Poesia

The Charms of Literature: Being an Entertaining Miscellany of Elegant Extracts, from the Best Authors; Containing Forty-Eight Sentimental, Pathetic, Moral, Humorous, Gothic, and Comic Pieces in Prose and Verse

Various · 1805 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Newcastle Upon Tyne, J. MItchell, 1805. Leather. The third edition of this very scarce collection of prose and verse works, with detailed wood engravings by the celebrated Thomas Bewick. The third edition. A very scarce work. Illustrated with seven wood engravings by Thomas ...

Love Poems of W.S. Blunt

W. S. Blunt · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, John Lane, 1902. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this scarce collection of love poetry from English writer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Very scarce edition. An early collection of poetry with Blunt's complete collection appearing in 1914. With art nouveau designs through...

The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1911 . Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson's works, in a full calf signed binding from Bumpus. A lovely collection of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in a signed Bumpus full calf binding, with decorative...

The Turning Path

Ronald Bottrall · 1939 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, Arthur Barker Limited, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of this collection of poems by Ronald Bottrall, with the original glassine wrap. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper in presentation to Oswald Darre...

The Sonnets of Michelangelo

Michelangelo; Elizabeth Jennings [translator]; Michael Ayrton · 1961 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, The Folio Society, 1961. Vellum. A smartly bound collection of the sonnets of Italian poet of the High Renaissance Michelangelo, with images of his sketches. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of the sonnets of Michelang...

A Collection of the Works of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson · 1866 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Strahan and Co. Publishers; Edward Moxon; C. Kegan Paul & Co.; Macmillan and Co. 1866-1893. Cloth. A smart uniformly bound collection of works from English Poet Laureate, Alfred Tennyson. Sixteen volumes. Written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, an English poet ...

De Blinde Zwemmers

Bert Schierbeek · 1955 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Gravenhage, L. J. C. Boucher, 1955. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce Dutch prose poem by Bert Schierbeek. The first edition.A very scarce work.In the original Dutch.In the original unclipped glassine.'De Blinde Zwemmers' is a prose poem ...

Miorita

William D. Snodgrass; Various · 1972 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.68 | $117.58 | ¥18,776)

Bucharest, Albatros, 1972. Paperback. A unique volume containing the classic Romanian ballad 'Miorita' in six different languages, illustrated by Emil Chendea. A unique volume, presenting six translations of the old Romanian pastoral ballad 'Miorita', or, &...

Lyra Apostolica

[John Henry Newman] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Derby, Henry Mozley and Sons, 1845. Leather. A very scarce anthology of religious poetry by the Anglican priest John Henry Newman. A very scarce work.A selection of religious poetry compiled by the theologian, academic, and writer John Henry Newman.Originally published in the ...

The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English and French from the Philosophers and Poets Made by the Poet Laureate in 1915 and Dedicated by Gracious Permission to His Majesty the King

Various; Robert Bridges [ed.] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Longmans Green and Co, 1923. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this anthology of poetry curated by Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges. A new impression.Bound in half calf, with cloth boards and gilt decorations to the spine. This popular anthology was compiled and edited...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey · 1859 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859. Leather. A Relfe Brothers bound volume collecting together the poetical works of Romantic Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. Bound by the Relfe Brothers.An anthology of the poetry of Robert Southey, complete in one volume.Illustr...

The Sonnets of Europe

Samuel Waddington · 1888 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Walter Scott, Ltd, 1888. Leather. A leatherbound copy of this collection of translations of important European sonnets. A volume of translations. A collection of the important sonnets of Europe, translated into English. With contributions from authors including: Dante ...

A Collection of Works by Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren · 1904 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Paris, Societe du Mercure de France, 1904-1907. Leather. A uniformly bound collection of the works and poems of Belgian writer Emile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, in the original French. French. Five volumes. Written by Emile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, a Belgian poet and art crit...

A Tarot Deal and Other Poems

Eric W. White · 1962 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Scorpion Press, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from British writer Eric W. White. First edition. Scarce work. A collection of poetry including a sequence of verses based on the symbolism of the Tarot cards, as...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1926 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.35 | $640.75 | ¥102,320)

London, George G. Harrap, 1926. Cloth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's major Romantic poem, beautifully illustrated with tipped in colour plates by Willy Pogany The Pogany edition was first published in 1910. This is the later 1926 edition, with smaller pages.Illustrated with a...

The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge Edited with a Critical Memoir

Samuel T. Coleridge; William Michael Rossetti [ed.] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, E. Moxon, Son and Company , 1872. Leather. A decorative copy of this anthology of poetry from Samuel T. Coleridge, illustrated with plates. A charming collection of verses written by English poet and one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England, Samuel T. Co...

The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds

Laurence Lieberman · 1995 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Omaha , The Cummington Press , 1995. Paperback. A pleasing limited edition poem by Laurence Lieberman. Copy no. 53 of an edition limited to two hundred printed on Nideggen paper. A poem told in eight parts by American poet and professor, Laurence Lieberman, which uses the sym...

Anthologie Des Poetes Francais Du Xixeme Siecle 1818-1841, 1842-1851, & 1852-1866

1762 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, c1900. Leather. A smartly bound collection of three volumes of this anthology of nineteenth century French poets, in the original French. French. Three volumes of a four volume set, lacking volume one (1762-1817) only. Volume two is illustrated with a ...

Familiar Faces

Harry Graham · 1907 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Edward Arnold, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of comic verse by popular poet Harry Graham, with illustrations by George Morrow. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated wi...

A Sheaf of Verses

Rev. George Bird · 1929 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,215)

Oxford, Printed for Private Circulation, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce collection of verses from Rev. George Bird, with a loosely inserted signed letter from the author. A very scarce, privately published, firs...