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1797104599Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 27/28 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
1797104586Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 23/24 with 2 full-page engravings 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
1797104622Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 89/90 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
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
1938WRCLIT17792San Marino: The Huntington Library 1938. Cloth and boards paper labels. 24 plates. First edition. Printed at the Plantin Press. Spine a bit darkened and rubbed tiny ink shelf number in corner of endsheet else a very good copy. The Huntington Library hardcover books
1964WRCLIT63634Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press 1964. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with a quarter-sized paper scrape at the top of the rear panel. First edition. The authoritative reference to its time listing over two thousand titles with sub-entries for different editions in the primary and secondary literature with annotations. University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
1922WRCLIT37872London: The Studio Ltd. 1922. Quarto. Quarter gilt parchment and boards t.e.g. Illustrated with one hundred and four plates a number in color. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. First edition trade issue. As usual the backstrip is a trifle bowed there are three bruises to the fore-edge of the lower board but otherwise a very good copy. The Studio, Ltd. hardcover books
1926WRCLIT55322London: Macmillan 1926. viii1982pp. Cloth. Lower fore corners bumped slight cracking at gutter after half-title bookseller label to rear pastedown fore-edge foxed offset from endsheets to facing pages else very good without a dust jacket. First edition published in Macmillan's English Men of Letters series edited by J. C. Squire. BENTLEY & NURMI 973. Macmillan hardcover books
1845WRCLIT82289Boston: T.H. Carter and Company 1845. viii951pp. 12mo 12 x 10 cm. Gilt cloth a.e.g spine gilt extra. Colored frontis. Decorations and plates. Some mild spotting to upper cover minor foxing spot of browning in upper margin of title; 19th century bookplate on pastedown and pencil gift inscriptions otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this annual assembled by Mrs. Colman and published with her husband under their subsidiary Boston imprint. Mrs. Colman an active Swedenborgian has come under recent academic scrutiny due to her early republishing of verse and adapted artworks by William Blake in her annuals and periodicals: "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found" in the case of this work. Oddly uncommon -- OCLC locates only 7 copies. BENTLEY & NURMI 223. Deck Raymond H. Jr: "An American Original ." BLAKE AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY XI:1 Summer 1977 pp. 4-18. OCLC: 40971715. T.H. Carter and Company hardcover books
1978WRCLIT63942Los Angeles: Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady 1978. Quarto. Parchment backed boards paper label. Frontis and plates. A bit of sunning and a few stray marks to boards bookplate on pastedown otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh in Bulmer types on Rives paper. Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady hardcover books
19691006218vo. San Marino California: The Huntington Library 1969. 8vo 55pp. plus 38 plates in rear. Quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Label pasted to backstrip. “Roger Easson†in pencil to front paste down. A very good copy. § Second Edition Third Printing. Bentley Blake Books 646 C. The Huntington Library hardcover books
19381006228vo. San Marino California: The Huntington Library 1938. 8vo 42pp. plus 24 plates in rear. Quarter cloth with brown paper-covered boards. Label pasted to front cover and backstrip. A very good copy. § First of several printings a very good copy. Bentley Blake Books 646A. The Huntington Library hardcover books
19471006198vo. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 8vo 40pp. plus 42 monochrome plates at rear. Errata pasted to title page. Pictorial wraps. Water damaged with some plates stuck together. Fair. § Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery organized by the British Council also to be shown in Paris Antwerp and Zurich. Tate Gallery paperback books
19471006188vo. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 8vo 40pp. plus 42 monochrome plates at rear. Errata pasted to title page. Pictorial wraps. Water damaged with some plates stuck together. Fair. § Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery organized by the British Council also to be shown in Paris Antwerp and Zurich. Tate Gallery paperback books
1895WRCLIT73094London: Seeley and Co. 1895. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Frontis plates and illustrations. Spine severely chipped but internally very good the whole suitable for rebinding. First edition published as Whole Number 22 of THE PORTFOLIO. Commended by Bentley and Nurmi. BENTLEY & NURMI 1228. Seeley and Co. unknown books
