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17961246441796. London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller 1796. <br /> <br /> Slim 4to xi 16 pp. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations headpiece and tailpiece designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Later full red straight-grain morocco gilt-lettered backstrip a fine copy with a faded inscription on the title-page "Sophia Baillie".<br /> <br /> § First edition with Blake's illustrations ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain illustrations designed by Blake. Four copies have sold in the last 40 years; two have appeared at auction. The year 1796 saw three translations of Burger's Lenore one by J. T. Stanley one by H. J. Pye the Poet Laureate and a third by W. R. Spencer with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Blake was commissioned to create three illustrations for the Stanley translation including the frontispiece "Lenore clasping her spectral bridegroom" which is famous for supposedly having hung as a separate print in C.G. Jung's office. The British Critic for September 1796 spitefully compared Lady Diana's pictures with those of Blake's: "We are highly impressed by the propriety decorum and grace which characterizes all the figures of this elegant artist Lady Beauclerk even those of a preternatural kind; forming a most striking contrast to the distorted absurd and impossible monsters exhibited in the frontispiece to Mr. Stanley's last edition i.e. Blake's design. Nor can we pass by this opportunity of execrating that detestable taste founded on the depraved fancy of one man of genius which substitutes deformity and extravagance for force and expression and draws men and women without skin with their joints all dislocated; or imaginary beings which neither can nor ought to exist." The Analytical Review chimed in with comments including "perfectly ludicrous instead of terrific." Lenore had a profound effect on the development of Romantic literature throughout Europe7 and a strong influence on the English ballad-writing revival of the 1790s.8 According to German language scholar John George Robertson5<br /> <br /> Lenore exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world. . like wildfire this remarkable ballad swept across Europe from Scotland to Poland and Russia from Scandinavia to Italy. The eerie tramp of the ghostly horse which carries Lenore to her doom re-echoed in every literature and to many a young sensitive soul was the revelation of a new world of poetry. No production of the German "Sturm und Drang"-not even Goethe's Werther which appeared a few months later-had such far-reaching effects on other literatures as Bürger's Lenore; it helped materially to call the Romantic movement in Europe to life.<br /> <br /> In a similar tone English literature scholar Marti Lee claims that:6<br /> <br /> "Lenore" had tremendous influence on the literature of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries and in fact today's popular horror books and movies are still feeling the reverberations. . In short Bürger's achievement while minor in itself helped father an international movement that led directly to the massive popularity of Gothic works then and now. . As the Gothic novel borrowed many of its original conventions from the German ballads as popularized by "Lenore" we can fairly say that Bürger is one of the most influential founding fathers of the Gothic and horror genres.Bentley Blake Books 440. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator vol. 2 XLVI. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 380-382. unknown
17961233581796. London: William Miller 1796 etc. <br /> <br /> 9 titles mostly bound together and the magazine printing present Burger G. A. Blake William illustrator. Leonora also 'Lenore' and 'Lenora'' Eight different printings six in English and two in German as listed below including the edition illustrated by Blake. London: William Miller 1796 etc. 7 titles bound together and the magazine printing present separately. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations headpiece and tailpiece designed by Blake and engraved by Perry and other illustrations not by Blake as described below. Old calf very worn covers detached preserved in a new box.<br /> § Nine printings of Burger's hugely influential poem bound together including the first edition with Blake's illustrations ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain illustrations designed by Blake. Four copies have sold in the last 60 years; none have appeared at auction. No recorded copy has seven versions of the poem bound together let alone the Monthly Magazine printing which preceded them. Although the binding is in very poor condition it was deemed best to keep the "sammelband" in original condition just as it was assembled by the first owner.<br /> <br /> Contents: <br /> <br /> 1 Leonora. A Tale. London: William Miller 1796. 8vo viii 13p. Frontispiece after Daniel Chodowiecki engraved by Harding head- and tailpiece by Harding. Interesting early manuscript notes about the book on half-title see below. 8.5 x 5.5 ins.<br /> <br /> 2 Lenore. Ein Gedicht. London: gedruckt bey S. Gosnell 1796. 8vo 3 4- 14 2p. Not illustrated. 