Titles starting with E from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Chelsea: Printed by J. Tilling, [1808]. Interspersed with Familiar Dialogues, Emblematical Pictures, Prayers, Graces, and Hymns. 72pp., 18mo. Striking engraved frontispiece and seven plates, apparently by the author. A somewhat used copy in original half green roan, spine gilt; worn but sound. Apparently a revised text, at the least there is a new preface dated 1808, which is consistent with this copy's binding and typography. Not as bleak as it sounds: the first story tells of Billy and Betsey Goo... more information

London: William Darton and Son, [1830-1836]. 24pp., 12mo. Twelve hand-colored engraved plates, each with two vignettes, many dated “1st mo. 2nd 1824”; last text leaf torn across and a shorter tear to the first text leaf, both neatly repaired without loss, a few spots and stains. Original printed wrappers; soiled, rebacked: a well-used but sound copy. Fourth edition, not so stated, reusing the plates from the first edition of 1824. This may be, as Marjorie Moon points out, a book where “... more information

London: Sold by Dodsley, in Pall-mall, 1778. Particularly to Persons who live in habitual Neglect of Our Lord’s Supper, considered as a commemorative Sacrifice. . . . In Forty-Nine Letters. xiv, 240pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece by Major after Cypriani; a few stains. Original calf, bound for Hanway by his second binder (see below), the monogram “I.H.S.” within a diamond on the front cover and a winged hourglass on the lower, gilt floral cornerpieces, and the spine gilt with an all-over... more information

London: Printed for S. Tipper, 1808. [xvi], 140, [4]pp., sm. 8vo. Folding hand-colored engraved frontispiece by J.A. Atkinson, with the terminal publisher’s catalogue; occasional minor soiling. Bound with Charles Cotton’s Scarronides, Whitehaven: J. Dunn, 1776, 144pp., in early nineteenth-century half calf, spine label missing. First edition of an amusing series of poems, occasionally attribted to George Colman. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in “Tom Shuttle and Blousalinda”... more information

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1756. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. By John Milton. Now first published from the Author’s Second Edition, Printed in 1650: with many enlargements: by Richard Baron. With a Preface shewing the transcendent Excellency of Milton’s Prose Works. To which is added, An Original Letter to Milton, never before published. vii, [i], 96pp., 4to. Titel and last leaf somewhat soiled, a fe... more information

London: Published by Thomas Tegg, [1810]. A Tale, founded upon Facts. Newly translated from the French of Madame Cottin. 144pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, additional title with vignette, and two plates by Armstrong after Thurston. Fine in contemporary half calf, spine gilt. “Tegg’s Edition, Edited by Miss Burney,” so stated on the printed title; the engraved title supplies the publication date. Sophie Cottin’s novel was first published in Paris in 1806 and almost immediately tr... more information

Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 1837. With Sketches of Society in the Metropolis. [iii]-xii, 317pp., 8vo. Probably bound without a series or half-title, but an attractive copy in contemporary half red calf, spine fully gilt. One of two editions published in Paris the same year as the London first edition; the Philadelphia edition came after, and with a slightly different title. See BAL 3877-78: the “precise dates” of these Parisian editions have not been determined. ... more information

Printed in the Year 1714. [Colophon: London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715]. 30pp., [1] blank leaf, 8vo. Stitched as issued, untrimmed, a fine copy. First edition, a whig parody on Frances Atterbury’s tract of the same title. ESTC attributes it to Charles Hornby, which is improbable given his Tory leanings. ... more information

London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1783. [viii],xlii,[636]pp., 4to. With a subscribers’ list, including a section headed “Libraries,” which includes Cambridge and Oxford colleges, a page of five specimen alphabets, a table of chronological events, and an index; the lexicon itself printed in double columns. An excellent copy, attractively bound by Philip Dusel in full natural goatskin, simply gilt in period style. First edition, with an extensive list of sources including Minsheu, Skinner,... more information

London: Printed by H. Bruges for J. Magnus, 1674. As it is Acted, at the Theater-Royal, By His Majesty’s Servants. [iv], 64, 61-64pp., 4to. Pagination repeated at end, as in all copies, text entirely complete; title and last leaf a little soiled, margins cut a little close, but nothing touched. A pleasant copy in mid-nineteeth-century half calf, spine gilt; head of spine worn. Early ownership inscription “Margaret Cowling Her Book” on title, with a few other notes, and on the title verso... more information

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke. . . and Bernard Lintott, 1711. From Kent, Jan. 28. 1710/11. [iv], 19, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, two significant manuscript alterations in text; some browning throughout, but a sound copy, disbound. First edition of this fine literary poem, addressed to a playwright, and considering in some detail the drama of the preceding century. Shakespeare is praised, but condemned: he “stoop’d too low to please a barb’rous Age.”  Johnso... more information

Paris: Chez Louis-Estienne Ganeau, 1760. Traduit de l’Anglois. . . par Mr. S.D.M.P. xxiv, 363, [5]pp., 12mo. Folding engraved plate at p. 353, with the half-title, and four terminal pages of approbation; small abrasion on a blank section of title where what appears to be an old ownership label was removed, replaced by a slightly later eighteenth-century ownership inscription. Nice copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine fully gilt; head and tail-caps chipped away. First edition in French of an im... more information

Paris: Chez la Veuve Desaint, 1783. Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglois, par M. Bergier. 2 vols., 12mo. With the half-titles, slight and intermittent marginal staining to some gutters in Vol. I. A very attractive copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spines fully gilt with double labels and silk markers; spine of Vol. I just a little chipped at foot. First edition in French, of one of the major texts of the Scottish enlightenment. There is an interesting advertisement from the publisher stating tha... more information

London: Printed for L. Gilliver and J. Clarke, 1737. 19, [1]pp., folio. Fine woodcut head- and tail-piece; last two leaves with a small dampstain at head, but a large and fine copy. Handsomely bound, probably by Sangorski, in half brown morocco over cloth, g.e., the spine lettering attributing the work to Fielding. First edition of this graceful poem, mostly deriving from classical subjects and including a long paean of praise for Socrates, but also with a couple of swipes at the author’s contempo... more information

London: Printed for W. Owen, 1751. Humbly recommended to The Serious Consideration of The Learned World. 30pp., 8vo. A little browned throughout, title with a single clean tear expertly repaired and a small marginal piece torn from the last leaf. Still an attractive copy in recent marbled wrappers. First edition of an amusing essay purportedly inspired by a decline in patronage of the arts. “Tho’ I accused the Age, in the beginning of this Discourse, of being insensible of the Advantages of ... more information

London: Frederick Warne, [circa 1870]. 96pp., 24mo. Color-printed frontispiece and additional title. Original green cloth with pictorial cover label; spine slightly worn. Probably the first edition, an attractive guide with detailed instructions and a thorough index. ... more information

London: Printed for W. Osborne, and T. Griffin, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and J. Mozley, Gainsborough, 1787. [ii],xi,[i],129,[1]; 72pp., 18mo. Each work with separate title (and half-title), register and pagination; occasional minor spotting. Neatly bound in calf-backed marbled boards antique, spine gilt. “A New Edition,” in fact the first collected edition of these two works, the first an adaptation of Lord Chesterfield’s famous letters to his son. Gulick, Chesterfield Bibliograp... more information