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The Flemish Tapestries at Wawel Castle in Cracow: Treasures of King Sigismund Augustus Jagiello

Professor Jerzy Szablowski [editor] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 1972. Cloth. A detailed work on the Jagiellonian tapestries of the Netherlands and Flanders, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with eighty-eight colour plates, sixteen of which are folding, and forty-three black and white plates, some of which are do...

Holiday Photographs with Images of Blackpool Tower

None · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Sheffield, Sheffield Photo Co. c1910. Cloth. A scarce photographic album of a holiday in Blackpool circa 1900, with images of the Blackpool Tower. Scarce work. Photographic album from a family holiday to Blackpool. With forty-eight black and white photographs on twenty-four pa...

George Baxter the Picture Printer

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1925 . Cloth. A smart copy of George Baxter The Picture Printer, with illustrations. George Baxter was an English artist and printer who is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. This volume explores his li...

The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Century George Baxter 1804-1867

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1911 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1911. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the history of George Baxter, the colour picture printer, with illustrations. A first edition copy. This volume details the history of George Baxter, the picture printer of the Ninet...

George Cruikshank&Apos;S Table-Book

Gilbert Abbott A Beckett [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Bell and Daldy , 1869. Leather. A new edition of this work celebrative of caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank's career. Showcasing the extremely successful career of George Cruikshank, famous British illustrator of the nineteenth century. He is known pa...

Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals

Daniel Berkeley Updike · 1937 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1937 . Cloth. The second edition, second impression of this two volume set on Updike's typography work. Second edition, second impression of Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals in the orig...

The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art

John Ruskin · 1859 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1859 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of lectures on art and its application by art critic John Ruskin. First edition of The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered ...

Seals

Walter De Gray Birch · 1907 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Methuen & Co. 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this work on the history of seals, by Walter de Gray Birch. First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and fifty-two plates. Collated complete. A guide to the history of seals, with referen...

Matthew Digby Wyatt an Inaugural Lecture

Nikolaus Pevsner · 1950 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt, with illustrations to the rear. First edition. Illustrated with six plates to the rear. Collated complete. A lecture on Sir Matthew Digb...

The Nude in Art

Clarence Lansing · 1896 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, H. S. Nichols, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this very scarce study on nudity in art and how the human body has been depicted in paintings across the centuries. The first edition of this very scarce work.An intriguing study on depictions of the ...

The Letters of Paul Gaugin to Georges Daniel de Monfreid

Paul Gaugin; Ruth Pielkovo [Translator]; Frederick O'Brien · 1922 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. Cloth. A very scarce work containing the letters exchanged between Paul Gaugin and George-Daniel de Monfreid between 1891 and 1903. A very scarce volume containing the epistolary exchanges between Paul Gaugin and George-Daniel de Monfrei...

Our Old Nursery Rhymes

Alfred Moffatt · 1911 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Augener Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Alfred Moffatt provides accompanying harmonies to over twenty nursery rhymes in this illustrated score. A first edition, with sweet illustrations by Dutch illustrator Henriette Willebeek Le Mair. A first edition of this musical ...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

Edmund Lodge · 1823 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,618.42 | $1,783.84 | ¥284,890)

London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823-1834. First edition. Leather. A complete twelve volume first edition of Edmund Lodge's impressive collection of portraits of famous individuals, uniformly bound in half morocco. The first edition of this work, bound from the origina...

Die Silberarbeiten Von Anton Eisenholt Aus Warburg

1879 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Berlin, Paul Bette, 1879. First edition. Cloth. A scarce volume of illustrations by Anton Eisenhoit.  A scarce volume of works by Anton Eisenhoit. Anton Eisenhoit was a German painter and engraver who flourished at Tome in about 1590. This volume is a collection of his silv...

Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era

P. D. Gordon Pugh · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. Cloth. An extensive catalogue of Staffordshire Portrait Figures, with many illustrations. A reprint copy. This is an extensive volume for the collector of Staffordshire portrait figures, with a definitive catalogue. These figures ...

Art and Handicraft

John D Sedding · 1893 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of John D Sedding's work concerned with architecture and design. The first edition of this work, a scarce copy rarely seen in commerce. Illustrated with frontispiece. Fascinati...

The Wind in the Oak

Martin Muncaster · 1978 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Robin Garton, 1978 . Hardback. The scarce leather bound signed limited edition of this biography of the marine and landscape painter Claude Muncaster. Limited edition of The Wind in the Oak by Martin Muncaster in quarter morocco binding and cloth boards. The life, wor...

Photographing Wild Life Across the World

Cherry Kearton · 1923 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of Cherry Kearton's wild life photography from around the world. First edition thus. A work with the same title was published in 1913, this volume contains rewritten material...

Old English Plate. Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and Marks

Wilfred Joseph Cripps · 1906 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, John Murray, 1906. Cloth. An illustrated work on the history of English plate, a helpful guide to collectors with advice of the makers and marks of antique plate. The ninth edition of this work in the original cloth binding with gilt decoration to the front board. An i...

Gods&Apos; Man

Lynd Ward · 1929 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1929. First edition. Hardback. A beautiful and original novel told in woodcuts by Lynd Ward, the second printing of the first edition. The first edition, second impression of this work, published only a month after the first. A wordless novel by Americ...