8.5 x 5.5 ins. Text in German.<br /> <br /> 3 Leonora. A Tale. Translated and altered from the German. by J.T. Stanley. A New Edition. London: printed by S. Gosnell for William Miller 1796. 4to frontispiece by Blake engraved by Perry half-title xi 16p. inserted additional frontispiece by Chodowiecki not called for headpiece and tailpiece by Blake engraved by Perry 16p. 12 x 9 ins.<br /> <br /> 4 Leonora. Translated from the German. by W.R. Spencer Esq. With Designs by the right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc. London: T. Bensley; for J. Edwards and E. and S. Harding 1796. Large 4to 8 3 4-35p. Frontispiece 4 full-page plates 2 headpieces and 2 tailpieces engraved by Bartolozzi Harding etc. Text in German and English. 14.5 x 10.5 ins.<br /> <br /> 5 Ellenore a Ballad originally written in German. Norwich: John <br /> March and sold by J. Johnson 1796. Sm. to 4 14 2 ad.pp. 11 x 9 ins. Not illustrated.<br /> <br /> 6 Lenore a Tale. Translated from the German. by Henry James Pye. London: for the author and sold by Sampson Low 1796. Sm. 4to 4 1799. 11 x 9 ins. Not illustrated.<br /> <br /> 7 Lenore. Ein Gedicht. London: gedrucht bey S. Gosnell 1796. Sm. 4to 2 12p. Head- and tail-piece by Harding. 11 x 9 ins.<br /> <br /> 8-9 Lenora a Ballad from Bürger. Monthly Magazine: London: March 1796. 8vo 89-196 pp. In modern paper wrappers.<br /> This copy bears the bookplate of Frederick Collins Wilson "a keen amateur actor at Cambridge playing female roles. a friend of Alfred Austin." Reilly Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879 1999. and another copy in modern brown wrappers. <br /> <br /> A manuscript note to the half-title of the first book bound here reads: "Dr. Edward Ash of Holles Street Cavendish Square one of the travelling students of physic upon the Radcliffe Foundation at Oxford and who at Gottingen became Master of the German language translated eight stanzas of this poem and showed them to Mr. Stanley: but refusing to compleat the work it was undertaken by Mr. Stanley. Mr. St. communicated his translation from day to day as it advanced to Lady Di. Beauclerc who without disclosing her intention prepared her drawings since published with the work to put £100 in the pocket of Mr. Spencer Ld. Charles Spencer's son then employed in a translation of it. Upon the discovery of this by Mr. Stanley he immediately sent out this publication; and there was a great fracas between the parties." Writer unknown but perhaps Wilson.<br /> <br /> The year 1796 saw four translations of Burger's "Lenore" one by J. T. Stanley one by H. J. Pye one by William Taylor the Poet Laureate and a fourth by W. R. Spencer with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc. Blake was commissioned to create three illustrations for the Stanley translation including the famous frontispiece "Lenore clasping her spectral bridegroom." The British Critic for September 1796 spitefully compared Lady Diana's pictures with those of Blake's: "We are highly impressed by the propriety decorum and grace which characterizes all the figures of this elegant artist Lady Beauclerc even those of a preternatural kind; forming a most striking contrast to the distorted absurd and impossible monsters exhibited in the frontispiece to Mr. Stanley's last edition i.e. Blake's design. Nor can we pass by this opportunity of execrating that detestable taste founded on the depraved fancy of one man of genius which substitutes deformity and extravagance for force and expression and draws men and women without skin with their joints all dislocated; or imaginary beings which neither can nor ought to exist." The Analytical Review chimed in with comments including "perfectly ludicrous instead of terrific." <br /> <br /> According to German language scholar John George Robertson in his "History of German Literature" 1970 "Lenore exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world. . like wildfire this remarkable ballad swept across Europe from Scotland to Poland and Russia from Scandinavia to Italy. The eerie tramp of the ghostly horse which carries Lenore to her doom re-echoed in every literature and to many a young sensitive soul was the revelation of a new world of poetry. No production of the German "Sturm und Drang"-not even Goethe's Werther which appeared a few months later-had such far-reaching effects on other literatures as Bürger's Lenore; it helped materially to call the Romantic movement in Europe to life." It is also seen by some as a foundational book in the literature of vampirism. <br /> <br /> Bentley BB 440; BBS p. 203 noting that the Nat. Lib. Scotland copy is colored. Easson and Essick WBBI Vol. II XLVI. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 380-382. At the Vershbow auction two bidders quickly drove the Leonora watercolor of the tailpiece well past the high estimate of $80000. The work sold for a hammer price of $170000 $207750 with the premium. 123358<br /> $29750.separately. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations headpiece and tailpiece designed by Blake and engraved by Perry and other illustrations not by Blake as described below. Old calf very worn covers detached preserved in a new box.