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17811079388vo. London: Joseph Johnson 1781. 8vo xxxiv 405 1 ads pp. With a frontispiece and 3 engraved plates after Stothard one by William Blake. Later polished calf gilt-panelled backstrip gilt edges joints scuffed frontispiece and t/p soiled. Ink signature at front of William Enfield tipped in. § 6th edition the second to have this plate which is dated 1780 -- this copy with the plate facing p. 289 engraved by Blake. This was Blake’s first commercial engraving first put in the 1774 edition. Enfield was a Unitarian minister and this anthology of literary extracts intended to teach proper elocution to young people was extremely influential. See Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations 1. Bentley Blake Books 453 B. Joseph Johnson unknown books
178531510London: Printed for J. Johnson 1785. A New Edition Corrected. Fourth Edition first was 1774 plates dated 1780. This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Frontispiece and 3 plates after Stothard engraved by Blake Sharp and Heath 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf brown morocco label. Skilfully rebacked rubbed some light offsetting from plates and light browning at front else a very clean and good copy with the 1797 signature of Richard Garnons Jun on the title. A New Edition Corrected. Fourth Edition first was 1774 plates dated 1780. This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Frontispiece and 3 plates after Stothard engraved by Blake Sharp and Heath 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Essick #I Bentley #453 Printed for J. Johnson unknown
1793287790London: Joseph Johnson 1793. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Sheet toned and shows minor foxing otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" London: Joseph Johnson 1796. This book with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World became an important reference for early abolitionists.<br/><br/> This disturbing image shows an enslaved woman with bound hands hung from a tree. In the background two European men direct two slaves wielding whips to carry out the punishment. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
178531510London: Printed for J. Johnson 1785. A New Edition Corrected. Fourth Edition first was 1774 plates dated 1780. This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Frontispiece and 3 plates after Stothard engraved by Blake Sharp and Heath 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf brown morocco label. Skilfully rebacked rubbed some light offsetting from plates and light browning at front else a very clean and good copy with the 1797 signature of Richard Garnons Jun on the title. A New Edition Corrected. Fourth Edition first was 1774 plates dated 1780. This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Frontispiece and 3 plates after Stothard engraved by Blake Sharp and Heath 2 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Blake's First Commercial Plates. Essick #I Bentley #453 Printed for J. Johnson unknown books
1791107313Single sheet copperplate engraving. London: Johnson 1791. Single sheet copperplate engraving frontispiece 250 x 170 mm. Cleaned but still a little soiled paper rubbed between title and imprint with no loss signs of four folds. § Hartley’s Observations on Man 1791 has this frontispiece engraved by Blake -- it was also issued as a separate plate. Essick CBI XXII Johnson unknown books
1793D11653London: John Stockdale 1793. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary morocco ornate gilt-stamped border on boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 2 volumes 4to; pp. xi 1 225; vii 1 187 1 ad; plus an engraved title-page for each volume and 68 plates including 12 by William Blake; collates complete. First Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout. Boards faintly rubbed; joints and edges of boards lightly bumped and scuffed. Some very faint foxing; the occasional dusty smudge; but overall internally bright and clean. Considered one of the finest examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. <br/><br/> John Stockdale hardcover
1797104613Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 63/64 with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books
179339831London: John Stockdale. Very Good. 1793. Hardcover. Contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked marbled endpages. Two volumes in one. Some foxing; bookplate old PO name. Seventy copperplates twelve engraved by Blake includes frontis to volume 1. A tall copy of the first Blake edition with the eleven page list of subscribers and ad on the final page for Barlow's Aesop Fables. First issue with the long "S. "; quarto . John Stockdale hardcover
180076319London:: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1800. First edition. old full calf blind-stamped and gilt-ruled; edges marbled. . There is some light foxing to the three Blake plates and 3-4 gatherings of the text are quite foxed. The joints are split and appear to have been reinforced with adhesive; corners worn. 4to. With three plates engraved by William Blake: a frontispiece Pericles not signed; The Death of Demosthenes; and Thomas Hayley the latter two with printed attributions to Blake. . T. Cadell and W. Davies, unknown
178078782London:: John Bell 1780. A New Edition Revised Corrected and Augmented by an original Set of Prints. . old full calf rebacked retaining the old spine. Small attractive old bookplate on pastedown; offsetting of the fencing figures in the folding plates; one plate soiled at the fore-edge due to misfolding; misfolding without damage to another plate. One pair of leaves detached from the generally weak sewing structure; boards rubbed and worn and splitting at joints. A rare book in need of rebinding. 8vo. Complete with fourteen engraved plates thirteen of which are folding; one engraved by William Blake. John Bell, hardcover
17911107614to. London: Johnson 1791. 4to single leaf 197 x 270 mm margins foxed a good strong impression with wide margins matted. § Designed by Fuseli and engraved by Blake for Erasmus Darwin's poem The Botanic Garden. One of Blake’s best-known commercial engravings. The image is of the God Anubis with the head of a dog praying to the star Sirius for rain his legs bestride a river and between them can be seen the winged figure of Jupiter Pluvius Jupiter giver of rain. Essick Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. Only state. Johnson unknown books
1793287262London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition First Issue of John Gay's Fables. With the long 's' throughout. Complete with sixty-eight plates including twelve by William Blake in addition to the two engraved title pages one at the start of each volume. Said to be the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Minor foxing to the title pages and some plates and offsetting to the opposite pages of most plates. Japanese tissue repair to the front joint of Vol. I. Surface wear to the leather binding. Full calf with red and black leather labels. Very Good. ESTC N9619. Very Good binding. Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
