Biografia

The Honourable Sir Charles Murray, K.C. B. A Memoir

Herbert Maxwell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£149.99 (€179.78 | $198.15 | ¥31,641)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Maxwell's biography of the British author and diplomat Sir Charles Murray. This biography was written by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith, a Scottish novelist, essayist, Conservat...

The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne

Lewis Melville · 0 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Stanley Paul and Co. c1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne', complete in two volumes. Best known for his work 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy', Sterne was influential in many other fields ...

Reminiscences of an Old Boy: Being Autobiographical Sketches of Scottish Rural Life from 1832 to 1856

William J. Milne · 1901 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Forfar, John Macdonald, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this autobiography by William J. Milne. Detailing the author's life in rural Scotland from 1832-1856, the work presents an interesting depiction of the country during the nineteenth century Copi...

The Journals, Letters, & Verses of Marjory Fleming in Collotype Facsimile from the Original Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland

Marjory Fleming; edited by Arundell Esdaile · 1934 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1934. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Fleming's journals, letters and verses. Number 60 of 550 copies, 525 of which were printed for sale. With a portrait frontispiece, and plates throughout. Marjorie Fleming (15 January 1803 – 19 Decem...

Master Richard Quyny: Bailiff of Stratford-Upon-Avon and Friend of William Shakespeare

Edgar Innes Fripp · 1924 · Rooke Books

£435.00 (€521.41 | $574.66 | ¥91,766)

London , Oxford University Press, Henry Milford, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Shakespeare's friend Richard Quyny [Quiney] First edition. With three plates. With the scarce dustwrapper. Richard Quiney was a friend of William Shakespear...

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

R. Louis Stevenson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1912. Cloth. Stevenson's memoir of his friend Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S. LL.D. Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Best known as the inventor of the cable car, Jenkin (1833-1885) was something of a polymath, with talents ...

Memorials of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1860 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London , Methuen, 1860. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, two volume set of Memorials of Thomas Hood. A set of relflections on his life edited by his daughter, the volume contains a great deal of anecdotes and recollections which are testament to Thomas Hood's renown...

The Life of Lord Bacon

John, Lord Campbell · 1853 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , John Murray, 1853. Cloth. A biography of the life of Lord Bacon by John, Lord Campbell. Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author. He served both as Attorney...

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet

Stuart A. Pears M.A. (Ed) · 1845 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,710)

London , Pickering, 1845. Cloth. A collection of intimate correspondence between the famous courtier and the radical French reformer. Philip Sidney is most famous as an Elizabethan courtier and diplomat; as well as a poet and a soldier. Here we have his personal correspondence...

George Morland His Life and Works

Sir Walter Gilbey and E. D. Cuming · 1907 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London , Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Cloth. A decorative examination of the life and oeuvre of artist, George Morland. Illustrated throughout with fifty coloured plates. George Morland (London 26 June 1763 ? 29 October 1804 Brighton) was an English painter of animals and rus...

The Letters of Arnulf of Lisieux

Frank Barlow · 1939 · Rooke Books

£26.99 (€32.35 | $35.66 | ¥5,694)

London , Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1939. Cloth. A collection of the letters of medieval French bishop Arnulf of Lisieux. Camden third series, volume LXI. Arnulf was a partisan of the king in the conflict between Henry II and Thomas Becket, and after the murder o...

Rabelais the Five Books and Minor Writings Together with Letters and Documents Illustrating His Life

W. F. Smith · 1893 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

London , Alexander P. Watt, 1893. Cloth. A collection of the letters and works of the sixteenth-century French Renaissance author Francois Rabelais. A new translation, with notes, by W. F. Smith. Rabelais has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grote...

George Baxter (Colour Printer) His Life and Work

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1908 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1908. Cloth. A biography of the eminent printer, George Baxter, who is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Illustrated throughout with many reproductions of Baxter's works. In a cloth binding. Exter...

Four Good Men: Luke Challonder, Jeremy Taylor, Narcissus Marsh, Elias Bouhãƒâ©Reau

Newport J. D. White, D.D. · 1927 · Rooke Books

£168.00 (€201.37 | $221.94 | ¥35,441)

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co. 1927. First edition. Paperback. A bright, clean first edition of Four Good Men with an inscription from the author, Newport J.D. White. Bound in card. First Edition. With an ink inscription from Newport J. D. White, dated 3rd Sept 1927. This book i...

Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect and Dramatist

Sir John Vanbrugh; Laurence Whistler · 1938 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A biographical work on this seventeenth century architect and dramatist. First edition. Illustrated throughout, with fifteen plates of buildings designed by Sir John Vanbrugh. Collated, complete. With the signature of one J...

The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence

Horace Twiss · 1844 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , John Murray, 1844. Cloth. A biography of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon. Volumes II and III of a three part set. Second edition. John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838) was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Grea...

Memoirs of Count Grammont

Antoine Hamilton, Sir Walter Scott (Editor) · 1889 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, John C Nimmo, 1889. Cloth. A biographical work on a famous French nobleman. First thus, the first large paper edition. Limited edition, number 173 of 700. Written by Count Grammont's brother-in-law Antoine Hamilton. Count de Grammont was the younger half-brother o...

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale) Edited with Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and Writings

A Hayward (editor), Hester Thrale · 1861 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London , Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Cloth. Two volumes of Mrs Piozzi's autobiography. With a frontispiece to each volume. From the library of one Arthur C Newsum, with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. With half titles to each volume and...

Life&Apos;S a Circus

Eleanor Smith · 1939 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co. 1939. First edition. Cloth. Life's a Circus by Eleanor Smith illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition. Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902 - 1945) was an English writer. The eldest of the politician F. E....

Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III

Henry Lord Brougham · 1855 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London , Richard Griffin and Company, 1855. Cloth. Two volumes of Brougham's sketches of statesmen from the era of George III. With original advertisements on the endpapers. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)was a British statesman who became Lo...