This is not a comprehensive bibliography, but it highlights major American and English publications during the past 20 years that are a good starting point for any student of 19th century design.
Aldrich, Megan, editor, The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, Brighton, England: John Murray and The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, 1990.
Aldrich, Megan, Gothic Revival, London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1994.
Aslin, Elizabeth, The Aesthetic Movement, Prelude to Art Nouveau, New York: Excalibur Books, 1969.
Atterbury, Paul, editor, A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1995.
Atterbury, Paul and Clive Wainwright, editors, Pugin, A Gothic Passion, New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1994.
Beecher, Catharine E. and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science: Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful and Christian Homes, Hartford, Connecticut: The Stowe-Day Foundation, 1987 reprint of 1869 edition.
Brandimarte, Cynthia, Inside Texas, Culture, Identity, and Houses, 1878-1920, Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1991.
Burke, Doreen Bolger, et al., In Pursuit of Beauty, Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, New York: Rizzoli and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
Cooper, Jeremy, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, Hong Kong, Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Eastlake, Charles L., Hints on Household Taste, The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration, New York: Dover Publications, reprint 1986 of the 1878 edition.
Faude, Wilson, "Associated Artists and the American Renaissance in the Decorative Arts," Winterthur Portfolio 10, Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1975.
Forge, Suzanne, Victorian Splendour, Australian Interior Decoration 1837-1901, Melbourne, Auckland, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Foy, Jessica H. and Karal Ann Marling, editors, The Arts and the American Home, 1890 - 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy, At Home, The American Family 1750-1870, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.
Gere, Charlotte, Nineteenth-Century Decoration, The Art of the Interior, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989.
Gere, Charlotte and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, From Pugin to Mackintosh, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.
Gere, Charlotte, Nineteenth Century Interiors, An Album of Watercolors, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992.
Giffen, Sarah L. and Kevin D. Murphy, "A Noble and Dignified Stream," The Piscataqua Region in the Colonial Revival, 1860-1910, York, Maine: Old York Historical Society, 1992.
Grier, Katherine C., Culture & Comfort, People, Parlors, and Upholstery 1850-1930, Rochester, New York: The Strong Museum (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press), 1988.
Halen, Widar, Christopher Dresser, A Pioneer of Modern Design, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1990.
Hosley, William, The Japan Idea, Art and Life in Victorian America, Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1990.
Howe, Katherine S., et al., Herter Brothers, Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994.
Jervis, Simon, High Victorian Design, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Boydell Press, 1983.
Kaplan, Wendy, "The Art that is Life": The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Boston: Little, Brown and Company and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987.
Lasdun, Susan, Victorians At Home, New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Madigan, Mary Jean Smith, "The Influence of Charles Locke Eastlake on American Furniture Manufacture, 1870-90," Winterthur Portfolio 10, Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1975.
McClaugherty, Martha Crabill, "Household Art, Creating the Artistic Home, 1868-1893", Winterthur Portfolio, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 1983.
Mayhew, Edgar DeN., and Minor Myers, Jr., A Documentary History of American Interiors, From the Colonial Era to 1915, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.
Metcalf, Pauline C., editor, Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses, Boston: David R. Godine and The Boston Athenaeum, 1988.
Seale, William, The Tasteful Interlude, American Interiors Through the Camera's Eye, 1860-1917, Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.
Sharf, Frederic, "A Pleasing Novelty": Bunkio Matsuki and The Japan Craze in Victorian Salem, Salem, Massachusetts: The Peabody & Essex Museum, 1993.
Winkler, Gail Caskey and Roger W. Moss, Victorian Interior Decoration, American Interiors 1830-1900, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986.
Paul Atterbury & Clive Wainwright, editors, Pugin, a Gothic Passion New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press and London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1994
Paul Atterbury, editor: A.W.N. Pugin, A Master of the Gothic Revival New Haven: Yale University Press and New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1995.
James Stevens Curl, Victorian Architecture, London: David & Charles: 1990.
Roger Dixon and Stefan Muthesius, Victorian Architecture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Girouard, Mark, Sweetness and Light, The 'Queen Anne' Movement 1860-1900, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977 and 1990.
David P. Handlin, The American Home, Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Robin Middleton and David Watkin, Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture/2, The Diffusion and Development of Classicism and the Gothic Revival, New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
Claude Mignot, Architecture of the Nineteenth Century in Europe, New York: Rizzoli, 1984.
Amelia Peck, editor: Alexander Jackson Davis, American Architect 1803-1892, New York: Rizzoli and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.
A.W.N. Pugin, Contrasts London: 1836 and 184136 and 1841; New York: Humanities Press, 1969
Schlereth, Thomas J., Victorian America, Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915, New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Shand-Tucci, Douglass, Built in Boston, City and Suburb, 1800-1950, Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Leland Roth, A Concise History of American Architecture, New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper, American Architecture 1607-1976, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1981.
Adams, Steven, The Arts & Crafts Movement, Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1987.
Anscombe, Isabelle, Arts & Crafts Style, New York: Rizzoli, 1991.
Carruthers, Annette and Mary Greensted, Good Citizen's Furniture, The Arts and Crafts Collections at Cheltenham, Cheltenham, England: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1994.
Cavalli-Bjorkman, Gorel, and Bo Lindwall, The World of Carl Larsson, San Marcos, California: The Green Tiger Press, Inc., 1989.
Calloway, Stephen, Liberty of London, Masters of Style & Decoration, Boston, Toronto, London: A Bulfinch Press Book - Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
Conforti, Michael, Minnesota 1900; Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi 1890-1915, Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware Press (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses in association with The Minneapolis Institute of Arts), 1994.
Greenwood, Martin, The Designs of William de Morgan, Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster, Somerset: Richard Dennis and William E. Wiltshire III, 1989.
Haslam, Malcolm, Arts & Crafts Carpets, New York, Rizzoli, 1991.
Lambourne, Lionel, Utopian Craftsmen, The Arts & Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago, London: Astragal Books, 1980.
Moon, Karen, George Walton, Designer and Architect, Oxford: White Cockade Publishing, 1993.
Meyer, Marilee Boyd, et al., Inspiring Reform, Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement, Wellesley, Mass.: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. Myers, Richard and Hilary, "William Morris Tiles, The Tile Designs of Morris and his Fellow-Workers," Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1996.
Naylor, Gillian, editor, William Morris by himself, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988.
Parry, Linda, Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement, London, Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1988.
Parry, Linda, editor, William Morris, London: Philip Wilson Publishers in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996.
Parry, Linda, editor, William Morris, Art and Kelmscott, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Boydell Press, 1996.
Parry, Linda, William Morris Textiles, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1983 (New York, Avenel, New Jersey: Crescent Books, 1994).
Rodgers, David, in Association with The William Morris Society, William Morris At Home, An Intimate View of his Life and Homes, including Personal Recipes, London, Ebury Press, 1996.
Smith, Greg and Sarah Hyde, Walter Crane 1845-1915, Artist, Designer and Socialist, London: Lund Humphries in association with The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1989.
Squire, Geoffrey, Charlotte Gere, Sophia Wilson, "Simply Stunning, The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Dressing," Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums, 1996.
Trapp, Kenneth R., The Arts and Crafts Movement in California, Living the Good Life, Oakland, California: The Oakland Museum, and Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, 1993.
Wilhide, Elizabeth, William Morris Decor and Design, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991.
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