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1935237391New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library 1935. 105 black and white and color facsimile engraved plates pencil drawings and watercolors by William Blake in six fascicles. Folio. Original cloth-backed gray wrappers printed labels on front cover in cloth box with some wear. 105 black and white and color facsimile engraved plates pencil drawings and watercolors by William Blake in six fascicles. Folio. Illustrations of the Book of Job being all the water-color designs pencil drawings and engravings beautifully reproduced in facsimile. The Pierpont Morgan Library unknown books
1886302951London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1886. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. Blake plate folded fine. Volume bound in contmporary quarter brown morocco and cloth marbled endsheets t.e.g. Minor rubbing to joints. Very good. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. First volume of the Hobby Horse publication of the influential Century Guild. Notable for the fine facsimile of the rare Blake broadside Little Tom the Sailor. The ballad is by William Hayley and in the autumn of 1800 Blake engraved the two images on pewter. The broadside was "Printed for & Sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the benefit of her orphans". The facsimile is uncredited but is by William Muir. Bentley 407b Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co 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. 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
19751052184to. London: Trianon Press 1975. 4to 8 plates 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate plus 22 additional progressive proof plates and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco prospectus inserted a fine copy in slipcase. As new. § #28 of 32 de luxe copies with the extra plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process. The total edition was limited to 458 copies. One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons. Bentley Blake Books A137. “The Song of Los completes the cycle of the four continents. the complete work tells the story of mankind from Adam to the Last Judgment the triumph of death and the general resurrection caused by the revolution.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
198710811222 separate plates. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1987. 22 separate plates approx. 15.75 x 12.25 inches 30 x 31 cm each printed in color on Arches housed in a tri-fold paper folder. Very good condition. § The New Zealand Set are careful watercolor copies of the central designs of the original engravings produced by the circle of John Linnell presented here in faithful facsimile. Butlin noted in the Blake Quarterly: “The long list of color facsimiles produced by the Trianon Press under Arnold Fawcus for the William Blake Trust were above all objects of beauty recreating as near to perfection as possible Blake’s original achievements.†Trianon Press for the Blake Trust unknown books
19681075944 vols. London: Trianon Press 1968. 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo Vol. I 8vo i-vii-viii 50 4 pp. Vol. II 12mo 2 pp. 22 plates Vol. III 4 pp. 31 plates Vol. IV 12mo 2 pp. 10 plates negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco volume 4 in brown cloth as issued cloth slipcase gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly rubbed. § From an edition of 726 total copies this is the de luxe advance publisher’s copy including 700 numbered 1 to 700 of which the first 50 have additional material and are in a special binding. Volume I is an introductory volume followed by three volumes of plates. Bentley Blake Books 48. Trianon Press hardcover books
19681075954 vols. London: Trianon Press 1968. 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo Vol. I 8vo i-vii-viii 50 4 pp. Vol. II 12mo 2 pp. 22 plates Vol. III 4 pp. 31 plates Vol. IV 12mo 2 pp. 10 plates negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco volume 4 in brown cloth as issued cloth slipcase gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly rubbed. § From an edition of 726 total copies this de luxe copy unnumbered out of series including 700 numbered 1 to 700 of which the first 50 have additional material and are in a special binding. Volume I is an introductory volume followed by three volumes of plates. Bentley Blake Books 48. Trianon Press hardcover books
1972110461Folio. London: Trianon Press 1972. Folio with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Original sheets marbled boards morocco backstrip lettered in giltquarter brown morocco box. § Edition limited to 518 copies in all including 100 copies for Paul Mellon personally of which 12 copies were a super de luxe issue in three volumes with extra material 36 copies were a de luxe issue also with extra material but in sheets unbound18 copies were hors commerce contents unrecorded and 352 copies either bound in 3 volumes in slipcases or as a single set of the loose sheets in a box. This is #370.The 116 water-color illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems are among Blake's major achievements as an illustrator. They were commissioned in 1797 by Blake's friend