Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This 1843 book comprises two illustrated articles examining recent English church buildings. In the first paper Pugin discusses how to meet the needs of a small Catholic parish. In the second he commends the influence of the Ecclesiologist on church architecture, which debated the connection between architecture and religion.

In this illustrated 1909 work, painter Elizabeth Butler recalls time in Ireland, Egypt, and the Cape of Good Hope. On some of these travels she was accompanying her soldier husband, while others were taken for pleasure. Her final reminiscences are of Italy, during both her childhood and her artistic career.

Rosa Bonheur (1822-99) is regarded as the foremost animal painter of her time and the most famous female artist of the nineteenth century. This 1910 work includes many letters offering first-hand evidence of her thinking about her approach to painting. The book is illustrated throughout with many fine engravings.

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.'

Frustrated by what he saw as the over-grooming prevalent in British landscape gardening and associated with the work of Capability Brown, Uvedale Price (1747-1829) published this essay in 1794. He emphasises here the importance of naturalism and harmony with the surrounding environment.

In 1795, the landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752-1818) published a letter addressed to Uvedale Price (1747-1829) which disputed some of the points in Price's 1794 essay on the connection between landscape painting and landscape gardening. This 1798 second edition of Price's reply includes Repton's letter.

Daniel Wilson (1816-92) trained as an artist before turning to a scholarly career in archaeology and anthropology. This two-volume work on Edinburgh's historic buildings and antiquities was first published in 1848. Alongside detailed historical notes, Wilson's illustrations record places that were being threatened by development, or were already lost.