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• Art

• Small sculpture

• Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (4th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1974, c1959), by Dorothy Burr Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (Athenian Agora series, v6: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Clairève Grandjouan (PDF in Greece)

• Dolls of Friendship: The Story of a Goodwill Project Between the Children of America and Japan, As Sponsored by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children (New York: Friendship Press, c1929), by Committee on World Friendship Among Children (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Twinklinka (Pannipitiya: Tikiri Publishers, 2008), by Janaki Sooriyarachchi (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (New York: Macmillan, 1943), by Rachel Field, illust. by Dorothy P. Lathrop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Little Wooden Doll (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Margery Williams Bianco, illust. by Pamela Bianco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dolly and I: A Story for Little Folks (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Live Dolls (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1901), by Josephine Scribner Gates, illust. by Virginia Keep (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Mince Pie (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Josephine Scribner Gates, illust. by John Rae (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble (initially published 1925; this edition Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1960), by Johnny Gruelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)
• How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1913), by Charlotte B. Herr, illust. by Frances Beem (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Philadelphia Public Ledger edition; Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., 1916), illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Our Children: Scenes From the Country and the Town (New York: Duffield and Co., 1923), by Anatole France, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Pansy Eyes: A Maid of Japan (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1922), by Besse Toulouse Sprague, illust. by Bess Devine Jewell (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann (originally published ca. 1919), by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)

• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)

• The Doll and Her Friends: or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina (fourth edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Julia Charlotte Maitland, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg", by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg", by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• La Poupée Modèle (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Catalogue of Glass Models of Invertebrate Animals, H. A. Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester, NY: E.R. Andrews, 1888), by Henry A. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Netsuke: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, c1982), by Barbra Teri Okada (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (Athenian Agora series, v6: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Clairève Grandjouan (PDF in Greece)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• "Civilidad y Arte": Discursos de Instalación de la "Academia de Bellas Artes" y de Presentación de sus Fundadores (in Spanish; Asunción, 1909), by Juan Silvano Godoi and Viriato Díaz-Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.