<br /> <br /> § Eight printings of Burger's hugely influential poem bound together including the first edition with Blake's illustrations ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain illustrations designed by Blake. Four copies have sold in the last 60 years; none have appeared at auction. No recorded copy has seven versions of the poem bound together let alone the Monthly Magazine printing which preceded them. Although the binding is in very poor condition it was deemed best to keep the "sammelband" in original condition just as it was assembled by the first owner.<br /> <br /> Contents: <br /> <br /> 1 Leonora. A Tale. London: William Miller 1796. 8vo viii 13p. Frontispiece after Daniel Chodowiecki engraved by Harding head- and tailpiece by Harding. Interesting early manuscript notes about the book on half-title see below. 8.5 x 5.5 ins.<br /> <br /> 2 Lenore. Ein Gedicht. London: gedruckt bey S. Gosnell 1796. 8vo 3 4- 14 2p. Not illustrated. 8.5 x 5.5 ins. Text in German.<br /> <br /> 3 Leonora. A Tale. Translated and altered from the German. by J.T. Stanley. A New Edition. London: printed by S. Gosnell for William Miller 1796. 4to frontispiece by Blake engraved by Perry half-title xi 16p. inserted additional frontispiece by Chodowiecki not called for headpiece and tailpiece by Blake engraved by Perry 16p. 12 x 9 ins.<br /> <br /> 4 Leonora. Translated from the German. by W.R. Spencer Esq. With Designs by the right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc. London: T. Bensley; for J. Edwards and E. and S. Harding 1796. Large 4to 8 3 4-35p. Frontispiece 4 full-page plates 2 headpieces and 2 tailpieces engraved by Bartolozzi Harding etc. Text in German and English. 14.5 x 10.5 ins.<br /> <br /> 5 Ellenore a Ballad originally written in German. Norwich: John <br /> March and sold by J. Johnson 1796. Sm. to 4 14 2 ad.pp. 11 x 9 ins. Not illustrated.<br /> <br /> 6 Lenore a Tale. Translated from the German. by Henry James Pye. London: for the author and sold by Sampson Low 1796. Sm. 4to 4 1799. 11 x 9 ins. Not illustrated.<br /> <br /> 7 Lenore. Ein Gedicht. London: gedrucht bey S. Gosnell 1796. Sm. 4to 2 12p. Head- and tail-piece by Harding. 11 x 9 ins.<br /> <br /> 8 Lenora a Ballad from Bürger. Monthly Magazine: London: March 1796. 8vo 89-196 pp. In modern paper wrappers.<br /> This copy bears the bookplate of Frederick Collins Wilson "a keen amateur actor at Cambridge playing female roles. a friend of Alfred Austin." Reilly Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879 1999. <br /> <br /> A manuscript note to the half-title of the first book bound here reads: "Dr. Edward Ash of Holles Street Cavendish Square one of the travelling students of physic upon the Radcliffe Foundation at Oxford and who at Gottingen became Master of the German language translated eight stanzas of this poem and showed them to Mr. Stanley: but refusing to compleat the work it was undertaken by Mr. Stanley. Mr. St. communicated his translation from day to day as it advanced to Lady Di. Beauclerc who without disclosing her intention prepared her drawings since published with the work to put £100 in the pocket of Mr. Spencer Ld. Charles Spencer's son then employed in a translation of it. Upon the discovery of this by Mr. Stanley he immediately sent out this publication; and there was a great fracas between the parties." Writer unknown but perhaps Wilson.<br /> <br /> The year 1796 saw four translations of Burger's "Lenore" one by J. T. Stanley one by H. J. Pye one by William Taylor the Poet Laureate and a fourth by W. R. Spencer with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc. Blake was commissioned to create three illustrations for the Stanley translation including the famous frontispiece "Lenore clasping her spectral bridegroom." The British Critic for September 1796 spitefully compared Lady Diana's pictures with those of Blake's: "We are highly impressed by the propriety decorum and grace which characterizes all the figures of this elegant artist Lady Beauclerc even those of a preternatural kind; forming a most striking contrast to the distorted absurd and impossible monsters exhibited in the frontispiece to Mr. Stanley's last edition i.e. Blake's design. Nor can we pass by this opportunity of execrating that detestable taste founded on the depraved fancy of one man of genius which substitutes deformity and extravagance for force and expression and draws men and women without skin with their joints all dislocated; or imaginary beings which neither can nor ought to exist." The Analytical Review chimed in with comments including "perfectly ludicrous instead of terrific." <br /> <br /> According to German language scholar John George Robertson in his "History of German Literature" 1970 "Lenore exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world. . like wildfire this remarkable ballad swept across Europe from Scotland to Poland and Russia from Scandinavia to Italy. The eerie tramp of the ghostly horse which carries Lenore to her doom re-echoed in every literature and to many a young sensitive soul was the revelation of a new world of poetry. No production of the German "Sturm und Drang"-not even Goethe's Werther which appeared a few months later-had such far-reaching effects on other literatures as Bürger's Lenore; it helped materially to call the Romantic movement in Europe to life." It is also seen by some as a foundational book in the literature of vampirism. <br /> <br /> Bentley BB 440; BBS p. 203 noting that the Nat. Lib. Scotland copy is colored. Easson and Essick WBBI Vol. II XLVI. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 380-382. At the Vershbow auction two bidders quickly drove the Leonora watercolor of the tailpiece well past the high estimate of $80000. The work sold for a hammer price of $170000 $207750 with the premium. unknown
