Biografia

To Be a Printer

Brooke Crutchley · 1980 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition copy of this fascinating autobiography of the Cambridge University Printer who served during the typographical revival, signed by the author to the title page. The first edition in the publisher&apos...

The Life of Wellington

W. H. Maxwell · 1890 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Bickers & Son , 1890. Cloth. A charmingly bound and uncommon cloth copy of this illustrated work, in an unusual red variant cloth. An uncommon edition, and a very scarce example of this edition in its original cloth binding - an unusual red variant cloth.Decorated with...

Charles Darwin

Edward Woodall · 1884 · Rooke Books

£675.00 (€809.08 | $891.72 | ¥142,396)

Shrewsbury; Oswestry, Adnitt and Naunton; Woodall and Co. 1884. Cloth. Smart copy of Edward Woodall's scarce and significant illustrated biography on Charles Darwin. Scarce edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.With a frontispiece and four further monoc...

Memoirs of William Cox, J.P. , Lieutenant and Paymaster of N.S. W. Corps, or 102nd Regiment.

William Cox · 1901 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Sydney; Brisbane, William Brooks & Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. A scarce account of early colonial New South Wales by a senior officer of the New South Wales Corps, William Cox. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt. First edition.Illustrated with thr...

Rex Whistler: His Life and His Drawings

Laurence Whistler · 1948 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, Art and Technics, 1948. First edition. Cloth. First-edition biography of Rex Whistler by his brother Laurence Whistler, illustrated with Rex Whistler's drawings. First edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding. With clipped dust wrapper.Featuring a ...

The Armorial of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount

Alex Maxwell Findlater, Sir David Lyndsay of Mount · 2018 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

Edinburgh, The Heraldry Society of Scotland, 2018. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a fascinating record of heraldic coats of arms from sixteenth century Europe, including nobility, royalty and legendary figures such as the Nine Worthies. The signed first edit...

Kelly&Apos;S Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

1942 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Kelly's Directories, 1942 . Cloth. The sixty-eighth edition of this notorious referential work recording the titled, landed, and official classes in Great Britain for 1942. The sixty eighth edition of this work, published in 1942, and bound in the publisher's...

The Vita Nuova or New Life of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alghieri; Frances de Mey [Trans.] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1902. Vellum. An interesting vellum-bound edition of Dante"s "Vita Nuova," richly decorated and faithfully translating his autobiographical account of his idealised love for Beatrice. Bound in a full vellum binding with exposed ties, with decorati...

Gm Memories of George Moore

Nancy Cunard · 1956 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy, in lovely condition, of Nancy Cunard's reflections on her 'GM' - Irish novelist George Moore. A lovely first edition of Nancy Cunard's memoirs on her childhood companion 'GM&a...

The Life of Laurence Sterne

Percy Fitzgerald · 1896 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Downey and Co. 1896. Cloth. A handsomely-bound set of an interesting biographical work on Laurence Sterne, the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish writer, in cloth with extensive gilt decoration to the front boards.  An interesting biographical work on Laurence Sterne, an e...

The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Pinney [ed.] · 1974 · Rooke Books

£198.00 (€237.33 | $261.57 | ¥41,769)

Cambridge , Cambridge University Press , 1974-1981. First edition. Cloth. The attractive 6 volume set of letters by influential Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, with 6 frontispieces and unclipped dust wrappers. The first editions of the work.Volumes 1 and 2 published...

My Sketch Book in the Shiny

Snaffles · 1930 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

London, Gale & Polden, Ltd, 1930. Cloth. An excellent signed second edition of Snaffles" collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India, inscribed by the author, and in the original dust wrapper. The second edition. The author's presentation copy, i...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1819 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Printed for the Proprietors, 1819. Leather. The new edition complete in four volumes of James Boswell's acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson, in half green calf with a monochrome portrait frontispiece of Johnson and folding facsimiles of his handwriting. The new ...

Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton

Mandell Creighton; Louise Hume Creighton · 1905 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1905. Leather. A smartly bound sixth impression of this biographical work on British historian and priest Mandell Creighton. Complete in two volumes. Sixth impression. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, one photogravure plate,...

Amelia Jackson: A Brief Memoir of the Wife of William Walrond Jackson

Amelia Jackson; William Walrond Jackson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

None stated, Private Circulation only , 1927. First edition. Leather. The first and only edition of this vanishingly scarce memoir on the life of the musician Amelia Jackson, being published by her husband for private circulation, and bound in full crushed morocco. The first a...

Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton Esq. Of Halton Shropshire

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1900. Cloth. A bright facsimile printing of this biography of John "Mad Jack" Mytton, the reckless Regency eccentric whose wild exploits, debts, and daring hunts made him a legend. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.A...

Personal Experiences of the Prisons of the World, with Stories of Crime, Criminals, and Convicts

Chas Cook · 1902 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Morgan and Scott, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of this work featuring Chas Cook's personal account of his experiences with criminals and prisons, in the original decorative cloth binding, signed by the author. The third edition.The author's...

Some Account of the Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey

Lieut.-General Hon. C. Grey · 1861 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Leather. A leather bound copy of this biography of former Prime Minister Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey. The life of Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of th...

Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Proceeding the Revolutions in 1688.

James Welwood · 1749 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, John Woodyer, 1749. Leather. James Welwood's historical account on the life of King Charles I, created upon the request of Queen Mary II, bound in full calf. The seventh edition, corrected. The register runs continuously as A6, B12-O12, P5. Collated, complete. Jam...

Diary of John Evelyn Esq. , F.R. S. To Which Are Added a Selection from His Familiar Letters and the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde (Afterwards Earl of Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne

John Evelyn; William Bray [ed.]; Henry B. Wheatley · 1906 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, Bickers and Son, 1906. Vellum. A complete new edition of John Evelyn's diaries and correspondence, specially bound here in quarter vellum and chemises by Eric Sweet. A new edition. Complete in four volumes. In a handsome rebinding of quarter vellum, with marbled b...