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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell [ed.] · 1819 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, John Murray, 1819 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful seven volume collection of the works of famous and obscure British poets, from 1400 to 1805. The first edition, complete in seven volumes.Edited by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, chiefly remem…

Gesta Romanorum or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks As a Fire-Side Recreation

Thomas Wright · 1871 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1871. Hardback. A complete two volume set of this new edition collection of anecdotes and tales originating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Complete in two volumes. New edition. A Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that w…

Tales

George Crabbe · 1812 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, J. Hatchard, 1812. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this collection of poetry by George Crabbe, bound in a full tree calf binding. The first edition of this work. 'Tales' is a collection of poetry by George Crabbe, which includes 'The Dumb Orat…

Stories in Verse

Leigh Hunt · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Geo. Routledge & Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. A complete collection of poetry across the career of Leigh Hunt, a leading figure within the literary circles of his day. The first edition of Stories in Verse, an anthology of the greatest narrative poems across the lifet…

The English Novelists: A Survey of the Novel by Twenty Contemporary Novelists

Various; Derek Verschoyle [ed.] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, in uncommon dust wrapper, which attempts to encapsulate some of the most prominent novel writers of Britain's history. A very smart first edition copy. Bound in publisher's original green …

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Cloth. A first issue copy of this poetry collection set in a Massachusetts Inn, written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first edition, first issue, with page 11 of the publisher's adverts to the rear stat…

The English Poets Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction by Matthew Arnold

Thomas Humphry Ward · 1900 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London and New York, The Macmillan Company, 1900-1902. Cloth. A set of student edition books on English poets published over two years. Complete in four volumes. With introductions by Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888), who was an English poet and cultural critic…

English Social History

G.M. Trevelyan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1945. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition, third impression of this illustrated social history of England by G.M. Trevelyan, handsomely bound in half calf by Morrell. A fascinating work of the social history of England by G.M. Trevelya…

Nottingham Medieval Studies 69 (2025) Special Issue: Spirits and Spirituality in Medieval England from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century, edited by Eleni Ponirakis

collective · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, 263 pages, 156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 2 col. English text. *New . ISBN 9782503616698. Foreword ? Louise Nelstrop Introduction ? Eleni Ponirakis Part One. Monastic Poetics and Mystical Union The Exeter Book?s Fish in the River Riddle and its…

Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse

David R. Carlson · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 358 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442260. Summary This study offers a novel paradigm for explaining the late-medieval Anglo-Latin verse, by analyzing the development of the writings of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1…

Cambridge II

Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Holly James-Maddocks · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Paperback, 328 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:47 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9781912554270. Summary This is the ninth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscri…

Collecting, Organizing and Transmitting Knowledge

Sabrina Corbellini 116791, Giovanna Murano , Giacomo Signore · 2018 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€57.00 ($62.83 | £47.55 | ¥10,034)

Brepols, 2018, Paperback, 262, Miscellanies may easily make up the single largest group of medieval manuscripts. It was especially in the Late Middle Ages that the number of such multi-textual manuscripts, often compiled by lay and religious individuals for personal or communal …

How to Speak Brit / The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases

Christopher J. Moore · 2014 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Penguin. 2014; hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy. <b>The quintessential A to Z guide to British English—perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier</b><br> <br>Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common wi…

Writers / Their Lives and Works

James Naughtie · 2018 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Dorling Kindersley. 2018; Hardcover; mooi exemplaar / fine copy. Pre-19th century. Dante Alighieri ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; François Rabelais ; Michel de Montaigne ; Miguel de Cervantes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; John Milton ; Molière ; Aphra Behn ; Ma…

Shakespeare The Biography

Peter Ackroyd · 2006 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.00 | ¥1,056)

Vintage. 2006, paperback, goed exemplaar, good copy. With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biograp…

English Wayfaring Life in Middle Ages - Signed & Numbered Limited Edn. (1889)

Jusserand, J. J. · 1889 · Bookbarrow

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1889. First Edition, Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. A limited, numbered edition on Japanese paper, one of only 65 copies, this being number 48; bound in vellum & signed by the publisher T. Fisher Unwin on the limitation page; tissue-guarded b/w…

The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Now First Collected with Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing.

HENRYSON (Robert). LAING (David), editor: · 1865 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Edinburgh: William Paterson, Princes Street, 1865. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 195 x 115 mms., pp. lx, 331 [332 blank], including half-title, title-page in red and black, handsomely bound in full straight grain contemporary panelled in gilt morocco, spine ornately gilt in compartments…

Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places

Walter Thornbury; Edward Walford · 1851 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880. Leather. A smart six volume set on the city of London, with illustrations throughout. Complete in six volumes. No edition remarks. A charming work on the history and people of the city of London. Each volume is illustrated with a front…

The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature

Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. Cloth. An interesting historical of survey of English literature, from the invention of the printing press to the early twentieth century. With fifty one plates across two volumes Across two volumes, Thomas Seccombe offers a historical of surv…

Breakfast in Perigord Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods

Sir William Russell Flint · 1968 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Charles Skilton, 1968. Leather. A limited edition copy of this collection of essays by William Russell Flint, illustrated throughout, signed by the author. A limited edition work, with five-hundred and twenty-five copies signed and numbered, of which four-hundred and sev…