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1808123892Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107322Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
18131092071813. London: Ackermann 1813. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. <br /> <br /> § From the second 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown
18081073201808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. <br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. unknown
18131092021813. London: R. Ackermann 1813. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. <br /> <br /> § From the second 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown
18081073221808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. <br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. unknown
1857M4262New York 1857. Very Good the upper fold has been reinforced. Size : 321x444 mm 12.625x17.5 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Sea Chart; Maps United States New England States; unknown
18091092214to. Chichester: W. Mason 1809. 4to 8 7 416pp. With portrait frontispiece imprint trimmed at foot and 11 engraved plates including one by William Blake. Old half calf marbled boards joints rubbed but sound top of backstrip chipped away black label lettered in gilt. § First edition. Blake’s plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Essick CBI XLIX. W. Mason hardcover books
1817105709Sm. Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1817. Sm. 8vo xii 166 pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt backstrip richly gilt marbled edges signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text perhaps by Cotes. § A beautiful copy handsomely bound with the frontispiece printed in five colors. Friedman Color Printing in England #31. The Vershbow copy with bookplate. DNB notes: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
1878List3694Boston Massachusetts: White Smith and Company 1878. Folio 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. 6 pp. Wraps fully split else near fine with some very light foxing and soiling to wrap overall very attractive. Very good. An early phonograph-related sheet associated with the French soprano Marie Roze née Hippolyte Ponsin 1846–1926 whose participation in early demonstrations of Thomas Edison’s tinfoil phonograph was widely publicized in 1878. Contemporary reports identify Roze as the “celebrated prima donna†depicted singing into the phonograph in an engraving produced for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper New York April 20 1878 following a demonstration of the machine at Steinway Hall earlier that year. The same engraving was subsequently reused across multiple promotional formats including tickets to phonograph exhibitions advertising circulars and early phonograph-themed sheet music such as Phonograph. March Brillante.<br /> <br /> Related promotional material includes a poster advertising exhibitions of Edison’s new tinfoil phonograph in Toronto on May 28 1878 which employs the identical image of the prima donna singing into the apparatus beneath the heading “Edison’s Phonograph!†The poster announces daily demonstrations featuring singing speech and explanatory lectures illustrating the standardized visual language used to market the invention during its first year of public exhibition.1<br /> <br /> Roze an internationally known operatic soprano who later became Mrs. Henry Mapleson was connected with early phonograph demonstrations intended to showcase the recording and playback of trained vocal performance. The engraving linking her image to the machine circulated widely in print culture during 1878 appearing in illustrated journalism and promotional ephemera tied to touring exhibitions. Overall a very nice copy of what was an iconic image at the time. Blake was a highly prolific composer of over 5000 songs the most famous of which is Rock-a-Bye Baby. OCLC locates two copies with different entries at Baylor and BYU. <br /> <br /> 1 Arthur Zimmerman “The Early Phonographic Craze in Ontario 1878–92†Antique Phonograph News https://www.capsnews.org/apn2022-3.htm accessed February 24 2026. White, Smith and Company unknown
1860014519Columbus OH: H. Miller 1860. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Ornately blind stamped leather boards recently professionally rebacked with new black leather spine with new gilt titles and decorations. Marbled edges and endpapers. xvi 861 pp. Spine a little cocked. Rubbing and wear to edges chafing to boards. Typical browning and spotting to interior. A few marginal damp stains. H. Miller hardcover
18946276Wellington N.Z.: Edwards Russell & Co 1894. About very good. 28pp. 12mo. Original red cloth cover gilt; edges red. Light wear and soiling. Small portion of flyleaf torn away to remove previous owner's name; presentation inscription from the author. Small library ink stamp on rear flyleaf. A presentation copy of the only published work by Louisa Blake 1844-1901 reformer and advocate for women's suffrage in New Zealand. The short collection of verse largely devotional also contains an interesting panegyric exalting the role of the Bishop of Mashonaland in saving a comrade during the First Matabele War in Zimbabwe titled "A True Incident of the Matabele Campaign." Outside of the Antipodes OCLC locates just four copies with only one of these in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania. Edwards, Russell & Co unknown
18931011331893. London: Lawrence and Bullen the Muses' Library 1893. <br /> <br /> 12mo liii 251 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original quarter parchment green boards gilt top a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Peel Sheldon. <br /> <br /> § Deluxe edition limited to 200 copies on hand-made paper. First edition thus an important edition bringing the two poets together in the same year that Yeats edited Blake's entire canon with Ellis. Bentley Blake Books 293. unknown
1860390<p><strong>866 pages. Large 8vo 10 x 7 inches publisher's midnight brown embossed full leather gilt spine very good minimal wear to binding some foxing to contents throughout occasionally heavily so but for the most part mildly. 861 pp illustrated. A much nicer copy than usually found. First published in 1857 this preferred 1860 printing includes all of the original text with additional info up until 1860 including John Brown and the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry the Dred Scott decision and the 36th Congress in 1859 & the Impending Crisis. An exhaustive academic text up through 1860 with a focus on Slavery and the Slave Trade in the United States as well as its political components. Also included is a history of slavery outside of the United States from ancient times up to Sierra Leone Liberia and the West Indies in the 1850's.</strong></p> H. Miller hardcover
1876500037355London: The English Picture Publishing Company 1876. First edition thus. . Paperback. Good. The English Picture Publishing Company was formed by Pre-Raphaelites Charles Rowley George Milner and Frederic Shields " It was all done under Madox Brown's influence we lost half our cash but we spread some fine things the like of which was not on the market." They set about to publish photographic reproductions of the work of contemporary and earlier British artists. The company became the Fine Art Autotype Company. The company operated out of Manchester. Any prints by this company are scarce. Some have found their way into prestigious collections e.g. The British Museum & The Wellcome Library. There is no mention of these prints on the net. They are 15" by 22" though the actual images are 6".5 by 8.5". They are autotypes which is a photographic process and began in 1868. "The mourners" "Eve's Dream" "Comus. The Lady restored to her parents" "Comus with his revellers" "Comus meeting the lady" "Queen Catherine's Dream" "Comus: Sabrina disenchanting the Lady" "Comus: The Two brothers passing the Night in the Wood" "A Breach in the City" "The Bread of Life". Foxing to surround two prints have a small damp stain. <br/> <br/> The English Picture Publishing Company paperback
1813107840e. London: Bensley for Ackermann 1813 i.e. 1870. 4to plates only without the Frontispiece Death’s Door and The Soul’s Reunion with the Body i.e. etched title and 9 plates. As issued in the original pebbled brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt occasional foxing or oxidization an adequate copy. Includes 22 newspaper clippings from the 10s 20s 30s and 40s all related to Blake a brochure for Cambridge University Press’s An Island in the Moon facsimile a brochure for Scolar Press’s The Grave facsimile and a few other articles. § Third quarto edition printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Bentley Blake Books 435e. Bensley for Ackermann hardcover books
1808123890Single plate. London: Cromek 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margin including the note "Subscriber's copy" at the very bottom often trimmed off. § From the first quarto edition this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cromek unknown books
1808107329Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1813110778Single plate. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate folio etching on wove unwatermarked paper good. § From the second folio edition. Bentley Blake Books 435. Ackermann unknown books
1808123898Single 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 most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davis unknown books
1808107328Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123901Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107323Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123889Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
18131107781813. London: Ackermann 1813. <br /> <br /> Single plate folio etching on wove unwatermarked paper good.<br /> <br /> § From the second folio edition. Bentley Blake Books 435. unknown
