Biografia

Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd

James Hogg; Mrs. Garden [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Alexander Gardner, 1884. Cloth. A scarce memoir of Scottish writer James Hogg, with a preface by Professor Veitch. Scarce work. Dated from Trinity College Dublin Library. With portrait frontispiece. The life of James Hogg, a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet who wr...

Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock and Klopstock and His Friends

Miss Benger · 1812 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London , Henry Colburn; Cadell and Davies , 1812-1814. Leather. Two uniformly bound volumes of memoirs of the Klopstock's. Two later edition of Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock and Klopstock and His Friends. Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock is trans...

Letters and Sketches of Francis T. Warre Cornish Late Captain 17th Bengal Lancers and an Essay on the Training of Cavalry and Mounted Infantry 1884-1901

Francis T. Warre Cornish · 1920 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Eton, Spottiswoode & Co, 1920. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this volume on Francis T. Warre Cornish, with illustrations. A first edition copy. This volume contains a collection of letters and sketches of Francis T. Warre Cornish who was Captain of the 17th ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London , Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Leather. A complete ten volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson. A complete ten volume set of this biography of Samuel Johnson. A new edition. Samuel Johnson was an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist and critic. These volumes also inclu...

George Eliot&Apos;S Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals

J. W. Cross · 1885 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition. Cloth. Biography of George Eliot by her husband in three volumes, the author's presentation copy of the first edition. Complete in three volumes. The first edition of this work. Author's presentation copy insc...

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey · 1928 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lytton Strachey's biographical sketch of Elizabeth I and her relationship with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The first edition of Lytton Strachey's biography of Queen Elizabeth I, focussing o...

Texts on William Morris

Stephen Coote; Linda Parry · 1990 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Garamond; Philip Wilson Publishers, 1990-1996. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart volumes on William Morris, with details of his life and work. Two volumes. Works on William Morris, a British textile designer, poet, artist, fantasy writer, architectural conservationi...

Mr Gillray: The Caricaturist

Draper Hill · 1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Phaidon Press, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Draper Hill's biography of James Gillray in the original dust wrapper. Biography of James Gillray by Draper Hill, the first edition. With 147 black and white plates. Collated, complete. James Gil...

Ada Vachell of Bristol

F. M. Unwin · 1928 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this biography of Ada Vachell, a worker for people with disabilities, complete with illustrations. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated comple...

Oliver Cromwell&Apos;S Letters and Speeches

Oliver Cromwell; Thomas Carlyle · 1885 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1885-1886. Leather. Leading Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle offers a gloss on the letters of Oliver Cromwell in these three attractive volumes. The third edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, elucidated by Scottish essayist, historia...

The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author

Laurence Sterne; James P. Browne [ed] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.61 | ¥81,218)

London , Bickers & Son , 1873. Leather. A complete four volume set in smart leather binding of The Works of Laurence Sterne. A complete four volume set. These new edition copies were published in 1873.The Works of Laurence Sterne With A Life of the Author is written by himsel...

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Lucy Apsley Hutchinson · 1822 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. Cloth. A fourth edition copy of this complete two volume set of the Life of Colonel Hutchison and Lucy Apsley Hutchinson. A complete two volume set of Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson who was the Governor of Nottin...

Selections from the Correspondence of Robert Bloomfield: The Suffolk Poet Facsimile Edition

Robert Bloomfield; W. H. Hart [ed.] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Surrey, Robert F. Ashby, 1968. Cloth. A scarce copy of this facsimile edition of this very rare 1870 work, detailing the correspondence of Suffolk poet Robert Bloomfield. The facsimile edition, of which only 200 copies were issued, of the 1870 Spottiswode edition of this work,...

Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries

Robert Burns; P. F Aiken · 1876 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London , Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington , 1876. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries. A first edition copy of Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries and their Descendants by P....

The Life of John Thelwall

Mrs Thelwall [Cecil Thelwall] · 1837 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Macrone, 1837. First edition. Cloth. Bright rebound copy of this very scarce first edition biography of John Thelwall by his widow. The first edition of this work. Volume one, all published. Written by Thelwall's widow, his second wife. An extremely scarce w...

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More

William Roberts · 1834 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London , R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. Leather. A complete four volume set of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More by William Roberts. Second edition copies of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More  by William Roberts. Hannah ...

After Work: Fragments from the Workshop of an Old Publisher

Edward Marston · 1904 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, William Heinemann , 1904. First edition. Leather. The first edition autobiography of Edward Marston, a notable publisher of the nineteenth century. The scarce first edition. Rebound in smart half morocco with gilt lettering to the spine. With a portrait frontispiece, t...

Betty Radice: 1912-1985

Betty Radice; Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Not Stated , Not Stated , c1985. Paperback. A very scarce booklet dedicated to the life and work of translator Betty Radice, a lovely example. A very scarce copy only catalogued at the UCL Library Services on Copac. Dated from that copy.An ode to the life and work of literary ...

Meridiana: Noontide Essays

Herbert Maxwell · 1892 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce true first edition of this collection of essays by Sir Herbert Maxwell. First edition of Meridiana: Noontide Essays by Sir Herbert Maxwell in the original publisher's cloth binding.Â...

Life of Field Marshall His Grace the Duke of Wellington

Andrew R Bonar · 1815 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, W. Nicholson & Sons, Limited, c1844. First edition. Cloth. A very neat first edition of this biography of the Duke of Wellington. First edition. Undated. The biography of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who acted as...