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140945486New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First American Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first American edition number 20 of 300 copies signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the slipcase with a corresponding bump to the top corner of the covers of the book itself else Fine. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown
19671270581967. London: Bodley Head 1967. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo 24 pp. with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated card wrappers slight age-toning damage to lower cover repaired.<br /> <br /> § First and only edition limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak's rarest and most sought-after books. Bentley BBS p.161. During a promotional tour for the British publication of Where the Wild Things Are in 1967 Sendak suffered a major heart attack. He attributed his survival to the quick reactions of those around him in particular his editor Judy Taylor. In thanks he prepared the drawings for this little book and had it privately printed at the Stellar Press and Bodley Head for distribution among friends. None were offered for sale. unknown
143009London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl her genius and her indifferent parents. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Andrew Love Roald Dahl." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals adults squirm with displeasure He is undeniably special" Connolly 104. Basis for the 1996 Danny DeVito directed film starring Mara Wilson DeVito Rhea Perlman Embeth Davidtz and Pam Ferris. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1937355490724014London: Collins Crime Club 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. London: Published by THE CRIME CLUB by COLLINS 1937. First UK Edition in First Issue dustwrapper priced 7/6 net to the spine as called for. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS REAL NAME. A good copy marks to the boards spine darkened and marked; browning to both sets of end-papers; foxing to the page block; interior clean. Signed by the Author: C Day-Lewis to a pale orange label possibly from an autograph book affixed to the front free end-paper. The dustwrapper is likely a marriage as it is VG condition and is a very nice example indeed. It has light creasing rubbing and wear to the spine tips a couple of insignificant small tears with associated creases to the top edge of the front panel and miniscule loss to the corners hardly worth mentioning. "Tyrannical businessman Eustace Bunnett and an assortment of employees and local characters become suspects when Nigel Strangeways investigates the murder of a man found dead in one of the vats at Bunnett's Dorset brewery".There are anonymous letters disgruntled employees old love affairs and trouble brewing in interesting mystery by Nicholas Blake a pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis the late Poet Laureate. The scarcest Nicholas Blake first edition. Photographs/scans available upon request. Collins Crime Club hardcover
1981C86297Centre / Yale University Press. As New. 1981. Hardcover. 0300025505 . 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 - - Corresponds to ISBN: 0300025505. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Volume 1: Text 668 pages; Volume 2: Illustrations1193 plates. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Paintings & Drawings -- 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 . Centre / Yale University Press hardcover
1813018448London: J. Johnson 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light small stain but very clean overall. Near Fine with minor wear. Two quarto 8-1/2" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana 1772- 1777 illustrated with 81 engravings including 3 folding maps after drawings by the author by William Blake 13 with an additional 3 attributed to him Bartolozzi Benedetti Barlow and others. Sabin 91075 called this "one of the richest contemporary accounts of a plantation society in the Americas." According to the DNB Stedman's narrative is "one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have been penned." Stedman also depicts the social and natural history of the area in detail and many of the engravings illuminate his writings on these subjects. Blake's work among the finest that he did for hire are primarily powerful portraits of slaves. <br/><br/> J. Johnson hardcover
180546810WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED <br />first edition 8vo. 2 blank 8 title leaf preface leaf a blank leaf half or sub-title 212 2 contents and colophon 2 blankpp. 5 plates by Blake untrimmed and clearly exhibiting the plate mark near contemporary maroon roan backed boards marbled paper over boards edges untrimmed as issued paper title label on spine lettered in faded ink manuscript plain later endpapers light water stain at the lower gutter side of the last 2 leaves mainly evident on the terminal blank leaf with very light marks at the same point on neighbouring leaves including the last plate leaves A4-A5 a trifle creased and dusty some light dustiness mainly at the untrimmed edges some plates with light foxing and some lightly toned at the untrimmed edges last plate The Horse with small patch of light surface abrasion at lower corner outside the image but inside the plate mark occasional other minor dusty smudges generally a very good and pleasing copy. <br />Armorial bookplate of James Balfour slightly damaged.<br /><br />Bentley Blake Books 465<br />The plates are signed below the images "Blake inv & sc' and have the imprint 'Pubd. or Pub'd june 18 1805 by R. Phillips No6 Bridge Street Black Friers".Plates 1 to 3 inclusive are in the second more extensively worked state. Plates 4 and 5 are in the first and only state. This copy has a comma rather than a full stop after 'BLAKE' on the title page as in the copy at Princeton with plates 1 and 2 in the second state.<br />This book is possibly a copy in the original boards that have at some later point in the nineteenth century been backed with maroon roan and the boards covered with cloth and then with marbled paper and supplied with new endpapers possibly by an amateur. The bookplate looks as if it may have been lifted from an earlier setting and relaid. Printed by J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips .. hardcover
