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1803104400Roy. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake’s engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
18061087511806. London: Richard Phillips 1806. <br /> <br /> 8vo xxiv 270 ii publisher's booklistpp. with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. <br /> <br /> § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. unknown
18031241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. <br /> <br /> Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins.<br /> <br /> § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations by Maria Flaxman.<br /> Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown
18031044001803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. <br /> <br /> Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins.<br /> <br /> § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley BB 471A. Essick CBI XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: "Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which 'was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice' Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley 'for the lessons she had learnt from the poem' P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem 'made me Lady H. . for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty' ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.". unknown
1886302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L."<br /> The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown
18061087518vo. London: Richard Phillips 1806. 8vo xxiv 270pp ii publisher's booklist with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design " The Graphic Muse". Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder : there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. Richard Phillips hardcover books
1963167069N.p.: N.p. 1963. First Draft script for the 1964 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Harry Kurnitz's 1961 American stage adaptation of Marcel Achard's 1960 French play "L'Idiote." One of the funniest films of the 1960s and the defining installment in the well-loved Pink Panther series. While "A Shot in the Dark" was ably preceded by "The Pink Panther" in 1963 it was the first film to feature the series' underrated maestro: Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus foil to Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau and the first to truly define the style of the side-splitting installments that would follow. The only script for this film we have ever handled.<br /> <br /> Fuchsia wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 14th October 1963 noted as First Draft with credit for director Blake Edwards. 173 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with several pink revision pages dated October 17 1963. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads with a worn title label affixed to the binding. N.p. unknown
18051079151805. London: C. and J. Rivington 1805. <br /> <br /> 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodsley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. <br /> <br /> § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare's plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli's major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed "the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegant." Bentley 498. Essick CBI XLVII. unknown
1956C93589Emery Walker. As New. 1956. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- 86 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Emery Walker hardcover
1886184113London: privately printed 1886. God becomes as we are that we may be as he is One of the rarest Blake facsimiles especially so in the original wrappers one of 50 hand-coloured large paper copies. Blake wrote these aphorisms in 1788 and printed them in the 1790s shortly after his invention of "illuminated printing". This edition was published the same year as William Muir's facsimile; no priority between the two editions has been established. Octavo. 12 illustrated plates printed in reddish brown 9 tinted by hand in black 3 in colour all loose as issued. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Wrappers bright extremities of rear wrap toned one small nick a few marks to plates not affecting impressions; an excellent copy. Keynes 218; not in Bentley. unknown
1986C86296Thames & Hudson. As New. 1986. Paperback. 0500274088 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 494 pages; many illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Graphic Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Thames & Hudson paperback
19252091202133213191Nonesuch Press 1925. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 books in total Nonesuch Press paperback
1880323501London: Macmillan 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth both volumes fine. The Henry Buxton Forman copy with his bookplate. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist 1863 and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings. G.E.Bentley Blake Book 1680B; H. Buxton Forman 59 Macmillan unknown
1863140947684London: Macmillan and Co 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. xiv 2 389 1; viii 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Front hinges starting front joints starting at head of spine L-shaped split to top of rear joint of Volume I advancing across the spine panel and Volume II binding exposed at page 268. The binding by Burn & Co. their ticket to Volume II back pastedown is an unusually attractive example of High Victorian design and the gilt remains bright against the maroon cloth. <p>Alexander Gilchrist's biography and selected works of William Blake established Blake's place in the Western canon and remains a standard reference work. The artist and poet a peripheral figure at the time of his death in 1827 was taken up by the pre-Raphaelites several of whom completed the second volume of Gilchrist's work after he died suddenly of a fever. Chief among the secondary authors was Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had purchased Blake's annotated sketchbook at the age of nineteen and added his own pages. An important work with a powerful influence on the art and literature of the late 19th century. Macmillan and Co unknown
180822141London: Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek 1808. First quarto edition. Original endpapers retained along with some provenance thereby. Edges trimmed not by Dusel! to 34.4 x 27 cm. A few finger smudges to text and to margins of a couple plates plate marked for page 21 out-of-place at page 23 and with some rubbing to plate caption. . Complete with 13 plates including portrait plate of Blake by Schiavonetti after the painting by T. Phillips and engraved title page: 2 fl. xvi 36 4 pp. 11 plates inserted in main text. New binding by Phillip Dusel of half red morocco and marbled boards. <br/><br/>Bookplate of Ferdinand Meath McVeagh 1789-1888 of Drewstown County Meath Ireland and period Post Office / Bookseller / Stationer's ticket to front pastedown. A very handsome and clean copy in a very tasteful modern fine binding in period style. Bentley 435-B. Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek hardcover
1886108532Small slim 4to. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but see Blake Books Supplement page 140. Essick notes: “According to BBS page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early “bogus†or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi.†Pickering & Co unknown books
