Akenside, Mark

The Poems of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside · 1772 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.69 | $159.17 | ¥25,435)

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772. Leather. An early poetical anthology from the English poet, Mark Akenside. First collected edition, published the same year as the first. Mark Akenside rose from humble beginnings to considerable eminence in medicine and literature. He c...

The Poetical Works of Akenside, Shakespeare, Shenstone, & Waller

Mark Akenside; William Shakespeare; William Shenstone; Edmund Waller · 1797 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.23 | $391.30 | ¥62,527)

London, C. Cooke, c1795-1797. Leather. Four Cooke's edition collections of poetry from important British writers, with a life of the author to each volume. Four volumes. Cooke's edition. This set contains: The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside: with the Life of the Aut...

The Voice of Liberty or a British Philippic a Poem in Miltonic Verse

Mark Akenside · 1738 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.69 | $159.17 | ¥25,435)

London, J Chaney for A Dodd, 1738. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce, first edition copy of this poem by Mark Akenside under the pseudonym of 'Britannicus&apos. A very scarce first edition first state of this work. With 'lifts' spelled incorrectly as '...

The Pleasures of Imagination

Mark Akenside · 1803 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.61 | $198.96 | ¥31,794)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1803. Leather. An illustrated copy of The Pleasures of Imagination by Mark Akenside. With three engraved plates, a frontispiece and a critical essay by Anna Barbauld. Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician. In this, his most famous work,...

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M.D. With the Life of the Author

Mark Akenside · 1814 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.77 | $119.38 | ¥19,076)

London, Sultaby, Evance & Fox, 1814. Leather. A lovely pocket-sized collection of the poetry of Mark Akenside, with a brief biography. An 1814 edition of this work in a full calf binding with decorative gilt-stamping and blind-stamping to the boards. Bookplate to the front pas...

The Pleasures of Imagination and the Art of Preserving Health

[Mark Akenside]; [John Armstrong] · 1744 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€712.46 | $789.22 | ¥126,114)

London, R. Dodsley; A. Millar, 1744. First edition. Leather. Two first edition poems bound in one volume, beautiful ruminations on imagination and health by Mark Akenside and John Armstrong. Two volumes bound in one.'The Pleasures of Imagination', by Mark Akenside, t...

The Pleasures of Imagination to Which Is Prefixed a Critical Essay on the Poem

Mark Akenside · 1810 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.64 | $185.70 | ¥29,674)

London, T Cadell, 1810. Leather. An interestingly bound copy of The Pleasures of Imagination. With a frontispiece and three plates. A New edition of this poem. The Pleasures of Imagination is a didactic poem which discusses the various kinds of pleasure to be derived from the ...

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside · 1845 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.83 | $86.22 | ¥13,777)

London, William Pickering , 1845. Leather. A calf-bound anthology of Mark Akenside's poems, including his chief work 'The Pleasures of the Imagination&apos. An anthology of works from English poet Mark Akenside. In a signed full calf binding by Andrew Grieve, Edinbu...

Diamond Classics

John Milton; Mark Akenside; James Thomson; Robert Bloomfield; George Canning · 1828 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.49 | $258.65 | ¥41,332)

London, Wm. S. Orr & Co. 1828-1851 . Cloth. A delightful collection of four volumes from the Diamond Classic series, published by Orr & Co. between 1828 and 1851. A collection of four volumes from the Diamond Classics series, also known as Orr & Co's cabinet edition serie...

The Museum: Or, the Literary and Historical Register

Robert Dodsley [ed.]; Mark Akenside [ed.] · 1746 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.98 | $523.94 | ¥83,723)

London, R. Dodsley, 1746-1747. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first two volumes of Robert Dodsley's mid seventeenth century literary and historical periodical, containing twenty-six issues of the work. The first two volumes only of the very scarce three volume fi...

