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• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 volumes; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (single-volume edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 parts in 1 volume: Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1913), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by A. D. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun (3rd American edition; New York: Worthington, c1879), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, ed. by Morris Franklin Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vigee Le Brun: Masterpieces in Colour (1922), by Haldane Macfall, illust. by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (illustrated HTML at batguano.com)
• Madame Vigee Le Brun (Boston: Bates and Gould Company, 1905)
  • illustrated HTML at batguano.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842 (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982), illust. by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (illustrated HTML at batguano.com)

• My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Souvenirs de Famille (1823-1866): Recueillis et Commentés (in French; Paris: Impr. Chromotypographique, 1897), by Amable Tronquoy, ed. by Lucien Tronquoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Ann Davis (PDF at University of Calgary)
• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Book of Small (1942), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), by Frank Budgen (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Retrospect of an Artist's Life, by John Kelso Hunter (HTML in Scotland)

• Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Vincent van Gogh: A Biographical Study (2 volumes; London and Boston: Medici Society, 1922), by Julius Meier-Graefe, trans. by J. Holroyd-Reece, illust. by Vincent van Gogh (both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective (New York: Harry N. Abrams in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), by Diane Waldman, contrib. by Bernard Malamud and Clair Zamoiski
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1978), by Philip Rhys Adams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-Inventor (Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., c1961), by Jean Lee Latham, illust. by Jo Polseno (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales des Professeurs des Académies et Universités Alsaciennes, 1523-1871 (in French; Nancy: Impr. Berger-Levrault et cie, 1892), by Oscar Berger-Levrault
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Mark Siegchrist (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI and UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes, by Peter Abelard, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (HTML at Fordham)

• Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Autobiography of Madame Guyon (2 volumes; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1898), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, trans. by Thomas Taylor Allen
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, by Jill Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text
• Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI and UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (2 volumes; London and New York: The Alexandrian Society, 1922), by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Les Vainqueurs de la Bastille (in French; Paris: H. Champion, 1911), by Joseph Durieux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, by J. G. Lockhart (Gutenberg text)

• Incidents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Roland Barthes, trans. by Richard Howard (HTML at UC Press)

• General Foch, the Man of the Hour (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1918), by R. M. Johnston (page images here at Penn)
• Le Général Compans (1769-1845), d'Après ses Notes de Campagnes et sa Correspondance de 1812 à 1813 (in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1912), by Maurice Ternaux-Compans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army (2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Arthur John Butler
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)

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