455 résultats
18931087763 vols. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. large 8vo. profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition although spines now a little dulled with rubbing to edges and spine ends. All volumes very clean internally with traces of dustiness to the uncut page edges. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance†Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. The book is also treasured by devotees of gilt-stamped bindings of which this is a striking example. Quaritch hardcover books
189330222London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. Limited Edition. Quarto. Three volumes in green cloth elaborately gilt lettered and decorated with Blake's designs. Frayed cloth at head and heel of spines and a folded cover on the third volume all expertly repaired. Gilt designs very sharp with minimal wear. Top edges gilt. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Label declaring it to be from the library of George Woodward Wickersham former Attorney General of the U.S.A. Occassional edgewear to books. In it's time the best edition of Blake extant. A beautiful set. Bernard Quaritch Hardcover
187351081Denver: J. A. Blake & F. C. Willett Publishers 1873. 1873. COLORADO. First edition. 16 mo. 6 1/8" x 4" original green pebbled cloth titles stamped in gilt on the front cover 143 pp. includes front and rear pastedown sheets preface illustrated maps advertisements. index. A finely illustrated travel and business guide to Colorado the third such annual volume. Contains listings and descriptions of railroad routes towns and cities resorts banks businesses agriculture hotels etc. The description of each town is accompanied by a brief business directory of the "leading trades" in the vicinity. Included are maps of Boulder with gold and copper regions noted Golden and Pueblo. There is a "Birds Eye View of Denver in 1870" plus many illustrated advertisements for local merchants such as bankers newspapers dentists jewelers hotels real estate agents etc. Herd 524 lists the 1871 issue as "rare" and "Copy seen in the Rollins Collection Princeton University" but he missed the 1872 and 1873 editions. Former owner's inked name at top of front pastedown sheet one signature block loosened but holding spine ends and corners are lightly rubbed else a very good copy of a scarce book. J. A. Blake & F. C. Willett, Publishers, 1873. hardcover
18261264011826. 1826. <br /> <br /> Folio single sheet 16 1/4 x 11 image inc. platemark 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Light spotting very good.<br /> <br /> § First edition from the printing of 65 sets with the word "Proof" on French wove paper. Blake's rendition of Job 1: 14-16 in which Job is told of the destruction of his herds and the servants who tended them. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625-641C. unknown
186326905London.: Macmillan and Co. 1863. Full nineteenth century calf by Root with his signature gilt boards and spine with decorative tooling in gilt neatly re-backed with original backstrips laid down the original publisher's decorated cloth front covers bound in t.e.g. 2 vols. 8vo. 160 x 235 mm. The many illustrations include reproductions of the Book of Job 22 plates. The 16 plates Songs of Innocence of Experience and 3 from Thornton's Virgil are taken from the original plates and woodblocks. A fine extra-illustrated example of the first edition of the first important life of Blake. After Gilchrist died in 1861 the final section of the work was written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from notes left by Gilchrist.The additional 54 plates include some of Blake's commercial prints 26 prints portraits mainly of writers and artists and a small number of topographical plates including an etching titled in pencil 'Blake's Cottage at Feltham by Gilchrist'.The 26 plates by Blake are: 'Portrait of Democritus' from Lavater's 'Essays on Physiognomy'. 'Fertilisation of Egypt' from Erasmus Darwin's 'The Botanic Garden'.'A Family of New South Wales' from J. Hunter's 'Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island' 1793. 'May Day in London' from 'The Wit's Magazine' May 1784. 4 plates from Charles Allen's 'A New and Improved History of England' 1797. 14 plates from C G Salzmann's 'Elements of Morality'. 4 plates from W. Hayley's 'The Triumph of Temper'. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1880323501London: Macmillan 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth both volumes fine. The Henry Buxton Forman copy with his bookplate. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist 1863 and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings. G.E.Bentley Blake Book 1680B; H. Buxton Forman 59 Macmillan unknown
1863140947684London: Macmillan and Co 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. xiv 2 389 1; viii 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Front hinges starting front joints starting at head of spine L-shaped split to top of rear joint of Volume I advancing across the spine panel and Volume II binding exposed at page 268. The binding by Burn & Co. their ticket to Volume II back pastedown is an unusually attractive example of High Victorian design and the gilt remains bright against the maroon cloth. <p>Alexander Gilchrist's biography and selected works of William Blake established Blake's place in the Western canon and remains a standard reference work. The artist and poet a peripheral figure at the time of his death in 1827 was taken up by the pre-Raphaelites several of whom completed the second volume of Gilchrist's work after he died suddenly of a fever. Chief among the secondary authors was Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had purchased Blake's annotated sketchbook at the age of nineteen and added his own pages. An important work with a powerful influence on the art and literature of the late 19th century. Macmillan and Co unknown
180822141London: Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek 1808. First quarto edition. Original endpapers retained along with some provenance thereby. Edges trimmed not by Dusel! to 34.4 x 27 cm. A few finger smudges to text and to margins of a couple plates plate marked for page 21 out-of-place at page 23 and with some rubbing to plate caption. . Complete with 13 plates including portrait plate of Blake by Schiavonetti after the painting by T. Phillips and engraved title page: 2 fl. xvi 36 4 pp. 11 plates inserted in main text. New binding by Phillip Dusel of half red morocco and marbled boards. <br/><br/>Bookplate of Ferdinand Meath McVeagh 1789-1888 of Drewstown County Meath Ireland and period Post Office / Bookseller / Stationer's ticket to front pastedown. A very handsome and clean copy in a very tasteful modern fine binding in period style. Bentley 435-B. Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek hardcover
1886108532Small slim 4to. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but see Blake Books Supplement page 140. Essick notes: “According to BBS page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early “bogus†or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi.†Pickering & Co unknown books
18861085321886. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. <br /> <br /> Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged.<br /> <br /> § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but Essick notes: "According to Blake Books Supplement page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early "bogus" or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi." The. unknown
