Thomas, John

Vagabondiana or Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers Through the Streets of London

John Thomas Smith · 1817 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,925.21 | $6,570.53 | ¥1,050,545)

London, J and A March; Cornhill; Hatchard et al , 1817. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of John Thomas Smith's illustrations of the London streets in the nineteenth century. Extra-illustrated with 56 etched plates. With an introduction by Francis Douce, w...

The Poetical Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell the Poetical Works of John Cunningham

Thomas Parnell; John Cunningham · 1797 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.58 | $185.83 | ¥29,712)

London, C. Cooke, 1797. Hardback. Two volumes from Cooke's Edition pocket library, containing the poems of the notable John Cunningham and Thomas Parnell, illustrated throughout. In two volumes.The Cooke's Edition of these works. Cooke's Editions were a pocket l...

The Female Patriot [with] the Mine a Dramatic Poem [with] a Hermit&Apos;S Tale [with] Florio [with] Immortality

Richard Paul Jodrell; John Sargent; Sophia Lee; Hannah More; Thomas Denton · 1754 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,693.28 | $2,986.61 | ¥477,520)

London, John Bew; T Cadell; R and J Dodsley, 1754-1787. First edition. Leather. A scarce collection of five first and early edition poems bound as one. Comprising poems by the likes of Hannah More, Sophia Lee and John Bew. This volume contains: Richard Paul Jodrell's &ap...

Modern Athens Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century Exhibiting the Whole of the New Buildings, Modern Improvements, Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery

Thomas H Shepard; John Britton · 1832 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.16 | $371.67 | ¥59,425)

London, Jones and Co. 1832. Leather. A fascinating historical and topographical examination of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. Copiously illustrated throughout with eighty seven plates from original drawings by Thomas H Shepherd. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was a renowned topo...

The Epping Hunt by Thomas Hood, Esq. ; Bombastes Furioso: A Burlesque Tragic Opera; Monsieur Tonson

Thomas Hood; William Barnes Rhodes; John Taylor · 1829 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.28 | $318.57 | ¥50,936)

London, Charles Tilt; Thomas Rood; Marsh and Miller, 1829-30. Cloth. A uncommon collection of poetical and theatrical works from the early nineteenth century, featuring the works of Thomas Hood, William Barnes Rhodes and John Taylor. Three volumes bound in one, in a full cloth...

Gerard&Apos;S Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes

John Gerard [ed. by Thomas Jonhson, Marcus Woodward] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€448.88 | $497.77 | ¥79,587)

London, Gerald Howe, 1927. Vellum. A limited edition facsimile of an iconic work within English horticulture, one of 150 copies printed on handmade paper and in the publisher's original vellum. The limited edition facsimile of Gerard's Herball, or Generall Historie O...

(1905) the Church Plate of Pembrokeshire; (1907) the Church Plate of Carmarthenshire; (1910) the Church Plate of Radnorshire; (1912) the Church Plate of Breconshire; (1914) the Church Plate of Cardiganshire; (1921) the Church Plate of Gowerland; (1928) the Church Plate of Oxfordshire.

Rev. John Thomas Evans · 1905 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.12 | $391.58 | ¥62,608)

Stow-on-the-Wold, James H. Alden, 1905-28. Cloth. A pleasing collection of seven extensively illustrated works on the church plate of England and Wales, Collection comprised of: (1905) The Church Plate of Pembrokeshire; (1907) The Church Plate of Carmarthenshire; (1910) The Ch...

A Flight of Chariots; Comrade Don Camillo; a Kind of Anger; This Time Next Week; I Come from the Stone Age; the Jealous God; Winds of the Day; the Rough Magic; Airs Above the Ground; the Whip Hand; Travels of a Captialist Lackey; the Man in the Mirror; the Strode Venturer; the Penetrators; High Citadel; Caravans

Jon Cleary; Giovanni Guareschi; Eric Ambler; Leslie Thomas; Heinrich Harrer; John Braine; Howard Spring; Mary Stewart; Victor Canning; Fred Basnett; Frederick Ayer; Hammond Innes; Anthony Gray; Desmond Bagley; James A. Michenar · 1963 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.13 | $384.94 | ¥61,547)

London, The Companion Book Club, 1963-1965. Cloth. Sixteen works from the Companion Book Club, all in their charming unclipped dust wrappers, including two novels by Mary Stewart. Sixteen charming works published by the Companion Book Club, published between 1963-1965. In the ...

Poems Upon Several Occasions English, Italian and Latin with Translations with Notes, Critical and Explanatory

John Milton; Thomas Warton [ed.] · 1785 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€406.98 | $451.31 | ¥72,159)

London, James Dodsley, 1785. Leather. An excellent first edition of this revised collection of poems by Milton, edited by English literary historian Thomas Warton. The first edition of this collection, edited by Warton. Bound in contemporary calf, spine rebacked. ESTC T134607....

The Treasury of Botany

John Lindley; Thomas Moore · 1899 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

London; New York; Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co. 1899. Cloth. A smart complete pair of illustrated botanical works, in original binding. Bound in original black cloth, with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. The pair features a monochrome frontispiece to volume one,...

