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18261233531826. 1826. <br /> <br /> Folio single sheet 16 1/4 x 11 image inc. platemark 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine.<br /> <br /> § First edition from the printing of 65 sets with the word "Proof" on French wove paper. A fine impression of one of the most affecting plates in this series in which Job laments his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence Job 3:3. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake's last completed prophetic book. "It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake's most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense" S. Foster Damon A Blake Dictionary p. 217. "The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art" Ray Illustrator and the Book in England #8. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625-641C. Provenance: Sotheby's May 4& 5 1983. unknown
1893WRCLIT68725London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Three volumes. Large thick octavo. Original green cloth spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Some modest rubbing at extremities but a quite bright sound very good or better set. First edition. One of five hundred sets comprising the regular paper issue. Controversial in its interpretation of Blake's texts this work nonetheless remains in this issue and binding something of a landmark of 1890s book production. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" - Bentley. Wade quotes Yeats's inscription in his own copy about the nature of this collaboration: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." WADE 218. BENTLEY 369. Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
1825104648Proof on India paper mounted on handmade paper. London: March 8 1825 but published 1826. Proof on India paper mounted on handmade paper some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. A fine impression. Matted. § Single plate from the first edition one of 150 proof sets on India paper. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books
1809108741Large 4to. Chichester: W. Mason 1809. Large 4to 8 416 7 pp with a portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout : just traces of ageing on the first few pages. § First edition large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue the large-paper copies are on heavier paper and the impressions are stronger. The 1-page advertisment at the end for “Epistles to Romney†is not found in the small-paper copies. Blake’s plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Bentley Blake Books 469 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIX: large-paper issue has an “1807†watermark without a maker’s name; the small paper is watermarked “Rye Mill / 1807â€. W. Mason hardcover books
18091087411809. Chichester: W. Mason 1809. <br /> <br /> Large 4to 8 416 7 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout just traces of ageing on the first few pages.<br /> <br /> § First edition large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue the large-paper copies are on heavier paper and the impressions are stronger. The 1-page advertisement at the end for "Epistles to Romney" is not found in the small-paper copies. Blake's plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Bentley BB 469 Essick CBI XLIX: large-paper issue has an "1807" watermark without a maker's name; the small paper is watermarked "Rye Mill / 1807.". unknown
1885302990Edmonton 1885. No. 49 of 50 copies signed by Muir on upper wrapper. William Muir facsimile. Preface leaf and 11 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Some external soiling and chipping to edges internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 49 of 50 copies signed by Muir on upper wrapper. William Muir facsimile. Preface leaf and 11 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. Blake's Daughters of Albion. Keynes 217c; Bentley 249e unknown books
1880WRCLIT82179London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. Two volumes. Large thick octavos. Original navy blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt after a pictorial design by Rossetti. Portraits plates and illustrations. Two bookplates in each volume otherwise a fine bright partially unopened set in the rare pictorial dust wrappers that for volume one split up the upper joint with small chips at toe and crown of upper joint and another about half- way up the joint not affecting design and that for volume two with a shallow loss along the lower edge of the front panel and a small chip from the blank area of the toe of the upper joint. Preserved in a fleece lined folding cloth slipcase. Second and best edition enlarged with additional letters and a memoir of the author. The earlier of the bookplates are tipped to each free endsheet; the later bookplates are those of the Garden Library affixed to each pastedown. One of the great late 19th century pictorial bindings very seldom encountered in the pictorial dust jackets which replicate the binding design. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
18631048982 vols. London: Macmillan 1863. 2 vols 8vo i-v vi-xv 1-389; i-v vi-vii 1-3 4-268 pp. In addition to the portrait frontispiece in vol. 1 the folding frontispiece of the Canterbury Pilgrims in vol. 2 and numerous illustrations from Job and Songs this is an extra-illustrated copy with 34 bound tipped-in or loosely inserted engravings from The Grave Triumphs of Temper Aphorisms on Man Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper Botanic Garden and Gay’s Fables. 19th-century full tan-colored calf rebacked surely to accommodate the extra-illustrations triple gilt fillet borders on covers fleurons at corners gilt backstrip with red-colored morocco labels gilt turn-ins all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The front flyleaf in vol. I with a chip at the upper-right corner. Occasional spotting or foxing. See below for complete list of extra material. Very good. § First edition. This copy is unusual and desirable for the extra material from many of Blake’s most famous commercial engravings as follows: Volume I: Originally bound in opposite pp. 1 but now detached ‘Guillermo Blake’ T Phillips Pinx t L Schiavonetti V.A. Sculpt. Frontispiece from the very rare Meditaciones Poeticas 1826 folded three times 8-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches; and 11 additional engravings from the same edition are bound in after the text all folded in order of original appearance and fairly tightly cropped; and a single engraving from The Triumphs of Temper: Flaxman/ Blake Canto I Verse 29 1803 Cadell and Davies.Volume II: After pp. 268 we find the cropped title page from the quarto issue of The Grave 8-6/8 x 13 inches. After the text in vol. 2 resumption of grangerized material from