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• Art
• Decorative arts

• Arts and crafts movement

• Decoration and ornament -- Animal forms
• Decoration and ornament -- Art nouveau
• Decoration and ornament -- Bibliography
• Decoration and ornament -- China
• Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style
• Decoration and ornament -- Empire style
• Decoration and ornament -- England
• Decoration and ornament -- Europe
• Decoration and ornament -- Federal style
• Decoration and ornament -- France
• Decoration and ornament -- Great Britain
• Decoration and ornament -- History
• Decoration and ornament -- Italy
• Decoration and ornament -- Neoclassicism
• Decoration and ornament -- New Guinea
• Decoration and ornament -- Periodicals
• Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms
• Decoration and ornament -- Polynesia
• Decoration and ornament -- Themes, motives
• Decoration and ornament -- United States
• Decoration and ornament -- Victorian style
• Alphabets
• Antiques
• Art objects
• Bas-relief
• Bronzes
• Buddhist decoration and ornament
• Carpets
• Church decoration and ornament
• Color in the ceramic industries
• Decoration and ornament, Ancient
• Decoration and ornament, Architectural
• Decoration and ornament, Celtic
• Decoration and ornament, Egyptian
• Decoration and ornament, Renaissance
• Decoration and ornament, Rococo
• Decoration and ornament, Rustic
• Embroidery
• Fancy work
• Fore-edge painting
• Furniture
• Garden ornaments and furniture
• Gems
• Glass painting and staining
• Glass, Ornamental
• Illustration of books
• Insect forms in art and archaeology
• Interior decoration
• Ironwork
• Islamic decoration and ornament
• Lettering
• Library decoration
• Marquetry
• Metal-work
• Monograms
• Mosaics
• Mural painting and decoration
• Ornamental boxes
• Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
• Stencil work
• Table setting and decoration
• Textile design
• Vase-painting

• Art, Decorative
• Decoration and ornament, Primitive
• Decorative art
• Decorative design
• Design, Decorative
• Nature in ornament
• Ornament
• Painting, Decorative

• Anthropology Design Series (full serial archives)
• The Bases of Design (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Decorative Arts, Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress: An Address Delivered Before the Trades' Guild of Learning (London: Ellis and White, 1878), by William Morris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML (may be from different edition) at burrows.com
• Styles of Ornament, Exhibited in Designs, and Arranged in Historical Order, With Descriptive Text (1906), by Alexander Speltz, ed. by David O'Conor (page images at Wisconsin)
• 1050 Jewelry Designs: Antique, Primitive, Classic, Modern (1946), by Yvonne Françoise Jossic (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Applied Art: Drawing, Painting, Design and Handicraft, Arranged for Self-Instruction of Teachers, Parents and Students (Mountain View, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Assoc., 1920), by Pedro J. Lemos
  • color page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; black-and-white images, not all matching those in HathiTrust copies
• Art Recreations, by L. B. Urbino (page images at MOA)
• Line and Form (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Peter Hunt's Workbook: With Text and Pictures (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, c1945), by Peter Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies' Fancy Work: Hints and Helps To Home Taste and Recreations (New York: H. T. Williams, 1876), by Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Needlework as Art (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Marian Alford
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Decorative Needlework (London: J. Hughes and Co., 1893), by May Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)

• Nature Index: 5000 Selected References to Nature Forms and Illustrations of Nature in Design, Painting and Sculpture (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1930), by Jessie Croft Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Builder's Companion: or, A New System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted To The Present Style of Building in the United States of America (Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806), by Asher Benjamin
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The House Decorator and Painter's Guide: Containing a Series of Designs for Decorating Apartments, Suited to the Various Styles of Architecture (London: Thomas Kelly, 1840), by Henry William Arrowsmith and A. Arrowsmith (page images at Wisconsin)

• Creators of Decorative Styles: Being a Survey of The Decorative Periods in England From 1600 To 1800, With Special Reference to the Masters of Applied Art Who Developed the Dominant Styles (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1917), by Walter A. Dyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times (New York: W. Helburn, c1938), by Elizabeth Burris-Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Carved and Painted Designs From New Guinea (Anthropology design series #5; Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1931), by A. B. Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Art et Décoration (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art (issues online 1893-1925) (partial serial archives)
• Design (British industrial design magazine, online issues 1965-1974) (partial serial archives)
• The Burlington Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Groups of Fruit: Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)

• Polynesian Decorative Designs (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #7; Honolulu: The Museum, 1923), by Ruth H. Greiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Grammar of Ornament (London: Day and Son, 1856), by Owen Jones
  • frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details (second edition; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869), by Charles L. Eastlake (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah, trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Book of Alphabets, For Use in Schools (Boston: Ginn and Co., c1908), by H. W. Shaylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prang's Standard Alphabets (revised edition; Boston: L. Prang and Co., c1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of Penmanship (Columbus: Zaner-Bloser Co., 1921), by C. C. Canan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains (3 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1909-1912), by Salomon Reinach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bronze Reliefs From the Gates of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, B.C. 860-825 (1915), ed. by L. W. King (PDF at ETANA)

• Fine Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Twenty Examples, Reproduced for the First Time in Colour, of Old Carpets from Persia, India, Caucasia, Armenia, Turkey, China, Spain and England (1924), by A. F. Kendrick and C. E. C. Tattersall (page images at CMU)

• Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship (2000), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops (HTML at usccb.org)
• Third Annual Report of the New-York Ecclesiological Society (New York: Stanford and Swords, 1851), by New-York Ecclesiological Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Altchristliche Bilderfrage nach den Literarischen Quellen (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1917), by Hugo Koch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolism of Animals and Birds Represented in English Church Architecture (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1913), by Arthur H. Collins
  • PDF files at bestiary.ca
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, or, The Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture (London: S. Harding, 1756), by Batty Langley (page images at Wisconsin)
• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Study of Architectural Design, With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1926), by John F. Harbeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments d'Architecture Antique, d'Après les Relevés & Restaurations des Anciens Pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome (2 volumes in French; Paris: Lib. Generale de l'Architecture et de Travaux Publics, n.d.), ed. by H. d' Espouy
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Nineteenth Century German-American Church Artists, by Annemarie Springer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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