Titles starting with V from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

Halesworth: Printed and Sold by T. Tippell, 1819. xvi, [ii], 116pp., 8vo. With the half-title and a list of subscribers, including “T.S. Gooch, Esq. M.P. Bramfield Hall.” Elegantly bound, presumably for the author’s presentation, in full rose calf, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine fully gilt with double morocco labels; a couple of minor spots and traces of rubbing, but a lovely copy. Ownership inscription “Thomas Sherlock Gooch” on front free endpaper, and a later n... more information

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1791. 2 vols. in one: viii, 246; [iv], 232 pp. 8vo. Short clean tear in Vol. I, pp. 225-226 and Vol. II, pp. 143-4 without loss of text and with all paper present. A fresh and handsome copy in contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with ticket “Bound by Watkins & Parker Stationers, Church Street, Hereford” on front pastedown. First edition, posthumously published and edited by the author's son. Cotton is best remembered for Visions in Verse, a adaptation fo... more information

Londres: Chez William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, [1823]. 36pp., 18mo. Folding engraved frontispiece and four plates, all with English captions and attractively hand-colored. An excellent copy in the original printed stiff yellow wrappers, upper cover with title, lower cover with a list of 23 “Ouvrages écrits en Anglais, par Marie Elliott, traduits. . . Par A. F. Ed. Lépée,” wrappers slightly soiled. In an elegant burgundy morocco-backed slipcase, spine fully gilt. First D... more information

Oxford: Printed by W. Hall for John Forrest, 1662. [xii], 397, [33]pp., 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the longitudinal half-title present at end. Contemporary panelled calf; extremities worn and the front joint split, but firm. Front free endpaper missing, a couple of contemporary annotations on title, including an inked-through ownership inscription. Robert Midgley’s ownership inscription, dated1710, is on the front pastedown, with a long not in his hand about Ridley and John Gregory... more information

London: Printed for J. Fielding, [1783]. Presenting an Elegant Selection of the Most Favourite Hunting, Sea, Love, & Miscellaneous Songs. . . With the Music prefixed to each. [xii], 350, [2]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and title, and a terminal leaf of advertisements, printed music throughout; first and last leaves very slightly chipped in the outer margins, the last with some expert reinforcement, pp. 325-326 restored at gutter with loss of a few letters but the sense clear. Neatly bound in cal... more information

London: Fisher, Son, and Co., 1843 [iv], 215, [1], 8pp., sm. 8vo. With a publishers’ catalogue at end, some contemporary pencilled notes throughout, especially at the end where there are calculations of the numbers of drunkards that die “every year, every month” etc. An excellent copy in the original blind-stamped purple cloth, spine gilt; faded (as usual), missing the front free endpaper. First edition of this strong argument for the temperance movement, by an enormously popular author o... more information