Poesia

Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke and a Little Lord

Peter Pindar [John Wolcot] · 1789 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, G. Kearsley, 1789. Disbound. A scarce new edition of this satirical work by Peter Pindar, the pen name of John Wolcot. New edition, printed the same year as the first edition. Scarce work. A very popular anti-royalist satire in verse. Written by John Wolcot under the p...

A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister; Also an Imitation of the Twelfth Ode of Horace

Peter Pindar [John Wolcot] · 1789 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, G. Kearsley, 1789. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce new edition of this work by Peter Pindar, the pen name of John Wolcot. Scarce work. New edition. Two humorous verses A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister, and an Imitation of the Twelfth Ode of Horace which is in the o...

The Scottish Fuzileers. To Which Are Added the Galley Slave. Said a Smile to a Tear - Amo Amas. And. The Forty Thieves.

Royal Scots Fusiliers · 1810 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Stirling, 1810. Paperback. A very scarce pamphlet of poetry from the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Scarce work. Dated from the British Library. A collection of verses from the Royal Scots Fusiliers. The Royal Scots Fusiliers were a line infantry regiment of the British Army f...

Lachrymae Musarum

William Watson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Printed for Private Distribution, 1892. Paperback. A limited edition copy of William Watson's poetical eulogy of Alfred Tennyson. A limited edition copy of William Watson's eulogy of Alfred Tennyson. With frontispiece. Only 100 copies of this privately printe...

The Talking Pine

George Moore · 1931 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, The Hours Press, 1931. Paperback. A limited edition copy of George Moore's later poem, The Talking Pine. Printed on Maillol paper. A limited edition copy of George Moore's later poem, The Talking Pine. The present copy is number 348 of 500 printed on Maillol p...

Oeuvres de Sully Prudhomme. Vol IV: Poesies 1878-1879

Sully Prudhomme · 1925 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1925. Leather. A leather bound copy of Sully Prudhomme's translation of De Rerum Natura. A leather bound copy of Volume IV from the collected works of Sully Prudhomme. Published in French. The French poet and essayist René François Armand '...

Casa Vazia

Silva Tavares · 1946 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Lisboa , Not Stated , 1946. Leather. A scarce limited edition of Silva Tavares's anthology of verses, signed by the author. An anthology of Portuguese poems from Silva Tavares, in three parts: 'Regresso' ('Return'); Destrocos de Naufragio ('Shipwr...

The Song of Songs: A Lyrical Folk-Play of the Ancient Hebrews Arranged in VII Scenes

Francis Coutts · 1906 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming folk-play from Francis Coutts, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. A lyrical folk-play following the Song of Songs...

Poems on Several Occasions

Thomas Blacklock · 1754 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Edinburgh, Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1754. Leather. A scarce collection of the poetry of Thomas Blacklock, the second edition. The second edition of this scarce work.ESTC citation number T125915.The collected poetical works of Thomas Blacklock.Blacklock was a Scottish poet ...

The Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott · 1870 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1870. Cloth. A strikingly illustrated edition of Walter Scott's popular poem, complete with mounted albumen print plates. 'The Lady of the Lake' is a narrative poem set in Scotland. It tells about the love rivalry between three...

Poems

Samuel Rogers; Samuel Sharpe · 1860 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Edward Moxon, 1860. Cloth. An attractively bound copy of poetry by Romantic writer Samuel Roger. An illustrated collection by Romantic poet Samuel Rogers. Although Rogers was highly celebrated in his own life time, his fame has since been eclipsed by his friends Willia...

The Minstrel

James Beattie · 1858 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, George Routledge & Co. 1858. Cloth. A lovely copy of Beattie's poem The Minstrel; the first edition to be illustrated with designs by Birket Foster. An illustrated work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with blind-stamping and gilt decorati...

Red Cotton Night-Cap Country or Turf and Towers

Robert Browning · 1873 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Smith, Elder & Co. 1873. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Red Cotton Night-Cap Country or Turf and Towers by Robert Browning. A first edition copy. The poem was first published in 1873 by Smith Elder and Co, but they did not need to reprint it until 1889 ...

A Song of Italy

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1867 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , John Camden Hotten, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of A Song of Italy by Algernon Charles Swinburne. A first edition copy. In the blue remainder binding.  Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. His poems oft...

Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies

Alfred Lord Tennyson; Ben Jonson; Charles Dickens; Robert Herrick; Max Crombie [ed.]; et al. · 1944 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Northwood, Knights Press, 1944-1946. Leather. An unusual collection of the illustrated Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, with poems and prose from Lord Tennyson, Ben Jonson and Charles Dickens, among others. A very scarce collection of twelve volumes in one work, in a full c...

Thomas Watson&Apos;S Latin Amyntas (1585); Abraham Fraunce&Apos;S Translation the Lamentations of Amyntas (1587)

Thomas Watson; Walter F. Staton [ed.]; Abraham Fraunce; Franklin M. Dickey [ed.] · 1967 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of the pastoral poem The Lamentations of Amyntas by Thomas Watson, translated by Abraham Fraunce. The first edition of this reprint of the original 1585 and 1587 works in the publis...

The Gneditch Century

1985 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)

London, The Arts Club, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, privately printed copy of The Gneditch Century. Signed by the members. A scarce limited edition copy of this work. Privately printed for The Arts Club, with this copy numbered 21.  This volume contains one hundred...

Fleet Poetry Broadsheet

Variou · 1945 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Ceylon, The Times of Ceylon, 1945. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce pamphlet of poetry. A scarce pamphlet of poetry.All the poems in the broadsheet are original contribution by Naval personnel serving on the East Indies Station. This broadsheet is from February 1945.Some of the poe...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper; Robert Aris Willmott · 1863 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London and New York, Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863 . Leather. An early edition of this collection of poetry by William Cowper with illustrations by Birket Foster. A new edition of The Poetical Works of William Cowper in full morocco binding. Edited by the Rev. Robert A...

The Buccaneer and Other Poems

Richard Henry Dana · 1844 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, H. G. Clarke and Co. 1844 . First edition. Hardback. The scarce first edition of this collection of poetry by American writer Richard Henry Dana. First edition of The Buccaneer and Other Poems by Richard Henry Dana, rebound in marbled paper covered boards. A scarce wo...