Authors starting with J from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for T Egerton, Military Library, 1803. 2 vols., 18mo. Folding tables throughout. Contemporary sheep; attractively rebacked with gilt labels. “The Fourth Edition,” but evidently a reissue of the third, as the dedication (To the Prince of Wales) and advertisement are present in two states, the first dated Jan. 16, 1803, and the second, presumably intended for cancellation, dated June 1802. James was an unusually polymathic military man, bilingual in French (he was in France at... more information

London: Printed for T. Egerton, Bookseller to the Ordnance, 1816. [iii]-xii, 1006 pp., 8vo. Engraved portrait (possibly intended to be counted in the pagination - I can find no reference to copies with a half-title); a few minor spots, especially to the more porous paper of the frontispiece, but a large and pleasant copy in a highly appropriate modern binding of red cloth with the crest of the Conservative Club on the upper cover, and a handsome morocco spine label. Fourth edition (sometimes called the... more information

London: E. and F.N. Spon, [1877 or 1878]. vi, [ii], 162pp., 8vo. Folding street map of Newcastle and Gateshead, large folding map of the collieries and iron-works in the Newcastle and Middlesborough district (one long clean tear leaving this plate detached, but all present and otherwise fine), large tinted map of the area around the River Tyne dated 1871, and three other tables and plates (one repaired at a fold); a few ink notes. Original embossed purple cloth, title gilt on upper cover; slightly fad... more information

London: Printed for E. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1794. 31, [1]pp., 32mo (4 x 2½ inches). Woodcut frontispiece and six half-page illustrations, first and last leaves pasted to wrappers as issued; a couple of expert repairs to the last leaf touching two letters without loss. A fine and attractive copy in the original Dutch floral wrappers; backstrip near-invisibly repaired. First published in 1788, that edition recorded from a copy sold at Sotheby’s in 1945 and n... more information

London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, 1805. 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 Thomas and Lady Howard, whose family the young reader is to imagine himself joining. The book is full of experiments, including such things a... more information