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Sculptura-Historico-Technica: Or, the History and Art of Ingraving

Various · 1747 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, S. Harding, 1747. First edition. Leather. An uncommon treatise and history of the beautiful art of engraving, complete with ten plates. The first edition thus of this uncommon work, the preface describes this work as the second edition of 'Repertorium-Sculptile-Ty...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti an Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life

H. C. Marillier · 1904 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London , George Bell & Sons , 1904. Leather. A marvellous and richly illustrated memorial of the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A third edition, abridged and revised. This work expertly interweaves a brief sketch of the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti with a detailed chronolog...

Lose Blatter Von Albert Hendschel

Albert Hendschel; Theodore Huth · 1882 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Frankfurt , Verlag von F. A. C. Prestel, 1882. Loose Pages, Articles. A smart folder of loose plates by German artist Albert Hendschel. A lovely folder of loose prints by German 19th Century Artist Albert Hendschel. Many of the plates show domestic scenes of children play and...

The Royal Arms: Its Graphic and Decorative Development

Charles Hasler · 1980 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Jupiter Books, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition copy of this brightly illustrated historical work on the British Royal Arms, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. A comprehensive history of Great Britain's Royal Arms, with a particular focus on t...

La Galleria Di Palazzo Degli Alberti 100 Opere D&Apos;Arte

Giuseppe Marchini · 1985 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Prato, Cassa do Risparmi e Depositi di Prato, 1985. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated collection of art from the Palazzo degli Alberti. An Italian copy of this work on the gallery of the Palazzo degli Alberti. The Palazzo degli Alberti is a historic noble palace in Prato, Tusc...

Trier Augustusstadt Der Treverer

Various · 1984 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Mainz Am Rhein , Philipp Von Zabern, 1984. Cloth. A wonderful German copy of this volume exploring the urban and country of Roman times, with colour illustrations. In the original German. A second edition copy. This volume explores the urban and the countryside in pre and ear...

British Contemporary Artists

Cosmo Monkhouse · 1899 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, William Heinemann, 1899. First edition. Cloth. An interesting, first edition guide to the contemporary artists of the Victorian era, illustrated throughout. The scarce first UK edition. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding with gilt lettering. With a fr...

The House Beautiful and Useful, Being Practical Suggestions on Furnishing and Decoration

J. H. Elder-Duncan · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited , 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this guide to furnishing and decorating a house. A scarce first edition. In the original soft cover cloth binding. With a colour frontispiece and numerous monochrome plates throughout. A...

Birket Foster&Apos;S Pictures of English Landscape

Tom Taylor; Birket Foster; Brothers Dalziel · 1881 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1881. First edition. Hardback. A lovely limited edition collection of the picturesque rural scenes of Myles Birket Foster, engraved on India proof paper by the Brothers Dalziel. A limited edition work, an India Proof Edition limited to one th...

Modern Painters

John Ruskin · 1897 · Rooke Books

£625.00 (€749.16 | $825.71 | ¥131,856)

London, George Allen, 1897. Vellum. A Bickers' bound set of one of John Ruskin's important and influential Victorian artistic works, a lovely set in a full vellum binding. Complete in six volumes.In a full vellum binding by Bickers & Son. Volume III illustrated with...

Ceramique Orientale

[Rene Granjean] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, Ernst Henri, 1922. Cloth. A French portfolio highlighting the beauty of the ceramic pattern designs commonly seen in Islamic, Arabic, and Persian pottery. In French.Illustrated with thirty-eight hand-coloured plates.Bound without title page and introduction, and two pla...

Scrapbook of Watercolour Fabric Illustrations

Anonymous · 0 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.85 | $2,113.82 | ¥337,550)

Paris, Not Stated, c1900 . Cloth. A unique and very scarce artist's sketch book, containing watercolour reproductions of eleven samples of fabrics used for upholstery. A very scarce and unusual collection of hand painted watercolour reproductions of upholstery fabric samp...

Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc. As Applicable to Landscape Painting

Samuel Prout · 1848 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London , M. A. Nattali, 1848. Cloth. A fascinating new edition copy of this work on the compositions of landscape paintings by watercolourist of Queen Victoria, Samuel Prout. A new edition, with additional examples, of Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, etc. As Applicable...

Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Girl

Wendy Jones · 2006 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A mesmerising story of the artist Grayson Perry, written by his friend Wendy Jones. Wendy Jones, close friend to Grayson Perry, captures Perry's voice and story in this direct and imaginative portrait of the potter an...

Words and Pictures

Quentin Blake · 2000 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape , 2000. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of this insight into the work of Quentin Blake, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of this work, which provides an insight into the career of beloved cartoonist Quent...

Mitsou Quarante Images

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1921 · Rooke Books

£3,750.00 (€4,494.97 | $4,954.27 | ¥791,134)

Erlenbach-Zurich; Leipzig, Rotapfel Verlag, 1921. First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition of the first artistic work of Balthus, published when he was 13 years old, a lovely work showing forty of his lithographs. The first edition of this scarce work.Unrestored. Cle...

The Lost Villages of Britain

Richard Muir · 1982 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London , Michael Joseph, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition illustrated volume on the fascinating history of the lost villages of Britain by Richard Muir. A smart volume that considers the lost villages of Britain, describing the first prehistoric Dark Age hamlets, me...

Musae Anglicanae Sive Poemata Quaedam Melioris

Anonymous · 1741 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Londini [London], J. & R. Tonson, & J. Watts, 1741 . Cloth. Volume I only of a two volume work of Latin language poetry. The fifth edition of this work, scarce in all editions. A scarce mid eighteenth century volume of poetry in Latin, in a full calf binding.This smart work co...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Mit Einem Kritischen Katalog Samtlicher Gemalde

Donald E. Gordon · 1968 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Munchen , Prestel-Verlag , 1968. First edition. Cloth. Sweeping study of the art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the original German, featuring lovely colour plates and other illustrations. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German painter of the expressionist movement, one of the founde...

Denkschrift Zur Feier Der Einweihung Des Neuen Gebaudes Der Konigl. Polytechnischen

C. F. Leins · 1864 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Stuttgard, Not Stated, 1864 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, illustrated celebration of the construction of the Stuttgart Polytechnic, celebrating also King Charles I of Wurttemberg's visit to the site. In the original German. Illustrated with seven lithographic...