Titles starting with G from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822. [iii]-xii, 126, 6pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece (included in the pagination), with a publisher’s catalogue at end; some minor staining, especially to the frontispiece. Original green roan-backed marbled boards; worn but sound. Engraved label on front pastedown “Sold at the Juvenile Library, 43 Low. Sackville Strt., Dublin.” First and only edition, a collection of original poems for children by an Irish actor. They include some unabash... more information

Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1843. xii, 204, 16pp., 12mo. Engraved and printed titles, also an engraved frontispiece by Howison after Stanley. Original straight-grained embossed cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-titled, g.e.; a little wear at spine head. First and only edition, rare, with the editor signing the preface “K.” This is a wide-ranging Romantic miscellany with many lesser-known poets, especially women, but also including Wordsworth, Burns, Byron, Crabbe, Shelley, and Southey. Amo... more information

London: William Pickering. Paris, Stassin and Xavier, 1845. lxxx, 372, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title. Contemporary, probably Continental, half roan over marbled boards; rubbed and scuffed, but perfectly sound. First edition, printed in Paris, a retelling of the Scandinavian myth of the Edda. ... more information

London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1767. x, [ii], viii, 232pp., 12mo. Nice copy in contemporary gilt-ruled trade calf, unlettered; upper joint cracked but firm. First edition in English, designed “to amuse, and not to teach history,” and so arguably for children, although the often racy subject-matter suggests that Roscoe was correct in assigning it to the non-children’s section of his Newbery bibliography. Thus the first story is that of Semiramis’s assassination of her husband, taki... more information

London: Printed for William Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar, near Devereux-Court, 1684. [iv], 321, [3]; 23, [1]pp., 4to. Engraved frontispiece of the author in a contemplative pose beneath Mount Parnassus, and a plate showing “The Garden and Groue of the Muses,” the latter signed “F.H. Van Houe. Sculp.”; frontispiece signed “Tho. Warren 1702” on blank recto and with a tear near-invisibly repaired, the plate shaved at foot touching the caption, minor occasional... more information

London: Printed by W. Sayes, for William Hawes, 1704. xvi,[iv], 128, 121-279, [1]pp., 8vo. With the initial blank leaf and with the original title, later replaced by a cancel; a little marginal staining at the beginning, p. [iv] in the final preliminary bifolium a little short (clearly an economical use of paper by the original printer, not a later defect; only the headline is partly affected). Contemporary panelled and sprinkled calf, spine gilt; foot of spine worn and label missing. First edition,... more information