17981680London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First Edition in English. Three quarto volumes in five 339 x 272mm. Bound by J. Bohn in a close-to-contemporary diced Russian calf binding. Some of the joints reinforced and now all volumes holding well. Complete as to the text and with all five half-titles but with only 168 of the 173 full-page engraved plates by William Blake Bartolozzi Thomas Holloway and others. With the three engraved vignettes engraved by Blake Volume I pages 127 206 and 225 as well as a full-page plate engraved by Blake after Rubens V.I opposite page 159. <br/><br/>A Very Good set overall with light to moderate foxing near the plates most text leaves are generally in excellent shape. <br/><br/>Lavater 1741-1801 "was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists a class of pseudo-scientists who attempted to ascertain character on the basis of physical features.Von der Physiognomik 1772 an unillustrated two volume book was Lavater's first work on the subject; this was later expanded with the help of Goethe into the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente 1775-1778 and further perfected in a French translation Essais sur la physiognomie.supervised by Lavater himself. Lavater's physiognomy differed from those of his predecessors in that he paid special attention to the structure of the head particularly the forehead—a form of psychological indexing that exerted some influence on the development of phrenology and brain localization theories in the early nineteenth century. Lavater's work also influenced artists of the period both in the overall creation of portraits and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings" Norman Library.<br/><br/>Lavater's work on physiognomy was extremely popular and by 1810 sixteen German twenty English fifteen French two American two Russian one Dutch and one Italian versions had appeared. Among the portraits included are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. Garrison and Morton. Norman Library. Osler 3178. Printed for John Murray unknown books
17831087621783. London: C Bathurst T. Payne and others 1783. <br /> <br /> 5 vols 8vo 8 cxxxi 335; 4 407: 4 427; 4 438; 4 16 subscribers and errata 322 vi 55 errata and index pp. with a frontispiece also in each volume and 3 further plates in The Life of Ariosto following the preface in vol. 1. Original calf with moderate wear; carefully restored. Spines with red labels and raised bands all somewhat worn and the label to vol. 5 is missing. Internally a clean set with endpapers a trifle browned page edges slightly dusty and just a few occasional marks throughout the set. Plates are clean; the Blake plate is the frontispiece to vol. 3. Bookplate of Sir Charles Dance in each volume.<br /> <br /> § First edition. Blake's engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: "In a letter. to William Hayley Blake states that he is 'absorbed' in the study of several poets including Ariosto." Bentley BB 417A. Essick CBI XII. unknown
1797104625Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 95/96 with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaf is quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’ and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books
1799562217Amsterdam: Johannes Allart 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. First Dutch edition. Volume one only of four. Octavo. xvi 339pp. illustrated with 16 engraved plates: including two folded maps a frontispiece portrait of Steadman engraved by R. Vinkeles and five unsigned plates engraved after the original English plates by William Blake. Contemporary quarter calf and speckled paper over boards gilt spine with dark red leather titling label. The spine is rubbed and darkened leather corner tips are bumped slight stain at top right corner of the front endpapers and at the top of fore-edge very good with all 16 plates in fine condition. The first Dutch edition of Captain John Stedman’s “Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam from 1772-1777â€. In the 1770s enslaved and formerly enslaved people of African descent led a rebellion in the Dutch colony of Surinam now Suriname South America. The Dutch army officer Stedman volunteered to lead in the fight to suppress the armed rebellion. The Narrative is based on the diary of his voyage and time in the colony. First published in London in 1796 with engravings by William Blake and Francesco Bartolozzi after drawings by Stedman his Narrative became a significant work within the campaigns to abolish the slave trade and slavery. The Narrative includes graphic descriptions and illustrations of the Dutch colonists’ brutal treatment of both enslaved and free Africans. An attractive copy of the scarce first volume featuring many fine plates and folded maps engraved by R. Vinkeles J. Wijsman and A. Zurcher after the original English plates. Johannes Allart hardcover
17841266411784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784-1785. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. Lacking the folding frontispiece but with the 4 other plates engraved by Blake after Samuel Collings. Contemporary half morocco with pebbled cloth boards. A neatly restored copy plates with some closed tears and repairs.<br /> <br /> § Only edition quite scarce. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. unknown
1793259579London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. Bound to style in acid-stained calf covers gilt with outer roll border flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and volume label a.e.g. Title-pages trimmed with some loss light foxing to some plates. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. With 12 Plates by Blake. The Stockdale edition of Gay's Fables with 12 engravings by Blake who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Bentley & Nurmi 371A; Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1798100653All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. London: J. Johnson 1798. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed. § One of Blake’s scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen’s English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley Blake Books 416. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXXVII. J. Johnson unknown books
1797104588Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 87/88 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books
1797104585Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 15/16 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books
1797104586Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 23/24 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books
17981006531798. London: J. Johnson 1798. <br /> <br /> All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed.<br /> <br /> § One of Blake's scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen's English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley BB 416. Essick CBI XXXVII. unknown
17971045881797. London: R. Noble 1797. <br /> <br /> Large 4to pp. 87/88 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso.<br /> <br /> § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. unknown
17971045861797. London: R. Noble 1797. <br /> <br /> Large 4to pp. 23/24 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso.<br /> <br /> § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. unknown
