Authors starting with B from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Paris: Printed for Truchy, French and English Library, 1830. Being Easy Lessons adapted to the Capacities of Youth; to which are added Short Tales by Mrs. Opie, Edgeworth, Etc. Selected and Enlarged by J. Stephens. 144pp., 18mo. With the half-title, several neat and mostly pencil translations of English words into French throughout. Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards; spine worn but sound. First edition of this selection, for French children learning English and with footnotes explaining hard word... more information

London: Printed for Richard Cumberland, 1693. and what seemed most Remarkable in more than forty Authors, Phylosophical, Chymical, Medical, Astronomical, Historical, &c. Whereunto is added an Appendix, containing. . . delightful Rules in many parts of the Mathematicks. By T.B. Gent. [ii], 120pp., 8vo. Blank corner torn from title just touching the line border but no text, stain at head of title and in the upper margin of the last few leaves, a few manuscript notes and markings throughout. Contempo... more information

London: Sold by J. and A. Arch, 1819. from the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, to the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. viii, 358, xxi, [3]pp., 4to. Engraved portrait, additional title, and a cul-de-lampe portrait of Queen Elizabeth on the last leaf of text. Contemporary half black morocco (slightly rubbed), t.e.g., others untrimmed. First edition, detailed scholarship by a precocious teen-ager who began to write while convalescing after the amputation of his right arm. He is so shown in his portrai... more information

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. by Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq. Author of The Heroine. . . Occasional Poems. 121, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece by Hopwood after Hilton, woodcut title and other vignettes, with the half-title. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; upper cover barely holding. Attractive engraved ticket of B.E. Lloyd & Son Booksellers, Harley Street on front pastedown. First edition in this form, a heavily revised text, with the addition of “occasional poems” of th... more information

Bath: Binns and Goodwin, [1851]. viii, 86, [14]pp., 16mo. With a publishers' catalogue at end, the last leaf containing an advertisement to authors for a scheme of "Mutual and Equitable Publishing." Original red cloth gilt, g.e.; extremities worn, but sound. First edition of a fascinating book on saving children from the frightening rates of mortality prevalent in England in the mid-nineteenth century. The author includes statistics: one in every six children dies in its first year. His... more information

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. [iv], 34; [2], 39, [1]pp., 8vo. Small piece off lower corner of title, well clear of text, small old institutional blind-stamp in the margin of a few leaves (deacquisition confirmed). Antique-style grey wrappers, with facsimile title on upper cover. First edition. The first, 34-page, section is Bentham’s reflections on the two orations by Thucydides and Plato; these are translated, respectively, by William Smith, Dean of Chester, and by Gilbert West. ... more information

Paris: A la Librairie de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse, chez P.-C. Lehuby, 1837. xii, 324pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title with vignette, and two plates. A fresh and attractive copy in contemporary, perhaps publisher’s, blind-stamped blue roan, spine gilt. First edition, a collection of novellas including one, “Frère et Soeur,” about an English girl from “Plymouth and Jamaica” and her travails in the West Indies. COPAC locates a couple of other titles... more information

Montrose: Printed by Da. Buchanan, 1798. Being a Selection from the Works of M. Berquin. vi, 350pp., 12mo. Fine and dramatic engraved frontispiece by M. Brown; a little minor browning. Contemporary roan; neatly rebacked with a gilt label. “The Third edition,” so stated, presumably taken from one of the series of London translations that began around 1786, with the out-of-the-way Scottish imprint testifying to how popular these tales by Berquin had become by the end of the 1790s. Of this edit... more information

Halesworth: Printed and Sold by T. Tippell, 1819. xvi, [ii], 116pp., 8vo. With the half-title and a list of subscribers, including “T.S. Gooch, Esq. M.P. Bramfield Hall.” Elegantly bound, presumably for the author’s presentation, in full rose calf, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine fully gilt with double morocco labels; a couple of minor spots and traces of rubbing, but a lovely copy. Ownership inscription “Thomas Sherlock Gooch” on front free endpaper, and a later n... more information

Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique et Roret, 1831. [vi], viii, 286pp., 12mo. Three folding plates. Nice copy in later calf gilt, original wrappers bound in. Second edition, first published in 1827. ... more information