179748706London.: R. Noble. 1797. Scarlet morocco-backed contemporary moiré cloth boards gilt titles to front cover and spine. Folio. 415 x 325 mm. Leaf with 'Explanation of the Engravings' recto and verso printed title advertisement pp. iii - viii and 43 leaves with engravings by William Blake surrounding the text; 21 of the leaves retain the publisher's imprints. First edition of Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts.Night Thoughts is a key work in the Blake canon executed at a crucial point in his career. Sometime in 1795 or 1796 Blake was comissioned by the publisher Richard Edwards to undertake the illustration of each page of Young's bestseller 'Night Thoughts'. It was intended to publish the whole poem of nine nights in installments accompanied by engravings based on Blake's drawings but Edwards went out of business after the first volume consisting of 4 Nights and the project was never completed. 'Blake has undertaken to make designs to encircle the letter press of each page of Young's Night Thoughts Edwards the Bookseller of Bond Street employed him and has had the letter press of each page laid down on a large half sheet of paper. There are about 900 pages - Blake asked 100 guineas for the whole. Edwards said he could not afford to give more than 20 guineas for which Blake agreed. Fuseli understands that Edwards proposes to select about 200 from the whole to have that number engraved by Blake as decorations for a new edition.' Blake Records. R. Noble. hardcover
1797123299Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to viii 1 95 2 pages; with 43 full-page engravings by Blake after his own designs surrounding the letterpress text. “Explanation†leaf bound in at the back. Half brown morocco backstrip gilt gilt top by Riviere; a very large copy measuring 16 1/2 x 13 inches thus preserving almost all the imprints. § First edition with Blake’s illustrations complete with the leaf of “Explanationsâ€. Essick and LaBelle explain in their commentary how Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned by the publisher Edwards to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. Edwards issued only the first four “Nights†or sections and had Blake etch and engrave 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake and Edwards ceased business shortly thereafter. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is largely forgotten save for this edition. Colored copies are known in two palettes the earlier of which may have been colored under Blake’s direction. Bentley Blake Books 515. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator vol. 1 IV. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 357-379. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 3. R. Noble unknown books
179737372London: R. Noble for Richard Edwards 1797. Large quarto. 16 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches. 4 engraved section titles and 39 pages with engraved border illustrations by William Blake with the letterpress Explanation of the Engravings leaf. Uncut on the fore-edge and lower edge. Minor offsetting as usual. Later half dark green morocco and green moire cloth boards by Riviere & Son spine with raised bands in seven compartments lettered in the second and fourth the others with a repeat decoration in gilt burgundy glazed endpapers top edge gilt.<br/> <br/>A spectacular work illustrated by Blake.<br/> <br/>"Of the merit of Mr. Blake . the editor conceives it to be unnecessary to speak. To the eyes of the discerning it need not be pointed out; and while the taste for the arts of design shall continue to exist the original conception and the bold and masterly execution of this artist cannot be unnoticed or unadmired" advertisement p.viii. Blake originally intended the present work to be the first installment of a much larger illustrated edition of Young's best selling poem. He chose 43 images to engrave from the 537 drawings in watercolour he had made around pages of the first edition of Young's poem inlaid in album sheets. Perhaps baffled by the novelty of Blake's interpretations the public remained unreceptive and the book remains what is essentially a remarkable fragment: a tantalising hint of what might have been. A large copy. Bentley notes that "the paper was only marginally larger than the copperplate and even in untrimmed copies . parts of the platemark may not appear." With the explanation leaf often wanting.<br/> <br/>Bentley Blake Books 515; Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 337-379; Dover 1975; Easson and Essick William Blake Illustrator Vol. I IV; Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 3. R. Noble for Richard Edwards unknown books
