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Works of the English Poets with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical & Index to the English Poets
Dr. Samuel Johnson · 1779 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)
London, J. Nichols, 1779-1781. Leather. Forty-three volumes of the sixty-eight volume set of The Works of the English Poets, with prefaces and biographies by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Forty-three volumes of sixty-eight volume set. Scarce collection. Written by Dr. Samuel Johnson, an...
The Poets of Great Britain in One Hundred and Twenty-Four Volumes: The Poetical Works of William Broome with the Life of the Author by Samuel Johnson
William Broome; Samuel Johnson · 1807 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Cadell and Davies, 1807. Leather. A neat edition of this collection of poetical works by William Broome. From The Poets of Great Britain Series. With an illustrated frontispiece and title page. A collection of the poetical works of William Broome, an English poet and t...
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works
Samuel Johnson · 1810 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Printed by J Nichols and Son, 1810. Leather. Samuel Johnson's famous biographical sketches of many eminent poets, a new edition in three volumes. Early edition of this work, originally published in 1779-81. New edition, corrected. With the original advertisements ...
Aphorisms on Authors and Their Ways; with Some General Observations on the Humours, Habits, and Methods of Composition of Poets - Good, Bad, and Indifferent
Augustine Birrell; Samuel Johnson · 1917 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Privately Printed , 1917. First edition. Hardback. The first and only edition printed in one hundred copies of this series of aphorisms on authors and their ways by Augustine Birrell. A signed presentation copy, including a letter by the author. A first edition of this...
The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Various; Samuel Johnson · 1790 · Rooke Books
£1,300.00 (€1,558.26 | $1,717.48 | ¥274,260)
London, John Nichols; et al, 1790. Cloth. A rebound collection of Samuel Johnson's series of biographies on prominent English poets, containing selections of the popular works of the poets. Illustrated with portraits. Incomplete in seventy four volumes, lacking volume twe...
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets
Samuel Johnson · 1779 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Printed by J. Nichols for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan et. al. 1779-1781. First edition. Leather. A set of four first edition volumes from Samuel Johnson's landmark collection of literary criticism and biographies. Comprising Volumes II, III, VIII, and IX ...
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets
Samuel Johnson · 1779 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Printed by J. Nichols for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan et. al. 1779-1781. First edition. Leather. A collection of seven first edition volumes from Samuel Johnson's landmark collection of literary criticism and biographies. Present here are volumes I, IV, V...
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces
Samuel Johnson · 1774 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, T. Davies, 1774 . First edition. Leather. A first and second edition set of this wonderful collection of miscellaneous prose and poetry from early in the career of Samuel Johnson, complete in three volumes. A mixed edition set, complete in three volumes. Volumes I lack...
The Student or, the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany
Christopher Smart; Samuel Johnson [ed.] · 1750 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)
London, J. Newbery, 1750-1751. First edition. Leather. The rare first edition of this delightful 18th-century Oxford and Cambridge student miscellany, offering a spirited collection of poems, essays and satires. The very scarce first collected edition of this 18th-century acad...
The Scientific and Literary Treasury
Samuel Maunder, [rev. James Yate Johnson] · 1870 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1870. Leather. A revised edition of a popular reference work for scientific terms, including thousands of newly inserted articles, bound in full calf. A new edition of the Scientific and Literary Treasury, a comprehensive glossary of scientific ...
The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence
James Thomson; Samuel Johnson · 1823 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Baynes and Son; et al. 1823 . Leather. James Thomson's influential series of poems 'The Seasons' and 'Castle of Indolence', with a life of the author by Samuel Johnson. In a full brown calf binding. Illustrated with a frontispice, and vignett...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Dr. Samuel Johnson · 1795 · Rooke Books
£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)
London, John Creswick, 1795 . Leather. A charming example of Dr. Samuel Johnson's philosophical tale about bliss, ignorance and happiness. First published in 1759, this is an attractive late 18th century edition of this work.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Johnso...
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers to Which Are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
Samuel Johnson · 1824 · Rooke Books
£1,240.00 (€1,486.34 | $1,638.21 | ¥261,601)
London, G. and J. Offor, W. Allason, R. Akerman et. al. 1824. Leather. A monumental two-volume edition of Samuel Johnson's standard dictionary of the English language. A later edition of Samuel Johnson's seminal work, his influential dictionary of the English languag...
The Rambler in Four Volumes
[Samuel Johnson] · 1756 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, A. Millar, 1756. Leather. The complete fourth edition of Samuel Johnson's neoclassical periodical, 'The Rambler', the first to be issued in four volumes. A very scarce fourth edition of The Rambler, issued for the first time here in four volumes.Complete...
The Six Chief Lives from Johnson&Apos;S "Lives of the Poet" with Macaulay&Apos;S "Life of Johnson
Samuel Johnson; Thomas Babington Macaulay; Matthew Arnold [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1892. Leather. A smartly bound copy comprising both Samuel Johnson's biographies of eminent poets, and an analysis of his own biography by Macaulay. A new edition, with numerous alterations and additions. First published in 1878. In full calf pr...
Rasselas
Samuel Johnson · 1805 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, William Miller, 1805. Leather. An illustrated edition of Samuel Johnson's popular apologue, an important philosophical fable-like novel. Samuel Johnson's popular apologue about bliss and ignorance, a fable-like fictional work about a Prince of Abyssinia, Rass...
The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
Samuel Johnson; et al. · 1793 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
Dublin, J. Moore, 1793-5 . First edition. Leather. Two volumes containing poetry from eighteenth-century British and Irish poets, with a preface and biographical details by Samuel Johnson. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Comprised of Volume the First and Volume the Sec...
The Letters of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson; Bruce Redford [editor] · 1992 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992-1994. First edition. Cloth. A complete set of the Hyde Edition collection of letters from Samuel Johnson in his life, with illustrations. Complete in five volumes. First thus. Hyde edition. Considered the most scholarly edition of these letters to...
Essays on Men and Manners with Aphorisms, Criticisms, Impromptus, Fragments, &C.
William Shenstone; Samuel Johnson · 1802 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, C. Cooke, 1802. Leather. A scarce work on men and manners by William Shenstone with a biography of the author by Samuel Johnson. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece, illustrated title page, and three plates of engravings. Collated complete. Essays on men and man...
The Works of Samuel Johnson in Fourteen Volumes
Samuel Johnson; Arthur Murphy · 1801 · Rooke Books
£1,850.00 (€2,217.52 | $2,444.11 | ¥390,293)
London, J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Balswin, Various, 1801-1811 . Leather. A new edition of the works of Samuel Johnson complete in fourteen uniform leather bound volumes. New edition of The Works of Samuel Johnson in uniform quarter calf bindings and marbled boards.A n...