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A Series of Twelve Delft Plates Illustrating the Tobacco Industry

J. H. Fitzhenry · 1907 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London , Wyman and Sons Ltd. 1907. Cloth. A series of illustrations of Dutch Delftware, showing scenes from the tobacco industry. Presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Illustrated with numerous monochrome plates and colour frontispiece. In a cream cloth binding. Externa...

English Pressed Glass 1830-1900

Raymond Slack · 1987 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London , Barrie and Jenkins, 1987. Cloth. A first edition of this history of pressed glass from Raymond Slack. Illustrated with numerous photographs in the text. In a blue cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is also smart. Internally...

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de Vertu

Anna Somers Cocks, Charles Truman · 1984 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Sotheby Publications, 1984. Cloth. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de Vertu by Anna Somers Cocks and Charles Truman. In unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. A profusely illustrated catalogue by Sothebys of the jewellery and...

Ridgway Porcelains

Geoffrey A. Godden · 1985 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Antique Collector's Club, 1985. Cloth. A history of the manufacture of Ridgway Porcelains. Second edition. Ridgway Potteries was a British pottery manufacturer of Stoke-on-Trent that produced mainly high quality earthenware from 1790s through to the mid twentieth ...

Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art: Burlington House, London 1927

Sir Martin Conway · 1927 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London , Country Life Ltd, 1927. Cloth. A limited edition catalogue of Flemish and Belgian Art. Edited by Sir Martin Conway, the catalogue features reproductions of all of the exhibition's pieces held at Burlington House, the venue for the Royal Academy's temporary a...

Early English Water-Colour Drawings by the Great Masters

Geoffrey Holme · 1919 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Paris, New York, The Studio Ltd. 1919. Cloth. A highly illustrated publication by The Studio. Early English Water-Colour Drawings by the Great Masters. With Articles by A. J. Finberg and edited by Geoffrey Holme. Illustrated with twelve plates in colour tipped-in and n...

Beautiful Children Immortalised by the Masters

Haldane Macfall · 1927 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

London , T. C. and E. C. Jack, Ltd. 1927. Cloth. A beautiful collection of portraits of children painted by famous artists, such as Meng, Velazquez and van Dyck, amongst others. Written by art historian Haldane Macfall. Containing chapters on the history of children in art, fr...

Chantilly in History and Art

Louise M. Richter · 1913 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London , John Murray, 1913. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this work on Chantilly's art and history. With seventy-nine illustrative plates and portraits, author Louise Richter traces the French commune from its origins and up until the time of publication, the intima...

The Irish.

Leslie Conron Carola · 1993 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

New York, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition anthology of the creative arts and writings from Ireland. Numerous colour and black and white illustrated plates of artwork, antiques and landscape photographs. The works exhibited ra...

Miniature Painters British & Foreign

J. J. Foster · 1903 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

London; New York, Dickinsons and E. P. Dutton & Co. 1903. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon and important pair of books on miniature painters, profusely illustrated throughout. First edition. A limited edition volume, Number 261 of 570. This particular volume is one of the &ap...

Birket Foster

Jan Reynolds · 1984 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

London , B.T. Batsford Ltd , 1984. Cloth. This fascinating biographical account explores victorian illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver, Birket Foster's life and works. Beautifully illustrated throughout with many coloured illustrations of Foster's own work, ...

Handcraft in Wood and Metal

John Hooper; Alfred J. Shirley · 1936 · Rooke Books

£32.99 (€39.54 | $43.58 | ¥6,959)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1936. Cloth. A fifth edition of 'Handcraft in Wood and Metal', revised and enlarged. As written in the preface, "In preparing this work the authors have endeavoured to show the possibilities of craftwork as an educational subject, and briefly ...

The Dictionary of Victorian Painters

Christopher Wood; Christopher Newall · 1978 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 1978. Cloth. An illustrated work looking at Victorian painters. This volume gives information on the lives and works of over 11,000 artists and contains 500 illustrations. This book lists every artists recorded during the period 1837-190...

The Just So Song Book

Rudyard Kipling; Edward German · 1903 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1903. Cloth. Twelve songs from the author's Just So Stories set to music. This edition appears to be the first US edition. On the reverse of the title page is printed: Copyright in the United States of America. The final song in this volume is &a...

Greek Gems and Fingers Rings Early Bronze Age to Late Classical

John Boardman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1970. First edition. Cloth. Extensively illustrated hardback First Edition, with a very good, unclipped dustwrapper. 318 in-text line drawings. 1,016 photographs on 9 colour plates and 61 black and white plates. "The miniaturist art of gem engraving ...

Tradition in Sculpture

Alec Miller · 1949 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, The Studio Publications, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work on sculpture through the ages. First edition. With many monochrome photographs. With a prize presentation bookplate to front pastedown of Chesterfield College of Art. In a c...

Old Sporting Prints

Ralph Nevill · 1908 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, The Connoisseur Magazine, 1908. Cloth. A charming collection of sporting illustrations, depicting numerous sporting events by various artists. This work was published by 'The Connoisseur', a renowned twentieth century British magazine published from 1901 to 1...

The Dolphin and the Boy

A. F. Scholfield (translator) · 1989 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Central School of Art and the October Gallery, 1989. Cloth. A beautiful tale inspired by Aelian's Book on Animals and told though a series of monochrome serigraphs. Collated complete. Published in an edition of 55 sets. 47 sets numbered and 8 artist's proofs....

La Vie Herique Et Glorieuse de Carpeaux

George Lecomte · 1928 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Paris, Librairie Plon, 1928. Leather. A scarce French book exploring the life of Jean-Baptise Carpeaux Containing the cover of the original binding Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon...

A Collection of French Art Books in Fifty-Six Volumes

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£2,450.00 (€2,936.67 | $3,236.60 | ¥516,844)

Paris, A. Quantin, c1881-93. Leather. A collection of uniformly bound French books on a wide range of topics, from the Library of Teaching Fine Arts. A collection of uniformly bound French books on a range of topics including Art, History, Music, Architecture and Archaeology,Â...