London: Printed by J. Swan, for Vernor and Hood, 1803. A Romance of the Twelfth Century. With Tales and other Poems. [vi], 168pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title, and three plates. Bound by Philip Dusel in half green morocco antique, spine gilt. First edition of these gothic poems, including the title romance, “The Bloody Hand,” “The Storm,” and others. Some are rather laboured imitations of the works of other poets, but they have all the high spirits of these tw... more information

Hanau [i.e. Hesse-Cassel]: Johann Heinrich Keihl, 1766. [with] Ode dem Hochgebohrnen Grafen un Herrn, Herrn William, Grafen con Chatam. . . . Seiner glorwürdigt regierenden Königlichen Majestät Georg des Dritten, Königs von Grossbrittanien. Two works, respectively 7, [1], and 4pp., folio. Handsome woodcut ornaments, and well-printed on high-quality paper. Leaf edges trimmed, but fine large copies, unbound. Presumably the first edition of each work, the first with a two-page dedicati... more information

London: Printed for J, Hatchard, 1806. or Essays and Characteristics. xx, 4, 351, [1]pp., 12mo. With the half-title and a subscribers’ list. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt; worn with the spine head slightly chipped, but sound. First edition, and possibly a subscriber’s copy with what appears to be an inscription ending “Hill” on the title corresponding to “John Hill, Esq.” in the printed list, which also states that subscribers’ copies were “bound, at Half-a-... more information

London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1702. out of M. Tullius Cicero; and several other of the best Roman, Greek, and French Authors, both Ancient and Modern: Adapted to the Humour of the Present Age. To which is added, Certamen Epistolare: or, Letters between an Attorney and a dead Parson. The whole Volume by Mr. Tho. Brown, never before Published. [xxxii], 374pp., 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the half-title, and a preliminary advertisement leaf. A nice fresh copy in contemporary panelled cal... more information

Paris, et se trouve à Maestricht: Chez J. E. Dufour & Phi. Roux, 1781. 3 vols., 12mo. With the half-titles. Contemporary calf, spines gilt; spine ends chipped, but sound. Contemporary ownership inscription “Charlotte Izard” on titles. One of two editions or issues published the same year; this book, along with her Theatre of Education, was one of her most influential, with translations into English and other languages. OCLC records the Paris 1781 edition or issue, not this one. ... more information

London: Printed for J. Peele [et al.], 1720. By the late J. Bulkeley. . . Author of the Letters to the Revd. Dr. Clark, on Liberty and Necessity. [ii],xvi,389,[1]p., Engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Cheron; some mild staining, especially at the edges of sthe first few leaves. A large copy, neatly bound in calf-backed marbled boards antique, spine gilt. First edition, a different version of the first book alone had been published separately in 1717. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, B562 ... more information

Chelsea: Printed by J. Tilling, [1808]. Interspersed with Familiar Dialogues, Emblematical Pictures, Prayers, Graces, and Hymns. 72pp., 18mo. Striking engraved frontispiece and seven plates, apparently by the author. A somewhat used copy in original half green roan, spine gilt; worn but sound. Apparently a revised text, at the least there is a new preface dated 1808, which is consistent with this copy's binding and typography. Not as bleak as it sounds: the first story tells of Billy and Betsey Goo... more information

1807.. 60pp., 12mo. Disbound. One of three American editions printed in 1807, following a London edition of 1804. Welch, 136.3. ... more information

London: Published by Thomas Tegg, [1810]. A Tale, founded upon Facts. Newly translated from the French of Madame Cottin. 144pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title with vignette, and two plates by Armstrong after Thurston. Fine in contemporary half calf, spine gilt. “Tegg’s Edition, Edited by Miss Burney,” so stated on the printed title; the engraved title supplies the publication date. Sophie Cottin’s novel was first published in Paris in 1806 and almost immediately tr... more information

Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, 1839. 288pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, the latter with a vignette of George Washington, “He needed to patent from the hand of Royalty.” Preliminaries a little spotted, but a nice copy in the original green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Second edition, not so stated, following the first of 1836, of this popular courtesy book for young men, with its precepts about as far from frontier virtues as one could imagine. Along with mor... more information