This is an attempt to catalogue all of the books which featured Olive Cook either as primary author or contributor, or which contain information about her and her work. It is doubtless incomplete, but goes some way to illustrate the enormous output she achieved during her lifetime.
Date |
Title |
Author and Contributors |
Publishers |
1944 |
Saturday Book 4 |
? |
|
1945 |
Saturday Book 5 |
‘Parallels in Paint’, by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1946 |
Saturday Book 6 |
‘Painters and Horses’, by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1947 |
Saturday Book 7 |
‘Fair and Frail’, photographs by Edwin Smith, notes by Olive Cook? |
Hutchinson |
1948 |
Saturday Book 8 |
‘The Pre-Raphaelites’, by Olive Cook ‘Art of Acquisition’, photographs by Edwin Smith, notes by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1948 |
Suffolk |
Olive Cook, some photographs by Edwin Smith,drawings and water-colours by Rowland Suddaby. |
Elek |
1949 |
Saturday Book 9 |
‘The One in the Window’, by Edwin Smith and Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1950 |
Saturday Book 10 |
‘Under the Yew Tree’s Shade’, by Olive Cook ‘Ship Shape’, photographs by Edwin Smith, notes by Olive cook |
Hutchinson |
1951 |
Saturday Book 11 |
‘Sports for all Seasons’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith ‘Turner at Petworth’ by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1952 |
Saturday Book 12 |
‘Beside the Seaside’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith ‘Embroidered in White’, by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1953 |
Cambridgeshire: aspects of a County |
Olive Cook, some photos by Edwin Smith |
Blackie |
1953 |
Saturday Book 13 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1954 |
Playbook Library – House |
Nursery friezes designed by George Adams, stories by Olive Cook |
Thames and Hudson |
1954 |
Playbook Library – Faces |
Nursery friezes designed by George Adams, stories by Olive Cook |
Thames and Hudson |
1954 |
Playbook Library – Train |
Nursery friezes designed by George Adams, stories by Olive Cook |
Thames and Hudson |
1954 |
English Cottages and Farmhouses |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
1954 |
Saturday Book 14 |
‘The Art of Beauty’, by Edwin Smith and Olive Cook ‘A Street in Sicily’, by Olive Cook ‘Ups and Downs’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1955 |
Saturday Book 15 |
‘The Art of Adornment’, by Edwin Smith and Olive Cook ‘Moving Pictures Before the Cinematograph’ by Olive Cook, pictures by Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1955 |
Collectors Items from the Saturday Book |
Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1956 |
Breckland |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Robert Hale |
1956 |
Saturday Book 16 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1957 |
Saturday Book 17 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1958 |
Saturday Book 18 |
‘The Fifties’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith ‘Cinderella’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1958 |
The Picture Encyclopaedia of Art : a comprehensive survey of painting, sculpture, architecture and crafts, their methods, styles and technicalterms, from the earliest times to the present day with 192 plates in full colour and 388 illustrations in monochrome. |
Prepared … with the assistance of James Cleugh… [and others] under the supervision of Olive Cook and the editorial staff of Thames and Hudson, London … Original German edition … published by Georg Westermann Verlag, Brunswick, with contributions by Dr. Bert Bilzer … Dr. Jurgen Eyssen … and Dr. Otto Stelzer.” — t.p. verso. |
Thames and Hudson |
1959 |
The Kingdom Above the Clouds |
Olive Cook (childrens’ fiction) |
Blackie |
1959 |
Saturday Book 19 |
‘Staurday Painters’ and ‘The Letter’ by Olive Cook ‘Breakfast, Luncheon, Tea, Dinner’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1960 |
English Abbeys and Priories |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
1960 |
Saturday Book 20 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1961 |
The Book of the City |
Ian Norrie, Photos: Edwin Smith, article by Olive Cook, Illus: Ronald Saxby, |
High Hill Press |
1961 |
A Picture Book of Knowledge |
Herbert Pothorn, adapted and arranged by Olive Cook |
Thames and Hudson |
1961 |
Saturday Book 21 |
‘An Imaginary Museum’ by Olive Cook and Edwin smith |
Hutchinson |
1962 |
The Heathside Book |
Ian Norrie, Photos: Edwin Smith, article by Olive Cook |
High Hill Press |
1962 |
Saturday Book 22 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1963 |
Movement in Two Dimensions. |
Olive Cook, A study of the animated and projected pictures which preceded the invention of cinematography |
Hutchinson |
1963 |
Saturday Book 23 |
‘Puss in Boots’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1963 |
Cathedrals and Abbey Churches of the Rhine |
Ernst Gall, translated and adapted by Olive Cook, photos by H. Schmidt-Glassner. |
Thames and Hudson |