1920123193Slim 4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1920. Slim 4to 8 unnumbered hand-colored plates. Half red calf upper cover lettered in gilt upper cover slightly soiled. § The second Muir facsimile based on copy J in the Houghton Library and limited to 50 copies so stated. With Muir's limitation statement and copy number 5 pasted in the front. Bentley Blake Books 249b. William Muir unknown books
13275Brooklyn NY 1979. Near fine. Single sheet of Blake's stationery bearing his address in Brooklyn and printed with a lengthy list of songs and productions in which he played a role in composing. Letter in near fine condition with flattened mailing folds. Original torn mailing envelope retained with Vaughan's address in Hidden Hills CA written in Blake's hand and with a number of seemingly unrelated ink notations to verso. Autograph letter of more than 30 lines including postscript profusely apologizing to legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan for a remark he made to her along the lines of "when are you going to learn how to sing" The letter reads in full slightly edited for clarity:<br /> <br /> Dear Sarah I'm writing this letter to you and I'm trembling with fear. I shall never again joke with an artist any more. When I said to you "when are you going to learn how to sing" I was joking. I'm very very sorry that you took my joking as a Slander sic. I've told so many of your friends speaking you Lottie Gee. You both had you have got 2 ranges. I know another artist who had two voices. Anyhow you have it and you know when how to use it. So when I joked to you you knowing that I was a musician I was joking. Please for goodness sake don't think that I'm that dumb to ridicule your singing. No. No. No. Please. One of your friends said to me to send you my song "Memories of You." Now I'm afraid to send it to you. Any how whether you believe me or not I love your style of singing and please tell your husband I was only joking. Sincerely Eubie Blake.<br /> <br /> P. P. I have two numbers I'd like to send you--"Memories of You" and "Calling Romance." E. B."<br /> <br /> Blake lived a long life and had a long and successful career in jazz from the Ragtime era all the way into the postwar period of free jazz and experimentation. He is perhaps best remembered as the co-composer with frequent collaborator Noble Sissle of the hit 1921 musical "Shuffle Along." <br /> <br /> Blake was generous with his autograph and his long career in performance afforded him countless opportunities to give it. However we've never encountered such a revealing and heartfelt letter; much less to such a significant fellow jazz figure. The final request--that Vaughan pass along the apology to her husband--is in the opinion of this cataloguer an example of the kind of soft misogyny that could plague even some of the most accomplished women in the performing arts. unknown
194049645London: The Crime Club 1940. 1940. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; reddish-orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 111-284 3 pp ads. A few very faint spots to upper right corner of front cover hint of foxing to text edges else clean internally; else a near fine bright copy in dustjacket with a jagged price-clip and remnant of a publishers' price sticker at lower front flap; gentle sunning to orange portions of spine with a few pinpoint rubbed spots. A sharp copy of the sixth novel featuring Oxford-educated private detective Nigel Strangeways. The story is set in a holiday camp called Wonderland which promises leisure activities and outdoor fun for the whole family until a series of sinister pranks by a character called the "Mad Hatter" culminate in murder. Along with A Question of Proof 1935 the scarcest of Cecil Day-Lewis's pseudonymous detective novels. An exceptional copy. The Crime Club, [1940]. hardcover
116223The Trianon Press. Leather. Very Good. 0x0x0. Number 336 of 526 copies. Collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil some heightened with gold original Morrocco with marbled board-slipcase 8vo Trianon Press 1955. Spine sun faded. Tight and unmarked looks unread. Please email for photos. The Trianon Press hardcover
18861085321886. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. <br /> <br /> Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged.<br /> <br /> § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but Essick notes: "According to Blake Books Supplement page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early "bogus" or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi." The. unknown
1825215604London: W. Sams Book & Printseller to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace 1825. Third state the first being produced in 1818. Hand-colored aquatint with etched outline. 1 vols. 20 x 26 inches matted and framed to 27 x 33 inches overall. Third state the first being produced in 1818. Hand-colored aquatint with etched outline. 1 vols. 20 x 26 inches matted and framed to 27 x 33 inches overall. A large and important depiction of an exhibition sparring match held in Fives Court in London's Little St. Martin's Street a tennis and fives court hired for such events the participants unlike a regular bare-knuckle bout being fitted with gloves "mittens" or "mufflers". The contestants shown were Ned Turner "The Out-and-Outer" who had killed a man in the ring serving time for manslaughter and Jack Randall "The Prime Irish Lad" unbeaten throughout 12 years of ring activity. The two had fought an epic fight in 1818 which Randall won to become the Lightweight champion. A large number of famous pugilists are pictured in the audience not always accurately Jem Belcher the famed champion and the first real sporting celebrity in the modern sense is shown although he was dead and it is a fair portrait of "The Fancy" as the mix of often raffish sporting professionals and upscale spectators including nobility came to be known. THE MOST FAMOUS BOXING PRINT EVER PRODUCED AND AN IMPERISHABLE EVOCATION OF REGENCY SPORT. Snelgrove British Sporting and Animal Prints p. 48-9 color plate 5; Siltzer pp. 319 320 325; Wilder Sporting Prints p. 178 color plate p. 179; Magriel The Ring and the Glove pp. 17-18 W. Sams, Book & Printseller, to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace unknown books
19835241New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Limited First American Edition of this now famous Roald Dahl classic. This is copy #31 of a limited run of 300 copies. This copy signed by both author Roald Dahl and longtime collaborator Quentin Blake. Housed in original bright yellow slipcase which has some wear and mild staining on back side. The book is in very good shape and carries a personal gift inscription on the FFEP from 1987 stating 'To Grant with love Mom'. Signed in felt marker by Dahl and Blake on limited edition page. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover
180824820London: R.H. Cromek 1808. Marbled boards. Very Good. William Blake. The 1808 1st edition with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake at the frontispiece his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled boards and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" Bentley 435B. R.H. Cromek unknown
18131087331813. London: J. Johnson 1813. <br /> <br /> 4to 8 plates from the 1813 third edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm.<br /> <br /> § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro" "A Private Marine." "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys" "The Skinning of the Aboma Snake" " Family of Negro Slaves." The Skulls of Lieut. Leppar." "March Thro' a Swamp or Marsh in Terra-Firma" "The Celebrated Graman Quacy". Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXXIII p 71 - 75. unknown
