Poesia

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Sir Walter Scott · 1872 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Provost & Co. 1872. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this narrative poem from Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and five photographic plates. Collated complete. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, this narra...

The Golden Treasury

Francis T. Palgrave; Laurence Binyon · 1930 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,552)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1930. Leather. A smartly bound later edition of this popular anthology of English poetry selected by British critic Francis Turner Palgrave. Later edition. A popular anthology of English poetry, excluding the works of all poems by poets still...

Nothing to Wear, and, Two Millions

[William Allen Butler] · 1858 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Manchester; London, David Kelly; Sampson Low, Son, and Co, 1858. First edition. Leather. Two of the brilliant satirical poems of William Allen Butler bound in one volume, both scarce English printings. Two satirical poems by William Allen Butler bound in one volume, containing...

The Poetical Works of James Thomson Illustrated

James Thomson; Charles Cowden Clarke [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, William P. Nimmo, 1869. Cloth. A collection of the poetry of James Thomson, illustrated with lovely colour plates by Kronheim & Co. An early edition of this illustrated work in the publisher's original decorative cloth Cosway binding, with gilt detailing to the sp...

Daphnaida and Other Poems

Edmund Spenser; W. L. Renwick [editor] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,171)

London, The Scholartis Press, 1929. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of poems from early English writer Edmund Spenser, containing his elegy Daphnaida. One of 1660 copies on universal antique laid paper. A collection of poetry containing Spenser's narrative elegy fo...

The Tapestry

Robert Bridges · 1925 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,668)

London, Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Leather. A scarce anthology of poems written in Neo-Miltonic Syllabics by Robert Bridges, a limited edition of only one hundred and fifty copies. The scarce first limited edition, limited to one hundred and fifty unnumbered copie...

Dorothy Q Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother&Apos;S Story of Bunker Hill Battle

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1892 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Gay and Bird, [1892]. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' popular collection of poems, illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle. The first UK edition. From the U.S first issue sheets, with the 'flashed' left unchanged to pp....

The Kaleidoscope: Poems for the People

Sherard Vines · 1920 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, C. W. Daniel Ltd, 1920 . First edition. Paperback. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this early collection of poems from English author and academic Sherard Vines. The very scarce first edition of this work, his second published work dating from his time in Japan...

Love and Loss, or Remembering by Night

Anna de Bary · 1949 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce collection from English poet Anna de Bary. With a loosely inserted letter from the author. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's ori...

The Vale of Lanherne, and Other Poems.

Henry Sewell Stokes · 1836 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green &. Co. 1836 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from Cornish poet, Henry Sewell Stokes. The first edition. Scarce work. Bound in the publisher's cloth. A collection of poetry from Cornish ...

The Paradise of Birds, an Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress

William John Courthope · 1870 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce book of poetry by William John Courthope. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Previous owner's ink inscription to the title pa...

An Essay on Human Life

Thomas Catesby Paget [Thomas Paget, Lord Paget] · 1736 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, J. Witford, 1736 . Unbound. A scarce example of this piracy of the third edition of Thomas Catesby Paget's poetic imitation of the work of Alexander Pope. This third edition is asserted by Foxon to be a piracy, perhaps published later than the stated date.First pu...

An Ode on the Incarnation

T. R. [Jabez Hughes] · 1709 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, H. Hills, 1709 . First edition. Unbound. The very scarce first edition of English translator Jabez Hughes's devotional Christian poem. A very scarce first edition.Including 'The True State of Morality&apos.A devotional poem focused on the Christian doctrine o...

Paradise Regained

John Milton · 1816 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, John Sharpe, 1816. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Milton's poem Paradise Regained, with illustrations. Connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Illustrated with a vignette title pa...

A Legend of Ravenswood; and Other Poems.

Thomas Maude · 1823 · Rooke Books

£194.00 (€232.54 | $256.30 | ¥40,915)

London, Hatchard and Son, 1823 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce, first edition of this collection of poetry from English clergyman and poet, Thomas Maude. The first edition.A very scarce work, bound in the publisher's original paper wraps. A collection of ...

Poems by the Late Rev. Edward Smedley; with a Selection from His Correspondence and a Memoir of His Life

Rev. Edward Smedley · 1837 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Baldwin and Cradock , 1837 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry written by Rev. Edward Smedley, in the original cloth, rebacked. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, rebacked and with a contempor...

Academiae Francofurtanae Ad Viadrum Encaenia Secularia

1706 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

Oxonii, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1706. First edition. Disbound. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry celebrating the University of Frankfur an der Oder. The first edition of this very scarce pamphlet, collecting together poems to celebrate the two-hundredth a...

Cyder, a Poem

[John Philips] · 1708 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, H. Hills, 1708. First edition. Hardback. A charming pastoral poem on cider by John Philips, the first edition published by H. Hills, in a smart modern binding. The first H. Hills edition of this work, published in the same year as the Tonson first edition. 'Cyder&...

The Circus: Or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park.

Joseph Browne · 1709 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, [Henry Hills], 1709 . Paperback. The Henry Hills pirate edition of Joseph Browne's very scarce work of satirical poetry, taking aim at the fashionable elite of London. A piracy of the first edition, published in the same year as the first edition.Identified as the...

Selected Poems

Stephen Spender · 1964 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

New York, Random House, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing series of selected poems from Stephen Spender, with several appearing here for the first time. First edition, first printing. With several appearing here for the first time, and others previously appearing in publi...