Poesia

Sybelle&Apos;S Dream: And Other Poems on Pictures

Agnes R. Howell · 1874 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

Norwich, Fletcher and Son, [1874]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Agnes Rous Howell, with a signed letter from the author. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty monochrome plates. Collated...

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

Thomas Hardy · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of Thomas Hardy's posthumously published, final collection of poetry, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. A posthumously pub...

Four Poems from "Zion&Apos;S Flowers;" or, "Christian Poems for Spiritual Edification

Mr. Zacharie Boyd; Gabriel Neil [ed.] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Glasgow , George Richardson , 1855. First edition. Cloth. An extract of poems from 'Zion's Flowers', one of the many manuscripts left by Zacharie Boyd at Glasgow University Library.  The first edition, limited to four hundred copies. In a pleasing full red clo...

The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.30 | ¥92,797)

New York, Macmillan and Co, 1895. Cloth. A limited edition set of the collected works of Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Complete in ten volumes.A very scarce limited edition, limited to one hundred and fifty sets, signed by the publisher to the verso of the title page of ...

Tiresias and Other Poems

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1885 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,661)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lesser known anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first edition, first issue, without the printer's name to the final page. An anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, including...

The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations; the Synagogue, or the Shadow of the Temple

George Herbert; Christopher Harvey · 1647 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

London, T. R. for Philemon Stephens, 1647-1656 . Leather. The very scarce seventh edition of George Herbert's 'The Temple', bound with the second edition of Harvey's imitation of Herbert's work. These works are very scarce in editions this early.Presen...

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1864 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's mid nineteenth century narrative poem, published during his tenure as Poet Laureate. The first edition of this work, second issue, with advertisements dated September 1864...

The Works of George Eliot (the Hawarden Press Edition de Luxe)

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, The Hawarden Press, 1899. Cloth. A complete set of the works of leading Victorian writer, George Eliot, being a limited Edition de Luxe with illustrations. The Hawarden Press Edition de Luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies, of which is number 391. Complete in twenty v...

Vega and Other Poems

Lawrence Durrell · 1973 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London , Faber and Faber , 1973. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce review paperback copy of Lawrence Durrell's poetry collection. A very scarce review copy of the first edition. With the publisher's review slip tipped in. A booklet held within the publisher&ap...

The Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson · 1872 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Strahan and Co. Publishers, 1872-1873. Cloth. A smart copy of the collected poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Complete in six volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. The collected works of the famous English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, an English poet...

The Moral Fables of Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson; David Irving, LL.D [ed.] · 1832 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

Edinburgh, Maitland Club, 1832 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce Maitland Club edition of the moral fables of Middle Scots poet Robert Henryson. A very scarce edition of this work, one of only sixty-eight copies printed.Henryson offered a distinctive voice in the Norther...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith · 1914 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1914. Cloth. Oliver Goldsmith's popular novel about a Vicar and his family, beautifully illustrated throughout by Edmund J. Sullivan. An illustrated edition. First published in 1766. Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan with a colour front...

Poems 1656

Abraham Cowley · 1971 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Yorkshire, Scolar Press, 1971. Cloth. A facsimile edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Abraham Cowley. Facsimile edition. A collection of poetry from Abraham Cowley, an English poet and essayist who was one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth ce...

What Is Poetry?

Edmond Holmes · 1900 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, John Lane , 1900 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce work exploring the nature of poetry, written by Irish educationalist and poet, Edmond Holmes. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Very scarce work. Written by Irish educationalist and author, Ed...

Of Benevolence: An Epistle to Eumenes.

[John Armstrong] · 1751 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, A. Millar, 1751 . First edition. Disbound. A vanishingly scarce, first edition of this epistle to the Greek general, Eumenes, a poetical work attributed to Scottish poet and satirist, John Armstrong. The first and only edition of the work. Very scarce. Collated, comple...

Hogarth Living Poets: No. 8, Cambridge Poetry, 1929

Various; Christopher Saltmarshe [ed.]; John Davenport [ed.]; Basil Wright [ed.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,425)

London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition. Hardback. A first edition, first impression of No. 8 of Hogarth's Cambridge Poetry series, with contributions by Julian Bell, William Empson, Richard Eberhart, John Lehmann and Michael Redgrave. T...

Poems by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1887 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Chiswick Press, 1887. Leather. An attractive collection of Thomas Gray's poetry, in full polished calf Eton prize binding by Riviere and Son. An Eton College prize copy of this poetry collection from Thomas Gray. Bound in signed full armorial calf by Riviere and ...

Arms and the Man. A New Ballad.

1746 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, L. Raymond, 1746 . First edition. Disbound. A very scarce poem surrounding the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the first and only edition of the work. The first and only edition. Vanishingly scarce. Disbound. 'Arms and the Man' is a long, satirical poem surroundi...

The Delights of the Bottle: Or, the Compleat Vintner

Edward Ward · 1720 · Rooke Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.28 | $3,633.15 | ¥579,983)

London, W. Downing, 1720 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of Edward Ward's 'merry poem' about a London tavern and its patrons. Lacking the engraved frontispiece. The very scarce first edition.Lacking the frontispiece.Signatures: A-G4. Te...

Poems on Several Occasions

Elizabeth Carter · 1766 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, John Rivington, 1766 . Paperback. The second edition of Bluestocking Circle writer, poet, classicist and translator Elizabeth Carter's collection of poems. The very scarce second edition of this work, first published in 1762, and scarce in all contemporary edition...