Poesia

The Charms of Liberty to Which Is Added Epigrams Poems and Satyrs

William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire · 1709 · Rooke Books

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

London, Henry Hills, 1709. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce pirated edition of William Cavendish's poem, 'The Charms of Liberty&apos. With several pieces by Tom Brown, one poem by the Earl of Rochester, one by a 'Mr Burnaby', one by Edward Ward and s...

St Paul&Apos;S Church or the Protestant Ambulators a Burlesque Poem

Edward Ward · 1716 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, John Morphew, 1716. First edition. Disbound. The first edition of Edward Ward's poem providing a commentary on his views regarding the Protestant church and their occupation of St.Paul's cathedral. The first edition of the work. A 47 page copy of this work wa...

Ode to Mazzini the Saviour of Society Liberty and Loyalty

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1913 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1913. Vellum. A vellum limited edition copy of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne One of four hundred and seventy seven copies. Algernon Charles Swinburne was a poet playwright and novelist. This work is comprised of work discovered among t...

The Evans Country

Kingsley Amis · 1962 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Oxford, Fantasy Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. The uncommon first edition of this collection of poems by Kingsley Amis. An uncommon copy of this collection of six poems. With the personal bookplate of noted Maltese author and biographer Peter Apap Bologna. Bologna is p...

Rhymes for the Irreverent

E Y Harburg · 1965 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

New York, Grossman Publishers, 1965. First edition. Hardback. A signed, first edition of this collection of rhymes. Signed by the author to the half title page, with his name 'E Y Harburg&apos. Gift inscription to the recto of front endpaper from two individuals who were ...

Oeuvred de Leconte de Lisle Poems Barbares

Leconte De Lisle · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Alphonse de Lemerre, 1925. Leather. A collection of poetry by Leconte de Lisle, a French Parnassian poet. The Parnassian movement occured after Romanticism and prior to symbolism. It began during the 19th century positivist period. Stylistically, the Parnassians used ex...

The Eve of St. Agnes

John Keats · 1856 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Joseph Cundall, 1856. Leather. A charming morocco-bound copy of John Keat's poem, 'Eve of St. Agnes', beautifully illustrated throughout by Edward H. Wehnert. The scarce first Wehnert illustrated edition of this poem.In the publisher's blind-stamped...

The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber · 1841 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, John Murray, 1841. First edition. Leather. A delightful full-calf first edition of the poetry and hymns of Reginald Heber. First edition.In full blind-stamped calf binding with marbled endpapers.Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author.Lovely contemporary inscri...

Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold (Golden Treasury Series)

Matthew Arnold · 1898 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1898. Leather. An attractively bound example of Matthew Arnold's 'Selected Poems', in a desirable period binding by Ramage, London. A carefully selected collection of poems from Matthew Arnold, issued for the 'Golden Trea...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth · 1890 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Henry Frowde, 1890 . Leather. A smart leather-bound copy of beloved romantic poet William Wordsworth's complete poetical works, in half morocco. A collection of the complete poetical works of William Wordsworth, with a memoir and publisher's preface. Compris...

Poems

Samuel Rogers · 1842 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Edward Moxon, 1842 . Leather. An early edition of this collection of poems by Samuel Rogers in a decorative full calf binding with illustrations. An early edition of Poems by Samuel Rogers in a full calf binding. Illustrated throughout the text with engravings and a m...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell

Thomas Parnell · 1833 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, William Pickering , 1833 . Leather. A collection of poetry by Anglo-Irish poet Thomas Parnell, in a full morocco binding. The Aldine edition. In a full red morocco binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of poems by Thomas Parnell, an Anglo-Irish poet a...

Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems

Rupert Brooke; Edward Marsh · 1966 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1966 . Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poems by war poet Rupert Brooke, with a memoir by Edward Marsh. A later edition, first published in 1918.In a half navy morocco binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and a plate.A collecti...

2 Vols in 1 Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica Et Georgica. Tabulis Aeneis Olim a Johanne Pine Sculptore Regio Defuncto Illustrata. Opus Paternum in Lucem Profert Robertus Edge Pine.

Virgil · 1774 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Robert Edge Pine, 1774. Leather. An important companion to Pine"s celebrated Horace, this Virgil represents the continuation of one of the most ambitious engraving projects of the period; this copy previously owned by novelist Donna R Cole. In a full contemporary calf ...

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers

Robert Herrick; Alfred Pollard [ed]; A. C. Swinburne · 1891 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London, Lawrence & Buller, 1891 . Leather. A smart complete two volume set of this limited edition collection of lyrical poetry by seventeenth century poet Robert Herrick. Complete in two volumes.Limited edition copies, being number 89/200 large paper copies printed. Bound in...

The Poetical Works of John Gay

John Gay; John Underhill [ed.] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893 . Leather. A smartly bound complete two volume set of this limited edition collection of poetry by John Gay. Complete in two volumes. Limited to two hundred copies on large paper, of which this is No.75.In a smart half brown calf binding. Illu...

Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, in Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657

L. I. Guiney · 1907 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Hull, J. R. Tutin, 1907. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this lovely collection of the poetry of Metaphysical poet Thomas Stanley, compiled by Louise Imogen Guiney, in the original glassine wrap. First edition.In publisher's original red cloth binding. With the ori...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey · 1847 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847. Leather. The complete poetical works of Robert Southey, in ten volumes. With a frontispiece and engraved title page to each volume. Collated, complete. From the library of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax. The bookplate ...

Ballads and Poems a Reading of Earth and Modern Love; a Reprint to Which Is Added the Sage Enamoured and the Honest Lady

George Meredith · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1887-1892. Cloth. A uniformly bound collection of poetical anthologies from prolific Victorian poet George Meredith. A collection of work by the poet George Meredith. Both Ballads and Poems and A Reading of Earth are first editions. Modern Love is a c...

The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill in Three Volumes

Charles Churchill · 1844 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , William Pickering, 1844. Leather. An attractive set of The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill with copious notes and a life of the author by W. Tooke. rom The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Complete in three volumes. There is an engraved portrait of Charles Chu...