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Things New and Old

None · 1923 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.29 | $693.56 | ¥110,752)

London, William Heinemann, 1923. Cloth. A signed limited edition collection of fifty plates by the caricaturist Max Beerbohm, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. A limited edition work, limited to three hundred and eighty copies, of which this is numbered two hundred and tw...

The Society of Artists of Great Britain 1760-1791, the Society of Free Artists 1761-1783, a Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from the Foundation of the Societies to 1791

Algernon Graves · 1907 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1907. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this reference work looking at the Society of Artists in Great Britain during the eighteenth century. With an illustrated frontispiece. No library markings a rare private copy of this work. The or...

Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs by British and French Artists

Malcolm C Salaman; Geoffrey Holme · 1919 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, The Studio, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive look at French and English woodcut artists at the start of the twentieth century. The first edition of this work. With half-title, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated, with twelve coloured ...

The Studio

Charles Holme; Various · 1910 · Rooke Books

£2,000.00 (€2,397.28 | $2,642.12 | ¥421,914)

London, The Studio, LTD, 1910-12. Leather. A fifteen volume set of the artistic volumes published by periodical 'The Studio', all volumes edited by Charles Holme. Illustrated profusely with many colour and monochrome plates. In a signed binding by Henderson & Bisset....

The Officia Bodoni an Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977

Giovanni Mardersteig; Hans Schmoller · 1980 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Verona, Edizioni Valdonega , 1980. First edition. Cloth. An informative study on the famous hand press, the Officina Bodoni press. Also forming a biography of its founder Giovanni Mardersteig. First edition, with original slipcase. One of 1,500 copies printed, according to the...

Prologue Dans le Ciel Traduction de Gerard de Nerval

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1932 · Rooke Books

£5,250.00 (€6,292.87 | $6,935.57 | ¥1,107,524)

Paris, Philippe Gonin, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A remarkable and exceptionally scarce handwritten and hand painted work by publisher and artist Philippe Gonin, offering a beautifully bright and detailed excerpt from Faust by Goethe. Very scarce. Collated complete with eleve...

Ambiance Marocaine Moroccan Moods

G Carriat-Rolant; Bernard Guillerez · 1958 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

Casablanca, Albert Monnet Arts Editions, 1958. First edition. Paperback. The first English edition of this very scarce, beautifully produced collection of plates by Carriat Rolant. Limited edition, one of 500 copies of this English Language edition. Prior to this there was a 7...

Scarfe on Stage

Gerald Scarfe · 1992 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of celebrated illustrator and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's 'Scarfe On Stage&apos. This first edition of 'Scarfe On Stage' collects the stage and costume designs of Gerald Scarfe which sho...

Alphabetum Tangutanum Sive Tibetanum

Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide · 1773 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

Romae, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1773. Leather. A very scarce example of the Tibetan Alphabetum issued by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. The Alphabetum series was one of the first to print the script of different languages. Written in Latin, and Tibetan....

Prout&Apos;S Microcosm. The Artist&Apos;S Sketch-Book of Groups of Figures, Shipping, and Other Picturesque Objects.

Samuel Prout · 1841 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, Tilt and Bogue, 1841. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this charming collection of illustrations by one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting, Samuel Prout. An important and influential English artist, Samuel Prout was employe...

Warwickshire

Clive Holland · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Charles Black, 1906. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated work reflecting on Warwickshire. Painted by Frederick Whitehead, the English landscape artist and illustrator. Rebound, in a charming half morocco binding. Price bookplate to the front p...

The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920 Volume I- the Text Volume II- the Plates

H. L. Mallalieu · 1979 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club , 1979-1988. Cloth. A pleasing copy of this fascinating dictionary of British Watercolour Artists, containing an alphabetical list of some six to seven thousand artists, with an accompanying volume illustrating the work of ove...

A Collection of Plates from Various Works

1829 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

None, None, 1829-62. Cloth. A photo album scrap book compiling plates from numerous varying works, showing portraits and landscapes. A photo album scrap book containing plates of many works. Containing plates from 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers, showing the Lake of Geneva,...

The Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art

1902 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, London Offices of the Studio, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the twenty-fourth volume of 'The Studio' magazine, illustrated profusely throughout with colour plates, a folding plate, and numerous monochrome plates. The first edition of this w...

The Later Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen

Michael Levey · 1964 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, The Phaidon Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the second part of the extensive catalogue of the works in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen; focusing on the Italian pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This work provides a fascin...

Correggio&Apos;S Drawings

Arthur E. Popham · 1957 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Arthur E. Popham's fascinating study of the drawings of the renowned sixteenth century artist Antonio da Correggio. Arthur E. Popham was a renowned Bri...

Ralph Maynard Smith a Haunted Man Painter - Writer - Architect (1904-1964)

Simon Smith; Roger Cardinal; Gavin Stamp · 2004 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

[London], Wolseley Fine Arts Ltd and Ralph Maynard Smith Trust, 2004. Cloth. A scarce and fascinating study of the professional and personal life, and works, of the British artist Ralph Maynard Smith. Ralph Maynard Smith was a twentieth century British artist who produced dist...

The Story of British Sporting Prints

Frank Siltzer · 1979 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Peter Loveday Prints , 1979. Cloth. An attractive copy of this fascinating and unique catalogue of British prints relating to hunting, shooting, racing and coaching; compiled and written by by Frank Siltzer. Within this work Seltzer explores an impressive array of arti...

Little Books on Art Corot

Ethel Birnstingl; Alice Pollard · 1904 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Methuen and Co. 1904. First edition. Leather. A fascinating study of the life and works of the renowned French landscape and portrait painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot by Ethel Birnstingl and Alice Pollard. Corot was pivotal figure in landscape painting, best known f...

Sport in Art an Iconography of Sport

William A. Baillie-Grohman · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, [1919]. Cloth. An uncommon second edition copy of William Adolf Baillie Grohman's fascinating study of sport in art, specifically focusing on Europe and America from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Grohman was an ...