1964 |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Studio Vista |
|
1965 |
The Wonders of Italy |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
1965 |
Prospect of Cambridge |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Batsford |
1965 |
Saturday Book 25 |
‘A Pioneer of the Cinema’ by Olive Cook ‘The Golden Age of the Bicycle’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1965 |
Archaeology of the Cinema |
C. W. Ceram, translated from German, image editor Olive Cook |
Thames and Hudson |
1966 |
Michel MacLiamor and notes on plates by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
|
1966 |
Saturday Book 26 |
‘Glendalough The Monastic City’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith ‘Disasters’, by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1967 |
Saturday Book 27 |
‘The Postman’s Palace’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith ‘Victorian Magicians’ by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1968 |
Saturday Book 28 |
‘Lantern Moralities’ by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1968 |
Eric Linklater, notes on plates by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
|
1968 |
The English House Through Seven Centuries |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Nelson |
1968 |
The Stansted affair : a case for the people |
Olive Cook, foreword by John Betjeman |
Pan |
1969 |
Saturday Book 29 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1969 |
The Sense of Continuity in a Hertfordshire Parish : a study of Anstey |
Text by Olive Cook, 35 photos by Edwin Smith; produced as part of the opposition to a Third London Airport |
Nuthampstead Preservation Society |
1970 |
Ardna Gashel |
Olive Cook, linocuts and pattern paper by Edwin Smith |
Golden Head Press |
1970 |
Saturday Book 30 |
‘The Art of Collecting’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1971 |
Angus Wilson, notes on plates by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
|
1971 |
Saturday Book 31 |
‘Fairground Baroque’ by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith |
Hutchinson |
1972 |
Saturday Book 32 |
‘Valediction to Edwin Smith’ by Olive Cook |
Hutchinson |
1973 |
Saturday Book 33 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1974 |
The English Country House: An Art and a Way of Life Reprinted 1984 |
Olive Cook; Photographs by A F Kersting |
Thames and Hudson |
1974 |
English Parish Churches |
Graham Hutton, notes on plates by Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
1975 |
Saturday Book 34 |
? |
Hutchinson |
1978 |
Creative Camera Yearbook |
Colin Osman & Peter Turner; Olive Cook introduces portfolio by Edwin Smith |
Coo Press |
1978 |
Olive Cook, photographs by A F Kersting |
Thames and Hudson |
|
1980 |
Olive Cook, revised, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Robert Hale |
|
1982 |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
|
1984 |
The English House Through Seven Centuries |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Harmondsworth: Penguin |
1984 |
Edwin Smith: Photographs 1935-1971 |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
1989 |
English Cathedrals |
Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
The Herbert Press |
1990 |
Matrix 10 |
‘The Art of Tirzah Garwood’, by Olive Cook (Reproduced here) |
Whittington Press |
1992 |
Cuts: Wood & Linocuts |
Olive Cook, all cuts and pattern paper by Edwin Smith |
Previous Parrot Press |
1996 |
Matrix 16 |
‘Peggy Angus and her Wallpapers’, by Olive Cook |
Whittington Press |
1997 |
Matrix 17 |
‘The Southwold Columbian’, by Olive Cook |
Whittington Press |
1998 |
Matrix 18 |
‘Photography and the Visual Arts’, by Olive Cook (Reproduced here) |
Whittington Press |
1998 |
To Sicily with Edward Bawden / Walter Hoyle |
An introduction by Olive Cook, drawings of Sicily by Edward Bawden, Walter Hoyle and Edwin Smith. |
Previous Parrot Press |
1999 |
Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 600-1500 |
Lucy Archer, with photographs by Edwin Smith, selected in collaboration with Olive Cook. |
Harvill |
1999 |
Tryphema Pruss : the ghost of Great Lodge |
Short story by Olive Cook, with drawings by Walter Hoyle. |
Previous Parrot Press |
1999 |
Matrix 19 |
‘A Triumph of Evocation’, by Olive Cook |
Whittington Press |
2000 |
Matrix 20 |
‘Novelty and the Sense of Continuity’, by Olive Cook |
Whittington Press |
2000 |
A History of Pre-cinema |
Olive Cook, with a new introduction by Stephen Herbert. |
Routledge |
2001 |
English Parish Churches |
Graham Hutton, notes on plates Olive Cook, photographs by Edwin Smith |
Thames and Hudson |
2001 |
Matrix 21 |
‘A View of the Cotswolds’, by Olive Cook |
Whittington Press |
2002 |
An alphabet in praise of frogs & toads |
Written and drawn by John Norris Wood’ with a foreword by Len Deighton and an afterword by Olive Cook. |
Inky Parrot |
2003 |
Matrix 23 |
Whittington Press |
|
2004 |
Catalogue 15: |
George Ramsden, et al. Comprehensive listing of Edwin Smith& Olive Cook material. |
Stone Trough Books |
Brian Human
Updated 17th March 2010