Titles starting with J from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for the Proprietors; and sold by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street; and E. Newbery, 1799. iv, 137, [1]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece, three plates, and one engraved illustration, together with some unusually charming woodcut illustrations; old repairs to the lower corners of pp. 91-92 and 101-102 with loss of a word or two on three pages (the affected part of p. 102 is blank), the sense perfectly clear. Attractively bound in period-style green morocco-backed marbled boards, by Phi... more information

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, inteh Strand, 1777. 2 vols., 12mo. Without the half-titles or the terminal advertisement leaf in Vol. II, but a fresh and pleasant copy in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; spines (especially that of Vol. II) worn in places, labels missing, but sound. First edition, the last of Mackenzie’s three novels of sensibility and, as at least one recent critic has argued, perhaps the best, offering “a subtler understanding of the processes by which... more information