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The Epigoniad. A Poem. In Nine Books.
[WILKIE (William)]: · 1757 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)
Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, & Neill, 1757. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 153 x 92 mms., pp. xlii, 289 [290 blank], contemporary half calf, marbled boards, very worn. This copy belonged to the author and Church of England pastor Thomas Zouch (1737 - 185), with his…
A Bulter's Recipe Book 1719. Edited by Philip James. With wood engravings by Reynold Stone and an introduction by Ambrose Heath.
REYNOLDS STONE. · 1935 · Clearwater Books
£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)
Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, Reynolds Stone, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. xii, 45pp. Cloth-backed pink paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board, the latter within a double-ruled circle. With a title pag…
Thos. P. Headland Ltd. : Garage Equipment Section; Thos. P. Headland Ltd. : Accessories for Cars, Coaches and Commercial Vehicles
1935 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
London, Thos. P. Headland Ltd. 1935-8 . Cloth. Handsome set of two very scarce illustrated motor and garage equipment catalogues from Thos. P. Headland. Very scarce.In two volumes.Collection comprised of:(1935) Thos. P. Headland Ltd.: Garage Equipment Section;(1938) Thos. P. Hea…
The Court Journal: Gazette of the Fashionable World
1839 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
[London], [Henry Colburn]; [W. Thomas], 1839. Cloth. A very scarce gazette exploring the courtly life of the royalty and upper-classes of England A very scarce journal of "the fashionable world", documenting courtly life in England during the early years of Victoria's reign…
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope · 1821 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)
London, Thomas McLean, 1821. Leather. A smartly bound, large paper edition of the poetical works of Alexander Pope, complete in two volumes, uniformly bound in full diced calf. A limited large paper edition, of which only one-hundred copies were printed. Complete in two volumes.…
Anent Old Edinburgh and Some Worthies Who Walked Its Street
Alison Hay Dunlop · 1890 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Edinburgh, R & H Somerville, 1890. Cloth. An uncommon work on the history and topography of Edinburgh, the personal copy of British ecologist David W.H. Walton, a former student of the University of Edinburgh. A semi-historical, semi-topographical work on Edinburgh and places of…
John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama
Rupert Brooke · 1916 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1916. Cloth. A literary criticism written by renowned tragic war poet Rupert Brooke on the subject of Elizabethan theatre and John Webster, a Jacobean dramatist. On the subject of John Webster (c1580-c1632), a Jacobean dramatist known for his tragedi…
Favourite English Poems of Modern Times
Various · 1862 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)
London, Sampson, Low, Son, and Co. 1862. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this scarce work, containing an impressive collection of renowned English poems; copiously illustrated throughout and rebound in a signed Hayday and Co. binding. Described as containing a &a…
The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith
John Forster · 1855 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1855. Leather. The charming third edition of the literary biography on the Anglo-Irish poet, restoring the original woodcuts and cutting down on arbitrary notes. The third edition on The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, a literary biography on the …
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel · 2020 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, 4th Estate, 2020 . Cloth. A desirable first impression of the independent bookshop edition, concluding Mantel"s acclaimed Tudor trilogy with a powerful portrait of Cromwell"s final ascent and catastrophic fall. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Comple…
British Ballads Old and New
George Barnett Smith · 1881 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1881. Leather. A smart complete two volume set of this illustrated collection of British ballads. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. A collection of Briti…
Les Caracteres Ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle
[Jean de la BruyeÃÂOeÃÂre] · 0 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
Paris, Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Editeurs, c1839 . Leather. A smart, half-morocco edition of this significant French satire from Jean de la BruyeÃÂOeÃÂre, beautifully illustrated throughout. In a contemporary quarter-morocco binding. Featuring a colour frontispiece, two furthe…
Elizabethan Critical Essays by First Edition
G. Gregory Smith · 1904 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1904. First edition. Cloth. The complete first edition of this insightful selection of Elizabethan literary criticism. First edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. A collection of contemporary …
English Book-Plates Ancient and Modern
Egerton Castle · 1893 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London; New York, George Bell & Sons, 1893. Cloth. A profusely illustrated, comprehensive study of English ex-libris, featuring the bookplate of Walter Ambrose Harding. New and enlarged edition, printed one year after the first. Â In the publisher's original green cloth bi…
An Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
John Carter; Graham Pollard · 1934 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of this excellent study into nineteenth century literary fakes and forgeries. The first edition of this work, with no other editions or impressions stated. Bound in the original publisher&a…
Why Not Catch 21? The Stories Behind the Titles
Dexter, Gary · 2007 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Francis Lincoln, 2007 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 238 pages. Text in English. As new. Why Not Catch 21? is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running Sunday Telegraph column. Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenti…
L'Eloge de la folie.
ERASME - HOLBEIN (Hans, ill. de). · 1971 · Babel Librairie
€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)
A Paris, Editions de Cluny / Coll. ''Bibliothque classique de Cluny'', (1947). Un vol. au format in-12 (188 x 123 mm) de 167 pp., brochŽ, sous jaquette. L'ouvrage s'agrŽmente des compositions in et hors-texte d'Hans Holbein. ''DŽdiŽ ˆ Thomas More, l'Eloge de la Folie cons…
Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XII and XIII Centuries. Selected and Translated Into English Verse, with a Preface and Notes. In 2 volumes bound in 1.
BEWICK. - LE GRAND, (D'Aussey, Pierre Jean-Baptiste (1737-1800)): · 17961800 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
CHF 150.00 (€162.27 | $178.85 | £135.36 | ¥28,564)
London, Bulmer and Co, Shakespeare Press, 1796, 1800, lg. in-8vo, 2 leaves (Titlepage -Sonnet to G.E.) + XXXVII (preface) (+ 1) + 1 leave + 280 p. / Titlepage + 340 p., illustrated with 52 woodengraved vignettes by John Bewick, some mild foxing, a bit more in some places, earl…
The Epodes of Horace. A Study in Poetic Arrangement.
CARRUBBA, R.W., · 1969 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)
Mouton, The Hague / Paris, 1969. 114p. Card bourd cover with dust wrps. Signature on half title. Series: Studies in Classical Literature 9. (Rare). ‘Perfunctory ‘chapters’ chronology and meter lead up to the real meat of this study, some sixty pages in which Carruba details a t…
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Ferber, Linda S. (Editor), Ferber, Linda S. and Gallati, Barbara Dayer and Jackson, Kenneth T. and Snook, Sarah B. · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)
Brooklyn and London, The Brooklyn Museum, in association with D. Giles Limited, 2004. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Brownish and gold and color illustrated wraps. 256 pp. 100 color, 100 bw plates. This catalog accompanies the first exhibition in more than 30 years of important 1…