Poesia

The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple Parts I and II

William Cowper · 1818 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, John Sharpe, 1818. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of poems by Cowper. William Cowper (1731 – 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of eve...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper.

William Cowper · 1855 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, George Routledge. 1855. Leather. An illustrated collection of poetry and translations from a forerunner of the Romantics, William Cowper. Engraved illustrated frontispiece portrait of William Cowper with illustrations throughout. Introductory picture-sketch of his life...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott; J Logie Robertson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£17.99 (€21.56 | $23.77 | ¥3,795)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1921. Leather. A complete collection of Sir Walter Scott's poems and fragments of verses. Illustrated frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout Europe...

Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott · 1877 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1877. Leather. The poetical anthology from Walter Scott with tipped in plates. Featuring six of the original tipped-in Photographs, including a frontispiece of Scott. In a full morocco binding. Externally, a little rubbed to the spine and boards....

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Charles Kent · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, George Routledge, c1879. Leather. A hardback copy of Moore's Poetical Works, edited by Charles Kent. Irish poet, Thomas Moore, moved up the ranks of society after moving to London to study law. He became famous for his ballads, melodies and poems, and set about wr...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

William Michael Rossetti (Ed) · 1779 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1880. Leather. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore edited with a critical memoir by William Michael Rossetti and illustrated by Thomas Seccombe. From Moxon's Popular Poets series. With decorative colour border to each page of text and numerous i...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1868 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1868. Leather. An illustrated edition of the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world ...

The Exodiad: A Poem

Richard Cumberland; Sir James Bland Burges · 1807 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Lackington, Allen and Co. 1807. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this collaborative epic poem from Richard Cumberland and Sir James Bland Burges. Richard Cumberland (19 February 1732 7 May 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant. His plays a...

The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow with a Portrait of the Author

Henry W. Longfellow · 1856 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1856-63. Leather. The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow with a portrait of the author to frontispiece to volume one. Published by Tauchnitz under the title The Collection of British Authors The first two volumes were published in 1856 as volumes...

Real Sailor-Songs

John Ashton · 1891 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1891. Vellum. A collection of nautical songs and poems, collected by John Ashton. With two hundred woodcut illustrations throughout. Including sections on Sea Fight, Press-gang, Disaster, Ashore and Love. Including poems entitled The Battle of Tra...

Gilbert; or, the Young Carrier. An Amatory Rural Poem, in Four Books.

James Templeman · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, H. D. Symonds, 1808. First edition. Leather. A first edition of a scarce rural poem, illustrated with plates and a fold-out map. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration. With two engraved plates, and a fold-out map. The fold-out map is missing the top third...

Atalanta in Calydon: And Lyrical Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1901 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1901. Leather. A selection of the poetry of Swinburne, from the Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors. Copyright edition. Selected, with an introduction, by William Sharp. In a quarter-morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just some slight rub...

Catalogue of the Herald&Apos;S Visitations; with References to Many Other Valuable Genealogical and Topographical Manuscripts in the British Museum

Anon · 1825 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, James Taylor, 1825. Leather. An extremely scare genealogical reference book organised by area. Second Edition. Armorial bookplate of Henry Thomas Ellacombe to front pastedown. In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally sound although rubbed. Internally, fir...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 0 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, c1907. Leather. An affordable copy of Scott's poetical works in a smart binding. With a prize presentation plate to the front pastedown from Carmarthen Grammar School. Undated, dated from Copac. With a James Galt & Co. binders label to the ...

The Pleasures of Hope

Thomas Campbell · 1825 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Leather. A decorative early nineteenth century copy of Thomas Campbell's famous Pleasures of Hope with three beautiful engraved plates. With three engraved plates and an additional engraved title page. In a very ...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. In Two Volumes Bound As One

Thomas Campbell · 1833 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.83 | $158.52 | ¥25,314)

London, Effingham Wilson, 1833. Leather. The works of this Scottish sentimental poet, in a decorative fine binding. New Edition. Featuring seven engravings by Richard Westall, RA, and a portrait frontispiece. With an ink inscription to the front blank reading: 'A Birthday...

Personal Collection of Poetry and Drawings. By Various

Various · 1908 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Unknown, Unknown, 1908-1931. Leather. A charming personal collection of poetry and sketches from the early 20th century. Contains 24 handwritten poems or riddles, apparently original, dated between 1908 and 1931. Also with 8 drawings, some appear to be copied from other works,...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem and Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

Sir Walter Scott · 1805 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London and Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Ballantyne, 1805. Leather. The Second Edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem bound with the First Edition of his Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Bound without half titles and advertisments. From the library of the Ti...

Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive and Narrative Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to the Present Day

John Johnstone (Editor) · 1828 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1828. Leather. A pocket sized poetical anthology. With an illustrated frontispiece and a vignette title page. Edited and with both critical and biographical notes by John Johnstone. With poetry from Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sydney, S...

Poems of Owen Meredith (the Earl of Lytton).

Owen Meredith · 1897 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Walter Scott, 1897. Leather. Selected poems from Owen Meredith, in a personalised Hatchard's binding. Owen Meredith was the pen name of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the 1st Earl of Lytton. He published his his first volume of poems at the age of twenty five and went on t...