Letteratura

Reveries of a Bachelor

Ik Marvel [Donald Grant Mitchell] · 0 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, C. H. Clarke, c1853. Leather. A interesting work by the american author and essayist, Donald Grant Mitchell, illustrated throughout. Binder's label of Pring and Price to rear pastedown. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates. A work from American author, Dona...

The Flowers of the Forest

[Mary Martha Sherwood] · 1839 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Religious Tract Society, 1839. Leather. A charming short story from Mary Martha Sherwood, illustrated throughout with delightful engravings. Fifth edition. Illustrated throughout with numerous vignette engravings. Mary Martha Sherwood was a children's author, whos...

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin · 1901 · Rooke Books

£38.99 (€46.74 | $51.51 | ¥8,226)

London, George Allen, 1901. Leather. An attractively bound pair of essays by critic and philanthropist, John Ruskin. Containing two lectures: Of King's Treasuries and Of Queen's Gardens. Fifty-fourth thousand in original form, with new preface. In an Allman's an...

Melaia and Other Poems

Eliza Cook · 1845 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1845. Leather. A charming poetical anthology from Eliza Cook. Third edition. Adorned with several beautifully engraved plates. Eliza Cook was a extremely successful writer, appealing to the working classes of both England and the U.S. Her suc...

The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1919 · Rooke Books

£84.99 (€101.87 | $112.28 | ¥17,930)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1919. Leather. A scarce edition of this collection of the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Bound by Bickers and Son (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). Heavily influenced by his poetic predecessors, in particular John Keats and th...

Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling · 1911 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1911. Leather. A little-known novel by Rudyard Kipling, set in Northern India. Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for child...

Glimpses of South America or, the Landing Pampas

Mary Hield · 1901 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London; Paris; New York; Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited, c1890. Leather. An attractive edition of Mary Hield's novel, 'Glimpses of South America or, the Landing Pampas&apos. A book intended for young readers about South America. Illustrated with numerous eng...

The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth

Charles Reade · 1857 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Richard Bentley, 1857. Leather. The first edition of this romance novel by Charles Reade, in a lovely leather binding. In a half leather binding. Charles Reade, was born in 1814. A novelist and dramatist, Reade's works include 'The Cloister and The Hearth&apo...

Needwood Forest

Francis Noel Clarke Mundy · 1776 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

Lichfield, John Jackson, 1776. Leather. The very scarce, privately issued first edition of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy's poem, Needwood Forest. The text finishes on page 48 though this seems to have always been the case for this printing. This appears to be an alternate and...

Poems by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

Eton, Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1937. Vellum. A collection of the poetry of Thomas Gray, privately printed by Eton College. Including a leaving gift dedication page. With many of Gray's famous odes, epitaphs, and elegies. In a vellum binding with...

The Gaberlunzie&Apos;S Wallet

James Ballantine · 1843 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, John Menzies, 1843. First edition. Leather. A signed first edition of 'The Gaberlunzie's Wallet' by James Ballantine. Inscribed by the author James Ballantine, who wrote under the pseudonym 'Jot.' With numerous illustrations on steel and woo...

The Love-Chase a Comedy, in Five Acts

James Sheridan Knowles · 1837 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Edward Moxon, 1837. Leather. A scarce first edition of this comedy from James Sheridan Knowles. First Edition. James Sheridan Knowles, born in 1784, was a Irish dramatist and actor, as well as a prolific author. Giving up a career in medicine for the stage, it is belie...

The Pleasures of Imagination

Mark Akenside · 1803 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1803. Leather. An illustrated copy of The Pleasures of Imagination by Mark Akenside. With three engraved plates, a frontispiece and a critical essay by Anna Barbauld. Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician. In this, his most famous work,...

The Poetry of the Period

Alfred Austin · 1870 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Richard Bentley, 1870. Leather. A critique of many of the most popular poets, in a leather binding. Featuring poets including Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold and many others. Alfred Austin, born in 1835 who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. In a Bickers binding, with bi...

Collected Poems

Austin Dobson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. 1897. Leather. A collection of the poetry of Austin Dobson, with a illustrated frontispiece. With portrait frontispiece. Containing a letter tracing the history of this volume from its first presentation to Sir Alfred Bateman by the ...

The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith · 0 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Frederick Warne, c1880. Leather. A charmingly illustrated edition of this poetical and theatrical anthology from Oliver Goldsmith. With a the addition of The Vicar of Wakefield Memoir bound to the front. Adorned with several plates, decorative head and tail pieces, and...

Elizabeth; or the Exiles of Siberia a Tale, Founded on Facts; from the French of Madame Cottin

Madame Cottin · 1822 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, John Sharpe, 1822. Leather. A handsomely bound tale from the French of Madame Cottin Illustrated with numerous engraved plates. With notes to the rear. In a decorative blindstamped calf binding with gilt detailing. Externally, smart, with just some slight rubbing. Fron...

The Seasons

James Thomson · 1840 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, John Sharpe, 1840. Leather. A pocket sized edition of James Thomson's poem, 'The Seasons&apos. With an engraved title page and four engraved plates, one for each season. 'The Seasons' is a cycle of four poems which proved to be incredibly influentia...

Frank Fairleigh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil

Frank E Smedley · 1846 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, George Routledge, c1870. Leather. A nicely bound copy of this illustrated work by Frank E Smedley, 'Frank Fairleigh' With an illustrated frontispiece, title page and an additional twenty-six plates. Undated, dated from Copac. Illustrations by George Cruikshan...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Frowde · 1893 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Henry Frowde, 1893. Leather. The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In an attractive tree calf binding with gilt stamped detailing to the spines. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He is classed among one of the five Fires...