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42249Lavenham: The William Blake Trust 2009. Limited edition one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 150 copies. Folio. 95 1 pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board slipcase in matching moiré silk. Illustrated in colour and black and white; slipcase also housing a matching red full calf portfolio enclosing a card wallet holding fine reproductions of Blake's original watercolours mounted on card as per the originals. Just some slight dustiness to the slipcase a sumptuous production. An out-of-series set marked as such on the watercolours wallet being John Commander's own copy. Although not inscribed by him directly the set was acquired from Commander's estate. Loosely inserted is a 12 page typescript of a review of the work by his fellow Blake scholar Robert N. Essick with Commander's pencilled annotations at intervals concerning some of Essick's observations. Also enclosed is an original 6" x 4" colour photograph captioned in pencil on the rear "John Commander Bob Essick Detto unknown" dated "October 21 1991". Commander spent his life in publishing and for many years headed the Scolar Press. An expert on Blake he was heavily involved in the refounding of the William Blake Trust and was appointed as secretary and executive director of the organisation. He also wrote about Blake and is credited with the design and production of this work on the verso of the title page. The story of the origins and subsequent disappearance of William Blake's designs for "The Grave" are long and complicated. Blake had been commissioned by Robert Hartley Cromek to produce illustrations for Blair's poem in late 1805 intending for a published edition. Blake assumed he would also be employed to engrave the images and be paid accordingly. However Cromek had other ideas and gave the work to the Italian engraver Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti. Various miscommunications and provocations ensued causing Blake and Cromek to fall out. The published work eventually appeared in 1808 and Cromek passed away four years later at the age of 42. The whereabouts of Blake's designs for the next two decades are broadly known but after their sale in 1836 they completely disappeared. Nineteen of the watercolours in their original red portfolio reproduced faithfully here eventually turned up in Glasgow in 2001. Originally offered for sale together as a collection the ownership passed to a London art dealer who failed to find a buyer. They were subsequently individually lotted up including the case and sold at Sotheby's New York in 2006. Now split between "four different countries and two continents" the auction was the last time the collection was held in one place. Lavenham: The William Blake Trust unknown
18051277681805. BLAKE William HAYLEY William. Ballads founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. London: Richard Phillips 1805. Octavo early 20th-century full blue morocco raised bands elaborately gilt-decorated spine top edge gilt uncut. $6000.Expanded second editionthe only obtainable editionof this poetry collection with five engravings by William Blake handsomely bound by Bedford.""These Ballads were originally intended to have been issued separately in fifteen quarto parts with numerous illustrations by Blake and for the benefit of the artist. Four parts were issued in 1802 but the series did not meet with success and was discontinued. Later it was arranged to issue them in the present again for Blake's benefit"" Keynes. This 1805 edition is an expanded version with additional poems of the extremely rare 1802 first edition which last appeared at auction 70 years ago. Blake reengraved the first three plates and added two more to illustrated the additional poems. The first three plates are in first state. Easson & Essick 41-44. Bookplates.Fine condition. hardcover
198186297Centre / 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 . Centre / Yale University Press hardcover
2009107742Folio. N. P.: The William Blake Trust 2009. Folio 95pp. Original quarter-maroon calf with black moiré silk-covered boards with gilt lettered maroon-morocco label to top board backstrip likewise stamped in gilt; portfolio in full maroon calf containing 19 watercolors reproduced in facsimile mounted within framing lines on heavy beige paper black moiré silk-covered double slipcase; illustrated throughout with color reproductions of watercolor drawings as well as engravings. As new. § Copy XXXV of the de luxe edition limited to 36 copies. The entire edition is out of print. From the announcement: “These watercolor designs which disappeared from the public eye from 1836-2001 came to light in a Glasgow bookshop and were later offered as an entity to institutions and collectors at a price which as it turned out none could afford or at least was prepared to pay. Eventually in the face of much protest the portfolio and the 19 designs were offered for sale in 20 separate lots at Sotheby’s New York in 2006. The drawings are now widely dispersed and it is most unlikely that they will ever again be seen together.†The sale was roundly condemned at the time as an act of cultural crime. This book and the facsimile portfolio are now the only record we will ever have of the original series. Happily the Blake Trust created a superb book which is and will surely remain the single most valuable reference work on these remarkable Blake drawings. The William Blake Trust hardcover books
18851088034to. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 4to 1p.preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p.appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards with the bookplate of H.C.Plimmer. Very good with tissue guards as issued. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 2. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley BB #249e. William Muir hardcover books
18851228914to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers stitched as issued a fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 40. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
18851074264to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into full mottled calf red morocco vertical label on backstrip; upper hinge split but holding internally a very fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 31. Blake's prophetic book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is known in only twelve copies; Muir's facsimile reproduces copy A now owned by Harvard. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. "Through the voice of the "Devil" Blake parodies and attacks the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg the cosmology and ethics of Milton's Paradise Lost and biblical history and morality as constructed by the "Angels" of the established church and state. Energy and passion are positively valorized; reason and temperance are characterized as restraints on spiritual insight and self-expression" The William Blake Archive. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