1903 Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood; 1903 Lycidas; 1903 Hebrew Melodies; 1904 Thomas Carlyle on Shakespeare from the Hero As Poet; 1904 Goethe on Shakespeare Being Selections from Carlyle"S Translation of Wilhelm Meister; 1904 Emerson on Shakespeare from His Essays on Representative Men.

William Wordsworth; John Milton; Lord Byron; Thomas Carlyle; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.60 | $179.20 | ¥28,651)

London, The De La More Press, 1903-1904. Paperback. A very scarce selection of significant poetry and literary criticism from the De La More Press, encased in the exceptionally scarce slip case. Very scarce. In the publisher's original soft covers, encased in the especial...

C1830-C1900 25 Vols a Collection of Acting Editions and Theatrical Pamphlets

Gioachino Rossini; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; William Shakespeare; John Baldwin Buckstone; John Maddison Morton; Tom Taylor; Jacques Offenbach; William Barnes Rhodes; Charles Mathews; [Thomas Haynes Bayly] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.42 | $258.84 | ¥41,385)

London; New York , T. Brettell; J. Dicks; John Cumberland; Thomas Hailes Lacy; Samuel French, Ltd.; T. Henry French, c1830-c1900. Paperback. A characterful collection of twenty-four nineteenth-century acting plays and pamphlets, including Cruikshank-illustrated pieces and a ha...

Works on London

Thomas Burke; Claud Golding; Henry Blyth; John Lehmann; E.S. Turner; Ronald Webber; Sir Gerald Hurst; Douglas Sutherland; William Kent; A.P. Herbert; R.J. Minney; R.J. Mitchell; M.D.R. Leys; William Gaunt; Nathan Dews; John E.N. Hearsay; et al. · 1946 · Rooke Books

£735.00 (€879.80 | $975.62 | ¥155,990)

London, Herbert Jenkins; Robert Hale; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; B.T. Batsford; Macmillan; Michael Joseph; JM Dent & Sons; Constable & Co;, 1946-1988. Cloth. London: Herbert Jenkins; Robert Hale; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; B.T. Batsford; Macmillan; Michael Joseph; JM Dent & Sons; ...

The British Kitchen, Country Cookery, & Country Weekends

Doreen Yarwood; Kathleen Thomas; John Tovey · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.65 | $65.04 | ¥10,399)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd; Treasure Press; Ebury Press, 1981-1988. Cloth. Three smart volumes on British cooking and the British countryside, with recipes throughout. Three volumes. This set contains: The British Kitchen: Housewifery Since Roman Times, 1981. First edition. Il...

The Origin of the Riots of Bristol, and the Causes of the Subsequent Outrages

Thomas John Manchee · 1831 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.42 | $258.84 | ¥41,385)

Bristol, T. J. Manchee; Simpkin and Marshall, and R. Hunter, 1831 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this contemporary account of the Bristol Riots of 1831, in which rioters set fire to significant parts of the city, including the Bishop"s Palace a...

The Book of Common Prayer; the Whole Book of Psalms

Thomas Sternhold; John Hopkins · 1756 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.58 | $185.83 | ¥29,712)

London, Thomas Baskett; Joseph Bentham, 1756-1758 . Leather. Two mid-eighteenth century editions of classic Anglican works, bound together in tree calf. The first of these two works is a 1756 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, and Psalms of David.ESTC N63822, with ...

Cambridge Described & Illustrated: Being a Short History of the Town and University

Thomas Dinham Atkinson; John Willis Clark · 1897 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

London, Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1897. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this work concerning the historical town and university of Cambridge, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-eight plates. Collated complete. A detai...

Works by Galt, Burns, Collins, Peacock, Coleridge and Wordsworth

John Galt; Robert Burns; William Collins; Thomas Love Peacock; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1907 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.73 | $119.46 | ¥19,101)

London, Henry Frowde; Humphrey Milford, 1907-1925 . Cloth. A wonderful collection of early twentieth century editions of works from John Galt, Robert Burns, William Collins, Thomas Love Peacock, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Six very smart volumes of literary...

Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus

John Flaxman; Thomas Piroli · 1795 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,034.92 | $2,256.55 | ¥360,793)

London, Not Identified, 1795. First edition. Leather. An excellent and scarce, first edition of these illustrations by leading figure in European Neoclassicism, John Flaxman. These illustrations were commissioned by Lady Spencer, as noted to the title page 'The original D...

Douglas: A Tragedy; Agis: A Tragedy; Cleone. A Tragedy; Oroonoko, a Tragedy

John Home; Robert Dodsley; Thomas Southern · 1757 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.95 | $464.58 | ¥74,281)

London, A. Millar; R. and J. Dodsley; C. Bathurst, 1757-1759 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful collection of four mid-18th century tragedies, including three first editions. With examples of works from John Home, Robert Dodsley and Thomas Southern. Handsomely bound in full...