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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Illustrated Handbook to the Permanent Collections of Industrial Art Objects

Whitworth Wallis; Arthur Bensley Chamberlain · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Birmingham, City of Birmingham, c1900. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this handbook to the industrial art collections, published by the city of Birmingham. A very useful and comprehensive guidebook to the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. This particular guidebook cover...

Rossetti and His Circle

Max Beerbohm · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this collection of caricatures and drawings of famous artists, writers, and poets by Max Beerbohm. Drawn by parodist Max Beerbohm, an nineteenth and twentieth-century English essayist, c...

The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake

David Bindman · 1978 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. First edition. Cloth. An exhaustive annotated catalogue of the engravings and illustrations of William Blake, with reproductions of his illustrations throughout. The first edition of this comprehensive study of the graphic art of Romantic poet ...

Catalogue of the Plate of Oxford Colleges

E. Alfred Jones · 1938 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.50 | ¥60,123)

Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1938-44. Cloth. A beautiful collection detailing the plate of four prominent Oxford colleges, each illustrated with photographs of these important relics. Four volumes, detailing the plate of Magdalen College, the Queen's Colleg...

A New Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares

William Badcock; William O'Sullivan · 1970 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Shannon, Irish University Press, 1970. Leather. A striking limited edition facsimile of the second edition of William Badcock's influential work on the gold and silver trade. A limited edition work, limited to one hundred copies bound in Niger Morocco by Desmond Smith. Th...

William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and About William Morris

John Walsdorf · 1983 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Phoenix, Oryx Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive work of bibliography concerning works associated with the artist William Morris. The first edition of this work, with the publisher's original slipcase.John Walsdorf's extensive ...

Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

Laurence Turner; Arthur T. Bolton · 1927 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Country Life Limited, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Laurence Turner's detailed study into beautiful decorative plasterwork used in British architecture, a highly illustrated work. The first edition of this work.This work is an interesting look a...

The Story of Mr Korah

Christabel Aberconway · 1954 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Michael Joseph, 1954. Cloth. A first edition copy of this tale inspired by the Bible, illustrated by Rex Whistler and complete with a clipped dust wrapper. Inspired by the story of Korah as it appears in the Bible.Written by Christabel Aberconway.Illustrated with tippe...

The Cabinet Album Views of Southampton and Neighbourhood

0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1898. Cloth. A very scarce, Concertina-style book showcasing photo impressions of Southampton and surrounding areas. A charming concertina style set of photo impressions of Southampton and neighbourhood at the start of the Twentieth Century. A very sca...

&Apos;Shall We Join the Ladies?&Apos; Wood Engravings by Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

Betty Clark [ed.] · 1979 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Oxford, Studio One Gallery, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A profusely illustrated first edition collection of wood engravings from twentieth century female artists, signed by the editor. The first edition of this work, number 80 of 500 limited edition copies. This edition is sig...

My Sketch Book in the Shiny

Snaffles [Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

London, Gale and Polden, 1930. Cloth. A charming and very smart collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India during the first part of the twentieth century. A wonderfully preserved second edition of this work, in the original unclipped dust wrapper.A w...

Twenty-Four Portraits

William Rothenstein · 1920 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1920. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy of the first edition of William Rothenstein's portraits of various prominent figures. Containing twenty-four portraits of figures including Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Edward Elgar, Max Beerbohm ...

The Select Melodies of Scotland

George Thomson · 1825 · Rooke Books

£1,270.00 (€1,522.27 | $1,677.75 | ¥267,915)

London, Preston, 1825. Leather. A scarce six volume in one collection of Scottish verses and music, compiled and signed by George Thomson. Compiled by George Thomson (1757-1851), a collector of Scottish music. He was a friend of Robert Burns, best known for his 'Select Co...

George Cruikshank a Catalogue Raisonne of the Work Executed During the Years 1806-1877

Albert M. Cohn · 1924 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, The Bookman's Journal, 1924. Cloth. A lovely limited edition catalogue showing the works of George Cruikshank, a fascinating work on the important caricaturist. A limited edition work, limited to five hundred copies, of which this is numbered four-hundred and five...

Madame Est Service Mes 28 Jours

Grosclaude; Edouard Detaille · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Paris, H. Simonis Empis, 1898. Cloth. Two colourfully illustrated art albums of Albert Guillaume's satirical works, a beautiful volume with Guillaume's original colour caricatures. Two volumes bound in one.In the original French.A volume of two albums of the satirica...

Toneel En Dans in de Japanse Kunst

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

's-Gravenhage , Gemeentemuseum, 1950. First edition. Paperback. A fantastic Dutch exhibition catalogue issued in a portfolio exploring theatre and dance in Japanese art, complete with twenty Japanese prints. The first edition, a very scarce pamphlet. A very charming pamph...

A Wanderer in London

E. V. Lucas · 1925 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Methuen and Co, 1925. Leather. A tour of London during the interwar period. With colour plates and in a full calf binding. Illustrated throughout, and featuring a map of London. With 16 colour plates by English artist Nelson Dawson. Collated, complete.E. V. Lewis, an E...

Mr. Pickwick, Pages from the Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens · 1910 · Rooke Books

£147.00 (€176.20 | $194.20 | ¥31,011)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Cloth. Selections from Dickens' first novel, beautifully illustrated with colour plates. With 25 full colour plates and lettered tissue guards. Collated, complete.A beautifully illustrated first edition thus of Charles Dickens' fir...

Nollekens and His Times; Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor

John Thomas Smith · 1828 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Leather. A candid biography of this British scultor, complete in two volumes bound in contemporary leather. This biography has been described as being 'perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English language&apo...

Mr Pewter

A P Herbert · 1934 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.48 | ¥8,860)

London, Methuen and Co. 1934. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this brilliant fictional work by A P Herbert reporting the text of a broadcast series of talks. The first edition of this work by A P Herbert, being the text of the Broadcast series of talks titl...