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1847M6571United States: U.S. Coast Survey 1847. Very Good; left margin extended. Notes: Holmes' Hole is now known as Vineyard Haven. Size : 263x358 mm 10.35x14.09 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps United States New England States; U.S. Coast Survey unknown
1889ABE-4004017816Hubbard Brothers Philadelphia 1889 ills by Bennet His perilous encounters startling adventures and daring exploits with indians cannibals wild beasts serpents balloons geysers etc etc all over the world in the bowels of the earth and above the clouds Baron Munchausen fantasyFANTASY. THE HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES OF MAJOR MENDAX by Francis Blake Crofton. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers 1889. 4to 7 x 8 1/2" brown cloth stamped in black and gold 236p. tight and VG. 1st edition of this strange fantasy adventure story set in fictional countries all over the African continent. Arranged as a series of tales told to his impressionable nephew each chapter brings another nonsensical dangerous encounter that The Major manages to escape. The natives are all stereotypically portrayed. Illustrated with 15 fabulous full page pen and inks by Bennett full of detail and humor. Blake was born in Ireland but lived most of his life in Canada working as a librarian in Nova Scotia. Nice copies of this title are very hard to find. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hubbard Brothers Philadelphia hardcover
1878101075Folio. London: Chatto & Windus1878. Folio 8pp. of text and 10 plates. Original cloth-backed printed boards worn repaired at head and foot. § First edition. An interesting collection complete with 8 mounted original etchings on India proof paper and two lithographs executed by Scott after Blake's designs. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
189288902 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1892. 2 vols. 8vo Vol. I: xxi 308pp; Vol. II: 284pp. 2 frontispieces with tissue guards and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to spine. Moderate foxing to title pages and throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. § First edition. John Linnell was an English Romantic painter 1792-1882. Linnell was one of the best friends and patrons of William Blake. Bentley Blake Books 2769. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover books
1855M6992United States: Office of P.R.R. Exp & Surveys c. 1855. Very Good;. Notes: Geological survey of the country between Los Angeles San Diego and the Colorado River. Size : 170x235 mm 6.69x9.25 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps United States West California; Maps Geological; Office of P.R.R. Exp & Surveys unknown
1849232160New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First. hardcover. good. Mountains Hills and Geological Features; Local Traditions; and Short Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers. 368pp. 12mo rebound in old green cloth with leather label label rubbed page 145 with small repaired tear with no loss of text scattered light foxing. New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First Edition<br/><br/> Stuyvesant Fish's own copy with his signature and bookplate. Stuyvesant Fish was a banker in New York City and president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1887 to 1906. He had an estate in Garrison New York in Putnam County. Some pages are annotated in pencil by Stuyvesant Fish. The author William Blake was a lawyer with an office in Cold Spring New York in Putnam County. Howes B-501. Nestler 1190.<br/><br/> Baker & Scribner unknown books
189912848Thomas B. Mosher 1899. Limited Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. One of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. The vignettes in this book were cut on wood by Selwyn Image and taken from "The Century Guild Hobby Horse" 1884-1892. Dust jacket is darkened around the edges and on the spine tears at the corners with fold upper right corner font spine has tears head/tail. Blue paper boards are also darkened on the edges and spine tearing at front spine edge. Interior clean and nice. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
1805174081805 London, Matthews, 1805 Folio. Iliade, gravee par Piroli d'apres les desseins composes par JOHN FLAXMAN~ 39 cuivres, designed by J.FL. engraved by Thomas Piroli, (London, Matthews, 1795, 1805). Le sculpteur neoclassique Flaxman resida de 1787 a 1794 a Rome et produisit aussi des dessins sur Hesiode et Dante. Cartonnage
183832450London: Walter Spiers 1838. First Edition. RARE PRESENTATION COPY from the author. With six full-page illustrations by Phiz Hablot K. Browne especially famous for his illustrations to Dickens' novels and four pages of music. 8vo handsomely bound in polished mottled calf and signed Riviere and Son the covers with triple gilt rules at the borders the spine with raised bands separating the compartments which are fully gilt decorated red morocco lettering piece gilt elaborate gilt rolled turnovers all edges gilt. iv 12 illustrated plates with the half-title pp. A fine presentation copy the text and music and illustrations all in good order front cover detached easily repaired if required otherwise a very handsome copy. FIRST EDITION AND A RARE PRESENTATION COPY of this illustrated text and song dedicated to "The Country Gentlemen of England". A perfect period piece in celebration of common English theme of the time. Walter Spiers hardcover
18591362787Columbus Ohio: H. Miller 1859. Early Edition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo 832 pages; G; newly rebound in full red cloth black label with gilt titling to spine; edges of text block marbled; significant foxing throughout; shelved case 1. Originally published in 1857. 1362787. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. H. Miller hardcover
