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The Magazine of Art

Various · 1881 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co. 1881. Leather. A profusely illustrated Victorian British journal devoted to the visual arts. Volume IV. With reviews of exhibitions, articles about artists and all branches of the visual arts, as well as some poetry. The Magazine of Art was...

The Art of Needlecraft

R K and M I R Polkinghorne · 1935 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Associated Newspapers, 1935. Leather. A detailed and explanatory guide to the craft of needlework in its varying forms. With thirty-two art plates and three hundred and twenty-eight diagrams in the text. In half morocco. Externally, near fine, with just a few marks. In...

Decorative Motives of Oriental Art

Katherine M. Ball · 1927 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head LTD. 1927. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this study into Oriental art, in a smart leather binding. Featuring six hundred and seventy-three illustrations, the author goes into significant detail, approaching the subject via the ind...

English Painting

R H Wilenski · 1946 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Faber and Faber, 1946. Leather. A work of art criticism by R H Wilenski, with examples of a vast array of illustrations throughout the volume. A reprint of this work which was first published in November 1933. Rebound in a lovely quarter morocco binding. Illustrated th...

Electric Motors and Generators

Various · 1947 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Odhams Press Limited, 1947. Leather. An attractive copy of this work on motoring, in a leather binding. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. A collection of short chapters on various aspects of electric motors and generators by various authors, including F Harrabin, J Nixon and E Emer...

The Cabinet of the Arts a Series of Engravings by English Artists

Anonymous · 1799 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)

London, Not Stated, 1799. Leather. A scarce collection of engravings by English artists. Contains 88 plates of engravings which include topographical views, portraits, emblematic scenes and reproductions of the engraved title pages of other publications. An interesting, if ecl...

Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Biographical and Critical

M Bryan · 1886 · Rooke Books

£169.99 (€203.76 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1886-9. Leather. Michael Bryan's acclaimed reference book on artists. Edited by Robert Edmund Graves. Bound in half calf leather with gilt lettering and marbled edges. With Arthur Shanks nameplate on the front free endpapers. Michael Bryan (1...

American Glass

George and Helen McKearin · 1941 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, Crown Publishers, 1941. Leather. An extensive book on American glass. Bound in half morocco leather with gilt lettering. Has been rebound with new endpapers. Uncommon. Includes chapters on Early Production, Glassmaking and Ornamentation; Early American Blown and Patt...

Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Paintings, Water Colours and Engravings in the Victoria Art Galleries, Dundee on the Occasion of the British Association Meeting.

A H Millar · 1912 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.55 | $36.98 | ¥5,905)

London, British Association, 1912. Leather. A catalogue of this art collection from many galleries. Vellum bound with cream cloth covered boards and gilt tiles to spine. Comprehensive catalogue of this charming art collection with many engravings and illustrations throughout, ...

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Scultpure, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages, Accompanied by Descriptions in Two Volumes

Walter Scott · 1814 · Rooke Books

£460.00 (€551.38 | $607.72 | ¥97,046)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-17. Leather. A beautifully bound pair of volumes on The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. Complete in two volumes. Together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition, and original po...

Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Volume 2, Italian School

Otto Pacht; J. J. G. Alexander · 1970 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.83 | $158.52 | ¥25,314)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1970. Paperback. A useful illustrated research guide for illuminated manuscripts found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. With eighty-eight plates. This fascinating ...

Society Pictures

George du Maurier · 1865 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. c1880. Cloth. A two volume set of the drawings of George du Maurier. Parts one and four of original four volume set. George du Maurier was a French-born British cartoonist and author known for his contributions to Punch. He became a member of th...

Wandering Shadows

Vera Röhm · 1998 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Berlin, G & H, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A new, sealed copy of Vera Röhm's 'Wandering Shadows&apos. A first edition copy. In German and English Bound in cloth with unclipped dust wrapper Vera Rohm's name comes up in discussions of contemporary constructive ar...

Rockingham Ornamental Porcelain

D G Rice · 1938 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , The Adam Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of this work by D G Rice. Signed by Rice to front free-endpaper. With 15 colour plates. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some light shelfwear and some marks to boards...

Nineteenth Century Cameo Glass.

Geoffrey W. Beard · 1956 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , The Ceramic Book Company, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition collection of the most notable pieces of cameo glass in the nineteenth century. This first edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Colour illustrated frontispiece of The Dennis...

The Gothick Taste

Terence Davis · 1974 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1974. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this work on Gothick architecture. Gothick architecture was extremely popular in the eighteenth century and echoed the building heritage of the Middle Ages. In a cloth binding in original dustwrapper. Exte...

Baj Disegni

Dan Cameron · 1989 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London , Fabbri Editori, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by Dan Cameron on Enrico Baj. Published in Italian alongside English. Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and artistic writer whose works show an obsession with nuclear war and an influence by the s...

Thirty Bindings

G.D. Hobson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London , The First Edition Club, 1926. Cloth. A volume on bookbinding dating from 1926. Published by the First Edition Club, a collective of rare and antique book enthusiasts, the volumes deal with exceptional bindings from throughout the world and centuries, displayed in thir...

The Moderns Revisted.

Grosvenor Vadehra · 2006 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Grosvenor Vadehra, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition study of modern Indian art. The piece looks at the works of M F Hussain, S H Raza, Ram Kumar, V S Gaitonde, F N Souza, Tyed Mehta and Akbar Padamsee. Numerous colour illustrated plates and illustrat...

Seventeenth-Century English Miniatures

John Murdoch · 1997 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , The Stationery Office, 1997. Cloth. An attractive copy of the first edition of this study of miniature portraits from the 1600s. Illustrated with many colour and monochrome reproductions. Including portraits of Catherine Howard, Charles I, James II, and many other nob...