Poesia

Jon Duan: A Twofold Journey with Manifold Purposes

[Samuel Orchart Beeton; Aglen A. Dowty; Evelyn D. Jerrold] · 1874 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Weldon and Co. 1874. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this illustrated satirical poem written by Samuel Orchart Beeton, Aglen A. Dowty and Evelyn D. Jerrold. The first edition of this very scarce work. A humorous satirical poem in VIII Cantos, with referenc...

Sublunary

Nancy Cunard · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Hodder and Stoughton , 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Nancy Cunard"s second poetry collection, published early in her career and reflecting her emerging modernist sensibility before her later avant-garde and political work in Paris. In the publis...

Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from Rare Song Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century

A. H. Bullen [Ed.]; Various · 1895 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

None Stated, Privately Printed, 1895. Cloth. A very scarce privately printed limited edition, one of 375 copies of A. H. Bullen"s "Speculum Amantis", a charming anthology of rare seventeenth-century love lyrics drawn from Elizabethan and Jacobean songbooks and miscellanies. In...

Mendicant Rhymes

Laurence Housman · 1906 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Essex House Press, 1906 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful limited edition first edition collection of poetry by English playwright, writer and illustrator Laurence Housman. The first edition of this limited edition work, one of 300 copie...

Supplement to the British Poets Volumes I - VI

Thomas Park · 1809 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, J. Sharpe, 1809. First edition. Cloth. Dainty collection of essential British poetry, edited by Thomas Park as an addition to The Works of the British Poets series. First edition.Bound in publisher's original green cloth.In six volumes, including Volume I to Volum...

For Jeremy Gaige

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

None Stated, Watch Hill Press, 1928 . Leather. A charming and exceptionally scarce private press item, there are no copies held institutionally as one of only ten copies printed for the infant Jeremy Gaige in 1928, featuring Stevenson"s poem "My Bed is a Boat". Bound in quarte...

7 Vols Elizabethan Lyrics and Poetical Anthologies, Edited by A.H. Bullen

A. H. Bullen [ed.] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, John C. Nimmo; George Bell and Sons, 1887–1891. Leather. A six-volume set of numbered limited large-paper Elizabethan lyric anthologies edited by A. H. Bullen, uniformly bound in smart quarter calf. Uniformly bound in quarter calf with cloth boards. A finely curated ...

The Tale of Frithiof

Esias Tegner; Captn H. Spalding [trans.] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , John Murray, 1872. First edition. Cloth. A charming copy of the first English edition of Tegner's Swedish epic poem of Icelandic legend. The first English edition of the work, translated from Tegner's original Swedish by Captn. H. Spalding.In publisher'...

Wild Honey from Various Thyme

Michael Field [Katherine Harris Bradley; Edith Cooper] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, T. Fisher Unwin , 1908. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this beautiful collection of poetry by the pseudonymous Michael Field. The very scarce first edition of the work.In publisher's original green decorative cloth binding. Includes gilt to...

Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: And Other Poems; the Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale; the Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale; the Corsair, a Tale; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Lord Byron · 1813 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, John Murray , 1813-1814. Leather. A calf-bound volume of five of Lord Byron's works, including the first edition, second issue of 'Bride of Abydos' and 'The Corsair. A selection of five works from major figure of English poetry and of the Romantic m...

Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Helene

Pierre de Ronsard; Humbert Wolfe [trans.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934. First edition. Vellum. A signed limited edition translation of Pierre de Ronsard's 'Sonnets pour Helene', bound in quarter vellum. A special edition of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of this book, printed on hand made ...

Hudibras

Samuel Butler; Dr. Grey · 1819 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1819. Hardback. A large paper edition of Samuel Butler's satirical heroic poem, bound here in six volumes with notes by Zachary Grey. New edition, corrected and enlarged. A large paper subscriber's copy of Samuel Butler's &apos...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1881 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London , George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Leather. A smart Bickers binding of a collection of lyrical poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in full red calf with a frontispiece of the poet. The author's edition of the work.In full decorative red calf, bound by Bickers & So...

The Rubaãƒâoeã‚âIyaãƒâoeã‚âT of Omar Khayyaãƒâoeã‚âM

Edward Fitzgerald · 1859 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1928. Leather. Beautiful green morocco edition of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation, with lovely colour plates from Charles Robinson. Bound in full green morocco.With four colour plates from celebrated book illustrator ...

Wyclif: Select English Writings; Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins; English Lyrics of the Xiiith Century; Dante and the Idea of Rome; Selections from Early Middle English: Part I: Texts; Selections from Early Middle English: Part II: Notes

John Wyclif, Herbert E. Winn; Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Bridges, W. H. Gardner; Carleton Brown; Charles Till Davis; Joseph Hall · 1929 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London; New York; Toronto; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1929; 1950; 1953; 1957; 1958; 19. Cloth. London; New York; Toronto; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929; 1950; 1953; 1957; 1958; 1956. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. Smart blue-cloth set of schol...

The Works of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson; Wilfrid Meynell · 1913 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Burns and Oates, [1913]. First edition. Cloth. A nice set of volumes I and II of mystic and poet Francis Thompson's poetry in the original cloth with decorative gilt, edited by Wilfrid Meynell, Thompson's friend, with two portrait frontispieces of Thompson to...

The Spirit Level

Seamus Heaney · 1996 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , Faber and Faber, 1996. First edition. Cloth. The fifth impression of a collection of poems by renowned Irish poet Seamus Heaney, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, fifth impression of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding. I...

1855 the Three Tours of Doctor Syntax

William Combe · 1855 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Nattali and Bond, 1855 . Leather. Handsomely bound in half calf, this is the three volume 9th edition of Dr. Combe's humorous work, illustrated throughout with hand-coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson. The ninth edition, complete in three volumes.Uniformly bound ...

The Silver Cat and Other Poems

Humbert Wolfe · 1928 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New York; London, William Edwin Rudge, The Bowling Green Press; Ernest Benn, 1928 . First edition. Hardback. An exceptional example of the first edition of this charming collection of poetry from Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant Humbert Wolfe. The fi...

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

Thomas Tusser; Sir Walter Scott; Rudyard Kipling; E. V. Lucas · 1931 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, James Tregaskis & Son, 1931. Leather. A pleasing limited edition of Thomas Tusser's 16th-century instructional poem, in the original full crushed morocco. One of a limited edition of five hundred copies printed on handmade Batchelor paper. In the original full cr...