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The English Interior a Review of the Decoration of English Homes from Tudor Times to the Xixth Century

Arthur Stratton · 0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, B. T. Batsford, c1920. Cloth. A very smart copy of this history of English home interiors, filled with photographs. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste down. Frontispiece and a further 115 plates (a few of which are in colour), ...

A History of the English House from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period

Nathaniel Lloyd · 1949 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, The Architectural Press, 1949. Cloth. A very smart copy of this work on the history of English houses, richly illustrated with photographs and plans. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front paste down. 888 photographs and architectu...

The English Farmhouse and Cottage

M. W. Barley · 1961 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London , Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. Leather. A lovely leather bound, first edition copy of The English Farmhouse and Cottage, with illustrations. A first edition, morocco rebound copy of this work. The English Farmhouse and Cottage attempts to describe the...

A Different World, Stories of Great Hotels

Christopher Matthew · 1976 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

United States, Paddington Press Ltd, 1976 . First edition. Leather. The first US edition of this study of hotels from around the world rebound in leather with illustrations. First edition of A Different World, Stories of Great Hotels by Christopher Matthew rebound in half moro...

The Ladies; a Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society

Office of the Ladies · 1872 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.06 | $3,831.08 | ¥611,775)

London, Office of the Ladies, 1872-1873. First edition. Leather. The first forty-one issues of the very scarce Victorian fashion periodical 'The Ladies&apos. Bound in three volumes, and illustrated throughout, with eighteen hand-coloured fashion plates. The complete 1872 ...

Laureate&Apos;S Progress

Quentin Blake · 2002 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Jonathan Cape , 2002. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this first edition book by Quentin Blake illustrative of his time as Children's Laureate. First edition, first impression of this work, which provides an insight into the career of beloved cartoonist Que...

Lancashire Nonconformity; or, Sketches, Historical & Descriptive, of the Congregational and Old Presbyterian Churches in the County. The Churches of the Blackburn District.

Rev. B. Nightingale · 1891 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Manchester, John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, 1891. Cloth. A very scarce history of the nonconformist churches of the Blackburn District, illustrated with wonderfully detailed engravings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste down. ...

English Medieval Sculpture the Original Handbook Revised and Enlarged with 683 Photographs

Arthur Gardner · 1951 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1951. Cloth. Gardner's handbook to English Medieval sculpture, revised and enlarged with 683 photographs, in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. Bookplate...

The Norman Doorways in the Churches in the Northern Part of Hampshire

Charles E. Keyser · 1915 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Reading, Reading Observer , 1915. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating volume on the doorways of churches in Hampshire, with illustrations. A scarce volume on The Norman Doorways in the Churches in the Northern Part of Hampshire, by Charles E. Keyser. The contents of this volum...

Building in England Down to 1540, a Documentary History

F. E. Salzman · 1952 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this illustrated historical study in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Building in England Down to 1540, A Documentary History by L. F. Salzman with illustratio...

The Modern Terminal: New Approaches to Airport Architecture

Brian Edwards · 1998 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London and New York, E & FN Spon, 1998. First edition. Hardback. A comprehensive and inspirations volume on new approaches to airport architecture which is richly illustrated throughout. A first edition copy of this work on the design of airports. A stunning volume on new app...

Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland

J.P. Neale · 1818 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.55 | $2,377.91 | ¥379,722)

London, For The Proprietors by W.H. Reid; Sherwood, Neeley, and Jones, 1818-23. Leather. Volumes I, II, III, and VI of this comprehensive historical and architectural work on ancestral British noble seats, illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Volumes I, II, II, and VI of...

Old English Sporting Prints and Their History

Ralph Nevill; Geoffrey Holme (ed.) · 1923 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, The Studio, Limited. 1923. Leather. A limited edition copy of 'Old English Sporting Prints and Their History' with 103 plates. This edition was limited to 1500 copies, this copy being No. 731. In a beautiful half morocco red binding by Bayntun. Ex Libris blin...

Churches and Cathedrals of London

Stephen Humphrey · 2000 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, New Holland , 2000. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition of this large paper modern work dedicated to the architecture of London. An account of the best known and most historic churches and cathedrals of London. Stephen Humphrey's provides authoritative...

Old Crosses and Lychgates

Aymer Vallance · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the first edition of Aymer Vallance's study of the history of the commemoration of the dead through stone crosses and lychgates. Illustrated throughout. The first edition of this illustrated study o...

The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter

A. H. Palmer · 1895 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1895 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical study of German artist Joseph Wolf, illustrated throughout with examples of Wolf's work. The first edition of Alfred Herbert Palmer's study of the life of German artist ...

Paris Moderne Et Ses Environ

0 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,037.69 | $2,245.80 | ¥358,627)

Paris, Maison Martinet, c1860 . Cloth. A scarce collection of twenty-four colour plates depicting Paris in the mid nineteenth century, presented in the popular panoramic style binding of the day. A panoramic work containing a selection of twenty-four illustrated views of Paris...

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin · 1910 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, George Allen & Sons, 1910. Vellum. A beautifully bound half vellum edition of Ruskin's lectures on education and correct moral behaviour. A delightful edition of this work, in a signed Riviere half vellum binding.First published in 1865, this collection of three l...

The Bridge: A Chapter in the History of Building

Christian Barman · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this charming illustrated study of the history of bridges. The first edition of this charming history of bridges composed by Christian Barman, an important first‐generation Britis...

Illustrations; Landscape, Historical, and Antiquarian, to the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart ; Landscape Illustrations of the Novels of the Author of Waverley with Portraits of the Principal Female Characters

Anonymous · 1832 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

London, Charles Tilt, 1832-1834. Leather. Four illustrated volumes of engraved plates depicting locations and characters closely related to the writing of Sir Walter Scott. Two works of illustrations associated with the writing of Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott, bound in f...