Poesia

Britannia&Apos;S Answer and Other War Poems

Lauchlan Maclean Watt · 1914 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. 1914 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed first edition of Lauchlan MacLean Watt"s evocative early World War One poetry collection, inscribed at Christmas 1914 and held in just two institutional libraries. In the publisher&ap...

The Dream Splendid

John Langdon-Davies · 1917 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, The Pelican Press, 1917. First edition. Paperback. A scarce Pelican Press first edition, written during Langdon-Davies"s undergraduate years at Oxford and published in the shadow of his conscientious objection during the Great War. In the publisher's original pape...

Stuff- and Nonsense: A Book of War Verses

Ian Malcolm · 1919 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Hodder and Stoughton , 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this lively collection of satirical First World War verse by Sir Ian Malcolm, satirising military life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition.A very scarce post-war colle...

Sun Poems and Others

Charles H. Pinnell · 1918 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1918 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed and inscribed copy of this collection of war poetry by Charles H. Pinnell. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endp...

Poems: 1914-1934

G.B. Manwaring · 1934 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.79 | $1,182.43 | ¥188,758)

Southport, Privately Printed for the Author, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce limited edition copy of this collection of poetry by G.B. Manwaring, inscribed by the author, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The very scarce limited first edition of the work, with ...

Starved Rock

Edgar Lee Masters · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A signed and inscribed first edition of this collection of poetry by Edgar Lee Masters, with a letter to Kay Laurel. The first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, with ...

The Georgics of Virgil

William Sotheby · 1800 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, J. Wright, 1800 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of William Sotheby's English language translation of Virgil's agricultural poems, the 'Georgics&apos. The scarce first edition of Virgil's 'Georgics' to be translated by En...

Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London; New York, Macmillan and Co. 1892. Leather. An uncommon, 1892 full calf copy of Arthur Hugh Clough's poetry in handsome full calf. A rebacked, 1892 copy, bound in full calf, with original spine laid down.Decorated with marbled page edges and endpapers, as well as ...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth · 1841 · Rooke Books

£394.00 (€472.27 | $520.53 | ¥83,096)

London, Edward Moxon, 1841-1843. Leather. A smart seven-volume collection of Wordsworth"s Poetical Works, primarily new editions, offering the full range of his Romantic verse in elegant morocco bindings, bound by White of Pall Mall. In a handsome uniform brown morocco binding...

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera Omnia [the Complete Works of Horace]

Horace; Guil Dillenburger [ed.] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

Bonn, Adolf Marcus, 1848. Leather. An 1848 edition of The Complete Works of Horace written in Latin, in a full calf prize binding with gilt decoration.  An 1848 edition of The Complete Works of Horace (Horatii Flacci Opera Omnia) written in Latin, in a full calf prize binding...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper · 1793 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, J. Johnson, 1793. Leather. A scarce early edition of the works of William Cowper, bound in full calf. The fifth edition of the work. Endpapers and blanks renewed, otherwise complete in two volumes. Prior owner's bookplate to front paste down of both volumes. Exten...

Lucretilis

Cory William · 1951 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1951. Cloth. A very scarce limited edition of William Johnson Cory"s Lucretilis, a Latin verse meditation on nature and scholarship. Bound in the original brown quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper boards.A very scarce, limited edition of t...

Lapsus Calami and Other Verses

James Kenneth Stephen · 1918 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Cambridge , Bowes and Bowes, 1918. Leather. A scarce and smart collection of the humorous and satirical poems of James Kenneth Stephen in blue half calf with a frontispiece. A new edition, first published in 1891. In blue half calf with marbled boards. With a frontispiece. Jam...

Poems by Frederick Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter, &C. &C. &C.

Frederick Earl of Carlisle [Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle] · 1807 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London, William Bulmer and Co. 1807 . Leather. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce volume of poetry by Frederick Earl of Carlisle, inscribed to his daughter-in-law, Frances Susan Howard. A signed presentation copy of the 'new edition, with additions' of th...

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Thomas Hutchinson [editor] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1912. Vellum. A smartly bound Oxford edition of this collected poetical works of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an Engl...

The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

William Drummond; William B. Turnbull [editor] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Reeves and Turner, 1890. Cloth. A collection of the poetical works of Scottish writer William Drummond, from the Library of Old Authors series. The Library of Old Authors series. Scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the works of William Drummond, ...

The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats; Francis T. Palgrave · 1907 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Leather. The collected poetical works of John Keats with notes from British critic Francis Turner Palgrave. Golden Treasury Series. The collected poetical works of John Keats, an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets. ...

The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930 . Leather. Beautifully bound in half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, this is a lovely early edition of Robert Bridges' popular long philosophical poem. The second edition of this work, which was first published the year prior.In a half morocco binding...

Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler · 1732 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Dublin, S. Powell; R. Gunne, G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1732. Leather. The first Dublin edition of Samuel Butlers noted satirical poem set during the end of the Interregnum, adorned with fantastic wood engravings and bound in full calf. The first Dublin edition. Illustra...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Sir Walter Scott · 1835 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Charles Tilt, 1835. Leather. The illustrated edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Illustrated edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, illustrated title, and twelve plates. Collated complete. A narrative poem in six cantos wi...