sculpture and modelling with descriptions from the Italian of the Countess Albrizzi and a biographical memoir by Count Cicognara, v.1-2, 1876

Art Deco & Modernist Design

Design by light; 98 studies in pattern; three dimensional color decoration and patterns in the abstract, 1939

Design decade; Architectural forum ; v. 73, no. 4, 1940

Exposition 1937. Sections étrangères. Introduction de Jacques Gréber. Présentation de Henri Martin. Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)

Exposition 1937. Décoration intérieure. Introduction de Jacques Gréber. Présentation de Henri Martin. Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)

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

Sculpture décorative moderne, documents réunis par Henri Rapin, v. 1-3, 1925-29

Variations : quatre-vingt-six motifs décoratifs en vingt planches, [Variations: eighty-six decorative motifs twenty plates],1924

Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts, Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1929

Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts

American Bible [Roycroft Community], Alice Hubbard, 1918

Deutsche kunst und dekoration, v. 15 & 18, 1897-1905

Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901 [Darmstadt Colony]

International Studio, 1897-1931 (In Bound Periodicals)

Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists [Roycroft Community], Elbert Hubbard, 1907

Modern Design in Jewelry and Fans, 1902 (Art Nouveau jewelry, including Lalique)

La plante et ses applications ornementales, [The plant and its ornamental applications], 1898

Vorbilder für kunstverglasungen im style der neuzeit [Examples of art glass in modern style], v. 1-2, Arnold Lyongrün, 1900 (Art Nouveau stained glass)

Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts, Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1929

Art Theory, Criticism, & Biography

American Bible [Roycroft Community], Alice Hubbard, 1918

American taste, Lewis Mumford, 1929

Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1899

Everybody's autobiography, Gertrude Stein, 1937

Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists [Roycroft Community], Elbert Hubbard, 1907

Modern painters, John Ruskin, 1888

Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen, their work and their methods: a study of the art to-day, Joseph Pennell, 1894

Stones of Venice, John Ruskin, 1886

Why expressionism? Hilaire Hiler, 1946

Fashion & Costume

For more titles, see the Fashion Design LibGuide.

Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin], 1870

Le costume historique, [Historic costume], A. Racinet (6 vols.), 1888

Le Costume historique, trois cent vingt-cinq planches, v. 1-2, (our "mini" Racinet), 1890

Fancy Dresses Described, Or What to Wear at Fancy Balls, 1887

The Follies and Fashions of Our Grandfathers, 1886

French theatrical costumes, n.d. (19th century)

Modern Design in Jewelry and Fans, 1902 (Art Nouveau jewelry, including Lalique)

Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1896 (an American women's magazine with fashion plates, some in color)

Magazines

The Aldine, 1872-3, 1876-77

Art and Letters, v. 1-4, 1889

Art journal (London) 1850-53

Art journal (New York) v.1 1875-77

Der Bazar: illustrirte Damen-Zeitung Berlin, [Bazaar : illustrated women's magazine, Berlin], 1870

Deutsche kunst und dekoration [German art & decoration], v. 15 & 18, 1897-1933

Every Saturday, 1871

Figaro-Salon, v. 1-5, 1885

Illustrated American, April 24, 1897, May 1, 1897, Christmas 1897

International Studio, 1897-1931 (In Bound Periodicals)

London Art-Journal, 1871

Moderne Kunst, 1895

Nature and Art, v. 1-2, 1866-67

Peterson's Magazine, 1882-1892, incomplete

Ornament Books

Coloured ornament of all historical styles, with coloured plates from own paintings in water colours by Alexander Speltz, 1915

Decorations polychromes [Polychrome decoration], 190-?

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-? by Auguste Racinet.

Der Ornamentenschatz; ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen [The treasure ornaments, a pattern book of stylish ornaments from all periods of art] ,1887

Gli stili nella forma e nel colore, rassegna dell' arte antica e moderna di tutti i paesi [Styles in form and color, review of the ancient and modern art of all countries], 1925

Painting & Drawing

26 Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Ecole Française contemporaine, Musée du Luxembourg (Paris), 18??

Anatomy of the horse, including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands …, George Stubbs, 1853

Cent chefs-d'Oeuvre : The Choice of the France private galleries, v. 2, 1883

De la couleur, Henri Matisse, 1945

Done in the open. drawings by Frederic Remington ; with an introd. and verses by Owen Wister and others, 1903

Etchings; German etchings on silk (one after Alma-Tadema), 188?

Frescoes of Diego Rivera, 1933

Henri-Edmond Cross : carnet de dessins, 1959

Masterpieces of European art, 1876

Masterpieces of French art, illustrated, being a biographical history of art in French, from the earliest period to and including the salon of 1882 v.1

Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition illustrated, v. 1-3, 1876

Museum of modern art, Moscow; thirty-five selected master pieces, 1935

Mural painting of the Mexican Revolution, 1921-1960, 1960

Paintings of George Bellows, 1929

Sketchbook. Text by Raymond Cogniat. v. 1-3, Paul Gauguin, 1962

Turner Gallery ; a series of one hundred and twenty engravings from the works of the late J.M.W. Turner, R.A; v. 2, 1879

Van Gogh and John Russell; some unknown letters and drawings, by Henry Thannhauser. Reprinted from the Burlington magazine, September, 1938

Victorian art : reproductions by the collotype process of some of the pictures in the loan exhibition held in the Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, at the Guildhall, in 1897.

Whistler as I knew him, Mortimer Menpes, 1904

Printmaking & Illustration

For more titles see the Illustration LibGuide

Album Forain, Jean Louis Forain, 1896

The Bottle, George Cruikshank, 1847

Caricatures Françaises et étrangères d'autrefois et d'aujourd'hui, 1932

Catalogue of the art department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute ... Boston, Mass., U.S.A., 1883

Contemporary English Woodcuts, Campbell Dodgson, 1922

Diable à Paris : Paris et les parisiens : mœurs et coutumes, caractères et portraits des habitants de Paris, 1845-6

The Drunkard's Children, Being a Sequel to The Bottle, George Cruikshank, 1849

Eaux-fortes sur Paris, 1926 Charles Méryon

Engravings, 1928-1933, Eric Gill, 1934

Essays on Physiognomy, Johann Casper Lavater, translated by Henry Hunter, D.D. London: John Murray, 1789-1798. (Includes engravings by William Blake, with designs by Henri Fuseli)

Etchings; German etchings on silk (one after Alma-Tadema), 188?

Exhibition of English mezzotint portraits from circa 1750 to circa 1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1902

Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations, 190? Cruikshank, George

Gates of Paradise, v. 1-3, William Blake, 1968

The Gibson book; a Collection of the Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson, v.1 & 2

Holzschnitte: 1833-1870, 1918 Honoré Daumier

Iliad of Homer; engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman, 1805

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

Miró : das graphische Werk : the graphic work : l'oeuvre graphique, 1957

Modern illustration, 1895 Joseph Pennell

Notes et souvenirs sur Charles Méryon, son tombeau au cimetière de Charenton Saint Maurice, 1883