Authors starting with F from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

[London:] In the Savoy. Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1675. [viii], 94, [2] pp., 4to. A few very minor spots and stains, tiny old catalogue clipping pasted onto a blank area of the title-page, but a sound and agreeable copy in modern blue wrappers. First edition of an Italianate comedy, with an epilogue by, and an extraordinarily fulsome dedication to, the Earl of Rochester whose conversation, almost incredibly, is said to have made Fane “not only a better Poet, a better Philosopher; but ... more information

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke. . . and Bernard Lintott, 1711 . [iv], 19, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, two significant manuscript alterations in text; some browning throughout, but a sound copy, disbound. First edition of this fine literary poem, addressed to a playwright, and considering in some detail the drama of the preceding century. Shakespeare is praised, but condemned: he “stoop’d too low to please a barb’rous Age.”  Johnson, the Tribute of my Verse m... more information

London: Printed for J. Mechell at the King’s Arms in Fleet-Street, 1740. viii, 144pp., 8vo. Foot of title slightly abraded with partial loss of the letters “A” in “An” and “N” and “D” in “London,” the following three leaves with some browning and wear to the lower corners, all text perfectly clear. Handsomely bound in full sprinkled calf antique, spine gilt with an earlier label preserved. First edition of a fine satire, often attributed to Henry ... more information

London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. [xxxviii], 141, [1]pp., 8vo. Title slightly soiled and a little minor staining at end, but an excellent copy in early twentieth century half blue morocco gilt. Second edition, “with Additions and Amendments,” including three new poems, and new commendatory verses by Nahum Tate. Flatman did much to popularize the pindaric in England, and his verses displayed, as James Sutherland has written, an “unusually sensitive ear for rhythm, and...an ability... more information

Amsterdam: Aux dépens d’Estienne Roger, 1709. [x], 168pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece of a library, title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum; some of the vellum on the boards gone, but the binding still sound, and the spine with an elegant contemporary manuscript title. First Amsterdam edition, following the Paris edition of 1703. The author declares himself inspired by the ancients and moderns controversy of the 1690s and beyond, and discusses both the principles of all langu... more information

Falmouth: Printed by and for James Lake, 1817. xiv, [ii], 179, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, plate showing the “Plan of the Tea-Room” inserted opposite p. 26. Several old library inkstamps, but a sound and pleasant copy, neatly bound in drab boards with a printed paper label. First edition; Alexander Frazer took notes of the trial in shorthand. Donnall was charged with giving his sixty-year-old widowed mother-in-law arsenic mixed in some cocoa, from which she died a few days later. In d... more information