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Eden Versus Whistler the Baronet and the Butterfly: A Valentine with a Verdict

[James McNeill Whistler] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, R. H. Russell, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with many black and white illustrations by Whistler.  The first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to the front b...

Westminster Abbey: Its Memories and Its Message

Mary Sturgeon · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated first edition of Sturgeon's historical view into Westminster Abbey. First edition.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.With a frontispiece and fifteen delicately c...

Etchers and Etching

Joseph Pennell · 1920 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Cloth. The third edition of Joseph Pennel's beautiful and informative work into the intricate craft of etching. The third edition of Etchers and Etching by prolific American artist and lithographer Joseph Pennell. Volume II in the Graphic Ar...

The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period

Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton · 1911 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1911 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the impressively illustrated two volume first edition of Garner and Stratton's study of Tudor architecture. The first edition in book form, complete in two volumes. This work was initially publi...

Walt Disney&Apos;S Fantasia

John Culhane · 1983 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of John Culhane's wonderful study of the creation of the 1940s classic animation 'Fantasia', featuring 130 colour illustrations. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher...

Aphrodite Against Artemis, a Tragedy

T. Sturge Moore [Thomas Sturge Moore] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Sign of the Unicorn, 1901. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of prolific writer Thomas Sturge Moore's first play. Praised by W.B. Yeats. The first edition of Thomas Sturge Moore's play Aphrodite Against Artemis, a Tragedy, published by Sign of the Unico...

An Album of Drawings

James Guthrie · 1900 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

Shorne, Kent, The White Cottage, 1900. Paperback. A scarce book of beautiful illustrations by Scottish printmaker and illustrator James Guthrie, often holding a fantastical twist. A scarce, beautifully illustrated album of drawings from the Scottish printmaker and illustrator ...

La Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, Gravee Par Lucas de Leyde

Lucas de Leyde [Lucas van Leyden] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£1,550.00 (€1,858.19 | $2,048.11 | ¥327,096)

[Antwerp], EÃÂOeditions du MuseÃÂOee Plantin-Moretus, 1911. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this limited edition reproduction of Lucas de Leyde's 'La Passion de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ', printed from his original copperp...

The Communists of Paris 1871

Bertall · 1873 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

Paris , Buckingham and Co, 1873. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Bertall's heavily illustrated work depicting his observations of Parisian communists, with hand coloured plates throughout. The first English edition, first published in the original Frenc...

The Life of George Morland

George Dawe · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Dickinsons, 1904 . Cloth. George Dawe's limited edition biography on the life of the artist George Morland, with plates depicting the artist's works. A limited edition, 'Author's Edition', being number 63 out of 500.  Illustrated with a monoch...

Houses without Deposit: Being a New Way of Home-Building without Financial Anxiety

None Stated · 1927 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Iver , The Richings Park Estate Ltd. 1927. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce promotional survey of the Richings Park Estate, detailing plans and costs for planned freehold houses. First edition. Very scarce. In the original paper covered boards. Illustrated with a colou...

Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Patricia Lee Rubin · 2018 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2018. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing copy of this study of Renaissance bodies in art from American art historian Patricia Lee Rubin. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour images. An exploration of Renaissance bodies, bo...

Later Renaissance Architecture in England

John Belcher; Mervyn Macartney · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with one-hundred and seventy plates, this is the first two volume edition of this enormously impressive study of domestic Elizabethan era architecture. The first edition thus of this work following this work'...

Meister Der Schreibkunst Aust Drei Jahrhunderten

Peter Jessen · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, [1923]. Cloth. A limited edition of this study of artistic handwriting from Peter Jessen, with two hundred examples of beautiful handwriting, and previously owned by Ambrose Heal the noted furniture designer. A limited edition, being number 557. Wi...

The Pageant of the Lamp

The Edison Swan Electric Company Ltd. · 1948 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, The Edison Swan Electric Company Ltd. [1948]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon work from the Edison Swan Electric Company providing a short illustrated history of the electric lamp, with a letter from Edison Swan to Ambrose Heal, a notable furni...

Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks

R. W. Symonds · 1940 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1940. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this limited edition study on furniture and clocks by R. W. Symond's, inscribed by the author to Ambrose Heal, the noted furniture designer. A limited first edition, being one o...

Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England

R. W. Symonds · 1955 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, The Connoisseur, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Symonds' illustrated study on seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture making, signed and inscribed by the author to the noted furniture designer Ambrose Heal. The first trade edition. Also...

The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England

A. Welby Pugin [Augustus Pugin] · 1843 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.51 | $329.02 | ¥52,546)

London, Charles Dolman, 1843. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of nineteenth century ecclesiastical architecture, written by Augustus Pugin, a prominent architect known for his ecclesiastical designs. The first edition, republished from the Dublin review...

Lives of the Engineers: Early Engineering, Vermuyden, Myddelton, Perry, James Brindley

Samuel Smiles · 1904 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, John Murray, 1904. Leather. The popular edition of Smiles"s work, chronicling the lives and undertakings of some of Britain"s greatest civil engineers, illustrated with plates and bound in a full green calf prize binding. Rebound in a full green calf prize binding for ...

The History of Wolfelee

Palliser Hudson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Cassell and Company, 1921 . First edition. Leather. A lovely copy of the very scarce first edition of Palliser Hudson's posthumously published study of the history of Wolfelee House, a grand home his father bought for him. A vanishingly scarce first edition, in th...