Titles starting with B from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for Mess. R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. 22pp., 4to. Small marginal stain in gutter, otherwise an excellent, large copy. Disbound. First and only edition, a harsh satire on the Beldames who gloat over the sad fates of the virtuous:Sickness and cares your bliss dilate,And pain but whets your lust of hate. . . Who cringe and slander, sting and fawn,In rags, or lace, or fur, or lawn;Whether in periwigs or pinners. . . .... 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 ... more information

London: Wm. S. Orr & Co, 1843. 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 include “The Tailor’s Last Hope,” “The Coquette and the Coquette-Tamer,” “The Gloved Philanthropist,” and &... 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 ... more information

London: Printed by E. Hodson. . . for J. Deighton, 1792. 2 vols. in one, sm. 8vo. With the half-titles, and a list of subscribers in Vol. II. An attractive copy in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with a morocco label; partial crack in upper joint, but perfectly sound. First edition of an uncommon poetical miscellany, excluding anything “which could in the least offend the ear of Chastity.” The compiler notes that the selections are not his own, but sent by friends and subscribers, thereb... more information