Books of Hours

by Phaidon

Published 13 June 1996

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed-paperback format, Phaidon's Miniature Editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

This book brings together some of the most exquisite medieval manuscripts, in a carefully assimilated compilation that is absorbing and accessible.


The Designs of William Morris

by Phaidon

Published 19 October 1995

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed paperback format, Phaidon's Miniature Editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced color images.

William Morris is the designer of some of the finest wallpapers and fabrics of the nineteenth century. This selection of drawings and designs sensitively evokes Morris's charm and genius.


A Child is Born

by Phaidon

Published 12 November 1999

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed, paperback format, Phaidon's Miniature Editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

Motherhood is celebrated in this collection of paintings and drawings from all periods in art, complemented by a distinctive selection of poetry by women poets.


Georgia O'Keeffe

by Phaidon

Published 30 December 2001

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed paperback format, Phaidon's miniature editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

This concise edition captures the ageless and absorbing quality of Georgia O'Keefe's highly distinctive paintings of flowers, each of which draws the viewer into the most minute of details and, in turn, into another world.


Myth and Romance

by Phaidon

Published 30 December 2001

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed paperback format, Phaidon's Miniature Editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

This synopsis of the paintings of J W Waterhouse reveals, with eloquence, the unfolding dimensions of his instantly recognizable imagery. His depictions of women in Romantic settings in part subtly reflect the troubled relations between the sexes in Victorian England.


The Pre-Raphaelite Vision

by Phaidon

Published 27 February 2004

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed-paperback format, Phaidon's Miniature Editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

This book draws together Pre-Raphaelite images of female grace with specially chosen excerpts from contemporary poetry, to produce a timelessly eloquent edition.