Letteratura

Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons Breaking a Butterfly; or Blanche Ellerslie&Apos;S Ending

George Alfred Lawrence · 1827 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, George Routledge and Sons/Tinsley Brothers, c1874. Leather. A uniformly bound pair of novels by the British author George Alfred Lawrence. Lawrence (1827-76) is most well known for 'Guy Livingstone', a novel which is not only referenced on the title page of e...

Thirteen Eighteenth Century Plays

Various; R Sheridan; J Gay · 1823 · Rooke Books

£620.00 (€743.17 | $819.11 | ¥130,801)

London, T Dolby, c1830. Leather. An early nineteenth century collection of comic plays from writers including John Gay and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Bound from the parts in half-leather, with a spine label, gilt lettering, and marbled paper-covered boards. Bears the bookplate...

A History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son

Oliver Goldsmith · 1803 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, F. and C. Rivington, J. Walker etc. 1803. Leather. An early edition of Goldsmith's A History of England. A nice clean copy. Bound in roan leather with gilt lettering. Oliver Goldsmith (1730 or 1728-1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his...

The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins and T. Warton with Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes.

Rev. George Gilfillan; Charles Cowden Clarke. · 1863 · Rooke Books

£162.00 (€194.18 | $214.02 | ¥34,177)

London, James Nichol, 1863 . Leather. A full leather bound volume, with gilt detailing to the spine. This volume contains information regarding the lives of Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins and Thomas Warton, in addition to their poetical works. There is wear to the extremiti...

The Burgomaster&Apos;S Wife a Tale of the Siege of Leyden

Georg Ebers · 1883 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1883. Leather. An English translation of Georg Eber's historical novel. In a school binding for Abergavenny Grammar School, bound by Seargeant Bros. Translated into English by Clara Bell, a popular English translator of popular works. Bell was fl...

The Burns Country

Charles S. Dougall · 1911 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1911. Leather. A smartly-bound copy of this work on the Scottish countryside, and how it influenced the writings of Robert Burns. Second edition. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. In a navy morocco binding with gilt detailing. Ext...

The Letters of Junius

Anonymous, Junius · 1819 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, C and C Whittingham, 1819. Leather. A small collection of the anonymously published, 'Letters of Junius&apos. Including an engraved frontispiece. The collection was published in two volumes in 1772 by Henry Sampson Woodfall, the owner and editor of a London newspa...

The First Book of Poetry for the Use of Schools Intended As Reading Lessons for the Younger Classes

W F Mylius, [Charles and Mary Lamb] · 1811 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, M J Godwin, 1811. First edition. Leather. A scarce, early first edition of this book of poetry for schools. By Charles and Mary Lamb, published under the pseudonym W. F. Mylius. With two engravings: a frontispiece and one further plate, both illustrative of the plate. ...

The Wanderer of Switzerland and Other Poems

James Montgomery · 1813 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown , 1813. Leather. A collection of lyrical work by the prolific poet James Montgomery. Includes poems such as The Pillow, A field Flower, The Ocean, To the Memory of Joseph Browne, and Ode to the Volunteers. James Montgomery was p...

Puck of Pook&Apos;S Hill

Rudyard Kipling · 1911 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1911. Leather. A smart copy of this anthology by Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The storie...

Essays in Criticism First Series

Matthew Arnold · 1907 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1907. Fine Binding. The essays from the first series of Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism. Originally published in 1865 this reprint inculdes the original preface. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a writer who typically ...

Rejected Addresses or, the New Theatrum Poetarum

Horace and James Smith · 1817 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Gale and Fenner, 1817. Leather. A whimsical collection of verse and prose. Sixteenth edition. A book of parodies by the brothers James and Horace Smith. Generally considered one of the most successful humorous books of the early nineteenth century, and said to have "br...

Selections from Addison&Apos;S Spectator with Introduction by Mrs Barbauld

Mrs Herbert Martin · 0 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Blackie and Son, c1900. Leather. A selection of essays and letters intended for female readers, originally published in The Spectator. With frontispiece of Sir Roger de Coverley in the hunting field. Containing many articles, among which are Lady Burnt in the Playhouse...

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges · 1914 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1914. Leather. An attractively bound collection of the poems of Robert Bridges. Containing Demeter, Prometheus the Firegiver, and Eros and Psyche, amongst others. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his ...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1799 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, James Finch and Co, c1909. Leather. A collection of the poems of Thomas Hood. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was a British humorist and poet. Including Odes and Addresses, Whims and Oddities - First and Second Series, Minor Poems, Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poe...

East Lynne

Mrs Henry Wood · 1902 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1902. Leather. This sensation novel of the Victorian era presents an elaborate plot, centring on infidelity and double identities. Evolutionary for its time of publication East Lynne "highlights the shortfalls inherent to bourgeois masculinity." And i...

The Juvenile Companion and Sunday-School Hive

Anon · 1855 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, M Baxter, Association Book Room, 1855. Leather. An anthological work for children. This work is volume VIII of the series, from 1855. Illustrated, with several vignettes throughout. This work has a range of interesting articles, both religious and educational. There ar...

Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A Riviere bound edition of Gray's poems and letters with monochrome tipped-in illustrations. With a portrait to frontispiece, a decorative title page, decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. With a biographical introduction by ...

May Day with the Muses

Robert Bloomfield · 1822 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Bloomfield's poem, 'May Day with the Muses&apos. Bloomfield was a celebrated poet in his time, known for being a working class, self-educated writer. Celebrated in the context of simi...

A Handefull of Pleasant Delites: Containing Sundrie New Sonnets and Delectable Histories in Divers Kindes of Meeter

Clement Robinson and Divers Others · 1814 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Leather. A scarce copy of this collection of poetry by Clement Robinson and others. With new additions of certain songs. Includign An Excellent Song of and Outcast Lover, The Lover, The Joy of Virginitie and many others. A sc...