Authors starting with J from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1820. for the Amusement of Children. iv, 140pp., 18mo. Title a little dusty, but a sound and pleasant copy in the original maroon roan-backed drab boards; paper covering for the boards and the front free endpaper missing. First edition, “the most brilliant anecdotes” of Spain and its heroes from Roman days through the conquest of Peru. OCLC records three copies: Florida, Osborne, and UCLA. ... more information

London: Printed for T. Wiche, Bookseller to the Society for promoting religious Knowledge among the Poor, 1797. xii, 34; [6],44pp., 18mo. Two parts, each with separate title-page; title somewhat soiled, a couple of gatherings partly sprung. Original blind-tooled sheep; spine slightly defective, but sound. First published in 1671, Janeway’s puritan exhortation to potentially-damned children was popular for well over a century on both sides of the Atlantic. All early editions are rare, ESTC locatin... more information

Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed. . . by James R. Hutchins, for Nathaniel Ely, Jun. of Longmeadow, 1795. 187, [1]pp., 12mo. Marginal piece off the outer edge of pp. 185-186 with no loss of text, some spotting and a few signatures partly sprung. A sound, complete, and unsophisticated copy in the original sheep-backed grey boards; sides chafed with some loss of cover paper, foot of spine slightly chipped. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper, “Rufus Cotton’s Book Longmeadow Feby 7th 18... more information

London: Printed at the Logographic Press, 1789. or, Summary Directions, in Verse. 16pp., sm. 8vo. A very good copy, disbound First edition of this verse adaptation. Johnson’s profoundly sensible treatments for insensible people were first published as a prose pamphlet earlier in the 1780s and went through several editions. His advice includes not to induce bleeding, to continue gentle not violent motion, and “despising all absurd exploded ways” such as electrical shocks, emetics, and ot... more information

London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, 1805. being a series of Family Dialogues, in which the Causes and Effects of the various Phenomena of Nature are Rationally and Familiarly Explained. xx, 386pp., 12mo. With the half-title, and four engraved plates. A fine copy in contemporary tree calf, spine fully gilt. “A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged, by the Rev. Thomas Smith.” The dialogues are set in “a noble and spacious museum” in the Devonshire home of Sir... more information

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1792. or a Free Account (in Consequence of a Free Inquiry,) of His Style. His Politics. His Feelings. His Logic. His Religion. His Philosophy. Concluding with an Analysis, and an Appendix. [ii], ii, 62pp., 8vo. Marginal piece torn from pp. 7-8, not affecting text, without the “plate” mentioned by ESTC (but see below). A large and fresh copy, disbound. First edition, a sometimes witty and quite stinging attack on Priestley. Within the first few pages ... more information