Pittura e disegno

Aspects of British Art

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

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

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 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

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...

Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft

None · 1831 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, None, 1831. First edition. Leather. The first extended edition of Cooke's fantastic collection of etchings depicting ships, featuring fifteen additional plates, and smartly bound in crushed half morocco. The first extended edition, featuring the fifty original pla...

Royal Palaces and Gardens

Mima Nixon · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

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 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

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...

The Idea; Story without Words

Frans Masereel · 1986 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, The Redstone Press, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. A striking first UK edition, binding two of Frans Masereel"s pioneering wordless novels as one, with striking, expressionist woodcuts. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding.Complete with the original unclip...

Drawn Direct to the Plate: Noel Carrington and the Puffin Picture Book

Joe Pearson · 2010 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Penguin Collectors Society, 2010. First edition. Hardback. An excellent first edition of this study of the work of English book designer Noel Carrington for the Puffin Picture Books, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to an edition of one thousand one hundred...

A Typographic Journey: The History of the Greenwood Press and Bibliography, 1934-2000

Jack Werner Stauffacher; Glenn Humphreys · 1999 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

California , The Book Club of California , 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this typographic history of The Greenwood Press, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Limited to four hundred and fifty copies. This copy is signed and inscribe...

The Nude, a Study of Ideal Art

Kenneth Clark · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Penguin Books, 1960. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Kenneth Clark's study of how the nude has been used in art throughout the centuries. Strikingly bound in quarter calf with paper to the boards.An ode to the nude in art, exploring the history of art and how nud...

Only Yesterday: Times of My Life

Richard Baldwyn · 2008 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Berkshire, Kendal & Dean, 2008. First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed presentation copy of actor Richard Baldwyn's autobiography, presented to the publisher and writer Carmen Callil, with letters from and to the author. The first edition, first impression. The author...

Clothes... And Other Things That Matter

Alexandra Shulman · 2020 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

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, ...

To Brighten Things Up: The Schmoller Collection of Decorated Papers

Tanya Schmoller · 2008 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Manchester , Manchester Metropolitan University , 2008. Paperback. A wonderful signed copy of this collection of decorated papers from Tanya Schmoller, personal assistant to Allen Lane. This work limited to 250 copies in hardback and 250 in softback, this being one of the copi...

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer

Duncan Robinson · 1982 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Gordon Fraser, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated study from British art historian Duncan Robinson. First edition. Illustrated with eighty black-and-white figures. The Kelmscott Chaucer is widely held to be one of the most magnif...

A Forger&Apos;S Tale

Shaun Greenhalgh · 2015 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

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...

Die Glasgemalde Des Koniglichen Kunstgewere-Museums Zu Berlin

Hermann Schmitz · 1913 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)

Berlin, Julius Bard, 1913. Cloth. An impressive limited edition monograph on the stained glass held at the Kunstgewerbemuseum. A limited edition de luxe, limited to seventy-five copies, of which this is numbered forty-one. This limited edition was printed in a larger format an...

A Glimpse at the Art of Japan

James Jackson Jarves · 1876 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

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 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

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,...

A Practical Treatise on Painting in Three Parts

John Burnet · 1828 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

London, James Carpenter and Son, 1828. Leather. A finely bound copy of John Burnet's exploration of painting, three illustrated treatises. Smartly bound in a morocco binding, with renewed endpapers, in a custom cloth chemise and custom cloth slipcase, an unsigned binding ...

The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora

Suzanne Lewis · 1987 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Cambridge , Scolar Press, 1987. First edition. Leather. A strikingly bound copy of this study Matthew Paris' artwork found inside his seminal thirteenth century work 'Chronica Majora', bound in illustrated full vellum and housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. ...

Pugin: A Gothic Passion

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

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

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 ...