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War Impressions

Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes · 1901 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1901. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this richly illustrated volume, comprising Mortimer Menpes' works from his time as war artist during the Boer War. First edition.In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with ninety-nine co...

Jazz

Henri Matisse; Sophie Hawkes [translator] · 1992 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

New York, George Braziller, 1992. Cloth. A pleasing copy of this later edition of this art book from French artist Henri Matisse. Later printing, originally published as a limited-edition art book in 1947. With sixty-eight leaves of illustrations and poetic thoughts, many of w...

R. Ackerman&Apos;S Series 1851: London - Ten Coloured Lithographs by T. Picken After G. Shepherd

R. Ackerman · 1972 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Gloucestershire , Guildhall Library Committee , 1972 . Paperback. A beautifully presented facsimile work of Rudolph Ackermann's 1851 series of prints depicting London scenes, comprised of ten coloured lithographs by Thomas Picken, housed in a lovely portfolio. The first e...

A Popular Account of the Interesting Priory of Llanthony, Near Gloucester; with Notices of Its Original Foundation in Wales, and Subsequent Removal to England; Also Additional Notices of Contemporaneous Buildings in Gloucester, and Introductory Remarks on the Monastic System

John Clarke · 1853 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Gloucester , J. W. Needham , 1853. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon history of Gloucester's antiquities and Llanthony Priory, adorned with engraved plates. First edition. An uncommon volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrat...

A Selection of Studies on the Life and Works of Jan Tschichold

Various · 1925 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

Leipzig; Zurich; London, Deutschen Buchdrucker; Kunstgewerbemuseum; Lund Humphries, 1925-1997. Paperback. Leipzig; Zurich; London: Deutschen Buchdrucker; Kunstgewerbemuseum; Lund Humphries, 1925-1997. Paperback. Very Good. 12" by 9.5"; 8.5" by 5.5"; 9.5" by 9.5". Jan Tschichol...

Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use

Daniel Berkeley Updike · 1951 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1951. Cloth. A smart two volume set of the second edition of Updike's illustrated study of printing types. Complete in two volumes. Second edition, second printing. Illustrated with three hundred and sixty-seven images, including o...

The Life of George Romney

William Hayley · 1809 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

Chichester, W. Mason for T. Payne, 1809 . First edition. Leather. Charmingly illustrated with engraved plates, this is the scarce large paper edition of Hayley's biography of celebrated painter George Romney. The first edition of this work, the scarce large paper edition,...

Windsor Castle

Sir Owen Morshead · 1957 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Phaidon Press, 1957 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Sir Owen Morshead's account of the history of Windsor Castle, illustrated throughout and with a loosely inserted signed letter. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of this work, which was firs...

Abc3d

None · 2008 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Paris , Albin Michel, 2008. First edition. Hardback. A fine copy of this innovative pop-up alphabet from French graphic designer, illustrator and children's author, Marion Bataille. True first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial boards. This terrific gra...

Geometry in Three Dimensions

Richard de Pesando · 1989 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Royal College of Art , 1989. Hardback. A very limited, signed pop-up graphic project from Richard de Pesando, complete during his study at the Royal College of Art. Signed by the designer, Richard de Pesando, to the rear pastedown and inscribed 1/5. A vanishingly scar...

The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones

Nicolete Gray · 1981 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, Gordon Fraser, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this insightful study in to the painted inscriptions of British painter and modernist poet David Jones. First edition. Illustrated with sixty plates of images, many of which are in colour. Collate...

Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933

Douglas Cleverdon · 1983 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Unknown, Privately Printed, 1983. Paperback. A very smart limited edition of this charming account of the friendship and collaboration between British typographers and printmakers Stanley Morison and Eric Gill. Limited to two hundred and thirty copies printed for the subscribe...

George Cruikshank&Apos;S Table-Book

George Cruikshank; Gilbert Abbott a Beckett · 1869 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. Leather. A lovely work highlighting the brilliance of the comical art of George Cruikshank. An illustrated celebration of the work of caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank, hailed as the 'modern Hogarth' by his contemporaries.Il...

The Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education

Various; Unknown · 1886 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London , Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Leather. A profusely illustrated primer on applied science and industrial arts, issues one to four of the Technical Series from Cassell's Popular Educator, smartly bound into two volumes. Smartly bound in half calf with textured ...

The Art and Craft of Home-Making

Edward W. Gregory · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Thomas Murby and Co. 1925. Cloth. A lovely second edition of this illustrated guide to home design and management, adorned with colour plates. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eight...

Monograms and Ciphers

A. A. Turbayne · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh , T. C. & E. C. Jack , 1906. Cloth. A very scarce plate book of monograms and ciphers from American book designer Albert Angus Turbayne. A very scarce copy of this In the original cloth binding. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. An impressive...

Aesthetics, or, the Analogy of the Sensible Sciences Indicated

George Field · 1820 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London, The Pamphleteer, 1820. First edition. Unbound. The first separate edition of this very scarce pamphlet on aesthetics, by George Field. The first separate edition of this very scarce work, originally published in Volume XVII of 'The Pamphleteer&apos.An essay explor...

Friendship Album of the Howells&Apos; Japan Exhibition in Cardiff

Kathleen Olwen 'Joyce' Howell; Various · 1915 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

None, None, 1915. Leather. A very scarce scrapbook album commemorating Howells' Japan Exhibition in Cardiff, with watercolour paintings. A unique and very scarce friendship album, compiled by a twelve year old girl upon the Japan Exhibition in Cardiff.The scrapbook contai...

The Country Blues

Samuel B. Charters · 1960 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A smart UK first edition of this comprehensive study by American music historian, Samuel Charters, tracing the roots of American blues from slave songs to seminal artists like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In the publishe...

Monet Peintures

Helene Adhemar · 1950 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Paris, Les Editions de Chene, 1950. Paperback. A scarce copy of this collection of paintings by French artist Oscar-Claude Monet, with an introduction from French curator Helene Adhemar in the original French. French. Scarce work. Illustrated with fifteen tipped in colour plat...