Besant, Walter

Sir Richard Whittington: Lord Mayor of London

Walter Besant; James Rice · 1894 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1894. Leather. A beautiful new edition of this biography of Richard Whittington in full tree calf prize binding. A biography of Sir Richard Whittington, English merchant and politician of the late medieval period who served as Lord Mayor of London, mem...

&Apos;Twas in Trafalgar&Apos;S Bay and Other Stories

Walter Besant; James Rice · 1871 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Chatto & Windus , c1889. Leather. A new edition of this collection of short stories from a collaboration between Walter Besant and James Rice. Walter Besant and James Rice began their collaboration in 1871, producing together numerous works of fiction, including the ve...

The Survey of London

Walter Besant · 1902 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

London, A. & C. Black, 1902-12. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of these eight volumes by Walter Besant, exploring the historical topography of London, illustrated beautifully throughout with plates and folding maps. The first edition of these works.Walter Besant&apos...

The Holy Rose Etc

Walter Besant · 1890 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Walter Besant. With a frontispiece by Fred Barnard. Publisher's catalogue to rear, dated October 1889. Sir Walter Besant was a novelist and historian In a cloth covered binding. Exter...

London

Walter Besant · 1894 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1894. Cloth. A smart new edition of this fascinating topographical work on London by Walter Besant, illustrated throughout. New edition. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and twenty-five images. A fascinating topographical work on London, detaili...

The Fascination of London

Sir Walter Besant; G. E. Mitton · 1902 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1902-1903. First edition. Cloth. A collection of seven volumes from the Fascination of London series by Besant and Mitton, with folding maps. Seven volumes. A collection from the Fascination of London series, a survey on the boroughs of London and...

London in the Time of the Tudors London in the Time of the Stuarts

Walter Besant · 1903 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903-4. First edition. Cloth. Two illustrated works looking at the history of London during the Tudor and Stuart eras, written by Walter Besant, with two folding maps. The first edition of these works. In two volumes. Part of the ten volume '...

Dorothy Forster: A Novel

Walter Besant · 1902 · Rooke Books

£97.00 (€116.29 | $128.17 | ¥20,470)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1902 . Leather. A very scarce new edition of this historical novel set during the eighteenth-century Jacobite rebellion by Walter Besant. The very scarce new edition.  In a half red morocco binding.  Illustrated with a frontispiece. A work by English...

The Master Craftsman Volumes I and II

Walter Besant · 1896 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1896. Cloth. A novel by Walter Besant, complete in two volumes. First edition. With a bookplate from the personal library of Walter Besant to the front free endpaper of volume I. Extensive publisher's catalogue to rear, dated March 1896. In clot...

The Alabaster Box

Walter Besant · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Thomas Burleigh, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The Alabaster Box, one of Walter Besant's final novels before his death in 1901. First edition. A scarce work bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Written by Walter Besant a noted novelist and historian...

Pearson&Apos;S Magazine

Walter Besant; W. J. Gordon; Archibald Forbes; Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1896. Cloth. The first number of 'Pearson's Magazine' to ever be published, a very scarce Royal Edition, with Walter Besant's bookplate. A very scarce number of 'Pearson's Magazine', for January 1896, a str...

Fifty Years Ago

Walter Besant · 1888 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this historical study of Britain in 1837 by the novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant. A first edition copy of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Top edge gilt.Bookplate of A...

London & South London

Sir Walter Besant · 1898 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1898-1901. Cloth. The new edition illustrated volumes of this chronicle of London from Sir Walter Besant. Two volumes. New edition. Written by Sir Walter Besant, an English novelist and historian. This set includes: London, 1898. A detailed commentary ...

To Call Her Mine Etc.

Sir Walter Besant · 1889 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated collection of three stories from Sir Walter Besant. First edition. Illustrated with vignette, frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of three novels: To Call Her ...

Westminster

Sir Walter Besant · 1902 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. Leather. A smartly bound travel work concerning Westminster in London, in a lovely half morocco binding by Patchanes. The new edition.Bound by Patchanes in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards, with the binder's stamp to the front b...

Early London, Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman

Sir Walter Besant · 1908 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, A. & C. Black, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Walter Besant's uncommon illustrated work on the history of London. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and seven monochrome plates. Collate complete.Â...

Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin

Walter Besant; E. H. Palmer · 1888 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888. Cloth. The new illustrated edition of this book exploring Jerusalem by Walter Besant and E. H. Palmer. Walter Besant and E. H. Palmer's explore the history of Jerusalem, from the Siege of Jerusalem to an account of the Christian pilgri...

All Sorts and Conditions of Men, an Impossible Story

Walter Besant · 1884 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1884. Cloth. A new edition of Walter Besant's novel, illustrated with plates by Frederick Barnard and presented in the original cloth. This work was adapted into a silent film by Georges Treville in 1921.Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was an Englis...

The Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer Late Lord Almoner&Apos;S Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Saint John&Apos;S College

Walter Besant · 1883 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this comprehensive biographical account of English orientalist and explorer, Edward Henry Palmer. The first US edition, published the same year as the UK first. In the publisher's orig...

All Sorts and Conditions of Men an Impossible Story

Walter Besant · 1883 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1883. Cloth. All Sorts and Conditions of Men is a novel by Sir Walter Besant (1836 - 1901) who was a novelist and historian. With twelve illustrations by Fred. Barnard (1846 - 1896) who was a Victorian illustrator, caricaturist and genre painter. Th...