1808144601808. First Quarto Edition. Near fine. Single sheet 35.4 x 29.2cm : plate impression 21.4 x 26.7cm : text and image after the design by William Blake.<br /> <br /> Light toning to edges. From the First Quarto edition of Robert Blair's meditation on death and resurrection. Blair's poem is remembered today for having some of William Blake's most memorable designs. These were executed by Italian engraver Luigi Schiavonetti who was awarded the commission for executing the plates despite Blake having been asked to create the designs Blake Books 435 B. unknown
1808123891Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. One of Blake's most memorable images. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435b."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123900Single plate. London: Cadell and Davis 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davis unknown books
18081239001808. London: Cadell and Davis 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
1893mon0000956252London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. One of 500 trade copies. Original green cloth with gilt decoration. Pages clean and bright. Boards rubbed and bumped at corners. Spine faded. Top edge gilt. Volume 2 only. London: Bernard Quaritch, hardcover
1887d2793cLondon: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. 1887. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spine. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". viii 160pp iv plates. 12 plates 6 b/w 6 sepia. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
1874431j2135New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. "A narrative designed to 'present in popular form the entire history of the Polaris Exploring Expedition' to northwest Greenland; based on notes etc. made by Captain Tyson a member of the expedition and of its ice-floe party which drifted southward from Smith Sound till rescued off the Labrador coast by the ship Tigress. Appendix contains text of some of the documents issued in connection with the expecition." - Arctic Bibliography 1694. 5-486 6 ads p. Index. Black and white illustrations some tissue protected. Tight and unmarked with average external wear. Small faint bit of label remnant to front free endpaper. Faint ghost writing on front board. A sound example. ; 4to . Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
186322648London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co 1863. First edition. Volume I contains Gilchrist's biography of Blake; Volume II prints a selection of Blake's poems and other writings. Fine copy. 2 volumes portrait and illustrations some fold-out marbled endpapers half red morocco and yellow buckram over boards t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe half-titles bound in. Fine copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1805107268King Henry VIII. London: Rivington and 40 other booksellers 1805. King Henry VIII. Single plate some toning and spotting but very good condition. § One of two illustrations engraved by Blake after Fuseli from the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell perhaps and quite rare. Rivington [and 40 other booksellers] unknown books
1860374185Columbus Ohio: H. Miller 1860. Frontispiece and 11 plates. 866pp. Large thick 8vo. Publisher's embossed morocco marbled endpapers and edges worn. Foxing. Frontispiece and 11 plates. 866pp. Large thick 8vo. One of several edition published by subscription of this abolitionist history of slavery. This issue includes an additional chapter in the rear regarding John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. H. Miller unknown
181777638London:: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1817. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with printed paper label on front cover. Plate 8 is partially detached and plates 24 and 25 are entirely detached without damage to edges. Contents otherwise fine. The boards and printed paper label are dust-soiled and lightly worn. Oblong folio. Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman. Engraved by William Blake. Title leaf and 37 plates. . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hardcover
18635924London: Macmillan 1863. First edition. Bentley said it better than we can: "Never has an important literary reputation been posthumously established so effectively instantaneously and forcefully. Gilchrist's title 'Pictor Ignotus' had not been mere showmanship. Blake had been unknown and Gilchrist made him sensationally well-known. From 1863 on Blake took an unchallenged place in literary and artistic history as one of the great figures of the Romantic Movement. Gilchrist's biography is still in many respects the best biography of Blake" pp. 12-13. 24 cm; 2 volumes. i-v vi-xv 1-389; i-v vi-vii 1-3 4-268 pages and 66 plates including the "Job" engravings and 16 plates from electrotypes of the copperplates of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Text illustrations. Folding plate of Canterbury pilgrims in volume 2. Bound in roughly contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt-tooled compartments on spine with original gilt-stamped morocco covers laid down on front pastedowns in both volumes. Binding somewhat worn at joints and edges but this is a sound copy internally without blemish. Reference: Bentley Blake Books 1234A. Macmillan hardcover books
187266658"Hand-Book of Colorado" With Maps and Illustrations J.A. BLAKE & F. C. WILLETT Publisher. Hand-Book of Colorado. With Maps and Illustrations. Second Year of Publication. Denver: J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett 1872. First edition of second publication although no first publication has been listed on OCLC nor at auction in last 40 years. Octavo. 131 pp. 5 ads. Original purple pebbled colth gilt-stamped on front cover. Front endpapers are ads as is rear paste-down. Front hinge starting spine with small split to cloth covers stained extremities rubbed very good. Contains ads of the period and maps as well as a map with railroad connections. HBS 66658. $500 J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett hardcover books
1808123893Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned some residual soiling in the margins and a few flecks in the image. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most powerful images in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107320Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
