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Filed under: Flowers in art -- Early works to 1800- The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
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Filed under: Flowers in art- Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
- A New Treatise on Flower Painting, Or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Booth, J, 1818), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
Filed under: Flowers in art -- ExhibitionsFiled under: Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms
Filed under: Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms -- Middle East
Filed under: Art -- Early works to 1800- The Mysteryes of Nature and Art (London: Printed for R. Mab, 1634), by John Bate
Filed under: Anatomy, Artistic -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Architecture -- Early works to 1800- Andrea Palladio's Architecture, In Four Books: Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders and ye Most Necessary Observations Relating to All Kinds of Building (revised by Hoppus; London: Printed for B. Cole and J. Wilcox, 1736), by Andrea Palladio and E. Hoppus, illust. by Inigo Jones
- De Re Aedificatoria (in Latin; Florence: N. di Lorenzo, 1485), by Leon Battista Alberti (page images with commentary at Architectura)
- Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece: Traducti de Latino in Vulgare Affigurati; Comentati e con Mirando Ordini Insigniti (in Italian; 1521), by Vitruvius Pollio, ed. by Cesare Cesariano (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Four Books of Architecture (based on the third English edition of 1738), by Andrea Palladio, trans. by Isaac Ware (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)
- La Nuova Architettura Famigliare di Alessandro Capra, Architetto, e Cittadino Cremonese: Divisa in Cinque Libri Corrispondenti a' Cinque Ordini, Cioè Toscano, Dorico, Ionico, Corintio, e Composito (in Italian; Bologna: G. Monti, 1678), by Alessandro Capra
- Livre d'Architecture de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau; Auquel Sont Contenues Diverses Ordonnances de Plants et Elevations de Bastiments pour Seigneurs, Gentilshommes, et Autres qui Voudront Bastir aux Champs (in French; Paris: J. Androuet, 1582), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
- Livre d'Architecture de Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant les Plans et Dessaings de Cinquante Bastimens Tous Differens (in French; Paris: B. Prévost, 1559), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
- Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste (London: Printed for R. Sayer, 1758), by Charles Over (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Pain's British Palladio: or, The Builder's General Assistant (London: I. and J. Taylor, 1788), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
- The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
- Second Livre d'Architecture par Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant Plusieurs et Diverses Ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, et Pavillons, Pour Enrichir Tant le Dedans que le Dehors de Tous Edifices (in French; Paris: A. Wechel, 1561), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images with commentary at Architectura)
- A Treatise of Architecture: With Remarks and Observations, Necessary for Young People Who Would Apply Themselves to That Noble Art (London: R. Ware, 1732), by Sébastien Le Clerc, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, illust. by John Sturt
- Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients (translated from the 1683 original; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993), by Claude Perrault, ed. by Alberto Pérez Gómez, trans. by Indra Kagis McEwen (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in Ten Books, by Vitruvius Pollio, trans. by Joseph Gwilt (HTML at Chicago)
- Discours Historial de l'Antique et Illustre Cité de Nismes en la Gaule Narbonoise (in French; Lyon: G. Roville, 1559), by Jean Poldo d'Albenas (page images with commentary at Architectura)
- Useful Architecture (London: Robert Sayer, 1760), by William Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)
- The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture (second edition; London: Robert Sayer, 1756), by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)
Filed under: Architecture, Byzantine -- Early works to 1800- Procopii Caesariensis Opera Omnia (3 volumes in 4, in Greek with Latin commentary; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1905-1913), by Procopius, ed. by Jakob Haury
Filed under: Architecture, Roman -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800- Andrea Palladio's Architecture, In Four Books: Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders and ye Most Necessary Observations Relating to All Kinds of Building (revised by Hoppus; London: Printed for B. Cole and J. Wilcox, 1736), by Andrea Palladio and E. Hoppus, illust. by Inigo Jones
- The Four Books of Architecture (based on the third English edition of 1738), by Andrea Palladio, trans. by Isaac Ware (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)
Filed under: Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800- Grotesque Architecture, Or, Rural Amusement: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavilions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green-houses, &c., Many of Which May Be Executed with Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees; The Whole Containing Twenty-eight New Designs, with Scales to Each: To Which is Added, an Explanation, with the Method of Executing Them (London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1790), by William Wrighte
Filed under: Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800- The Temple Builder's Most Useful Companion, Being Fifty Entire New Original Designs for Pleasure and Recreation: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste, Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c.; Together with a Full Explanation, in Letter Press, to Each Design, and Exact Scales for Measurement (London: Printed for I. Taylor, 1774), by Thomas Collins Overton, illust. by Isaac Taylor
Filed under: Artists' materials -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Drawing -- Early works to 1800- Divina Proportione: Opera a Tutti Glingegni Perspicaci e Curiosi Necessaria oue Ciascun Studioso di Philosophia; Prospettiua Pictura Sculptura; Architectura; Musica; e Altre Mathematice; Suavissima; Sotile; e Admirabile Doctrina Consequira; e Delecterassi, Co Varie Questione de Secretissima Scientia (in Italian; Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509), by Luca Pacioli, contrib. by Antonio Capella, illust. by Leonardo da Vinci
Filed under: Geometrical drawing -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Drawing -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800- The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
Filed under: Interior decoration -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Sculpture, Roman -- Early works to 1800- Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae (4 books in 2 volumes; 1585-1594), by Giovanni Battista Cavalieri
Filed under: Art -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800- Dictionarium Polygraphicum: or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested (2 volumes; London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1735), by John Barrow, illust. by John Devoto and W. H. Toms
Filed under: Accounting -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Acting -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Advaita -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
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