Authors starting with G from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

[Perth]: Printed for the Booksellers, MDLXXXVII, i.e. 1787. being a Select Collection, of the most Beautiful Tales and other striking extracts, from Adela and Theodore; The Tales of the Castle; The Theatre of Education and Sacred Dramas; written by the Countess of Genlis. With Copperplates. [ii],357,[1]pp., Engraved portrait and one plate; upper corner off the last leaf affecting only the page number, some browning and a few slight marginal tears. Partly erased ownership inscription on title “. . .... more information

York: Printed at the New Printing Office, 1772. [Price Twopence.] Set forth in the unhappy Birth, wicked Life, and miserable End of that deceitful Apostle, Judas Iscariot. . . shewing, I. His Mother’s Dream after Conception. . . VI. . . miserably hanging himself, his Bowels dropt out of his Belly. 24pp., 12mo. An excellent, untrimmed copy in early half calf; neatly rebacked. Small private inkstamp in upper margin of title, but a pleasant copy, neatly bound. First edition, by the eccentric printe... more information

London: Printed for J. G. and F. Rivington, 1838. viii, 175, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, drop-head title to the second part at pp. [81-2]. Original drab wrappers, printed label (including “Price 5s. 6d.”) on upper cover; wrappers rather worn, with a chip off one corner, sometime rebacked with a strip of vellum. First collected and first published edition. The author’s preface notes that a few copies were privately printed for presentation; these appeared in Louth, the first part in... more information

London: Printed for J. Ebers, 1810. viii, 124pp., 8vo. Cancel half-title and title (the latter adding “The Second Edition”). A fine, entirely untrimmed copy in the original printed drab boards, upper cover with title, lower cover with advertisements for new novels and “Bookbinding and Stationery in all its Branches”; neatly rebacked. “The Second Edition,” but in fact the first edition, second issue, substituting a new half-title/title bifolium for the original, the publish... more information

Edinburgh: Printed by R. Drummond, 1747. or, a Philosophical Account of the First Production of Elements in the Creation of this Visible World, in Consonance with Sacred and Profane History, &c. Wherein is proved by Experiments, that the Four Elements, however opposite they may appear in their Natures; yet, at the same Time, are only a Composition of the same Principles of Matter. . . . By the Right Honourable William, Earl of Monteith. 20pp., 8vo. Some expert repairs at gutter, obscuring a few lett... more information

London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825. viii, 316pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title, and folding map (these a little spotted, frontispiece with a contemporary manuscript description neatly tipped on), one gathering slightly sprung. Original red roan-backed pictorial drab boards. First edition, “presented to young readers,” but “not intended to form one of the earlier steps in the course of their historical studies.” For those the author recommends Maria Hack... more information

London: James Burns, 1841. xii, 248, 16pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece and plates, with the half-title and a sixteen-page publisher’s catalogue at end. Occasional very minor foxing but a nice copy in the original blue fine diaper-grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition, a novel about the dangers of socialism published in Burns’s series “The Englishman’s Library.” Wolff 2761; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction 3744, no. 15: “the title is a curious coincidence, the book... more information

London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1787. viii, [284], 75, [5]pp., 8vo. With the advertisement leaves at end. A fine and attractive copy in contemporary calf; elegantly rebacked and gilt. First edition, a fine study of local dialects, and with a long appendix on popular superstitions, especially on Shakespeare's sources of magic. This appendix contains an article on the "sorcerer, or magician," and others on fairies, ghosts, second-sight and witches. Alston, Bibliography of the English Langu... more information

London: Printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1686. [xvi], 168pp., 8vo. Small hole in the outer blank margin of title, paper flaw resulting in a marginal tear pp. 139-140, no text affected. Still a large and fresh copy, bound without endpapers in contemporary trade blind-ruled sheep, unlettered. First edition in English, a translation of the Latin text printed in Oxford in 1660 at the expense of, and dedicated to, Robert Boyle. The still-anonymous translator implies that he was directed by Boyle to undertak... more information

London: Printed for Richard Montagu. . . John Torbuck. . . and Charles Corbett, [1735?]. by the Celebrated Signor Cavalier Guarini. Translated into English. [vii], 8, 9-259 with the same page number printed recto and verso of each leaf with English text on recto and Italian on verso, 260 concluding the English text on recto only, verso blank. Engraved title (included in the preliminary pagination, above), and six plates. Contemporary panelled calf; neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine lab... more information