Poesia

La Lyre Francaise

Gustave Masson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1903. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of this French poetry anthology, compiled by English-born educational writer, George Masson A later edition of this collection. From the publisher's Golden Treasury Series. In full signed crushed...

Whistle-Binkie, or, the Piper of the Party

Various · 1878 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Glasgow, David Robertson & Co, 1878. Leather. A limited large paper edition of this anthology of popular Scottish poetry. A limited edition of two hundred unnumbered large paper copies.Complete in two volumes.An extensive anthology of brilliant Scottish poetry, with examples o...

Premieres Poesies 1829-1835

Alfred De Musset · 1906 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Paris , Eugene Fasquelle, 1906. Leather. A miniature edition of the poems of Alfred De Musset, written in French and bound in crushed quarter morocco. A miniature edition. Bound in crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards. Illustrated with an engraved monochr...

The Triumph of Drake; or, the Dawn of England&Apos;S Naval Power

R. Grymbald Bigsby · 1839 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London; Nottingham, Hamilton, Adams, and Co; C. Tilt, 1839. First edition. Leather. A very scarce poem by R. Grymbald Bigsby celebrating the triumphs of Francis Drake, the first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.A poem lauding the triumphs of Francis Drake, a...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Barnes' third collection of poems written in the Dorset dialect. The first edition of the third collection. In the publisher's original cloth binding.William Barnes wan English poly...

A Handful of Leather

Will H. Ogilvie · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of equine poems, illustrated with bright tipped in colour plates from Lionel Edwards. First edition. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A charmin...

The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, with colour illustrations from Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys. This work is comprised of poetry by novelist and poet, Oliver Goldsmith, who is best kn...

For Philip... From Philip: Eulogies for Philip Oxman

Andrzej Wirth; Marthe Robert; Flint Schier; Jean Nicole; et al. · 1984 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Not Stated, Privately printed, 1984. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A moving collection of eulogies for the author Philip Oxman by a variety of renowned intellectuals, with a photograph of Oxman. The first edition of this very scarce work in the original paper wraps.Loosely...

The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Poet Laureate

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1886 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Macmillan and Co, Ltd, 1886. Leather. A complete collection of works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, bound in full morocco. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece by G. J. Stodart and twelve monochrome plates. Bound in full morocco. This volume features the complete poe...

Four Gardens

David Osborne Hamilton · 1920 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New Haven , Yale University Press, 1920. First edition. Hardback. // The first edition.In the original card covers, with an illustrated dust wrapper, of which the spine is secured.This work contains the poems of David Osborne Hamilton, who edited the Yale Literary Magazine and...

Lyric Masterpieces by Living Authors

Adam L. Gowans [ed]; Rudyard Kipling; W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Gowans and Grey Ltd, 1911. Paperback. A charming pocket sized collection of lyrical poetry from celebrated poets such as Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats, in the original dust wrapper and with the original, vanishingly scarce glassine dust wrapper. The second edition, s...

The Poetical Works of Akenside, Shakespeare, Shenstone, & Waller

Mark Akenside; William Shakespeare; William Shenstone; Edmund Waller · 1797 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, C. Cooke, c1795-1797. Leather. Four Cooke's edition collections of poetry from important British writers, with a life of the author to each volume. Four volumes. Cooke's edition. This set contains: The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside: with the Life of the Aut...

Don Juan. Cantos I to VI.

Lord Byron · 1828 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Printed for the Booksellers, 1828 . Hardback. An early edition of Cantos I to VI of Lord Byron's famous epic poem, Don Juan. An early edition. Originally published between 1819 and 1824. Bound in the publisher's original boards, with cloth reinforcements. Th...

A Country Guide

John Samuel Tunnard · 0 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1930. Cloth. A very scarce volume of fourteen nature-themed poems, written and illustrated by John Samuel Tunnard. A very scarce work, containing a total of fourteen poems in a series titled 'A Country Guide', by John Samuel Tunnard. This ser...

The Burning-Glass and Other Poems

Walter De La Mare · 1945 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Faber and Faber, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming collection of poetry from English writer Walter de la Mare. First edition. A collection of poetry, including titles such as: A Portrait, In the Local Museum, The Rapids, A Dull Boy, and...

Eloisa En Dishabille Being a New Version of That Lady&Apos;S Celebrated Epistle to Abelard. Ascribed to Professor Porson

[John Matthews] · 1822 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, W. Hughes, 1822 . First edition. Leather. An exceptionally scarce, first edition of John Matthew's parody of Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard", from a limited print run of only 50 copies. The first edition, limited to fifty copies. Bound in quarter ca...

Walk from the House

Peter Dale · 1962 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Oxford, Fantasy Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this scarce collection of poems by Peter Dale, from the library of Brian Aldiss. The first edition of this scarce work.The second published anthology of poems by Peter Dale, collecting a total of thirt...

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

Richard Morris · 1864 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Trubner & Co, 1864. Cloth. The second edition of this unique collection of 14th century alliterative poetry. The second edition, revised.Rebound in full green cloth with renewed endpapers. This work contains early English alliterative poetry, specifically using the We...

Songs Before Sunrise

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1896 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1896. Cloth. A smart new edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Algernon Charles Swinburne. New edition. Scarce. A collection of poems relating to Italy, and particularly its unification, dedicated to Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini,...

The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh: A Historical Edition

Michael Rudick [edited] · 1999 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Tempe, Arizona , Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Renaissance English Text Society , 1999. Cloth. An uncommon historical edition containing the poems attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh. A very smart historical edition of this collection of poems from Sir Walte...