Poesia

Poems by William Cowper, Esq. With a Sketch of His Life by the Rev. T. Greatheed

William Cowper; Rev. T. Greatheed · 1845 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Glasgow, Richard Griffin, 1845. Leather. A charming mid nineteenth century edition of the poems of William Cowper. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page.A delightfully bound full morocco volume of the works of English poet and Anglican hymnwriter William Cow...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London and New York, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909 . Cloth. A lovely copy of Edmund Dulac's illustrated edition of Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat&apos. Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, born in the 2nd Century. He g...

The Adventures of a Post Captain: By a Naval Officer

Alfred Thornton · 1817 · Rooke Books

£315.00 (€377.58 | $416.16 | ¥66,455)

London, J. Johnston, 1817 . First edition. Leather. A bright copy of the second issue of Alfred Thornton's charming verse poem, illustrated with hand coloured plates. The second issue of this work, published in the same year as the first. With a rule line above and be...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott with Life

Sir Walter Scott · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , Thomas Holmes, c1855. Leather. An attractively bound copy of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with illustrations. This volume contains the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historian, novelist, poet and playwright with his nar...

He Giveth His Beloved Sleep

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1883 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Boston, Lee And Shepard Publishers, 1883. Cloth. A bright, delightful copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's illustrated poem based on Psalm 127. An 1883 edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. All edges gilt. Bookplate to the front paste down. 8 p...

Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward Fitzgerald · 1905 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Alexander Moring Limited, 1905 . Cloth. An early uncommon edition of this collection of saws and modern instances by the nineteenth century English poet. Early edition of Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances by Edward Fitzgerald in the original publ...

Mandarin in Manhattan

Christopher Morley · 1934 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London , Faber and Faber, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this poetry collection by Christopher Morley. A first edition copy of this collection of poems by Christopher Morley, who was an American journalist, novelist and poet. This volume of poems ar...

Poems

James Kelly · 1888 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Glasgow , Aird & Coghill , 1888. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this collection of poems by James Kelly. A scarce first edition copy of this collection of poems by James Kelly. Some of the poems included in this volume are Dolores Adios Fuertos, By the S...

Bubbles

Catharine Boundinot Atterbury · 1910 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Elkin Mathews , 1910. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce booklet of verse by Catharine Boundinot Atterbury. A very scarce first edition of this work, rarely seen on the market. A charming poetry anthology by Catharine Boundinot Atterbury, grouped under three categ...

Rhymes on Art or the Remonstrance of a Painter

Martin Archer Shee · 1805 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Murray, 1805. Leather. A neat second edition of this work with additional preface and notes. Second edition with additional preface and notes. A critique of the state of contemporary arts, patronage and public taste. Written by Martin Archer Shee, an Irish portrai...

Rimes of the Diables Bleus

Henry Baerlein · 1917 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

1917, Selwyn & Blount , 1917. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce first edition collection of poetry from the Chasseurs Alpins, French mountain infantry, during the First World War. A vanishingly scarce first edition. Held institutionally in only two UK libraries. Reb...

Green Song and Other Poems; the Song of the Cold

Edith Sitwell · 1944 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1944-5. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition anthology of poems by Edith Sitwell, each enclosed in its dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. Two collections of verses by Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic, eldest of the three literary Sit...

The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Not Stated , Duckworth, 1930. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of the collected poems by Edith Sitwell enclosed in its unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of this work. Complete with errata slip. The collected poems of Edith Sitwell, British p...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. Cloth. Re-backed copy of this second collection of poems celebrative of rural life by William Barnes. Second edition of this work. William Barnes's anthology of poems written in the Dorset dialect. A language purist, Barnes advocated for ...

Favourite English Poems and Poets

Various · 1870 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870. Leather. An extensive volume containing 218 of the most popular poems ever written in the English language, a beautifully illustrated work. In a lovely tree calf binding.An impressive collection of two hundred and eighteen of the most...

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson · 1874 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Henry S. King and Co. 1874. Leather. Tennyson's first four narrative poems of Idylls of the King, concerning King Arthur's accession and marriage, in a smart full calf binding. In a full calf binding, with the binder's label of A. Holden to the front pas...

Rheinlands Sang Und Sage. Die Schonsten Rheinlieder Mit Einem Leitgedichte Von Emil Rittershaus Und Zwanzig Originalradirungen Von Bernhard Mannfeld.

Emil Rittershaus · 1898 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Bonn, Emil Strauss, 1898 . Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with twenty plates by Bernhard Mannfeld, this is the fourth edition of Emil Rittershaus's poem about the Rhineland. In the original German.The fourth edition of this beautifully illustrated poem about the beauty an...

Classical Poems

William Entriken Baily · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cincinnati, Robert Clarke and Co, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first and only edition of this slight volume of poetry by William Entriken Baily. Inspired by 'the animus of a great deal of what constitutes orthodox English poetry' - citing Milton, Shak...

The Love Sonnets of Proteus

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · 1881 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of noted lothario Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's charming volume of love sonnets. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by the author. Collated, complete.A delightful volume consisting of one-hundred a...

The Vigil of Venus

Lewis Gielgud · 1952 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Frederick Muller , [1952]. First edition. Cloth. First trade edition of the English translation of 'Pervigilium Veneris' by Lewis Gielhud, adorned with lovely wood engravings by George Buday. Translated to English by English scholar Lewis Gielgud from the ori...