Authors starting with E from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, [1825]. xi, [i], 122, [2]pp., 18mo. With the half-title and a terminal advertisement leaf. A fine fresh copy, untrimmed in the original printed drab boards, spine covering mostly gone, but sound. Second edition, but considerably reworked, with revisions to the verse and the prose notes expanded. Some occasional pieces in the first edition, published in 1821, are here omitted in order to concentrate on the title poem alone. The poet... more information

London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1765. 2 vols., sm. 8vo. With a half-title and terminal advertisement leaf in each volume. A handsome copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt; expert repair to the upper joint of Vol. I. Nineteenth century engraved bookplates of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry of Marbury Hall. First edition in English, a decidedly racy epistolary novel about the intrigues of the French aristocracy, originally published in Paris the previous year. Raven, British Fictio... more information

London: William Darton and Son, [1830-1836]. 24pp., 12mo. Twelve hand-colored engraved plates, each with two vignettes, many dated “1st mo. 2nd 1824”; last text leaf torn across and a shorter tear to the first text leaf, both neatly repaired without loss, a few spots and stains. Original printed wrappers; soiled, rebacked: a well-used but sound copy. Fourth edition, not so stated, reusing the plates from the first edition of 1824. This may be, as Marjorie Moon points out, a book where ... more information

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1842]. [viii], 400, [12]pp., 12mo.. Engraved frontispiece after Allom (foxed), with an undated publishers’ catalogue at end. Original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt. Apparently the true first edition, in the simplest of the three bindings available: the catalogue at the end notes that the cloth issue was 10s, silk 12s, and morocco 16s. The bibliography is a little puzzling: Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 820, describes a copy of the cloth issue, collating [iv], 39... more information

London: Fisher, Son, and Co., 1843. [iv], 215, [1], 8pp., sm. 8vo. With a publishers’ catalogue at end, some contemporary pencilled notes throughout, especially at the end where there are calculations of the numbers of drunkards that die “every year, every month” etc. An excellent copy in the original blind-stamped purple cloth, spine gilt; faded (as usual), missing the front free endpaper. First edition of this strong argument for the temperance movement, by an enormously popular author... more information

Wilmington [Delaware]: Printed by Johnson & Preston, [1797]. 159pp., 12mo. Title inadequately inked at foot, affecting only the last line of imprint and the date, some minor staining and edge-wear, but a pleasant copy in the original unlettered roan. The last of at least ten eighteenth-century American editions of a poem more popular in America than in England. Its text was profoundly influenced by Milton: Ellwood became one of Milton's closest associates, as well as his secretary, in the last... more information

London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and G. Strahan, 1700. 133, [3]pp., 8vo. Small paper flaw before printing at pp. 85-86, affecting a word either side, the sense clear; some browning throughout, but a sound copy in nineteenth-century half calf, spine gilt; a bit rubbed. First edition, one of two books by this author, both of them on painting and both, as ODNB puts it, arguing “painting's status as a liberal art,” capable of refining natural beau... more information

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington. . . and J. Hatchard, 1798. 15, [1]pp., 4to. An excellent copy in modern drab boards. First and only edition, echoing Thomas Gray in its opening - “The hollow knell resounds from yonder tower” - and heaping praise upon the “ardent patriot,” “guardian sage,” and “firmest pillar of the tottering state.” According to O'Donoghue, Poets of Ireland, p. 134, Eustace was born in Ireland around 1762 “and, it would appear, ... more information