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Tennyson&Apos;S Poems: Illustrated by Eminent Artists

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 0 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

London , Collins' Clear-Type Press , c1900. Leather. A charmingly illustrated pocket book of Alfred Tennyson's poems, bound in half crushed morocco. A charming illustrated anthology of poems by Alfred Tennyson, the celebrated Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victor...

A Collection of Novels by Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley · 1888 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1888-1889. Leather. A smart collection of works from English historian, novelist, and poet, Charles Kingsley. Four volumes. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece to Westward Ho!. Written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the C...

The Works of Charles Lamb Including His Most Interesting Letters

Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd [editor] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1890. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this collection of the works of English essayist Charles Lamb. New edition. The collected works of Charles Lamb, an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the chil...

The Thurber Carnival

James Thurber · 1948 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Cloth. A smart fifth impression of this humorous collection of cartoons and stories from American journalist James Thurber. Fifth impression, originally published 1945. Illustrated throughout. A brilliant collection of humorous and innocently wis...

The Outline of Literature & the World&Apos;S Library of Best Books

John Drinkwater; Wilfred Whitten · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1923-1925. Leather. A smart collection of uniformly bound volumes on the literature of the world, from George Newnes Limited. Seven volumes. This set contains: The Outline of Literature, 1923-1924. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustr...

The Green Curve and Other Stories

Ole Luk-Oie [Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Leather. A smartly bound shilling edition of this collection of short stories from Indian-born British author and military thinker Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton. Shilling edition. A collection of short stories, including: The K...

The Confidential Clerk

T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally bright copy of T. S. Eliot's successful and influential play, presented here in a lovely example of the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. With the issue ...

The Golden Harp; Hymns, Rhymes, and Songs for the Young.

H. W. Dulcken · 1864 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Routledge, Warne and Routledge , 1864 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce compilation of German songs for children, translated into English by H. W. Dulcken, with striking illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. First edition. Bound in the publisher's r...

Trottie&Apos;S Story Book, or, True Tales in Short Words and Large Type.

[Mrs. E. Burrows] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1866 . Cloth. The second edition of this very scarce collection of short stories for children, written by Mrs. E. Burrows and illustrated by Harrison Weir. Second edition. Published the same year as the first. Bound in the publisher's original...

Studien Zur Geschichte Der Italienischen Oper IM 17. Jahrhundert

Hugo Goldschmidt · 1901 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von Breitkopf & Hartel , 1901 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive study of 17th century Italian opera, compiled by German musicologist Hugo Goldschmidt, this copy belonging to English critic Edward Dent, with his handwritte...

The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison · 1765 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, J. and R. Tonson, 1765. Leather. An illustrated edition of the collected works of Joseph Addison, comprising of a miscellaneous selection of his verse and prose. Complete in four volumes.The collected works of Joseph Addison.Addison was an essayist, poet, playwright, a...

More Spring Flowers and Summer Blossoms

F.; M. · 1849 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Thomas Dean and Son, [1849]. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce anthology of verse and prose, strikingly illustrated, included with a hand-coloured frontispiece. A vanishingly scarce work.Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, a hand-coloured title page, and four mono...

Service of All the Dead

Colin Dexter · 1979 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Macmillan, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Colin Dexter's fourth Inspector Morse novel, a brilliant murder mystery. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Service of all the Dead' is the fourth Ins...

The Bfg

Roald Dahl · 1982 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first impression copy of one of Roald Dahl's most beloved children's novels, complete with Quentin Blake's humorous cartoons. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrap...

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire [Richard Harris Barham] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Richard Bentley, 1876. Leather. An illustrated new edition of Richard Harris Barham's popular Ingoldsby Legends, complete in one volume, in a full calf binding. A new edition of this work in a full calf binding with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end pape...

Good in Every Thing ; or the Early History of Gilbert Harland

Mrs. Barwell [Louisa Mary Barwell] · 1852 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Grant and Griffith, 1852 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with hand coloured plates, this is the vanishingly scarce first edition of Louisa Barwell's enchanting children's tale, about the life of one Gilbert Harland. The first edition of this v...

Always Happy!!! or, Anecdotes of Felix and His Sister Serena

Maria Elizabeth Budden · 1815 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, J. Harris, 1815 . Leather. A smart copy of the very scarce second edition of Maria Elizabeth Budden's charming didactic moral tale for children. The second edition of this delightful work, which is very scarce in all early editions.Illustrated with an engraved fro...

The New Pantheon, or an Introduction to the Mythology of the Ancients

W. Jillard Hort · 1809 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.25 | ¥82,252)

London, T. Davison, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Jillard Hort's uncommon children's primer on Greek and Roman mythology. Inscribed by the author to a front blank: 'Revd. Mr Fawcett with the A...

The Alphabet of Animals

Anonymous · 1885 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,799)

Cincinnati, Peter G. Thomson, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce 1885 children's rag book, in which the alphabet is taught to children through colour illustrations of animals. A very scarce work produced by Peter G. Thomson of Cincinnati.An early example of...

Old Nurse&Apos;S Book of Rhymes, Jingles, and Ditties

Charles H. Bennett [ed.] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1865 . Cloth. The second edition of this very scarce collection of children's nursery books and rhymes, illustrated throughout by Charles H. Bennett. The second edition of this work, which was first published in 1858. Very scarce in contempora...