1825215604London: W. Sams Book & Printseller to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace 1825. Third state the first being produced in 1818. Hand-colored aquatint with etched outline. 1 vols. 20 x 26 inches matted and framed to 27 x 33 inches overall. Third state the first being produced in 1818. Hand-colored aquatint with etched outline. 1 vols. 20 x 26 inches matted and framed to 27 x 33 inches overall. A large and important depiction of an exhibition sparring match held in Fives Court in London's Little St. Martin's Street a tennis and fives court hired for such events the participants unlike a regular bare-knuckle bout being fitted with gloves "mittens" or "mufflers". The contestants shown were Ned Turner "The Out-and-Outer" who had killed a man in the ring serving time for manslaughter and Jack Randall "The Prime Irish Lad" unbeaten throughout 12 years of ring activity. The two had fought an epic fight in 1818 which Randall won to become the Lightweight champion. A large number of famous pugilists are pictured in the audience not always accurately Jem Belcher the famed champion and the first real sporting celebrity in the modern sense is shown although he was dead and it is a fair portrait of "The Fancy" as the mix of often raffish sporting professionals and upscale spectators including nobility came to be known. THE MOST FAMOUS BOXING PRINT EVER PRODUCED AND AN IMPERISHABLE EVOCATION OF REGENCY SPORT. Snelgrove British Sporting and Animal Prints p. 48-9 color plate 5; Siltzer pp. 319 320 325; Wilder Sporting Prints p. 178 color plate p. 179; Magriel The Ring and the Glove pp. 17-18 W. Sams, Book & Printseller, to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace unknown books
180824820London: R.H. Cromek 1808. Marbled boards. Very Good. William Blake. The 1808 1st edition with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake at the frontispiece his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled boards and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" Bentley 435B. R.H. Cromek unknown
18131087331813. London: J. Johnson 1813. <br /> <br /> 4to 8 plates from the 1813 third edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm.<br /> <br /> § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro" "A Private Marine." "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys" "The Skinning of the Aboma Snake" " Family of Negro Slaves." The Skulls of Lieut. Leppar." "March Thro' a Swamp or Marsh in Terra-Firma" "The Celebrated Graman Quacy". Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXXIII p 71 - 75. unknown
1886184113London: privately printed 1886. God becomes as we are that we may be as he is One of the rarest Blake facsimiles especially so in the original wrappers one of 50 hand-coloured large paper copies. Blake wrote these aphorisms in 1788 and printed them in the 1790s shortly after his invention of "illuminated printing". This edition was published the same year as William Muir's facsimile; no priority between the two editions has been established. Octavo. 12 illustrated plates printed in reddish brown 9 tinted by hand in black 3 in colour all loose as issued. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Wrappers bright extremities of rear wrap toned one small nick a few marks to plates not affecting impressions; an excellent copy. Keynes 218; not in Bentley. unknown
18861092194to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text 24 On Homer’s Poetry 25 blank. Original wrappers upper wrapper titled in manuscript lower wrapper blank stitched as issued. Bookplate of Templeton Crocker. § Copy #50 of 50 copies numbered and signed by Muir. Includes “All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5 as in other copies and also the separate plate “On Homer’s Poetry†not found in the other copies above but present in copy #40 for sale at James Cummins. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†BB#249g. Bentley Blake Books 249 G. The Templeton Crocker/Herbert M. Evans copy with the Crocker bookplate at the front and Howell’s note “HME†at the back priced $100. William Muir unknown books
1886302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L."<br/>The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown books
180510791510 volumes. London: C and J. Rivington 1805. 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli’s major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book his only illustrations of Shakespeare. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed “the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegantâ€. Bentley 498. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLVII. C and J. Rivington unknown books
18861088104to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper printed on the inside with the “Programme†dated November 1885. All bound into modern blue buckram red morocco label on backstrip bookplate of Joseph Holland and a Moncure Biddle typed library record at front Houghton Library Phil Hofer manuscript note pasted in at the back. A fine copy. § Copy No. 11 of 50.Includes “ All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†Bentley BB 249 G. William Muir hardcover books
1803104400Roy. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake’s engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: “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.†J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
18061087511806. London: Richard Phillips 1806. <br /> <br /> 8vo xxiv 270 ii publisher's booklistpp. with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. <br /> <br /> § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. unknown
18031241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. <br /> <br /> Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins.<br /> <br /> § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations by Maria Flaxman.<br /> Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown
18031044001803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. <br /> <br /> Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins.<br /> <br /> § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley BB 471A. Essick CBI XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: "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.". unknown
1886302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L."<br /> The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown
18061087518vo. London: Richard Phillips 1806. 8vo xxiv 270pp ii publisher's booklist with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design " The Graphic Muse". Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder : there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. Richard Phillips hardcover books
18051079151805. London: C. and J. Rivington 1805. <br /> <br /> 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodsley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. <br /> <br /> § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare's plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli's major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed "the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegant." Bentley 498. Essick CBI XLVII. unknown
