Arkitektur

The Price Guide to 18th Century English Pottery

Sally Mount · 1972 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.95 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

Suffolk , Baron Publishing, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on the prices you should have expected to pay for early English pottery in 1972. Featuring numerous photographic plates. An envelope and subsciption form to the Antique Collectors' Club a...

Le Dictionnaire de L&Apos;Ornement

Albert Racinet · 1990 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.74 | $165.13 | ¥26,372)

Paris, Celiv, 1990. Cloth. A gorgeous edition loooking at ornamental designs. A gorgeous edition loooking at ornamental designs. Including Greco - Byzantin designs, Middle Ages designs and Russian designs. With 120 colour plates. Albert Racinet (1825- 1893) was an illustrator,...

Cassell"S Illustrated Family Paper Exhibitor; Containing About Three Hundred Illustrations, with Letter-Press Descriptions of All the Principal Objects in the International Exhibition of 1862.

None Stated · 1862 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.87 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Cassell, Petter. & Galpin, 1862 . First edition. Disbound. A scarce copy of this profusely illustrated Cassell publication documenting the principal exhibits of the International Exhibition of 1862 in London. In a contemporary brown cloth binding.First edition.Profusel...

Book of Beauty

Various [Compiled. by Charles Heath, ed. by The Countess of Blessington] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.67 | $211.36 | ¥33,756)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Leather. A scarce and fascinating compilation of short stories, accounts, portraits and poems that offer us great insight into Victorian perceptions surrounding beauty. Heath's Book of Beauty, a scarce comp...

Photograph Album of Renaissance Artwork and Bibliographical Clippings

James S. Dearden · 1980 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.69 | $198.15 | ¥31,646)

Not Stated, None, c1900 -1980. Leather. A handsome Birdsall half morocco binding housing photographic images of Renaissance artworks, and with further text leaves from James S. Dearden's bibliographical writings. An attractive half morocco signed binding by Birdsall, hous...

Treatises on Architecture, Buildings, Masonry, Joinery, and Carpentry, from the Encyclopaedia Britannica

William Hosking; Thomas Thredgold; Thomas Young · 1839 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.80 | $125.50 | ¥20,043)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1839 . Cloth. The seventh edition of this series of three treatises from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the longest running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. The seventh edition of the work.In quarter brown cloth, rebacked, with ...

Moderne Kirchen-Decorationen Ein Vorlagewerk Fur Ornamentale Kirchenmalerei

Ferd. Ritter von Feldegg · 1892 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.48 | $330.25 | ¥52,744)

Wien, Kunstverlag Von Anton Schroll & Co. 1892. First edition. Unbound. A delightful series of colour plates depicting the church decorations of Vienna and its environs. From Austrian architect Ferdinand Ritter von Feldegg. First edition. The very scarce second of three volume...

Westminster: Memorials of the City, Saint Peter&Apos;S College, the Parish Churches, Palaces, Streets, and Worthies

Rev. Mackenzie E.C. Walcott · 1849 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.90 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Westminster, Joseph Masters, 1849 . First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this account of Westminster, with a frontispiece and six plates. The very scarce first edition of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding.With a frontispiece and six pla...

The London Scene

Lewis Melville · 1926 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.68 | $77.94 | ¥12,448)

London , Faber and Gwyer, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this delightful collection of descriptions of London scenes, with 15 plates. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original brown cloth binding.Including descriptions of 15 scenes...

Teapots and Tea

Frank Tilley · 1957 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.49 | $323.65 | ¥51,689)

Newport, The Ceramic Book Company, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Frank Tilley's illustrated discussion of the history of teapots. The very scarce edition de luxe, one of only 25 of such copies produced. A limited edition, first edition work.This i...

Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book & Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press

David Tatham · 1992 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.71 | $184.94 | ¥29,537)

New York, Syracuse University Press, 1992-2003. First edition. Cloth. Two excellent first edition volumes from Tatham's extensive study on American painter and illustrator Winslow Homer, signed by the author. Two volumes. First edition, first impression. Each volume is si...

Nut-Cracker Suite Sheet Music Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Tschaikowsky · 1941 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.39 | $389.70 | ¥62,238)

Melbourne, Allan & Co. Pty Ltd, 1941. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce book of sheet music for the nut-cracker suite, beautifully illustrated in colour by the Australian illustrator, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. The 'simplified Piano Edition' of the Nut-Cracker suit...

Gotthard de Beauclair: Buchgestalter, Lyriker, Verleger 1907-1992 Leben Und Werk

Gert Fischer; Heinz Richter [editors] · 1996 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.88 | $79.26 | ¥12,659)

Siegburg, Rheinlandia Verlag, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this study of the life and work of German publisher Gotthard de Beauclair, in the original German. German. First edition. Illustrated with five black-and-white photographic plates and sixty...

War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919

Martin Hardie; Arthur K. Sabin · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.81 | $118.89 | ¥18,988)

London, A. & C. Black LTD, 1920. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated work showcasing examples of posters produced throughout the world during the First World War, the first edition. The first edition.An intriguing study on the posters produced by the belligerent and neutral n...

Vrs Graf

Emil Major; Erwin Gradmann · 1485 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.91 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Basel, Im Holbein, c1941. Cloth. A richly illustrated survey of Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf, this volume pairs 150 striking facsimiles with illuminating scholarly insight. In the publisher's original orange cloth.This volume is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from c...

Prism

W. G. Briggs · 1935 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.60 | $257.60 | ¥41,140)

London, W. G. Briggs and Co, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce 1935 volume of the commercial art periodical 'Prism', signed by W. G. Briggs, and illustrated in colour throughout. The very scarce 1935 volume of this commercial art periodical, which celebrat...

Rowlandson the Caricaturist

Joseph Grego · 1880 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.35 | $1,050.20 | ¥167,726)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1880. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated study on the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, inscribed by the author. The first edition.Inscribed by the author to the verso of the front endpaper of Volume I, "To the Honb.le Mich...

Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1888

William E. Rogers; Isaac V. Baker; Michael Rickard · 1889 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.84 | $99.08 | ¥15,823)

Albany , The Troy Press, 1889. First edition. Cloth. An annual report from the board of railroad commissioners of New York, providing insight into the state of the railway industry in the late nineteenth century. The first edition. Volume Two only.In the publisher's origi...

Three Prospectuses from the Fleece Press: More Fleece Press Books for 2005; an Important New Book from Fleece Press; the Inward Laugh

Simon Lawrence; Malcolm Yorke; Ian Rogerson · 2004 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.77 | $145.31 | ¥23,207)

Upper Denby, Huddersfield, The Fleece Press, 2004-2006 . First edition. Paperback. Three charming and very scarce prospectuses for works published by The Fleece Press, a private press dedicated to producing finely crafted, limited-edition books about wood engravers. Three very...

Egypt: The Art of the Pharaohs

Irmgard Woldering · 1963 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.70 | $64.73 | ¥10,338)

London, Methuen, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing study of ancient Egyptian art, illustrated beautifully throughout with colour plates. The first edition, first impression. From the publisher's 'Art of the World' series. In the original cloth binding. With...