the1803 Triumphs of Temper continues as follows: Canto II Verse 471; Canto III Verse 201; Canto VI Verse 294; Canto V Verse 43; and Canto IV Verse 328. The frontispiece from Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man showing William Cowper looking up measuring 8 x 9-1/2 inches. Four engravings from Life and Posthumous Writings Cowper: A View of St Edmunds Chapel; William Cowper Author of The Task; William Cowper Carmine Nobilem; and Mrs Cowper. From the 1799 J. Johnson 8vo edition of Darwin’s Botanic Garden: The Fertilization of Egypt London Dec 1st 1791 St Pauls Church Yard. 9 engravings from Gay’s Fables Vol I 1793: The Goat without a Beard; The Shepherd and the Philosopher; The Pin and the Needle; The Tame Stage; The Miser and Plutus; The Persian the Sun and the Cloud; The Butterfly and the Snail; The Setting Dog and the Patridge; and The Owl and the Farmer.Also of interest are the prints found in all copies - three from electrotypes of the Virgil prints and 17 from electrotypes of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Gilchrist was Blake’s first full-scale biographer. The work was unfinished when he died and largely completed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti who wrote the final chapter from Gilchrist’s notes with help from his brother William Michael and also Swinburne whose own book on Blake was the result of his researches when reviewing Gilchrist’s book. Bentley Blake Books 1680A. Macmillan unknown books
1885303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Bentley 249b unknown books
18931226213 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. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. The Doheny copy with book plate in all three volumes. “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
1885303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley 249b unknown
18084613London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek 1808. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto pages 275 x 340mm: xvi 36 4 prospectus; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase.<br /> <br /> A blank verse poem The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805 William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs.In a second prospectus also from November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and 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" William Blake Archive. Near Fine. Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek unknown
1884303008Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch 1884. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Full green straight-grain morocco covers gilt with triple gilt fillets spines lettered in gilt within decorative framing lines board edges gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Faint wear to extremities else fine; probably the publisher's special binding. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Blake's 'Daughters of Albion': Muir Facsimile in Special Binding. Keynes 217c; Bentley pp. 28-9 John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch unknown books
1884303008Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch 1884. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Full green straight-grain morocco covers gilt with triple gilt fillets spines lettered in gilt within decorative framing lines board edges gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Faint wear to extremities else fine; probably the publisher's special binding. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Keynes 217c; Bentley pp. 28-9 John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch unknown
1885123176Tall slim folio. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. Tall slim folio 8 unnumbered hand-colored plates with no printed outline. Full red straight-grain morocco covers panelled in gilt backstrip gilt-lettered. A fine copy bookplate of C.H. Wilkinson dated 1938. § The Muir facsimile based on copy D in the British Museum and limited to around 50 copies. The plates are delicately colored and the text is in golden-brown. Bentley Blake Books 249b. Essick notes three versions of the ca. 1885 edition one entirely executed by hand another version with the correction of 'sprin' to 'springs' on leaf 5 line 7 and a third version with the final two leaves numbered 5 and 6 as in Blake's original the two prior versions do not have numbered leaves. William Muir unknown books
1893375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance."<br /> <br /> Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown
180546810WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED <br />first edition 8vo. 2 blank 8 title leaf preface leaf a blank leaf half or sub-title 212 2 contents and colophon 2 blankpp. 5 plates by Blake untrimmed and clearly exhibiting the plate mark near contemporary maroon roan backed boards marbled paper over boards edges untrimmed as issued paper title label on spine lettered in faded ink manuscript plain later endpapers light water stain at the lower gutter side of the last 2 leaves mainly evident on the terminal blank leaf with very light marks at the same point on neighbouring leaves including the last plate leaves A4-A5 a trifle creased and dusty some light dustiness mainly at the untrimmed edges some plates with light foxing and some lightly toned at the untrimmed edges last plate The Horse with small patch of light surface abrasion at lower corner outside the image but inside the plate mark occasional other minor dusty smudges generally a very good and pleasing copy. <br />Armorial bookplate of James Balfour slightly damaged.<br /><br />Bentley Blake Books 465<br />The plates are signed below the images "Blake inv & sc' and have the imprint 'Pubd. or Pub'd june 18 1805 by R. Phillips No6 Bridge Street Black Friers".Plates 1 to 3 inclusive are in the second more extensively worked state. Plates 4 and 5 are in the first and only state. This copy has a comma rather than a full stop after 'BLAKE' on the title page as in the copy at Princeton with plates 1 and 2 in the second state.<br />This book is possibly a copy in the original boards that have at some later point in the nineteenth century been backed with maroon roan and the boards covered with cloth and then with marbled paper and supplied with new endpapers possibly by an amateur. The bookplate looks as if it may have been lifted from an earlier setting and relaid. Printed by J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips .. hardcover
