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By: Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) | |
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The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture |
By: Clement | |
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Women in the fine arts
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C.TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A. D.BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT PREFATORY NOTE As a means of collecting material for this book I have sent to many artists in Great Britain and in various countries of Europe, as well as in the United States, a circular, asking where their studies were made, what honors they have received, the titles of their principal works, etc. I take this opportunity to thank those who have cordially replied to my questions, many of whom... |
By: Clement A. Miles | |
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Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan | |
By: Clive Bell (1881-1964) | |
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Art |
By: Cornelia Mee | |
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Exercises in Knitting
Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain practical everyday items that knit up quickly with the busy homemaker in mind. At this time, published knitting “receipts” did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies’ charitable societies, which used her knitting “receipts” to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the American Civil War and the embargo of cotton. |
By: Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889) | |
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The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends |
By: D. R. (David Russell) McAnally (1847-1909) | |
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Irish Wonders The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle |
By: Daniel B. Shepp | |
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Shepp's Photographs of the World |
By: David Drummond Bone | |
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Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches |
By: David Lindsay Crawford (1871-1940) | |
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Donatello, by Lord Balcarres |
By: David MacRitchie (1851-1925) | |
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Fians, Fairies and Picts |
By: Dean Spruill Fansler (1885-) | |
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Filipino Popular Tales |
By: Dorothy Menpes | |
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Japan A Record in Colour |
By: Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) | |
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The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 |
By: Dudley Landon Vaill (1873-?) | |
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The County Regiment
A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. |
By: Dugald Butler (1862-1926) | |
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Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys |
By: Dutton Cook (1829-1883) | |
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Art in England Notes and Studies |
By: E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner (1864-1954) | |
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Myths and Legends of China |
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) | |
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At the Earth's Core
This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an “iron mole” to burrow 500 miles into the earth’s crust. (adapted from Wikipedia) | |
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Published in 1920, Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth book in the Barsoom series and concentrates on Carthoris, the son of infamous John Carter, and Thuvia, the princess of Ptarth, as they find themselves entangled in a complex web of love and strict traditions of Barsoom. A typical Burroughs piece, the installment contains all the required elements of an effective pulp fiction, including a hero, a damsel in distress, unforeseen complications, and a generous supply of action. Welcoming a new... | |
Pellucidar
Pellucidar is a fictional “Hollow Earth” milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an “iron mole” to burrow 500 miles into the earth’s crust. This is the second book in the series. |
By: Edith A. How | |
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People of Africa |
By: Edward Alexander Moore (1842-) | |
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The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia |
By: Edward Armitage (1817-1896) | |
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Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing, color, decorative painting, finish, choice of subject, composition of decorative and historical pictures, and composition of incident pictures. Edward Armitage RA was an English painter of the Victorian era whose work focused on historical, classical and biblical subjects. He was Professor and Lecturer on painting in the Royal Academy 1875-1886. |
By: Edward Hutton (1875-1969) | |
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Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition |
By: Edward Lasker (1885-1981) | |
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Chess Strategy | |
Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership |
By: Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) | |
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A Face Illumined |
By: Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw (1855-1903) | |
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Big People and Little People of Other Lands |
By: Edward R. Shaw (1855-1903) | |
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Discoverers and Explorers
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown “Sea of Darkness” where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dared to sail near the equator which was thought to have such intense heat that it would boil the ocean water. It was also commonly thought at the time that the world was flat, and the ships would fall off the face of the earth. These men overcame these fears to explore and discover new lands. |
By: Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1880-1957) | |
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South with Scott |
By: Edward V. Lucas (1868-1938) | |
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A Wanderer in Venice | |
A Wanderer in Holland | |
Roving East and Roving West | |
A Wanderer in Florence |
By: Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848-1927) | |
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The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology |
By: Éléonore Riego de la Branchardière | |
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Golden Stars in Tatting and Crochet |
By: Elias Owen | |
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Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales |
By: Elizabeth W. Champney (1850-1922) | |
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Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) |
By: Ella Victoria Dobbs | |
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Primary Handwork |
By: Ellen Churchill Semple | |
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Influences of Geographic Environment
INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE BASIS OF RATZEL'S SYSTEM OF ANTHROPO-GEOGRAPHY BY ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE PREFACE The present book, as originally planned over seven years ago, was to be a simplified paraphrase or restatement of the principles embodied in Friedrich Ratzel's _Anthropo-Geographie_. The German work is difficult reading even for Germans. To most English and American students of geographic environment it is a closed book, a treasure-house bolted and barred. Ratzel himself realized that any English form could not be a literal translation, but must be adapted to the Anglo-Celtic and especially to the Anglo-American mind... |
By: Ellery Clark Gregg (1899-) | |
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How to Tie Flies |
By: Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1947) | |
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The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America |
By: Elsie Spicer Eells | |
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Fairy Tales from Brazil
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. |
By: Emilie Van Beil Jacobs (1875-) | |
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Where We Live A Home Geography |
By: Emily Burbank (?-?) | |
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Woman as Decoration