1880WRCLIT82179London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. Two volumes. Large thick octavos. Original navy blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt after a pictorial design by Rossetti. Portraits plates and illustrations. Two bookplates in each volume otherwise a fine bright partially unopened set in the rare pictorial dust wrappers that for volume one split up the upper joint with small chips at toe and crown of upper joint and another about half- way up the joint not affecting design and that for volume two with a shallow loss along the lower edge of the front panel and a small chip from the blank area of the toe of the upper joint. Preserved in a fleece lined folding cloth slipcase. Second and best edition enlarged with additional letters and a memoir of the author. The earlier of the bookplates are tipped to each free endsheet; the later bookplates are those of the Garden Library affixed to each pastedown. One of the great late 19th century pictorial bindings very seldom encountered in the pictorial dust jackets which replicate the binding design. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1964WRCLIT29572New York: The Orion Press 1964. Large quarto. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Heavily illustrated in color. First trade printing based on the limited Trianon Press printing of the same year. A fine copy in very good dust jacket a couple smudges to jacket flaps and the original slipcase. The Orion Press hardcover books
1969WRCLIT63281New York: Kraus Reprint Co. 1969. xvi516pp. Large thick quarto. Cloth. Plates and facsimiles. Photo-offset facsimile reprint of the 1921 first edition published by the Grolier Club. Some rubbing to spine otherwise a very good copy without dust jacket as issued. Kraus Reprint Co. hardcover books
1921WRCLIT62934New York: The Grolier Club 1921. xvi516pp. plus inserted plates. Large thick quarto. Publisher's quarter pebbled morocco and cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Some rubbing to spine joints and extremities bookplate a few thin scratches and flecks to boards otherwise a very good copy. First edition. One of 250 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. For its times a monument both to bibliography and to book production. Heavily illustrated including four plates in color and with significant primary material published here for the first time. The Grolier Club hardcover books
1945WRCLIT81375London: Faber and Faber 1945. 24pp. Large quarto. Sewn decorated wrapper. Small nick toward top of front wrapper fore-edge small chip at crown of spine light corner bumps but a very good copy in chipped and split remnants of the impossibly fragile dust jacket. First edition. A selection of ten tipped-in color plates attended by Keynes' introduction and comments about each plate. The copy bears Keynes's presentation inscription on the title-page: "Graham Robertson from Geoffrey Keynes" and exhibits a correction in ink by Keynes in the text on p.24. There is another correction in pencil on p. 4 in another hand. A good association copy joining one of the great Blake collectors with one of Blake's primary scholar/editors. Robertson turns up among Keynes's friends for mention in THE GATES OF MEMORY 1981 pp102-3 and the Robertson estate as executed by Kerrison Preston gave the Blake Trust a substantial endowment to aid in its launch. With the signature of the recipient's executor "K. Preston" on the front panel of the dust jacket. Faber and Faber unknown books
1968WRCLIT51599Princeton: Bollingen Series XXXV:11 / Princeton University Press 1968. Two volumes. Quarto. Plates and illustrations. First edition of this essential work based on Raine's 1962 Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. About fine in very good spine darkened dust jackets with small nicks and chips at head and toe of spine panels and faintly soiled and irregularly sunned slipcase. Bollingen Series XXXV:11 / Princeton University Press unknown books
1969WRCLIT78039Princeton: Princeton Univ. Library 1969. Marbled wrappers paper label. Black & white plates. Preface by Ryskamp introductory essay by Geoffrey Keynes. A descriptive exhibition catalogue created for the Princeton University Library's December 1969 through February 1970 William Blake exhibition. Near fine. Princeton Univ. Library unknown books
1946WRCLIT30854New York: Henry Holt 1946. Thick octavo. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Pencil ownership signature of F.A. Pottle. Light shelf-wear to bottom edge else very good in a lightly spine-sunned dust jacket with a couple of short tears to the head and toe of the spine and light wear to the corners. Henry Holt hardcover books
1971WRCLIT45413Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1971. Quarto. Gilt green cloth. Color frontis and numerous b/w facsimile plates from the Mellon copy. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1942WRCLIT81562Edinburgh 1942. 2pp. very densely typed on recto and verso. of octavo air lettersheet. Partial break at horizontal fold not affecting text otherwise very good. Poet novelist and editor Todd writes to Prof. Tinker following up on the possibility that the copy of his edition of Gilchrist's LIFE he sent to him "may be edifying the fish at the bottom of the Atlantic" and continues on in great detail about the success of the edition and expands to encompass all of his then ongoing Blake projects with passing mention of Edwin Wolf Lessing Rosenwald Graham Robertson Geoffrey Keynes and details about his ongoing work compiling a catalogue of Blake's work. In excess of 700 words. unknown books
