What is assembled here might look like a modern 'Cabinet of Curiosities', an assemblage of the ex...

165 lustrous colour photographs of musical instruments from Islamic lands, including kermanche, s...

One of the most madly inventive works of satire ever created, Gustave Dore's Rare and Extraordina...

The classic guide to the enchanting destinations of the Ile-de-France, all within an hour’s journ...

Pierre Bonnard's Japanese-influenced views of Belle-Époque Paris are some of the most evocative i...

Part unconventional biography, part travelogue tracing the profound influence on how we look, liv...

A passionate plea to defend Venice's fate from mass tourism, commodification and cultural homogen...

Édouard Vuillard's finest work as a printmaker, and a touchstone of post-impressionist art. Inter...

This title presents the three most important early biographies of Veronese, one never before tran...

Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi presents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisi...

This publication presents three very different biographies of Rembrandt by contemporaries. An int...

A decade-old obsession for Dutchman Pieter Boogaart resulted in a guidebook that looks like no ot...

Contemporary assessments of the life and art of Bellini, including his wayward correspondence wit...

One of the great classics of modern art: Gauguin's own account of his time in Tahiti, in its orig...

The classic Guide to Baroque Rome was called ‘the greatest architectural guidebook ever written’....

The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who w...

Vincent van Gogh''s short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy t...

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape fore...

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled – witt...

One of Newsweek''s six best travel books of the last decade. Winner Guild of Food Writers, Food a...

What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day, roughly between 1904, when th...

On Easter, 2014, Britain's best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the ...

'One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the century.' William Morris, in the ...

The robin was hardly understood when David Lack - Britain's most influential ornithologist - star...

This book presents the most important early texts about Tintoretto, some for the first time in En...

Following on from the success of her large book, Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the ...

Blake engaged with the legacy of Milton all his life. These watercolors, made around 1816-20 to i...

In 1498, with Europe trembling before an Ottoman assault and mortally afraid of what the ominous ...

This title presents Jan Morris on her favourite artist and her favourite city. An enchanting text...

Fully revised and updated edition, now in full color and with two new chapters: Brunoy and Parc S...

Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. This book reprints the f...

A richly illustrated book about the celebrated connoisseur, collector and philanthropist Sir Rich...

One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. ...

Sixty-nine of the finest portraits by Julia Margaret Cameron, great photographic pioneer, with ap...

This book explores Édouard Vuillard’s early career combining intimate subject matter with abstrac...

These reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich by fellow romantic painters and poets give a fascin...

A novel by one of Britain's leading figures in museums and collecting of the last 50 years, based...

The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century is John Ruskin’s rigorous and prophetic denunciation of...

A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of th...

The great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier's descriptions of an optimistic, utopian 18th...

In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato, most po...

Charles Ricketts wrote this account of his close friendship with Oscar Wilde, partly as an imagin...

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from...

An anthology of Sir John Everett Millais's illustrations for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins and week...

In his short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised paint...

The diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminate a career at the heart of the Edwar...

On long hikes, Caspar David Friedrich compiled many sketchbooks. The ‘Oslo Sketchbook of 1807’ re...

Dramatic yet charming woodcuts in William Nicholson's unmistakably vigorous style. An Edwardian m...