1797007894London: R. Noble for R. Edwards 1797. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. Elephantine folio 44 by 34 cm. viii 2 95 2 pp. 43 of the pages have Blake's expansive charismatic illustrations surrounding the text. Four of these are section heads the balance being border ornamentation but even the latter are far more than merely decorative. The distinctive Blake artwork fires the imagination regardless. In fact the text which is framed with ruled lines seems to cover some of the illustration. Last two pages are the Explanation of the Engravings which are often not present. The full navy blue morocco is fairly heavily rubbed along the edges a bit less so by the joints. Some scattered soiling within but the pages are generally quite clean. There are a few closed tears not of great length and one repaired close tear which was somewhat longer. The Explanation of Engravings leaf has two repaired tears. Notwithstanding these flaws this is an attractive appealing copy. R. Noble for R. Edwards unknown
179111069912mo. London: printed for J. Johnson 1791. 12mo xii 177 3 advertisements pages with 6 plates by William Blake after his own designs and an extra plate bound in at the front not by Blake. Modern polished tree calf gilt backstrip red label in very good condition. Some plates have offset onto the facing page as usual. § First edition to contain William Blake’s characteristic illustrations reminiscent in iconography to his designs for his own Songs of Innocence 1789. This copy has all the plates in the second and much improved state and an extra plate at the front thought to be by Blake but not. This collection of didactic tales for youth in part reinforcing the lessons of Wollstonecraft’s first book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters proved her most popular book going through five editions by 1800. Windle Bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft A3b. Bentley Blake Books 514A. Easson and Essick vol. I no. III. printed for J. Johnson unknown books
17911269381791. London: printed for J. Johnson 1791. <br /> <br /> 12mo xii 177 3ads pp with 6 plates by William Blake after his own designs each signed by Blake. Old half red morocco scuffed but sound some browning and rubbing. The Buxton Forman copy with his large bookplate and manuscript notes in pencil. Other illegible early notes partially erased.<br /> <br /> § First edition to contain William Blake's characteristic illustrations reminiscent in iconography to his designs for his own Songs of Innocence 1789. This copy has all the plates in the third state the only state to have every plate signed by Blake with notable variations from the first and second states. The Buxton Forman copy initialed by him in pencil with his shelf mark. According to Bob Essick this is the only copy known to him with the third state plates in the first edition -- they are usually found in the 1796 edition only.<br /> <br /> This collection of didactic tales for youth in part reinforcing the lessons of Wollstonecraft's first book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters proved her most popular book going through five editions by 1800. <br /> <br /> Windle Bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft A3b. Bentley Blake Books 514A. Easson and Essick vol. I no. III. unknown
17801240091780. London: Fielding and Walker 1780 and J. Fielding: 1781. <br /> <br /> Two vols. in one large thick folio vol. 1 frontispiece title page printed in red and black 6 632 pp. with 46 plates including 5 maps and a plan; vol. 2 with title page dated 1781 494 pp. with 33 plates indices etc. 79 of 80 plates in total. Very early calf very worn and rubbed newly consolidated and now stable. Internally very good and the plates in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § First edition of this version being Blake's first appearance as the sole engraver and in one case the designer and engraver of five plates. Plates 1 2 3 and 5 all engraved and 5 engraved and designed by Blake. See Essick CBI III. Easson and Essick 1 #1 for plate 5. The plates are: 1 Numbers chap. 13 v. 23 in vol. 1; 2 Jonah chap. 3 v. 4; 3 Judith chap. 13 v. 104; Matthew chap. 3 v. 135; Revelations chap. 1 v. 12-13. Plate 5 is signed "d & sc. Blake." Here "d" stands for delineavit as distinct from invenit invented the image. Essick thinks Blake was strongly influenced by an engraving by Picart-see Essick CBI p.22. Blake's wash drawing for pl. 5 is in the British Museum. unknown
17881107522 prints. London: J.R. Smith 1788. 2 prints images 21 x 26 cms. with full margins and imprints. Well printed in brown ink cleaned and titles mounted below the prints in very good condition. § Second state of The Idle Laundress third state of Industrious Cottager good impressions. These two prints were designed to be issued together but they are extremely rarely found so. I have had two copies of the first plate third state and one copy of any state of the second plate. The first is known in one copy of the first state and Essick records only two copies of the second state BM and Keynes; Essick has the third state printed in 1803. The second plate is known in one copy each of the first and second states and 4 copies of the third state. Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake XXX and XXXI. J.R. Smith unknown books
