Poesia

Rokeby: A Poem

Walter Scott · 1813 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

Edinburgh, John Ballantyne, 1813. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Scott's epic poem Rokeby. The poem is set just after the Parliamentarian victory at Marston Moor (1644). Prior to the outbreak of war, the Royalist Lord Rokeby has favoured the marriage of his da...

Poetical Vagaries

George Colman · 1812 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.52 | $63.40 | ¥10,124)

London, Printed for the Author, 1812. Leather. A First Edition of Colman's Poetical Vagaries Bound in leather with gilt embellished spine George Colman (1762– 1836), known as "the Younger," was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the son of George Colma...

Poems on Several Occasions with the Roman Father a Tragedy

Mr W Whitehead · 1754 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London, R and J Dodsley, 1754. Leather. The first collected edition of William Whitehead's poetry. With the half title and errata as called for. Collated, complete. With the bookplate of the Earl of Jersey to the front pastedown. Has the armorial crest and 'Middleton...

William the Silent: A Sketch of the Closing Years of the Life of the Prince of Orange.

The Author of 'The Patriot Prince' [Harriette E Burch] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1887. Leather. An attractively bound work on William the Silent. A fictionalised sketch of the last days of William the Silent. Attributed to Harriette E Burch. In an attractive Relfe binding. William, Prince of Orange was heir apparent to...

Chrysomela a Translation from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick Arranged with Notes by Francis Turner Palgrave

Robert Herrick, Francis Turner Palgrave (Editor) · 1911 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. Leather. A poetical anthology of Robert Herrick's poems. With a vignette title page. Edited by scholar and critic Francis Turner Palgrave. Palgrave is known for his anthologies of poetry and was a respected editor of texts. He was Professor...

La Chatelaine of Vergi

Alice Kemp-Welch · 1903 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

New York, The New Amsterdam Book Company, 1903. Leather. An English translation of a 13th Century French Romance. Translated into English by Alice Kemp-Welch. With an introduction by L Brandin. In a Riviere and Son Binding, as indicated by binder's stamp to front pastedow...

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Methuen and Co. 1899. Leather. A collection of ballads and poems by Rudyard Kipling. Fifteenth edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 ? 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems o...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1894 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Eton, Eton College Press, 1894. 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 ...

Arundines Cami Sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori

Henricus Drury · 1851 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Cambridge, J Deighton, 1851. Leather. A collection of English rhymes, poems songs and hymns translated into Latin and Greek. With one illustrated page. Arundines Cami is a compilation written by a group of Cambridge alumni and edited by their friend, Henry Drury. Drury attende...

Poems

Rev Mr Logan · 1782 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London, T Cadell, 1782. Leather. A collection of Rev. John Logan's poetry. The second edition of this work. Reverend John Logan was a minister and popular preacher. This poetry collection contains Logan's well known Ode to the Cuckoo. In a full tree calf binding. Ext...

The Spanish Gypsy

George Eliot · 1868 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first edition copy of George Eliot's poem The Spanish Gypsy. Better known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (November 1819 – December 1880) was an English novelis...

Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1810 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Longman, Hurst et al. 1810. Leather. An early copy of Thomas Campbell's collected poems. Second Edition. Two volumes bound into one. Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell ...

The Minstrel or, the Progress of Genius and Other Poems

James Beattie · 1816 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, John Sharpe, 1816. Leather. An attractive book of poetry by James Beattie. Embellished with engravings from the designs of Richard Westall. In a calf binding. Externally, sound with slight cracking to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with one small closed tear ...

A Boy&Apos;S Book of Verse

Alban M. Phillip · 1929 · Rooke Books

£107.99 (€129.44 | $142.67 | ¥22,783)

London, Philip Allan, 1929. Leather. A collection of poetry in a smart armorial calf binding from Lockers Park School, with a presentation ink inscription to the front blank. Bound by Bickers and Son, with a bookbinder ink stamp to the front free-endpaper. Copac states Alban M...

The Poetical Works of William Collins

William Collins · 1830 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Pickering, 1830. Cloth. A collection of William Collins' poetry, with a portrait frontispiece of Collins. With a memoir of Collins to the preface as well as an essay on the 'Genius and Poems of Collins' by Sir Egerton Brydges. Containing his Odes...

Table Talk and Other Poems

William Cowper · 1782 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1868. Cloth. A reprint of the 1782 edition of Cowper's 'Table Talk', with notes by the former Poet Laureate Robert Southey. William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper ...

Lyra Elegantarium a Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Sociãƒâ©Tãƒâ© and Vers D&Apos;Occasion in the English Language by Deceased Authors.

Frederick Locker (ed.) · 1867 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of 'Lyra Elegantiarum', containing a collection of popular verse by a number of renowned poets. This collection was edited and compiled by Frederick Locker-Lampson, a notable poet, bibliophil...

Poetry from Cambridge 1947-1950

Peter Morris Green (ed.) · 1951 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, The Fortune Press, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry from Cambridge University. Covering the years 1947-1950, the anthology contains work from 35 Cambridge poets and is edited and introduced by Peter Morris Green. Peter Mor...

Brasenose Ale.

Brasenose College · 1878 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Lincolnshire , Robert Roberts, 1878. Cloth. A scarce collection of verses printed for private circulation. The verses were presented annually on Shrove Tuesday by the Butler of Brasenose College, Oxford. Illustrated frontispiece of an ornament. The work was originally printed ...

Corydon an Elegy in Memory of Matthew Arnold and Oxford

Reginald Fanshawe · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Henry Frowde, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A copy of Fanshawe's elegy to Matthew Arnold. Very scarce first edition. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been charact...