Pittura e disegno

Histoire de L&Apos;Art Depuis Les Premiers Temps Chretiens Jusqu&Apos;a Nos Jours

Andre Michel · 1905 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1905-38. Leather. The complete eighteen volumes of Andre Michel's mammoth history of art, tracing art from the early Christian times, right up to the early twentieth century, illustrated throughout with dozens of plates. Eighteen volumes bou...

The Five Scrolls

Albert H. Friedlander; Herbert Bronstein · 1984 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, CCAR Press, 1984. First edition. Cloth. An unopened first edition of this interesting English translation and illustrated edition of 'The Five Scrolls', illustrated in colour by Leonard Baskin. With an opened copy of the same first edition book. Unopened, i...

Woodcuts and Some Words

Edward Gordon Craig · 1924 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€958.93 | $1,056.91 | ¥168,775)

London, J M Dent and Sons, 1924. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, excellent example of Edward Gordon Craig's woodcuts. Written by the artist himself, this work looks at Craig's woodcuts between 1898 and 1921. The first edition of this work. Edward Gordon Craig was ...

The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford a Descriptive Catalogue with Summary Descriptions of the Greek and Oriental Manuscripts

M. B. Parkes · 1979 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Scolar Press, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this fascinating catalogue of the Western, Greek and Oriental medieval manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford. Many of the manuscripts listed in this catalogue were given to the college from the mon...

Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire

James Jaffray · 1862 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Birmingham, Thomas Underwood, 1862. Leather. A beautiful collection of illustrations relating to the English county of Warwickshire. Formed of drawings by various popular illustrators of the nineteenth century. Collated, complete. With a frontispiece, thirty-one plates and thi...

Scraps and Sketches

None · 1882 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Unamed, Unamed, 1882. Cloth. A lovely example of this large collection of illustrations by the celebrated nineteenth century cartoonist and illustrator George Cruikshank. Undated, dated using Copac. Illustrated with 24 pages of illustrations. Collated, complete (Copac). The pl...

Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege

None · 1835 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, Hodgson, Boys and Graves, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A vast collection of mezzotint illustrated plates by the noted nineteenth century artist Henry Liverseege. Very scarce. Henry Liverseege was a prolific artist who, during his short-lived career, often depicted scene...

George Stubbs and Ben Marshall

Walter Shaw Sparrow; E. D. Cuming · 1929 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Walter Shaw Sparrow's fascinating study of the life and works of the renowned English sporting and animal painters, George Stubbs and Ben Marshall. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Wels...

Six Ink Drawings

None · 1983 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Unknown, New Broom Private Press, 1983. Loose Pages, Articles. A collection of limited edition small prints of ink drawings by Rigby Graham, held in a envelope. The original envelope is number 53 of 110 set. Complete with 6 drawings held in the original envelope. Published in ...

British Watercolours in the Victoria and Albert an Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the National Collection

Lionel Lambourne; Jean Hamilton · 1980 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, Sotheby Parke Bernet , 1980. First edition. Cloth. A profusely illustrated first edition volume featuring the watercolour paintings held at the Victoria and Albert museum. First edition (Copac) Held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. This fascinating volume present...

City of Bradford Corporation Art Gallery Cartwright Memorial Hall Illustrated Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Pictures and Other Works of Art

Unamed · 1924 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

[Bradford], Published by the Authority of the Art Gallery Committee, 1924. Cloth. A scarce catalogue of the art featured in city of Bradford permanent collection, profusely illustrated with numerous plates. Undated, dated from the preface. Third edition, of this scarce work. N...

Old English Houses of Alms a Pictorial Record with Architectural and Historical Notes

Sidney Heath · 1910 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Francis Griffiths, 1910. First edition. Cloth. An interesting illustrated book looking at almshouses, charitable housing generally to help the poor. 'Old English Houses of Alms' offers an interesting historical insight into the life and running of almshouses ...

Frondes Agrestes: &Apos;Readings in Modern Painters&Apos;

John Ruskin, [Sel. by The Younger Lady of the Thwaite Coniston] · 1882 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

Orpington, George Allen, 1882. Leather. An insightful explanation of the principles behind the paintings of Turner and the Romantics, written by the esteemed polymath John Ruskin. The sixth edition of Frondes Agrestes: 'Readings in Modern Painters', Chosen at her Ple...

The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter

A.H. Palmer · 1895 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive biography on a pioneering illustrator of wildlife art, considered to be among the best within his field. The first edition of The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter, a biography written by British autho...

The Keramic Gallery

William Chaffers · 1907 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Gibbings and Company, 1907. Cloth. The second edition of an attractive art history of pottery across ancient to nineteenth century Eurasia, with colour plates, and numerous illustrations throughout. The second edition of The Keramic Gallery, an attractive art history, ...

Old Ship Prints

E. Keble Chatterton · 1927 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London; New York, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this interesting maritime art history work, featuring close to seventy plates in black and white and colour. First edition.In the publisher's...

Scottish Castles of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Oliver Hill; Christopher Hussey [intro.] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Country Life Limited, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated account of the history and architecture of sixteenth and seventeenth century Scottish castles. The first edition.In publisher's original purple cloth binding. In the origin...

French Wood Carvings from the National Museums

Eleanor Rowe · 1896 · Rooke Books

£520.00 (€623.30 | $686.99 | ¥109,704)

London, B T Batsford, 1896-7. Cloth. A first edition of Eleanor Rowe's French Wood Carvings, complete in three volumes. With 54 black and white plates, showing many fabulous examples of wood-carving from across the ages covered. Volume one covers the late fifteenth and ea...

Paintings and Drawings of Continental Schools and Schools Other Than Flemish and Italian and Flemish Paintings and Drawings and Italian Paintings and Drawings and Recent Acquisitions at 56 Princes Gate London Sw7

Antoine Seilern · 1961 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Shenval Press, 1961. Cloth. An attractive collection of text and plates from Antoine Seilern's collection at 56 Princes Gate, South Kensington, London. With 275 in-text illustrations and 279 separate plates. Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) was an Anglo-Austrian ...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A · 1756 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, c1860. Cloth. A beautiful illustrated collection of portraits with biographical and historical memoirs by Edmund Lodge. With 240 plates of black and white engravings with decorative borders, engraved reproductions from pictu...