17987427London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First edition in English. Near Fine. Three folio volumes bound in five 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 327 x 260 mm. ii half-title verso blank ii vignette title-page verso blank ii translator's preface vi advertisement iv contents x list of subscribers ii dedication vi author's preface ii French translators' preface 3-280; iii-xii; 1-3 4-238; 1 half title vol II. part II verso blank 239-444; iii-iv title-page verso blank v-xii contents 1-252; 2 half title vol III. part III 253-437 1 blank 1-xi index 1 blank pp. Complete with 174 engraved plates after Rubens Fuseli Bartlozzi and Blake. Bound ca. 1830 in full dark green diced calf covers with double ruled gilt line and decorative corner-pieces in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front paste-down of each volume. Some light foxing and offsetting throughout but still an incredible set of this landmark work. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Johann Caspar 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 1781.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. Among the portraits included in Essays on Physiognomy are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. <br /> <br /> Osler 3178. Near Fine. Printed for John Murray unknown
1787024881London: J. Cooke 1787 Undated but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt spine labels rubbed & worn rebacked with original spines laid-down hinges slackening cloth tape strengthening to hinges both volumes some chipping to leather amateurish repairs internally clean & complete; pp. iv 1-460 with frontispiece 94 plates full-page 1/2 page &1/4 page on 51 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 1 full page; ii title last blank 461-990 page 663 erroneously labelled 635 4 list of Subscribers misbound between p.988 & 989 2 Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts with 70 plates full-page & 1/2 page on 39 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 10 full page see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8 October 1971 for a history of the book highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions. Very heavy set 9 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue intact but would benefit from some restoration. Ex-libris Charles Scobie ANARE Macquarie Island 1948 with his ownership signature and date 29-5-1941 to rear pastedown. First Edition. Hard Cover. G. J. Cooke hardcover
17841046721784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784-1785. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. <br /> <br /> § Only edition. "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
17841046722 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. § Only edition. "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. Harrison and Co hardcover books
17841017082 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. 8vo 2 485 1; 193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates including 5 by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary calf somewhat worn and vol. I lacking backstrip label. Withal a good set very rare. § Only edition. "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 wqorks." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. Harrison and Co unknown books
179143999London: J. Johnson 1791. <p>Darwin Erasmus 1731-1802. The botanic garden: A poem in two parts . . . 4to. xii 214 126 2; 2 ix 197 1pp. General title-leaf misbound before title-leaf to Part II. 20 engraved plates including 5 by William Blake 1757-1827; 2 of the plates are after drawings by John Henry Fuseli 1741-1825. London: J. Johnson 1791. 275 x 207 mm. Half calf gilt marbled boards in period style. Minor foxing and offsetting small marginal stains on two or three plates not affecting the images marginal tears in signature S and one plate repaired but very good. </p> <p> First Edition of Part I; third edition of Part II containing two more plates than the first edition of 1789. Darwin's first major literary work and the chief source of his fame during his lifetime. "The Botanic Garden an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited 'to entertain and charm.' The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science . . . to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany . . . and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus'" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Botanic Garden is also important for the five plates in Vol. I engraved by William Blake: four engravings of the Portland vase and the "Fertilization of Egypt" after a design by Fuseli. Keynes Blake 103. King-Hele Erasmus Darwin pp. 97-119. </p> . J. Johnson unknown
