Pittura e disegno

Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

John Gage · 1993 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated study on art and colour from English art historian John Gage. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with two hundred and ...

Aretin: Or, a Dialogue on Painting

Lodovico Dolce · 1770 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Glasgow, Robert Urie, 1770. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition in English of this important work of art theory by Lodovico Dolce. The very scarce first edition in English. A London edition was also published in this year, priority is not known.Date is errone...

The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period

Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton · 1929 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

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...

The Bottle and the Drunkard&Apos;S, with a Poem by Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay; George Cruikshank · 0 · Rooke Books

£1,595.00 (€1,911.86 | $2,107.22 | ¥336,495)

New York, D. Bogue; Wiley and Putnam, c1847. First edition. Paperback. The first editions of George Cruikshank's important collections of etchings, created to promote abstinence, with the accompanying poetry from Charles Mackay. The first edition to all, being the edition...

The Oxford Companion to the Theatre

Phyllis Hartnoll [ed.] · 1957 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Oxford University Press, 1957. Leather. A lovely second edition of this Oxford encyclopedia for the theatre, rebound in full crushed morocco. Second edition, being the first with illustrative supplement. First published 1951. Bound in full blue crushed morocco. With ...

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 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

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...

Birds in Mallorca

John Busby · 1988 · Rooke Books

£73.00 (€87.50 | $96.44 | ¥15,401)

London, Christopher Helm, 1988. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this wonderfully illustrated study of the birds of Mallorca. First edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white sketches by the author. With the publisher'...

Photography for Novices, the Primus Handbook

F. C. Lambert · 1909 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, W. Butcher & Sons, LTD, 1909. Cloth. An uncommon early twentieth century handbook to photography, an illustrated guide to the art in its early days. An uncommon work.This is a comprehensive manual introducing the rear to photography, a fascinating work on the art durin...

Pictures in the Dulwich Gallery: Princes Victoria Series

Dulwich Picture Gallery · 1910 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Hammersmith, Engraved and printed by orders of the Governors by Emery Walker, 1910-1912 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this three part celebration of the pictures and paintings present at the Dulwich Gallery in the early twentieth century. A very sc...

A Handbook of Indian Art

E. B. Havell · 1920 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, John Murray, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of influential English arts administrator, art historian and author Ernest Binfield Havell's study of the art of India. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and 89 ...

More Bandobast

Snaffles [Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Collins, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition work of sketches of sporting life in 1930s India by Snaffles, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illus...

Impressions That Remained: Memoirs

Ethel Smyth · 1920 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1920. Cloth. A presentation copy of the second half of Ethel Smyth's memoir, the celebrated English composer and member of the women's suffrage movement, inscribed by the Smyth. The third edition. The author's presentation copy ...

Pages from the Glossies: Facsimiles 1956-1998

Helmut Newton; June Newton [editor]; Walter Keller [editor] · 1998 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Zurich, Berlin, New York, Scalo, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this bright collection of photographs from German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton used in magazines. First edition. Illustrated with over five hundred photographs, most of which are in ...

Das Imaginare Portrat, Imaginary Portraits, le Portrait Imaginaire

Vladimir Fuka; Emanuel Frynta · 1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Prague, Artia, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this trilingual collection of portraits from Czechoslovakian‐born artist Vladimir Fuka. Trilingual, with text in German, English, and French. Illustrated throughout with sixty-eight full-page colour portr...

E. Mcknight Kauffer: A Designer and His Public

Mark Haworth-Booth · 1979 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the works of American artist and graphic designer Edward McKnight Kauffer. First edition. Illustrated with seventy-five images, many of which are in colour. A detailed study o...

Bibliophilie Musicale: Les Bibliotheques Portugaises: Essai de Classification: Les Livres D&Apos;Un Amateur: Cabinet Iconographique

Michel Angelo Lambertini · 1918 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Praca dos Restauradores , Typographia do Annuario Commercial, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition musical bibliography from pianist and composer, Michel Angelo Lambertini. Signed by the author to the limitation page. A very scarce limited edition, this copy b...

Naval Ballads and Sea Songs

Cecil C. P. Lawson [ed.] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Peter Davies , 1933. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon anthology of naval and sea ballads, selected and strikingly illustrated by Cecil Gordon Lawson. First edition.With the very scarce dust wrapper, price-clipped. A charming anthology of historical sea songs and ball...

An Historical and Descriptive Guide to York Cathedral and Its Antiquities

Geo. Ayliffe Poole; J. W. Hugall · 1850 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

York , R. Sunter , 1850. First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated monograph on York Minster, written by Gothic Revival specialists George Ayliffe Poole and J. W. Hugall. First edition. Rebound in full brown cloth. This comprehensive guide describes the measurements, m...

The Works of William Hogarth

John Trusler · 1821 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. Sharpe; R. Griffin & Co, 1821. Leather. A brilliant study of the work of Hogarth, faithfully reproduced here across one hundred and fifty nine plates. Complete in two volumes.A beautiful study on the works of William Hogarth, including a biography and anecdotes on t...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

Edmund Lodge · 1823 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.83 | $1,156.00 | ¥184,598)

London, Harding and Lepard , 1823-1834. Leather. The complete set of Edmund Lodge's illustrated series, offering portraits and memoirs of illustrious figures of Great Britain. The first Harding and Lepard edition. Complete in twelve volumes.Uniformly bound in half morocco...