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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser; Rev. Alexander B. Grosart · 1844 · Rooke Books
£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)
-, Printed for Private Circulation , 1844-1884. First edition. Cloth. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spenser. With illustrations, and a biographical introduction to the sixteenth century poet. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spens…
The Works of Whyte-Melville Songs and Verses and the True Cross Riding Recollections Contraband or a Losing Hazard Market Harborough and Inside the Bar
G. J. Whyte-Melville · 0 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)
London, Ward, Lock & Co. c1890. Leather. A four volume set of works by the notable Scottish novelist and poet, George John Whyte-Melville. Containing the following works: 'Songs and Verses and The True Cross' 'Riding Recollections' 'Contraband or A Losin…
Blindfold Games; the Emissary: G.D. Birla, Gandhi and Independence; Coastwise Lights
Alan Ross · 1986 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Collins Harvill, 1986-1988 . First edition. Cloth. A smart three volume set of autobiographical works by British poet Alan Ross, in the original dust wrappers. A three volume set. The first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original dust …
The Gentle Art of Theatre-Going
John Drinkwater · 1927 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Ernest Benn Ltd; Robert Holden & Co. Ltd. 1927-1929. Cloth. A smart set of three volumes by John Drinkwater from the author's personal library, with a signed copy. Three volumes. From the author's personal collection.With a signed copy by the author. In the o…
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith · 1816 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
Glasgow, R. Chapman, 1816. Leather. The collected works of Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, including his best known works, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. Complete in four volumes.A collection of the works of Oliver Goldsmith.Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I.…
The Golden Room and Other Poems
Wilfrid Gibson · 1928 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetical collection from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, known for his World War I poetry and beyond. First edition. With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Final advertisme…
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition of Muriel Spark's celebrated work of modern Scottish fiction, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Th…
The Works of G.J. Whyte-Melville
G. J. Whyte-Melville; Sir Herbert Maxwell [editor] · 1899 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, W. Thacker & Co. 1899-1900. Cloth. Two smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. Two volumes of a twenty-four volume set. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies, printed by Morrison and Gibb Lim…
The Prose Works of John Milton
John Milton; J. A. St. John · 1848 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1848-1858. Leather. A smart leatherbound set of the prose works of English writer and civil servant John Milton. Complete in five volumes. Bohn's Standard Library. With a portrait frontispiece to volumes one, two, and three. A collection of the prose …
The Collected Plays of John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater · 1925 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925. First edition. Leather. John Drinkwater's own personal copies of his collected plays, complete in two volumes. With volume I present in the limited edition, and volume II in the trade edition and signed by Drinkwater. John Drinkwater's…
The Works of Mr. William Congreve
William Congreve · 1761 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761. Leather. The complete collection of the satirical and tragic plays of the Restoration playwright William Congreve, illustrated beautifully detailed plates. Complete in three volumes. A collection of the plays and poems of William Congreve, the…
The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Pinney [ed.] · 1974 · Rooke Books
£198.00 (€237.33 | $261.59 | ¥41,772)
Cambridge , Cambridge University Press , 1974-1981. First edition. Cloth. The attractive 6 volume set of letters by influential Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, with 6 frontispieces and unclipped dust wrappers. The first editions of the work.Volumes 1 and 2 published i…
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope · 1831 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, William Pickering , 1831. Leather. A calf-bound collection of the works of prominent 18th-century English poet, Alexander Pope. Complete in three volumes. The first William Pickering publication of Alexander Pope's poetical works. Complete in three volumes. Uniforml…
The Pirate Ship and Other Poems
David Blyth · 1879 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
Edinburgh, Edmonston & Company, 1879. Leather. A beautifully bound, association copy of this collection of poetry by David Blyth, presented to the author's sister-in-law by the author's sister. A very smart collection of nineteenth-century poetry by seaman and poet, Da…
The Seasons and Castle of Indolence
James Thomson · 1826 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
Whitefriars, London, T. Davison, 1826. Hardback. The two Thomson classics bound in one volume, with this edition published during the height of romanticism. The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, written by esteemed Scottish poet James Thomson, to which is prefixed The Life of…
The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1912 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1912. Leather. A smart fifth impression of this collection of the complete poetical works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Complete in six volumes. Fifth impression. Written by Algernon Charles Swinburne, an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. T…
The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar
Peter Pindar [John Wolcot] · 1788 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Dublin, Messieurs Colles, White, Byrne, M'Kenzie, Jones, 1788. First edition. Leather. The first Irish edition of the witty poetical works of English satirist John Wolcot, including mockeries of James Boswell and of contemporary literary reviewers. The first Irish edition o…
The Poems of Bishop Henry King
Bishop Henry King; John Sparrow [Ed.] · 1925 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925 . Hardback. A limited Nonesuch Press edition of the poetry of Bishop Henry King, with a contemporary presentation inscription from the celebrated modernist poster designer E. McKnight Kauffer to the front free endpaper. In the original publisher&…
Country Contentments: Or, the Husbandsmans Recreations
Gervase Markham · 1633 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Thomas Harper, 1633. Cloth. An early edition of Gervase Markham's seventeenth century work on sporting and recreation, a scarce work in any edition. A fascinating seventeenth century work on sports and recreation of upper class English men, including hawking, tennis…
Philip Rollo, or, the Scottish Musketeers
James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, George Routledge and Sons, c1880. Leather. A lovely copy of this novel by Scottish historical fiction writer James Grant. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety books, including …