Poesia

Poems

Lady Margaret Sackville · 1901 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1901. First edition. Hardback. A scarce first edition copy of Lady Margaret's second book of poetry. The scarce first edition of this work in the original paper boards. Lady Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) was an English poet, children&a...

New Verse Written in 1921; Three Friends: Memoirs of Digby Mackworth Dolben, Richard Watson Dixon, Henry Bradley

Robert Bridges · 1925 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford; London, Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1925-1932. First edition. Hardback. A poetry anthology and collection of memoirs by Robert Bridges, who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. The first editions of these two works uniformly bound in the publisher's ...

Dana Oisein Mhic Fhinn, Air an Cur Amach Airson Maith Coitcheannta Muinntir Na Gaeltachd

Ossian [James Macpherson] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Duneidin, Tearlach Stiubhart, 1818. Leather. A copy of the cycle of epic poems of Ossian, in the original Scottish Gaelic. In the original Scottish Gaelic. A cycle of epic poems narrated by Ossian, renowned for being 'translated' by James Macpherson, a Scottish write...

The Odes of Anacreon

Anacreon; Thomas Girdlestone · 1804 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Yarmouth, John Beart; B. Crosby, 1804. Leather. A translation of the odes of Ancient Greek lyric poet Anacreon, translated here by the physician Thomas Girdlestone. The second edition of Thomas Girdlestone's translation. A collection of the odes of Ancient Greek lyric po...

Highland Songs of the Forty-Five

John Lorne Campbell · 1933 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of Gaelic song-poems, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. With a folding map to the ...

The Shipwreck: A Poem

William Falconer; Robert Carruthers · 1868 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, T. Nelson and Sons , 1868 . Leather. A very smart copy of William Falconer's poem, The Shipwreck, in a lovely, full calf prize binding. Rebound in a smart, full calf, prize winner binding, with a gilt motif of Forest School to the front cover. This work is compris...

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier with Notes, Index of First Lines and Chronological List

John Greenleaf Whittier; W Garrett Horder · 1904 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Henry Frowde, 1904. Leather. A very smart edition of the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier. With a portrait frontispiece. The poetical works of American Quaker poet and advocate for the abolition of slavery, John Greenleaf Whittier, listed as one of the Fireside poets ...

The Golden Legend

H. W. Longfellow · 1910 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of the poem The Golden Legend by Longfellow, with many coloured plates. Illustrated with twenty-five tipped-in colour chromolithographs with tissue guards. Collated complete. An epic narrative poem ab...

Conversation at Midnight

Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1937 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Millay's long verse poem Conversations At Midnight, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. A long verse poem passionately searching for new gods to replace t...

The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose

John Milton · 1851 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.59 | $2,378.05 | ¥379,744)

London, William Pickering, 1851 . Leather. A very smart collection of John Milton's poetry and prose, complete in eight volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco. A very smart set, uniformly bound in full red morocco prize binding, with gilt detailing and motif of Trin...

The Huntress Hag of the Blackwater, a Mediaeval Romance

Sir Harold Boulton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Philip Allan & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work of poetry by baronet, philanthropist and lyricist Sir Harold Boulton. The scarce first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper....

A Handefull of Pleasant Delites

Clement Robinson and Divers Others · 1926 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, T. Werner Laurie LTD, 1926 . Cloth. A charming reprint of this poetical work by Clement Robinson, from his 1584 collection. In the publisher's smart quarter cloth binding with red paper covered boards. In the original, price-clipped dust wrapper.A facsimile of the...

The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton; Rev. H. C. Beeching [ed.] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1900. Leather. A comprehensive anthology of the poetical works of John Milton, edited by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, in a signed Mudie binding. A poetry anthology in a half calf binding with marbled boards, end papers and edges. Binder's stamp of...

Poems of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Eton, The Eton College Press, 1894. Leather. A collection of poems by Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College prizewinner binding. In attractive full calf binding, with intricate gilt detailing and gilt to the fore edge. With a binders signature of R. Ingalton Drake ...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper with Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes; Alexander Pope

William Cowper; Charles Cowden Clarke [editor]; Alexander Pope · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1872. Cloth. A complete two volume set of this collection of poetry from William Cowper and Alexander Pope, with a biographical sketch of the authors. Complete in two volumes. Scarce set. With a collection of poetry from William Cowper, an...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1820 · Rooke Books

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

London, Arch. Constable and Co. 1820. Leather. A finely bound set of the poetry of Sir Walter Scott, being the first collected edition of the works. The first collected edition of his works. Complete in twelve volumes. With a frontispiece portrait to volume one after Raeburn.S...

A Poem on the Last Day. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion

Edward Young · 1713 · Rooke Books

£585.00 (€701.22 | $772.87 | ¥123,417)

Oxford; London, Edward Whistler; J. Tonson, 1713-28. Leather. A smartly bound volume of two second edition poems by Edward Young, early examples of his popular poetry. Two second edition poetical works by Edward Young bound in one volume.'A Poem on the Last Day', pub...

Visions of the Western Railways

R.E.A. Townsend [Richard Edward Austin Townsend] · 1838 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Samuel Bagster [Printed for Private Circulation], 1838 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce privately circulated volume of poetry by Richard Edward Austin Townsend. A lovely copy of this very scarce privately published collection of poems, de...

Wishes to a Godson with Other Miscellany Poems

Bernard Mandeville · 1975 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Exeter, The Rota, 1975. Paperback. Scarce facsimile edition of Bernard Mandeville's 1712 anthology of poems. Facsimile edition, originally published in 1712. Anthology of verse by Bernard Mandeville with introductory bibliographical note. Including 'Wishes to a Godso...

Satires, and Other Poems

Joseph Hall · 1838 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, G. Willis, 1838. Cloth. A scarce edition of the satires of Joseph Hall, explemlifying his popular style of the Elizabethan and Stuart eras. A scarce edition of the collected poetical satires of Joseph Hall.Hall was a noted bishop and moralist of the sixteenth and seven...