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Louise Bourgeois: Pensees-Plumes

Louise Bourgeois; Deborah Wye; Marie-Laure Bernadac · 1995 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou Cabinet d'Art Graphique, 1995. First edition. Hardback. An elegant Centre Pompidou catalogue exhibiting the works of Louise Bourgeois, showcasing the artist"s intimate drawings and "feather-thoughts." First edition.In the publisher's or...

Pictures of Horses and English Life

A. J. Munnings; Lionel Lindsay · 1939 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited, 1939. Cloth. A pleasing second edition of this collection of country paintings and images from English artist Sir Alfred James Munnings. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, nineteen colour plates, and one hundre...

Documents D&Apos;Art Armeniens: Atlas

Frederic Macler · 1924 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, Librairie Oientaliste Paul Geuthner , 1924 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the scarce Atlas volume of this striking 1920s celebration of Armenian art, edited by French linguist and orientalist Frederic Macler. In the original French. A scarce first edition....

Painter of Pedigree: Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury

Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver · 2017 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Unicorn, 2017. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this exploration of the life and work of English painter Thomas Weaver, from a descendant of the artist. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour reproductions. A detailed historical study into t...

A Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of the City of London: Its History and Associations

John Edward Price · 1886 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Blades, East & Blades, 1886 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout and including chromolithographic plates, this is the first edition of J. E. Price's impressive history of the City of London's Guildhall. The first edition of this work.An impressive h...

Old Clock and Watches and Their Makers; Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past, in England and Abroad.

F. J. Britten · 1922 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, E. & F. N. Spon, [1922]. First edition. Cloth. A descriptive account of clocks and their makers by F. J. Britten, previously owned by Ambrose Heal, the noted Chairman of "Heal"s" furniture company, with a letter addressed to Heal. The fifth edition. Previously owned b...

Quatre-Vingts Dessins de Zadkine

Helena Staub; Laure Barbizet · 1994 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Editions du Musee Rodin, 1994. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon first edition of this collection of eighty prints from Russian and French artist Ossip Zadkine, in the original French. French. Uncommon work. First edition. A collection of eighty reproductions of pri...

New Days-New Ways: The Arrangement of the House and Its Work, with Suggestions That Make for Greater Efficiency in the Kitchen and Greater Satisfaction in Cooking

Lucy H. Yates · 1924 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd , 1924. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce illustrated guide to household design and management, written by British suffragist and cookery author Lucy H. Yates. First edition. A very scarce volume. In the publisher's original cloth bi...

The Practical Mechanic&Apos;S Journal

Practical Mechanic's Journal · 1850 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Glasgow, Practical Mechanic's Journal and Patent Office, 1850. First edition. Leather. The second volume of the illustrated 'Practical Mechanic's Journal', an important periodical on the developments of mechanics in the first half of the twentieth century. ...

Notes on the Early British Engraved Royal Portraits

H. C. Levis · 1917 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, The Chiswick Press, 1917. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce study on the depictions of the British Royal Family though published engravings from the sixteenth to eighteenth century. The first edition of this very scarce work, limited to only...

Twede Map: Hans Orlowski (Collection of Prints)

Frank Van Den Wijngaert [Ed.] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Antwerp , De Antwerpsche Exlibriskring, 1954 . First edition. Paperback. A striking collection of fourteen examples of artwork from German painter Hans Orlowski, housed in the publisher's original portfolio, published in Antwerp with the textual accompaniment written in D...

The Stately Homes of England

Llewellynn Jewitt; S. C. Hall · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Reeves and Turner, 1881 . Leather. An impressively illustrated two volume study of the stately homes of England, charmingly illustrated throughout with vignette wood engravings. Complete in two volumes.First published in the 1870s, present here are later printings of t...

Budding Life: A Book of Drawings

Jessie M. King · 1906 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London, Gowans and Gray Ltd, 1906. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work from Jessie M. King, being a collection of art nouveau style drawings of plants, bound in half calf. The first edition. A collection of fourteen monochrome line d...

Black Figures: 105 Reproductions with an Unpublished Essay

Edward Gordon Craig; L. M. Newman · 1989 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Wellingborough , Christopher Skelton, 1989. Cloth. A signed limited edition volume of Edward Gordon Craig's stage figures, previously owned by book designer Gerald Cinamon, an acquaintance of the publisher. A limited edition of 500 copies. This copy is signed by the publi...

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hieronymus Bosch

John Rowlands · 1979 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Oxford , Phaidon, 1979. First edition. Paperback. A lovely close-up study of Hieronymus Bosch's intricate painting, 'The Garden of Earthly Delights&apos. First edition. In the publisher's pictorial wraps. A visual tour through 'The Garden of Earthly Delig...

Visages de Barsac Volume I

Pascuad Guillaume; Andre Pascaud · 1946 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Barsac , Pascaud, 1946. Paperback. Volume I from this very scarce 'Visages de Barsac' series, comprising poetry, prose and music on the commune of Barsac. This is Volume I of this very scarce publication, 'Visages de Barsac&apos. With only two volumes found in t...

The Christmas Book Shop

The Studio Limited · 1923 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,876.78 | $3,170.74 | ¥506,325)

London, The Studio Limited, 1923 . First edition. Paperback. The vanishingly scarce first collaboration between the celebrated artists Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. One of the earliest examples of their impressive artwork, being an advertisement for Christmas gift books fr...

English Mediaeval Painted Glass

J. D. Le Couteur · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1932. Cloth. A smart later edition of this illustrated study of English Mediaeval stained glass. Later edition, originally published in 1926. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-seven images across twenty-eight plates, and ...

Josef Holbrooke and His Work

George Lowe · 1920 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of the life and work of English composer Joseph Charles Holbrooke. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece and musical scores throughout the text. A detailed ...

The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and the 1930s

Various; Joanna Skipwith [ed.] · 1994 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, National Portrait Gallery Publications , 1994. First edition. Hardback. An excellent first edition of this richly illustrated study of the Sitwell family. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Thi...