Letteratura

La Chatelaine of Vergi

Alice Kemp-Welch · 1903 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

New York, The New Amsterdam Book Company, 1903. Leather. An English translation of a 13th Century French Romance. Translated into English by Alice Kemp-Welch. With an introduction by L Brandin. In a Riviere and Son Binding, as indicated by binder's stamp to front pastedow...

Comedies and Dramas and Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures the Story of a Feather and the Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf

Douglas Jerrold · 1852 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1852-4. Leather. Two volumes of work by Douglas Jerrold. With the bookplate of Sir Edward Watkin to the front pastedown of Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures. Edward Watkin was a British MP and railway entrepreneur. He was notable for expanding the Metrop...

The History of Little Henry and His Bearer

Mrs Sherwood · 1840 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1840. Leather. An illustrated edition of this moral tale by Mrs Sherwood. The thirty-third edition of this popular text. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With an engraved fronti...

The Mirror of Maidens in the Days of Queen Bess

Mrs Sherwood; Mrs Streeton · 1851 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Thomas Hatchard, 1851. Leather. A historical novel by a prolific children's author. Written as a collaboration between Mary Martha Sherwood and her daughter Sophia. With an illustrated frontispiece. The first edition of this novel. This novel is set during the tim...

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Methuen and Co. 1899. Leather. A collection of ballads and poems by Rudyard Kipling. Fifteenth edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 ? 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is chiefly remembered for his tales and poems o...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1894 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Eton, Eton College Press, 1894. Leather. A rhythmical anthology of selected works from prolific writer Thomas Gray. Featuring Illustrated capitals and head and tail pieces. A frontispiece of Gray, and plates to Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, and ...

Katherine Randolph; or, Self-Devotion

Harriette Campbell · 0 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Walter Scott, c1840. Leather. An uncommon copy of this Victorian novel. Published posthumously with an introduction by the Rev. G. R. Gleig. With some lovely full colour illustrations and frontispiece. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, a tri...

Arundines Cami Sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori

Henricus Drury · 1851 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Cambridge, J Deighton, 1851. Leather. A collection of English rhymes, poems songs and hymns translated into Latin and Greek. With one illustrated page. Arundines Cami is a compilation written by a group of Cambridge alumni and edited by their friend, Henry Drury. Drury attende...

The Monograph a Serial Collection of Indexed Essays

Anonymous · 1880 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

New York and Maine, Q. P. Index and J. W. Christopher, 1880-1881. Leather. A fascinating collection of essays surrounding subjects of war, culture, and politics. Bound from the parts, with one of the original title pages, and index. Rather rare. With essays on "France; its Gro...

Lewis Arundel or the Railroad of Life

Frank Smedley · 1852 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Virtue, Hall and Virtue, 1852. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this fictional work from Frank Smedley. Adorned with many beautifully engraved illustrations by well known illustrator "Phiz". Rebound in a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, ligh...

Poems

Rev Mr Logan · 1782 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London, T Cadell, 1782. Leather. A collection of Rev. John Logan's poetry. The second edition of this work. Reverend John Logan was a minister and popular preacher. This poetry collection contains Logan's well known Ode to the Cuckoo. In a full tree calf binding. Ext...

The Spanish Gypsy

George Eliot · 1868 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first edition copy of George Eliot's poem The Spanish Gypsy. Better known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (November 1819 – December 1880) was an English novelis...

Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1810 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Longman, Hurst et al. 1810. Leather. An early copy of Thomas Campbell's collected poems. Second Edition. Two volumes bound into one. Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell ...

The Minstrel or, the Progress of Genius and Other Poems

James Beattie · 1816 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, John Sharpe, 1816. Leather. An attractive book of poetry by James Beattie. Embellished with engravings from the designs of Richard Westall. In a calf binding. Externally, sound with slight cracking to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with one small closed tear ...

Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau

Francis Bond Head · 1834 · Rooke Books

£204.00 (€244.53 | $269.51 | ¥43,038)

London, John Murray, 1834. Leather. Some literary bubbles by Sir Francis Bond Head. Bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering and decoration. Second edition. With frontis and engraved title page. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793–1875) was Lieutenant-G...

Cornelius Nepos, de Vita Excellentium Imperatorum

John Carey, LL.D. · 1820 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London , Scatchard & Letterman et al. 1820. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of Carey's corrected Dauphin Nepos. This scarce work is a corrected edition of the 1765 original quarto edition printed for the use of Dauphin on the order of Louis XIV. This task w...

A Boy&Apos;S Book of Verse

Alban M. Phillip · 1929 · Rooke Books

£107.99 (€129.44 | $142.67 | ¥22,783)

London, Philip Allan, 1929. Leather. A collection of poetry in a smart armorial calf binding from Lockers Park School, with a presentation ink inscription to the front blank. Bound by Bickers and Son, with a bookbinder ink stamp to the front free-endpaper. Copac states Alban M...

Leon; or, Old Paul&Apos;S Treasure by 1854- London- Darton &Co. 6. 5" by 4"; IV, 209pp

Onesimus [Pseudonym] · 1854 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Darton &Co. 1854. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this children's work. Subtitled: 'A guide to young merchant-men seeking goodly pearls' A children's story written to a younger brother under a pseudonym. Copac attributed this to Garn...

A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837

Norma Russell · 1963 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

Oxford, The Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Norma Russell's 'A Bibliography of William Cowper' to 1837. The volume was published as part of the Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications - this edition in particula...

Aunt Louisa&Apos;S Coloured Gift Books. Bible Picture Book

Anonymous · 1810 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Frederick Warner and Co. c1880. Cloth. A scarce copy of this Bible Picture Book, copiously illustrated throughout with the prints of Joseph Martin Kronheim. A green cloth hardback with blindstamped back board. Bevelled edges. Stamped pictorial front board with gilt let...