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108086London: Printed for John Bell at the British Library Strand. MDCCLXXX 1780. 8vo. xlvii 205 pp. 14 fold-out copper plate engravings two armorial copper plate engraved headpieces. Olive-green cloth clamshell box. Original boards as issued untrimmed edges and binding are rubbed and chipped boards are discolored internally bright with complete set of plates; very good. § “A New Edition.†First published in 1771 here revised with a new set of plates. Text and title-pages in English and French. Plate number four engraved by a young William Blake. A simplified manual on fencing by Jean Olivier whom was considered a master of the small sword in his time. ESTC T135608. Printed for John Bell hardcover books
19721076662 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #XLIV of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
19721073802 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #10 of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press 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
197621637London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust 1976. leather_bound. Orig. full brown morocco spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine beige basket weave cloth slipcase. Blake William. 62 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Limited edition special copy VIII of XXXII total edition of 438 signed by Geoffrey Keynes in red ink on Lana rag paper. Plates reproduced by collotype in Paris at the workshops of the Trianon Press France under the supervision of Arnold Fawcus. Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust unknown books
2009185644Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press 2009. Hardcover. VG/VG Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Pages are very clean and clear. Six volumes bound in red cloth boards black title blocks with gilt lettering on front and spine. Volume 1 has a tan black and red dj. Volumes 2-6 have a yellow and black dj. Mylar covers on all volumes. Bw illustrations and maps. Various printings from 1992 to 2009. Volume 1 Beginnings to 1066: This volume deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic phonology and morphology syntax semantics and vocabulary dialectology onomastics and literary language. Each chapter as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind. Volume 3 1476-1776: This volume begins at the time of the establishment of Caxtons first press in England and concludes with the American Declaration of Independence the notional birth of the first non-insular extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages the renaissance the reformation the enlightenment and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably modern if somewhat old-fashioned English. In this book the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments covering orthography and punctuation phonology and morphology syntax lexis and semantics regional and social variation and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography. Contents: I. The beginnings to 1066 -- II. 1066-1476 -- III. 1476-1776 -- IV. 1776-1997 -- V. English in Britain and overseas: origins and development. -- VI. English in North America.; v. 1.; The beginnings to 1066 --; Introduction /; Richard M. Hogg --; The place of English in Germanic and Indo-European /; Alfred Bammesberger --; Phonology and morphology /; Richard M. Hogg --; Syntax /; Elizabeth Closs Traugott --; Semantics and vocabulary /; Dieter Kastovsky --; Old English dialects /; Thomas E. Toon --; Onomastics /; Cecily Clark --; Literary language /; Malcolm R. Godden.; v. 2.; 1066-1476 --; Introduction /; Norman Blake --; Phonology and morphology /; Roger Lass --; Middle English dialectology /; James Milroy --; Syntax /; Olga Fischer --; Lexis and semantics /; David Burnley --; The literary language /; Norman Blake --; Onomastics /; Cecily Clark.; v. 3.; 1476-1776 --; Introduction /; Roger Lass --; Orthography and punctuation /; Vivian Salmon --; Phonology and morphology /; Roger Lass --; Syntax /; Matti Rissanen --; Early modern English lexis and semantics /; Terttu Nevalainen --; Regional and social variation /; Manfred Gorlach --; Literary language /; Sylvia Adamson.; v. 4.; 1776-1997 --; Introduction /; Suzanne Romaine --; Vocabulary /; John Algeo --; Syntax /; David Denison --; Onomastics /; Richard Coates --; Phonology /; Michael K.C. MacMahon --; English grammar and usage /; Edward Finegan --; Literary language /; Sylvia Adamson.; v. 5.; English in Britain and Overseas : origins and development --; Introduction /; Robert Burchfield --; Part I.; Regional varieties of English in Great Britain and Ireland --; English in Scotland /; J. Derrick McClure --; English in Wales /; Alan R. Thomas --; English in Ireland /; Jeffrey L. Kallen --; The dialects of England since 1776 /; Ossi Ihalainen --; Part II.; English overseas --; English in Australia /; George W. Turner --; English in the Caribbean /; John A. Holm --; English in New Zealand /; Laurie Bauer --; English in South Africa /; William Branford --; English in South Asia /; Braj B. Kachru.; v. 6.; English in North America --; External history /; John Algeo --; British and American continuity and divergence /; John Hurt Fisher --; British and Irish antecedents /; Michael Montgomery --; Contact with other languages /; Suzanne Romaine --; Americanisms /; Frederic G. Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall --; Slang /; Jonathan E. Lighter --; Dialects /; Lee Pederson --; African-American English /; Salikoko S. Mufwene --; Grammatical structure /; Ronald R. Butters --; Spelling /; Richard L. Venezky --; Usage /; Edward Finegan --; Canadian English /; Laurel J. Brinton and Margery Fee --; Newfoundland English /; William J. Kirwin --; American English abroad /; Richard W. Bailey. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
