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Total number of records: 341

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Books and printed items339
Archives2

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection232
Herbert Read Collection191
English Literature21
Leeds Russian Archive7
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
aesthetics341
art94
conduct of life23
social problems23
poetry17
painting12
criticism11
drama10
music10
sublime, the7

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PlaceCount
Great Britain33
France8
India8
Chile2
Cleveland, Ohio1
England1
Nigeria1
Sheffield (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)43
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)33
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)18
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)11
Alison, Archibald (1757-1839)9
Burke, Edmund, 1729-17979
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)8
Hastings, Warren, 1732-18188
Worringer, Wilhelm (1881-1965)8
Harris, John (1931-)7

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From 170031
From 180084
From 1900222
From 20002

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An essay on the nature, the end, and the means of imitation in the fine arts

Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine-Chrysostom (1755-1849)

1837

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Aesthetik, oder Wissenschaft des Schönen : zum gebrauche für Vorlesungen (Th.1)

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor (1807-1887)

1846-57

Each Theil, Abteilung, Abschnitt & Heft has a separate title-page. The pagination is continuous within each Theil, with the individual title-pages and contents inserted as extra sections. 3 Th., 2. ...

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Aesthetik, oder Wissenschaft des Schönen : zum gebrauche für Vorlesungen (Th.2)

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor (1807-1887)

1846-57

Each Theil, Abteilung, Abschnitt & Heft has a separate title-page. The pagination is continuous within each Theil, with the individual title-pages and contents inserted as extra sections. 3 Th., 2. ...

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Aesthetik, oder Wissenschaft des Schönen : zum gebrauche für Vorlesungen (Th.3, 1)

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor (1807-1887)

1846-57

Each Theil, Abteilung, Abschnitt & Heft has a separate title-page. The pagination is continuous within each Theil, with the individual title-pages and contents inserted as extra sections. 3 Th., 2. ...

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Aesthetik, oder Wissenschaft des Schönen : zum gebrauche für Vorlesungen (Th.3, 2)

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor (1807-1887)

1846-57

Each Theil, Abteilung, Abschnitt & Heft has a separate title-page. The pagination is continuous within each Theil, with the individual title-pages and contents inserted as extra sections. 3 Th., 2. ...

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The seven lamps of architecture

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

1889

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First principles of symmetrical beauty

Hay, D R (1798-1866)

1846

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An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful; and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape (v.1)

Price, Sir Uvedale (1747-1829)

1796-1798

Edition statement appears on v.1 only. Vol. 2 has title and imprint: Essays on the picturesque... Hereford : Printed by D. Walker for J. Robson ... London, 1798. Spine title: On the picturesque.

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An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful; and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape (v.2)

Price, Sir Uvedale (1747-1829)

1796-1798

Edition statement appears on v.1 only. Vol. 2 has title and imprint: Essays on the picturesque... Hereford : Printed by D. Walker for J. Robson ... London, 1798. Spine title: On the picturesque.

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Das Erklären von Kunstwerken

Wölfflin, Heinrich (1864-1945)

1921

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The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

1772

The plates referred to in the text are not issued in this edition.

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The analysis of beauty : Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

1753

The plates referred to in the text are not issued in this edition.

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