Authors starting with K from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: William Pickering, 1852. iv, 290, [4]pp., sm. 8vo. Title inscribed “To Mrs Green - a token of affectionate remembrance from the Author - June 21, 1852.” With a catalogue of Pickering publications at end. Original cloth, paper spine label a little chipped and the lower endpaper replaced. First edition, presentation copy, a fine introspective autobiography of a nineteenth century literary woman whose early novels, influenced by Jane Austen, gave way to a prolonged religious quest, wit... more information

London: John Murray, 1832. [viii], 142, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title and terminal advertisement leaf. A nice fresh copy in the original printed brown wrappers, g.e. (backstrip chipped but holding), upper cover inscribed “The Countess Guiccioli From the Publisher” “Eighth Edition,” so stated on title, but just the right edition and date for one of the social events of the spring of 1832, which was the first visit of Lord Byron’s last mistress, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli,... more information

London: Printed for John Miller, 1817. xxvii, [1], 78 pp., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Kemble and three plates (two of them folding), together with an autograph scrap of Kemble’s handwriting laid down on a front flyleaf (this certainly excised from a play once in Kemble’s collection: it reads “collated & perfect J.P.K. 1797”). Portrait and title somewhat stained, but an attractive copy in early twentieth century half blue morocco, spine richly gilt, t.e.g., other edge... more information

Geneva: Chez Mme. Susanne Guers Libraire, 1826. [iv], 200pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title with vignette (“Kenneth et Normann vont à l’école”); a few minor stains. Contemporary half calf; quite worn but firm. First edition in French, originally published in Edinburgh in 1823. One of several novels by this author, who died young in 1825, it “replaces,” according to ODNB, “the rational Lockean narratives of a previous generation of writers... more information