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Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Samuel Croxall · 1723 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, Unknown, c1723. Leather. A scarce and early copy of this renowned collection of fables, by Samuel Croxall. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with many woodcuts throughout the text. Although the title page is absent, the dedication is dated 1723. Samuel Croxall was an...

Anecdota Oxoniensia the Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents Now in the Bodleian Library

A S Napier and W H Stevenson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1895. Leather. A very scarce copy of this work on early charters held in the Bodleian library. A volume from the series Anecdota Oxoniesa: Texts, Documents, and Extracts Chiefly from Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Other Oxford Libraries. Signed by...

Enoch Arden Etc

Alfred Tennyson · 1867 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Edward Moxon and Co, 1867. Leather. A pleasing collection of poetry by Tennyson, published while he was Poet Laureate. Featuring "Enoch Arden", followed by a selection of further works, including "Aylmer's Fields", Tithonus" and "In the Valley of Cauteretz". In a ...

The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, in Their Travels to the Temple of Virtue: An Allegory

Lucy Peacock · 1785 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, T Bensley, 1785. First edition. Leather. A fascinating example of this 18th century allegory for children, based on Spenser"s Faerie Queene. Its author, bookseller and children's author Lucy Peacock (1785–1816), kept a shop in Oxford Street, London. Although litt...

The Prize Book

Anon · 1847 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London , Darton and Co. 1847. Leather. A compilation of plays, prose and poetry. With three full page plates. Privately published with the intention of being presented as a prize. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizab...

Poems the Saint&Apos;S Tragedy

Charles Kingsley · 1884 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1884. Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Charles Kingsley's The Saint's Tragedy. In a signed Sotheran and Co binding. Published as a part of his Poems, this being volume I. This verse tragedy, in the style of Shakespeare, is based on th...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Complete in One Volume

Thomas Moore · 1865 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865. Leather. An impressive heavy volume of the complete poetical works of Thomas Moore. Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of Th...

Poems and Letters

Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A poetical anthology from Thomas Gray, nicely bound in a full calf Riviere signed binding. Featuring the original four tipped-in photographs. Including a frontispiece portrait of the author and three architectural views. Adorned with nume...

Conversations at Cambridge.

Robet Aris Willmott · 1836 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John W. Parker, 1836. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Wilmott's scarce 'Conservations at Cambridge.' Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering. First Edition. Rather uncommon. With an armorial nameplate for Th...

Poems: Third Series

Jean Ingelow · 1885 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ingelow's third series of 'Poems&apos. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Third Series. Bound by Spottiswoode & Co. with a bookbinder's label to the rear past...

Harmer John: An Unworldly Story

Hugh Walpole · 1926 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition, signed copy of Hugh Walpole's 'Harmer John: An Unworldly Story&apos. This copy is one of two hundred and fifty large paper copies. Hugh Walpole was a British novelist, critic, and dramatis...

Green Places Poems of Wales

Arthur Glyn Prys-Jones · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Aberystwyth, Gwasg, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Arthur Glyn Prys-Jones's 'Green Places&apos. Arthur Glyn Prys-Jones was an Anglo-Welsh poet, writer and educationalist who produced plays, works of prose, and six volumes of poetry, including: &a...

Elder Conklin and Other Stories

Frank Harris · 1895 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, W. Heinemann, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Frank Harris' story anthology. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. The first U.S edition was published in 1894, a year before this p...

Ballads of Old Birmingham and Neighbourhood

E. M. Rudland · 1951 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London , E F Hudson Ltd, 1951. Cloth. A signed edition of poetry by E M Rudland. Signed with E M Rudlands kind regards. The first thus with fifty eight additional poems and an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll. In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, s...

Pilgrimage Memorials of a Journey

S. F. A. Coles · 1931 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London , The Columbia Press, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this collection of poetry by S. F. A. Coles. One of 250 copies of which this is number 196. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping. sunning to boards and spine. Internall...

Ballades and Other Verse

H.S. Mackintosh · 1953 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London , Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Cloth. A signed first edition of poetry by H.S. Mackintosh. With an ink inscription by the author to John Foster. In decorated paper covered boards. Externally, smart with some light bumping. Ink inscriptions by author to front free-endpaper. ...

Trade Malice: A Personal Narrative; and the Wandering Heir a Matter of Fact Romance

Charles Reade · 1875 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London , Samuel French, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this fictional work from prolific victorian writer, Charles Reade. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed in ink "To Edwin Arnold with Charles Read's kind regards, March 19th 1875". From the writer o...

Tales by Canon Schmid

H. J. Gill · 1902 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London , M. H. Gill & Son, 1902. Cloth. An attractive, illustrated edition of Tales of Canon Schmid translated by H. J. Gill. New enlarged edition. With seven illustrations designed by T. J. Reynolds. In a decorated red cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externall...

The Coherences

Anselm Hollo · 1968 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London , Trigram Press, 1968. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Anselm Hollo. Limited to one hundred copies printed on white Basingwerk Parchment, and signed by the author. In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, tho...

The Orphan Angel

Elinor Wylie · 1926 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The Orphan Angel is a novel by Elinor Wylie first published in 1926 in which "the great young poet is rescued from drowning off an Italian cape and travels to America, where he encounters the dangers of the frontier." The ...