1935140948168Honolulu HI: Paradise of the Pacific Press 1935. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. 95 pp. Bound in publisher's hand-painted tapa cloth with titles in black on upper board. Near Fine with splaying to boards light wear. Lacking the dust jacket though small remnants of the flaps are adhered to the pastedowns as the jacket was issued by the publisher with the flaps adhered there. Light offsetting at endhseets.Part surfing instruction manual part history of surfing the first of its kind by American surf legend Tom Blake. Blake innovated new designs of boards and developed the live saving hollow surf board. “The most important publication in the surfing canon.†- Timothy DeLaVega 200 Years of Surfing Literature B28. Paradise of the Pacific Press unknown
1893375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance."<br /> <br /> Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown
140946459New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1984. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine. First American edition first printing. Number 188 of a limited 200 copies signed by Roald Dahl. vi 160 pp. Bound in original brown cloth boards with upper board decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Fine in a slipcase with light rubbing and sticker price sticker remnants on front board. A sharp copy of Roald Dahl's autobiography illustrated by Quentin Blake. Farrar Straus Giroux unknown
1919140947788Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour 1919. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. vi 2 7-314 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with light wear to extremities light toning and several stains to covers. Dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock minimal foxing to lower edge thumbing to first two leaves.<br /> <br /> <p>Bertram Cope's Year is the first mainstream American novel to depict a homosexual relationship. The established writer Henry Blake Fuller tried several commercial publishers before resorting to a friend with a small press to get his comic novel in print. Despite the discretion with which Fuller handled his theme the book was received uneasily by reviewers and sold poorly. The disappointed author burned the manuscript and unsold copies and first editions are consequently scarce. Ralph Fletcher Seymour unknown
17987427London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First edition in English. Near Fine. Three folio volumes bound in five 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 327 x 260 mm. ii half-title verso blank ii vignette title-page verso blank ii translator's preface vi advertisement iv contents x list of subscribers ii dedication vi author's preface ii French translators' preface 3-280; iii-xii; 1-3 4-238; 1 half title vol II. part II verso blank 239-444; iii-iv title-page verso blank v-xii contents 1-252; 2 half title vol III. part III 253-437 1 blank 1-xi index 1 blank pp. Complete with 174 engraved plates after Rubens Fuseli Bartlozzi and Blake. Bound ca. 1830 in full dark green diced calf covers with double ruled gilt line and decorative corner-pieces in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front paste-down of each volume. Some light foxing and offsetting throughout but still an incredible set of this landmark work. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Johann Caspar Lavater 1741 - 1801 "was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists a class of pseudo-scientists who attempted to ascertain character on the basis of physical features.Von der Physiognomik 1772 an unillustrated two-volume book was Lavater's first work on the subject; this was later expanded with the help of Goethe into the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente 1775 - 1778 and further perfected in a French translation Essais sur la physiognomie 1781.supervised by Lavater himself. Lavater's physiognomy differed from those of his predecessors in that he paid special attention to the structure of the head particularly the forehead - a form of psychological indexing that exerted some influence on the development of phrenology and brain localization theories in the early nineteenth century. Lavater's work also influenced artists of the period both in the overall creation of portraits and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings" Norman Library. Among the portraits included in Essays on Physiognomy are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. <br /> <br /> Osler 3178. Near Fine. Printed for John Murray unknown
97634London: Creatively Recycled Empire Limited 2010. Edition of 25. Signed in marker pen lower right by Blake numbered lower left. 10 spot colour lithograph on 56% recycled tinplate. Sheet size: 81 x 62 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black box frame with UV conservation glass. unknown
111844London: Creatively Recycled Empire Limited 2010. Edition of 25. Signed in marker pen lower right by Blake numbered lower left. 10 spot colour lithograph on 56% recycled tinplate. Sheet size: 81 x 62 cm. Framed size: 86.3 x 67.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black box frame with UV conservation glass. unknown
1982355490723738London: Cape 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. London: Jonathan Cape 1982. First UK Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED WITHOUT DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Publisher's grey boards with gold lettering to the spine. A VG copy which has been read bumping to corners pushing/softening to spine ends the usual toning to the page block foxing to the rear end-papers; no inscriptions. The price-clipped dustwrapper is VG with a couple of short closed tears to the top-edge of the front panel together with an associated crease. Inscribed by the Author in green felt tip to the front free end-paper: "with love/ Roald Dahl/ 1982". This book has an interesting provenance as it was given away as a prize in February 1983 by the School Bookshop Association in their Phizzwizard Competition. The prize-winning letter is included. The basis for the 2016 film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg written by Melissa Mathison and starring Mark Rylance Ruby Barnhill Penelope Wilton Jemaine Clement Rebecca Hall Rafe Spall and Bill Hader. Photographs/scans available upon request. Cape hardcover
