Poesia

Needwood Forest

Francis Noel Clarke Mundy · 1776 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

Lichfield, John Jackson, 1776. Leather. The very scarce, privately issued first edition of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy's poem, Needwood Forest. The text finishes on page 48 though this seems to have always been the case for this printing. This appears to be an alternate and...

Poems by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

Eton, Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1937. Vellum. A collection of the poetry of Thomas Gray, privately printed by Eton College. Including a leaving gift dedication page. With many of Gray's famous odes, epitaphs, and elegies. In a vellum binding with...

The Pleasures of Imagination

Mark Akenside · 1803 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1803. Leather. An illustrated copy of The Pleasures of Imagination by Mark Akenside. With three engraved plates, a frontispiece and a critical essay by Anna Barbauld. Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician. In this, his most famous work,...

The Poetry of the Period

Alfred Austin · 1870 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Richard Bentley, 1870. Leather. A critique of many of the most popular poets, in a leather binding. Featuring poets including Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold and many others. Alfred Austin, born in 1835 who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. In a Bickers binding, with bi...

Collected Poems

Austin Dobson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. 1897. Leather. A collection of the poetry of Austin Dobson, with a illustrated frontispiece. With portrait frontispiece. Containing a letter tracing the history of this volume from its first presentation to Sir Alfred Bateman by the ...

The Seasons

James Thomson · 1840 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, John Sharpe, 1840. Leather. A pocket sized edition of James Thomson's poem, 'The Seasons&apos. With an engraved title page and four engraved plates, one for each season. 'The Seasons' is a cycle of four poems which proved to be incredibly influentia...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Frowde · 1893 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Henry Frowde, 1893. Leather. The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In an attractive tree calf binding with gilt stamped detailing to the spines. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He is classed among one of the five Fires...

The Testament of Beauty

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930. Leather. A beautiful copy of Robert Bridges' popular poem, 'The Testament of Beauty&apos. With a photographic frontispiece of Bridges. This work conveys Bridges' use of 'neo-miltonic syllabics' where the poem is based on ...

Poems

Charles Kingsley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. Leather. A collection of poetry and sermons, written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England. Kingsley was a notable social reformer, university professor, historian and novelist. He was a friend and correspondent wit...

Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 1842 · Rooke Books

£38.99 (€46.74 | $51.51 | ¥8,226)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842. Leather. Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore, first published in 1817. With an illustrated half title. A new edition. The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the daughter of the Mughal ...

Borland Hall and Olrig Grange

Hermann Kunst · 1872 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1872-74. Fine Binding. Two beautifully bound volumes of poetry by Hermann Kunst, from the library of Sir Charles Tennant in a signed binding. Hermann Kunst is a pseudonym for Walter Charles Smith, a hymnist, poet and minister of the Free Church of Sco...

The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque a Poem

William Combe · 1820 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, R. Ackerman, 1820. Leather. A lavishly illustrated edition of William Combe's Doctor Syntax. Fourth edition, with new plates. Illustrated throughout with thirty-one hand-coloured plates. From 1809 to 1811 Combe wrote for Ackermann's Poetical Magazine the famo...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1831 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1831. Leather. A nicely bound collection of poetry by Sir Walter Scott, illustrated with a frontispiece. A collection of poetry by Walter Scott, including 'The Lady of the Lake', 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel', 'Rokeby'...

A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

Edited by Charles Mackay · 1890 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Leather. A collection of poetry by English authors, selected by Charles Mackay. Including an engraved frontispiece. Lacking title page. With works from Chaucer, Milton, Hood, and many others. Bound by Bickers and Son (binder's ink ...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1887 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Chiswick Press, 1887. Leather. A rhythmical anthology of selected works from prolific writer Thomas Gray. Featuring Illustrated capitals and head and tail pieces. A frontispiece of Gray, and plates to Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, and El...

Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars. In Two Volumes

Samuel Butler · 1772 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, C Bathurst et al, 1772. Leather. Samuel Butler's brilliant satirical epic written and set against the background of the Civil War. Third Edition, 'corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey&apos. With a portrait frontispiece...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel with All His Introductions and Notes Various Readings and the Editor&Apos;S Notes

Sir Walter Scott · 1855 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1855. Leather. A pocket sized edition of this popular poem. In a lovely morocco binding. The 'Author's Edition' of this work. With an engraved title page. Engraved title page is dated 1852 but true title page is dated 1855. The...

The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins and T. Warton with Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes.

Rev. George Gilfillan; Charles Cowden Clarke. · 1863 · Rooke Books

£162.00 (€194.18 | $214.02 | ¥34,177)

London, James Nichol, 1863 . Leather. A full leather bound volume, with gilt detailing to the spine. This volume contains information regarding the lives of Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins and Thomas Warton, in addition to their poetical works. There is wear to the extremiti...

The First Book of Poetry for the Use of Schools Intended As Reading Lessons for the Younger Classes

W F Mylius, [Charles and Mary Lamb] · 1811 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, M J Godwin, 1811. First edition. Leather. A scarce, early first edition of this book of poetry for schools. By Charles and Mary Lamb, published under the pseudonym W. F. Mylius. With two engravings: a frontispiece and one further plate, both illustrative of the plate. ...

The Wanderer of Switzerland and Other Poems

James Montgomery · 1813 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown , 1813. Leather. A collection of lyrical work by the prolific poet James Montgomery. Includes poems such as The Pillow, A field Flower, The Ocean, To the Memory of Joseph Browne, and Ode to the Volunteers. James Montgomery was p...