Cerca libri
Risultati della ricerca
8858 risultati per "Shakespeare"
The Book of Wedding Days
K. E. J Reid, May Ross & Mabel Bamfield · 1889 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. Cloth. A delicately and thoughtfully illustrated collation of quotations and poems for each day of the year. A beautifully illustrated and decorated calendar of quotations for every day of the year.Each page is beautifully decorated in red …
The Novellino of Masuccio
Masuccio Salernitano; W. G. Waters [trans.] · 1895 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated, two volume edition of the short stories of this fifteenth century Italian poet. Translated into English by W. G. Waters, and here in two illustrated volumes, this is No. 790 of 1000 copies printed in this editi…
The Blue Poetry Book
Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1891 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1891 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charmingly illustrated collection of poetry from notable writers compiled by Andrew Lang. The first edition. In the publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a …
Poems Upon Several Occasions English, Italian and Latin with Translations with Notes, Critical and Explanatory
John Milton; Thomas Warton [ed.] · 1785 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)
London, James Dodsley, 1785. Leather. An excellent first edition of this revised collection of poems by Milton, edited by English literary historian Thomas Warton. The first edition of this collection, edited by Warton. Bound in contemporary calf, spine rebacked. ESTC T134607. P…
The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley
A. T. Quiller-Couch · 1895 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, Methuen and Co. 1895. First edition. Vellum. A very scarce limited edition copy of Arthur Quiller-Couch's first poetry anthology, being one of only thirty copies. Number 25 of an edition limited to 30 copies.In a contemporary full vellum binding, with marbled endpap…
Another Book of Verses for Children
E. V. Lucas [ed.] · 1907 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated volume of poetry for children, edited by the Punch magazine author E. V. Lucas. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.…
The Poets&Apos; Pleasaunce: Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, Which Our Pleasant Poets Have, in Past Time, for Pastime, Planted
Eden Warwick · 1847 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1847. First edition. Leather. First edition of this charming work illustrative of the best poets' homages to flowers in their work, in a beautiful full calf binding by Riviere & Son. A sweeping work illustrating the best of Brit…
Rhymes and Roundelayes in Praise of a Country Life
Various · 1857 · Rooke Books
£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)
London, David Bogue, 1857. First edition. Leather. A wonderful first edition of this collection of poetry about country life, containing illustrations by the likes of Birket Foster, George Dodgson and John Absolon, containing the bookplate of John Liddell, a distant relative of …
The Philosophy of Melancholy
Thomas Love Peacock · 1812 · Rooke Books
£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)
London, William Bulmer and Co, Shakespeare Press; et al, 1812. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Peacock's romantic poem on melancholy, written in the same year that Peacock met Percy Shelley. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.'The …
The Poetical Works of James Thomson
James Thomson; Charles Cowden Clarke [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
London, William P. Nimmo, 1869 . Leather. Illustrated throughout with vibrant chromolithographs, this is a wonderful collected edition of the poetry of James Thomson, in a Bayntun half calf binding. In a half calf signed binding from Bayntun, with the publisher's original d…
A Preface to Coleridge and Coleridge&Apos;S Variety
John Beer [ed.]; L.C. Knights [intro.]; Allan Grant · 1972 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London; New York, Macmillan; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972-1974 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of first edition literary criticism on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a founder of the Romantic Movement. A two volume set of works of literary criticism on Samuel…
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers.
Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. · 1824 · Rooke Books
£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)
London, G. and J. Offor et al. 1824. Leather. A marvellous and scarce edition of this standard dictionary of the English language. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English poet, essayist, biographer and literary critic. He published 'A Dictionary of the English Language&ap…
Douglas: A Tragedy As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden
J Home · 1757 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
Edinburgh, G Hamilton, 1757. First edition. Disbound. The first Edinburgh edition of this blank verse tragedy by John Home. 'Douglas' was first performed in Edinburgh in 1756. This is the first printed edition, which cites its performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent…
Poems Upon Several Occasions
John Milton; Thomas Warton [ed.] · 1791 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1791 . Leather. A bright example of the second Thomas Warton edition of the poetry of John Milton, in a full calf binding. The second Thomas Warton edition. A collection of the poems of John Milton. Including Milton's original poems, as well a…
Mrs. Leicester&Apos;S School; or, the History of Several Young Ladies
[Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb] · 1825 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, M. J. Godwin and Co. 1825. Leather. The ninth edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's popular collection of linked children's stories. Ninth edition.In contemporary quarter roan, with marbled paper covered boards. Renewed endpapers.With the engraved frontispiece.Mrs…
The Works of Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd [ed.] · 1867 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
New York, George Routledge and Sons, 1867. Leather. A very smart, full calf binding of a new edition collecting many of the letters and essay titles of Charles Lamb. A new edition - the first edition by George Routledge and Sons recorded on Jisc.English essayist, poet and antiqu…
The Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
J. Payne Collier · 1820 · Rooke Books
£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co. 1820 . First edition. Leather. A neatly bound, first edition of John Payne Collier's exploration of English poetry, particularly authors present during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Bound in…
The Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to Bayly. Hausschatz Englischer Poesie.
O. L. B. Wolff; Various · 1846 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
Leipzig, Vereins-Verlagsbuchhandlung; Otto Wigand, 1846. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce German anthology of the best English poetry, from Chaucer to Bayly. The first edition of this very scarce work.In English and German.This work presents selectio…
A Book of the Heavenly Birthdays
Eleanor Vere Boyle; Various · 1894 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, Elliot Stock, 1894. Leather. A charming anthology of poems, edited, illustrated, and signed by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Signed by the illustrator to the recto of the front free endpaper, "To E. C. C. from E. V. B. Sept 1894".The second edition of this scarce work.Illustrated …
The Poet As a Citizen and Other Papers
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1934 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition copy of this volume of essays by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The first edition, first impression.Finely bound by Syd. A. Howe.A series of nine essays by Arthur Quiller-Couch.Containing &a…