196632459AB1966. First Edition. London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1966. Large Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Disraeli XXIV 1 819 pages with 16 illustrations and two maps within the text. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth without the dustjacket Price includes the preparation of a custom-made clamshell-box for the buyer of this extremely rare book. Private giftinscription on endpaper. Binding a bit fragile and rear gutter starting. Boards slightly stained and a bit grubby. Still in very good condition. Interior very clean. This is one of the rare opportunities to buy this Magnus Opus in a signed version which is nearly impossible to find ! Signed and dated by Baron Blake on the titlepage: "Robert Blake - March 31st 1970". Robert Norman William Blake Baron Blake FBA FRSL 23 December 1916 20 September 2003 was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures. Robert Blake was born in Brundall Norwich the elder son of William Joseph Blake a schoolmaster and of Norah Lindley Blake née Daynes the daughter of a leading Norwich solicitor. The family firm was Daynes Hill & Perks subsequently acquired by Eversheds. He was said to be related to Admiral Robert Blake of the Parliamentary navy. Blake was educated at a dame school in Brundall; King Edward VI's Norwich School where his father taught History; and Magdalen College Oxford where he was an Eldon Law Scholar. He graduated from Oxford with a First in Modern Greats and a hockey Blue. One of his contemporaries at Oxford was Sir Keith Joseph. Blake had planned to go to the bar. However when the Second World War broke out he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery turning down an offer from a friend to join MI5. He was taken prisoner at the Siege of Tobruk in 1942 escaped from Italy in 1944 and was mentioned in despatches. He worked for MI6 from 1944 to 1946 where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. In 1947 he became a student fellow and tutor in Politics at Christ Church Oxford replacing Lord Pakenham who had joined Clement Attlee's government. His first work was an edition of the papers of Douglas Haig which did much to restore Haig's reputation. It was followed by a biography of Bonar Law written at the invitation of Lord Beaverbrook Law's executor. Blake's most famous work is his 1966 Disraeli a biography of Benjamin Disraeli which has been variously described as "the best single-volume biography of any British prime minister" and "the best biography of anyone in any language". He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy the following year. Having abandoned a project for a biography of Lord Derby in 1970 he published The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill a general history of the Conservative Party based on his 1968 Ford Lectures. The work was later extended to cover the period up to the premiership of Margaret Thatcher and later that of John Major. In 1968 he was elected provost of The Queen's College Oxford a post he retained until retirement in 1987. On 17 May 1971 on the recommendation of the Prime Minister Edward Heath Blake was created a life peer as Baron Blake of Braydeston in the County of Norfolk. In the House of Lords he took the Conservative whip. In 1972 he moved the address in reply to the Queen's Speech. His History of Rhodesia 1977 is according to Kenneth O. Morgan "essentially a study of white rule ending with sharp comments on the illegal breakaway regime of Ian Smith where Blake's views were much influenced by his friendship with the liberal Garfield Todd and his daughter". It makes interesting reading in conjunction with the less critical Rainbow on the Zambezi 1953 by Don Taylor. In 1987 Lord Blake was nominated in the election for the Oxford Chancellorship but lost to Roy Jenkins although polling ahead of Edward Heath. Blake was hurt by the fact that the Cabinet had decided to endorse Heath and became withdrawn from Oxford. In 1990 he was one of the leading historians behind the setting up of the History Curriculum Association. The Association advocated a more knowledge-based history curriculum in schools. It expressed "profound disquiet" at the way history was being taught in the classroom and observed that the integrity of history was threatened. In 1992 Blake gave the centenary Romanes Lecture on "Gladstone Disraeli and Queen Victoria". Blake was for many years Senior Member the University don responsible for ruling on internal disputes such as accusations of electoral malpractice of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Wikipedia hardcover
1959494<p>N.P.: Printed for the Print Club of Philadelphia 1959; 8vo. Fabriano paper wrappers leather and grey paper portfolio with additional set of engravings; 15 pages. Book # 494</p><p>One of 250 numbered copies of which this is one of 40 copies signed by Baskin and bound thus and include an additional suite of prints printed on Japanese vellum each also signed and printed at his Gehenna Press. Brook no.20. Fine in slightly worn and slanted portfolio box with an inscription by Leonard Baskin in pencil on the front fly-leaf: "For the Lubells on the odd occasion of my first visit to Tulsa. 1985." Exquisitely printed with striking title page done in red and black.</p> Printed for the Print Club of Philadelphia
1884303008Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch 1884. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Full green straight-grain morocco covers gilt with triple gilt fillets spines lettered in gilt within decorative framing lines board edges gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Faint wear to extremities else fine; probably the publisher's special binding. One of 50 copies. Hand-colored facsimile by William Muir. With 11 hand-colored plates bound without wrappers or the preface addressed to Muir's patron. 1 vols. 4to. Keynes 217c; Bentley pp. 28-9 John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch unknown
