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Clothes... And Other Things That Matter

Alexandra Shulman · 2020 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

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 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

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 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

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 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

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 (€1,378.66 | $1,519.57 | ¥242,684)

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 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

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 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

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 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

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 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

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 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

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 ...

Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

John Gage · 1993 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

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 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

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 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

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 (€1,912.14 | $2,107.57 | ¥336,592)

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 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

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 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

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 (€87.51 | $96.46 | ¥15,405)

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 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

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 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

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 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

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 ...