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The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1870 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, E. Moxon, Son and Co. 1870. Leather. A leather-bound collection of the poetry of Thomas Hood. With an engraved frontispiece. Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist. He wrote regularly for 'The London Magazine&apos. In a calf binding. Externally, soun...

The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood; Walter Jerrold (Ed) · 1906 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Henry Frowde, 1906. Leather. A charming copy of Thomas Hood's poetical works, with additional material by Walter Jerrold. Oxford edition. Edited and with notes by Walter Jerrold. Bound in an attractive morocco binding, gilt detailing to the front board. With an en...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell · 1849 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, Edward Moxon, 1849. Leather. A lovely edition of Thomas Campbell's poetical works. In a handsome crushed morocco binding. Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs. His best known work, ...

Italy, a Poem

Samuel Rogers · 1830 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, T. Cadell et al. 1830. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this poetical work by Samuel Rogers. In a signed binding by H. Mackenzie. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was an English poet who was much celebrated during his lifetime. With steel engraved illustrations throughout....

The Sons of the Soil

Sarah Stickney Ellis · 1799 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, Fisher, Son and Co. c1840. Leather. A copy of Ellis' lesser-known poem, dating from the early Victorian period. Featuring numerous engraved vignettes. Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872) was a Quaker turned Congregationalist, and author of numerous books on women&ap...

The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges · 1901 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Geo. Bell & Sons, 1901. Leather. A beautiful pocketsized copy of the former poet laureate Robert Bridges' shorter poems. Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. As a poet Bridges stands...

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1809 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Thomas Campbell's poetical work, 'Gertrude of Wyoming&apos. With rare errata slip to half-title. Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry...

Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage a Romanaut and Other Poems and Canto the Fourth

Lord Byron · 1812 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, John Murray, 1812-18. Leather. Two volumes of Lord Byron's lengthy narrative poem, in a attractive uniform leather binding. In a lovely morocco J Edmond of Aberdeen binding. With a folding Greek facsimile plate to the rear of volume I. Volume I is the third editio...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1893 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1893. Leather. An attractive collection of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This edition of Longfellow's works is the Albion Edition, the text of which is reprinted from the Revised American Edition. With explanatory notes. Includi...

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin

Anonymous · 1800 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, J Wright, 1800. Leather. A second edition of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, in a leather binding. The Anti-Jacobin was a weekly English newspaper founded in 1797 in opposition to what was seen as the radicalism of the French Revolution. Many of the poems found in this...

The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans Reprinted from the Early Editions with Memoir Explanatory Notes Etc.

Mrs Hemans · 1885 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1880. Leather. The complete poetical works by the popular English poet, Mrs Hemans. Illustrated, with six full page plates. With a biographical introduction by the editor. Published as a part of the 'Lansdowne Poets' collection from F...

Seventeenth-Century Studies

Edmund W. Gosse · 1883 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1883. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this contribution to the history of English poetry by Edmund W. Gosse. With a Preface by the author. Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and cr...

Poetical Works, the Queen&Apos;S Wake, Popular Scottish Poems, the Sabbath

James Hogg; Robert Fergusson; Allan Ramsay; James Grahame; William Tennant · 1838 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1838-41. Leather. Several poetry collections bound into one, including works by James Hogg, Robert Fergusson, William Tennant, Allan Ramsay, and Reverend James Grahame. Some poetry collections included are: 'Miscellany of Popular Sc...

Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century and Compendious Booke of Godly Spiritual Songs Collectit out of Sundrie Partes of the Scripture with Sundrie of Other Ballates Changed out of Prophane Sanges for Avoyding of Sinne and Horlotrie with Augmentation of Sundrie Gude and Godly Ballates

Various · 1801 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1801 . Leather. Two volumes of poetry by Scottish authors. This anthological work comprises of a range of sixteenth century Scottish poems. With the bookplate of John Forbes to both volumes. John Forbes was a distinguished physician and the inve...

The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical

W. Garrett Horder · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Henry Frowde, 1896. First edition. Leather. A first edition of the interesting religious poetry collection, The Treasury of American Sacred Song. Bound in quarter paper vellum with gilt lettering. This collection includes work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Townsend Tr...

The Bridal of Trierman and Harold the Dauntless

Walter Scott · 1819 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1819. Leather. Two romantic poems by Sir Walter Scott. Fourth edition. The Bridal of Triermain celebrates the exploits of a knight errant - Sir Roland De Vaux - as he seeks to rescue (and hopefully espouse) a beautiful maiden, Gyneth. Gyneth is ...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper with a Life by H. Stebbing. D.D.

William Cowper and H Stebbing · 1842 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Scott, Webster and Geary, 1842. Leather. An attractive collection of Cowper's poetry. With engraved title page. With a biography of Cowper by Henry Stebbing (1687–1763), an English churchman and controversialist, who became archdeacon of Wiltshire. With a prize p...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 0 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, c1891. Leather. The Albion Edition of Sir Walter Scott's poetry. With an Illustrated frontispiece. Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with contemporary readers worldwide. By profession Scott was an advocate, judge...

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire

Lord Byron · 1810 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, James Crawthorn, 1810. Leather. A third edition of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire by Lord Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; the opening parodies the fi...

The Devil&Apos;S Visit; a Poem from the Original Manuscript with Notes by a Barrister

Robert Cruikshank · 1830 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, William Kidd, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this humorous poem The Devil's Visit. With five illustrated plates and an additional frontispiece by Robert Cruikshank. Advertisement on verso to title page signed C E D. Direct from the library of t...