1852: Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, volume 2, page 158 (1890 reprint; F. A. Stokes company)
Hephæstus, who was intended to supply the comic element in the vast pantomimic pageant, shambled forward with studied uncouthness, amid roars of laughter; surveyed the altar with ludicrous contempt; raised his mighty hammer, shivered it to pieces with a single blow, and beckoned to his attendants to carry off the fragments, and replace it with something more fitting for his august spouse.
I have adopted, not without hesitation, the Latin, rather than the Greek, nomenclature for the Heathen Deities. I have been induced to do so from the manifest incongruity of confounding the two; and from the fact that though English readers may be familiar with the names of Zeus, or Aphrodite, or even Poseidon, those of Hera, or Ares, or Hephæstus, or Leto, would hardly convey to them a definite signification.
1883: The Works of John Ruskin, volume 1, pages 72–73 (Clarke, Given & Hooper)
And thus, as Hephæstus✸ is lord of the fire of the hand, and Apollo of the fire of the brain, so Athena of the fire of the heart; and as Hercules wears for his chief armour the skin of the Nemean lion, his chief enemy, whom he slew; and Apollo has for his highest name “ the Pythian,” from his chief enemy, the Python, slain; so Athena bears always on her breast the deadly face of her chief enemy slain, the Gorgonian cold, and venomous agony, that turns living men to stone. ✸ Vulcan (mulciber).
Yea, a craftsman whom Hephæstus and Pallas Athene have taught To be master over masters, and lovely work he hath wrought; So she round his head and his shoulders shed grace abundantly.
They were also viewed as presiding over metals and metallurgy,⁷ having thus some points of resemblance to the Greek Hephæstus and the Latin Vulcan.
1907: Homer and Alfred John Church (translator), The Iliad for Boys and Girls, page 246 (Macmillan Co.)
The Lady Grace who was wife to Hephæstus saw Thetis, and caught her by the hand, and said: […]
1916: Carl Gustav Jung and Beatrice M. Hinkle (translator), Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido: A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought, page 367 (Moffat, Yard and Co.)
Hephæstus, the father of Hermes, is an artistic master workman and sculptor.
1921: Padraic Colum, The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived before Achilles, page 83 (The Macmillan company)
Then Zeus called upon the artisan of the gods, lame Hephæstus, and he commanded him to make a being out of clay that would have the likeness of a lovely maiden. […] All strove to add a grace or a beauty to the work of Hephæstus.
1925: Edmund Edward Fournier d’Albe, Hephæstus: or, The Soul of the Machine, main title (E. P. Dutton & company)
There was chaste Artemis, athletic goddess of the hunt; Hermes with his winged feet, fleet messenger of the gods; and the swart and limping Hephæstus, their mechanic, hammering out the heavy armors on his smoky forge.
