Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the project is produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System. <more>

Materials in the collection:

• Chipstone Ceramics Collection
• Chipstone Furniture Collection
• Chipstone Prints Collection
• Longridge Ceramics Collection

The following book list is arranged chronologically

• A Natural History of Birds. Gleanings of Natural History (1743-64)
• Recueil d'antiquities egyptiennes, etrusques, greques et romaines (1752-67)
• The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1754)
• The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1754)
• The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs (1756)
• Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des Chinois (1757)
• Useful Architecture (1760)
• One Hundred and Fifty New Designs (1761)
• Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia (1764)
• A Select Collection of One Hundred Plates: consisting of the most beautiful, exotic and British flowers which blow in our English gardens (1775)
• Bowles's Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of Beautiful Flowers… (1777)
• Detail des nouveaux jardins a la mode (1777)
• Pain's British Palladio (1788)
• The Practical House Carpenter (1792)
• The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1794, 1897)
• Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1794)
• Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings (1800)
• Recueil de décorations intérieures… (1801)
• The American Builder's Companion (1806)
• Plans des plus beaux jardins pittoresque…/Plans of the Most Beautiful Picturesque Gardens… (1809)
• The Mirror of the Graces (1811)
• Temple of Flora (1812)
• Recueil d'architecture civile… (1812)
• Groups of Fruit: accurately drawn and coloured after nature… (1817)
• Groups of Flowers: drawn and accurately coloured after nature… (1817)
• Six Birds, accurately drawn and coloured after nature… (1817)
• American Medical Botany (1817-20)
• A New Treatise on Flower Painting (1818)
• Hints on Ornamental Gardening (1823)
• Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Hot–houses, Green–houses, an Aquarium, Conservatories… (1823)
• American Ornithology, or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United… (1825)
• A Representation of the Manufacturing of Earthenware (1827)
• American Ornithology (1828-29)
• The Book of Trades (1829)
• Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832)
• The Beauties of Flora (1834)
• The Housekeeper's Book (1837)
• The House Decorator and Painter's Guide (1840)
• The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue: The Industry of All Nations, 1851 (1851)
• The Grammar of Ornament (1856, 1910 ed.)
• Sloan's Homestead Architecture (1861)
• The New Path (1863-65)
• Examples of Chinese Ornament… (1867)
• The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition (1867-68)
• The American Drawing-Book (1870)
• The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition Illustrated (1876)
• Birds of North America (1888, 1903 ed.)
• The Decoration of Houses (1898)
• The Craftsman (1901-1916)
• Styles of Ornament (1906)
• Extinct Birds (1907)
• Craftsman Homes (1909)
• The House in Good Taste (1914)
• The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware. (2000)