The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century is John Ruskin’s rigorous and prophetic denunciation of capitalism’s assault on the environment, developed through his conflicted relationship with 19th-century science.
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 first biographies of Caravaggio, by Mancini, Baglione and Bellori: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. Richly illustrated.
A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of the most influential northern Renaissance printmakers. His Passion series has drama and pathos rivalling his contemporary Dürer.
A volume dedicated to Albrecht Dürer’s series of woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ. An astonishing sixteenth-century demonstration of virtuosic printmaking.
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.
In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato, most powerful warship of World War II and climax of the samurai tradition.
The classic guide to the enchanting destinations of the Ile-de-France, all within an hour’s journey from central Paris, with maps, photographs and all practical information.
An anthology of Sir John Everett Millais’s illustrations for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins and weekly periodicals – some of the finest black and white work of the Victorian era.
Charles Ricketts wrote this account of his close friendship with Oscar Wilde, partly as an imagined conversation with a fictitious French writer. Facsimile with afterword.
John Ruskin’s The King of the Golden River was the first literary fairy tale in English. Includes Richard Doyle’s original illustrations and Simon Cooke’s essay.
Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable.