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Colnaghi: Past, Present and Future

Various [inc. Tim Warner-Johnson, Jeremy Howard] · 2016 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Colnaghi, 2016. First edition. Cloth. The display copy of a beautifully illustrated catalogue and history of the world's oldest art gallery, a reflection of how art has developed over modernity. Colnaghi: Past, Present and Future, a comprehensive history of the wo...

A Man&Apos;S House and Garibaldi

John Drinkwater · 1934 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1934-1936. First edition. Cloth. Signed and author's own copies of these two plays from the library of English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater. A two volume set. The first editions. Signed by the author to the front free endpapers.In t...

The Sogetsu text on Nageire.

Teshigahara, Sofu & Kasumi · 1984 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Spiral bound. Clean tightly bound landscape format paperback, card covers rubbed at edges, foxing at spine edge of front cover, remains of label on back cover and on title page but no inscriptions. 44 pages, colour photos in the...

Ikebana card book Enshu Schools Seika style.

Anon · 1984 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Clean paperback, spine and card covers rubbed at edges, foxing to bottom edge of front cover, remains of label inside front cover but no inscriptions. Cards detached from spine. 20 pages, colour photos and illustratio...

Ikebana of Japan - Moribana style, 20 arrangements in full color.

Ohara, Houn · 1978 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine and card covers rubbed at edges, marks to top page edges, remains of label on front cover but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Text in Ja...

Ikebana card book. Ikenobo Shoka style / 1.

Fujiwara, Yuchiku · 1970 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine and card covers rubbed at edges, remains of label on front cover but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Text in Japanese and English. Good.

Ikebana card books. Saga School: Principal styles, with, Moribana style, with, Heika style (3 booklets).

Saga Ikebana Acedemy · 1969 · Aucott & Thomas

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 3 clean paperbacks, spines and card covers rubbed at edges, marks to top page edges, remains of labels on the front covers of 2 booklets but no inscriptions. Principal hs short spit at top of spine/front cover and car...

Ikebana card book. Misho School Heika & Moribano style.

Hihara, Koho · 1970 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers rubbed at edges with stain at the top edge, remains of label on front cover but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Tex...

2 Ikebana card books. Misho School Heika & Moribano style, with, Kakubana style.

Hihara, Koho · 1973 · Aucott & Thomas

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1973. Reprint; Second Printing. Softcover. 2 clean and tightly bound paperbacks, spines creased, card covers rubbed at edges with stains at edges, no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Text in Japanese and English. ...

The Glass Circle

R. J. Charleston, Wendy Evans, Ada Polak · 1972 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Newcastle, Oriel Press, 1972. Paperback. The first three volumes of the history of the society of the Glass Circle and the art of decorative glass, first edition. The books cover the origins of the Circle of Glass, the collectors, George Ravenscroft, Jacobite engravers and the...

Progressive Architecture

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£6,800.00 (€8,150.76 | $8,983.21 | ¥1,434,507)

New York , Reinhold Publishing Co. 1950-73. Leather. A continuous 23 year run of selected sections from one of the 20th century's most significant architectural magazines, uniformly bound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath. The sections included from the magazine are those concer...

The Portfolio

Philip Gilbert Hamerton · 1895 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London , Seeley and Co. 1895. Leather. A set of four volumes of the Portfolio, an artistic periodical, which contains a study of popular art forms. Containing information on Dutch etchings, William Blake, Sculpture in Belgium, Gerard David, Japanese wood engravings, Antoine Wa...

Three Volumes of the Old Water-Colour Society&Apos;S Club Annual

Randall Davies and Adrian Bury · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London , 5a Pall Mall East, 1937-43. First edition. Cloth. A set of three First Edition volumes from the Old Water-Colour Society's series of lavishly illustrated annuals. Bound in quarter cloth with gilt and stamped lettering, and paper-covered boards. Issued only to Mem...

English Water-Colour with Reproductions of Drawings by Eminent Painters

Charles Holme (ed.) · 1902 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

London, Offices of the 'Studio', 1902. Paperback. A collection of beautiful watercolours from English artists, published serially in 1902. Including contributions from Prout, David Cox, Swan, Herbert Marshall, Turner and many others. With an introduction by Frederick...

Christian Lyrics, Chiefly Selected from Modern Authors

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£26.99 (€32.35 | $35.66 | ¥5,694)

London, Hamilton, Adams and Co, c1870 . Leather. A lovely little collection of Christian Lyrics from various authors, chiefly modern, with a two colour title with decorative capitals. A new edition. With an engraving to frontispiece and decorative head and tail pieces througho...

Aboriginal American Basketry Studies in a Textile Art without Machinery Report of the U S National Museum for June 30 1902.

Otis Tufton Mason · 1904 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. Leather. A publication of this 1902 report of the U.S National Museum. Illustrated throughout, with numerous vignettes and 248 plates to the rear. This work explores different techniques and styles of textiles by the different trib...

Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet

Max Beerbohm · 1931 · Rooke Books

£318.00 (€381.17 | $420.10 | ¥67,084)

London, Leadlay, 1931. First edition. Hardback. A first and limited edition of this portfolio containing Beerbohm's caricatures of stars from Noel Coward's 1929 operetta 'Bitter Sweet&apos. Unbound, in a half vellum folder, with paper coverings, and gilt letteri...

The Temple Church Choral Service Book

Edward J. Hopkins · 1904 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.74 | ¥67,506)

London, Weekes and Co. c1880. Leather. A rare original copy of this Victorian hymnbook, in an Inner Temple binding. Ink inscription by Justice Grantham to the verso of the second blank reading: 'To Muriel, my Temple Church companion as a reminiscence of her father's ...

The Connoisseur. By Otto Limited

Various · 1903 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

London, Otto Limited, 1903. First edition. Leather. A two volume set of first edition British antiquarian magazines. Comprised of volumes VI and VII. The magazine was intended as an illustrated guide for antique lovers and collectors, and was published nine times a year. Colou...

Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences

Mrs [Anna Eliza] Bray · 1851 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, John Murray, 1851. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Thomas Stothard, the painter and engraved. Illustrated with many vignette illustrations and a frontispiece of Stothard. Bound by Bickers (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endp...