Biografia

The Life of Bernard Gilpin

William Gilpin · 1752 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, J. and J. Rivington, 1752. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this insightful biography into the life of the prominent clergyman Bernard Gilpin, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first edition of this work.A biography on the life of Bernard Gilpin, the not...

Memories of John Galsworthy

M. E. Reynolds · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Robert Hale and Company , 1936. First edition. Vellum. A lovely first edition, first impression of this biographical sketch of John Galsworthy by his sister M E Reynold. A charming biographical sketch of John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Drawn from hi...

Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion

1823 · Rooke Books

£625.00 (€749.15 | $825.66 | ¥131,848)

London, Printed for John Hunt by C H Reynell, 1823. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition of William Hazlitt's strange and passionate memoir revealing his love for Sarah Walker, his landlord's daughter. The first edition of William Hazlitt's passionate ...

Saul Marks and the Plantin Press

Lillian Marks · 1980 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

Los Angeles, The Plantin Press, 1980. First edition. Hardback. A lovely, signed and limited edition of Lillian Marks' charming and extensive account of the Plantin Press. Lillian Marks' account of her husband and business partner Saul Marks' life and work: the P...

Recollections and Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs by Captain Gronow

Captain Gronow · 1877 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1877. Hardback. A collection of dandy Captain Gronow's reminiscences, bound in pictorial boards with a decorative spine. Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865) was a military man before commencing an unsuccessful parliamentary career. He wrote four work...

The Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Charles Knight [ed.] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.78 | $1,188.95 | ¥189,861)

London, J S Virtue and Co. [1873-1876]. Leather. A remarkable collection of two colossal volumes containing the illustrated works of the national bard William Shakespeare, as edited by Charles Knight. The Imperial edition. The Imperial edition of this remarkable work edited by...

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence

D. E. Williams · 1831 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Leather. The scarce two volume biography of this immensely popular Regency era portrait artist. The scarce two volume biography of leading Regency era portrait artist Sir Thomas Lawrence. With a frontispiece to ea...

Gad&Apos;S Hill Place and Charles Dickens

Edwin Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

Rochester, Edwin Harris & Sons, 1910. First edition. Leather. A signed scarce first edition copy of Edwin Harris' wonderful study of Dickens' association with Gad's Hill Place. The scarce first edition of this work.Signed postcard of the author adhered to the ve...

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq.

Samuel Pepys; Richard Lord Braybrooke · 1828 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Henry Colburn, 1828. Leather. A charming five volume set of the second edition of Pepy's renowned memoirs, published for the first time, detailing life in the 1660s. This is a second edition of the first publication of Pepy's diary. Painstakingly written out ...

The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster · 1854 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, Bradbury and Evans , 1854. Fine Binding. A sumptuous MacLehose-bound second edition of John Forster's immense biography of the important author, Oliver Goldsmith. The second edition of this popular, immense work by John Forster, originally published in 1848. Compl...

Lewis Carroll

Florence Becker Lennon · 1947 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Cassell and Co. 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Lewis Carroll's illustrated biography by Florence Becker Lennon. The first UK edition of this work by Florence Lennon. A detailed biography of the acclaimed author, Lewis Carroll, a notably a pec...

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence

D. E. Williams, Esq. · 1831 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Leather. A scarce complete set of the life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, bound in contemporary leather. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was an English portrait artist known for being the fourth president of the Royal Ac...

In the Woods

Henry Williamson · 1960 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Llandeilo, St Albert's Press, 1960. First edition. Paperback. A 1961 first edition excerpt of Henry Williamson's unpublished autobiography A first edition, number 717 of 1000 copies published, and in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Published by a press in the dom...

Stephan Langton; or, the Days of King John

M. F. Tupper · 1880 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Guildord, Frank Lasham, 1880. Leather. A leather-bound biographical novel detailing the life of Catholic cardinal Stephen Langton, active in the early thirteenth century. This work delineates England during the reign of King John, narrating a fictional account of Stephen Langt...

Ouma Smuts

Tom Macdonald · 1946 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Hurst and Blackett , [1946]. Leather. An affectionate biography of Isie Smuts, wife of the Union of South Africa's second Prime Minister, Jan Smuts. An excellent copy. Undated. Dated from Jisc [1946]An affectionate biography by Tom Macdonald of Sybella Smuts. She ...

Jean Charcot

Marthe Oulie; Paul Chack · 1937 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Paris, Gallimard, 1937. Paperback. A biography of Jean Charcot, a French scientist and polar scientist who also won silver medals in sailing at the Summer Olympics of 1900. The son of Jean-Martin Charcot, a pioneer of neurology, Jean Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936) was a French m...

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Recollections and Anecdotes Being a Second Series of Reminiscences

Captain Gronow · 1889 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, John C Nimmo, 1889. First edition. Leather. A very smart first illustrated edition of Captain Gronow's recollections. A limited edition, with this set belonging to Sir Winston Churchill's brother. Limited edition, numbered 143 of 870 copies produced with the ...

Gimani

Edmund Heafod [Osias Bain] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Gaberbocchus, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A superb and scarce limited edition signed by the author. This diary contains the author's interesting thoughts on philosophy and psychology. The first edition of this work by Edmund Heafod, pseudopseudonymous for Osias Ba...

James Orrock, R.I. : Painter, Connoisseur, Collector

Byron Webber · 1903 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1903. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition of James Orrock's illustrated biography by Byron Webber, complete in two volumes. Inscribed and signed by Orrock to his niece to the front free endpaper. The first edition of this work, limited to f...

Norman Douglas

H. M. Tomlinson · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of travel writer and novelist Norman Douglas, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. George Norman Douglas (1868-1952) was a British writer, remembered for his travelogues in par...