James Seymour (c. 1700-1752) is one of the founders of English sporting art. A lover of the Turf,...

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...

A vivid collage-portrait of Rome - three parts complete in one volume - the most comprehensive an...

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

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...

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

Collected for the first time and in a new translation, the two most important contemporary accoun...

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

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

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...

This publication presents the most important early texts about Titian some for the first time in ...

An extraordinary ‿ and strikingly illustrated ‿reflection on the meaning of war from one of o...

A dazzlingly researched investigation into the extraordinary truth of the most scandalous love tr...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Postings, volume 2 supplies yet more linguistic and social absurdities by editor Jim McCue. An el...

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...

The first biographies of Caravaggio, by Mancini, Baglione and Bellori: key documents of one of th...

The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the hist...

Texts by and about the pioneering woman artist of the Baroque, Artemisia Gentileschi, some printe...

Millais's own account of his art, and an assessment by one of the most influential critics of the...

Leonardo was arguably the greatest artist in history, and the quintessential Renaissance man. Thi...

Presents one of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Ren...

This publication presents contemporary writings about William Blake, some published here for the ...

A lifetime of Jim Dearden's captivating articles on artist, critic, writer and environmentalist J...

First publication in English of three of the most illuminating contemporary assessments of Rubens...

John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever, and it tran...

Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life movingly described by his sister in law, who saved his ...

The classic guide to all burials of the kings, queens and lords protector of England, Scotland an...

Intensely personal memoirs of Degas, by George Moore, the first writer in English on Impressionis...

William Hogarth's pithy autobiography and writings on his own art - hitherto virtually unobtainable.

Zola's writings on Manet were the first to identify the painter's seminal role in the emergence o...

This publication presents memoirs of Gainsborough by his friends and first patron, reprinted for ...

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

The first fully illustrated introduction to John Ruskin, art critic, architectural visionary, soc...

This title is an essential introduction to Stubbs by a friend and fellow painter, reprinted for t...

The first biography of Shakespeare. Written by Nicholas Rowe with assistance from Thomas Betterto...

Anthony Dawton and Jim McFarlane's photographs of Rohingya people living in the refugee camp at C...