Authors starting with O from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for G. Kearsly, et al., 1764. An English Burletta. As it is performed, at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. [viii], 66pp., 8vo. With the half-title. Disbound. First edition, an uncommon play by an Irish author, conceived as a response to the Italian burlettas which at the time had become enormously popular in Dublin. ... more information

London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825. 2 vols., 12mo. With the half-titles. In a somewhat unusual contemporary binding of linen-backed boards, the whole overlaid with paper stained to look like tree calf, spines gilt with morocco labels; paper overlay chipped from spine extremities, still a large, sound, and agreeable copy. First edition, printed in Norwich, where the author had returned to live with her father after the death of her husband in 1807. Sometime in the e... more information

London: Printed by W. Sayes, for William Hawes, 1704. xvi,[iv], 128, 121-279, [1]pp., 8vo. With the initial blank leaf and with the original title, later replaced by a cancel; a little marginal staining at the beginning, p. [iv] in the final preliminary bifolium a little short (clearly an economical use of paper by the original printer, not a later defect; only the headline is partly affected). Contemporary panelled and sprinkled calf, spine gilt; foot of spine worn and label missing. First edition, ... more information

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1804. By Theophilus Christian, Esq. vii, 81, [3]pp., sm. 8vo. With the half-title, and some publisher’s advertisements at end, a contemporary manuscript “Vocabulary of Fashion” inserted before the half-title (frayed at the outer edge and cropped at the bottom but mostly intelligible) the handwriting corresponding to a couple of manuscript notes in the text, one in the bank lower margin which has been folded by the binder for preservation. Contemporary half... more information

Paris: Chez H. Nicolle, Libraire, 1819. Traduite de l’Anglais, et précedée d’une Notice historique sur Lady Morgan; par le traducteur de la France. 4 vols. in two, 12mo. With the half-titles, and an astonishingly unflattering engraved portrait after the original “fait à Londres en Septembre 1818”; two small tears in Vol. I, one removing a page number but no text affected in either case. An attractive copy in contemporary half calf gilt. First edition in French, o... more information

London: Printed for William Taylor, 1717. or, the Art of Thinking: containing (Besides the Common Rules) many New Observations, that are of great Use in forming an Exactness of Judgment. In Four Parts. . . . Done from the New French Edition, by Mr. Ozell. [xii], 452, [4]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece (a couple of early ink squiggles on the blank recto), with a four-page publisher’s catalogue at end. Contemporary calf, later spine label; joints split, but holding. First edition of this transla... more information