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• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected (second edition, corrected; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected : Part I, Ethics and Character, Part II, Literature and Art (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• George Eliot and the Visual Arts (1979), by Hugh Witemeyer (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Antonia Jacqueline Losano (PDF at Ohio State)

• A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), by Anthony Cross
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Image [&] Narrative (issues online 2009-) (partial serial archives)

• Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger, illust. by Joan Krieger (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

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

• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2019), by Justin Hodgson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v14; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2014), ed. by Elke Gaugele (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Romanticism and the Insistence of the Aesthetic (2005), ed. by Forest Pyle (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• On the Spiritual in Art (first complete English translation; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1946), by Wassily Kandinsky, ed. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, by Benedetto Croce, trans. by Douglas Ainslie (Gutenberg text)
• Aesthetics: or, The Science of Beauty (New York and Chicago: Potter, Ainsworth, and Co., 1871), by John Bascom (page images at MOA)
• Aesthetics: or, The Science of Beauty (New York and Chicago: Woolworth, Ainsworth, and Co., 1872), by John Bascom (page images at MOA)
• Aesthetik: oder Wissenschaft des Schönen (3 volumes (third in multiple parts), in German; 1846-1857), by Friedrich Theodor Vischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (London: W. Satchell and Co., n.d.), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text)
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky, trans. by Michael Sadleir (Gutenberg text)
• The Desire of Beauty: Being Indications for Aesthetic Culture (London: J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892), by Theodore Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the Beautiful, etc.: or, Elements of Aesthetic Philosophy (second edition; London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1860), by Vincenzo Gioberti, trans. by Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays Aesthetical (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by George Henry Calvert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estetica, Come Scienza dell'Espressione e Linguistica Generale: Teoria e Storia (third revised edition, in Italian; Bari: Gius. Laterza et Figli, 1908), by Benedetto Croce
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Estética, Como Ciencia de la Expresión y Lingüística General: Teoria é historia de la estética (in Spanish; Madrid: F. Beltrán, 1912), by Benedetto Croce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hegel's Aesthetics: A Critical Exposition (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1885), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by John Steinfort Kedney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction a une Esthétique Scientifique (in French; Paris: La Revue contemporaine, 1885), by Charles Henry
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by Bernard Bosanquet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life, by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)
• The Philosophy of Art: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1886), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Ludwig Michelet, trans. by W. Hastie
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Art: Being the Second Part of Hegel's Aesthetik, in Which are Unfolded Historically the Three Great Fundamental Phases of the Art-Activity of the World (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1879), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by William McKendree Bryant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Principles of Aesthetics, by De Witt H. Parker (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Beauty, by Ethel Puffer Howes (Gutenberg text)
• The Science of Aesthetics, by Henry Noble Day (page images at MOA)
• The Science of Beauty, As Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory (New York et al: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1896), by George Santayana
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Skönhet för Alla: Fyra Uppsatser (in Swedish; Stockholm: A. Bonnier, 1899), by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), by Elizabeth Robinson Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cult of Beauty in Charles Baudelaire (2 volumes; New York: Institute of French studies, Columbia university, 1929), by S. A. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 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)
• Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Birth of Tragedy: or, Hellenism and Pessimism (from the Complete Works v1), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by William A. Haussmann
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• The Laws of Harmonious Colouring, Adapted to Interior Decorations, Manufactures, and Other Useful Purposes (London: W. S. Orr and Co.; Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1838), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archiuve.org)

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