Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

This pioneering two-volume biography (1862) explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter and printmaker J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). In Volume 1, the author Walter Thornbury (1828-76) traces Turner's 'art life' from cockney prodigy to Royal Academician, and creator of such masterpieces as The Fighting Temeraire.

A tireless champion of her father William, and editor of his collected works (also reissued in this series), Mary (May) Morris (1862-1938) had a unique insight into his extraordinary career and creativity. This two-volume supplement, published in 1936, illuminates the artistic, literary and political passions of a Victorian polymath.

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) chronicles the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's history in this two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Volume 1 describes the coming together of Millais, Rossetti and their circle, Ruskin's influence, Hunt's own early successes, and the perils of painting The Scapegoat by the Dead Sea.

James Fergusson (1808-86) became one of the most respected architectural historians of India. His 1876 account was revised in two volumes in 1910 by archaeologist James Burgess (1832-1916) and architect Richard Spiers (1838-1916). Lavishly illustrated, it remains of relevance to students of Indian and Asian architecture.

Published in 1847, this three-volume work surveys Christian painting and sculpture. The author, Alexander Lindsay (1812-80), an aristocrat who travelled extensively in Italy, strongly influenced art collecting, and his work on the Victorian construction of morals and artistic taste remains instructive.

Published in 1848, this two-volume study of Christian legends represented in Western medieval art is still of importance to art historians. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) was one of the great art critics of her age, and these richly illustrated volumes demonstrate her careful treatment of religious representations.

First published in 1913, this highly illustrated two-volume work was intended to give as full an account as possible of the lives and works of Irish painters, sculptors and engravers from the earliest times to the nineteenth century. Volume 1 covers artists with surnames beginning A to K.

The remarkable life of the Victorian poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) is illuminated in this two-volume work, published in 1895 by his brother William Michael (1829-1919). Volume 1 is given over to a sympathetic memoir, while Volume 2 contains hundreds of Dante's letters to his family.

The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) published his popular two-volume autobiography in 1887, adding a third volume in 1888. Volume 1 covers his early life, his literary and historical paintings, and his sensationally successful 'modern-life' crowd scenes, Ramsgate Sands, Derby Day and The Railway Station.

This two-volume work on the picturesque qualities of forest landscapes, inspired by William Gilpin's 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 maintenance and felling, and the effects of light and shade.

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 of ancient churches, not a few historical features ... have been ruthlessly ... swept away.'

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) published a series of works recording his observations on the picturesque across British landscapes. This two-volume work of 1789 describes a journey made principally through Scotland in 1776, taking in Edinburgh and the lochs, castles and rivers of the Highlands.

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 encouraged the rising middle classes to decorate their homes themselves.

In this highly illustrated 1816 work, Samuel Weller Singer argues that the increasing sophistication sought by buyers of playing cards led to increasing improvements in the art of wood engraving, and that the study of these rarely surviving artefacts can give insights into the achievements of the greatest Renaissance carvers.

This 1890 book's '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 amuse as well as (perhaps) edify his readers.

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, vases, and dinner, tea and coffee services which the firm offered.

Volume 2 of this highly illustrated work was begun by Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52) and completed by John Henry Parker (1806-84), his publisher, after Turner's death. Published in 1853, it contains details of domestic buildings in England during the fourteenth century, with a list of surviving examples.

Volume 1 of this highly illustrated work was written by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52) and published in 1851 by John Henry Parker (1806-84), who himself completed the second volume after Turner's death. It contains details of domestic building in England from the Norman Conquest to 1300.

This work by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), first published in 1835, traces the evolution of architecture from antiquity to the Gothic revival. Volume 2 amalgamates the precise line drawings that accompanied the first edition with the illustrated analytical index that appeared in 1836.

This work by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), first published in 1835, traces the evolution of architecture from antiquity to the Gothic revival. Volume 1 is a reissue of the 1840 third edition. Hope's examples are drawn from buildings he observed during travels through Europe and beyond, particularly the Mediterranean world.

Sir Joshua Reynolds' pupil James Northcote published a two-volume biography of the artist and president of the Royal Society in 1813-15: this reissue is of the 1818 second edition. Volume 2 covers Reynolds' later life, including a description of his elaborate funeral and various assessments of his work.

Sir Joshua Reynolds' pupil James Northcote published a two-volume biography of the artist and president of the Royal Society in 1813-15: this reissue is of the 1818 second edition. Volume 1, covering the first fifty years of Reynolds' life, includes an account of the founding of the Royal Academy.

This two-volume posthumous edition of the writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was published in 1797. Volume 2 contains his previously unpublished Journey to Flanders and Holland, and an extensive commentary by him on the French painter Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's Latin poem on the art of painting.

The Irish physician and medical teacher Archibald Billing (1791-1881) was also an amateur artist and antiquarian. In 1867, he published this work on gemmology, tracing the history of carving in miniature back to the seal-stones of the Egyptians and Assyrians, and giving a biography of the engraver Benedetto Pistrucci.

Largely self-taught, the American artist Benjamin West (1738-1820) became a history painter for George III and a founder and president of the Royal Academy of Arts. This reissue brings together the two volumes of John Galt's biography of West, first published in 1816 and 1820.

Among the most influential figures of the Gothic Revival in nineteenth-century Britain, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) distinguished himself as an architect, author and interior designer. His well-illustrated 1841 publication on ecclesiastical design is reissued here with his Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England (1843).

Reissued here in its first edition of 1842, this highly illustrated work by architect Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) is his most celebrated achievement. Providing thorough coverage of architectural history, theory and practice around the world, it enjoyed great popularity upon its first appearance. Over 1,000 wood engravings accompany the text.

Aiming to bring 'the principles of architectural taste' to a broad readership, the landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) compiled this monumental encyclopaedia, which was published in 1833. Including over 2,000 illustrations, the work focuses on the exterior and interior design of rural dwellings, from humble cottages to grand villas.

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque. This appraisal of prints, first published anonymously in 1768 to positive reviews, defines the concept as 'a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture'.

First published in 1817, this highly influential illustrated study by the architect Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) provides an overview of English medieval architecture. Drawing on knowledge of some five hundred buildings, it quickly became an essential reference work for architectural students and practitioners in the nineteenth century.