Titles starting with B from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

[Perth]: Printed for the Booksellers, MDLXXXVII, i.e. 1787. being a Select Collection, of the most Beautiful Tales and other striking extracts, from Adela and Theodore; The Tales of the Castle; The Theatre of Education and Sacred Dramas; written by the Countess of Genlis. With Copperplates. [ii],357,[1]pp., Engraved portrait and one plate; upper corner off the last leaf affecting only the page number, some browning and a few slight marginal tears. Partly erased ownership inscription on title “. . .... more information

[London:] R. Carr, Printer, 101, Houndsditch, [circa 1830]. 8pp., sm. 8vo. Woodcut illustrations; single, barely-noticeable wormhole through center catching part of single letters, otherwise a fine copy in the original printed pink wrappers, woodcuts on both covers. An unrecorded edition of this immortal tale, with the cover woodcut showing an agreeably domesticated Beast. OCLC and ESTC have a total of four records for similar chapbooks published by Carr (not this title). Three of the four (including ... more information

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1782. [iv], 84pp., 8vo. Handsome copy in red morocco-backed cloth, spine gilt-lettered, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. First London edition of a play first acted in 1780; this authorized version was preceded by two Dublin piracies in 1781. Mrs. Cowley was both impulsive and commercial: she wrote her first play in response to a dare from her husband after she claimed she could write lines at least as good as those in the play they were watching. That play and its successors w... more information

York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1804. viii, 139, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and one plate, with the half-title but without the two leaves of subscribers issued with some copies (see below). Nice copy in contemporary calf gilt; slightly worn with a short split at head of the upper joint. First edition of some highly Romantic topographical and other poems. Bickleigh Vale is in deepest Devon; “the River Plym flows through it, in a very picturesque manner.” Shorter poems i... more information

London: Wm. S. Orr & Co, 1843. a Series of Eccentric Historiettes. By Arthur Wallbridge. With Forty Illustrations on Wood by Henning, and a Frontispiece by Crowquill. viii, 154pp., 8vo. Tinted woodcut frontispiece “Aesop’s Province Invaded,” woodcut illustrations throughout. An attractive copy in later nineteenth century half red morocco. Second edition of a charming and quite rare book, first published the preceding year, and set in the present, i.e. Victorian, era. Fables inclu... more information

London: Printed for J. Harris, 1816. iv, 183, [9]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece (tiny inkstain in the blank margin), with a substantial publisher’s catalogue at end. Contemporary sheep; neatly rebacked and with a gilt spine. First edition, with a preliminary advertisement invoking the approval of Mrs. Hofland’s previous works by “Mr. and Miss Edgeworth.” This is a fine example of what DNB describes as Mrs. Hofland’s books “depicting the struggles of a Christian family i... more information

1807.. 60pp., 12mo. Disbound. One of three American editions printed in 1807, following a London edition of 1804. Welch, 136.3. ... more information