the sculptor John Flaxman as a gift for his wife Ann to whom Blake addressed the poem that ends the series. The commission may have been inspired by the Flaxmans' seeing Blake's water-color designs to Edward Young's Night Thoughts begun in 1795. The Gray illustrations follow the same basic format. Blake cut windows in large sheets of the same type of Whatman paper used for the Night Thoughts illustrations and mounted in these windows the texts of Gray's poems from a 1790 octavo edition published by John Murray leaving out some prefatory materials fly-titles the notes and the 7 engraved illustrations. Blake then drew and colored his designs surrounding the letterpress texts. On blank versos near the beginning of each poem and in one case on a separate piece of paper pasted over letterpress text Blake inscribed with pen and ink either titles for each design or quotations from the poem to indicate the passage illustrated. On most text pages Blake also drew a pencil cross left of the first line of the illustrated passage. He numbered most leaves consecutively in pen and ink beginning a new sequence for each of the 13 poems.Blake conceived of his work as an illustrated book rather than a series of unbound designs as indicated by his offsetting Gray's texts above and to the right left on versos from the middle of each leaf—then the convention for all letterpress books. Although listed by William Michael Rossetti in his catalogue of Blake's drawings and paintings published in the 1863 and 1880 editions of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake the Gray illustrations were virtually unknown until their rediscovery by Herbert Grierson in 1919.The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest examples of the art of facsimile reproduction; working from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collection each leaf is faithfully hand-colored through stencils to achieve an astonishing exactitude. The Times Literary Supplement stated that nothing like these books had ever been printed before and that it was highly unlikely that they could be printed again. Bentley Blake Books 385. Trianon Press hardcover books
1988140941162London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First Edition. Near Fine. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's red wraps printed in black. Near Fine with general shelf wear and light crease to bottom corner of the front cover. A scarce format of the of the Dahl's best-known works. Jonathan Cape unknown books
197428867London: Trianon Press 1974. Limited edition Letter R of 26 lettered copies of a total edition of 558 copies. 1 vols. Folio. Original marbled boards brown morocco spine fine in original matching slipcase. Blake William. Limited edition Letter R of 26 lettered copies of a total edition of 558 copies. 1 vols. Folio. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's Jerusalem One of 26 Copies. The illuminated pages were brilliantly reproduced by Daniel Jacomet; the text was composed by hand in 16 point Garamond and printed by Aulard & Cie master printers in Paris. Trianon Press unknown books
1957123810Folio. London: Trianon Press 1957. Folio with 9 color plates and 156 illustrations. Original quarter morocco a superb copy virtually mint preserved in a quarter blue morocco box lettered in gilt § Limited to 460 copies this is #219. A very scarce book in good let alone fine condition as the size of the book and the fact that it was not issued with a box or a slipcase eve means most copies are more or less worn. This was the first time that Blake’s Biblical illustrations had been brought together. The catalogue raisonné was compiled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and comprises virtually every Biblical painting by Blake in existence. Bentley Blake Books 681. Trianon Press unknown books
194029824London: Collins for the Crime Club 1940. FIRST EDITION. Very light spotting to fore and top edges. Cloth clean and bright. Near fine book in a dust jacket that would be near fine but for an oddly- shaped price clip at bottom of front flap. Spine panel of jacket very slightly faded. Short tear at top edge. Overall a crisp copy of this scarce Nigel Strangeways mystery. Scarc in jacket. <br/><br/> Collins for the Crime Club hardcover books
1806220643London: T. Bensley for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. UNCUT in the original boards; rebacked in cloth endpapers renewed. Fine tall copy. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake with whom he shared an interest in radical politics and on the death of his gifted six-year-old son Thomas in 1802 Malkin commissioned Blake to design the frontispiece for Malkin's FATHER'S MEMOIR. In his Preface to this work Malkin gives what the DNB calls the "first and fullest" account of Blake's early life and career and it was with this very tribute to his friend's idiosyncratic genius that Malkin first gave impetus to a more general appreciation of William Blake's art. Keynes 80; Bentley Blake Books p. 18 T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
