Biografia

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764, Boswell&Apos;S London Journal 1762-1763 Together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762, and Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 Five of the Complete Fourteen Volumes

Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle · 1951 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London , William Heinemann Ltd, 1951-1957. Vellum. A collection of some of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Five of the complete fourteen volumes. The set consists of: Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-69, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1831 · Rooke Books

£660.00 (€791.23 | $872.10 | ¥139,280)

London , John Murray, 1831. Leather. The first edition of Croker's influential edition of Boswell's famous biography in a calf binding. Complete in Five Volumes. A New Edition. With Numerous Additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F. R. S. With Mrs Nathanie...

The Seven Stairs

Stuart Brent · 1962 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this autobiography by Chicago bookseller and TV personality, Stuart Brent. First printing. With an ink inscription from Brent to 'Elna' to the front endpaper. In a cloth binding with ori...

Tobias Smollett

Jeremy Lewis · 2003 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed biography of the Scottish poet Tobias Smollett Signed by the author Jeremy Lewis as a gift to his friends. Jeremy Lewis was a publisher who was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the deputy editor of the...

The Life of Raymond Chandler

Frank MacShane · 1976 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biographical exploration into the life and works of Raymond Chandler. Featuring original illustrated dustwrapper designed by Craig Dodd. With tipped in extract from The Sunday Times dated 20th Apr...

Standing in the Sun a Life of J.M. W. Turner

Anthony Bailey · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A biography about the romantic painter Joseph Turner. Joseph Turner was a romantic painter and water colourist, who lived in London with a strong Cockney accent his whole life. He mostly painted sea and landscapes, and ac...

An Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of Our Most Considerable English Poets Whether Epick, Lyrick, Elegiack, Epigramatists Etc.

Giles Jacob · 1720 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, E Curll, 1720. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biographical work. This work discusses several English poets and demonstrates a selection of their work. With a frontispiece and five plates. Lacking the plates of Mr Croxall and Mr John Philips, therefor...

Papers and Addresses of Martin B. Anderson in Two Volumes

William C. Morey (Ed) · 1895 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society, 1895. Leather. An uncommon set of lectures and papers from lecturer Martin Brewer Anderson. Volume one holds Anderson's "Educational Papers and Addresses", with volume two containing "Philosophical and Scientific Papers....

Kathie Brande a Fireside History of a Quiet Life

Holme Lee · 1872 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London , Smith, Elder and Co, 1872. Leather. A copy of 'Kathie Brande; A Fireside History of a Quiet Life' by Holme Lee. Under pseudonym "Holme Lee", Harriet Parr published between 1854 and 1883 thirty novels and collections of stories, e.g. Maude Tulbot, Gilbert Mas...

Memoirs of the Marchioness de Larochejaquelein

M L Victoire de Donnissan · 1816 · Rooke Books

£510.00 (€611.40 | $673.89 | ¥107,625)

London, Constable and Co et al. 1816. First edition. Leather. he uncommon first English translation, by Sir Walter Scott, of the fascinating memoirs of Marie Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de La Rochejacquelein. These memoirs give a remarkable picture of the war, and f...

The Lives of the Sheridans

Percy Fitzgerald · 1886 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of the many notable members of the Sheridan family, by the Anglo-Irish author and critic, painter and sculptor Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. A contributor to 'Household Words&a...

Men Women and Books a Selection of Sketches Essays and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Leigh Hunt · 1847 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London , Smith, Elder and Co. 1847. First edition. Cloth. An interesting work by prolific author Leigh Hunt. The first edition of this work. Both volumes are lacking half-titles. With a portrait frontispiece of Hunt to volume I. Complete in two volumes. These two volumes are a...

George Morland His Life and Works

George C. Williamson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London , George Bell and Sons, 1904. Cloth. An illustrated biography of the artist George Morland. Illustrated throughout with forty-nine tinted plates, and a coloured frontispiece. The finest of Morland's pictures were executed between 1790 and 1794, and amongst them his...

Memoir of the Life of William James Muller

N. Neal Solly · 1875 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.70 | $336.95 | ¥53,813)

London , Chapman & Hall, 1875. First edition. Cloth. An insightful biographical account into the life and works of landscape and figure painter, William James Muller - the first edition. The first published biography of William James Muller. With original letters and an accoun...

Private Correspondence of Chesterfield and Newcastles 1744-46 Part I: Chesterfield at the Hague Part II: Chesterfield at Dublin

Sir Richard Lodge · 1930 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

London , Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1930. Cloth. A collection of the letters sent between Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Edited, with an introduction and notes by British historian Sir Richard Lodge. In a...

The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh a Penile Exile in Australia 1825-1844

Ralph Rashleigh [James Tucker] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London , Jonathan Cape, 1929. Cloth. The autobiographical text of a convict who was deported to Australia. With an introduction by The Earl of Birkenhead. The first reprint of this edition, published the same year as the first edition. The text was originally written in 1844 a...

Irish Recollections

Justin McCarthy · 0 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London , Hodder and Stoughton, c1910. Cloth. A insightful autobiographical account about the author's life in and around Ireland. Featuring numerous tipped-in illustrations, including a frontispiece of the author. In original cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally,...

Letters of William Cowper: Bieng a Selection from His Correspondence

William Cowper · 1905 · Rooke Books

£19.00 (€22.78 | $25.11 | ¥4,010)

London , The Religious Tract Society, 1905. Cloth. A selection of the letters of poet William Cowper. With an engraved frontispiece, a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. In a pink cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some dampstaining,...

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726

C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright · 1966 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London , The Bibliographical Society, 1966. Cloth. A smart copy of this eighteenth-century diary from librarian and palaeographer of Humfrey Wanley. With frontispieces to each volume. Volume I: 1715-1723 Volume II: 1723-1726 Complete in two volumes. In navy cloth bindings. Ext...

Departures

E L Grant Watson and John O'Conner · 1948 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , Pleiades Books Limited , 1948. First edition. Cloth. An autobigraphical work by E L Grant Watson. First edition. Lacking original dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout by John O'Conner. E L Grant Watson was a writer and biologist. He wrote 40 books in total includi...