Authors starting with M from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for John Booth, G. G. and J. Robinson, and B. and J. White, 1794. [viii], 152pp., 8vo. With the initial blank leaf and the half-title, manuscript corrections to pp. 10, 90, and 151 in the hand of the author’s daughter Catharine Octavia Tollemache, who has inscribed the initial blank “Miss Helen Foote, with affectionate Regards from her Attached Friend Catharine Octavia Tollemache.” Early, probably circa 1830, cloth, morocco spine label. First octavo edition, following the... more information

London : Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, 1685. [viii], 55, [1]pp., 4to. Prefatory leaf “The Publisher to the Right Worshipful” with a contemporary manuscript addition “Sr. Thomas Player Chamberlaine of London.” Browned throughout from the poor paper quality, a couple of slight marginal tears well clear of text, but a large copy with some untrimmed edged. Stitched in nineteenth-century wrappers. Second edition, first published in 1662 with the agreeably false imprint “Bellositi Dubo... more information

London: Printed by J. Cundee. . . for M. Jones, 1802. 64pp., 32mo. Engraved frontispiece of the Nativity. A fresh and pleasant copy in the original calf, spine gilt-ruled; covers creased, some splits in the joints, but sound. An early, tiny-format edition of this little pocket-book for children, first published in 1789 and written not by the poet, but by his clergyman-contemporary of the same name. Not surprisingly, early editions in this near-miniature format are rare; of this one OCLC records two co... more information

London: Printed for T. Becket, 1799. A Satirical Poem. With Notes. Occasioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the residence of Henry Grattan, Ex-Representative in Parliament for the City of Dublin, at Twickenham, in November, 1798. By the Author of The Pursuits of Literature. [iv], 86, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title and a terminal leaf of advertisements for other works by the same author. A nice large copy in recent marbled boards. First edition, ostensibly a satire on Grattan who was in residence near... more information

Oxford: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. and J. Fletcher, [1775]. In Imitation of Mr. Phillip’s Splendid Shilling. [iv], 12pp., 4to. A excellent copy, disbound. First editon, and the first publication of a hugely prolific author perhaps best remembered for his studies of Indian antiquities. The poem is thoroughly gothic, but its sentiments are familiar to every student, ancient and modern: Meanwhile, the Paedagogue throughout the Dome His fiery Eyeballs, like two blazing ... more information

London: Thomas Cadell, 1836. xxvi, 256pp., sm. 8vo. With a subscribers’ list. Largely unopened in the original blue cloth, spine gilt; joints and spine ends worn, but sound. First complete edition, first published in a shorter version in 1808, and here revised, enlarged, and with a new fifth canto. There is also a long preface discussing the reception of the poem, and the author’s possible influence on Robert Burns. ... more information

London: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. [iii]-xiii, [i], 326, [2]pp., 8vo. Apparently bound without the half-title. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt; rubbed and with the spine head a bit chipped. First edition in English, published in France earlier the same year, and the first of Mérimée’s literary hoaxes: “Clara Gazul, the Spanish Comedian” did not exist. After writing what one critic calls “these highly Romantic works, he turned to writing the short novels w... more information

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1756. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. By John Milton. Now first published from the Author’s Second Edition, Printed in 1650: with many enlargements: by Richard Baron. With a Preface shewing the transcendent Excellency of Milton’s Prose Works. To which is added, An Original Letter to Milton, never before published. vii, [i], 96pp., 4to. Titel and last leaf somewhat soiled, a fe... more information

Stockholm: Tryckt i Marquardska Tryckeriet, 1816. xiv, 430, [2]pp., 8vo. With a terminal errata leaf. Nice copy in contemporary, certainly Swedish, half sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt; just a bit rubbed. “Tredje Upplagan,” i.e. third edition, revised. An excellent introduction to English for Swedes, with discussion (in Swedish) of pronunciation and grammar, a synoptic vocabulary, and a fine selection of pieces in prose and verse including a description of London, and a substantial jes... more information

London: Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, 1761. being Contemplations, Letters, &c. written on Variety of Subjects and Occasions. [xl], 174, [2]pp., 8vo. With a terminal leaf of advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription “Mary James” at head of title. Modern half calf. Fifth edition, first published in 1702, of a fine series of poems on, as The Feminist Companion to Literature in English puts it, "friendship and marriage, the power of words, and need for modesty in both sexes; her... more information

Paris: Chez Louis-Estienne Ganeau, 1760. Traduit de l’Anglois. . . par Mr. S.D.M.P. xxiv, 363, [5]pp., 12mo. Folding engraved plate at p. 353, with the half-title, and four terminal pages of approbation; small abrasion on a blank section of title where what appears to be an old ownership label was removed, replaced by a slightly later eighteenth-century ownership inscription. Nice copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine fully gilt; head and tail-caps chipped away. First edition in French of an im... more information

London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1753. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. iv, [iv], 84pp., 8vo. Disbound. First edition. “The Prologue and some of the most admired passages, including the greater part of the scene between Lewson and Stukely in the fourth act, were written by Garrick.” (DNB). Stratman 4509. ... more information

York: Printed by Thomas Wilson and Son. . . for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne; and for Harvey and Darton, London, 1821. 71, [1]pp., 18mo. With the commendations and publisher’s advertisements at end; a well-used copy with tears into the gutter at foot, touching text but without loss, some other marginal tears and soiling. A complete, unsophisticated copy in the original drab wrappers; lower cover missing some of the outer paper, but upper cover complete with title printed within a decorati... more information

London: Joseph Cundall, [after 1846]. A Story Book for Summer. Written for Young Children, by Mrs. Harriet Myrtle. viii, 136pp., sm. 4to. Four lithographed plates [by John Absolon] printed in black and ochre. A fine fresh copy in the original blind-stamped red cloth, spine gilt; somewhat unevenly faded. A reissue of the Absolon plates with retitled and reset text of Myrtle’s A Story Book of the Seasons: Summer, originally published by Cundall in 1846. The stories and plates are charming, with an ... more information