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The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson

Arthur W. Heintzelman · 1971 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

New York , Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. Cloth. A charming collection of the watercolour drawings of Thomas Rowlandson, with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. The second printing. Originally published in 1947. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. ...

Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds

David Verey; Alan Brooks · 1999 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Penguin Books, 1999. Hardback. A fine revised edition of this extensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire, with illustrations. The third edition of this work, extensively revised. Bound in the original faux black leather. With the publisher's original ...

Francis Towne: Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting

Adrian Bury · 1962 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Charles Skilton Ltd, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study on British watercolour painter Francis Towne. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-four plates, many of which are in colour. Collated complete. A...

Academy Notes

Henry Blackburn; Various · 1875 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1875-94. Leather. A very scarce to see set collecting together the issues of this publication promoting the Royal Academy. Twenty issues bound in one. Very scarce to see as a set.An impressive set collecting together many years of 'Academy Notes...

National Gallery of Scotland: Catalogue of Italian Drawings

Keith Andrews · 1971 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Cambridge University Press for the National Gallery of Scotland, 1971 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated two volume account of the Italian drawings held by the National Gallery of Scotland. First published in 1968, this later edition is reprinted with corrections.Two v...

The Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries

Charles Robert Leslie; Tom Taylor · 1865 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, John Murray, 1865. Cloth. A comprehensive biography of English painter and founder of The Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, with plates. Complete in two volumes. In the original cloth binding. A detailed look at the life and works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, a major En...

Auguste Rodin with a List of His Principle Works

Rudolf Dircks · 1904 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, A. Siegle, 1904. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated study of the life and works of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. First edition. Illustrated with twelve plates, one of which is tipped in. Lacking tipped in frontispiece. A detailed...

Holzschnitte Des Meisters Ds

Elfried Bock · 1924 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Berlin, Reichsdruckerei , 1924. Cloth. A monograph on the wood engravings of a sixteenth century Swiss artist. In German. A volume celebrating the engravings of Master D.S. of Basel, a Swiss artist who was active between 1505 and 1511. Little is known of him, but his striking ...

The Etchings of D.Y. Cameron

Arthur M. Hind · 1924 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Halton and Truscott Smith, LTD, 1924. Leather. A limited edition study on the etchings of David Young Cameron, complete with one hundred plates. A limited edition of two hundred copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and fourteen. A monograph on the etchings of...

Modigliani

Garibaldo Marussi · 1963 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Milan, Studio Editoriale d'Arte Perna, 1963. Cloth. A smart limited edition work on the paintings of Amedeo Modigliani, colourfully illustrated. A limited edition of one-thousand numbered copies, of which this is numbered six-hundred and eighty-five.In Italian.In the orig...

Birds and Beasts

Chiang Yee · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Country Life Limited, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming work by Chiang Yee, collecting together twelve beautiful plates of animals. The first edition of this work.A charming portfolio containing twelve plates of animals by Chiang Yee.The l...

Catalogue of Mr. Punch&Apos;S Pageant, 1841 to 1908

None stated · 1909 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Ernest Brown & Philips, 1909. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce illustrated catalogue of works featured in the 'Mr. Punch' exhibition at Leicester Galleries. The first trade edition. Also published as a limited edition. This volume includes an order for...

English Furniture

Frederick S. Robinson · 1905 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Methuen and Co, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frederick S. Robinson's extensively illustrated account of English furniture in the early twentieth century. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece, and one-hund...

Gimson and the Barnsleys

Mary Comino · 1980 · Rooke Books

£57.00 (€68.33 | $75.32 | ¥12,029)

London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Mary Comino's study of the Arts and Crafts architects and furniture designers Gimson and the Barnsleys. First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white ...

Some Reflections on the Art of Thomas Rowland & George Morland

Selwyn Image · 1929 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, The Print Collectors' Club, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this study on the artwork of Thomas Rowlandson and George Morland. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies, of which this is number three hundred and eighty-one. Illustra...

French Etching from Meryon to Lepere: Being a Lecture

Campbell Dodgson · 1922 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, The Print Collectors' Club, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this lecture on French etchings from British art historian Campbell Dodgson. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrap. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ele...

The Etchings of William Strang & Sir Charles Holroyd: Being a Lecture

Campbell Dodgson · 1933 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Print Collectors' Club, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this lecture on the artworks of William Strang and Sir Charles Holroyd. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies of which three hundred are for presentation to the Members of t...

Woodcuts and Wood Engravings: Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors&Apos; Club on January 20th, 1925, on the Origin and Character of the Present School of Engraving and Cutting

Noel Rooke · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Print Collectors' Club, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this very scarce illustrated lecture on woodcuts and wood engravings from British artist Noel Rooke. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies, of which three hundred are for presentation to t...

Modern Woodcutters 3

T. Sturge Moore · 1921 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Adelphi, The Little Art Rooms, 1921. First edition. Paperback. A smart collection of modern woodcuttings from British author and artist Thomas Sturge Moore. First edition. Scarce. Illustrated with fourteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of examples of Moore's woo...

A Series of Ornamental Timber Gables, from Existing Examples in England and France

Augustus Pugin · 1839 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1839 . Cloth. The second edition of Augustus Pugin's illustrated study of ornamental gables, with thirty plates. The second edition of this work, first published in 1831.Illustrated with an engraved title page, and thirty engraved plates, retaining ...