18084613London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek 1808. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto pages 275 x 340mm: xvi 36 4 prospectus; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase.<br /> <br /> A blank verse poem The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805 William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs.In a second prospectus also from November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and 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" William Blake Archive. Near Fine. Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek unknown
1787024881London: J. Cooke 1787 Undated but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt spine labels rubbed & worn rebacked with original spines laid-down hinges slackening cloth tape strengthening to hinges both volumes some chipping to leather amateurish repairs internally clean & complete; pp. iv 1-460 with frontispiece 94 plates full-page 1/2 page &1/4 page on 51 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 1 full page; ii title last blank 461-990 page 663 erroneously labelled 635 4 list of Subscribers misbound between p.988 & 989 2 Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts with 70 plates full-page & 1/2 page on 39 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 10 full page see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8 October 1971 for a history of the book highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions. Very heavy set 9 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue intact but would benefit from some restoration. Ex-libris Charles Scobie ANARE Macquarie Island 1948 with his ownership signature and date 29-5-1941 to rear pastedown. First Edition. Hard Cover. G. J. Cooke hardcover
17841046721784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784-1785. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. <br /> <br /> § Only edition. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. unknown
19852040SF: The California Nature Conservancy / U California P. 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. The Grizzly Edition one of only 60 copies specially bound in cloth and quarter calf signed by the photographer Tupper Ansel Blake and including a rear portfolio of wildlife sketches drawn specifically for this production by Charles Schwartz. The book profiles in photography and writing the major California wilderness regions and describes their habitats and wildlife. Biologist A. Starker Leopold Aldo Leopold's oldest son provides the text; as the foreword and preface describe he died midway into the project after completing five chapters and his student Raymond F. Dasmann stepped in to curate other material he'd previously written to fill in the rest. Starker Leopold was an important wildlife biologist and conservationist who for thirty years a professor in the Zoology Conservation and Forestry departments at UC Berkeley. His book s Wildlife of Mexico and The California Quail were both winners of the Wildlife Society Publication of the Year Award. Charles Schwartz was a longtime friend of the Leopold family and did the illustrations for A Sand County Almanac. An oversized oblong quarto coffee-table style bound in brown calf with gilt lettering to spine and gilt trim an embossed grizzly footprint on front grizzly the California state mammal and flag emblem. Calf also at the outer extent of each board with beige cloth in between. Glossy pages in the interior with color photos throughout. A selected list of A. Starker Leopold's writing at finish and one senses this volume with Schwartz's contribution stands as a quiet memorial to him. Schwartz's black and white prints are held in a folio attached to the inner rear board; the prints are in fine condition. The book is very good just on account of a few spots of foxing to the front board's cloth; otherwise fine. In a very good or better paper board slipcase with minor rubbing and one very small tear a the lower left corner of its opening. A wonderful item. The California Nature Conservancy / U California P. hardcover
19561067961956. Northampton Mass.: Gehenna Press 1956. <br /> <br /> Small 4to 11 inc. the first blankpp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers very good.<br /> <br /> § "Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press in Northampton Mass." This is copy number "X" which indicates a proof copy since the edition was issued in a quarter morocco binding and this copy is unbound. Six copies are recorded on WorldCat to which add Toronto Fisher Library and Essick CA. Leonard Baskin's note from the Bibliography: "This was the last book which was made with my hands that cessation a benefaction since I was a compositor & pressman of no distinction. This book is an homage to Blake & the dear youths who plied him with honour in his late age. My increased skill in woodengraving is here made manifest & a pattern for a kind of Gehenna Press book makes its beginning here; an introduction succeeded by a series of prints. The title-page reveals the novice's poking into historical sources & exemplars.". unknown
1885303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley 249b unknown
179143999London: J. Johnson 1791. <p>Darwin Erasmus 1731-1802. The botanic garden: A poem in two parts . . . 4to. xii 214 126 2; 2 ix 197 1pp. General title-leaf misbound before title-leaf to Part II. 20 engraved plates including 5 by William Blake 1757-1827; 2 of the plates are after drawings by John Henry Fuseli 1741-1825. London: J. Johnson 1791. 275 x 207 mm. Half calf gilt marbled boards in period style. Minor foxing and offsetting small marginal stains on two or three plates not affecting the images marginal tears in signature S and one plate repaired but very good. </p> <p> First Edition of Part I; third edition of Part II containing two more plates than the first edition of 1789. Darwin's first major literary work and the chief source of his fame during his lifetime. "The Botanic Garden an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited 'to entertain and charm.' The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science . . . to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany . . . and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus'" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Botanic Garden is also important for the five plates in Vol. I engraved by William Blake: four engravings of the Portland vase and the "Fertilization of Egypt" after a design by Fuseli. Keynes Blake 103. King-Hele Erasmus Darwin pp. 97-119. </p> . J. Johnson unknown
