Authors starting with S from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1822. or, a Visit to Brighton. vii, 180, [4]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece, with a publishers' catalogue at end and an initial blank leaf. A fine copy in the original maroon roan-backed boards, spine gilt. Engraved label of “Mr. Richd. Chambers’s Academy, Castle Street, Leiscester Square” on lower pastedown, and a manuscript “reward of merit” inscription dated 1825, in French, on the upper. First edition. Osborne, p. 933: the author... more information

London: Printed for J. Harris, 1815. By Miss Sandham, Author of The Twin Sisters, and other Works for Young People. vii, [i], 205, [1]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece by Scott. Nice copy in contemporary half calf, spine gilt. First edition, a moral tale contrasting the dissipated manners of William’s aunt, who married a Frenchman, and the solid behavior of two English families. Block, English Novel, p. 205; five copies (Notre Dame, Osborne, Princeton, So. Mississippi, and UCLA) in OCLC. ... more information

London: Benjamin L. Green, 1850. viii, 160pp., sm. 8vo. Part color-printed and hand-colored frontispiece, and four uncoloured woodcut plates by Dickes, with the half-title. Nice copy in the original green cloth, upper cover and spine elaborately gilt, g.e.; just a little wear at spine head. First edition. Almost all the contributions are by the Sargents, and many on wintry subjects, with the frontispiece showing a particularly nice winter scene full of children. Three copies (Florida, Florida State,... more information

London: Printed for W. Miller, 1798. [i.e. Georg Heinrich Noehden and Sir John Stoddart]. xi, [i], 327, [1]pp., 8vo. A good large copy, disbound. First edition of this translation; such was Schiller’s stature at the time that a different, competing translation appeared the same year. One of Schiller’s great works, loosely based on the events surrounding the real Don Carlos of Spain, Schiller's character is a democratic champion attempting to free Flanders from the despotic grip of his fat... more information

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Edited by the Authoress of ‘Flirtation.’ [i.e. Lady Charlotte Bury]. 2 vols., large 12mo. Without the terminal advertisement leaf in Vol. I and the half-title in Vol. II. Contemporary half calf; rebacked with the original spines. First edition; the editor, Lady Charlotte Bury, was Lady Scott's distant cousin. The plot involves an aristocrat, Lord Fitzhenry, who neglects his pious, middle-class wife and devotes himself to his mistress. The story is supposed t... more information

London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1782. By Miss Seward, Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook, and Monody on Major Andre. [ii], ii, 20pp., 4to. A fine large copy, neatly bound in modern marbled boards. First edition. Lady Miller of Batheaston held regular assemblies at her villa during the Bath social season. As Anna Seward’s preface to the poem puts it: She rendered this Meeting a Poetical Institution, giving out Subjects at each Assembly for Poems to be read at the ensuing one. The Verse... more information

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1837. xii, 264 pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. Original blindstamped red cloth. A fine copy. “The Fifth Edition, Enlarged, Corrected, and now first Embellished with Eighty-Two Woodcuts.” Old Friends in a New Dress was first published in three shilling parts by Darton and Harvey in 1807, reprinted, then collected together in 1826. This fifth edition adds not only the woodcuts but also seventeen new fables, and for the first time identifies the... more information

London: Grant Richards, 1902. [ii], xxxvi, [157]-235, [1]pp., 8vo. Collotype frontispiece of Fanny Brough as Mrs. Warren, and eleven plates, all from photographs of the original stage production. Original cloth, spine gilt-lettered; a little soiled but a pleasant copy. Front pastedown endpaper boldly signed “Fanny Brough,” the actress who played Mrs. Warren, with the bookplate of Archibald Firestone on the facing free endpaper. First separate edition, published earlier in Shaw’s collec... more information

London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1771. [iii]-xvi, 174pp., 8vo. Without the half-title but with the terminal advertisement leaf, minor marginal stain at the head of a few leaves towards the end. Early nineteenth-century half calf; head of spine and one corner damaged, but holding. First edition of what is now a very uncommon book, Sheridan's first, preceded only by a single pamphlet poem. Halhed, Sheridan's collaborator on the translation, was a schoolfellow at Harrow; both were only twenty when ... more information

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844. a Sequel to the Life of Henry Milner. [iv], 517, [7], 32pp., large 12mo. With the half-title, six pages of original publishers’ advertisements at end, and an inserted catalogue dated June, 1858 of works published for Thomas Hatchard. Original blind-embossed green cloth; neatly rebacked with the original gilt spine. First edition, the trials and tribulations of a young clergyman in English country pages, doubtless based on those of her son Henry, whose life up to a... more information

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1832. vii, [i], 176pp., 18mo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece; first and last few leaves slightly stained. Original roan-backed boards; modern rebacking and endpapers. Book-label of L.G.E. Bell, with a catalogue description of this copy laid in above. First edition of the author’s first book, written for her sister’s children. The author later went on to write Holiday House, which transformed the children’s literature of the nineteenth century, and the pr... more information

London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. Late Sub-Governor to their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales, and Bishop of Osnabrugh, At the Meeting at York, December 30, 1779. 23, [1]pp., 8vo. The final page is an advertisement for The London Courant; light dust soiling to first and last leaves. Disbound. First Edition. The anonymous author argues that unlike in despotic countries where “there is no remedy to bad Government but the sword; it is the glory of England, that the people have always the remed... more information

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1794. [viii], 288pp., 12mo. With the half-title, the publisher’s “Advertisement” (in which he leaves to the author “the task of justifying her own conduct” with this novel), and a leaf of books “just published” and “in the press”; piece off the outer margin of pp. 135-136 affecting in all about six words, the text essentially intelligible (and the missing words sometime pencilled in). Contemporary calf; rebacked. First edition, ... more information

London: Published for Didier and Tebbett, 1809. As Related by Herself to her Kitten. 66, [2]pp., 18mo. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and two plates; a little browning and minor soiling. Attractively and appropriately bound in morocco-backed marbled boards antique, spine gilt, by Philip Dusel. First and apparently the only edition of the only book published by this author, a charming and quite early first-feline narrative novel. Old Tabby sits in the tree watching the gambols of her favourite kit... more information

London: Printed by William Nicol, 1825. [viii], 16, [2], 17-32, [2], 33-281, [3]pp., 8vo. With the first and last blank leaves, title inscribed “For Miss Elizabeth Adams from her Friend the Author.” 4to. A fine fresh copy in contemporary russia gilt; expertly rebacked with most of the original spine. First collected edition of these highly romantic poems, with more than half the book devoted to a series about Italy and including the previously published (in 1818) “Frewell to Italy.”... more information

London: Printed for J. Moore, 1715. Prov’d in A Letter of Thanks from His Holiness Pope Clement XI. for the Service done the Catholick Church, by the Dedication and Preface of a late Book, Intitul’d, An Account of the State of the Roman Catholick Religion throughout the World. With a Copy of Verses added, By Mr. Sewell. [iv], 36pp., 8vo. With the half-title. Disbound. First edition, an anonymous attack. The satirical dedication, signed by Steele, was probably written by Benjamin Hoadley. E... more information

London: Ingrim, Cooke, and Co., 1853. [iv], 305, [1], 10pp., 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece, additional title with vignette, and six plates. Original embossed brown cloth, “The Illustrated Family Novelist” gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; spine extremities frayed and very slightly chipped, but sound. First edition, a wildly gothic novel with apparitions, castles, violent struggles, multiple romances and, sometimes as a consequence, deaths. But the novel is firmly placed in the mid-nineteenth... more information