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• Romantic Castles and Palaces as Seen and Described by Famous Writers (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901), ed. by Esther Singleton (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Memorie di un Prigioniero di Stato Allo Spielberg: Capitoli Scelti e Annotati (1-volume illustrated edition of selections, in Italian; Florence: G. Barbera, 1916), by Alexandre Andryane, ed. by Rosolino Guastalla (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weihe zum Spielberg: Aufenthalt des nachmaligen Östreichischen Staatsgefangenen Andryane in Genf. Verkehr mit den Italienischen Flüchtlingen und Geschwornen, und Seine Aufnahme in die Revolutionäre Propaganda (2 volumes in 1, in German: Leipzig: P. Reclam, 1840), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (second edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Olivier-Fulgence, 1840), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (third edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Gaume, 1850), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (fourth edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Gaume Freres et J. Duprey, 1862), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État au Spielberg (4 volumes, in French; Paris: Ladvocat, 1837-1838), by Alexandre Andryane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of a Prisoner of State in the Fortress of Spielberg (2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1840), by Alexandre Andryane, trans. by Fortunato Prandi, contrib. by Piero Maroncelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie d'un Prigioniero di Stato Nello Spielberg (4 volumes, in Italian; Milan: F. Sanvito, 1861), by Alexandre Andryane, trans. by Francesco Regonati (page images at HathiTrust)

• An English Murder (c1951), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Canterville Ghost (Boston and London: John W. Luce and Co., 1906), by Oscar Wilde, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Kenilworth, by Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)

• The Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire, 1142-1660 (Shrewsbury: Land and Evans, 1868), by Frances Stackhouse Acton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (2 volumes; London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, et al., 1806), by Jane Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (second edition, 2 volumes; Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by E. Mackenzie Jr., 1830), by Jane Harvey (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heidelberg: Its Princes and its Palaces (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Elizabeth Godfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain (with photographs; London: A. W. Bennett, 1862), by William Howitt and Mary Howitt, illust. by Francis Bedford, William Russell Sedgfield, G. W. Wilson, and Roger Fenton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland (second series, with photographs; London: A. W. Bennett, 1864), by William Howitt, illust. by Stephen Thompson, William Russell Sedgfield, Thomas Ogle, and William Despard Hemphill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The House of Arden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (illustrated edition; London: Reeves and Turner, ca. 1912), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Papers Relative to the Regalia of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1829), by William Bell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ville e Castelli d'Italia: Lombardia e Laghi (second edition, in Italian; Milano : Edizione della "Tecnografica", 1907)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Castle of Ehrenstein: Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly (Collection of British Authors v115; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz Jr., 1847), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• The House of Whispers, by William Le Queux (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Rushen Castle and Rushen Abbey, in the Isle of Man, by J. G. Cumming (HTML at Manx Note Book)

• The Enchanted Castle (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)
• Phantasmion (London: W. Pickering, 1837), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at Google)
• Phantasmion: A Fairy Tale (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Phantasmion: Prince of Palmland (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Sara Coleridge, ed. by Grenville Mellen
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The White Dove: A Tale (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, n.d.), by Christoph von Schmid (page images at ufl.edu)

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

• Architecture at Rice University (partial serial archives)
• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Active Eye in Architecture (1977), by George Trevelyan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1910), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1922), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (Gutenberg text)
• Cyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Typographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical (Home Cyclopedia #7, 2 volumes in 1; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1905), by Martin A. Buckmaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six Lectures on Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trattato di Architettura Civile e Militare (in Italian; Turin: Tip. Chirio e Mina, 1841), by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, ed. by Carlo Promis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (London: Percival and Co., 1892), by Ch. Letourneau (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down to "Child Publications" for chapter links and downloads))

• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• George A. Fuller Company, General Contractors, 1882-1937: A Book Illustrating Recent Works of This Organization (New York et al.: G. A. Fuller Co., 1937), by George A. Fuller Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.