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British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring

Walter Shaw Sparrow · 1922 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1922 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring, with colour plates. A first edition copy. British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring is written by Walter Shaw Sparrow and wi...

The Benson Murder Case

S. S. Van Dine · 1939 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London , Daily Express Fiction Library, 1939. Cloth. A copy of S. S. Van Dine's mystery novel The Benson Murder Case. A reprint copy. S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym used by American critic Willard Huntington Wright for his detective novels. Under this pseudonym he crea...

Architecture and How It Arose; with a Model for the Gothic

Charlotte A. Pound · 1880 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London, E. Marlborough & Co, 1880 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce late nineteenth century discussion of the origins of Gothic architecture. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work, by Charlotte A. Pound.Insc...

Winged Idyll

John Stone · 1936 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Birmingham, City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1936. Paperback. A scarce booklet containing a charming tale by John Stone adorned with beautiful wood engravings by Ivy Anne Ellis. A charming tale by John Stone, reprinted from 'The Manc...

IL Libro de&Apos;Disegni Del Vasari

Licia Ragghianti Collobi · 1974 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Florence, Vallecchi, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume, first edition set of Vasari's book of drawings. A complete two volume set of these volumes on the work by Giorgio Vasari. The first volume contains the text and the second volume contains the drawings...

British Military Prints

Ralph Nevill · 1909 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, The Connoisseur Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of military prints and artworks. First edition. A collection of military prints and artworks, with frontispiece and thirteen plates to the introduction. Followed by sixty...

Pictures of Life and Character. Fourth Series

John Leech · 1841 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. c1864. Cloth. A collection of over two hundred illustrations published in the popular nineteenth century satiric magazine, Punch. The fourth series of Pictures of Life and Character, containing a over two hundred illustrations and cartoons from P...

The Glyptic or Musee Phusee Glyptic

John W. Jarvis · 1875 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London , John Russell Smith , 1875. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scrapbook of the Musee Phusee Glyptic, with illustrations. A first edition copy of The Glyptic or Musee Phusee Glyptic. This work is a scrap book of jottings from Stratford-On-Avon and else...

Lace Making and Collecting: An Elementary Handbook

A. Penderel Moody · 1909 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1909. First edition. Paperback. A scarce illustrated work on lace making and collections of lace, first edition. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with twenty-six plates. Collated complete. A guide to collecting and making lace, with illu...

Silver Wedding Congratulations Card for Mr and Mrs Perry M. Thornton

1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Potter, Batten & Davies, 1902. Paperback. A copy of the Silver Wedding Congratulations Card for Mr and Mrs Perry M. Thornton on their Silver Wedding Celebrations from the Clapham Conservative Association. Silver Wedding Congratulations Card for Mr and Mrs Perry M. Thor...

An Etchers Ramble by the Thames

Arthur Evershed · 1879 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Libraire de l'Art , 1879. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce portfolio of mounted etchings by the British artist, Arthur Evershed. The vanishingly scarce first edition. Dated from the Royal College of Physicians of London, and held institutionally in onl...

Mason Porcelain and Ironstone 1796-1853 Miles Mason and the Mason Manufactories

Reginald Haggar; Elizabeth Adams · 1977 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Faber and Faber , 1977. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this illustrated history of Mason's Ironstone China in its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. A comprehensive study of the history of Miles Mason and the Mason Manufactories...

Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

Robert Flynn Johnson; Joseph R. Goldyne · 1985 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Geneva , The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Richard Burton, S. A. [1985]. First edition. Cloth. An impressive illustrated catalogue of the master drawings from the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, limited edition enclosed in its original slipcase. No. 855 of an unspeci...

A Treatise on Wood Engraving Historical and Practical

John Jackson · 1861 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Cloth. An extensive volume on this history and practice of wood engraving, richly illustrated. A second edition copy of A Treatise on Wood Engraving Historical and Practical, with a new chapter on the artists of the day by Henry G. Bohn and 145 ad...

Design: An Exposition of the Principles and Practice of the Making of Patterns

Richard G Hatton · 1925 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1925. Cloth. Scarce third impression of this treatise on design by Richard G Hatton, rarely seen enclosed in its original dust wrapper. Richard G Hatton's study of the designer's making of patterns, the third impression. Scarce in all editi...

Conversations of James Northcote, Esq. , R.A.

William Hazlitt · 1830 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Hazlitt's popular work describing his conversations with the British painter, James Northcote. The first edition. In a full cloth binding. With a portrait frontispiece, eng...

The Dutch School 1600-1900

Neil MacLaren; Christopher Brown · 1991 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, National Gallery Publications Limited, 1991. Cloth. A complete two volume set of this richly illustrated catalogue of Dutch Paintings. A first edition copy of this complete two volume set of The Dutch School 1600-1900, housed in a cloth slipcase. This is a wonderful c...

Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains

Geoffrey A. Godden · 1973 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cirencester, The Collectors' Book Club , 1973. Cloth. A smart work on Coalport and Coalbrookdale porcelain, by the notable collector Geoffrey Godden. A scarce early edition. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. With...

Worcestershire Exhibition Catalogue

Not Staed · 1882 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Worcester, W. E. Tucker, 1882. Cloth. A second edition copy of the catalogue for the 1882 Worcestershire Exhibition. The second edition copy of the Worcestershire Exhibition Catalogue. The Worcestershire Exhibition was held at the Worcester Engine Works in line with the Great...

Memorials of Sir Francis Chantrey, Sculptor, in Hallamshire and Elsewhere

John Holland · 1851 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Sheffield, J. Pearce , 1851. First edition. Leather. A charming biography of Sir Francis Chantrey by John Holland. First edition. The life of Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, an English sculptor who became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, producing busts and ...