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Houses without Deposit: Being a New Way of Home-Building without Financial Anxiety

None Stated · 1927 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.49 | $165.50 | ¥26,448)

Iver , The Richings Park Estate Ltd. 1927. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce promotional survey of the Richings Park Estate, detailing plans and costs for planned freehold houses. First edition. Very scarce. In the original paper covered boards. Illustrated with a colou...

The Albert Memorial, the Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts, and Conservation

Chris Brooks [editor] · 2000 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.62 | $58.26 | ¥9,310)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this historical study on The Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, London. First edition. Illustrated with over three hundred images, many of which are in colour. A historical commentary o...

Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social History

Amanda Lillie · 2005 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.82 | $59.58 | ¥9,521)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated history of fifteenth century Florentine villas, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with over two hundred images. Challenging the ...

The World of the Country House in Seventeenth Century England

J. T. Cliffe · 1999 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.41 | $63.55 | ¥10,156)

New Haven; London, Yale University Press, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, richly illustrated study of the seventeenth-century English country house, examining its architecture, decoration, and social significance within early modern gentry life. In the publisher&a...

The Fate of the English Country House

David Littlejohn · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.84 | $52.96 | ¥8,463)

New York; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of David Littlejohn"s exploration of the decline and revival of England"s great houses, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper and illustrated with monochrome ph...

The Scottish Interior: Georgian and Victorian Decor

Ian Gow · 1992 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.78 | $72.82 | ¥11,637)

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, richly illustrated study of Georgian and Victorian Scottish interiors, exploring architecture, decoration, and design. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.Complete with...

Lectures on Architecture and Painting

John Ruskin · 1854 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.65 | $112.54 | ¥17,985)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1854. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated first edition of Lectures on Architecture and Painting with fifteen monochrome plates and folding frontispiece all drawn by Ruskin. First edition of Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburg...

Lives of the Engineers: Early Engineering, Vermuyden, Myddelton, Perry, James Brindley

Samuel Smiles · 1904 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.39 | $198.60 | ¥31,738)

London, John Murray, 1904. Leather. The popular edition of Smiles"s work, chronicling the lives and undertakings of some of Britain"s greatest civil engineers, illustrated with plates and bound in a full green calf prize binding. Rebound in a full green calf prize binding for ...

The History of Wolfelee

Palliser Hudson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.21 | $258.18 | ¥41,259)

London, Cassell and Company, 1921 . First edition. Leather. A lovely copy of the very scarce first edition of Palliser Hudson's posthumously published study of the history of Wolfelee House, a grand home his father bought for him. A vanishingly scarce first edition, in th...

The Riviera

A. Ansted · 1894 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.58 | $463.40 | ¥74,055)

London, Seeley and Co, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this large paper illustrated study of the Riviera, illustrated with signed proof etchings. No. 27 of 50 large paper copies of this work produced. A very scarce work.Illustrated with twenty sig...

Lutyens Houses and Gardens

Lawrence Weaver · 1921 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.80 | $66.20 | ¥10,579)

London, Offices of "Country Life" , 1921. Cloth. A very smart second edition of this architectural study of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Second edition. First published in 1913.In the original quarter cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and many full-page and in-text monochrom...

Portland Cement: Its Manufacture, Testing and Use

D. B. Butler · 1899 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.20 | $129.75 | ¥20,735)

London, E. & F. N. Spon, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce commentary on Portland Cerement and its uses. First edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with eighty-five in-text figures. A detailed and comprehensive study of Portland cement, th...

Thomas Tompion: His Life & Work

R. W. Symonds · 1951 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.74 | $86.06 | ¥13,753)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated study of the life and works of English clockmaker Thomas Tompion. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, two hundred and seventy-two black-and-white ...

London City Churches & London Churches: Ancient and Modern

A. E. Daniel; T. Francis Bumpus · 1895 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.70 | $99.30 | ¥15,869)

London, Archibald Constable & Co.; T. Werner Laurie, 1895-1906. Cloth. Two smart volumes of the churches of London, with histories of important buildings and illustrations throughout. Two volumes. This set contains: London City Churches, 1895. Illustrated with fourteen plates ...

A Collection on Southwark Cathedral

Canon Thompson; Rev. T. P. Stevens; Horace Munroe · 1898 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.82 | $59.58 | ¥9,521)

London, Ash & Co. Ltd.; Sampson, Low, Marston & Co.; Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1898-1933. Cloth. A collection of three smart histories of the Southwark Cathedral, with illustrations. Three volumes. This set contains: The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St. Savio...

London Interiors: A Grand National Exhibition of the Religious, Regal and CIVIC Solemnities, Public Amusements, Scientific Meetings, and Commercial Scenes of the British Capital

Anonymous · 1841 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.39 | $198.60 | ¥31,738)

London, Joseph Mead, 1841. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this impressively illustrated study of fashionable London architecture and interiors. Present here is the entirety of volume I, and the first portion of the text of volume II. A first edition.Present here ...

White Death

Robbie Morrison · 1998 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.20 | $129.75 | ¥20,735)

Paris, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, 1998 . First edition. Paperback. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this uncommon graphic novel about soldiers stationed in the Italian Alps during the First World War. The uncommon first edition, first impression of this work...

Bye-Laws, Rules, and Ordinances of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

Harry Stewart Bruce Hodgkinson; Cecil Pemberton Stedall; George Charles Hawes; J. F. Adams Beck · 1921 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.41 | $191.98 | ¥30,680)

London, Howard & Jones, 1921 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of the vanishingly scarce 1921 edition of the bye-laws, rules, and ordinances he Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Various editions of this formal compilation of the statutes, regulations, and traditiona...

Ernest Gimson: His Life & Work

The Shakespeare Head Press · 1924 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,016.55 | $1,125.39 | ¥179,847)

London; Oxford, Ernest Benn Limited; Basil Blackwell; Shakespeare Head Press, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A brilliant limited edition biography on the life and work of the noted English furniture design and architect Ernest Gimson, signed and previously owned by Ambrose Heal, ...

Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen&Apos;S House

John Bold · 2000 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.49 | $165.50 | ¥26,448)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated architectural history of Greenwich, London. First edition. Illustrated with over three hundred images, photographs, plans, and figures. An examination of one...