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Mr Gillray: The Caricaturist

Draper Hill · 1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, The Phaidon Press, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Draper Hill's biography of James Gillray in the original dust wrapper. Biography of James Gillray by Draper Hill, the first edition. With 147 black and white plates. Collated, complete. James Gil...

Ada Vachell of Bristol

F. M. Unwin · 1928 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this biography of Ada Vachell, a worker for people with disabilities, complete with illustrations. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated comple...

Oliver Cromwell&Apos;S Letters and Speeches

Oliver Cromwell; Thomas Carlyle · 1885 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1885-1886. Leather. Leading Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle offers a gloss on the letters of Oliver Cromwell in these three attractive volumes. The third edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, elucidated by Scottish essayist, historia...

The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author

Laurence Sterne; James P. Browne [ed] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.64 | ¥81,223)

London , Bickers & Son , 1873. Leather. A complete four volume set in smart leather binding of The Works of Laurence Sterne. A complete four volume set. These new edition copies were published in 1873.The Works of Laurence Sterne With A Life of the Author is written by himsel...

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Lucy Apsley Hutchinson · 1822 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. Cloth. A fourth edition copy of this complete two volume set of the Life of Colonel Hutchison and Lucy Apsley Hutchinson. A complete two volume set of Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson who was the Governor of Nottin...

Selections from the Correspondence of Robert Bloomfield: The Suffolk Poet Facsimile Edition

Robert Bloomfield; W. H. Hart [ed.] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Surrey, Robert F. Ashby, 1968. Cloth. A scarce copy of this facsimile edition of this very rare 1870 work, detailing the correspondence of Suffolk poet Robert Bloomfield. The facsimile edition, of which only 200 copies were issued, of the 1870 Spottiswode edition of this work,...

Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries

Robert Burns; P. F Aiken · 1876 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington , 1876. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries. A first edition copy of Memorials of Robert Burns and Some of His Contemporaries and their Descendants by P....

The Life of John Thelwall

Mrs Thelwall [Cecil Thelwall] · 1837 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Macrone, 1837. First edition. Cloth. Bright rebound copy of this very scarce first edition biography of John Thelwall by his widow. The first edition of this work. Volume one, all published. Written by Thelwall's widow, his second wife. An extremely scarce w...

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More

William Roberts · 1834 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London , R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. Leather. A complete four volume set of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More by William Roberts. Second edition copies of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More  by William Roberts. Hannah ...

After Work: Fragments from the Workshop of an Old Publisher

Edward Marston · 1904 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, William Heinemann , 1904. First edition. Leather. The first edition autobiography of Edward Marston, a notable publisher of the nineteenth century. The scarce first edition. Rebound in smart half morocco with gilt lettering to the spine. With a portrait frontispiece, t...

Betty Radice: 1912-1985

Betty Radice; Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Not Stated , Not Stated , c1985. Paperback. A very scarce booklet dedicated to the life and work of translator Betty Radice, a lovely example. A very scarce copy only catalogued at the UCL Library Services on Copac. Dated from that copy.An ode to the life and work of literary ...

Meridiana: Noontide Essays

Herbert Maxwell · 1892 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce true first edition of this collection of essays by Sir Herbert Maxwell. First edition of Meridiana: Noontide Essays by Sir Herbert Maxwell in the original publisher's cloth binding.Â...

Life of Field Marshall His Grace the Duke of Wellington

Andrew R Bonar · 1815 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, W. Nicholson & Sons, Limited, c1844. First edition. Cloth. A very neat first edition of this biography of the Duke of Wellington. First edition. Undated. The biography of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who acted as...

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor&Apos;S Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from Restoration to His Banishment in 1667.

Edward Earl of Clarendon · 1759 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition. Leather. A smart three volume autobiographical work on the Earl of Clarendon. The first edition. Complete in three volumes. Volume one is paginated separately with volumes two and three being paginated continuously. Unifor...

The Journals and Letters of Hugh Stanley

Hugh Stanley Head, His Mother [editor] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , Ranken, Ellis & Co , 1892. First edition. Hardback. A scarce first edition copy of The Journals and Letters of Hugh Stanley. A scarce first edition copy of this volume of letters and journals of author Hugh Stanley Head, which have been edited by his mother. The lett...

Blackwood&Apos;S Desk Diary with Articles by Robert Blatchford

Robert Blatchford · 1909 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Straker & Crane's Dairy Co , 1909. Cloth. A scarce desk diary with newspaper clippings of articles by Robert Blatchford. This is a copy of Blackwood's Desk Diary from 1909 with newspaper clippings and articles mainly by Robert Blatchford stuck inside. The di...

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life

Isabel Burton; W. H. Wilkins · 1897 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1897. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this fascinating biography of Isabel Burton, the writer, adventurer and wife of Richard Francis Burton. The scarce first edition. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in a neat half morocco bind...

Memoires for My Grand-Son

John Evelyn; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1926 . Hardback. A charming Limited Edition of this biographical work by English writer John Evelyn, written between 1704 and 1705. Number three-hundred and nine of one-thousand two-hundred and fifty Limited Edition copies of this work produced.Edited b...

The Life of William Harvey

Geoffrey Keynes · 1978 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1978. Cloth. A fascinating insight and medical history of the physician William Harvey, with illustrations. A reprint edition. Within this volume, Geoffrey Keynes attempts to place William Harvey with a fully documented account of his relation...

Revolt in the Desert

T. E. Lawrence · 1927 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. Cloth. T. E. Lawrence's classic war memoir, the fifth impression. The fifth impression of this work published in May 1927, following the first four impressions all published in March 1927. Also published in a limited edition in the same year.Â...