Authors starting with O from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: William Pickering. Paris, Stassin and Xavier, 1845. lxxx, 372, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title. Contemporary, probably Continental, half roan over marbled boards; rubbed and scuffed, but perfectly sound. First edition, printed in Paris, a retelling of the Scandinavian myth of the Edda. ... 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 ... 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 Charles Brome, at the Gun, at teh West-end of St. Paul’s, 1685. [iv], 30, [2]pp., 4to. With the final blank leaf. A fine large copy, lavishly presented in half brown morocco, spine gilt, by Mounteney, and a matching brown morocco-backed cloth pull-off case. Bookplate of Harold Greenhill. First edition, both a description of the “Majestick Pile” of the castle itself, and its role as the place where Charles  . . . might for Ease repair. A Seat for sw... more information

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1804. vii, 81, [3]pp., sm. 8vo. With the half-title and terminal publisher's advertisements, contemporary manuscript "Vocabulary of Fashion" inserted before the half-title (this manuscript frayed at the outer edge and cropped at the bottom but mostly intelligible), a couple of manuscript notes in the text, one in a blank lower margin which has been folded by the binder for preservation. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt; joints split but holding. First ... more information

Paris: Chez H. Nicolle, Libraire, 1819. 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, one of Lady Morgan’s great novels of Irish nationalism and perhaps her most serious investigation of the contemporary state of ... more information

London: Printed for William Taylor, 1717. [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 translation, by the prolific John Ozell, who translated Moliere and other French authors, but was ridiculed by Pope and Swift. Even the more charitable Cibber described him as “a man of very little genius.” Ozell... more information