Authors starting with S from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

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. 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 father, King Phillip.... more information

London, Printed 1659. 16pp., 4to. Somewhat browned with a few small marks and stains, but a good large copy, disbound. First London edition of perhaps the most famous of anti-Cromwellian pamphlets, first published in Holland in 1657 and “said to have struck such a terror into the mind of Cromwell as to render the concluding part of his life miserable.” One of the authors, Edward Sexby, smuggled copies of the Dutch edition into England, but was arrested attempting to leave the country. He di... more information

London: Printed for James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, Bernard Lintott. . . , and Egbert Sanger at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet-street, 1710 . [xvi], 63, [1]pp., 4to. With the half-title. Small stain in the blank upper corner throughout, with a little loss to the extreme corner of the half-title and a neat repair to the same blank area of the last leaf, but a large and sound copy. Modern cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition, perhaps the author’s most successful play... 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 th... more information

London: Printed for T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street. . . and B. Collins, at Salisbury, 1766. 2 vols., 12mo. With a four-page publisher’s catalogue at the end of Vol. I; a few very minor stains. A handsome copy in slightly later polished tan calf gilt; short split in the upper joint of Vol. II. Third edition, first published in 1754 in response to the passage of Lord Hardwick’s marriage act, which made statutory the requirement of marriages being performed by licensed clergy after three-times cal... more information

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844. [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 and including his Oxford education sh... more information

Wellington, Salop: Printed by and for Houlston and Son, 1829. 150, 36pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and title-vignette, with a 36-page publisher’s catalogue at end, the first six of which are devoted to works by Mrs. Sherwood. Original red roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with price “2/-”; spine head very slightly chipped, but a very nice copy. First edition, what her biographer Nancy Cutt calls one of the author’s “less happy” novels for children. It is full of &... more information

London: Printed in the Year, 1704. [iv], 20pp., 4to. Minor browning, old manuscript shelf-mark in the lower margin of title (in red ink, sadly), small marginal tear in the margin of the last leaf. Still a good large copy, disbound. First edition, with commendatory poems by C.D. and H.B., the former comparing the author to Dryden. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, S427, with a substantial note on Shippen’s likely authorship, although some contemporaries attributed the poem to Daniel Defoe or Matth... more information

London: Printed for C. Davis, 1736 . [ii], xiv, 294, [2]pp., 12mo. Without the terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements, but an attractive copy in full nineteenth century brown morocco gilt by J. Mackenzie, g.e. Second edition under this title, not so stated, with the text taken from the first edition of 1568, a good choice as this was the most complete of the early editions of Skelton, a poet almost completely neglected in the seventeenth century. John Skelton is, of course, one of England
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London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. 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 remedy in their hands - law, as well as reason and justice. . . . They need only speak through their representatives.” Sabin 82259 l... more information

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, [1707]. [xii], 64pp., 4to. With the half-title, pp. 33-40 misnumbered 31-38 as always. Somewhat browned throughout, as usual from the poor paper quality, a large copy. Early twentieth century half cloth, spine gilt-lettered; a little worn. First edition, the author’s best-known work and only play, the first adaptation of Racine's Phèdre. Samuel Johnson called it “a scholar's play, such as may please the reader rather than the spectator; th... more information

London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1702. [xx], 166, [2], plus four supplementary dedications, each of two leaves, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, with a terminal leaf of advertisements (this leaf bound backwards). Some browning and soiling throughout, but a sound copy, disbound. First edition, rare, of this spin-off of Milton, in which the author’s preface attempts to deflect the “one great Shot I expect level'd at me, viz. the Character of a Plagiary, for taking some Hints from Milton, you wi... 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) “Farewell to Italy.... more information

London : Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, 1684. [vi], 28, 31-32, 41-69, [3]pp., 4to. Jump in pagination as in all copies and with leaf “E3” (pp. 31-32) still placed as originally printed as the fourth leaf of the first gathering; title a bit soiled and with tiny pieces off the extreme blank corners, but a large and sound copy, disbound. First edition of Southerne’s second play and first comedy, with a prologue by Southerne’s lifelong friend John Dryden (the text of this copy in the state... more information

Boston: Published by A. Bowen, and sold by Cummings and Hilliard, 1817. 190, [2]pp., Woodcut frontispiece and one plate by Bowen after Penniman, with a terminal leaf of advertisements including an offer by Bowen “to pay his whole attention” to the “art of Engraving on Wood.” Some spotting and staining, neat repair to the blank verso of frontispiece, but an entirely untrimmed copy in modern drab boards, original printed upper board mounted on front cover. First edition, rare. All a... more information

London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot, [circa 1840]. vi, 130pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece of “The Lacemaker,” title-leaf apparently a cancel. A fresh and attractive copy in the original horizontally-ribbed and blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt. Ownership inscription dated July 1842 on blank recto of frontispiece. Apparently the first English edition of a popular little manual by a New England clergyman; it went through a number of American editions in the 1830s. There is much o... more information

London: Printed for J. Moore, 1715. [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. Eight copies in OCLC.... more information

London: Printed for Joseph Knight, 1689. [viii], 135, [1]pp., 8vo. With the initial licence leaf (short clean tear in the blank margin expertly mended), title printed in red and black, a little soiling at the beginning and end. Contemporary blind-panelled sheep; rebacked by Philip Dusel. George Thorn-Drury’s copy, with dozens of his small, neat annotations on the endpapers and flyleaves. First edition, the author’s declared “First-Fruits. . . Flashes of Fancy. . . scarce ballanced with... more information

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. [vi], 96pp., 12mo. With the half-title, verso of title inscribed “Presented by the Author May 23, 1828.” Untrimmed in the original pink boards, paper label on upper cover; soiled and worn, but intact. First edition, wider-ranging and more interesting than one might expect, with serious medical analysis interspersed with discussions of, e.g., the decline that over-educated or spoiled children can fall into. One of the author's descript... more information