An updated edition of Barnes's acclaimed essays on artists - mostly French - that includes 7 new ones. Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, ... read more
A gorgeous, illustrated study of the ways in which shells were circulated, depicted, collected and valued during a time of remarkable global change, by aristocrats and apothecaries, scholars... read more
Beautiful repackaging of Werner's 'Nomenclature of Colours' - a referencing system from 1814 which classified colours by matching them to botanical and zoological specimens. 'Tile Red' for i... read more