Titles starting with T from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed and Sold by W. & T. Darton, 1808. 140, [4]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and five plates; a little minor foxing. Nice copy in the original red roan-backed grey boards, spine gilt; very slightly rubbed. First edition of an attractive series of poems, some apparently never published elsewhere, e.g. “Written on Seeing a Robin in Severe Weather,” by Mrs. Bond Hopkins. Others are taken from periodicals, and from other Darton publications such as the Taylor sisters Original ... more information

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, [1825]. xi, [i], 122, [2]pp., 18mo. With the half-title and a terminal advertisement leaf. A fine fresh copy, untrimmed in the original printed drab boards, spine covering mostly gone, but sound. Second edition, but considerably reworked, with revisions to the verse and the prose notes expanded. Some occasional pieces in the first edition, published in 1821, are here omitted in order to concentrate on the title poem alone. The poet... more information

Amsterdam: Aux dépens d’Estienne Roger, 1709. [x], 168pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece of a library, title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum; some of the vellum on the boards gone, but the binding still sound, and the spine with an elegant contemporary manuscript title. First Amsterdam edition, following the Paris edition of 1703. The author declares himself inspired by the ancients and moderns controversy of the 1690s and beyond, and discusses both the principles of all langu... more information

London: Printed for Hen. Brome, 1675. [iv], 91, [1]pp., 12mo. With the initial licence leaf; two small marginal wormholes, one at top and one at bottom, touching one letter of title imprint, the text otherwise unaffected. Disbound into the original four gatherings, making a nice, perfectly sound little exemplar of economical printing practice during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Apparently the second edition, not so stated, sometimes referred to as the “first edition, second issue,... more information

Falmouth: Printed by and for James Lake, 1817. xiv, [ii], 179, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, plate showing the “Plan of the Tea-Room” inserted opposite p. 26. Several old library inkstamps, but a sound and pleasant copy, neatly bound in drab boards with a printed paper label. First edition; Alexander Frazer took notes of the trial in shorthand. Donnall was charged with giving his sixty-year-old widowed mother-in-law arsenic mixed in some cocoa, from which she died a few days later. In d... more information

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. [iv], 34; [2], 39, [1]pp., 8vo. Small piece off lower corner of title, well clear of text, small old institutional blind-stamp in the margin of a few leaves (deacquisition confirmed). Antique-style grey wrappers, with facsimile title on upper cover. First edition. The first, 34-page, section is Bentham’s reflections on the two orations by Thucydides and Plato; these are translated, respectively, by William Smith, Dean of Chester, and by Gilbert West. ... more information