[See also bibliographies included with materials about individual sculptors]

Attwood, Philip. Artistic Circles, The Medal in Britain 1880-1918. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Avery, Charles, and Madeleine March. "The Bronze Statuettes of the Art Union of London: The Rise and Decline of Victorian Taste in Sculpture." Apollo 121 (May 1985): 328-57.

Baker, Margaret. London Statues and Monuments. 4th ed. London: Shire, 1995.

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Bullus, Claire & Ronald Asprey. The Statues of London. London and New York: Merrell, 2009.

Byron, Arthur. London Statues. London: Constable, 1981.

Cavanagh, Terry. The Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996.

Getsy, David. Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.

Gunnis, R. Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1861. London, 1953.

McKenzie, Ray, with contributions by Gary Nisbet. Public Sculpture of Glasgow. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Meller, Hugh & Brian Parsons. London Cemeteries. Fourth Edition; Amersham: Avebury Publishing Company, 2008.

Metamporphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture. Ed. Jeanne L. Wasserman. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Press, 1975.

Although this volume discusses only French and American sculpture -- it appeared before the revival of interest in Victorian sculpture -- its discussions of technical matters, conceptions of originality, and other issues involved with creating art in multiple copies illuminate British work as well.

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Sir Alfred Gilbert and the New Sculpture, 1850-1930. Exhibition catalogue. London: Fine Art Society in association with Robert Bowman, n.d. [2008].

Skipwith, Peyton. Peter Pan and Eros: Public and Private Sculpture in Britain, 1880-1940. London: Fine Art Society, 2002.

Spielmann, M H. British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-Day. London, 1901.

Steggles, Mary Ann. Statues of the Raj. Putney, London: BACSA [British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia], 2000.

Usherwood, Paul, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris. Public Sculpture of North-East England. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Virtue and Vision: Sculpture in Scotland, 1540-1900. Ed. Fiona Pearson. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. 1991.

Ward-Jackson, Philip. Public Sculpture of the City of London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003.


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