A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. Please note that there is a separate chapter with the captions of the fashion plates which can be found in the online text. |
By: Emily Leigh Lowes | |
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Chats on Old Lace and Needlework |
By: Emily Mayer Higgins | |
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Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside |
By: Emma Peachey | |
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The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling |
By: Emory Adams Allen (1853-) | |
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The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races |
By: Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939) | |
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Religion and Art in Ancient Greece |
By: Ernest Rhys (1859-1946) | |
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Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work |
By: Ernest Scott (1867-1939) | |
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Laperouse |
By: Ernest Shackleton | |
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South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The expedition was given the grand title of The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Due to be launched in 1914, two ships were to be employed. The first, the lead vessel, fittingly named the Endurance was to transport the team to the Weddell Sea from where the great explorer Ernest Shackleton and five others would cross the icy wastes of Antarctica on foot. The second ship, the Aurora was to approach the continent from the other side and put down supplies at various points to help the explorers... |
By: Ernest William Hawkes (1883-) | |
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The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo |
By: Esther Singleton (-1930) | |
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Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers |
By: Ethel Allen Murphy | |
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The Angel of Thought and Other Poems Impressions from Old Masters |
By: Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (1862-1940) | |
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Behind the Footlights
In this collection of essays the author gives us an opportunity to peek into the mysterious life of the theatre; she recalls her numerous conversations with and anecdotes about the "stage folk", such as actors, actresses, playwrights, stage directors or managers. However, her portrayal of theatrical life doesn't aim at glamorising the profession and the day-to-day life of those connected with the stage. On the contrary, if there's one overarching theme to her stories it is the repeated assurance that it's a hard and precarious existence, even for those at the top of the profession, let alone those who play minor parts and are rarely mentioned. |
By: Ethel Dench Puffer Howes (1872-1950) | |
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The Psychology of Beauty |
By: Eugen Neuhaus (1879-1963) | |
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The Galleries of the Exposition |
By: Evelyn March Phillipps (-1915) | |
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The Venetian School of Painting |
By: F. Hamilton Jackson (1848-1923) | |
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Intarsia and Marquetry | |
The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia |
By: F. M. S. | |
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The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young |
By: F. Morley (Frank Morley) Fletcher (1866-1949) | |
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Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice |
By: F. W. (Francis W.) Woodward | |
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Woodward's Country Homes |
By: F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt (1814-1866) | |
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Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture |
By: Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1846-1924) | |
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Current Superstitions
No matter how enlightened, chances are you’ve been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to such key life events and experiences as babyhood and childhood, marriage, wishes and dreams, luck, warts and cures, death omens and mortuary customs, and “such truck,” as Huck Finn would say. You’ll be surprised at how many of these old saws you’ll know. Here’s a quote from... |
By: Fletcher Gardner | |
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Philippine Folk-Tales |
By: Francis Augustus MacNutt (1863-1927) | |
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Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings |
By: Francis Haverfield (1860-1919) | |
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Ancient Town-Planning |
By: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) | |
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Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 | |
The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht | |
The Man In The High-Water Boots |
By: Francis Pretty | |
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Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World |
By: Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake (1828-1885) | |
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Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea |
By: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan (1641-1707) | |
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Memoirs of Madame de Montespan |
By: Frank Berkeley Smith (1869-1931) | |
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Real Latin Quarter
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des Fourneaux," I continued. Cabby's face broke out into a smile. "Ah, oui, oui, le Quartier Latin." And it was at the end of this crooked street, through a lane that led into a half court flanked by a row of studio buildings, and up one pair of dingy waxed steps, that I found a door bearing the name of the author of the following pages--his visiting card impaled on a tack... |
By: Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853-1920) | |
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A History of Greek Art |
By: Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess (1855-1945) | |
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Chats on Household Curios |
By: Frederica Seeger | |
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Entertainments for Home, Church and School |
By: Frederick Litchfield | |
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Illustrated History of Furniture
From the Earliest to the Present TimeBy Frederick Litchfield.PREFACE.In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time. A careful selection of illustrations has been made from examples of established authenticity, the majority of which are to be seen, either in the Museums to which reference is made, or by permission of the owners; and the representations of the different interiors will convey an idea of the character and disposition of the furniture of the periods to which they refer... |
By: Frederick W. Woodhouse | |
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The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains |
By: Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) | |
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Four Masters of Etching
Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour Haden, Jules Jacquemart, J. A. M. Whistler, and Alphonse Legros. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) | |
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Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I |
By: Friedrich Kerst | |
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Mozart, The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this “wunderkinder” took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and celebrated creator-genius of such luminous works the world has not known since. This collection of morsels taken from his personal letters is engaging and gives a look into the mind of the boy wonder. Was he mad? Was he miraculous? |
By: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |
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Birth of Tragedy
In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian and Dionysian characteristics in Greek art, specifically in Greek tragedy as it evolved. Then he applies his conclusions about Greek tragedy to the state of modern art, especially modern German art and specifically to the operas of Richard Wagner. |