Pittura e disegno

The Old Water-Colour&Apos;S Society&Apos;S Club

Various; Randall Davies, Adrian Burn (Ed) · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Privately Printed, 1926-50. Cloth. A collection of eighteen volumes of The Old Water-Colour's Society's Club, published between 1926 and 1950. Issued only to members. Containing: Volume III (1926) Volume IV (1927) Volume V (1928) Volume VI (1929) Volume VII (...

A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters in Oil from the Xvith Century to the Xixth Century

Maurice Harold Grant · 1926 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London; Leigh-on-Sea, Published by the Author; F Lewis, 1926-1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition three volume set of this fascinating work on English art. The first two volumes were published by the author, undated, in 1926 and the third published by F Lewis for the au...

The Modern Movement in Art

R H Wilenski · 1946 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber and Faber, 1946. Leather. A work reflecting on the development of art, held in a very smart slipcase. Written by Reginald Howard Wilenski, an art critic and historian. Illustrated throughout, with 32 illustrations. The ninth impression of this work. Rebound in a ...

Bartolozzi and His Works Second Edition Corrected and Revised with Additional Matter

Andrew W Tuer · 1885 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Field and Tuer, 1885. Leather. A biographical study into this famous Italian eighteenth century engraver, Bartolozzi The second edition of this work. Signed by the author to the edition page. Limited edition, number 79 of 500 copies. Andrew White Tuer was a British pub...

Bibliography of British Book Ilustrators 1860 - 1900

Charles Baker (ed.) · 1978 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

Birmingham Bookshop, Birmingham, 1978. First edition. Paperback. A limited first edition of the 'Bibliography of British Book Illustrators 1860 - 1900&apos. A comprehensive bibliography of illustrators, both well-known and not, that includes entries on and illustrations b...

S. & C. Stephenson Specimen and Sale Catalogue 1796-1797

Anonymous; James Mosley (introduction) · 1990 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Printing Historical Society, 1990. Paperback. Very scarce copy of this catalogue of two sales of S. & C. Stephenson. Printed roughly two centuries after the sales by the Printing Historical Society, the catalogues contains many illustrations and descriptions of printin...

The Story of Picture Printing in England During the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1928 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1928. Cloth. A history of pictorial printing in England during the 1800s. Illustrated throughout with many coloured plates. With chapters including Charles Knight as a Printer, Chromolithography, Henry Richard Vizetelly and many others. In...

Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1751 - 1783)

H. Rissik Marshall · 1977 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London , Ceramic Book Company, 1977. Cloth. A copy of Marshall's work on Worcester porcelain. In two parts; Part I with information on processes and different makers; Part II being a catalogue of porcelain. With extensive photographic plates throughout. In a blue cloth bi...

European Ceramic Art from the End of the Middle Ages to About 1815 an Illustrated Historical Survey; and a Dictionary of Factories Artists, Technical Terms, Et Cetera in Two Volumes

William Bowyer Honey · 1949 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London , Faber and Faber Limited, 1949-1952. First edition. Cloth. First Editions of Honey's extensive work on European Ceramic Art. The first volume being an Illustrated Historical Survey, and the second being a Dictionary of Factories, Artists, Technical Terms, Et Ceter...

Antonio Allegri Da Correggio His Life, His Friends and His Time

Corrado Ricci · 1896 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London , William Heinemann, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work on the life and art of Antonio da Correggio. Illustrated with 37 plates including a frontispiece. First English edition, translated from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. Antonio Allegri da ...

The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser

Haldane Macfall · 1923 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1923. Cloth. A biography of Claud Lovat Fraser, the artist and author. With numerous illustrations by the artists throughout, many of which are coloured. After a brief period under the tutelage of Walter Sickert in 1912, Fraser executed illustratio...

Meryon and Meryon&Apos;S Paris with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Artist&Apos;S Work

Frederick Wedmore · 1892 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London , Deprez and Gutekunst, 1892. Cloth. A scarce limited edition being number 93 of 129 copies of Frederick Wedmore's descriptive catalogue on the work of artist Charles Meryon. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Charles Méryon (1821 - 1868), was a French artist, w...

Paintings in the Hermitage

Colin Eisler · 1990 · Rooke Books

£129.99 (€155.84 | $171.76 | ¥27,432)

New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1990. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work on the art collection held in The Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia Catherine II, called Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796). Under her direct auspices the Russian Empire expanded, improved...

Pottery and Porcelain a Guide to Collectors

Frederick Litchfield · 1900 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.92 | $72.66 | ¥11,605)

London and New York, Truslove, Hanson and Comba, 1900. Cloth. A wonderfully descriptive collectors guide to pottery and porcelain. Containing one-hundred and fifty illustrations of specimens from various factories, several coloured plates including a frontispiece of a Chelsea-...

Rembrandt: The Master and His Worskshop Paintings

Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch and Pieter van Thiel · 1991 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A very handsome catalogue of Uwe Wieczorek's Rembrandt exhibition. Includes 83 beautiful colour plates with accompanying description and analysis. Chapters include "Rembrandt's method- technique...

The Price Guide to 18th Century English Pottery

Sally Mount · 1972 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

Suffolk , Baron Publishing, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on the prices you should have expected to pay for early English pottery in 1972. Featuring numerous photographic plates. An envelope and subsciption form to the Antique Collectors' Club a...

Scrutiny of Cinema

William Hunter · 1932 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Wishart & Co, 1932. First edition. Cloth. This is a first edition of this essay on cinema, the second volume of the Adelphi Quartos of artistic studies. This text includes illustrations comprising a collection of stills. This was intended to be part of a larger series ...

The Book in Italy

William Dana Orcutt · 1928 · Rooke Books

£239.99 (€287.71 | $317.11 | ¥50,645)

London, Bombay and Sydney, George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1928. Vellum. A review copy of Orcutt's The Book in Italy. Bound in quarter vellum with unclipped dust wrapper. Limited edition, out of series. Review copy, with review request slip. With three tipped in colou...

Creating French Culture Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; Marie-Helene Tesniere; Prosser Gifford · 1995 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995. Paperback. An illustrated work on French art. The exhibition described in this catalogue is the second in a series sponsored by the Library of Congress, designed to bring to the American public some of the highly valued - and often uniqu...

Engravers & Engraving

Francis Vacher · 1888 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Manchester, George Falkner, 1888. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of 'Engravers and Engraving', by Francis Vacher. First delivered as an Inaugural Address by the author at the commencement of the thirty-first session of the Birkenhead Literary and Scientific...