Search Results: Titles starting with S from Rooke Books

London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. Paperback. Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. Very scarce copy of this catalogue of two sales of S. & C. Stephenson. Printed roughly two centuries after the sales by the Printing Historical Society, the catalogues contains many illustrations and descriptions of printing apparatus, with an introduction by James Mosley exploring the refinement in the techniques and materials of printing that were developed in the late eighteenth century. Mosley, as a retired librarian, historian and specialist in the history of printing and letter design therefore is a notable and authoritative commentator on the history of printing apparatus, making this text a vital work for any reader interested in the history of printing. Published by 'The Printing Historical Society', a society devoted to the study of the history of printing. The Society was jointly founded in 1964 by James Mosley and a large group of teachers, scholars, students of design and bibliography,… Read More

Oxonni [Oxford]: E Typographeo Academico, 1847. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. In these two leather bound volumes, William Jacobson analyses the writings of the first three Apostolic Fathers. Published in Latin and Greek. William Jacobson discusses the first three Apostolic Fathers in these two leather bound volumes published in Latin and Greek. The Apostolic fathers, also known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers, were core Christian theologians who lived in the first and second centuries. Their writings were widely circulated in early Christianity, but did not enter the canon of the New Testament despite deriving from the same time period and geographical locations as those works that did. In the present volumes, Jacobson analyses the writings of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna. Jacobson was Professor of Divinity at Oxford University between 1848 and 1865, after which he became the Bishop of Chester, a position he held until his death. From the library of… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 1894. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A scarce study on St. Paul's Cathedral by a Sub-Dean, William Sparrow Simpson, an interesting illustrated history. The first edition of this scarce work.Written by the Sub-Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, this work explores the history of the Cathedral and its surrounding areas. An interesting look at both the civil and religious life of the Cathedral from the 13th to 16th century.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four plates.This work was published as the finale of a trilogy, following 'History of Old S. Paul's', and 'Gleaning from Old S. Paul's'.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Only a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Spots to the endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto and verso of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1931. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of James Gould Cozzen's exciting novel set at sea, about a disaster that caused changes in sea safety. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'S. S. "San Pedro"' is a novel set roughly on the true story of the S.S. Vestris, a preventable disaster, which ended up causing many changes in safety at sea. Written by James Gould Cozzens, an American novelist. He is known for his works 'By Love Possessed' and 'Guard of Honor'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dustwrapper with light discolouration and edgewear, heavier to the head of the spine with a small amount of loss. Very light marks to the dustwrapper and to the reverse. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright… Read More

Rome: Typographia Salomoniana, 1784. First edition. Leather. Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A very scarce first edition study on the rites of the Catholic Church, written in the original Latin. In Latin.A first edition of this very scarce work.Half-title is present.A fascinating exploration and succinct explanation of the rites and liturgies of the Catholic Church. The work focuses on the deuterocanonical texts of the Catholic Church, with a focus on their place amongst the canon of the Bible. Originally penned by an anonymous author in the 12th century, and edited with notes by Philip Zazzera.Monastic bookplate to the front paste down of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate. In a half vellum binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Pencil to the front joint. Vellum is a little discoloured, as is usual. Rubbing to the boards. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Ink to the spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound.… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this alternative history novel from Len Deighton. First edition. An alternative history novel set in a Great Britain conquered and occupied by Germany in the Second World War. Set less than a year after the surrender of Great Britain to Nazi Germany, following detective Douglas Archer in his investigation of a curious murder. Written by Len Deighton, a British author of cookery books, history, military history, and spy novels. Dust wrapper designed by English graphic designer and author, Raymond Hawkey. In the original full black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear and minor sunning. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". Raymon Hawkey. The first edition of this alternative history novel by British author, Len Deighton. This is a first edition of the work, in smart black cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper, with an eye-catching red fore edge to the top of the novel . Len Deighton is a British author known for his novels on espionage and military history. He has written a number of works on the Second World War, including this one, which has since been adapted into a 2017 television series. This particular novel is set after the Second World War in an alternative future, where Germany won the war and Britain is now occupied. Set less than a year after the surrender of Britain, this novel follows the story of detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a curious murder.In a dust wrapper designed by English graphic designer and author, Raymond Hawkey. In original publisher's cloth binding with unclipped dust… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of this alternative history novel from Len Deighton. First edition. An alternative history novel set in a Great Britain conquered and occupied by Germany in the Second World War. Set less than a year after the surrender of Great Britain to Nazi Germany, following detective Douglas Archer in his investigation of a curious murder. Written by Len Deighton, a British author of cookery books, history, military history, and spy novels. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 5.5". Raymond Hawkey. The first edition of this alternative history novel by British author, Len Deighton. This is a first edition of the work, in smart black cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper, with an eye-catching red fore edge to the top of the novel. Len Deighton is a British author known for his novels on espionage and military history. He has written a number of works on the Second World War, including this one, which has since been adapted into a 2017 television series. This particular novel is set after the Second World War in an alternative future, where Germany won the war and Britain is now occupied. Set less than a year after the surrender of Britain, this novel follows the story of detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a curious murder.In a dust wrapper designed by English graphic designer and author, Raymond Hawkey. In original publisher's cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper.… Read More

