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Toilettes Et Lavanos

Louis Poyen · 1909 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Paris, Not Stated , 1909 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated and very scarce catalogue advertising the highly decorative sinks sold by Louis Poyen in France in the early 20th century. In the original French.A very scarce 1909 catalogue for the bathroom units and sinks sold by t...

Wonderland, or, Curiosities of Nature and Art

Wood Smith · 1901 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Edinburgh and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1901. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated work on curiosities of nature and art from all over the world. In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.Featuring forty-two monochrome plates, including the frontispiece, ...

On a Glass Lightly

Simon Whistler · 2004 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Marlborough, Libanus Press, 2004 . First edition. Cloth. Signed limited first edition on the glass engravings of Simon Whistler, illustrated with over 100 photographs. First limited edition. No. 106 of 200 copies.Signed by the author to limitation page.In publisher's orig...

Hierros Artisticos

Luis Labarta · 0 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.50 | ¥60,123)

Barcelona, Francisco Seix , c1904. Cloth. An abundantly illustrated two volume set of works on the art of forging, each with 100 plates. A lovely illustrated two volume set of works by Luis Labarta.In quarter green cloth, with brown boards. Rebacked, with renewed endpapers.Wit...

The Laboratory; or, School of Arts

G. Smith · 1750 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Printed for James Hodges , 1750. Leather. A bright third edition of these fascinating hints and experiments for the 18th-century artist, adorned with copper plates. Third edition. In a full speckled calf binding, retaining the original blanks. Register: A4, B-Z8, Aa4. ...

An Enquiry Into Industrial Art in England

Nikolaus Pevsner · 1937 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Pevsner"s pioneering survey of British industrial design at the inception of modernism, illustrated with monochrome photographs. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.With 25 monochrome p...

A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Thomas Wright · 1865 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Virtue Brothers, 1865. Leather. An insightful and illustrated history into comic satire from ancient Europe to Georgian Britain, offering valuable contemporary perspectives of significant transformations across Europe. A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literatur...

A Collection of Thirty-Nine Fac-Similes of Rare Etchings by Celebrated Painters

William Young Ottley · 1828 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, Not Stated, 1828 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with forty-two engraved plates, this is the first edition of William Young Ottley's very scarce volume of rare etchings from famous European artists. The very scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a...

The Cryes of London

Richard Luckett; Samuel Pepys · 1994 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

Leeds, Old Hall Press, 1994 . First edition. Leather. Beautiful quarter-calf limited first edition of Samuel Pepy's "cryes" collection in 81 plates. First edition. Scarce. Limited to 425 copies.Bound in the publisher's original quarter calf with decorative cloth boar...

Caravan

Edward Seago · 1937 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Collins, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this collection of sketches from Edward Seago, featuring an original illustration from Seago, and with the publisher"s original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's...

Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s: Contexts and Collaborations

Simon Cooke · 2010 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Private Libraries Association: The British Library, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this vastly illustrated study on periodicals from the 1860s. First edition. One of 1300 copies, of which only 600 were for sale. Illustrated with one hundred and tw...

Picasso/Matisse Works on Paper

Pablo Picasso; Henri Matisse · 1997 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Waddington Galleries, 1997. First edition. Paperback. A smart, first edition of this exhibition catalogue, issued by Waddington Galleries, illustrated with 19 plates of works by Picasso and Matisse. In the publisher's original stiff card wrappers. This volume is a...

The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Vivian Endicott Barnett · 2002 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New Haven, Yale University Press , 2002. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this large art book illustrated with almost five hundred items from the 'Blue Four Collection&apos. First edition. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.The 'Blue Four' refers to ...

Portraits

John Hedgecoe · 2000 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Collins & Brown, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of this portrait collection from British photographer John Hedgecoe, with the original glassine wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrappe...

The Art and Craft of Home-Making

Edward W. Gregory · 1913 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Thomas Murby & Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated guide to home design and management, adorned with colour plates. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, sixteen monochrome plates, and numerous in-text figures. Collate...

Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from the Collection of Frits Lugt Institut Neerlandais Paris

Various · 1972 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Gent, Erasmus Ltd. 1972. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing copy of this catalogue of a collection of exhibitions of Flemish drawings from the seventeenth century, from the collection of Dutch art historian Frits Lugt. First edition. Illustrated with ten full-page colour im...

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton; Richard Morphet; David Mellor; Sarat Maharaj; Stephen Snoddy · 1992 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Tate Gallery Publications, 1992. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of the Tate Gallery's retrospective catalogue of Richard Hamilton, with 106 works reproduced in double-sided colour plates and essays from leading critics and scholars. In the publisher&a...

The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court

Ernest Law · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1898 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this impressively illustrated descriptive account of the picture galleries at Hampton Court Palace. A first edition.Ernest Law surveys the principal paintings, tapestries, and decorative works hous...

Elements of Perspective

John Ruskin · 1859 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1859. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this treatise on drawing perspective, by John Ruskin. The first edition.An educational treatise by John Ruskin, presenting a written code of accurate perspective law. In this work, Ruskin offers so...

Jones of Colorado

Ralph Steadman · 1995 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Ebury Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this collection of sketches and stories about Jones the cat, by Ralph Steadman, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the half title. While visiting his friend, Hunter S. Thomps...