Poesia

Rejected Addresses or, the New Theatrum Poetarum

Horace and James Smith · 1817 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Gale and Fenner, 1817. Leather. A whimsical collection of verse and prose. Sixteenth edition. A book of parodies by the brothers James and Horace Smith. Generally considered one of the most successful humorous books of the early nineteenth century, and said to have "br...

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges · 1914 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1914. Leather. An attractively bound collection of the poems of Robert Bridges. Containing Demeter, Prometheus the Firegiver, and Eros and Psyche, amongst others. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his ...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1799 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, James Finch and Co, c1909. Leather. A collection of the poems of Thomas Hood. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was a British humorist and poet. Including Odes and Addresses, Whims and Oddities - First and Second Series, Minor Poems, Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poe...

Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A Riviere bound edition of Gray's poems and letters with monochrome tipped-in illustrations. With a portrait to frontispiece, a decorative title page, decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. With a biographical introduction by ...

May Day with the Muses

Robert Bloomfield · 1822 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Bloomfield's poem, 'May Day with the Muses&apos. Bloomfield was a celebrated poet in his time, known for being a working class, self-educated writer. Celebrated in the context of simi...

A Handefull of Pleasant Delites: Containing Sundrie New Sonnets and Delectable Histories in Divers Kindes of Meeter

Clement Robinson and Divers Others · 1814 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Leather. A scarce copy of this collection of poetry by Clement Robinson and others. With new additions of certain songs. Includign An Excellent Song of and Outcast Lover, The Lover, The Joy of Virginitie and many others. A sc...

The Seasons, Hymns, Ode, and Songs, of James Thomson with His Life, by Mr. Murdoch

James Thomson; Mr Murdoch · 1809 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, A Wilson, 1809. Leather. An attractive collection of poetry, odes and hymns with a biography of the author. A stereotype edition With a complete glossary and index to the rear. Re-backed in a diced calf binding. Externally, generally smart with rubbing to boards and we...

Flowers of France the Renaissance Period: From Ronsard to Saint-Amant the Sixteenth Century Rendered Into English Verse in Accordance with the Original Forms

John Payne · 1907 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, The Villion Society, 1907. Leather. A scarce copy of this anthology of sixteenth-century French poetry, collected and edited by John Payne. John Payne (23 August 1842 – 11 February 1916) was an English poet and translator. Initially he pursued a legal career, and asso...

The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell · 1907 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Henry Frowde, 1907. Leather. A smartly-bound collection of the poetry of Thomas Campbell. Oxford edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Bound by the Times Book Club. In a calf binding. Externally, smart, with just some slight rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Previou...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1884 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Ward, Lock, and Co. c1880. Leather. A volume of the poetry of Thomas Hood. Edited with a Critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. First Series. With Illustrations. In a black half calf leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, worn. There is s...

The Poetical Works of Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1908 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Oxford, Henry Frowde, 1908. Leather. The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow bound by T.Hunt for Wellington College. Includes binder's stamp and has an illustrated frontispiece. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He wrote many lyrical p...

Poems and Letters

Thomas Gray · 1867 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, Chiswick Press, 1867. Leather. A collection of the poems of Thomas Gray, including his best-known work, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. With an Etonian prize dedication page to the front. Illustrated throughout with four tinted plates. Bound by Riviere (binder&...

The Works of James Thomson with His Last Corrections and Improvements

James Thomson; Patrick Murdoch (ed) · 1874 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , John Dicks, 1874. Leather. A rythmical anthology compiled of works from poet James Thomson. With numerous illustrations throughout depicting the themes of Thomson's work, featuring a frontispiece of James Thomson. To which is Prefixed "The Life of the Author". Re...

The Complete Works of C.S. Calverley

C S Calverley · 1902 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London , George Bell & Sons, 1902. Leather. The complete works of this English poet, in a Blackwell's half calf binding. Calverley has been called the father of the so called "university school of humour". He is now perhaps best-remembered for his Ode to Tobacco, which ha...

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges · 1914 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1914. Leather. An attractively bound collection of the poems of Robert Bridges. Containing Demeter, Prometheus the Firegiver, and Eros and Psyche, amongst others. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his ...

Rokeby; a Poem

Walter Scott · 1813 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co, 1813. Leather. A third edition of this poem by Sir Walter Scott. Rokeby is a narrative poem in six cantos and is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War. In a quarter calf binding. Externally, sound with some rubbing. Wear to head and ta...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, c1860. Leather. The complete edition of the poems of William Cowper. With an engraved frontispiece. Cowper was an extremely popular poet of his time. His works were inspired by nature and the British countryside. In a morocco binding. Externally...

Poems of Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1917 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. Leather. A great Oxford collection of Tennyson in a decorative calf binding. With an introduction by Herbert Warren. Interestingly, 'Crossing the Bar' is not the last poem in this edition. In a half calf bindin...

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1809 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1809. First edition. Leather. Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems by Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844) a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. First edi...

A Rowland for an Oiiver; or a Poetical Answer to the Benevolent Epistle of Mr Peter Pindar Also the Manuscript Odes, Songs, Letters, Etc. Of the Above Mr Peter Pindar Now First Published by Sylvanus Urbans

Peter Pindar; John Walcot · 1790 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Sylvanus Urban, 1790. Leather. A scarce collection of the poetry of satirist John Walcot, bound from the parts and published between 1790 and 1792. Containing A Commiserating Epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale; Odes to Mr Paine, Author or Rights of Man; More Mo...