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Baby&Apos;S Own Aesop

Aesop · 1887 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Frederick Warne, 1887 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrant example of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's edition of Aesop's moral tales, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the scarce publisher's o...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources

Aesop; Rev. Thomas James · 1848 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, John Murray, 1848 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrantly bound example of the first Thomas James edition of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by celebrated artist John Tenniel. The first edition of these fables from Rev. Thomas James.Lewis Carroll was so impress...

South Sea Bubbles

The Earl and the Doctor; [The Earl of Pembroke]; [George Henry Kingsley] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1872. First edition. Leather. The first edition of The Earl of Pembroke and G. H. Kingsley's account of their travels through the south seas, including his controversial chapter on missionaries, bound in quarter leather. The first edition,...

First Reader: Aesop and Mother Goose (Literature Readers)

Louis P. Nash · 1897 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Boston, Thompson, Brown and Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce guide to reading and writing using Aesop's Fables. A vanishingly scarce work, with one copy found institutionally. In the publisher's original illustrative cloth binding.Intended for ch...

The Poetical Works of George Crabbe with a Life of the Author

George Crabbe · 1858 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1858. Leather. A smart calf-bound volume of George Crabbe's poems, adorned with engraved plates by Birket Foster. A bright anthology of poetry from George Crabbe, together with a biographical sketch. Bound in half calf with marbled boar...

A Book of Original Toasts and Greetings for Banquets, Feasts, and Social Meetings

Allan Junior · 1914 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Lenzie, John Allan , 1914. Paperback. A very scarce 'Loose Leaf Booklet' comprising original toasts and greetings for various gatherings. A very scarce copy of this volume, being No. 1 of the "Loose Leaf Booklets" series. In the publisher's wraps with string bi...

Poems of Sentiment

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1910 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Gay and Hancock, 1910. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from American author Ella Wheeler Wilcox, signed by the author. Signed by the author to the half title. A collection of sentimental poetry with titles including: Never Mind, A Warning, Sw...

The Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert · 1922 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1922. Leather. A leather-bound copy of W. S. Gilbert's entertaining comic operas, illustrated throughout with charming vignettes from the author. Bound in full calf. The tenth impression of the sixth edition. A collection of ballads from...

Latterday Symphony

Romer Wilson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interwar novella by Romer Wilson, by Nonesuch Press. The first edition, published by Nonesuch.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A novelette following the unusual relationship between a white Bri...

Fables of Aesop and Others

Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1737 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, J. and R. Tonson; J. Watts, 1737. Leather. A finely bound edition of Aesop's fables, the fourth edition of the important Croxall translation, complete with illustrations. Smartly bound in a modern quarter morocco binding with patterned paper to the boards, in a cu...

Fables of Aesop and Others

Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1797 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London; [York], A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1797. Leather. A finely bound and washed edition of the fables of Aesop, a lovely copy complete with detailed engravings. Smartly rebound in a modern quarter calf binding with patterned cloth to the boards, with renewed endpaper...

That Lady

Kate O'Brien · 1947 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, The Reprint Society, 1947. Leather. A decoratively bound historical novel by Kate O'Brien, set in sixteenth century Spain. Bound by S. A. Howe of Guildford, 1954.An imaginative historical novel following the curious story of Ana de Mendoza and Philip II of Spain. ...

The Testament of Beauty

Robert Bridges · 1929 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1929. First edition. Leather. Robert Bridges' popular long philosophical poem, a smartly bound sixth impression. The first edition, sixth impression, published in the same year as the first impression.An incredibly popular poem by Robert Bridges, ...

The Mask of Comus

John Milton; Henry Lawes; E. H. Visiak; Hubert J. Foss; Earl of Ellesmere · 1937 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937. Hardback. A lovely Nonesuch limited edition copy of John Milton's comical masque, complete with colourful plates. A Nonesuch limited edition of nine hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered eighteen.In the original slipcase, in...

A Stitch in Time

James Laver · 1927 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Hardback. A limited Nonesuch edition of James Laver's poem 'A Stitch in Time', in the original glassine. A limited edition of 1,525 copies, of which this is numbered 142.In the original glassine.'A Stitch in Time' is J...

Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield · 1882 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1882 . Leather. The complete Hughenden editions of the works of the former Prime Minister of the UK, Benjamin Disraeli, sumptuously bound in half morocco by Sotheran. The Hughenden Edition of Disraeli's works, complete in eleven volumes.Un...

East Lynne, or, the Earl&Apos;S Daughter

Mr. Henry Wood [Ellen Wood] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895 . Leather. A vibrantly bound full morocco example of Mrs. Henry Wood's best-selling work of Victorian sensation fiction. The four-hundredth thousand of this work, which was first published in 1861.Vibrantly bound in full morocco, with...

The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To Which Are Prefixed Two Dissertations. I. On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. II. On the Introduction of Learning Into England.

Thomas Warton · 1775 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

London, J. Dodsley et al, 1775-1781. First edition. Cloth. A lovely complete set of this pioneering literary history from Thomas Warton, comprising first and early editions. Consisting of the second edition of Volume I (1775), the first edition of Volume II (1778) and the firs...

Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1896 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1896. Leather. A lovely anthology of the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne, charmingly presented in signed calf by Bumpus. The sixth edition of this collection. In full signed calf by Bumpus, with handsome decorative gilt to the boards and spine....

Voyages de Gulliver Dans Des Contrees Lointaines

Jonathan Swift · 1841 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris , Garnier Freres; H. Fournier Aine, 1841. Cloth. A charming illustrated French edition of Gulliver's Travels, preceded by a biographical and literary note by Walter Scott. A new French edition by Garnier Freres.In the publisher's very scarce decorative cloth bi...