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A Scrapbook of Colourful Illustrations

0 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

None, None, c1900. Leather. A late Victorian scrapbook, illustrated with beautiful illustrations extracted from many different works, with many colourful and entertaining illustrations. A late Victorian scrapbook, containing many beautiful illustrations from a variety of publi...

Old Spitalfields Market &Apos;Vale&Apos;

Geoffrey Fletcher · 1990 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, Corporation of London, 1990. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce portfolio of three Geoffrey Fletcher prints depicting Spitalfields market in the late 1980s. In pristine condition. The first and only edition of this print collection, loosely inserted in the origina...

A Series of Subjects

1829 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, J. Carpenter, 1829-30. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of this beautiful collection of the influential paintings of James Duffield Harding, showing his landscapes, cityscapes, and portraits. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. Illust...

Historic Wall-Papers: From Their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery

Nancy McClelland; Henri Clouzot · 1924 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.48 | ¥54,849)

Philadelphia and London, J B Lippincott, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated look at the history of wallpapers. Being the first edition of this work, which is adorned with coloured plates. Written by an authority on the subject, Nancy Vincent McClelland. A li...

Inscriptions to the Phoenician Character Now Deposited in the British Museum, Discovered on the Site of Carthage, During Researches Made by Nathan Davies, Esq. , at the Expense of Her Majesty&Apos;S Government, in the Years 1856, 1857, and 1858

Nathan Davis · 1863 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.46 | ¥209,902)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1863. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this fascinating look at the Phoenician inscriptions found at Carthage by Nathan Davis. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. Illustrated with t...

The Rhine Boat, or, Lays of Many Lands; a Musical and Metrical Romance

Mark Lemon; Frank Romer · 1836 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.48 | $502.00 | ¥80,164)

London, W. Hawes, 1836. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this musical poem by Mark Lemon and Frank Romer. Signed by Frank Romer to the title page. A very scarce work, with none on Copac or Worldcat. Signed by the author, Frank Romer, to the head of the title page. 'The Rhine ...

The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920

H. L. Mallalieu · 1976 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Suffolk, Antique Collector's Club, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A dictionary work on British watercolour painters, complied by Huon Mallalieu, held in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrap...

The Square Egg and the Vicious Circle

Ronald Searle · 1968 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Vermont, Stephen Greene Press , 1968. First edition. Cloth. A collection of illustrations by popular artist Ronald Searle. A U.S issue of this work. First edition. Searle is probably best remembered for his creation of St Trinian's School which sprang to fame shortly afte...

Birket Foster

Jan Reynolds · 1984 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a charming biography on the Victorian watercolour illustrator, riddled with illustrations showcasing the artist's repetoire. The first edition of Birket Foster, a charming biography on the Victori...

Soglow&Apos;S Confidential History of Modern England

Otto Soglow · 1939 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an intriguing collection of comics poking fun at British colonialism and the Second World War, created by American cartoonist Otto Soglow. The first edition of Soglow's Confidential Hi...

Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus

Camille Enlart; David Hunt [trans.] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

London, Trigraph in association with the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1987 . Cloth. The first English edition of this monumental illustrated study of gothic art and the Renaissance in Cyprus with black and white illustrations and plates throughout. The first English edition in th...

Garden Ornament

Gertrude Jekyll; Christopher Hussey · 1927 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Country Life, 1927. Cloth. The second and popular revised edition of a copiously illustrated picture book on ideas for using ornaments to frame gardens, co-written by a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The second and revised edition of Garden Ornament, a...

Honore Daumier

Wilhelm Wartmann; Harry C. Schnur [trans.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Nicholson & Watson , 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this profusely illustrated work on the nineteenth century French painter Honore Daumier, with 240 lithographs. The first UK edition.In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with pa...

A Concise History of Painting

Mrs. Charles Heaton [Mary Margaret Heaton] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1873 . First edition. Leather. A smartly bound scarce first edition copy of this illustrated art survey covering ancient Egyptian to modern Britain. A scarce first edition copy.In a full brown calf binding. Illustrated in permanent photography with a fr...

Old Virginia Houses the Mobjack Bay Country; Old Virginia Houses Along the James

Emmie Furguson Farrar · 1955 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.04 | ¥16,455)

New York, Bonanza Books, 1955-1957. First edition. Cloth. A first and second volume in this series on the architecture found in Virginia, profusely illustrated throughout. A two volume set.The first editions.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original uncl...

The Orientalists

Phillipe Jullian · 1977 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Oxford, Phaidon, 1977. Cloth. The first translated edition of a compelling art history into European artists depicting the Orient, the first worldwide study on the subject, in the scarce original slipcase. The Orientalists: European Painters of Eastern Scenes, the first transl...

The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure

Phil May · 1904 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, W. Thacker & Co. 1904 . Hardback. A limited edition copy of this collection of the sketches and drawings of English caricaturist Phil May, with a biography of May, in the publisher's original cloth with paper vellum spine. Limited edition in the publisher's o...

Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography

Jeffrey Miller · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of this illustrated bibliography of the works of acclaimed American author Paul Bowles. The first edition.In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. In an acetate dust...

Water-Colour Painting in Britain Edited by Dudley Snelgrove with Jonathan Mayne and Basil Taylor the Eighteenth Century, the Romantic Period and the Victorian Period

Martin Hardie · 1969 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, B T Batsford, 1969-71. Cloth. A charming three volume set, showcasing the watercolor painting across three distinct periods if British history. Three volumes of this reference work. Illustrated throughout with numerous examples of watercolour paintings. Volume III is a...

Dictionary of Architecture and Illustrations to the Dictionary of Architecture

Architectural Publication Society · 1892 · Rooke Books

£3,119.99 (€3,739.75 | $4,121.70 | ¥658,183)

London, Thomas Richards; Whiting and Co, c1875-1892. Leather. Ten volumes with gilt lettering and decoration. A very scarce set of Dictionary of Architecture (8vol) and Illustrations to the Dictionary of Architecture (2vol). Not available anywhere else for sale, and held only ...