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The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920

H. L. Mallalieu · 1976 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Suffolk, Antique Collector's Club, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A dictionary work on British watercolour painters, complied by Huon Mallalieu, held in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrap...

The Square Egg and the Vicious Circle

Ronald Searle · 1968 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Vermont, Stephen Greene Press , 1968. First edition. Cloth. A collection of illustrations by popular artist Ronald Searle. A U.S issue of this work. First edition. Searle is probably best remembered for his creation of St Trinian's School which sprang to fame shortly afte...

Birket Foster

Jan Reynolds · 1984 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a charming biography on the Victorian watercolour illustrator, riddled with illustrations showcasing the artist's repetoire. The first edition of Birket Foster, a charming biography on the Victori...

Soglow&Apos;S Confidential History of Modern England

Otto Soglow · 1939 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an intriguing collection of comics poking fun at British colonialism and the Second World War, created by American cartoonist Otto Soglow. The first edition of Soglow's Confidential Hi...

Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus

Camille Enlart; David Hunt [trans.] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Trigraph in association with the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1987 . Cloth. The first English edition of this monumental illustrated study of gothic art and the Renaissance in Cyprus with black and white illustrations and plates throughout. The first English edition in th...

Garden Ornament

Gertrude Jekyll; Christopher Hussey · 1927 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Country Life, 1927. Cloth. The second and popular revised edition of a copiously illustrated picture book on ideas for using ornaments to frame gardens, co-written by a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The second and revised edition of Garden Ornament, a...

Honore Daumier

Wilhelm Wartmann; Harry C. Schnur [trans.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Nicholson & Watson , 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this profusely illustrated work on the nineteenth century French painter Honore Daumier, with 240 lithographs. The first UK edition.In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with pa...

A Concise History of Painting

Mrs. Charles Heaton [Mary Margaret Heaton] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1873 . First edition. Leather. A smartly bound scarce first edition copy of this illustrated art survey covering ancient Egyptian to modern Britain. A scarce first edition copy.In a full brown calf binding. Illustrated in permanent photography with a fr...

Old Virginia Houses the Mobjack Bay Country; Old Virginia Houses Along the James

Emmie Furguson Farrar · 1955 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

New York, Bonanza Books, 1955-1957. First edition. Cloth. A first and second volume in this series on the architecture found in Virginia, profusely illustrated throughout. A two volume set.The first editions.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original uncl...

The Orientalists

Phillipe Jullian · 1977 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Oxford, Phaidon, 1977. Cloth. The first translated edition of a compelling art history into European artists depicting the Orient, the first worldwide study on the subject, in the scarce original slipcase. The Orientalists: European Painters of Eastern Scenes, the first transl...

The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure

Phil May · 1904 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, W. Thacker & Co. 1904 . Hardback. A limited edition copy of this collection of the sketches and drawings of English caricaturist Phil May, with a biography of May, in the publisher's original cloth with paper vellum spine. Limited edition in the publisher's o...

Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography

Jeffrey Miller · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of this illustrated bibliography of the works of acclaimed American author Paul Bowles. The first edition.In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. In an acetate dust...

Water-Colour Painting in Britain Edited by Dudley Snelgrove with Jonathan Mayne and Basil Taylor the Eighteenth Century, the Romantic Period and the Victorian Period

Martin Hardie · 1969 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, B T Batsford, 1969-71. Cloth. A charming three volume set, showcasing the watercolor painting across three distinct periods if British history. Three volumes of this reference work. Illustrated throughout with numerous examples of watercolour paintings. Volume III is a...

Dictionary of Architecture and Illustrations to the Dictionary of Architecture

Architectural Publication Society · 1892 · Rooke Books

£3,119.99 (€3,739.80 | $4,121.94 | ¥658,221)

London, Thomas Richards; Whiting and Co, c1875-1892. Leather. Ten volumes with gilt lettering and decoration. A very scarce set of Dictionary of Architecture (8vol) and Illustrations to the Dictionary of Architecture (2vol). Not available anywhere else for sale, and held only ...

Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss &C. In Three Volumes

Dr. Waagen · 1854 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London , John Murray, 1854. Cloth. Waagen's scarce seminal work, a journey of discovery into British art by an expert visiting England from Germany, cataloguing the art treasures in private collections of the 1850s. Bookseller's stamp of Knibb, Leamington to front pa...

Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time. In Three Volumes

Oskar Fischel; Max von Boehn · 1909 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, J.M.Dent, 1909. Leather. A fascinating and lavishly illustrated examination of nineteenth-century culture and fashion as depicted in art. Originally a work by German art historians Oskar Fischel and Max von Boehn, here translated into English for the first time. Featur...

The Arts in Early England. Volumes I - V.

Gerald Baldwin Brown · 1903 · Rooke Books

£249.99 (€299.65 | $330.27 | ¥52,740)

London, John Murrary, 1903-1921. Cloth. The first editions of the first five volumes of Baldwin Brown's comprehensive historical exploration of the Saxon arts and crafts in England. All first editions and remarkably uniform considering they were published over a period of...

A Finely Bound Collection of Plates Depicting the Lives of the French Aristocracy

Unknown · 0 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Unknown, Unknown, c1890. Leather. An attractively bound selection of aristocratic plates by French artists. The title page has been neatly removed, leaving the title and exact date of publication a mystery. With plates, in colour, sepia and monochrome, by P.-A. Baudouin, Claud...

English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Volume I

Herbert Cescinsky · 1911 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, The Waverley Book Company, 1911. Leather. A work on the history of English furniture, profusely illustrated throughout. With the errata leaf after title page. This volume has a timeline outlining 'The Parallel History of Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Ce...

Goethe&Apos;S Female Characters

William Kaulbach; G. H. Lewes. · 1805 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Munich & Berlin, Frederick Buckmann, c1868. Leather. A beautiful and scarce collection of illustrated plates of Goethe's Female characters from William Kaulbach. Illustrated frontispiece with portrait of Goethe. Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805 -1874) was a German painter, note...