A bibliographic database of books that Frank Lloyd Wright owned or had access to.
The Database
Joan of Arc. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924.
Mark Twain's autobiography. New York: Harper, 1924.
Mark Twain's autobiography: in two volumes ; vol. 1.. New York: Wells, 1925.
The Story of Gladstone's Life. Macmillan, 1898.
Marco Polo: his travels and adventures. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880.
Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator's Club. Boston: Educational Publishing Co.
The Sir Roger de Coverley papers from the Spectator. Boston: Ginn, 1902.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art and Character. Boston: Ginn, 1872.
Little journeys to the homes of good men and great: Shakespeare.. New York: Putnam, 1895.
The life and times of Goethe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1880.
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.., 1908.
The tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle., 1905.
Kunstverglasungen: ein Musterbuch für Glaser. Berlin: Ch. Claesen, 1886.
Art Panels from the handlooms of the Far Orient as seen by a native rug weaver. Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1902.
Rugs, Oriental and Occidental, antique and modern. A handbook for ready reference. [With thirty-one plates.. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901.
The oriental rug.. New York, N.Y.: Dodd, 1903.
New dimensions: the decorative arts of today in words & pictures. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.
Garden and Terrace Furniture and Sculpture (sales catalogue). New York: Parke-Bernet galleries, 1954.
The Aztec and Maya papermakers. New York: Augustin, 1944.
Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque Carlovingienne à la Renaissance.. Vol. 1-6. Paris: Bance; Morel, 1858.
Artistic wrought iron works: from the Middle ages and Renaissance period. New York: Helburn & Hagens, 1888.
Das Ornament der italienischen Kunst des fünfzehnten XV. Jahrhunderts: e. Sammlung d. hervorragendsten Motive. Dresden: Gilbers, 1882.
Illustrated catalogue of art tiles made by J.G. and J.F. Low, Chelsea, Mass., U.S.A. Chelsea, Mass.] : J. & J.G. Low, 1884.
Der Ornamentenschatz: ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1889.
Detail and ornament of the Italian Renaissance: drawn by George J. Oakeshott.. London: B.T. Batsford, 1888.
General problems of shades and shadows. New York: Wiley, 1875.
Book of tea., 1906.
"The poison of good taste." (1926).
Nine chains to the moon. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1938.
Kunstverglasungen: ein Musterbuch für Glaser. Berlin: Ch. Claesen, 1886.
Horizons. Boston, 1932.
Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education. New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth Street, 1899.
Compositions et dessins. Paris: Librairie Centrale d'Architecture., 1884.
Das Ornament der italienischen Kunst des fünfzehnten XV. Jahrhunderts: e. Sammlung d. hervorragendsten Motive. Dresden: Gilbers, 1882.
Detail and ornament of the Italian Renaissance: drawn by George J. Oakeshott.. London: B.T. Batsford, 1888.
Architectural Compositions. Boston.
Six plays. New York: Modern Library, 1957.
The Happy Journey.., 1934.
King Richard III. New York: Clark & Maynard, 1882.
Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. As you like it,. Boston: Wyman-Fogg, 1901.
Shakespeare's King Henry IV (part I). New York: Maynard, Merrill, 1885.
Othello, the Moor of Venice. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1902.
Shakespeare's as you like it. New York: American Book Company, 1910.
Tragedy of Othello. Boston?: Ginn and Company, 1902.
The Theban plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone.. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947.
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. London: Charles Knight, 1851.
Eleven plays of Henrik Ibsen. New York: Modern library, 1954.
The Shakespearian drama, a commentary: the histories.. St. Louis: Sigma Pub. Co.
Etudes de perspective élémentaires et graduées pour le dessin de paysage d'après nature à l'usage des amateurs. Geneva: Ch. Eggimann, 1896.
A text book of geometrical drawing: for the use of mechanics and schools : in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiary explained : with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery, a course of linea. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1871.
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen. Place of publication not identified: Macmillan, 1889.
Architectural Drawing. [With plates.. London: Cassell & Co., 1887.
Architectural sketches from the continent. London: Published by Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen Gate Street Lincolns Inn Fields. And by Thompson & Co. 45 Pall Mall S.W., 1858.
Croquis d'Architecture.. Paris, 1866.
Capital: a critique of political economy. New York: Modern Library, 1906.
Progress and poverty a inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase in want with increase of wealth ; the remedy. New York: The Modern Library, 1929.
Manifesto of the Communist Party / edited and annotated by Frederick Engels.. New York: Socialist Literature Co., 1912.
The New Class ... An analysis of the Communist system, etc.. Thames & Hudson: London; printed in U.S.A., 1957.
A goodly fellowship. Macmillan,: New York.
"Wright in the nursery: the influence of Froebel education on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright." (1953).
Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education. New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth Street, 1899.
The wonder-workers. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1912.
The storyland of stars. Boston; New York; Chicago: Educational Publishing Company, 1892.
