Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

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.

Suitable for a general readership, this two-volume work of 1828 critically assesses the ancient and modern architecture of France, Italy and Greece encountered by the architect and botanist Joseph Woods (1776-1864) on his European travels. The text is accompanied by drawings by Woods of important buildings and architectural features.

The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

A second generation Pre-Raphaelite and founder member of the Morris firm, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) influenced and exemplified the Aesthetic Movement, and inspired the European Symbolist painters. Volume 1 of this engaging 1904 biography describes his motherless childhood, his friendships with Morris, Ruskin, Rossetti and others, and his promising early career.

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.

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.

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.

The most accomplished female painter of her age, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 1835-7, and this English version (of which the translator is unknown) in 1879.

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.

Joseph Severn (1793-1879), painter and British consul at Rome, is best remembered for his close friendship with the poet John Keats. Originally published in 1892, this biography utilises Severn's vast - though at times inconsistent - correspondence, tracing his life from youth to death, through his years of intimacy with Keats.

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.

Synonymous with finely crafted wood engravings of the natural world, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) influenced book illustration well into the nineteenth century. Written between 1822 and 1828, Bewick's autobiography, also containing illustrations for a proposed work on British fish, was first published by his daughter Jane in 1862.

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.

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).

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'.

Artist, diarist, and devotee of the Elgin Marbles, Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) is best known for his large-scale paintings and outspoken views. In this two-volume work, first published in 1876, his son provides a memoir and brings together letters to and from eminent correspondents, along with journal extracts.

Published in 1886 for the Edinburgh International Exhibition, this guidebook gives a compelling insight into the city's 'lost' buildings. Anecdotes detailing the origins of long-demolished but historically significant structures are brought to life with illustrations by William Fergusson Brassey Hole (1846-1917).

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 first part of this important 1884 study of the woodcuts and early printed books of the Low Countries considers the craftsmen; the second is a comprehensive catalogue of the cuts, ordered according to their makers; the final part is a catalogue of the books in which the cuts appeared.

Illustrative of changes in the relationship between architecture and garden design, and the influence of the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement, this 1892 second edition champions a classical, structured garden in harmony with the design of a house, thus challenging the contemporary movement towards 'wild gardens'.

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.

A fellow of the Institute of British Architects, Arthur Ashpitel (1807-69) edited and published this work in 1867. It is an insightful compilation of tracts, drawn from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, on classical, medieval and modern architecture, masonry, carpentry, roofs and material strength.

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.

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.

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.

Reissued here in its expanded second edition of 1845, this biography offers an informed portrait of the prolific landscape artist John Constable (1776-1837). Based principally on letters in the collection of fellow painter Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), it offers an important insight into Constable's art, character and relationships.