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Essays in a Series of Letters

John Foster · 1833 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1833. Leather. A later edition of John Foster's personal and religious essays unusual in a fine decorative binding. On a man's writing memoirs of himself. On decision of character. On the application of the epithet romantic. On some of th...

Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences

Mrs. Bray · 1851 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London, John Murray, 1851. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition of the beautifully illustrated biography of artist Thomas Stothard. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. With the bookplate for S. F. Widdrington to the front pastedown. Thomas...

The Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson

Isaac Walton · 1796 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

York, J. Robson et al, 1796. Leather. A first edition of this collection of biographies by Isaac Walton. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Including biographies of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson. It was...

Sir Henry Raeburn

James Greig · 1911 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, The Connoisseur, 1911. Leather. An illustrated work on the Scottish painter Sir Henry Raeburn. A biographical work on prolific portrait painter Sir Henry Raeburn. Illustrated throughout with numerous examples of his work. Rebound in a lovely half calf binding. The imag...

A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg Illustrated with Recollections, Personal Anecdotes, and Traits of Character, Not Generally Known, from the Most Authentic Sources

Anonymous · 1818 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, John Booth et al, 1818. Leather. A biography of the daughter of George IV, who died at the age of 21. A biography of the daughter of George IV, who died at the age of 21. Fourth edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a vignette title page, one folding scen...

British Public Characters of 1798

Anonymous · 1798 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, R Phillips, 1798. Leather. A scarce collection of biographical sketches of seventy-one British public figures with a fold-out frontiepiece with thirty portraits. First edition. Missed by Cowie, this is the earliest appearance of a Nelson biographical reference. "In eve...

George Morland and the Evolution from Him of Some Later Painters

John Trivett Nettleship · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Seeley and Co. Limited , 1898. Leather. A fascinating biography exploring the life of George Morland, an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. Beautifully illustrated with many of Morland's works. His chief characteristic was that he painted the life that ...

Biographies by Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay · 1875 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1875. Leather. The biographies of the historian, essayist, and poet Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800–1859). "Written in the last year of his life, this work contains five biographical essays, on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, John...

Sir Frederic Leighton Bart, P.R. A: An Illustrated Chronicle

Ernest Rhys · 1895 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, George Bell and Sons , 1895. Leather. An in-depth study of the life and works of Frederic Leighton. With a frontispiece and numerous further photogravure plates featuring examples of Leighton's work, many with captioned tissue-guards. Includes a prefatory essay by...

A Memoir of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps

William Stephen Gilly · 1833 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, J & F Rivington et al. 1833. Leather. A nineteenth-century religious biography by the Anglican clergyman William Stephen Gilly. Second Edition. 'And of his labours among the French protestants of Dauphine, a remnant of the primitive Christians of Gaul&apos. Featur...

Kate Coventry an Autobiography

Kate Coventry, Henry Whyte Melville (Ed) · 1891 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1891. Leather. A copy of 'Kate Coventry; An Autobiography' edited by George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet. A New Edition. In a half morocco binding with marbled boards. Exter...

School-Days of Eminent Men

John Timbs · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Lockwood and Co, c1870. Leather. A copy of 'School-Days of Eminent Men: or, early lives of celebrated british authors, philosophers, and poets, inventors and discoverers, divines, heroes, statesmen and legislators; with sketches of the progress of education in Eng...

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine Von Gravenitz

Marie Hay · 1906 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1906. First edition. Leather. A fascinating semi-fictional account of the life of Wilhelmine Von Gravenitz. First edition. Wilhelmine von Gravenitz (1684–1744) was a German noble, the favourite and royal mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwi...

The Honourable Sir Charles Murray, K.C. B. A Memoir

Herbert Maxwell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£149.99 (€179.79 | $198.16 | ¥31,643)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Maxwell's biography of the British author and diplomat Sir Charles Murray. This biography was written by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith, a Scottish novelist, essayist, Conservat...

The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne

Lewis Melville · 0 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Stanley Paul and Co. c1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne', complete in two volumes. Best known for his work 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy', Sterne was influential in many other fields ...

Reminiscences of an Old Boy: Being Autobiographical Sketches of Scottish Rural Life from 1832 to 1856

William J. Milne · 1901 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Forfar, John Macdonald, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this autobiography by William J. Milne. Detailing the author's life in rural Scotland from 1832-1856, the work presents an interesting depiction of the country during the nineteenth century Copi...

The Journals, Letters, & Verses of Marjory Fleming in Collotype Facsimile from the Original Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland

Marjory Fleming; edited by Arundell Esdaile · 1934 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1934. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Fleming's journals, letters and verses. Number 60 of 550 copies, 525 of which were printed for sale. With a portrait frontispiece, and plates throughout. Marjorie Fleming (15 January 1803 – 19 Decem...

Master Richard Quyny: Bailiff of Stratford-Upon-Avon and Friend of William Shakespeare

Edgar Innes Fripp · 1924 · Rooke Books

£435.00 (€521.42 | $574.70 | ¥91,771)

London , Oxford University Press, Henry Milford, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Shakespeare's friend Richard Quyny [Quiney] First edition. With three plates. With the scarce dustwrapper. Richard Quiney was a friend of William Shakespear...

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

R. Louis Stevenson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1912. Cloth. Stevenson's memoir of his friend Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S. LL.D. Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Best known as the inventor of the cable car, Jenkin (1833-1885) was something of a polymath, with talents ...

Memorials of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1860 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London , Methuen, 1860. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, two volume set of Memorials of Thomas Hood. A set of relflections on his life edited by his daughter, the volume contains a great deal of anecdotes and recollections which are testament to Thomas Hood's renown...