Authors starting with W from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed, and Sold by Randal Taylor, 1688. With a Letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his Charge of Disloyalty against Protestants. And, an Historical Preface, containing an Account of their introducing the Heathen Gods in their Processions. [viii], xxiv, 96pp., 4to. With the initial leaf of imprimatur and errata. An excellent copy in later wrappers. First edition, a full and quite vituperative attack against a the same Jesuit schoolmaster who so exercised Astley Cressener, for whi... more information

London: William Darton and Son, [1836]. With the Wild-Flower Alphabet. By the Author of “The Wild Garland,” etc. xi, [i], 166, [2]pp., 12mo. Lithographed frontispiece and two plates, one woodcut tailpiece, with a leaf of publisher’s advertisements at end; some marginal staining, extreme blank corners off a few leaves beginning at p. 23. Original green blindstamped cloth; a few leaves partly sprung, but all intact. First edition, featuring the same young protagonists as her Life of Linn... more information

London: J. & W. Robins, Printers, [1849]. a Narrative of circumstances connected with my mode of National Defence against the Whole World. [viii], [3]-154pp., 8vo. Small hole in pp. 139-140 affecting a few letters but not the sense, title a bit browned. Modern boards, paper label. First edition, rare, of Warner's attempt to explain his explosive inventions, the “invisible shell,” and the “long range,” but without giving away the secret, if there was one, as to how they worked... 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. By the author of the “Tale of the Times,” “Infidel Father,” &c. 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 contempoary 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 previous ... more information

Paris: De l’Imprimerie de la rue de Vaugirard, [1795?] Par Helene Marie Williams. Traduits de l’Anglois. [ii], 208pp., 12mo. Title and last leaf slightly edge-browned from the binding turn-ins, but an attractive copy in contemporary half calf, spine gilt; headcap very slightly chipped. First edition in French, no more published even though the author published English sequels. The letters, on the reign of terror and its aftermath, brought mixed reviews in England, with one critic dismissing ... more information

London: Printed and Sold by James Waugh, 1745-46. of the Rise, Progress, Declension, and Revival of Knowledge, Chiefly Religious: In Two Periods. I. The Period of Tradition from Adam to Moses. II. The Period of Letters from Moses to Christ. 2 vols. in one, 4to. With a subscribers’ list at the beginning of Vol. II, and two large folding tables (these neatly laid down, with part of the headline to the first table cropped); minor stain affecting the outer quarter of the preliminary leaves of the first ... more information

Sudbury: George Williams Fulcher, 1845. viii, 160, [2]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title with vignette, and one plate (these on porous paper and consequently spotted and stained), attractive woodcut illustrations throughout, with the inserted errata slip at end. Original blind-stamped purple cloth, upper cover gilt-titled, g.e.; spine a bit worn. First edition, with a three-page preface by Wordsworth, in the form of a letter explaining why he cannot in fact write a preface. Much of ... more information