Authors starting with V from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield , 1644. At St. Maries Oxford, before the Members of the Honourable House of Commons There Assembled; By Henry Vaughan, Mr. in Arts, and Fellow of Iesus Colledge. [ii], 30pp., 4to. Light stain throughout. Mid-nineteenth century roan-backed cloth; worn. First London edition of this rare sermon, with what Madan calls a “counterfeit” imprint, and evidently the only publication by its author, whose dates are given as circa 1617-1661. But Anthony à Wood... more information

London: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, 1763. To which are added, Forms of Prayer and Offices of Devotion, for the Various Circumstances of Life. Designed for the Use of Families. xv, [i], 592pp., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title; a few leaves with very slight worming in the extreme outer margins, nowhere near text. Contemporary, probably publisher’s, sprinkled and gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine label; rubbed but sound. First edition, by one of the founders of the Clapham... more information

London: Printed. . . for the Editor G.V. A Member of the Society of Antquaries, 1745. vi, [ii], 136, [2]pp., 4to. Engraved portrait vignette on title, engraved leaf with view of London and “A Table of Hollar’s Works divided into Classes,” first text leaf with engraved headpiece and the last, errata, leaf with cul-de-lampe. A couple of very slight marginal tears, but a fresh and pleasant copy in mid-twentieth century half calf by Zucker & Henckel, Philadelphia, t.e.g. First edition, u... more information