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19671239694to. London: Trianon Press 1967. 4to 50 color plates 13 pp. of printed text. Original quarter brown morocco slipcase a fine copy in virtually flawless condition. § Limited to 426 copies this is #368. The second-longest and penultimate of Blake’s illuminated books exceptionally rich with numerous full-page plates. Keynes notes in the introduction: "This epic as a whole contains many passages of exceptional beauty and provides numerous clues useful for the elucidation of Blake's symbolism and philosophy". Bentley Blake Books 120. Trianon Press unknown books
1797104616Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 69/70 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
1817105709Sm. Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1817. Sm. 8vo xii 166 pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt backstrip richly gilt marbled edges signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text perhaps by Cotes. § A beautiful copy handsomely bound with the frontispiece printed in five colors. Friedman Color Printing in England #31. The Vershbow copy with bookplate. DNB notes: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
123132London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1928. Small thick 4to 301 pp. with 4 color plates 55 monochrome plates and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt original printed dust-jacket backstrip browned otherwise a fine copy. § First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. Only the second copy I have ever seen in the dust-jacket and the first copy of the British edition the other was the NY of the same year. Bentley Blake Books 2954. Dent hardcover books
1959123971Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco marbled boards slipcase very fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Bentley Blake Books 216. Trianon Press hardcover books
1959110677Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco slipcase fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. Bentley Blake Books 216. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
1808123893Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned some residual soiling in the margins and a few flecks in the image. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most powerful images in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107320Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123892Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107322Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
18091092214to. Chichester: W. Mason 1809. 4to 8 7 416pp. With portrait frontispiece imprint trimmed at foot and 11 engraved plates including one by William Blake. Old half calf marbled boards joints rubbed but sound top of backstrip chipped away black label lettered in gilt. § First edition. Blake’s plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Essick CBI XLIX. W. Mason hardcover books
2002208022002. Five items relating to Michael Blake and his Library Tour of 2002: 1. "Dances with Wolves" NY Newmarket Press 1991. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine clipped dustwrapper. 2. Blank notebook with Blake's holograph library speech on the first 10pp. The remaining pages are blank. Some pages have been removed from the beginning probably earlier speech drafts removed by Blake himself. 3. Two programs from the tour: Hattiesburg MS Sept. 23 and Notre Dame Sept. 28. The first is fine; the second as been folded. Both are a single sheet folded to make four pages. 4. Doug Knott Binder containing original 'Doug Knott Presents the Lhasa Shows' sheets from 1985 to 1987 and with a handwritten notice at the beginning ".for Mr. Blake to meet some old friends.". Laid in are six typewritten draft sheets of Knott's poetry ".for perusal of Sr. Blake 5/27/91." hardcover books
1963213090London: The Trianon Press 1963. No. 168 of 480 copies. 1 vols. Folio. Original marbled boards dark blue morocco spine. Fine in original matching slipcase. No. 168 of 480 copies. 1 vols. Folio. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's America. The Trianon Press unknown books
1974213091London: Trianon Press 1974. Limited edition no. 293 of 500 numbered copies. 1 vols. Folio. Original marbled boards brown morocco spine fine small leather inperfection at top of spine in original matching slipcase. Blake William. Limited edition no. 293 of 500 numbered copies. 1 vols. Folio. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's Jerusalem. 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
199420298South Dennis: Steven Albahari 1994. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth with pictorial inset. Fine in fine decorated white clam shell box. 171 pages. Photographs by Joel-Peter Witken of controversial content. Limited edition copy 159 of 915. Edited with an Introduction by John Wood editor of "21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography." Plethora of plates in black and white and color Witken's interpretation of poems by Blake. Signed by Witken. Steven Albahari hardcover books
192510256London: Halton & Truscott Smith 1925. First Edition No. 9 of 100 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. With 8 mounted colour plates and numerous illustrations in black and white. 1 vols. 4to. Original original-red batik paper over boards brown pigskin corners and spine gilt spine a little darkened light foxing to free endpapers else fine in a brown cloth protective case and inner wrapper; with the bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. First Edition No. 9 of 100 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. With 8 mounted colour plates and numerous illustrations in black and white. 1 vols. 4to. One of 100 Copies. A sumptuous production. Halton & Truscott Smith unknown books
186322648London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co 1863. First edition. Volume I contains Gilchrist's biography of Blake; Volume II prints a selection of Blake's poems and other writings. Fine copy. 2 volumes portrait and illustrations some fold-out marbled endpapers half red morocco and yellow buckram over boards t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe half-titles bound in. Fine copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