London: Book Club Associates, 1978. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films, and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his Bernard Samson novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988. He wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film of the play Oh! What a Lovely War. His 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany often is considered his masterpiece. Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by his witnessing the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, a British citizen of Russian descent who was a Nazi spy, and charged with violating the Official Secrets Act on May 20, 1940. in a cloth binding… Read More

Edinburgh: David Brown, 1824. Fine Binding. Very Good. 5.5" by 3". None. A beautiful pocket-sized edition of James Grahame's poem The Sabbath A charming little book containing James Grahame's most celebrated poem 'The Sabbath', alongside a collection of some of his shorter works. Grahame (1765-1811) was a Scottish poet and philanthropist, writing a joint volume of poetry alongside James Montgomery and Elizabeth Bengor about the abolition of slavery in 1809. 'The Sabbath' is a wonderfully descriptive poem in blank verse, uniting the Scottish countryside and religious devotion in keeping with Grahame's Anglicanism. This edition is in a full calf binding, with gilt spines and borders. In a full calf binding. Externally lovely, minor shelfwear to the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean, 2cm tear to page 41 and 43. Very Good

London: C. Arthur Pearson, LTD., 1939. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. The very scarce first edition of this exciting murder mystery by Barbara Hepgate, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A thrilling murder mystery, following Miriam Blake as she meets the man her sister is supposed to marry. As soon as she sees this man she believes he is the Sabbath Slayer, a homicidal maniac, who murders a young woman every Sunday. Sure enough, Miriam's sister is found murdered on her wedding night, but Miriam cannot help being pulled into the Slayer's web...By Barbara Heygate, her other works include 'Loving Dangerously', 'Unholy Wedlock', 'Forbidden Honeymoon', and 'Unless a Child is Born -'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A little fading and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some spots to the… Read More

London: Bell and Daldy, 1856 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 7". Birket Foster. The very scarce first edition of this anthology of Christian poems. Illustrated in colour by Birket Foster, with the chromolithographs printed and engraved by Edmund Evans. The very scarce first edition of this illustrated mid nineteenth century anthology of poetry relating to prayer and the sabbath, edited by writer, publisher and photographer Joseph Cundall, and with poems from Cowper, Mrs. Hemans, Longfellow, Coleridge, Herbert - and many others - present.Illustrated throughout with bright vignette chromolithographs from watercolourist Birket Foster, printed and engraved by Edmund Evans, who was know for employing and collaborating with illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and Richard Doyle to produce what are now considered to be classic children's books. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Internally, binding strained to centre… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1993. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 8" by 8". Nick Bantock. The first U.K edition of this wonderful interractive epistolary work, which won the 'Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award' for 1993 This is the second work in 'The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy'. Alike to his other works, this book is elaborately designed, featuring facsimile postage stamps, hand-written letters and documents, postcards and other ephemera. The correspondence between two characters, Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem is documented to this work. Collated, complete. The first U.K edition, issued the year after the true first edition. In original hardcover boards and held in original, unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely condition. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor rubbing to the head of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine

London: Macmillan , 1993. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8" by 8". Nick Bantock . The first UK edition of this beautifully illustrated and interactive work by Nick Bantock, documenting the correspondences between Griffin and Sabine. The first UK edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Illustrated throughout with full colour illustrations, facsimile's of postage stamps, letters, postcards and other documents and interactive envelopes with contents inside. This epistolary novel was written and illustrated by Nick Bantock, a British artist and author who is best known for his series, 'The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy', with this novel being the second from that series. The work documents the correspondences between lovers Griffin and Sabine. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only slight rubbing to the rear. The wrap is very smart with… Read More

