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 ... 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, an adaptation... 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 Gregor... more information

London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1702. [xx], 166, [2], plus four supplementary dedications, each of two leaves, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, with a terminal leaf of advertisements (this leaf bound backwards). Some browning and soiling throughout, but a sound copy, disbound. First edition, rare, of this spin-off of Milton, in which the author’s preface attempts to deflect the “one great Shot I expect level'd at me, viz. the Character of a Plagiary, for taking some Hints from Milton, you wi... 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... more information