Titles starting with W from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1794. [viii], 288pp., 12mo. With the half-title, the publisher’s “Advertisement” (in which he leaves to the author “the task of justifying her own conduct” with this novel), and a leaf of books “just published” and “in the press”; piece off the outer margin of pp. 135-136 affecting in all about six words, the text essentially intelligible (and the missing words sometime pencilled in). Contemporary calf; rebacked. First edition, ... more information

London: Richard Bentley, 1834. [iii]-viii, 429, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title; a little staining throughout. A handsome copy, finely bound in contemporary half green calf, spine tooled in gilt and blind. “Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new preface, notes, etc by the author.” So says the title, and BAL confirms. The new preface is stated to be “to the present edition in “The Standard Novels.”” BAL 3863. ... more information

London: Printed for John Harris, 1829. a familiar description of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Religious Observances of the Ancient Greeks. 2 vols. in one, 18mo. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary full roan, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e.; extremities a bit worn. Front pastedown inscribed “Masr. Robt Francis. Islington, Christs 1837. The reward of diligence and good conduct at School.” First edition, combining a description of academic life at Cambridge with a very full ac... more information

London: Printed for Tho. Horne, 1710. Written by Dr. W. Pope, Fellow of the Royal-Society. [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 t... more information

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. by Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq. Author of The Heroine. . . Occasional Poems. 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 th... more information

1813.. 32pp., 32mo. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations; some browning throughout. Original printed buff wrappers; extremities slightly worn. One of almost innumerable early editions printed in America of the abridged-for-children version of Defoe’s tale. Welch records 94 editions printed before 1821, but not this one. He does, however, note Hosford editions of 1811 and 1814, and OCLC locates two copies of this one, at the University of Florida and the Upper Hudson Library system in New York. ... 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