Poesia

The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1886 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886-1901. Leather. The collected poetical and prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated with frontispieces. The collected works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in eleven volumes.The Riverside Edition.Henry Wadswor...

Of Period and Place

John Arlott · 1944 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of John Arlott's first collection of poetry, inscribed by the author to his teacher, and in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. The author's prese...

Speaking Again, Poems for International Women&Apos;S Day

Martina Evans; Michele Roberts; Denise Saul; Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch · 2019 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Wales, Rack Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of poems published to celebrate International Women's Day, from the library of Carmen Callil, signed to her by one of the contributors. A very scarce anthology of poems, the first edition.This anth...

The Latin Portrait, an Anthology

G. Rostrevor Hamilton · 1929 · Rooke Books

£73.00 (€87.50 | $96.44 | ¥15,401)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Cloth. An excellent limited edition copy of this charming anthology of translated Latin poems. An edition limited to one thousand and fifty copies for sale in the United Kingdom, and five hundred in the United States. This volume being number ...

Longfellow&Apos;S Poetical Works

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1891 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1891. Leather. A new edition of this collection of the poetical work of American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's Complete Copyright edition. New edition. A collection of the poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfell...

Selected Poems of George Meredith & the Tale of Chloe

George Meredith · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Westminster, Archibald Constable & Company , 1898-1900. Hardback. A uniformly bound two volumes of work from English novelist and poet George Meredith. Two volumes. Written by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was nominated for the Nobel Pr...

The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler; Dr. Johnson · 1803 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, C. Cooke, 1803-1804. Leather. A complete two volume set of Cooke's edition of this poetry collection from English writer Samuel Butler. Complete in two volumes. Cooke's edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. A collection of the poetical works of Samuel ...

England&Apos;S Helicon. A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, First Published at the Close of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth

S. E. Dyer; Robert Green, William Shakespeare · 1812 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, T. Bensley, 1812. Leather. The third edition of this very scarce anthology of old English poems, being a facsimile of the original seventeenth century first edition, signed by J. M. Barrie, the author of the beloved Peter Pan stories, and bound in full diced calf. The ...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1849 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, T. Noble, 1849. Cloth. A scarce copy of this collection of the poetry of Scottish writer, Sir Walter Scott. With a frontispiece. Scarce edition. Six volumes bound into one, being: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, and Ballads, L...

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1751 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper; T. Longman; et al, 1751. Leather. Milton's influential blank verse poem 'Paradise Lost', illustrated with lovely detailed engraved plates for each book of the poem. 'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, conc...

The Poetical Works of Mrs Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemanns · 1836 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris , A. and W. Galignani, 1836. Leather. A very scarce first A. and W. Galignani edition of this poetical anthology from leading female poet, Felicia Hemans. The first A. and W. Galignani edition, in the original English text. Bound in half crushed morocco, with marbled pa...

The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme in Ten Books

Thomas Cooper · 1853 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1853. Cloth. The third edition of this political epic from Thomas Cooper, written during the author's confinement in Stafford Gaol. Third edition. In the original cloth binding. Lacking front free endpaper.This prison-rhyme was written during th...

Reynard the Fox

Goethe; Thomas James Arnold · 1887 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1887. Leather. A handsome Bickers bound copy of this German fable, complete with detailed plates and in-text engravings. Bound by Bickers.An English translation of this medieval German fable following an anthropomorphic trickster red fox. The classic fab...

Reynard the Fox

Samuel Nayor · 1845 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Longmans, 1845. Leather. A finely bound edition of this medieval German poetical fable, here translated by Samuel Naylor. Beautifully bound in a half morocco binding with paper to the boards, with renewed endpapers, in a custom cloth clamshell, bound by Eric Sweet in J...

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1849 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons , 1849. Leather. A pleasing prize-bound volume comprising the poems of reputable literary professor, William Edmondstoune Aytoun. A collection of the works of Scottish poet, William Edmondstoune Aytoun. In full morocco prize binding, with...

The Poems of Alice Meynell (Complete Edition)

Alice Meynell · 1940 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1940. Leather. A lovely complete edition comprising the poems of British writer, critic and suffragist, Alice Meynell. A complete edition of Alice Meynell's poetical works. Including four poems here first collected from ...

The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton; Rev. H. C. Beeching [editor] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1900. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this anthology of the poetical works of English poet John Milton. An anthology of the poetical works of John Milton, an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant best known for his 1667 epic poem Pa...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson [editor] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Henry Frowde, 1906. Vellum. A smartly bound Oxford edition of the poetry of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Oxford edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, h...

Songs of the Garden

Peter Warlock; Various · 1925 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925 . Hardback. A Nonesuch Press limited edition of this delightful collection of poetry and music relating to the garden, with an excellent example of the original dust wrapper. A limited edition work, limited to 875 copies, of which this is numbe...

Love&Apos;S Progress

James Laver · 1929 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Hardback. A smart Nonesuch limited edition of this entertaining poem by James Laver. A limited edition of 1,525 copies, of which this is numbered 1,320.'Love's Progress' is an entertaining and witty poem following the romantic e...