Книги издательства Abbeville Press

An insightful, lavishly illustrated history of self-portraits by well-known artists including Velázquez, Edgar Degas and Frida Kahlo In his fascinating survey, art historian Omar Calabrese reveals that self-portraits through the ages are bo...

The Baby Elephant Folio presents all 435 of Audubon’s brilliant hand-colored engravings in exquisite reproductions derived from the original plates of the National Audubon Society’s archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Althoug...

This sparkling Tiny Folio™ edition of Audubon's Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubon's hand–colored engravings, graced with an illuminating introduction by Roger Tory Peterson that places Audubon in his ornithological and ...

A visual history of fashion that fits in the palm of your hand Drawing from the extensive Textile and Fashion Arts Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, this miniature history of European and American fashion features some 275 garments, accessori...

In this luxurious cloth-bound hardcover with glossy slipcase, renowned botanical photographer Jonathan Singer presents his breathtaking images of the world's most notable bonsai. In Fine Bonsai: Art & Nature, the finest extant achieve...

In this luxurious cloth-bound hardcover with glossy slipcase, renowned botanical photographer Jonathan Singer presents his breathtaking images of the world's most notable bonsai. In Fine Bonsai: Art & Nature, the finest extant achieve...

A monograph of works dedicated to Giotto with author Francesca Flores d'Arcais drawing on an impressive range of sources, from 14th-century documents to the most recent art-historical investigations Vasari famously wrote that Giotto "reco...

Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the damne...

A lavishly illustrated history of Japanese screens — limited to 3,000 numbered copies Japanese screens (byobu, meaning “barrier against the wind”) are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a paper or fab...

The classic monograph on a much-loved artist — reissued in a spectacular oversize format In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Henry James saw “the slightly ‘uncanny’ spectacle of a talent which on the...

Breathtaking photographs and details provide a tour through the rich sites of this legendary city. Tracing Munich’s history from the 12th century through the present, this sumptuous book illustrates the city’s treasures, from the colle...

It seems familiar because it was everyone's dream of America; and it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. This was, perhaps, an America that never existed, but it was an America the public wanted to ex...

It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of hol...

This fascinating full-length study examines all works by the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel within the wider setting of art during his lifetime. The recent rediscovery in Spain of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s lost painting, The Wine of S...

An illustrated tour of the elegant entrances to New York City’s most celebrated apartment houses. This handsome, oversized book introduces us to the grandest entrances of New York City’s residential buildings. These posh portals come i...