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The Inns of Court and Chancery

W. J. Loftie · 1908 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.29 | $231.70 | ¥37,027)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1908. Cloth. A new edition of this illustrated guide to the heart of London jurisprudence from British writer William John Loftie. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-five plates. Collated complete. Originally published 1893, th...

Four Modern Masterpieces: Impressionist and Modern Art

Christie's · 2010 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.82 | $59.58 | ¥9,521)

New York, Christie's , 2010. Paperback. A very smart guide of the auction of four modern masterpieces from Christie's Auction House, November 2010. Very scarce work. Illustrated in colour. The original guide for an auction held by Christie's, a British auction h...

Windmills

Hayter Preston · 1923 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.78 | $72.82 | ¥11,637)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated study of windmills, with watercolours by Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn. First edition. In the original cloth binding. A charming history and homage to windmills across the British Isles, ...

Aspects of British Art

Michael Ayrton; W. J. Turner; Various · 1947 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.78 | $72.82 | ¥11,637)

London, Collins, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study on the varying aspects of British art, complete with colour plates and the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the publisher's orig...

Brush and Pencil Notes in Landscape

Edwin Bale · 1914 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.72 | $92.68 | ¥14,811)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this celebration of Sir Alfred East's artwork, featuring a series of his watercolour paintings and pencil sketches, and a short biography on the artist's life by Edwin Bale. The fir...

Windmills

Hayter Preston · 1923 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.21 | $62.23 | ¥9,944)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated study of windmills, with watercolours by Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn. First edition. In the original cloth binding. A charming history and homage to windmills across the British Isles, ...

Royal Palaces and Gardens

Mima Nixon · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.20 | $129.75 | ¥20,735)

London, A. & C. Black Ltd, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated history of European palaces and gardens by Mima Nixon, complete with sixty colour plates The first trade edition of this charming work dedicated to palaces and gardens around Europe. In the origi...

Kendal in the Nineteenth Century: A Book of Drawings

John Marsh · 1977 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.65 | $112.54 | ¥17,985)

Kendal, Westmorland Gazette, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of illustrations based on early photographs of the market town Kendal, Westmorland and Furness. First edition. Illustrated with one hundred and thirty numbered drawings based on histori...

Clothes... And Other Things That Matter

Alexandra Shulman · 2020 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.88 | $39.72 | ¥6,348)

London, Cassell, 2020. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of the autobiography of British journalist Alexandra Shulman, signed in presentation to Carmen Callil. First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author in presentation to Carmen Callil, ...

A Forger&Apos;S Tale

Shaun Greenhalgh · 2015 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.61 | $125.78 | ¥20,101)

London, ZCZ Editions, 2015. First edition. Paperback. The signed limited first edition of this insight into Shaun Greenhalgh's career as an art forger. The limited first edition, limited to four hundred copies, of which this is numbered two hundred and two.Signed by the a...

Cinemas, Vues Exterieures-Details-Plans

E. Vergnes · 1921 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€448.48 | $496.50 | ¥79,344)

Paris, Librairie Generale de L'Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs; Ch Massin & Cie, [1921]. First edition. Hardback. A fantastic visual architectural study on cinema design, being a portfolio of architectural drawings and plans depicting the exteriors and interiors of or...

Divers Works of Early Masters in Christian Decorations

John Weale [ed] · 1846 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€711.58 | $787.77 | ¥125,893)

London, John Weale, 1846. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce and beautifully illustrated work on Christian art and stained glass. A striking work with stunning examples of early chromolithographs, and ambitious hand coloured lithographs. The first edition...

A Glimpse at the Art of Japan

James Jackson Jarves · 1876 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.72 | $92.68 | ¥14,811)

New York, Hurd and Houghton , 1876. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated, first edition of this scarce exploration of Japanese art in the mid nineteenth century. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original blue blind stamped cloth. Scarce work. An expl...

Library of the Fine Arts; or Repertory of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving

1831 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.31 | $225.08 | ¥35,969)

London, M. Arnold, 1831. First edition. Leather. The first two volumes of this English monthly art magazine, uniformly bound in half calf. This set consists of the entire 1831 run of the Library of the Fine Arts. Eleven issues across two volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf,...

Pugin: A Gothic Passion

Paul Atterbury; Clive Wainwright [ed.] · 1994 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.86 | $46.34 | ¥7,405)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1994. First edition. Paperback. An excellent copy of this illustrated study of Augustus Pugin, published alongside an exhibition held at Victoria & Albert Museum. First edition. In the publisher's pictorial wraps. Published to coincide ...

In English Homes

Charles Latham · 1907 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.40 | $522.98 | ¥83,576)

London , The Offices of Country Life, 1907-1909 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated, complete set of Charles Latham's influential work studying the interior design of English homes. Complete in three volumes. Containing the third edition of Volume I, and the...

The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period

Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton · 1929 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.40 | $522.98 | ¥83,576)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1929 . Cloth. A wonderful example of the impressively illustrated two volume second edition of Garner and Stratton's study of Tudor architecture. The revised and enlarged second edition of this work, complete in two volumes.Illustrated with a monoc...

Lives of the Engineers with an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain

Samuel Smiles · 1861 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.58 | $463.40 | ¥74,055)

London, John Murray, 1861-1862. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated biographical series on notable engineers and their works, by Samuel Smiles. First edition. Complete in three volumes. In the original cloth binding.A compelling biographical history of...

Metropolitan Board of Works: Description of Putney Bridge on Laying the Stone in the Southern Abutment by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

1884 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

London, Judd & Co. 1884. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce original programme for the laying of the stone in the southern abutment of the Putney Bridge, on 12th July 1884. First edition. Very scarce work. With a frontispiece and a folding plan. Collated complete....

A Manual of Gothic Moldings

F. A. Paley; W. M. Fawcett · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

London, John Van Voorst, 1877. Cloth. An illustrated guide to Gothic architecture by Frederick Apthorp Paley, the fourth edition of this popular work. A guide to Gothic architecture, focusing in particular on the different moldings typical of the Gothic style, with directions ...