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Ikebana card books. Saga School: Principal styles, with, Moribana style, with, Heika style (3 booklets).

Saga Ikebana Acedemy · 1969 · Aucott & Thomas

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 3 clean paperbacks, spines and card covers rubbed at edges, marks to top page edges, remains of labels on the front covers of 2 booklets but no inscriptions. Principal hs short spit at top of spine/front cover and car...

Ikebana card book. Misho School Heika & Moribano style.

Hihara, Koho · 1970 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers rubbed at edges with stain at the top edge, remains of label on front cover but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Tex...

2 Ikebana card books. Misho School Heika & Moribano style, with, Kakubana style.

Hihara, Koho · 1973 · Aucott & Thomas

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd, 1973. Reprint; Second Printing. Softcover. 2 clean and tightly bound paperbacks, spines creased, card covers rubbed at edges with stains at edges, no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Text in Japanese and English. ...

The Glass Circle

R. J. Charleston, Wendy Evans, Ada Polak · 1972 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Newcastle, Oriel Press, 1972. Paperback. The first three volumes of the history of the society of the Glass Circle and the art of decorative glass, first edition. The books cover the origins of the Circle of Glass, the collectors, George Ravenscroft, Jacobite engravers and the...

Progressive Architecture

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£6,800.00 (€8,150.88 | $8,983.75 | ¥1,434,589)

New York , Reinhold Publishing Co. 1950-73. Leather. A continuous 23 year run of selected sections from one of the 20th century's most significant architectural magazines, uniformly bound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath. The sections included from the magazine are those concer...

The Portfolio

Philip Gilbert Hamerton · 1895 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London , Seeley and Co. 1895. Leather. A set of four volumes of the Portfolio, an artistic periodical, which contains a study of popular art forms. Containing information on Dutch etchings, William Blake, Sculpture in Belgium, Gerard David, Japanese wood engravings, Antoine Wa...

Three Volumes of the Old Water-Colour Society&Apos;S Club Annual

Randall Davies and Adrian Bury · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London , 5a Pall Mall East, 1937-43. First edition. Cloth. A set of three First Edition volumes from the Old Water-Colour Society's series of lavishly illustrated annuals. Bound in quarter cloth with gilt and stamped lettering, and paper-covered boards. Issued only to Mem...

English Water-Colour with Reproductions of Drawings by Eminent Painters

Charles Holme (ed.) · 1902 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, Offices of the 'Studio', 1902. Paperback. A collection of beautiful watercolours from English artists, published serially in 1902. Including contributions from Prout, David Cox, Swan, Herbert Marshall, Turner and many others. With an introduction by Frederick...

Christian Lyrics, Chiefly Selected from Modern Authors

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£26.99 (€32.35 | $35.66 | ¥5,694)

London, Hamilton, Adams and Co, c1870 . Leather. A lovely little collection of Christian Lyrics from various authors, chiefly modern, with a two colour title with decorative capitals. A new edition. With an engraving to frontispiece and decorative head and tail pieces througho...

Aboriginal American Basketry Studies in a Textile Art without Machinery Report of the U S National Museum for June 30 1902.

Otis Tufton Mason · 1904 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. Leather. A publication of this 1902 report of the U.S National Museum. Illustrated throughout, with numerous vignettes and 248 plates to the rear. This work explores different techniques and styles of textiles by the different trib...

Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet

Max Beerbohm · 1931 · Rooke Books

£318.00 (€381.17 | $420.12 | ¥67,088)

London, Leadlay, 1931. First edition. Hardback. A first and limited edition of this portfolio containing Beerbohm's caricatures of stars from Noel Coward's 1929 operetta 'Bitter Sweet&apos. Unbound, in a half vellum folder, with paper coverings, and gilt letteri...

The Temple Church Choral Service Book

Edward J. Hopkins · 1904 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

London, Weekes and Co. c1880. Leather. A rare original copy of this Victorian hymnbook, in an Inner Temple binding. Ink inscription by Justice Grantham to the verso of the second blank reading: 'To Muriel, my Temple Church companion as a reminiscence of her father's ...

The Connoisseur. By Otto Limited

Various · 1903 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Otto Limited, 1903. First edition. Leather. A two volume set of first edition British antiquarian magazines. Comprised of volumes VI and VII. The magazine was intended as an illustrated guide for antique lovers and collectors, and was published nine times a year. Colou...

Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences

Mrs [Anna Eliza] Bray · 1851 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, John Murray, 1851. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Thomas Stothard, the painter and engraved. Illustrated with many vignette illustrations and a frontispiece of Stothard. Bound by Bickers (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endp...

A Catalogue of Some of the Paintings of the British School in the Collections of Henry Edwards Huntington at San Marino, California

Maurice W. Brockwell · 1925 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

New York, Privately Printed, 1925. Cloth. A record of paintings from the British School contained within the private collection of Henry Edwards Huntington in San Marino. Illustrated throughout with engraved tissue-guarded reproductions of the artworks. Including works by Reyn...

Italian Painting Artists and Their Masterpieces Throughout the Ages

Stefano Zuffi · 1998 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

Koln , Konemann , 1998. Cloth. A beautifully detailed exploration into the wonders of Italian art. First edition thus. Featuring coloured photographic plates throughout, and the original illustrated dustwrapper. Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Clegg. In original cloth...

Places of Delight the Pastoral Landscape

Robert C. Cafritz; Lawrence Gowing, David Rosand · 1988 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.91 | $72.65 | ¥11,601)

Washington , The Phillips Collection, 1988. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated guide to the pastoral landscape. With chapters including Classical Revision of the Pastoral Landscape, The Modern Vision, Rococo Restoration of the Venetian Landscape and Watteau's Creation of the F...

Lessons in Figure Painting in Water Colours

Blanche MacArthur and Jennie Moore · 1884 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co. 1884. Cloth. A collection of water-colour portraits from Blance Arthur and Jennie Moore. Containing special instructions by the painters. With sixteen tipped-in colour plates. In a green cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with som...

Scottish Art and Letters a Quarterly Review of Literature and the Liberal Arts

Arnold Fraser-Lovat · 1903 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.74 | $44.91 | ¥7,171)

London, Scottish Art and Letters, 1903. Cloth. A collection of illustrations and essays from Scottish artists. Covering September to November 1903. Including contributions by Nigel Tourneur, A. Fraser-Lovat, Francis Steuart and many others. In a cloth binding. Externally, soun...

The Story of Picture Printing in England During the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1928 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1928. Cloth. A history of pictorial printing in England during the 1800s. Illustrated throughout with many coloured plates. With chapters including Charles Knight as a Printer, Chromolithography, Henry Richard Vizetelly and many others. Boo...