1885123394Sm. London: Muir 1885. Sm. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. once badly stained in the margins now washed and cleaned by Court Benson. New brown cloth upper cover lettered in gilt. § The extremely rare variant of the superb Muir facsimile limited to maybe 5 copies; only two copies ever offered for sale are recorded by Essick this copy and the Essick copy. Reproduces the Fitzwilliam Cambridge copy I they have three very different copies of which there is only the Dent trade reproduction and this one. Muir has noted this in manuscript in the preface crossing out the reference to copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. Inscribed by Muir: "This copy is coloured after the Original in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. W Muir". “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e and 249h "On Homer's Poetry"; Blake Books Supplement p. 153. Muir hardcover books
51-5393London: Messrs. Boydell & Co. circa 1803-1804 . Folio 31.5 x 43 cm. New half goatskin and marbled boards binding by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. 99 engraved plates a few with marginal defects.Provenance: Presentation copy from Hector John Graham-Toler 2nd Earl of Norbury; b. 27 June 1781 d. 3 January 1839. Hector John Graham-Toler 2nd Earl of Norbury was born on 27 June 1781.1 He was the son of John Toler 1st Earl of Norbury and Grace Graham Baroness Norwood of Knockalton. He married Elizabeth Brabazon daughter of William Brabazon and Elizabeth Phibbs on 1 January 1808. He died on 3 January 1839 at age 57 at Durrow Abbey Tullamore County Offaly Ireland shot dead by his butler.OCLC Number : 82919611.Engraved t.p. partly in script signed: Tomkins script.; Halliwell sculptA descriptive index and alphabetical list of the plates are prefixed. More than half the plates which are dated 1791-1803 are by R. Smirke W. Hamilton R. Westall F. Wheatley and James Northcote with a few each by Reynolds Opie Stothard and others. Among the engravers who contributed most work are James Parker Anker Smith and James HealthOn p. 4: Advertisement. Portrait of the late John Boydell . ; speculated imprint date based on his death date London: Messrs. Boydell & Co., circa 1803-1804 hardcover
130928London: Jonathan Cape 1982. First edition early printing of this Dahl classic which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo original cloth illustrated by Quentin Blake. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page "with love Roald Dahl April 1989." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket bookplate. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of the twentieth century. Dahl's ability to twist words into a clever and creative new language is fascinating to children and is evident in BFG. The gruesome descriptions of the horrid giants and the subtle allusions to other stories will entertain children young and old. An animated adaptation was released in theatres in 1987 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It was also 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. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1960136893Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the detective television series dated variously between 1958 and 1960. Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed with his manuscript name on the front wrapper of each episode.<br /> <br /> 36 scripts contain pink blue white and yellow revision pages many bound separately and laid in at the rear.<br /> <br /> Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the series starring the sophisticated sharp-dressed jazz-loving private eye Peter Gunn played by Craig Stevens. Probably the only television show to ever rival the best films noir of the big screen with minimalist dialogue and bleak open-ended conclusions that challenge even the best of television today. <br /> <br /> Creator Blake Edwards would use the success of the series to jump start his film career going on to direct "Breakfast at Tiffany's" 1961 and the "Pink Panther" film series starring Peter Sellers.<br /> <br /> Noted composer Henry Mancini won an Emmy and two Grammy Awards for the show's well-loved theme song including the first Grammy ever awarded for Album of the Year.<br /> <br /> Scripts in Very Good to Near Fine condition. Mimeograph on eye-rest green or white stock. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1825122290London: William Blake for John Linnell 1825. Fine. London William Blake for John Linnell 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' in fact 1826. An original engraving printed surface 195 × 148 mm plus the credits paper size 377 × 271 mm matted with archival board and behind glass in a simple but apposite polished wooden frame visible image size 237 × 187 mm external dimensions 540 × 448 mm. Paper lightly cockled with a tiny closed tear to the bottom margin of the sheet well clear of the printed surface; essentially in fine condition. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints published 1826 by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier sets of watercolours by Blake on the same subject 1806 and 1821. The engraved "Illustrations" are considered to be Blake's greatest masterpieces in the medium of engraving and were also a rare commercial and critical success for Blake' Wikipedia. Plate 13 quotes Job 38:1-2 and 28 'Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind / Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge . Hath the Rain a Father & Who hath begotten the Drops of the Dew' and Psalms 104:3 'Who maketh the Clouds his Chariot & walketh on the Wings of the Wind'. The Blake authority G.E. Bentley Jr 'Blake Books. Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing .' Clarendon Press 1977 records that 'According to Linnell's "Job" accounts 150 "Proof" sets on India paper watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1825 and 65 on French paper watermarked J WHATMAN 1825 were printed by Lahee in March 1826. Then the word "Proof" was removed from the plates though it is still faintly visible on the copperplates and in some pulls and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper'. The example we have for sale is one of the latter group printed after the word 'Proof' was removed from the original copperplate. William Blake [for John Linnell] unknown
