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The Testament of Beauty a Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Clarendon Press, 1930. Leather. A lovely quarter vellum bound large paper edition of The Testament of Beauty A Poem in Four Books by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. With a photogravure portrait of Bridges to frontispiece. With a publisher's note on the text bound i...

The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930. Leather. A lovely copy of Bridges' most popular poem, A Testament of Beauty. Bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper-covered boards. Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844 - 1930, was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A Testament...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood; William Michael Rossetti, Ed. · 1799 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1880. Leather. A Moxon's Popular Poets First Series edition of The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Thomas Hood, 1799 –1845, was a British humorist and poet. After working in a counting h...

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1903 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1903. Leather. A nice example of the first in Holmes' Breakfast-Table series. First edition thus. With an introduction by Leslie Stephen. Bound by J. W. Meyer and Co. With a frontispiece showing a portrait of the author. In a half morocco binding...

Historical Richmond

Edwin Beresford Chancellor · 1885 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London and Richmond, George Bell and Sons and Hiscoke and Son, 1885. Leather. A relatively scarce Subscriber's Copy of Historical Richmond by Edwin Beresford Chancellor, a topographical study of Richmond. With a four-page list of subscriber's to front. A preface date...

The Daltons or Three Roads in Life in Two Volumes

Charles Lever · 1852 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1852. Leather. A set of The Daltons or Three Roads in Life by Charles Lever. Author of The Knight of Gwynne and Roland Cashel. Complete in two volumes. With illustrations by Phiz. Charles James Lever (31 August 1806 - 1 June 1872) was an Irish novelis...

The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature

Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll · 1905 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Leather. A comprehensive history of English literature. With numerous tissue-guarded plates throughout. Including chapters on Caxton, Foxes' Book of Martyrs, Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, amongst many others. Sir William Robertson Nico...

Thackerayana Notes and Anecdotes

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1875 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Chatto & Windus, c1898. Leather. A depiction of humorous incidents in Thackeray's school life and his favourite book characters. With hundreds of illustrations and a colour frontispiece. Originally published in 1875, Thackerayana was immediately suppressed because...

The Diadem a Selection of Poetry Chiefly Modern

Anon · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Darton and Co, c1880. Leather. A nicely bound poetry collection. With an illustrated frontispiece. The eighth edition of this particular poetry anthology. Undated to title page, dated from Copac. This pocket-sized work comprises of poetry from individuals such as Words...

Verses

F W W Pattenden · 1891 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Clarke and Co, 1891 . First edition. Vellum. A scarce privately printed collection of poetry by F. W. W. Pattenden. A large number of these verses were written for amusement. With a memoir and prefatory note to front. First edition. Frederick William Waldebrand Pattend...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1847 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1847. Leather. The complete poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. With an engraved frontispiece and folding plate. Complete in one volume. Containing an introduction and notes by Scott. Sir Walter Scott was an extremely popular Scottish historical novel...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper Esq.

William Cowper · 1867 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Edinburgh, T Nelson and Sons, 1867. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of Cowper's poetry with early photographs. Includes frontispiece and title page photographs of Cowper's home at Olney and his modest summer house. Includes a biography of the life of th...

The Lord of the Isles; a Poem

Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co, 1815. Leather. Third edition of the rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1815. In six cantos. In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out o...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

Sir Walter Scott · 1872 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1872. Leather. An illustrated edition of Scott's poetical works, with an author's portrait to frontispiece and a fold-out facsimile from the manuscript of Marmion. With a two colour decorative title page and a border to each page. With...

Longfellow&Apos;S Poetical Works

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1886 · Rooke Books

£95.99 (€115.06 | $126.82 | ¥20,251)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1886. Leather. An illustrated edition of Longfellow's poetry in a full calf school prize binding, with an ink inscription to the front blank. "Author's Complete Copyright Edition". New Edition, Containing Michael Angelo. In a full c...

The Letters of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens · 1880 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.56 | $435.98 | ¥69,620)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1880. Leather. A collection of the letters of Charles Dickens, edited by his sister-in-law and his daughter. Second edition, fifth thousand. Volume I: 1833-1856 Volume II: 1857-1870 Complete in two volumes, though a third volume was published subseque...

The Smuggler a Tale Volumes I & III Only

John Banim · 1831 · Rooke Books

£189.99 (€227.73 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Leather. First edition of John Banim's The Smuggler. Bound in half roan leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering and decoration. First edition. Volumes I and III only. John Banim (1798 - 1...

Poems on Several Occasions

Matthew Prior, Esq · 1733 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, R. Knaplock, J. Round, and J. Tonson, 1733. Leather. The uncommon fifth edition of Poems on Several Occasions by famous diplomat and poet, Matthew Prior. With an armorial nameplate for Samuel Edward Cook on the front pastedown of each volume. Complete in Two Volumes. "...

Poems Attempted in the Style of Milton by Mr. John Philips with Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems by Ambrose Philips Esq.

John Philips; Ambrose Philips · 1762 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, J and R Tonson, 1762-1765. Leather. A collection of poetry by two different authors, bound in one volume. Bound in full leather, with decorative marble endpapers. John Philips' poem, Splendid Shilling was described by Joseph Addison as "the finest burlesque poem i...

A Collection Bound of Parts

Various · 1760 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, J and R Tonson, 1760. Leather. A collection of numerous plays bound from parts. Including Mariamne, a Tragedy, Virtue Betray'd; or, Anna Bullen a Tragedy, The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh, Venus and Adonis and Myrtillo. With an engraved frontispiece. In a calf le...