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The Novels of Jane Austen

Jane Austen · 1898 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

London, Grant Richards, 1898. First edition. Leather. Complete in ten volumes, this is the first Winchester edition of the works of Jane Austen, in half calf signed bindings by Bickers. The first Winchester Edition of Austen's novels, complete in ten volumes.Uniformly bou...

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

Beatrix Potter · 1919 · Rooke Books

£159.00 (€190.61 | $210.10 | ¥33,554)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1919 . Hardback. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates, this is an early edition of Beatrix Potter's charming retelling of Aesop's 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse&apos. First published the year prior, this is an early edi...

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter · 1903 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1903 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this popular Beatrix Potter tale about a troublesome squirrel, beautifully illustrated with her original charming colour plates. The first trade edition, first or second issue of this work, with...

Palicio Return of Ulysses Achilles in Scyros Humours of the Court

Robert Bridges · 1890 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.63 | $422.84 | ¥67,529)

London, E Bumpus and George Bell, 1890-3. First edition. Paperback. Four plays by Robert Bridges from the Bumpus series of plays. Volumes ii, iii, v and vi of the Robert Bridges play series. First editions from this series. Printed on Van Gelder paper, watermarks most visible ...

The Works of J.M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie · 1913 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€929.10 | $1,024.06 | ¥163,548)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Cloth. A ten volume set of the works of J. M. Barrie. The Kirriemuir edition, complete in ten volumes. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 63 signed by the publisher and printer. Very scarce in original slipcases. Volumes are: 1. ...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith with Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Oliver Goldsmith · 1815 · Rooke Books

£143.99 (€172.62 | $190.26 | ¥30,386)

Glasgow, R. Chapman, 1815. Leather. A four volume set of the literary works of Oliver Goldsmith, with a memoir of his life and writing. A charming four volumes set of the works of Anglo-Irish writer, Oliver Goldsmith. Featuring a selection of his prose and poetical works, alon...

A Legend of Argyle; or &Apos;Tis a Hundred Years Since in Three Volumes

David Carey · 1821 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1821. Leather. A scarce set of 'A Legend of Argyle; or 'Tis a Hundred Years Since' by David Carey. A very scarce set of 'A Legend of Argyle; or 'Tis a Hundred Years Since' by David Carey. Complete in three volumes. Ca...

The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke · 1852 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London , Francis & John Rivington, 1852. Cloth. A Complete set of Burke's works and correspondence, covering all manner of his writings from across his career. Includes his enormously influential philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti...

The Works of Lord Lytton in Twelve Volumes

Lord Lytton · 1874 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London , George Routledge and Sons, 1874-1875. Leather. An attractive collection of some of The Works of Lord Lytton. In twelve volumes. With a black and white frontispiece in each volume. The set consists of: Harold the Last of the Saxon Kings, Alice; or, the Mysteries, Night...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet

Sir Walter Scott · 1830 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Edinburgh, Cadell and Co, 1830. Leather. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet with engraved frontispiece and illustrated title to each volume. In eleven volumes complete. With an introduction to each work and notes to the end of each work. Poetical works included ar...

Philip Augustus or the Brothers in Arms

G. P. R. James · 1831 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London , Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley , 1831. First edition. Cloth. The complete set uniformly bound, making up this romantic, adventure novel from English novelist and historical writer, George Payne Rainsford James. First edition. George Payne Rainsford James was for ma...

The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition Twelve Volumes

George Eliot · 1878 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)

London , William Blackwood, 1878. Cloth. Twelve volumes of the Cabinet Edition of George Eliot's Works. Twelve of the 24 volumes. In uniformly bound straight grain morocco MacLehose, Glasgow bindings. The following volumes are present: I. Romola I II. Romola II III. Silas...

The Deerslayer a Tale

J. Fenimore Cooper · 1841 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.55 | $508.72 | ¥81,246)

London , Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of this novel by J. Fenimore Cooper. The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it th...

The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq.

Sir Walter Scott · 1820 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London and Edinburgh, Arch. Constable Co. 1820. Leather. A finely-bound twelve-volume set of The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. The first collected edition. Including The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Rokeby, and many others. After Scott had fo...

At the Point of the Bayonet in the Heart of the Rockies and at Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon&Apos;S Invasion of Egypt

G. A. Henty · 1914 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London , Blackie and Son Limited, 1914-1922. Cloth. Three novels from the Victorian novelist George Alfred Henty. Including At The Point of the Bayonet (1914), In The Heart of the Rockies (1922), and At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt (c.1920). A...

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray and Smollett the Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Poetical Works of William Shenstone

George Gilfillan · 1854 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Edinburgh , James Nichol, 1854-1858. Cloth. Four volumes containing the poetical works of Shenstone, Wyatt, Johnson, and many other influential authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. All contain notes and dissertations by George Gilfallan. Including: The Poetical ...

Hudibras

Samuel Butler · 1819 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.61 | $436.05 | ¥69,640)

London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1819. Leather. A lovely set of Bulter's brilliant political satire and mock heroic epic poem. A New Edition, corrected and enlarged. With Dr Grey's annotations. Illustrated titles to each volume, two frontispieces, and five plates. ...

The Spiritual Quixote: Or the Summer&Apos;S Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose a Comic Romance

Richard Graves · 1774 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London , J. Dodsley, 1774. Leather. An eighteenth-century comic romance from Richard Graves. Second edition. Including a vignette title page and three engraved frontispieces. With 'The Life of the Author' bound in to the front of volume one. Strongly influenced by He...

An English Garner Ingatherings from Our History and Literature

Edward Arber, F.S.A. · 1897 · Rooke Books

£179.99 (€215.78 | $237.83 | ¥37,983)

London , Archibald Constable and Co. 1897. Cloth. An early eight volume set of An English Garner by Edward Arber. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Eight volumes, complete. Edward Arber, 1836 – 1912, was an English academic and writer. From 1854 to 1878 he wo...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Translated from the Arabic by Sir R F Burton

Richard F. Burton (translator); Leonard C Smithers (ed.). · 1894 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, H S Nichols, 1894. Cloth. The 'Library Edition' of The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. This edition was edited by the friend of the translator Richard Burton, Leonard C Smithers. This is the first of Nichols and Smithers' fine library edition. P...