Titles starting with W from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun, at teh West-end of St. Paul’s, 1685. [iv], 30, [2]pp., 4to. With the final blank leaf. A fine large copy, lavishly presented in half brown morocco, spine gilt, by Mounteney, and a matching brown morocco-backed cloth pull-off case. Bookplate of Harold Greenhill. First edition, both a description of the “Majestick Pile” of the castle itself, and its role as the place where Charles  . . . might for Ease repair. A Seat for sw... more information

London: Printed for Tho. Horne, 1710. [x], 32, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title and terminal leaf of bookseller’s advertisements. Half-title and last page a little dusty, but a pleasant, entirely untrimmed copy, unbound as issued. “The Third Edition, Being the Only Correct and Finish'd Copy” of this charming and very popular poem on growing old. In fact there were at least a half-dozen editions, broadside and pamphlet, preceding this definitive one; Thomas Horne had published it a... more information

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. 121, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece by Hopwood after Hilton, woodcut title and other vignettes, with the half-title. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; upper cover barely holding. Attractive engraved ticket of B.E. Lloyd & Son Booksellers, Harley Street on front pastedown. First edition in this form, a heavily revised text, with the addition of “occasional poems” of the first published book by an author whose gently satiric novel The Heroine w... more information

London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1712. xiv, 192pp., 8vo. An excellent copy in handsome calf antique, gilt, by Philip Dusel. First edition of this translation with, at the end, an original essay in which Welsted discusses the ideas of Longinus applied to English poetry, particularly Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Cowley and Waller. Alston, Bibliography of the English Language, VI, 123.... more information