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Mark Purcell's study explores 19th-century bibliomania and rejects the notion that books in historic libraries were "bought by the yard"
Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers
A new publication brings together the Scottish surgeon's art collection for the first time in many years
The new book features newly discovered appendices, including the profligate Jan Baptist’s three-volume bankruptcy file
Excavation campaigns on the Greek island have raised questions about our knowledge of Cycladic art and culture
Twenty-four artists present their own works in new book, including the late Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer
Galleries donate publications for a collection that will go to the Metropolitan Museum
Book looks at one royal's Medieval gifts, giving and inventories
Volume uncovers floral wealth of the US metropolis
Book collects the first illustrations, scores, maps and children's books
The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting
The Kunsthistorisches's Bruegel exhibition catalogue fails to include any scholarly information
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic
There are too many oddities in the painting discovered in France five years ago
Not a guide nor a history, but a collection of unusual gardens and their makers
We meet the photographer David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book and we talk with Gijs van Hensbergen about John Richardson, who died aged 95 last week. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Book looks at narrative cycles by Edward von Steinle and Leopold Bode
Book looks at British Museum’s contemporary artists' postcards from 1960 to the present
The history—in images and works of decorative art—of giving birth and raising children before 1900
Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art
A dictionary of the burial places of the English and Scottish kings and queens (and their relations)
Lars-Ake Thessman on his set- and costume-designs
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
On show in Turkey this month, the images are an ode to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s hometown
Book collects pictorially subversive propaganda in a populist medium
Art, music and architecture flourished in the Republic for the last time
Kahlo’s communications with her mother are unsurprisingly banal
Two further volumes comprehensively cover the artist's drawings and monotypes