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M.D. With the Virtuoso, a Fragment, Never Before Published, and the Life of the Author

Mark Akenside · 1807 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.79 | ¥6,359)

London, W. Suttaby; C. Corrall, 1807. Leather. A charming calf-bound pocket book containing the poems of Mark Akenside. The poetical works of Mark Akenside (1721-1770) an English poet and physician best known for his eclectic philosophical essay 'The Pleasures of Imaginat...

The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem.

[Mark Akenside] · 1744 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.69 | $159.17 | ¥25,435)

London, R. Dodsley, 1744. Disbound. The second edition of Mark Akenside's popular didactic poem pondering on imagination, illustrated here with a detailed engraved vignette to the title page. The second edition of this work. Without the notes to the tail of page nine that...

The Poems of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside; [Jeremiah Dyson, ed.] · 1772 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.23 | $391.30 | ¥62,527)

London, J. Dodsley, 1772. First edition. Hardback. A wonderful first collected edition of this posthumous poetry anthology of the works of Mark Akenside. The first collected edition of Akenside's works in octavo. Published simultaneously with a quarto edition.  Rebound in...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARK AKENSIDE Collated with the Best Editions in Two Volumes

AKENSIDE Mark, PARK Thomas · 1805 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£120.00 (€143.69 | $159.17 | ¥25,435)

Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1805 16mo (5¼ x 3¼ ins). 2 vols in 1. Contemporary full speckled calf, spine elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels, boards with double gilt fillet border and gilt tooled at edge...

The Pleasures Of Imagination

Akenside, Mark · 1794 · Laguna Auctions

$125.00 (€112.84 | £94.24 | ¥19,974)

To Which is prefixed A Critical Essay on the Poem by Mrs. Barbauld London Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies in the Strand by R. Nobel in the Old Bailey [1794] 12mo 159 pages with 3 copper engravings bound in attractive full contemporary tree calf

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

(Akenside, Mark) · 1850 · Kaaterskill Books

$35.00 (€31.60 | £26.39 | ¥5,593)

London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1850. n.ed. Half bound calf over red marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt on red morocco spine label. Speckled edges. Green endpapers. xxvi, 300 pp. Sm. 8vo. Ed. by Charles Cowden Clarke with memoir and critical dissertation. Akenside (1721-...

The Book of Pleasures; 1: The Pleasures of Hope (Campbell); 2: The Pleasures of Memory (Rogers); 3: The Pleasures of Imagination (Akenside)

Campbell, Thomas, Samuel Rogers and Mark Akenside · 1836 · Hammer Mountain Book Halls

$20.00 (€18.05 | £15.08 | ¥3,196)

Philadelphia, Key & Biddle, 1836. Hardcover. Stamped leather covers. Covers rubbed, especially at extremities, with corners frayed and split at top edge of backstrip; foxing throughout; small browned area from little laid-in fabric sample used as a bookmark; otherwise very goo...

The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books.

AKENSIDE (Mark): · 1744 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£100.00 (€119.74 | $132.64 | ¥21,196)

London: Printed for R. Dodsley..., 1744. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [3] - 125 [126 blank], title-page in red and black, with engraved vignette, five-line footnote on p. 9, page 20 misnumbered 22, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; two small \"bites\" in top margin of ti...

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M. D. Collated with the Best Editions: by Thomas Park.

AKENSIDE (Mark): · 1805 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£100.00 (€119.74 | $132.64 | ¥21,196)

London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham...For John Sharpe..., 1805. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 171 [172 blank]; [iv], 140, engraved frontispiece (by P. W. Tompkins after Richard Westall) for each volume, 20th century binding in maroon library ...

The Poetical Works

Akenside, Mark · 1782 · Clarendon Books P.B.F.A.

£28.00 (€33.53 | $37.14 | ¥5,935)

John Bell / Apollo Press Half leather and patterned cloth boards, a little rubbed in places, 2 volumes in 1, engraved portrait and titles, 192pp and 176pp London and Edinburgh Good 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall