Titles starting with O from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Exeter [England]: Printed and Sold by P. Hedgeland, 1811. 23pp., 12mo. Contemporary ownership inscription “S. Rowland 1812” on title. Disbound. First edition, a collection of extracts from Priestley’s major work on education designed to illustrate the subject of religious education; the compiler is nowhere identified. The Miscellaneous Observations were first published in 1778. The present pamphlet is rare, with COPAC locating only the British Library copy, and OCLC adding three more,... more information

Naples: Printed by Fibreno, 1834. 2 vols. in one, 8vo. With an errata leaf in each volume, and each also containing three fine tinted lithographed plates, some from drawings by Bell and all with Italian captions and the credit “Napoli Lit. Fergola.” Contemporary half calf; handsomely rebacked. “Second edition, corrected and enlarged.” The first edition appeared in Edinburgh in 1825; this one draws on a translation “into elegant Italian” in order to add some of the transl... more information

Stockport: Printed by J. Clarke, 1796. [ii], xii, 184, [2]pp., 8vo. With a preliminary leaf, blank except for “Entered at Stationers’ Hall,” a subscribers’ list, and a terminal errata leaf, attractive woodcut printer’s ornaments throughout. A large and fresh copy in contemporary russia gilt; upper joint split but holding. First edition, by a nineteen year-old, dedicated to his schoolmaster at the Free Grammar School, Manchester. The preface declares the young author’s gr... more information

London: Printed by T. Bensley; for T. Longman; G. G. J. and J. Robinson. . . and J. Johnson, 1787. vii, [iii], 183, [1]pp., 12mo. Two folding engraved plates (the spinning wheel and bobbin as used in the author’s “School of Industry”), with a preliminary page of errata, a leaf of “Description of the Plates,” and a final page of advertisements for other books by Mrs. Trimmer; a little minor spotting around the edges of the folding plates. A very attractive copy, bound by Philip ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and T. Cadell [- Alex. Smellie - J. Bell and T. Cadell - Bell and Bradfute], 1774-1809-1786-1787-1789-1792. 6 vols., 8vo. Engraved portrait in the first volume. A fine and attractive copy in mid-nineteenth century full tan calf by Andrew Grieve, Edinburgh, with his blindstamp on the front free endpaper of the first volume; elegantly rebacked with fully gilt spines, by Philip Dusel. The final, definitive text of Monboddo’s seminal study, including the rare portrait a... more information

New-York: Printed & Sold by S. Wood, 1815. [16]pp., 32mo. Woodcut title vignette and illustrations; some browning and minor signs of use. Original buff printed wrappers, an unusually good survival, doubtless in part due to its having been sometime (quite early) pinned into contemporary marbled wrappers (these now worn). First published by Samuel Wood in 1810, this bleak book for young children was reprinted almost every year until 1818. Welch 958.5.... more information

London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, 1797. [iv], vii, [i], 146, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title and terminal leaf of advertisements. A fine fresh copy in late nineteenth-century half brown morocco. First edition, about “a character now almost extinct in this island. . . the hero of expiring chivalry.” Polwhele explains that he discovered a couple of the breed still alive in Cornwall and attempted a poetical description of their households and the details of their daily lives. The bookse... more information

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1837. xii, 264 pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. Original blindstamped red cloth. A fine copy. “The Fifth Edition, Enlarged, Corrected, and now first Embellished with Eighty-Two Woodcuts.” Old Friends in a New Dress was first published in three shilling parts by Darton and Harvey in 1807, reprinted, then collected together in 1826. This fifth edition adds not only the woodcuts but also seventeen new fables, and for the first time identifies th... more information

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. [vi], 96pp., 12mo. With the half-title, verso of title inscribed “Presented by the Author May 23, 1828.” Untrimmed in the original pink boards, paper label on upper cover; soiled and worn, but intact. First edition, wider-ranging and more interesting than one might expect, with serious medical analysis interspersed with discussions of, e.g., the decline that over-educated or spoiled children can fall into. One of the author's descript... more information