Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture series

Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was arguably the first British industrial designer, working in a variety of media, and this 1862 work was his most influential book. Highly illustrated, it describes how to incorporate ornament into design, and encouraged the rising middle classes to decorate their homes themselves.

This 1890 book's 'prologue' is an extract from the review by Ruskin leading to the libel case in which Whistler was paid one farthing in damages, and it continues in the same vein, offering correspondence between Whistler and the critics, edited to amuse as well as (perhaps) edify his readers.

This pioneering two-volume biography (1862) explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter and printmaker J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). In Volume 1, the author Walter Thornbury (1828-76) traces Turner's 'art life' from cockney prodigy to Royal Academician, and creator of such masterpieces as The Fighting Temeraire.

Published in 1847, this three-volume work surveys Christian painting and sculpture. The author, Alexander Lindsay (1812-80), an aristocrat who travelled extensively in Italy, strongly influenced art collecting, and his work on the Victorian construction of morals and artistic taste remains instructive.

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) chronicles the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's history in this two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Volume 1 describes the coming together of Millais, Rossetti and their circle, Ruskin's influence, Hunt's own early successes, and the perils of painting The Scapegoat by the Dead Sea.

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.

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to increase his status in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. His Treatise, annotated and republished in two volumes in 1825 by the architect Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863), is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture.

Famous and controversial for paintings as diverse as Ophelia and Bubbles, Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96) revolutionised the Victorian art world by co-founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, eventually becoming president of the Royal Academy. His son, John Guille Millais (1865-1931), published this highly illustrated two-volume biography in 1899.

First published in 1913, this highly illustrated two-volume work was intended to give as full an account as possible of the lives and works of Irish painters, sculptors and engravers from the earliest times to the nineteenth century. Volume 1 covers artists with surnames beginning A to K.

The remarkable life of the Victorian poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) is illuminated in this two-volume work, published in 1895 by his brother William Michael (1829-1919). Volume 1 is given over to a sympathetic memoir, while Volume 2 contains hundreds of Dante's letters to his family.

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.

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.'

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.

The German philosopher and psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-87) pioneered the field of psychophysics. This two-volume second edition of his 1876 work on aesthetics was published in 1897-8. Fechner identifies here new methods, and advocates the experimental and inductive study of 'aesthetics from below'.

This fascinating 1873 publication is a version of the catalogue produced by the Wedgwood company almost one hundred years earlier, in 1787. A brief history of the catalogues is provided, followed by a long list of the cameos, intaglios, figurines, vases, and dinner, tea and coffee services which the firm offered.

First published in 1817, this highly influential illustrated study by the architect Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) provides an overview of English medieval architecture. Drawing on knowledge of some five hundred buildings, it quickly became an essential reference work for architectural students and practitioners in the nineteenth century.

Before the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) committed suicide, he asked for his autobiographical writings to be published. Edited by Tom Taylor, this three-volume work appeared in 1853. Volume 1 reproduces Haydon's account of his life up to 1820. His Conversations and Table-Talk is also reissued in this series.

The writer Elizabeth Eastlake (1809-93) travelled widely in her early years, and later moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. This two-volume work of 1895, edited by her nephew and full of shrewd judgements on art and on people, is compiled from her journals and letters.

Aiming to bring 'the principles of architectural taste' to a broad readership, the landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) compiled this monumental encyclopaedia, which was published in 1833. Including over 2,000 illustrations, the work focuses on the exterior and interior design of rural dwellings, from humble cottages to grand villas.

Suitable for a general readership, this two-volume work of 1828 critically assesses the ancient and modern architecture of France, Italy and Greece encountered by the architect and botanist Joseph Woods (1776-1864) on his European travels. The text is accompanied by drawings by Woods of important buildings and architectural features.

The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

A second generation Pre-Raphaelite and founder member of the Morris firm, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) influenced and exemplified the Aesthetic Movement, and inspired the European Symbolist painters. Volume 1 of this engaging 1904 biography describes his motherless childhood, his friendships with Morris, Ruskin, Rossetti and others, and his promising early career.

The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) published his popular two-volume autobiography in 1887, adding a third volume in 1888. Volume 1 covers his early life, his literary and historical paintings, and his sensationally successful 'modern-life' crowd scenes, Ramsgate Sands, Derby Day and The Railway Station.

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) published a series of works recording his observations on the picturesque across British landscapes. This two-volume work of 1789 describes a journey made principally through Scotland in 1776, taking in Edinburgh and the lochs, castles and rivers of the Highlands.

Volume 1 of this highly illustrated work was written by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52) and published in 1851 by John Henry Parker (1806-84), who himself completed the second volume after Turner's death. It contains details of domestic building in England from the Norman Conquest to 1300.

The most accomplished female painter of her age, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 1835-7, and this English version (of which the translator is unknown) in 1879.

James Fergusson (1808-86) became one of the most respected architectural historians of India. His 1876 account was revised in two volumes in 1910 by archaeologist James Burgess (1832-1916) and architect Richard Spiers (1838-1916). Lavishly illustrated, it remains of relevance to students of Indian and Asian architecture.