London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. An eclectic collection of poetry from notable writers, in Latin, Greek, German and Italian, with the English translations. The third edition of this work in a full calf binding, with pictorial gilt of King William's College, Isle of Man, to the front board, and the Isle of Man symbol to the rear board, and gilt detailing to the spine. Marbling to the end papers and edges. Prize bookplate of King William's College, Isle of Man, to the front paste down, dated 1873. Bookplate to the verso of the front free end paper. A collection of nature poems and sacred songs from a variety of poets, from ancient sources such as the Book of Isaiah and works from Lucretius, to the Romantic poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. The title of this collection takes its name from a poem by John Milton, whose poems are also featured in this work. The poems are written in Latin, German, Greek and Italian, with translations into English… Read More

Londoni : G. Bell et Filii, 1890. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated . The fourth edition of this charming poetry anthology featuring Latin and Greek translations, in a smart full diced calf binding. A fascinating collection of poems, with text in English accompanied by Latin or Greek translations to recto. Written by 'three viri floribus legendis', namely I.E. Benjamin, H. Kennedy, and James Riddell, scholars of classical studies.With engraved capitals. Featuring the half title, bound without the lithographic frontispiece. Latin prize inscription to recto front blank page 'C. P. Goodden alumno Harroviensi litteris Latinis et Graecis insigni praemium adiudicaverent' dated 1895. With Cecil Phelips Goodden bookplate to front pastedown. In a full diced calf binding with intricate gilt tooling to spine and extremities, gilt to edges, new endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, spine lightly rubbed and faded. Cecil Phelips Goodden bookplate to front pastedown. Latin prize… Read More

London: Impensis Georgii Bell, 1850. Vellum. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A collection of poetry translated into Latin and Greek, showing the original English, illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece, compiled by Benjamin Hall Kennedy and James Riddell. A collection of poetry translated from English into Latin or Greek, with the translations facing the English poem. Containing poems by Smollett, Moore, SHelley, Tennyson, Byron, Burns, Swift, and more. With a lithographic frontispiece, and numerous other in-text illustrations. Compiled by Benjamin Hall Kennedy and James Riddell. Kennedy was a scholar and schoolmaster, known for his teaching Latin. He was the main contributor of translations or this work. Kennedy also wrote a number of other classical and theological works. Prior owner's ink inscription to the verso to the front endpaper. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'Filio alumnoque meo Georgia Harico Holden anno nato XIV ipsis… Read More

Bautzen: Bertha Zillessen, c1920. Unbound. Very Good. 6" by 4". None. A very scarce collection of postcards from the State Association of Saxon Homeland Security in Dresden, based on original photographs by Bertha Zillessen. A very scarce collection of Saxon postcards from various regions of Switzerland and Germany. Comprising of the following 'Sachsische Heimatschutz-Postkarten im Austrage des Landesvereins Sachsischer Heimatschutz in Dresden': Sachsische Schweiz ISachsische Schweiz IISachsische Schweiz III Oberwiesenthal These collections of photographs were printed in approximately 1920. They are reprints of the photographs taken by Bertha Zillessen (1872-1936), the first professional photographer in Bautzen. Her photographs depict rural lifestyles, nature, and local architecture in this region. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, smart, with some minor shelf wear and a few small closed tears to the wraps. A small mark to the front of Sachsische Schweiz I. Light pencil… Read More

Hanover und Leipzig: Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1922. Hardback. Good. 7" by 5". George Grosz. The satirical writings of Hans Reimann, Illustrated with fourteen cartoons by important German cartoonist George Grosz. A satire illustrated by George Grosz.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Hans Reimann (1889-1969) was a German satirist. George Grosz (1893-1959) was a German artist known for his cartoons and his depictions of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933 just before Hitler's rise to power.With fourteen illustrations by George Grosz. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Externally a trifle worn; with an illegible contemporary inscription to the front board, which is rather faded, and some general wear to the spine and extremities. Internally, binding is a little tender, and the front joint has failed. Pages are age toned at the edges, but otherwise clean. Good