1813018448London: J. Johnson 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light small stain but very clean overall. Near Fine with minor wear. Two quarto 8-1/2" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana 1772- 1777 illustrated with 81 engravings including 3 folding maps after drawings by the author by William Blake 13 with an additional 3 attributed to him Bartolozzi Benedetti Barlow and others. Sabin 91075 called this "one of the richest contemporary accounts of a plantation society in the Americas." According to the DNB Stedman's narrative is "one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have been penned." Stedman also depicts the social and natural history of the area in detail and many of the engravings illuminate his writings on these subjects. Blake's work among the finest that he did for hire are primarily powerful portraits of slaves. <br/><br/> J. Johnson hardcover
180576378Chichester and London:: J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips 1805. First edition. old full straight-grain morocco; gilt spine; all edges gilt. Some inoffensive very slight tanning to a couple of leaves; contents almost entirely clean and fine. Some scuffing to the spine and extremities of the leather but tight sound and attractive. . 12mo. With Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. The five plates are in the first state. Keynes 74. There are two old pencil notes of provenance: one that this copy was in the "Hy. White sale" and the other a 1902 ownership signature. J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips, hardcover
1825122290London: William Blake for John Linnell 1825. Fine. London William Blake for John Linnell 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' in fact 1826. An original engraving printed surface 195 × 148 mm plus the credits paper size 377 × 271 mm matted with archival board and behind glass in a simple but apposite polished wooden frame visible image size 237 × 187 mm external dimensions 540 × 448 mm. Paper lightly cockled with a tiny closed tear to the bottom margin of the sheet well clear of the printed surface; essentially in fine condition. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints published 1826 by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier sets of watercolours by Blake on the same subject 1806 and 1821. The engraved "Illustrations" are considered to be Blake's greatest masterpieces in the medium of engraving and were also a rare commercial and critical success for Blake' Wikipedia. Plate 13 quotes Job 38:1-2 and 28 'Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind / Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge . Hath the Rain a Father & Who hath begotten the Drops of the Dew' and Psalms 104:3 'Who maketh the Clouds his Chariot & walketh on the Wings of the Wind'. The Blake authority G.E. Bentley Jr 'Blake Books. Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing .' Clarendon Press 1977 records that 'According to Linnell's "Job" accounts 150 "Proof" sets on India paper watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1825 and 65 on French paper watermarked J WHATMAN 1825 were printed by Lahee in March 1826. Then the word "Proof" was removed from the plates though it is still faintly visible on the copperplates and in some pulls and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper'. The example we have for sale is one of the latter group printed after the word 'Proof' was removed from the original copperplate. William Blake [for John Linnell] unknown
18851088034to. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 4to 1p.preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p.appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards with the bookplate of H.C.Plimmer. Very good with tissue guards as issued. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 2. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley BB #249e. William Muir hardcover books
18851228914to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers stitched as issued a fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 40. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
18851074264to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into full mottled calf red morocco vertical label on backstrip; upper hinge split but holding internally a very fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 31. Blake's prophetic book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is known in only twelve copies; Muir's facsimile reproduces copy A now owned by Harvard. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. "Through the voice of the "Devil" Blake parodies and attacks the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg the cosmology and ethics of Milton's Paradise Lost and biblical history and morality as constructed by the "Angels" of the established church and state. Energy and passion are positively valorized; reason and temperance are characterized as restraints on spiritual insight and self-expression" The William Blake Archive. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
1885123394Sm. London: Muir 1885. Sm. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. once badly stained in the margins now washed and cleaned by Court Benson. New brown cloth upper cover lettered in gilt. § The extremely rare variant of the superb Muir facsimile limited to maybe 5 copies; only two copies ever offered for sale are recorded by Essick this copy and the Essick copy. Reproduces the Fitzwilliam Cambridge copy I they have three very different copies of which there is only the Dent trade reproduction and this one. Muir has noted this in manuscript in the preface crossing out the reference to copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. Inscribed by Muir: "This copy is coloured after the Original in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. W Muir". “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e and 249h "On Homer's Poetry"; Blake Books Supplement p. 153. Muir hardcover books
18051277681805. BLAKE William HAYLEY William. Ballads founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. London: Richard Phillips 1805. Octavo early 20th-century full blue morocco raised bands elaborately gilt-decorated spine top edge gilt uncut. $6000.Expanded second editionthe only obtainable editionof this poetry collection with five engravings by William Blake handsomely bound by Bedford.""These Ballads were originally intended to have been issued separately in fifteen quarto parts with numerous illustrations by Blake and for the benefit of the artist. Four parts were issued in 1802 but the series did not meet with success and was discontinued. Later it was arranged to issue them in the present again for Blake's benefit"" Keynes. This 1805 edition is an expanded version with additional poems of the extremely rare 1802 first edition which last appeared at auction 70 years ago. Blake reengraved the first three plates and added two more to illustrated the additional poems. The first three plates are in first state. Easson & Essick 41-44. Bookplates.Fine condition. hardcover