12702London: Jonathan Cape. 1988. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine in dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy the binding square and firm the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing or previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper which remains without fading loss or tears. A beautiful example of one of Dahl's most popular titles. Housed in a bespoke half morocco solander case. Inscribed by Roald Dahl in black ink on the front free endpaper "Johanna / Love / Roald Dahl". Provenance: Signed by Roald Dahl for the previous owner at Waterstones in Bath 1988. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Jonathan Cape. 1988 hardcover
16423London: Jonathan Cape. 1980. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine in dustwrapper. An excellent very near fine copy the binding square and firm with a hint of bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly spine faded dustwrapper which remains without loss or tears and retains the correct £3.50 net publisher's price to the front flap. A lovely copy. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "Best wishes / Roald Dahl / 7 March 1981 underlined" inscribed by the illustrator in black ink on the title page "Best wishes from / Quentin Blake / Dec 1983". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Jonathan Cape. 1980 hardcover
198323841London: Jonathan Cape 1983. First edition first printing. published by Jonathan Cape in London 1983. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has some mild wear to the top and tail of the spine with some slight tearing to the top. There is slight rubbing at the edges. It has not been price clipped. The text blocks are toned and a little foxed at the side and top edges. Accompanied by one of a limited edition of 360 this being 21 published by the Roald Dahl Story Company of Dahl's manuscript for his alternate ending to the book. Designed by Laura Coppolaro the very good folder is a little stained and much of the string is missing. This is exceptionally scarce The "alternate ending" for Roald Dahl's The Witches exists in a special 360-copy edition of the book containing a version where the hero stays a mouse and he and his grandmother become witch hunters. In this version after the witches are defeated he and his grandmother use the Grand High Witch's machine to find and eliminate witches world-wide accepting his short mouse life-span to continue the fight. This is a variation of the book's original darker ending which differs from the happier conclusion of the 1990 movie adaptation. Jonathan Cape unknown
193851427London: Collins Crime Club 1938. 1938. First U.S. edition. Original fine bright orange cloth is tight and square in a bright fresh dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends. The book is divided into three parts. The first section deals with the death of Martie a young boy killed by a hit-and-run driver. The father grieves and blames himself for having sent the boy out at dusk. At the same time he plans to kill the driver if and when he learns the identity. The second section deals with the father coming to grips with his son's death and devotes his energies to tracking down his son's killer. As he searches for the killer he develops a profile of the killer and looks for the right person to fill the bill as driver and killer. He decides upon a man named George Rattery whose life fits the bill of the father's mental picture of the killer. He decides to kill Rattery in a boating accident. Section three reveals that George Rattery is dead by poisoning the father's diary comes to light and the police accuse him of murdering Rattery. He calls in Nigel Strangeways to clear his name. After much investigation Strangeways brings the case to a stunning conclusion. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Highly recommended and an exceptional copy. Housed in a clamshell case with titles stamped in silver on the spine. Collins Crime Club, [1938]. hardcover
180576378Chichester and London:: J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips 1805. First edition. old full straight-grain morocco; gilt spine; all edges gilt. Some inoffensive very slight tanning to a couple of leaves; contents almost entirely clean and fine. Some scuffing to the spine and extremities of the leather but tight sound and attractive. . 12mo. With Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. The five plates are in the first state. Keynes 74. There are two old pencil notes of provenance: one that this copy was in the "Hy. White sale" and the other a 1902 ownership signature. J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips, hardcover
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
1987110738Folio. London: The William Blake Trust 1987. Folio two large slipcases the first housing the text volume and a portfolio of plates including all 21 plates in several states 21 fascicules and the plate-by-plate commentary; the second slipcase houses The Colour Versions of the Book of Job. the text volume and three separate volumes of illustrations all bound in quarter-morocco with marbled paper covered boards with solander boxes fitted inside each slipcase printed on Arches pure rag paper. Near fine overall. § Limited edition number III of LXV numbered copies from a total edition of 387. Illustrations of the Book of Job with essays and commentary from several notable Blake scholars including Charles Ryskamp David Bindman John Commander Geoffrey Keynes Robert Essick Bo Lindberg and Barbara Bryant. The plates are comprised of 22 fascicules including the title-page and 21 plates of Blake's engraved Illustrations of the Book of Job in facsimile of the proof copy lately in the collection of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Each fascicule also contains reproductions of related material together with a plate-by-plate commentary by Bo Lindberg. Colour versions of WIlliam Blake's Book of Job designs. with three portfolios containing "The New Zealand Set" of 21 plates and a title-page "The Collins Set of Coloured Engravings" of 21 plates and a title-page and "Four Coloured Engravings" of plates 11 15 18 and 20 from The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. Plates printed by pochoir method at the Trianon Press Paris under the supervision of the late Arnold Fawcus.A surprisingly hard title to find from the Blake Trust being their last publication until the 2009 issue of “The Grave†watercolors. The edition included a less expensive version of this issue as well as two more elaborate issues. The analysis of the various states of the Job plates and of the coloring of the three colored copies known is not printed anywhere else and thus this set is essential for anyone studying this book surely Blake’s masterpiece of engraving. The William Blake Trust hardcover books
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
