Authors starting with R from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Aylesbury: Printed and Sold by W. Nicholls, in the Market-Place, [1784]. 32pp., 8vo. Wonderfully crude woodcut plate inserted between pp. 8 and 9 “Radley robbing the Parson on the Epsom-Road, of Half a Crown and his Watch”; printed on inferior paper and with the last leaf cut close at fore-edge (no text lost) but a good fresh copy, disbound. First and only edition, an extremely early Aylesbury imprint - in fact the first that is not simply a list of names - and a thoroughgoing account of what... more information

London: Printed for S. Tipper, 1808. [xvi], 140, [4]pp., sm. 8vo. Folding hand-colored engraved frontispiece by J.A. Atkinson, with the terminal publisher’s catalogue; occasional minor soiling. Bound with Charles Cotton’s Scarronides, Whitehaven: J. Dunn, 1776, 144pp., in early nineteenth-century half calf, spine label missing. First edition of an amusing series of poems, occasionally attribted to George Colman. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in “Tom Shuttle and Blousalinda... more information

London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1767. x, [ii], viii, 232pp., 12mo. Nice copy in contemporary gilt-ruled trade calf, unlettered; upper joint cracked but firm. First edition in English, designed “to amuse, and not to teach history,” and so arguably for children, although the often racy subject-matter suggests that Roscoe was correct in assigning it to the non-children’s section of his Newbery bibliography. Thus the first story is that of Semiramis’s assassination of her husband, taki... more information

Oxford: Printed by W. Hall for John Forrest, 1662. [xii], 397, [33]pp., 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the longitudinal half-title present at end. Contemporary panelled calf; extremities worn and the front joint split, but firm. Front free endpaper missing, a couple of contemporary annotations on title, including an inked-through ownership inscription. Robert Midgley’s ownership inscription, dated1710, is on the front pastedown, with a long not in his hand about Ridley and John Gregor... more information

London: Printed, and now first published, by Robert Triphook, 1821. iv, 232 pp., 8vo. Engraved portrait and vignette illustrations. A very attractive copy in contemporary calf; expertly rebacked with the original label. First edition, the original 1785 sheets with two leaves of 1821 preliminaries and an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson. Shortly before the present work was supposed to be published in 1785, a fire destroyed part of the printer's warehouse along with the manuscript of Ritson&#... more information