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Emma a Play Founded on Jane Austen&Apos;S Novel

Marion Morse MacKaye · 1941 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this play by Marion MacKaye, based upon the novel by Jane Austen. With a preface by Percy MacKaye. With a portrait frontispiece and three illustrated plates. Inscribed by Percy MacKaye to a ...

The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse

Anonymous [Attributed to Dorothy Kilner] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Grant and Griffith, 1850. Cloth. A scarce children's book about the life of a mouse. New edition, with engraved frontispiece. Bookseller's label of Calder to front pastedown. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some bumping, and some cocking to...

Takings; or, the Life of a Collegian

Thomas Gaspey · 1821 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, John Warren, 1821. Cloth. An edition of this humourous poetical work by Thomas Gaspey. Thomas Gaspey (1788-1871) was an English writer who was a parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post, as well as a contributor of dramatic reviews, political parodies and reports of...

The Angel in the House. The Betrothal and the Espousals

Coventry Patmore · 1854 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, John W. Parker, 1854-56. Cloth. The first two books of The Angel in the House sequence with The Espousals inscribed by the author Patmore. First editions, and in the original bindings. The half-title of The Espousals is inscribed 'From the Author&apos. With a Stas...

The Tragic Muse

Henry James · 1891 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1891. Cloth. Henry James' broad story of two artistic individuals striving for success and fulfilment in late Victorian England. Miriam Rooth, one of those characters who endeavours to succeed on the stage, is often considered one of James' be...

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1857 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, George Routledge, c1901. Cloth. An attractively bound collection of poems by Matthew Arnold, a leading poetical figure of the nineteenth century. Matthew Arnold was a poet and critic, who famously served as the headmaster of Rugby School. Ranked among the bets poets of...

Raccolta Di Commedie Scelte

Carlo Goldoni · 1825 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Livorno, Vignozzi, 1825. Leather. A collection of comedies from the much loved 18th century Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Goldoni is admired for his honest portrayal of humanity, as well as his quick wit. For his subjects he often dramatised the lives of the new Italian mi...

Les Marionnettes de Justin Et Les Droits de Coeur

Charles Narrey; Leopole Laluye · 1869 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1869 - 1873. Leather. Two uniformly bound plays by eminent French playwrights. 'Les Marionnettes de Justin' by Charles Narrey and 'Les Droits de Coeur' by Leopold Laluye. Both volumes are in the original French. Both volumes appea...

Underneath the Bough, a Posie of Other Men&Apos;S Flowers

Theodora Thompson · 1906 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

London, John Lane, c1905. Vellum. A beautifully bound book of poetry. Bound in full vellum by Riviere and Son for the Army and the Navy. A collection of poetical works whose intention is to appeal to the emotions - to bring refreshment, encouragement, inspiration, and hope to ...

The Professor at the Breakfast Table the Poet at the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, J M Dent and Co, 1905. Leather. Two finely bound volumes of Oliver Wendell Holmes' popular prose works. In a beautiful half calf binding by Bayntun of Bath. These are both the third edition of J M Dent and Co's publication of the 'Breakfast-Table' s...

The Novels of Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett · 1926 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Leather. An attractively-bound set of ten volumes of the novels of Tobias Smollett. Illustrated throughout with nineteen plates reproduced from etchings by George Cruikshank (collated, complete). Containing: Volume I: '...

Les Musardises

Edmond Rostand · 1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1921. Leather. Collection of poetry by poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand. In the original French. Edmond Rostand was a French poet and dramatist associated with the neo-romantic movement and most famous for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. In a qua...

L&Apos;Ami Des Enfants

Arnaud Berquin · 1867 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Paris, Didier et Cie, 1867. Leather. The most famous work of children's author Arnaud Berquin. In original French. Berquin did not want his work to contain fairy tales or imaginative literature. He wrote stories consisting of events that might happen to children in their ...

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem, in Four Books to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes: And Poems Upon Several Occasions

John Milton · 1758 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

Birmingham, J. and R. Tonson; Baskerville, 1758. Leather. A beautiful edition of Milton's famous theological poem. The first edition of this work to be printed by John Baskerville, and one of the earliest books to be printed in his innovative transitional typeface. Paradi...

Oeuvres de J. De la Fontaine D&Apos;Apres Les Textes Originaux

Jean de la Fontaine · 1875 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Paris, Jean de la Fontaine, 1875-77. Leather. A collection of the writings of French fabulist, Jean de la Fontaine. Containing: Tome Premier: Contes Tome Deuxieme: Contes - Psyche - Lettres According to Flaubert, Fontaine was the only French poet to understand and master the t...

Harry Lorrequer

Charles Lever · 0 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Chapman and Hall, c1881. Leather. An early edition of this novel by Charles Lever. The Seventeenth Edition. Undated, dated using Copac. Charles Lever was an Irish novelist and raconteur. His novels have been said to be alike to his conversation . In a half morocco bind...

Contes Et Nouvelles

Alphonse Karr · 0 · Rooke Books

£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, c1850. Leather. A collection of short stories by Alphonse Karr. In original French. Alphone Karr was a French critic, journalist and novelist. He became a teacher at his old school, College Bourbon. Some of his novels were autobiographical romances. ...

The Novels of Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley · 1902 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.82 | ¥78,059)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1902-1906. Leather. A uniformly-bound collection of the writings of Charles Kingsley, historian, novelist and priest. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Gr...

Selected Novels of F. Marion Crawford

F. Marion Crawford · 1895 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

Leipzig; New York, Bernhard Tauchnitz; Macmillan and Co. 1895-1911. Leather. A collection of uniformly bound novels by F. Marion Crawford. Containing: Collection of British Authors: Tauchnitz Edition. Volumes 4253: Uncanny Tales by F. Marion Crawford (Copyright Edition, 1911) ...

Richard Steele

Richard Steele · 0 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, c1900. Leather. The plays of Richard Steele in a decorative fine calf binding from Bayntun's. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by G. A Aitken. With lovely decorative head- and tail- pieces. Bound by Bayntun's of Bath, with a bookbinder ...