Pittura e disegno

Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Penicil Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-Color Painting, Et Al.

Madame L.B. Urbino; Prof. Henry Day; et al. · 1860 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Boston, J.E. Tilton and Company, 1860 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this copiously detailed guide to differing art styles. The first edition of the work.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and in text throughout...

International Window Display Schaufensterkunst Etalages

Walter Herdeg · 1951 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this copiously illustrated international survey of the art of window display, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition.In publisher's original black cloth binding....

The Typographic Arts

Stanley Morison · 1944 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Edinburgh, James Thin, 1944 . First edition. Paperback. First edition of the significant lecture on typography from the prominent Stanley Morison, creator of the Times New Roman typeface. First edition.Publisher's original soft covers.Featuring numerous decorations by Joa...

English Decorative Fabrics of the 16th-18th Centuries

A. F. Kendrick · 1934 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Benfleet, Essex, F. Lewis Limited, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition on textile art of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, profusely illustrated with fifty-three plates. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.With a frontispie...

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Prehistoric Art; or the Origin of Art As Manifested in the Works of Prehistoric Man

Thomas Wilson · 1898 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Washington, Government Printing Office , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A thoroughly illustrated study of prehistoric art by U.S. museum curator Thomas Wilson. First edition. Uncommon. Bound in pebbled cloth, with paper title labels to the front board and spine.Illustrated with ...

The Drawings of Antoine Watteau

K. T. Parker · 1931 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

London, B. T. Batsford, Ltd , 1931. First edition. Leather. A limited first edition catalogue of Antoine Watteau's drawings, handsomely bound in Art Deco-style morocco by H. T. Wood. First edition, limited to one thousand copies. In contemporary full signed morocco, deta...

Costumes Anciens Et Modernes; or, Habiti Antichi Et Moderni by Cesare Vecellio

Cesare Vecellio; Firmin Didot · 1859 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,215)

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1859; 1860. Leather. Decorative bilingual French and Italian edition of Vecellio's popular collection on historical costumes from around the world, featuring over two hundred full-page illustrations. Fourth edition. In bilingual French and Italian.Com...

The Analysis of Beauty Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste; Rules for Drawing Caricatures: With an Essay on Comic Painting

William Hogarth; Francis Grose · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Samuel Bagster, c1810. Hardback. William Hogarth's theories of visual beauty, together with Francis Grose's essay on comic painting. Bound in are two large beautifully engraved plates. Comprising two works in one: William Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty and...

The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance Vol. 8 (Bound Together with November 1846 Issue, Vol. 6)

None Stated · 1846 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, E. Henderson, 1846-1847. First edition. Leather. A scarce volume of this illustrated Victorian ladies magazine, with charming hand-coloured plates. First edition.Comprising July-December 1847 (completing Volume 8 of the New Series), followed by November 1846 bound-in t...

Pencil Sketch Book

Anonymous · 1832 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Not Stated, None, 1832 . Leather. A charming illustrated sketch book, featuring thirty-one delightful pencil illustrations of English landscapes in 1832. A wonderful illustrated anonymously produced 19th century sketch book, with the pencil date of 1832 to the pastedowns.Consi...

The Habitations of Man in All Ages

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc; Benjamin Bucknall [trans] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876 . First edition. Cloth. A smart illustrated copy of this account of domestic architecture across cultures, translated into English. The first edition of this English translation.A smart copy, in publisher's original...

Sketch Book

Anonymous · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Not Stated, None, c1870 . Cloth. A truly delightful illustrated sketch book, featuring fifteen charming pencil illustrations of mountainous landscapes. A wonderful anonymously illustrated 19th century sketch book.Consisting of forty-four pages, with landscape pencil illustrati...

Manet Aquafortiste Et Lithographe

Leon Rosenthal · 1925 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, Le Goupy, 1925. Paperback. An uncommon limited edition copy of this illustrated work, in original paper wraps. An uncommon limited edition copy of this work - an analysis of the characteristics of Manet's work, by French art historian Leon Rosenthal.Bound in origin...

Historic Portraits of the Court of Henry VIII

Anonymous · 1877 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 1877 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of the first volume of this publication of the portraits Hans Holbein made in the court of Henry VIII, with these portraits reproduced as autotypes. Volume I ...

Raccolta E Paralello Delle Fabbriche Classiche

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand; Jacques-Guillaume Legrand · 1833 · Rooke Books

£1,850.00 (€2,217.52 | $2,444.11 | ¥390,293)

Venezia [Venice], Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833 . First edition. Leather. Strikingly illustrated with over 260 engraved plates, this is the first bilingual edition of Durand and Legrand's impressive study of European architecture. The first edition of this work to be published...

Adventure by Sea from Art of Old Time

Basil Lubbock; John Masefield [Preface]; Geoffrey Holme [Ed] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, The Studio Limited, 1925. Leather. A limited, Studio-produced edition of Lubbock"s richly illustrated history of seafaring and naval adventure in the age of sail, complete with 115 plates including 22 in colour. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. This copy is a...

Paris Chez Soi: Revue Historique, Monumentale Et Pittoresque de Paris Ancien Et Moderne

The Elite of Contemporary Literature · 1855 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Paul Boizard, 1855 . First edition. Leather. A highly illustrated first edition of this account of modern and old Paris, with a frontispiece, plate and in text illustrations. The first edition of the work. In half red morocco with gilt spine, red cloth boards and marbl...

The Lights of Canopus

J. V. S. Wilkinson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Studio Limited, [1929] . First edition. Cloth. Scholarly colour compilation of Husain Va'iz Kashifi's The Lights of Canopus from the British Museum collection. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by the...

The Printseller & Collector; the Collector&Apos;S Magazine

Stanley Elston Austin [ed.]; R. Sydney Glover [ed.] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Offices of 'The Collector's Magazine' , 1903-1905. Leather. Three volumes of this uncommon art, print and antiquities journal, profusely illustrated throughout. Offering the following contents from The Collector's Magazine, published under the title...

Hans Coper

Tony Birks · 1983 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

New York, Harper & Row, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this illustrated biography of German-born British ceramicist Hans Coper, in the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper. A signed first edition of this illus...