17951077691795. London: Boydell and Company c.1795. <br /> <br /> Oblong large folio on wove paper plate mark 583 x 455 mm on sheet 650 x 490 mm. An exceptionally fine dark impression on bright paper with the original wide margins untrimmed. <br /> <br /> § Third and best state of seven see below of the single plate Blake engraved for Hogarth's Works first published by Boydell in 1790 this state appearing in the second undated edition c. 1795. It was the last state of the plate before hands other than Blake touched up the plate. A remarkably crisp and brilliant impression of Blake's richly detailed rendition of Hogarth's painting showing the famous scene in which Macheath the highwayman stands chained under sentence of death between his two lovers the jailer's daughter Lucy Lockit and the lawyer's daughter Polly Peachum. The plate was next used for an 1822 edition by which time several small changes had been made by another engraver. Bentley BB 475 I. Essick CBI XX. unknown
17911277661791. First Edition. BLAKE William engraver DARWIN Erasmus. The Botanic Garden; A Poem in Two Parts. London: J. Johnson 1791 1791. Two volumes in one. Quarto contemporary full brown mottled calf rebacked burgundy morocco spine label. $3300.First edition of Part I third edition of Part II of Erasmus Darwin's chief poetical work illustrated with two engraved frontispieces and 18 plates one from a painting by Henry Fuseli five engraved by William Blake.""The chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime The Botanic Garden contains a great deal of important and frequently advanced scientific information in the nearly 300 footnotes and the 115 pages of appendices to its verses. Part I 'The Economy of Vegetation' involves a far-reaching survey of science and technology with significant sections on evolutionary theories and numerous footnotes on electrical phenomena. Part II 'The Love of the Plants' is a 'single-minded catalogue of vegetable sex-life"" Norman. Darwin describes plant reproduction according to the Linnaean system ""by means of a most ingenious and amusing personification of each plant and often even of the parts of the plant. It is significant that botanical notes are added to the poem and that its eulogies of scientific men are frequent"" Britannica. Darwin's Garden is also important for the five plates in Part I engraved by William Blake: ""The Fertilization of Egypt"" engraved after the painting by Henry Fuseli and four engravings of the Portland Vase. Darwin the grandfather of Charles is notable for his ""exposition of the form of evolutionism afterwards expounded by Lamarck"" DNB. Inexplicably Part II was published first in 1789 here present in the 1791 third edition; Part I followed in 1791 present in the first edition. Wilson 343. Hunt II lxvii. Nissen 451. Bentley 450A. Keynes 103. Bookplate; early ink shelf markings to front flyleaf.Occasional spotting or offsetting from plates to text. Some wear to corners and board edges. A very good copy. unknown
178914263London: C. Cooke 1789. 2nd or 3rd edition. Hardcover. Likely to be an original subscriber's copy listed as "Wilson - Crown Court Broad St." likely to be "John Wilson" whose red gilt leather ownership label is mounted into the front board with special blind tooled lines surrounding it. A second or third edition published between 1789 & 1791 according to research by Alan Frost published in the LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No. 8 1971. A very bright unsophisticated copy of this work which has become increasingly scarce. Ferguson 59 describes a 1 volume edition & cites only the Mitchell Library copy. <br /> <br /> Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's Voyages and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest Tasmania New Zealand Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time. It is these contemporary images which make this work scarce as so many have been broken up. <br /> <br /> Folio. Frontispiece title page verso blank i Royal Licence ii Address to the Reader 1-990 Texts etc. 2 pp Directions to the Binder 2 pp A List of Subscribers Complete with 90 plates & 22 maps the map of Great Britain has original hand color; the map of Europe has been hand colored not unpleasantly but not professionally. Maps and plates are in very good condition with no refolding or cracking which is usual in this work. Bound in period reversed calf red gilt title label on spine. Matching early reverse calf strengthening of outer hinge a couple of splits on leather of spine and very chipped at top and bottom o/w a very nice copy. <br /> <br /> "The geography books which appeared in the closing decades of the eighteenth century. are of considerable significance to students of the history of ideas for the light they shed on English interest in geography and geographical exploration at the end of the eighteenth century. One of the most imposing of these usually quite imposing books is Thomas Bankes Edward Warren Blake and Alexander Cook's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. A massive folio volume this was a popular work running to six editions in the ten years from 1787 to 1797."Frost Thomas Bankes's Complete System The La Trobe Journal 1971.<br /> <br /> Extedned title - All the late important Discoveries made by the English and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations in the different Hemispheres from the Celebrated Columbus the first Discoverer of America to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay:. C. Cooke hardcover
