Poesia

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 1880 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1880. Leather. Thomas Moore's popular Oriental romance, illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. An illustrated work in a half morocco binding. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout from drawings by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) and engraved by the...

Hark to These Three Talk About Style by Sturge Moore

Sturge Moore · 1915 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London , Elkin Mathews , 1915. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of a prose composition by Sturge Moore. The first edition. A very scarce work of prose composition. Written by Sturge Moore the British author, poet, artist and long time correspondent of W. B...

By-Ways Round Helicon a Kind of Anthology

Iolo A. Williams · 1922 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A practical treatise on Scottish loch fishing. The first edition of this treaties on Scottish Loch-fishing. This is an anthology on fishing. It includes a mix of poetry and prose. It attempts to understand the pleasure of...

The Love Sonnets of Proteus

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · 1881 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , C. Kegan Paul and Co, 1881. First edition. Vellum. A collection of poems narrated by Proteus. The first edition.Handsomely bound in a half vellum binding. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt narrates this collection of poetry from the perspective of Proteus, Greek sea god. This coll...

Twenty-Five Lyrical Poems from the Hand of Richard Church

Richard Church · 1967 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Heinemann, 1967 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited first edition copy of this collection of poetry by Richard Church. First edition of the work, in the publisher's original maroon cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A limited edition, nu...

The Testament of Beauty : A Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,814)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1930 . Vellum. A smart, early edition of Robert Bridges' most successful poetical work. In smart, quarter vellum binding, with marbled boards. An early printing of this poetry book by Robert Bridges, originally published before the author&apos...

Eleven Poetry Collections from the Muses" Library

Robert Herrick; John Donne; William Morris; et al. · 1905 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1905-1911. Cloth. Eleven smart volumes of poetry by notable poets such as Robert Herrick and John Donne, from the Muses' Library series. Eleven volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with gilt detailing to the spines.El...

The Complete Works of C.S. Calverley with a Biographical Notice by Sir Walter J. Sendall

C. S. Calverley; Walter J. Sendall · 1902 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , George Bell and Son , 1902. Leather. A handsomely bound complete works of Charles Stuart Calverley . Handsomely bound in a decorative calf binding. This edition is from 1902. This book celebrates the the life and work of Charles Stuart Calverley a poet of humour and w...

Sabrinae Corolla in Hortulis Regiae Scholae Salopiensis Contexuerunt Tres Viri Floribus Legendis

John Milton; Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; et al. · 1867 · Rooke Books

£73.00 (€87.50 | $96.44 | ¥15,401)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1867. Leather. An eclectic collection of poetry from notable writers, in Latin, Greek, German and Italian, with the English translations. The third edition of this work in a full calf binding, with pictorial gilt of King William's College, Isle of ...

Poãƒâ¨Mes Choisis de Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine · 1946 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, La Bonne Compagnie, 1946. Leather. An illustrated limited edition collection of the poetry of the French writer Paul Verlaine. No. 904 of 1500 numbered limited edition copies, of which this is one of 75 printed on Velin de Rives paper, in a full morocco binding. Bookpla...

Poems

Samuel Rodgers · 1834 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, T. Cadell , 1834 . First edition. Leather. A decorative leather-bound first edition containing the poetry of Samuel Rogers, with illustrated engravings by William Turner. A first edition of the work, with smart, full crushed morocco binding with gilt decorations to the...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell · 1843 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Edward Moxon, 1843. Leather. A sumptuously bound volume of poetry by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, with illustrations from designs by Turner and Harvey. A volume of poetry in a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to the boards, spine and square. All edges gilt....

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, John Murray, 1960. Paperback. The uncorrected proof copy of John Betjeman's touching series of personal autobiographical poems. The uncorrected proof copy.A collection of personal and intimate blank verse poems by the noted Poet Laureate John Betjeman, a collectio...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Frederick Warne and Co , c1900. Leather. The collected poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in one volume bound by Mudie. Dated via Jisc. Reprinted from the revised American Edition. With explanatory notes. The "Imperial" Poets series.Illustrated with six album...

Rabbi Ben Ezra and Other Poems

Robert Browning · 1915 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of poems from Robert Browning. Illustrated with frontispiece and eleven tipped in colour plates, with many in-text images collated complete. A collection of poetry including: Rabbi Ben Ezra, Jame...

Antologia de Poetas Liricos Castellanos

D. Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo · 1916 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

Madrid, Libreria de los Sucesores de Hernando, 1916-1928. Cloth. A comprehensive collection containing a history of Catalan poets, collated by Spanish scholar and historian, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. A fourteen volume set, collated into seven volumes, bound in red cloth. ...

Coila&Apos;S Whispers

Knights of Morar; [Sir William Fraser] · 1869 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1869. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition poetry collection by Sir William Augustus Fraser, illustrated with striking plates by Gustave Dore and George Cruikshank. The scarce first edition.A scarce collection of poet...

The Poems of Giles Fletcher

Giles Fletcher; Rev. Alexander B. Grosart · 1868 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Lancashire, Printed for Private Circulation , 1868. Cloth. A scarce limited edition of this collection of poetry from Giles Fletcher, with a memorial. Limited to one hundred and six copies. Scarce work. A collection of the poetry of Giles Fletcher, an English cleric and poet k...

The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler; George Gilfillan · 1854 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1854. Leather. The complete poetical works of Samuel Butler in uniform charming calf bindings Samuel Butler's poetical works in two volumes. With a biographical sketch and critical and explanatory notes by George Gilfillan. In uniform calf binding...

Poems of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1907 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Henry Frowde, 1907. Vellum. The Oxford Edition of this collection of poetry by Robert Browning. Oxford edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of poetry containing dramatic lyrics, romances, dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve, Easter-Day, Sordello, ...