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The Falls Tracer: Six Pieces and Five Drawings

Glen Baxter · 1970 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Tetrad Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition proof copy of artist Glen Baxter's collection of absurdist drawings, with literary descriptions, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce, Limited Edition, Proof Copy, being one of two-hun...

The Life and Work of B.W. Leader R. A by Lewis Lusk with Numerous Illustrations

Lewis Lusk · 1901 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

London, Virtue and Company, Limited, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of the biography of English landscape painter Benjamin Williams Leader A first edition of the beautifully illustrated biography of English landscape painter Benjamin Willia...

Flowers of Paradise

Reginald Francis Hallward · 1889 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Macmillan & Co , 1889. First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated throughout with chromolithographs, this is the first edition of Reginald Hallward's charming work of music, verse and illustration. The first edition of this decorative and richly illustrated mus...

Embroidery: A Collection of Articles on Subjects Connected with the Study of Fine Needlework

Mrs Archibald H Christie (ed) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, James Pearsall & Co, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A well illustrated book containing articles on needlework, including its methods, designs, and history, with several colour plates. First Edition. Illustrations include twenty-four colour plates, one black-and-white pla...

L&Apos;Ancienne France: Le Livre Et Les Arts

M. P. Louisy · 1887 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et cie, 1887. Leather. A leather bound copy containing a history of the book within Old France, written in French by Paul Louisy with numerous illustrated plates. Bound in full-crushed morocco. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, as well a...

A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford

John Henry Parker · 1842 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1842-46. First edition. Leather. The complete four volume set on the architecture of Oxford churches and landmarks, bound in half-crushed morocco into one volume with various illustrations.Prior owner bookplate, belonging to archaeologist Sinclair Fr...

Whistler As I Knew Him

Mortimer Menpes · 1904 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.05 | ¥45,358)

New York and London, The Macmillan Company, 1904. Cloth. A delightful first edition of Mortimer Menpe's biography of American painter James McNeill Whistler, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and plates in monochrome throughout. Best known for the painting made depi...

George Morland: His Life and Works

Walter Gilbey; E. D. Cuming · 1907 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this volume recounting of George Morland's life and career as a painter, with lovely coloured plates. The first trade edition of this work, published simultaneously as a deluxe limited...

Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Modern Pictures of James Price

Anonymous · 1895 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1895. Leather. The scarce catalogue from the auctions of the paintings belonging to James Price, Esq. particularly those from the Early English school. Illustrated with nearly one hundred depictions of the works auctioned.Including works by J....

Oeuvres de Moliere Precedees D&Apos;Une Notice Sur Sa Vie Et Ses Ouvrages Par Sainte-Beuve

Moliere · 1844 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris, J.J. Dubochet et Copagnie, 1844. Leather. An extensive, illustrated edition of the works of French playwright and poet, Moliere. Bound in half calf and in the original French. An extensive collection of the works of French playwright and poet, Moliere. Containing his b...

The Country Home Volume V

Various · 1910 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, The Sphere and Tatler , 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce volume, a magazine dedicated to the country home and life. Volume V of The Country Home magazine, from April to September 1910. Featuring numerous articles concerning modern country st...

The Builder, an Illustrated Weekly Magazine Volume LVIII & LVIX

ed. H. H. Statham · 1890 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Office, 1890. Cloth. A scarce collection of the issues of 'The Builder' magazine from the year 1890; two volumes bound as one. With folding plans and plates throughout. Volume XXVIII, of the year 1870.Founded in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom, The Builder, to...

More Famous Houses of Bath & District: Being the Second Series of That Work

J. F. Meehan · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Bath, B. & J. F. Meehan, 1906. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated study of the eighteenth century residents of Bath and its surroundings, and the houses they occupied. The first edition of this study of the grand homes of Bath and Somerset. This work is the second series, pr...

Contes de Haute-Lisse

Jerome Doucet · 1899 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

Paris, Bernoux et Cumin, 1899 . Cloth. A charmingly illustrated Limited Edition collection of French short stories, decorated in a distinctive Art Nouveau style A Limited Edition, no. 335 of 500 copies printed in this edition.Illustrated throughout by English artist Garth Jone...

Thy Kingdom Come

Arthur Wragg · 1939 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Arthur Wragg's illustrated commentary of British society as it stood at the outbreak of the Second World War, complete with Wragg's woodcuts throughout. The first edition, first impression of t...

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Illustrated Handbook to the Permanent Collections of Industrial Art Objects

Whitworth Wallis; Arthur Bensley Chamberlain · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Birmingham, City of Birmingham, c1900. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this handbook to the industrial art collections, published by the city of Birmingham. A very useful and comprehensive guidebook to the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. This particular guidebook cover...

Rossetti and His Circle

Max Beerbohm · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this collection of caricatures and drawings of famous artists, writers, and poets by Max Beerbohm. Drawn by parodist Max Beerbohm, an nineteenth and twentieth-century English essayist, c...

The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake

David Bindman · 1978 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. First edition. Cloth. An exhaustive annotated catalogue of the engravings and illustrations of William Blake, with reproductions of his illustrations throughout. The first edition of this comprehensive study of the graphic art of Romantic poet ...

Catalogue of the Plate of Oxford Colleges

E. Alfred Jones · 1938 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1938-44. Cloth. A beautiful collection detailing the plate of four prominent Oxford colleges, each illustrated with photographs of these important relics. Four volumes, detailing the plate of Magdalen College, the Queen's Colleg...

A New Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares

William Badcock; William O'Sullivan · 1970 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Shannon, Irish University Press, 1970. Leather. A striking limited edition facsimile of the second edition of William Badcock's influential work on the gold and silver trade. A limited edition work, limited to one hundred copies bound in Niger Morocco by Desmond Smith. Th...