17911073126 copperplate engraving plates complete. London: Printed for J. Johnson 1791. 6 copperplate engraving plates complete 133 x 74 mm. or so trimmed retaining the top edge text but lacking the imprint below the footer title. Cleaned in very good condition. § First edition second state of plates 1 and 2; a very attractive set of these plates designed and engraved by Blake for Johnson. William Blake’s characteristic illustrations reminiscent in iconography to his designs for his own Songs of Innocence 1789. This collection of didactic tales for youth in part reinforcing the lessons of Wollstonecraft’s first book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters proved her most popular book going through five editions by 1800. Windle Bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft A3b. Bentley Blake Books 514A. Easson and Essick vol. I no. III. Printed for J. Johnson unknown books
17951262351795. London: Johnson 1795-94. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. in one 4to xx 218 124 2 directions to binder and advertisement; 2 viii 200 2 directions to the binder lacking the errata and ads pp. With a frontispiece to each volume ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf marbled boards newly rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered label. A very good copy if a little aged -- early manuscript note loosely inserted about the Portland Vase copied from the Morning Chronicle c. 1796.<br /> <br /> § Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado plate. At page 87 appears the enigmatic circular image of an African man in chains titled "Am I not a man and a brother." Bentley 450B and C. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXI.<br /> The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. unknown
17891602030019Printed for C. Cooke No. 17 Pater-Noster-Row 1789-1790. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings 17 single engraving plates 9 single leaf maps 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good front board detached. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout affecting a few plates tanning to margins a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827 affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn lacking almost half with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold tears; The Chart map maps of Africa North America Italy Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated presumed to be the 2nd edition printed 1789-1790 1787-1788 was the 1st ed. This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific Cook's voyages and Australia New Holland. ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. <br><br> Contents: 5-106 Book I New Discoveries 107-314 Book II Asia 315-460 Book III Africa 461-576 Book IV America 577-944 Book V Europe 944-947 Supplement 947-948 Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation 949-953 A General Table of Coins 954-959 A New Geographical Table 960 The Superficial Contents of the Globe 961-980 A Guide to Geography 981-990 Index 2 pp. Directions to the Binder 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830 p. 242. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row hardcover
1795140940833London: J. Johnson 1795. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition in English of Catullus' complete works side by side with the original Latin. xxxvi 223 3; iv 236 2 pp. Contemporary full calf edges ruled in gilt spine elaborately stamped in gilt with black title label and red numerical label. Complete in two volumes. Includes both half-titles and William Blake's two engraved frontispieces foxed in vol. I offset to the title page in vol. II strengthened joints not rebacked. Occasional light penciled "Xs" to margins easily erasable; offsetting to endpapers; a few dog-eared pages; Very Good. Rare.<br /> <br /> The first attempt to translate the entire body of work of the licentious witty Latin poet of the late Roman era Catullus 84 BC-54 BC into English around 116 poems. None other than visionary English poet artist and printmaker William Blake designed the frontispieces. J. Johnson unknown books
1793259455London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long '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. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco covers stamped in gilt with outer roll border flat spines divided into 6 compartments 2 with title and volume number the rest gilt with small tool a.e.g. marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities some foxing to title-pages. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long '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. A tall copy in contemporary binding of 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
1793259455London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long '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. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco covers stamped in gilt with outer roll border flat spines divided into 6 compartments 2 with title and volume number the rest gilt with small tool a.e.g. marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities some foxing to title-pages. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long '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. A tall copy in contemporary binding of 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
