Poesia

The Thousand Best Poems in the World

Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Sir Walter Scott; Lord Byron et al. · 1891 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1891-4. Cloth. Two copious volumes of poetry featuring works from some of the most popular poets, including Coleridge, Lord Byron, Campbell and many more. The first series is the fiftieth thousand. A two volume, complete set. In the original publishe...

A B C of Reading

Ezra Pound · 1951 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Faber and Faber , 1951. Cloth. A bright first thus of Ezra Pound's guide to writing and understanding poetry, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first thus, being a republication after some years of the work being out of print. Originally publi...

The Visit: Poems

Ian Hamilton · 1970 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from British critic and writer Robert Ian Hamilton. First edition. The first collection of poetry from Robert Ian Hamilton, a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, ...

The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell; William Michael Rossetti [editor] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£108.00 (€129.46 | $142.68 | ¥22,785)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1880. Leather. An illustrated edition of the poetical works of American writer James Russell Lowell, with a critical preface by William Rossetti. Moxon's Popular Poets. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete...

The Year of Trafalgar: Being an Account of the Battle and of the Events Which Led Up to It, with a Collection of the Poems and Ballads Written Thereupon between 1805 and 1905

Henry Newbolt · 1905 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, John Murray, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this historical study on the Battle of Trafalgar and poetry written about the event. First edition. With a frontispiece. A detailed history of the Battle of Trafalgar and the events which led up to it, with ch...

The Works of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift; Sir Walter Scott [ed.] · 1814 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.38 | $2,576.22 | ¥411,389)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co, 1814 . First edition. Leather. An impressive nineteen volume edition of the works of Jonathan Swift. Edited by Sir Walter Scott, this remains one of the most comprehensive collections of Swift's writings. The first edition thus of th...

Collected Poems of Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Geoffrey Winthrop Young · 1936 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Methuen and Co, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this poetical collection from Geoffrey Winthrop Young, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. With the uncommon original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of poetry inclu...

Collected Poems 1897-1907

Henry Newbolt · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1910. Cloth. A very smart, bright copy of this Henry Newbolt poetry collection. Undated, dated from identical copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A terrific collection of works by English poet, nov...

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, c1908. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the poetical works of English writer Robert Browning, with colour images. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates, three of which are in colour. The collected poetical works of Robe...

The Bruce; or, the Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots; the Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman, Together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, Et Dobest, and Richard the Redeles

William Langland; John Barbour; Rev. Walter W. Skeat [ed.] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London , N. Trubner and Co. 1866-1888. Cloth. A smart set of publications from the Early English Text Society, comprising 'The Bruce' and 'Piers Plowman&apos. Uniformly bound in half cloth, with marbled paper covered boards. With the original wraps bound in. Co...

The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie

Alexander Montgomerie; James Cranstoun [ed.] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Leather. A very scarce collection of poetry by the Scottish courtier and poet Alexander Montgomerie, compiled by James Cranstoun. A scarce work in a half morocco binding with marbled boards and end papers. Top edge gilt. Boo...

Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation

James Cranstoun · 1891 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1891-1893. Leather. A uniformly bound two-volume set of this scarce collection of satirical poems from the Reformation, compiled by James Cranstoun. A two-volume set of this scarce work, uniformly bound in a half morocco binding w...

The Kingis Quair: Together with a Ballad of Good Counsel

King James I of Scotland; Rev. Walter W. Skeat [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Leather. A smartly bound copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Scarce work. The Scottish Text Society. Two poems attributed to James I, King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Containing Th...

The Poetical Works of John Gay

John Gay; John Underhill [editor] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1893. Vellum. A complete two volume set of this limited edition collection of the poetry of English writer John Gay. Complete in two volumes. Limited to two hundred copies on large paper of which this is number one hundred and four. With a fronti...

Poems

Whiston Bristow · 1811 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, For The Author, 1811 . First edition. Leather. An exceptionally scarce collection of poems by Whiston Bristow, bound in a very smart rebacked diced calf. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce. Bound in full diced calf, rebacked and with the spine laid down. An antholog...

Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray · 1768 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, J. Dodsley, 1768 . Leather. An early example of the collected works of celebrated poet Thomas Gray, published in the same year as the first collected edition of his works. A new edition, published in the same year as the first edition collected edition of Grey's w...

The Works of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson · 0 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Burns and Oats, c1913. Leather. Three volumes of poetry and prose by the English poet Francis Thompson, bound in full tree calf by Riviere. The twelfth thousand to 'Volume I', the eleventh thousand to 'Volume II', and the ninth thousand to 'Vol...

Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1814 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Murray, 1814. Leather. Thomas Campbell's romantic epic poem set in Wyoming, illustrated with a frontispiece. The fifth edition.A collection of poetry by Thomas Campbell, including the romantic epic 'Gertrude of Wyomin...

A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads: Choice Pictures and Choice Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sir Walter Scott; Eliza Cook; Alfred Tennyson; et al. · 1865 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865]. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully colour illustrated collection of poems from noted writers such as Tennyson and Longfellow, with illustrations by Birket Foster and many other talented artists. A very scarce illustrated collection of poem...

Selections from Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne; H. M. Burton [editor] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Algernon Charles Swinburne, edited by H. M. Burton. First edition of this collection. Very scarce work. A collection of the poetry of Algernon Char...