The Hillside Home School Twenty-First Year 1908. The Hillside Home School, 1908.
Neighbors with wings and fins: and some others, for young people. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
Interlachen 1955 (Florida Southern College Yearbook). n.p.: no publ., 1955.
The abolition of man, or Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools.. London, 1943.
The Beacon song collection for schools, colleges, and choral societies, number one. New York: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1895.
The Franklin Square song collection, devoted to school and home enjoyment. Vol. 1, 6. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881.
The fourth book of vocal music: for high schools, academies, normal schools and institutions and classes of similar grade. New York: Silver, Burdett, 1905.
The song monarch a collection of secular and sacred music for singing schools, day schools, conventions, musical academies, college choirs, and the home circle: consisting of musical notation and exercises, glees, duets, quartets, anthems, &c.. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1874.
Standard songs and choruses for high schools. New York: American Book Co., 1908.
Star-land: being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1892.
Geological studies; or, Elements of geology.. Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1889.
A manual of ethics. London: University Correspondence College Press, 1897.
Composition and rhetoric. New York: Hinds & Noble, 1903.
Friends in feathers and fur and other neighbors for young folks. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
A Montessori mother.. New York: Holt, 1912.
Le tour de la France par deux enfants: Devoire et Patrie. Livre de lecture courante .... Paris: Eugène Belin, 1922.
New young folks' cyclopedia of persons and places. Nw York: Henry Holt & Co., 1891.
Standard specifications for road and bridge construction. Madison, Wis.?: State Highway Commission, 1941.
Simplified mechanics and strength of materials.. New York: Wiley, 1951.
Silver tie-in; twenty-five years of pioneering in electric welding and pipeline construction,. Bartlesville, Okl.: H.C. Price Co., 1946.
The ferro-concrete style, reinforced concrete in modern architecture. With 400 illus. of European and American ferro-concrete design.. New York: Architectural Book, 1928.
The mechanical principles of engineering and architecture. New York: J. Wiley, 1875.
"The Sanitary Engineer." The Sanitary Engineer. (1880).
Gebrüder Armbrüster "Kunstschmiede & Eisenconstructions, Werkstätten," Frankfurt A/M.. Frankfurt: Gebr. Armbrüster.
Prose essays. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909.
The essays of Montaigne. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: first and second series complete in one volume. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1951.
Carlyle's Essays. Vol. 2. Houghton Mifflin, 1881.
The Essayist: a young men's magazine.. Boston: Lyceum Press, 1833.
Essays and poems. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1954.
Complete essays of Schopenhauer; seven books in one volume,. New York: Willey Book Co., 1942.
The Essays of Montaigne. Translated by George B. Ives. Introductions by Grace Norton.. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1925.
Mark Twain's speeches.. New York: Harper & Bros., 1923.
What is man?: and other essays. New York: Harper & Bros., 1917.
Essays by Bacon. Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co., 1883.
Essays, civil and moral: and the new Atlantis. New York: P.F. Collier, 1909.
Essays on physiognomy: for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind. London: Printed by C. Whittingham, for H.D. Symonds ..., 1804.
Three tales: The snowstorm, the postmaster, the undertaker,. New York: London Transatlantic arts, 1945.
Cities of the plain.. New York: Modern Library, 1927.
The Tragic Comedians. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
One of our conquerors,. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930.
The amazing marriage. New York: C. Scribner, 1930.
The adventures of Harry Richmond. New York: C. Scribner, 1930.
The egoist.. New York: Scribner, 1931.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930.
Evan Harrington. New York: Scribner, 1926.
Beauchamp's career. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
Diana of the Crossways. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
The shaving of Shagpat.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Vittoria. New York: Scribner, 1925.
Rhoda Fleming: a story. New York: Scribner, 1925.
Sandra Belloni: originally Emilia in England. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921.
Trilby. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895.
Short Stories. New York: Little Leather Librry Corp.
The Jungle Book. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.
Green mansions, a romance of the tropical forest. With an introd. by H.E. Bates.. London: Collins, 1957.
Chicot the Jester. London: Collins' Clear-type Press.
Black Tulip. New York: A. L. Burt Co.
The Thibaults. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
The Children of Mu. New York: Washburn, 1934.
Place of hawks., 1935.
Animal farm., 1946.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer., 1922.
Antic hay., 1923.
Scott's Ivanhoe: a romance., 1906.
New Arabian nights. New York: Scribner, 1925.
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. New York: A. L. Burt Co.
The sermons of Mr. Yorick [?]. London: J. Dodsley, 1776.
The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. .... London: J. Jones, 1822.
Animal Farm.. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946.
Penguin island: a translation by A.W. Evans.. London: John Lane (?), 1924.
Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends.... London: T. Becket, 1776.
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick. London: T. Becket, 1776.
The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. London: J. Dodsley, 1775.
Always the younger strangers.. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Tower in the West.. New York: Harper, 1957.