250690U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey War Department. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 26.75 x 38.5".<br/><br/> This fascinating geological section of the Mississippi River derives from the investigations of Jules Marcou a French geologist who worked extensively in North America. In 1853 under the service of the U.S. government he became the first geologist to cross the United States as part of the Pacific railroad exploration headed by A.W. Whipple that was then then underway. This map was the result of his travels and was published as part of a report entitled "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4." Presented as a geological cross-section the map is color-coded to indicate the type and age of the rock along the river as per a key in the upper left. Mountain ranges are simply but delicately rendered and valleys are labeled beneath each section to show their expanse. The map also provides the locations of various creeks forts Indian territories and intersecting rivers. The map is in good condition with original folds as issued. Some tears at folds. William P. Blake was the Geologist of the Office of the Unites States Pacific Railroad Surveys. These surveys were conducted in 1853-1855 in the interest of finding possible routes for a transcontinential railroad. This map functions as a document of the kinds of investigations conducted in this period of rapid Western expansion.<br/><br/> U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey, War Department unknown books
1784108760Engraved by Blake after Collings. London: Harrison and Co. 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins folded as usual. A little soiled but a good strong impression. § Bentley BB 513 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XIV pp 36-38. Harrison and Co unknown books
108761London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1817-1831. Oblong folio 2 34 plates 30 from Piroli's original set plus 4 by Howard; Hesiod title page 37 Blake plates the first a second title page. Bound in original half brown morocco and cloth gilt title to front cover wear to spine edges and corners binding strained due to weight of pages and apparently with an earlier repair holding reasonably firm. § Bound with Flaxman's Aeschylus here the 1831 issue published by Miss Flaxman and Maria Denman. The Aeschylus is rather dusty and with occasional mild foxing marks and an old triangular dampstain at the upper right corner affecting the first 20 plates to a decreasing extent not touching the designs. Bentley believes 50 copies of this issue were printed on publication in 1831. The Hesiod plates are dated 1816 or 1817 consistent with Bentley's note that 200 sets were printed in 1817 but sold slowly such that 18 sets were still unsold in 1838 and dealers made up combined copies of the Flaxman titles in various combinations. This set appears to be one such set. The Hesiod plates are generally clean with light dusting to margins a few margins slightly mottled and also occasional light foxing to a few but mainly to outer margins. Bentley BB 456 A; Bentley The early Engravings of Flaxman's Classical Designs p 53-58; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Iillustrations LI p 100. Longman hardcover books
1805107268King Henry VIII. London: Rivington and 40 other booksellers 1805. King Henry VIII. Single plate some toning and spotting but very good condition. § One of two illustrations engraved by Blake after Fuseli from the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell perhaps and quite rare. Rivington [and 40 other booksellers] unknown books
1969151541London: United Artists 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers on the set of the 1968 film from the 1969 UK release of the film. British United Artists snipe and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.<br/><br/>Edwards' most outrageous collaboration with Sellers the only one that wasn't a "Pink Panther" film. Sellers in a role that today would be considered racially insensitive plays Hrundi V. Bakshi an Indian actor who inadvertently and ever-so courteously causes chaos and mayhem at a Hollywood party. Sellers' legendary and hilariously painful performance is assisted by an increasingly drunk waiter a wonderful performance by Steve Franken an adorable psychedelic-painted baby elephant and much more. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Faint creasing else Near Fine.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
18635924London: Macmillan 1863. First edition. Bentley said it better than we can: "Never has an important literary reputation been posthumously established so effectively instantaneously and forcefully. Gilchrist's title 'Pictor Ignotus' had not been mere showmanship. Blake had been unknown and Gilchrist made him sensationally well-known. From 1863 on Blake took an unchallenged place in literary and artistic history as one of the great figures of the Romantic Movement. Gilchrist's biography is still in many respects the best biography of Blake" pp. 12-13. 24 cm; 2 volumes. i-v vi-xv 1-389; i-v vi-vii 1-3 4-268 pages and 66 plates including the "Job" engravings and 16 plates from electrotypes of the copperplates of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Text illustrations. Folding plate of Canterbury pilgrims in volume 2. Bound in roughly contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt-tooled compartments on spine with original gilt-stamped morocco covers laid down on front pastedowns in both volumes. Binding somewhat worn at joints and edges but this is a sound copy internally without blemish. Reference: Bentley Blake Books 1234A. Macmillan hardcover books
110760London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1822. Single leaf. Oblong large folio on wove paper plate mark 583 x 455 mm on sheet 650 x 490 mm. § Blake’s one plate was first included in Hogarth’s Works 1790 and is here present in the third state of seven. Bentley Blake Books 475 I. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XX. Baldwin unknown books
187266658"Hand-Book of Colorado" With Maps and Illustrations J.A. BLAKE & F. C. WILLETT Publisher. Hand-Book of Colorado. With Maps and Illustrations. Second Year of Publication. Denver: J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett 1872. First edition of second publication although no first publication has been listed on OCLC nor at auction in last 40 years. Octavo. 131 pp. 5 ads. Original purple pebbled colth gilt-stamped on front cover. Front endpapers are ads as is rear paste-down. Front hinge starting spine with small split to cloth covers stained extremities rubbed very good. Contains ads of the period and maps as well as a map with railroad connections. HBS 66658. $500 J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett hardcover books
