BOOKS ON ART

Published for the use of Art Schools and Amateurs, under the Sanction of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education.

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TEXTILE FABRICS: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church Vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework, and Tapestries in the South Kensington Museum; with an Introduction. By the Very Rev. DANIEL Rock, D.D. Illustrated with numerous Chromolithographs. Royal 8vo. bound in cloth.

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ITALIAN SCULPTURE of the MIDDLE AGES and PERIOD of the REVIVAL of ART: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works forming the above Section of the South Kensington Museum; with additional Illustrative Notices. By J. C. ROBINSON, F.S.A. Illustrated with Wood Engravings. Royal 8vo. bound in cloth, price 7s. 6d.

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CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS of WORKS of ART in the SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Part I. Containing Representations of an EARLY ENGLISH SILVER-GILT HANAP, a CRYSTAL EWER, a CARVED IVORY PASTORAL STAFF, and a DELLA ROBBIA ROUNDEL. In atlas 4to. price Four Guineas.

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CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS of WORKS of ART in the SOUTH

KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Part II. Containing Representations of a carved IVORY BOX, a LIMOGES ENAMEL CASKET (two plates), and a DELLA ROBBIA ROUNDEL. In atlas 4to. price Four Guineas.

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FIFTY ETCHINGS of OBJECTS of ART in the SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. Done by Students of the Etching Class in training as Art Teachers. Directed by R. J. LANE, A.R.A. Coffers, Cabinets, Mirrors, Caskets, Cups, Vases, Knockers, Knives, Bowls, Lamps, Daggers, Bells, &c., are included in this volume. In imperial 4to. half-bound in morocco, price Five Guineas.

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FIFTY ETCHINGS of OBJECTS of ART in the SOUTH

KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

** A Second Series of this Work will shortly be published.

London ARUNDEL SOCIETY, 24 Old Bond Street.

EXTRACTS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS

ON THE SUBJECT OF

THE UNIVERSAL ART CATALOGUE.

MINUTE APPROVED AT A BOARD MEETING HELD AT THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ON THE 12TH OF OCTOBER 1865.

1. THE South Kensington Museum has been furnished with an Art Library which is always on the increase, and for this Library, as far as it has been practicable, every important work has been collected, bearing on the history, literature, illustration of Fine Art, and Art applied to industry.

2. Several editions of the Catalogue of the Library have been printed and published from time to time; but these, from the daily increase of the Library, have become imperfect almost as soon as they have been issued.

3. With the object of providing against an imperfection of continual recurrence such as the foregoing, and for other considerations, my Lords have ordered the compilation of a Catalogue on a basis altogether new.

4. It is proposed that the New Catalogue shall include not only the books in the Library, but all books printed and published at the date of the issue of the Catalogue that could be required to make the Library perfect; that is, to compile a universal record of printed Art books which are known to exist up to that period, wherever they may happen to be at the time.*

* Memorandum read and approved at a Board Meeting held at the South Kensington Museum on the 5th April 1864. 1. Instead of making the Catalogues for the Art Library and the educational and other scientific divisions of the South Kensington Museum dependent upon the accidental collection of works, I recommend that measures be taken for forming a Catalogue of all those works in the languages of all countries, which ought if possible to be found in the respective divisional libraries. 2. To do this, it would be necessary to search the Catalogues of the British Museum, the Bodleian and other British libraries, as well as the libraries of continental Europe and the United States. 3. The proposed Catalogues would therefore represent certain classes of literature tolerably complete up to a given date. 4. Such Catalogues being once printed, would supersede the necessity for the editions at present constantly recurring. 5. By indicating in the Catalogues the works as they are obtained, the deficiencies of the collection, as well as its possessions, would always be patent. 6. Such Catalogues would be useful in all libraries, and to students in all parts of the world, and would in the end prove more economical and much more useful than the present system. This recommendation is based on a suggestion of Mr. Dilke's, made in the Athenæum before 1851. (Mr. Dilke died in 1864.)