19701073694to. London: Trianon Press 1970. 4to 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco slipcase. Fine as issued. § Edition de luxe this being copy III limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley Blake Books 5. All Religions are One c. 1788 is “a small tractate perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing it exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’. and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
1813109308e. London: Bensley for Ackermann 1813 i.e. 1870. 4to 2 liv 42 pp. With a portrait frontispiece etched title and 11 plates all with tissue guards. Blind-stamped black cloth rebacked with black cloth lettered in gilt. § Third quarto edition printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Of this version Essick wrote: “I've also seen the true 1813 text and plates in a very similar cloth binding with just a few differences in the blind stamping but very much the same style and period. My theory on that is that Camden Hotten who produced the 1870 issues not only got the copperplates from Ackermann with the Spanish inscriptions for de Mora but also some remainders of the impressions and letterpress and bound these up in a slightly different just the blind stamping and perhaps the cloth color or weave fashion. He removed the Spanish on the coppers and had an engraver restore the 1813 English inscriptions then printed for both the portfolio and the 1870 issue of the text with the engravings. Bentley lists the 1870 issue in Blake Books but I don't believe he lists the portfolio issue of the plates only. I have a vague recollection however that he did note it in one of his later checklists of publications in the Blake Quarterly.†Bentley Blake Books 435E. Bensley for Ackermann hardcover books
108856London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co. 1887. 4to pp 81-128 with a Burne-Jones frontispiece and other illustrations as called for. Includes Blake's "Sibylline Leaf on Homer and Virgil" at p 113 facsimilied by William Muir but uncredited with Herbert p.Horne's note on the illustration at pp 115/116. Very Good with slightly dusty edges to the pages and minor spotting and discoloration to the wrappers to the journal as usual. § Bentley BB 1885 under Horne: “a critique illustrated by a Muir facsimileâ€. A pretty scarce item -- we have only had it once in over forty years had one copy and there were none listed at auction or for sale on the Rare Book Hub. Also see Bentley BB 249 h. Kegan Paul unknown books
108857London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co. 1888. 4to pp 81-12 with a William C. Ward frontispiece and other illustrations as called for. Includes "Three of the Illustrations to the Pastorals of Virgil by William Blake" at p 108 facsimilied by William Muir but uncredited by kind permission of H.H. Gilchrist. Very Good with dusty edges and discoloration to outer wrappers as usual and dusty edges to uncut pages throughout. § Bentley BB 249 h. Kegan Paul unknown books
17931092202 vols. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. in one royal 8vo xi 225; vii 1871 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked lower cover rehinged scuffed and untidy internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake’s plates. “The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two.†Sotheran’s. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long “s†throughout and the second does not. Bentley Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. John Stockdale unknown books
1828107872Single plate by William Blake. London: for the author and sold by Longman 1828. Single plate by William Blake cleaned by Court Benson. § From the first and only edition of this elusive Blake item. Includes Blake's figure of the constellation 'Cancer' which may be a caricature self-portrait of Blake himself. Keynes 248: 'extremely rare'. Bentley Blake Books 501. for the author and sold by Longman unknown books
197662884to. London: Trianon Press 1976. 4to 5 color plates and commentary and progressive states of the plates and an original copper plate etc. Full brown morocco slipcase. As new. § Copy # VII of XXXII de luxe copies in an edition limited to 512 copies in all. The companion volume to the Book of Ahania. One copy of The Book of Los is known. Bentley Blake Books supplement p. 62. Trianon Press unknown books
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
1881110436Archival inkjet print. London: Colnaghi printing after 5 March 1881. Archival inkjet print 93.9 x 30 cm. printed by E.M. Ginger of 42-Line in Oakland CA. Framed. § Fine facsimile print of William Blake’s Canterbury Pilgrims 5th and final state. The reproduction by 42-Line is so good it is virtually indistinguishable from an original print.“‘Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims’ was one of Blake’s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.…†However Blake wasn’t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. “Most contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and ‘Gothic’ in the pejorative sense.… The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few years†Essick pp. 86-88. Blake made substantial changes in the fourth and fifth states of this famous plate and “it is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blake’s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.†Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books
