An Elephant in Rome is a book for those who love the endless fascination of the Eternal City and want a deeper and more entertaining tale of how it came to be.
An indispensable pocket guide to the essential museums and collections of Western art throughout the world.
William Gilpin’s travel writing on the River Wye, foundational for the picturesque, the romantic movement and modern tourism, illustrated with Gilpin’s aquatints and introduced by Richard Humphreys.
Part unconventional biography, part travelogue tracing the profound influence on how we look, live, work and think of Victorian critic, artist, activist and environmentalist John Ruskin.
Literary biography of the greatest Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, combining readings of his poetry with a revelatory examination of his life and complex personality.
The names and stories of London homelessness with portraits by photographer Anthony Dawton, introduced by former UN Rapporteur for the Right to Housing, Leilani Fahra.
This title presents Jan Morris on her favourite artist and her favourite city. An enchanting text, richly illustrated.
First book to explore the visionary late paintings of the Irish-based abstract painter John Kingerlee.
A dazzling collection examining artist, critic and radical John Ruskin’s life and work in his nineteenth-century world and milieu, and extensively proving his continued relevance.
Beautiful watercolour paintings of birds and animals of the Galápagos Islands. Profits to go to the Galápagos Trust.
This hardback presentation of George Stubbs’ The Anatomy of the Horse is taken from the 1853 printing, the last to use original plates, includes Stubb’s full commentary and is... Læs mere
The great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s descriptions of an optimistic, utopian 18th-century London. First English translation by Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin. Contemporary illustrations in colour.