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189027621New York 1890. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper has title printed in blue with vignette of a steam engine in background and the words "For Sale By Miller Chapman & Castle Butte Montana." Rear wrapper with an engraving of Blake's Vertical Marine Duplex Pump. 2 78pp with numerous additional pages i.e. 15A-15D 73A-73B etc. Profusely illustrated with the Company's products. Some wrapper spotting and text margin spotting else Very Good.<br/><br/> A classy showcasing of this Company's steam machinery with dozens of engravings. It is dated 'January 1 1890' on page 1. OCLC records several versions of this Catalogue all of them scarce one with a San Francisco merchant's name on the front wrapper.<br/>Romaine 193 reference. unknown books
1870134851Washington DC: GPO 1870. Hardbound. VG ex library set with minimal markings small ancient paper label on each spsine bookplates. Perforation stamp to each title-page. Six volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite marbling to all page edges. Many plans fold-outs illustrations. Pagination as follows: Volume I: 4 184; 324; 43 1; 8; 47 1; 39 1; 66pp. Folding plan 33 folding plates. Volume II: 4 v 1 183 1; vii 1 369 1; ix 1 146pp. 8 folding plates. Volume III: 4 ix 1 669 1pp. 8 folding plates. Volume IV: 4 166; 72; 49 1; 21 1; 31 1; 96; 104pp. 16 folding plates. Volume V: 4 26; 19 1; 90; 19 1; 19 1; 13 1; 28; 13 1; 213 1; 70; 18pp. 16 folding plates. Volume VI: 4 143 1; 2 115 1; 51 1; 86; 2 401 1pp. A fabulous set in wonderful condition and very minimally marked. An indispensible reference. Uncommon in leather. GPO hardcover books
1868105253Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake’s original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at “improvementâ€. The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake’s idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from “Mary†and from “Auguries of Innocence†which contained the word “whoreâ€. The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake’s original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. Pickering hardcover books
186819454Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. First edition. Cloth a little worn with a small split near the foot of the front joint; hinges just a little loosed from the inserted material but overall a very good copy. . 8vo original green cloth gilt lettering 297 pages. A unique augmented copy of this detailed local theatre history with the pencil ownership signature of Samuel W. Brown--presumably Providence worthy Samuel Welch Brown 1824-1907--and the semi-legible pencil signature of perhaps his son Arthur Brown; this copy includes a CDV portrait mounted to the verso of the front blank and annotated in the margin in pencil as Charles Blake; also with a folded printed column similar to a galley proof mounted to the rear endpaper and headed "Charles Blake" with the pencil annotation at the head "Written in imitation of the obituary notices by E. H. Hazard in the Journal by Mr. Blake himself" as well as two tipped-in playbills--one a large approx. 17 x 6.25 inch playbill advertising a performance of Howard and the Foxes among other attractions at Cleveland Hall and with an imprint for Greene Granite Building; and smaller 6.75 x 4.75 inch handbill advertising the "the Young and Beautiful American Actress!" Alice Placid Mann appearing in 1862 at the Providence Theatre on Pine at Dorrance. Also includes a marginal pencil note to one page alluding to the performance style of one actor a mounted clipping from 1880 relating to the Dorrance Street Theatre and some promiscuous inserted 20th century newspaper clippings. Sabin 5764. George H. Whitney, unknown books
189328488New York: Harper & Brothers 1893 1893. First edition. BAL 6465 state 1 binding 1; Wright III 2077. Cloth slightly spotted and worn; fine copy. 8vo original pictorial sage-green cloth gilt lettering. Frontis and 23 plates. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. ¶ The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation the skyscraper and "the first important American novel with city life at its theme" - Andrews Chicago in Story. Henry Blake Fuller 1857-1929 a native of Chicago was one of the most interesting American realist writers of the late 19th century. See the DAB Wikipedia etc. <br/><br/> New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893 hardcover books
1881Embry 182499Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston: 1881. First edition first printing. Page 26-27 browned from previously laid in article title page and front free endpaper foxed minor foxing to first few pages light wear to spine tips but for foxing to title page near fine in custom mylar cover. Green cloth no dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston: 1881. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1808123899Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly spotted image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107772Single 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
1808123896Single 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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