Authors starting with W from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head, 1695. 11, [1]pp., folio. Title within mourning borders; first couple of leaves disjunct, but a nice large copy in modern wrappers. First edition, one of two issues not differentiated by Wing, of which this, without the author's name on the title page, is the rarer, with ESTC locating only the Folger and National Library of Ireland copies. Wing W646.... more information

London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1712. xiv, 192pp., 8vo. An excellent copy in handsome calf antique, gilt, by Philip Dusel. First edition of this translation with, at the end, an original essay in which Welsted discusses the ideas of Longinus applied to English poetry, particularly Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Cowley and Waller. Alston, Bibliography of the English Language, VI, 123.... more information

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orne, 1810 . 3 vols., 12mo. With the half-titles, and a terminal leaf of advertisements for other “Works Written by Mrs. West” in Vol. II. A very nice copy in contemporary half black morocco gilt; extremities a little rubbed. First edition of a more rambling, more wildly satiric, investigation of Regency mores than Mrs. West could undertake with her earlier “Prudentia Homespun” narrator. And so Prudentia meets her demise in the introd... more information

London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall; And Sold by T. Cooper, 1741. 16pp., folio. Woodcut title ornament (of Tully’s head); two small, short tears at the upper edge, and a small and diminishing wormhole at the extreme lower margin. A well-margined and sound copy, nicer than it sounds. First edition of Whitehead’s first independent publication, reportedly “highly approved by Mr Pope” who had first come to know Whitehead as a student at Winchester. The poem... more information

London: Printed on St. George’s Day, Being the 23d of April 1660. 20pp., sm. 4to. With catchword “Ri-” on p. 5; title cropped at foot, affecting the last line of imprint which remains legible, no other text affected (the title was printed over-large). Old brown wrappers with a manuscript title on upper cover. In a cloth folder, with some pencilled notes on the various issues and editions loosely inserted, and John Brett-Smith’s pencilled note on the wrapper “F.E. first issue.&... more information

London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799. [ii], 708, [4] pp., 8vo. With a publishers’ catalogue at end but without the half-title. Nice copy in mid-nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt. “Second edition, Improved and Enlarged with Considerable Additions,” full of practical advice on how to live a long and healthy life. Willich recommends methods of personal cleanliness, what to wear, what to eat and drink, proper exercise, evacuations, exercise and sleep. One chapter is ... more information

London: William Darton & Son, [circa 1830]. [ii], 176, [2]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece dated 1819, with a terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Front free endpaper missing, but a very nice copy in the original red roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. A reissue of Darton’s first edition of 1819, with a cancel title-leaf. Wright’s enduring book must have appeared before the stated third edition of 1782, but that is the earliest edition under this title recorded in ESTC.... more information