193518547New York: Pierpont Morgan Library 1935. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff gray wrappers black cloth spine. Fine. Six parts. 38 x 29 1/2 cm. Folio 61 pages in text. Introduction by Lawrence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes. All the reproductions except the collotypes in the text of the Introduction made and printed by Emery Walker Ltd and the Introduction printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press. Published in six parts sixty three water colors The Thomas Butts John Linnell & New Zealand Set -- being parts IIIII V. Twenty-five pencil and wash drawings part IV and twenty-two etchings of the Book of Job part VI. The Trainon Press "Book of Job" does not reproduce all the drawings. Internally very clean each part with printed paper front cover label small smudge upper left corner Vol. IV. Pierpont Morgan Library unknown books
1808107321Single 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 this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1813109208Single plate. London: R. Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 B."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 R. Ackermann unknown books
1808107319Single plate. London: Cromek 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most famous plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cromek unknown books
1808107325Single 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
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
1967150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
32639Printed broadside 5" x 8" with salutation in ink manuscript. Some margin browning and light margin chipping else Very Good.<br/><br/> Blake was Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waupun. Beneath his printed signature is written in ink "Pastor Cong. Ch". Professor Conatty was T.J. Conatty a public school teacher in Kenosha and a prominent figure in the Wisconsin Teachers' Association. He was later implicated in a bribery scheme with James Rood Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin 1857-1869. On Conatty's behalf Doolittle was to use his influence with President Lincoln to obtain cotton permits during General Banks's occupation of New Orleans; in return Doolittle would receive 25% of the profits. We haven't ascertained whether Senator Doolittle is the "Br. Doolittle" to whom this printed letter is addressed. <br/> This unusual ephemeral Civil War broadside is unrecorded. Waupun is in southeastern Wisconsin about sixty miles northwest of Milwaukee.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of October 2020 or anywhere else. unknown books
1963008092London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1963. SCARCE. Very Good Plus small bumps at corners small stain rear end pages internally clean and bright unmarked. In a less than Very Good dust jacket 4" chip at bottom end of spine 2" chip at head of spine smaller chips and edge wear wear at corners old internal tape mends. A large and heavy book additional shipping charges will be requested for priority and international shipping. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good Minus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
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
287787London: Joseph Johnson. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges 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/> Image shows the tattooed Ranger with pipe and rifle. Two men of a similar station can be seen in the background. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
197041689London: Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust 1970. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Ten plates in facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Half morocco and boards. Vellum book label of Julia P. WIghtman. Fine in slipcase. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Ten plates in facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust unknown books
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
1969123970Folio. London: Trianon Press 1969. Folio 17 colour and one monochrome facsimile leaves and 9 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Very fine in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in slipcase as issued. § Limited to 526 copies this is copy #313. The frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†is surely Blake’s most famous single image. "The second of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" preceded by America and followed by The Song of Los Europe presents in mythopoeic form the fundamental philosophical positions in conflict in Blake's revolutionary era. Historical events are reconfigured into their universalized representations through Blake's own cast of characters including Enitharmon the female personification of fallen nature and history Orc the spirit of revolt and Los and Urizen the "Eternals" who would become central to Blake's mythic system of the "Zoas." These contending forces lead beyond political revolution to an apocalypse of biblical scope." The William Blake Archive. At the end is reproduced an extra etched leaf of text that Blake only included in two copies which tell of a fairy that Blake caught who sang him a song about the five senses of man.Europe survives in only fourteen known copies few complete all but one held by institutions. The remarkable Blake Trust Trianon Press facsimiles hand-colored using pochoir with extraordinary fidelity are for most of us the nearest possible thing to handling the original book. Martin 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.†Bentley Blake Books 34. Trianon Press hardcover 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
18966716Boston 1896. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small 'dancing' party for the society 'A' list of Boston. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. Also includes a complete list of the final attendees and a manuscript record of the menu and engraved invitation accompany the individual acceptance and rejection few letters. Very good; some wear to the binding. A stationer's Shipman adhesive half leather letter file book. hardcover books
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes; G; bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering; some chipping and rubbing to boards; with 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume 2; Some foxing/spotting throughout; With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume 1; Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages; shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover books
