Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence in the 1890s.
This publication presents memoirs of Gainsborough by his friends and first patron, reprinted for the first time.
Witty, engaging, deeply informed guide to the many and varied pleasures of Brussels, one of Europe's greatest but least known cities.
Richard Suart’s biography of the hilarious, malleable song the ‘Little List’, of English National Opera’s The Mikado, through its many topical versions, many of them his own.
Atheist Kevin Jackson’s diary of his pilgrimage with his friend the Rev. Richard Coles, ‘Britain’s best-loved vicar’, to the historic sites of the Holy Land.
A passionate plea to defend Venice’s fate from mass tourism, commodification and cultural homogenization, by art historian, archaeologist and ‘conscience of Italy’ Salvatore Settis.
A key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.
Literary biography of the greatest Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, combining readings of his poetry with a revelatory examination of his life and complex personality.
Ninth edition of J. G. Links’ classic guidebook to Venice, with four walks and an introduction by Jan Morris. 'The greatest guidebook ever written' (The Times)
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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s rich, extensive commentaries on Hogarth’s ‘Marriage à la Mode’ paintings, which satirised eighteenth-century marriages of convenience, brilliantly translated and with much additional material.
A facsimile of Whistler’s published 1885 lecture, the culmination of years of work and self-promotion after Ruskin’s bruising criticism, expressing his artistic beliefs with satire and beauty.