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Flowers and Festivals or Directions for the Floral Decoration of Churches

W. A. Barrett · 1873 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Rivingtons, 1873. Cloth. A smart second edition of this illustrated guide to floral decoration of churches. Second edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with twenty-four lithographic colour plates. Collated complete. A guide to the floral decoration of churches for the var...

Practical Church Decoration: A Guide to the Design and Execution of Decoration of Churches, Chapels, and Other Ecclesiastical Structures.

Arthur Louis Duthie · 1907 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, The Trade Papers Publishing, Co. Ltd. 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work on church decoration, with colour illustrations. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with fifty-seven plates, five of which are coloured. Collated...

Arts and Crafts of Old Japan

Stewart Dick · 1923 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Edinburgh and London , T. N. Foulis, 1923. Cloth. A charming book on the arts and crafts of Japan, with illustrations. A reprint copy of this work. Arts and Crafts of Old Japan is from the World of Art Series and is intended as an introduction to the arts and crafts of Old Ja...

Willie Rushton&Apos;S Great Moments of History

William Rushton · 1985 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.27 | ¥6,751)

London, Charles Herridge , 1985. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first trade edition of William Rushton's scarce collection of colourful drawings illustrative of important historical moments. The first trade edition of this work, first published in 1984 in a limited edition ...

English Furniture from Charles II to George II: A Full Account of the Design, Material and Quality of Workmanship of Walnut and Mahogany Furniture of This Period; and of How Spurious Specimens Are Made

R. W. Symonds · 1929 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Connoisseur Ltd. 1929. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this study of English furniture design. Limited to one thousand copies of which this is number 116. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and two hundred and fifty-nine additional figures. With one hundred...

The Gallery of Pictures Painted by Benjamin West Esq. Historical Painter, to His Majesty, and President of the Royal Academy

Henry Moses · 1840 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London , Not Stated, 1840. Cloth. An interesting volume of pictures by Benjamin West. Hard to find in any kind of acceptable condition as the copies of this book did not survive well. Actually though not particularly good, this is better than often seen. Benjamin West was a B...

British Artists 1880-1940 (Dictionary of British Art Volume V)

J. Johnson; A. Greutzner · 1994 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Not Stated , Antique Collectors' Club, 1994 . Cloth. A large complete dictionary dedicated to the British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Sixth printing of this work. Volume V of the 'Dictionary of British Art, complete in itself and conce...

The Dictionary of Architecture Issued by the Architectural Publication Society

Architectural Publication Society · 1892 · Rooke Books

£2,700.00 (€3,236.33 | $3,566.86 | ¥569,584)

London, Thomas Richards, c1875-1892. Leather. Four volumes of the Dictionary of Architecture, comprising of volumes one to eight, with illustrations. Four volumes containing volumes one to eight of the dictionary. A comprehensive dictionary of architecture from Aachen, the Ger...

Nineteenth Century Art

D. S. MacColl · 1902 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Glasgow , James MacLehose & Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first limited edition in large paper of this illustrated study of nineteenth century art by D. S. MacColl. The first edition of this work. Scarce limited edition printed on large paper, this number one hu...

Studies of Boards, and Coast Scenery, 16 Plates of Picturesque Views in the Isle of Wight, Deal, Brighton, Hastings, Eastbourne, the Thames, Etc.

Samuel Prout · 1816 · Rooke Books

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

London, Ackerman's , 1816. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this pictorial study of boats and coast scenery in England by Samuel Prout. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy rarely seen on the online market. Containing a series of studi...

The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures by the First Masters of the English and Foreign Schools, in Seventy - Two Line Engravings, with Biographical and Critical Dissertations

Allan Cunningham · 1834 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, John Major, 1834. First edition. Fine Binding. A first edition of this scarce work on the first masters. With seventy-two engravings. A first edition of this scarce, heavily illustrated work by Allan Cunningham. With seventy-two engravings across the two volumes, colla...

Cahiers de la Societe Typographique de France

Societe Typographique De France; Jean Cocteau · 1960 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris, Societe Typographique De France, 1960 . Paperback. The very scarce first edition of notebooks of the typographical society of France. First edition of Cahiers De La Societe Typographique De France Volume I in the original publisher's paper wraps. A very scarce not...

Pictures of Life & Character

John Leech · 1860 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1860-1861 . Leather. Two volumes from this collection of illustrations from Punch by John Leech. Early editions of Pictures of Life & Character by John Leech in half calf bindings. This collection includes early editions of the first and second ser...

Books, Mostly Scholarly and Some Ephemera, Designed by George Mackie. An Exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, and at the Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire.

George Mackie · 1991 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, 1991. First edition. Paperback. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this collection of works by George Mackie. First edition. Illustrated throughout with examples of works by George Mackie, many in colour. An exhibition guide to ...

A Series of Seventeen Steel Engravings After Birket Foster

None · 0 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, c1890. Cloth. A beautiful very scarce portfolio containing seventeen detailed topographical engravings by the inimitable Birket Foster. A portfolio containing seventeen topographical landscapes by Birket Foster, a very scarce publication.C...

The Lords Supper

1495 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

not stated , Not stated , c1880. Cloth. A scarce album volume of The Lords Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. A scarce accordion album of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper or The Lords Supper. With thirteen plates of close ups of the faces within the Lords Supper, including ...

Summer Scenes: A Series of Photographs from Some of His Choicest Water Colour Drawings, with Appropriate Selections from the Poems of Aird, Bloomfield, Crabbe, Baillie, Thomson, Bryant, N.P. Willis, Etc. , Etc.

Birket Foster · 1867 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1867. First edition. Leather. A charming collection of summer scenes photographed from the work of Birket Foster in full morocco binding, featuring a letter signed by Birket Foster. Containing a series of beautiful photographs from Myles Birket Foster&a...

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

John Addington Symonds · 1893 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this two volume densely illustrated biography of Michelangelo Buonarroti. First edition of The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds in the original publisher's quarter cloth bind...

The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours

George Barnard · 1858 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1858. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work on the practice of landscape painting with watercolour. New and enlarged edition. Highly illustrated throughout containing thirty plates and sixty-nine woodcuts. Collated complete. A study on the theo...

The Cottage Orne Collection

Brunschwig & Fils · 1989 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Not Stated, Brunschwig & Fils, 1989. Cloth. A striking wallpaper and fabric sample catalogue by Brunschwig & Fils, a beautiful and colourful volume. Volume 35 of Brunschwig & Fils' catalogue, this volume focusing solely on the Cottage Orne Collection.Illustrated with thre...