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Album

Anonymous · 0 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.17 | ¥232,053)

None, None, c1900 . Leather. A beautiful leather-bound album, with over sixty loosely inserted hand-painted watercolours. With paintings such as of birds, flowers, trees, children, fairies, butterflies, sailing boards, Containing sixty pieces of art, including greeting cards,...

Collected Works from &Apos;Archaeologia&Apos;

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford · 1916 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Frederick Hall; John Johnson; Charles Batey, 1916-53. Brochure/Pamphlet. A collection of essays published in the Society of Antiquaries of London's journal 'Archaeologia', covering various interesting points regarding London's archaeology and archit...

English Inns and Road-Houses

George Long · 1937 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,805)

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this volume exploring English inns and road-houses through plates in black and white, one in colour, by the author. The first edition of this work, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. By George Long....

Raemaekers Cartoons

0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, c1915. Paperback. Forty of the most influential war cartoons by Louis Raemaekers, issued during World War One to promote the artist's anti-German stance. A unique collection of the cartoons by Louis Raemaekers for De Telegraaf during World War ...

The Officina Bodoni, an Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-197

Giovanni Mardersteig; Hans Schmoller [ed.] · 1980 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Verona, Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition catalogue and history of the Officina Bodoni, illustrated throughout and in the publisher's original slip case. A Limited Edition work, one of 1,500 copies printed.The first edition of thi...

Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art Burlington House London 1927 a Memorial Volume

Sir Martin Conway [ed.] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Country Life LTD , 1927. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful memorial catalogue of the loan Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian art, a publication limited to one thousand copies with lovely illustrations. A large paper, extensive catalogue of the Loan exhibition of Flemish...

Castles

Charles Oman · 1926 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, The Great Western Railway, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the first edition of this volume, exploring the castles of England with some beautiful illustrations, complete with the fine, large coloured map inserted tot he rear pocket. British historian C...

Fashion Plates

None · 1863 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Plaistow, The Curwen Press, c1955. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce two identical fashion plates in colour printed for the Curwen Press, with no artist or author identified. With no similar copies on Jisc and only one held institutionally on Worldcat in Alberta, Canada, this i...

Italian Ceramic Art, the Arabello, a Study in Early Renaissance Maiolica

Henry Wallis · 1904 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, B. Quaritch , 1904. Cloth. A very scarce, limited edition copy of this work on Italian ceramics. Limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number ninety-two.Previously held in the London Library of Pharmaceutical Society, as noted by ex-library ...

A Book of English Etching: Fro Francis Barlow to Francis Seymour Haden

Walter Shaw Sparrow · 1926 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,704)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A first edition history of British etching, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work from Welsh writer on art and architecture Walter Shaw Sparrow.Illustrated throughout, this volume contains one hund...

An Exhibition of Japanese Prints: Images of the Floating World

1998 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Barry Davies Oriental Art, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully and brightly illustrated catalogue of ukiyo art from the Japanese Edo period. The first edition of this catalogue of Japanese artworks, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Publish...

Stories of English Artists 1600-1851

Randall Davies; Cecil Hunt · 1908 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London & New York, Chatto & Windus, 1908. Cloth. A lovely collection of short biographies of British artists, richly illustrated with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. Containing biographies of the likes of Sir Anthony Vandyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrenc...

The Assay Office and the Silver Plate Trade. A Statement of Facts, with Accompanying Observations, in Reference to the Libellous Attacks of the &Apos;Birmingham Journal&Apos;

George Richmond Collis · 1846 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Birmingham, Thomas Ragg, 1846. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce reply to an attack on the Assay Office in Birmingham, by George Richmond Collis. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.In a signed binding by R. H. Porter.An interes...

A Selection of Vases, Statues, Busts, &C. From Terra-Cottas

John Marriott Blashfield · 1857 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, John Weale, 1857. Cloth. A very scarce copy of John Marriott Blashfield's catalogue of his beautiful terracotta productions, illustrated with examples throughout in colour. A very scarce work. Blashfield's terracotta was very highly thought of and he exhibite...

The Builders of Florence

J. Wood Brown · 1907 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.25 | ¥18,564)

London, Methuen & Co. 1907. First edition. Cloth. An extensive guide to the impressive architecture of Florence and its builders, adorned with illustrations by Herbert Railton. The first edition. An attractive and comprehensive guide to the architecture of Florence and its bui...

De Kunst in de School

1913 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Antwerp, J. E. Bushchmann, 1913. First edition. Hardback. A scarce work featuring the vibrant tipped in colour plates of two Flemish artists awarded prizes for painting by the city of Antwerp. A bilingual edition, in both Dutch and French. With twenty-two tipped in colour plat...

Richard Cosway, R.A. , and His Wife and Pupils Miniaturists of the Eighteenth Century

George C. Williamson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition work looking into the influential art of Richard Cosway, beautifully illustrated with examples of his miniatures throughout. The first limited edition of this work, limited to three-hundred and f...

Angelica Kauffmann: Her Life and Works

Victoria Manners; G C Williamson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first, limited edition to one thousand copies of this charming biography of the life and works of Swiss painter Angelica Kauffmann. The first, limited edition of 1924 of this extensive biography of Ange...

Characters

Frank Swinnerton · 1922 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1922. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this uncommon portrait work by George Belcher, containing many of his comical cartoons. The first edition of this work.An uncommon work, in the very scarce original unclipped dustwrapper.A selection ...

Engravings and Their Value

J. Herbert Slater; F. W. Maxwell-Barbour · 1929 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart Limited, 1929. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated guide to the art of engravings and their values, by J. Herbert Slater, illustrated with many plates, including four in colour. The sixth revised edition of this work.An important work guiding th...