1927108835A single hand-coloured specimen proof copy of the frontispiece for Muir's 1927 facsimile. London: Quaritch for William Muir 1927. A single hand-coloured specimen proof copy of the frontispiece for Muir's 1927 facsimile prepared from the Beaconsfield original. Fine. § A lovely hand-colored facsimile of Blake's famous frontispiece being a unique proof inscribed by Muir: “This a specimen page not to be sold of the Centenary of Blake’s death Edition of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience facsimilied sic from the Beaconsfield original now being prepared by William Muir.†Quaritch for William Muir 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
1987107738Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1987 Publisher’s proofs in a box including three copies of vol. 2 in variant bindings one copy of vol. 1 black and white reproductions and a suite of progressive proofs of plate 2. All within a quarter morocco box with gilt backstrip and marbled boards. § A unique publisher’s proof set lacking the rest of the text. A complete set would include:The de luxe issue includes David Bindman ed. William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job: The Engravings and Related Material with Essays Catalogue of States and Printings Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman Barbara Bryant Robert Essick Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. London: The William Blake Trust 1987. Colophon verso of the title page: “In addition to the 387 copies of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job and Colour versions of Blake’s Book of Job designs issued and published by the William Blake Trust five copies containing extra material have been specifically made up for those most closely concerned with bringing the publication to completion. This copy is for Robert Essick.†The work is housed in four cloth slipcases trimmed in morocco as follows:1. Text volume with the title page and colophon quoted above. Contents:Stephen Keynes “Acknowledgments.â€Charles Ryskamp “Foreword.â€David Bindman and John Commander “Preface.â€Geoffrey Keynes “The Development of the Job Designs.â€David Bindman “The Book of Job Designs from Butts Series to Final Engravings.â€Robert Essick “Blake’s Engravings to the Book of Job: An Essay on Their Graphic Form and Catalogue of States and Printings.â€Barbara Bryant “The Job Designs; a Documentary and Bibliographical Record.â€Quarter morocco and cover label. In the same slipcase: William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job: The Plates with related designs and with an Introduction and Plate-by-Plate Commentary by Bo Lindberg. Loose in fascicles in a quarter morocco folder quarter morocco clamshell box with cover label.2. Colour Versions of William Blake’s Book of Job Designs from the Circle of John Linnell. With an essay by Bo Lindberg. Text volume quarter morocco with cover label. Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “The New Zealand setâ€b. “The Collins setâ€c. “The Fitzwilliam platesâ€3. “Additional Material 1.†Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “Pages from the ‘Riches’ sketchbook with colour washes not publishedâ€b. “William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job Alternative printing of the engravings without plate markâ€c. “Facsimiles of subjects from the Butts version watercolours printed collotype by Emery Walker for the Pierpont Morgan Library edition 1935â€. Two mounted color reproductions.d. “Proofs guides and stencils for colour plates from Colour versions of Blake’s Book of Job designs Trianon Press Paris c. 1974â€4. “Additional Material 2.†Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “Label printed for original publication March 1826â€b. “Colour versions of William Blake’s Book of Job designs from the circle of John Linnell Collins & New Zealand sets & Fitzwilliam plates.†Housed in three paper folders. The same reproductions as those in box 2 above.Materials added to box 4 by Essick:i. Xerox of the typescript of Lindberg’s commentary.ii. Xerox of the typescript of Lindberg’s essay on the New Zealand set.iii. Xerox of the typescript of Keynes’ introductory essay.iv. A set of loose Job reproductions housed in a paper folder inscribed in pencil as follows: “This set of proofs was given to me by John Commander Secretary of the Trust to help with my preparation of the catalogue of the states of the Job plates. It contains unpublished materials. R. N. Essick Summer 1983.â€Acquired Aug. 1987 from the William Blake Trust gift. BBS pages 198-99 this issue not recorded. For proofs of Essick’s essay see under Blake Trust/Trianon Press Facsimiles Production Materials.Idem. Trade issue housed as above but in cloth slipcases boxes and bindings. Two slipcases with contents as in the first two slipcases above. Colophon verso of the title page: “This publication of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job is limited to 387 copies: 22 copies lettered A-V contain additional material and are specially bound; 250 copies numbered 1-250; 50 copies numbered i-l; 65 copies numbered I-LXV are reserved by The William Blake Trust. This is copy 171â€. Acquired May 1987 from the William Blake Trust gift. BBS pages 198-99. Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
