Wilson, John

The City of the Plague

John Wilson · 1816 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.30 | $1,008.80 | ¥159,389)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Company, 1816. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of John Wilson' inspiring and entertaining poetry collection. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.A collection of the poetry of John Wilson, containing the ...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

John Wilson Croker · 1848 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.87 | $67.24 | ¥10,624)

London , John Murray, 1848. Cloth. James Boswell's seminal biography of Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker. In 1831 Croker published a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, which was vindictively attacked ...

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

John Marius Wilson · 1873 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.11 | $531.30 | ¥83,945)

Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin, A. Fullarton & Co. 1873. Leather. An early edition of John Wilson's descriptive topographical dictionary of England and Wales, accompanied by illustrations. Complete in two volumes. A substantial topographical and referential work on E...

The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

John Wilson · 1823 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.56 | $262.29 | ¥41,441)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1823. First edition. Leather. A superior copy of the first edition of John Wilson's exciting novel, in a lovely full speckled calf binding. The first edition of this work.Half-title is present.An exciting novel following the trials in the lif...

The Vacant Chair and Other Tales

John Mackay Wilson · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.90 | $53.79 | ¥8,499)

London , Gall and Inglis, c1901. Cloth. A collection of short stories from numerous authors, including Professor Gillespie, Oliver Richardson, J. M. Wilson and others. With an engraved frontispiece. Part of the Stirring Tales series. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, quite ...

Milton&Apos;S Arcades and Comus with Introduction, Notes and Indexes

John Milton; A. Wilson Verity · 1891 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)

Cambridge , University Press, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume containing Milton's masques, 'Arcades' and 'Comus', with the author's literary notes and biography of the poet. The first thus of this work.In the publishers' orig...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell; John Wilson Croker · 1860 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.65 | $208.48 | ¥32,940)

London, John Murray, 1860. Leather. A new edition of Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson by John Wilson Croker. A new edition of Scottish biographer James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson, often described as one of the greatest English bi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Tour in Wales, Correspondence with Mrs Thrale, &C

James Boswell; J Wilson Croker; John Wright · 1859 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.46 | $322.82 | ¥51,005)

London, Henry G Bohn, 1859. Cloth. James Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson in ten volumes, featuring illustrations and valuable additions. Complete in ten volumes. Celebrated work of Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the greatest Engl...

The Poetical Works of Professor Wilson

John Wilson · 1858 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.70 | $59.18 | ¥9,351)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. Leather. An anthology of the poetry of the Scotsman John Wilson, including all of his most beloved poems. A collection of the poetical works of the Scottish poet, Professor John Wilson.Wilson was known for writing under the pseudonym C...

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; Embracing Recent Changes in Counties, Dioceses, Parishes, and Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems, &C; and Forming a Complete Description of the Country.

John Marius Wilson · 1877 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.00 | $591.83 | ¥93,508)

London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1877. Cloth. A complete set of John Wilson's descriptive topographical dictionary of England and Wales, accompanied by illustrations. Complete in six volumes. These volumes include; Volume I, containing 'Aar - Char', with six plates. V...

Farming and Breeding

James Wilson; Herbert Kendell Hayes, Ralph John Garber; M.J. Rowlands; Gordon Tubbs · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London; New York; London; Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Vinton and Company; McGraw Hill Book Company; Vinton and Company; Tubbs [Beech House], 1909-1935. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive set that delves into the breeding and history of both farm animals and crops, containing bo...

Signs & Wonders Upon Pharaoh: A History of American Egyptology

John A. Wilson · 1964 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.91 | $53.80 | ¥8,501)

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of Egyptology in America. First edition. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated complete. A detailed history of America's fascination with Ancient...

Five Fags a Day the Last Year of a Scrap-Picker

John Petty; Angus Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.38 | $131.82 | ¥20,827)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce memoir written by a scrap-picker, a different look into grimy post-war England. The first edition of this scarce work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.An intriguing memoir by J...

Biographies on Iris Murdoch

John Bayley; Peter J. Conradi; A.N. Wilson · 1999 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.69 | $65.91 | ¥10,413)

London, Duckworth; HarperCollins; Hutchinson, 1999-2003. First edition. Cloth. Three first editions of literary biographies on the esteemed philosophical novelist, including her definitive biography, and those written by her husband and friend. Three first editions of biograph...

A Very Scarce Collection of 19th-Century Sermons Bound Together

Rev. M. J. Naylor; Rev. W. Carus Wilson; Rev. John Lonsdale et. al. · 1762 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.33 | $396.79 | ¥62,693)

Wakefield; Halifax , R. Hurst; M. Garlick et. al. c1800-c1852. Leather. A very rare collection of 19th-century sermons bound together, preached on the event of death, anniversaries and other special occasions. A scarce collection of sermons and tracts preached in the first hal...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell; John Wilson Croker · 1831 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.30 | $1,008.80 | ¥159,389)

London, John Murray, 1831. Leather. A five volume set of James Boswell's biography of the life of Samuel Johnson, in a uniform leather binding. A beautifully bound five volume set of the famous biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by James Boswell Samuel Johns...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

John Wilson Croker [ed]; James Boswell · 1848 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.89 | $67.25 | ¥10,626)

London, John Murray, 1848. Leather. James's Boswell's important biography on the popular English writer, Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker and bound in full calf. The new edition. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece featuring p...

3 Vols the Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker; Louis J. Jennings [Ed.] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.33 | $396.79 | ¥62,693)

London, John Murray, 1885. Leather. The second edition of Croker"s revealing diaries and correspondence, chronicling his political and literary life from inside the Tory establishment, handsomely bound in half morocco by Bickers and Son. In a handsome half morocco binding with...

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

John Marius Wilson · 1874 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.38 | $369.89 | ¥58,443)

Edinburgh, A. Fullarton & Co, 1874. Leather. The complete two-volume set of John Wilson's comprehensive topographical dictionary of England and Wales, illustrated throughout. An early edition of this two-volume set in uniform half calf bindings, with marbled end papers an...

The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland

Rev. John Marius Wilson · 1854 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.11 | $531.30 | ¥83,945)

London and Edinburgh, A. Fullarton & Co, [1854-57]. Leather. The complete set of topographical works on Scotland from John Marius Wilson, extensively detailled and illustrated with next to sixty maps and plates across both volumes. Smartly rebound in red half calf, retaining t...