Kunst

Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933

Douglas Cleverdon · 1983 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Unknown, Privately Printed, 1983. Paperback. A very smart limited edition of this charming account of the friendship and collaboration between British typographers and printmakers Stanley Morison and Eric Gill. Limited to two hundred and thirty copies printed for the subscribe...

George Cruikshank&Apos;S Table-Book

George Cruikshank; Gilbert Abbott a Beckett · 1869 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. Leather. A lovely work highlighting the brilliance of the comical art of George Cruikshank. An illustrated celebration of the work of caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank, hailed as the 'modern Hogarth' by his contemporaries.Il...

The Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education

Various; Unknown · 1886 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London , Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Leather. A profusely illustrated primer on applied science and industrial arts, issues one to four of the Technical Series from Cassell's Popular Educator, smartly bound into two volumes. Smartly bound in half calf with textured ...

The Art and Craft of Home-Making

Edward W. Gregory · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Thomas Murby and Co. 1925. Cloth. A lovely second edition of this illustrated guide to home design and management, adorned with colour plates. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eight...

Monograms and Ciphers

A. A. Turbayne · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh , T. C. & E. C. Jack , 1906. Cloth. A very scarce plate book of monograms and ciphers from American book designer Albert Angus Turbayne. A very scarce copy of this In the original cloth binding. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. An impressive...

Aesthetics, or, the Analogy of the Sensible Sciences Indicated

George Field · 1820 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London, The Pamphleteer, 1820. First edition. Unbound. The first separate edition of this very scarce pamphlet on aesthetics, by George Field. The first separate edition of this very scarce work, originally published in Volume XVII of 'The Pamphleteer&apos.An essay explor...

Friendship Album of the Howells&Apos; Japan Exhibition in Cardiff

Kathleen Olwen 'Joyce' Howell; Various · 1915 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

None, None, 1915. Leather. A very scarce scrapbook album commemorating Howells' Japan Exhibition in Cardiff, with watercolour paintings. A unique and very scarce friendship album, compiled by a twelve year old girl upon the Japan Exhibition in Cardiff.The scrapbook contai...

The Country Blues

Samuel B. Charters · 1960 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A smart UK first edition of this comprehensive study by American music historian, Samuel Charters, tracing the roots of American blues from slave songs to seminal artists like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In the publishe...

Monet Peintures

Helene Adhemar · 1950 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Les Editions de Chene, 1950. Paperback. A scarce copy of this collection of paintings by French artist Oscar-Claude Monet, with an introduction from French curator Helene Adhemar in the original French. French. Scarce work. Illustrated with fifteen tipped in colour plat...

Home Decoration (Hall&Apos;S Distemper Catalogue)

0 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Hull, Sissons Brothers & Co. Ltd, c1910. Brochure/Pamphlet. A brightly illustrated and very scarce catalogue promoting Hall's Distemper paint, offering examples of various colour schemes for the home. A very scarce home decoration catalogue. Bound in the publisher's ...

Encyclopedia of Needlework

Therese de Dillmont · 0 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Mulhouse, Th. De Dillmont, c1900. Cloth. A new edition of this popular twentieth century encyclopaedia of needlework by Therese de Dillmont, with coloured plates. New, revised and enlarged edition. The D.M.C. Library series, this edition published in English, French, Italian, ...

Plates for a Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne · 0 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

None, None, c1945. Leather. A very scarce series of plates by Richard Dreyer, simple pen and ink drawings depicting scenes from Sterne's famous novel. A very scarce and unique volume of plates, depicting Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey Through France an...

Architectural Notices of the Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton

Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton · 1849 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Lonon, John Henry Parker, 1849. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated architectural study of the churches of Northampton, bound in full morocco. The first edition in book form of this work, which was initially issued in parts between 1846 an...

The English Interior a Review of the Decoration of English Homes from Tudor Times to the Xixth Century

Arthur Stratton · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, B. T. Batsford , 1920. First edition. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated study of English interior design from the Tudor period to the 19th century. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Richly illustrated throughout the text, including a frontispi...

The Ornamentation of the Transitional Period of British Architecture. A.D. 1145 - A.D. 1190

Edmund Sharpe · 1871 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, E. & F. N. Spon , 1871. First edition. Leather. The first edition Part I of this very scarce and richly illustrated study of twelfth century British ecclesiastical architecture, written and illustrated by architectural historian Edmund Sharpe. The first edition of this...

The Magazine of Art

Various · 1895 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited , 1895-1898. Leather. A lavishly illustrated set of four volumes from 'The Magazine of Art', a monthly British journal devoted to the visual arts. Four smart volumes from The Magazine of Art, comprising the years 1895-1898. This ...

The Architecture of Ancient Greece

William J. Anderson; R. Phene Spiers; William Bell Dinsmoor · 1927 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1927. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated account of the important architecture of the Ancient Greek world. New edition. Being the first part of 'The Architecture of Greece and Rome&apos. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-three ...

Dinanderie: A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass and Bronze

J. Tavenor-Perry · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, George Allen and Sons, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated study of medieval art, furniture and decorations. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-eight monochrome pl...

Ancient Cotswold Churches

Ulric Daubeny · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Ed. J. Burrow and Co. Ltd , 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charmingly illustrated survey of Cotswold Churches. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A delightful illustrated exploration of the ancient churches of th...

Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, from the Introduction of Christianity to the Present Time

Thomas Archer · 1883 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Blackie & Son Limited, 1883. Leather. A smartly bound set of this detailed historical study of royal pictures and portraits. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, and thirty-four plates. Volume two is illustrated with a...