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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
1973CNJL1048London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Number 340 of 750 quarto size unpaginated. "The Book of Ahania" is one of Blake's lesser-known works and is generally agreed to be a continuation of "The Book of Urizen" with Ahania being the feminine manifestation of Urizen signifying pleasure. According to Geoffrey Keynes' Description this text " .along with "The Book of Los" were some of the last of the series of Illuminated Books completed by Blake while living in Lambeth. The manner of their execution suggest that he was wearying with the effort of making the splendid books that preceded them and was seeking for a less laborious method of production. Blake completed only one copy of each book and then laid them aside as if dissatisfied with his experiment. He never included either of them in any list of his productions and is not known to have disposed of them to any customer or patron. They therefore remained unknown until late in the nineteenth century." <br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 is arguably the most original and highly-regarded English author - unusual in that he excelled both as an author and an artist. Although thought mad by his contemporaries he was held in high regard for his expressiveness and for the synthesis of philosophical and mystical senses within his work. Blake's work has been spectacularly reproduced through the pochoir technique by Arnold Fawcus and his Trianon Press which has an undeniable claim to being the finest press of its kind in the last century and has long been known for their unrivaled artworks in fine colour printing. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter blue morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrip lettered in gilt six colour plates reproduced by the collotype and pochoir process printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake; quarto size 11.5" by 9.25" unpaginated 6 plates and 5 pp. commentary limited edition no. 340 of 750 of the regular edition with 808 total copies. Housed in publisher's slipcase covered with the same hand-marbled paper with matching morocco guards at the head and tail of the backstrip. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean with only a hint of age-toning to backstrips corners are straight text block is tight and square; overall a fine copy. Slipcase is fine bright and clean with no shelfwear; a fine example. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Bentley Blake Books no. A15. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust hardcover books
1970CNJL1045London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Number 381 of 600 folio size unpaginated 28 pp. "William Blake's early tractate 'All Religions are One' consists of ten small etched plates averaging in size only about 5.5 x 4 cm. There is some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced though it is generally accepted that is must belong to a period of experimentation in the production of the plates for the Illuminated Books." n.b. from the book's notes. <br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 is arguably the most original and highly regarded English author - unusual in that he excelled both as an author and an artist. Although thought mad by his contemporaries he was also held in high regard for his expressiveness and for the synthesis of philosophical and mystical senses within his work. Blake's work has been spectacularly reproduced through the pochoir technique by Arnold Fawcus and his Trianon Press which has an undeniable claim to being the finest press of its kind in the last century and has long been known for their unrivaled artworks in fine colour printing. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter green morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrip lettered in gilt ten plates reproduced by the collotype process printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake; folio size 12" by 9.25" unpaginated with 28 pp. limited edition this no. 381 of 600 of the regular editions 662 total editions. Housed in publisher's slipcase of marbled paper with morocco guards at head and tail of opening. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is in fine condition internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean except for somem sunning to the backstrip corners are straight text block is square and tight; slipcase is in fine condition strong and sturdy with very minor wear to guards otherwise bright and clean. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Bentley Blake Books no. 5. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust hardcover books
1972CNJL1047London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Two volumes number 522 of 540 folio and octavo sizes unpaginated 21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary. "There is No Natural Religion" is a series of gnomic aphorisms written in 1788. The plates were made by relief etching on copper and are among Blake's earliest experiments in this method of etching for his illuminated books. The different states slightly vary in the order of the plates with copy L Series b considered to be Blake's first Illuminated Book. The text as described by Geoffrey Keynes in his description ".state Blake's belief in the spiritual and mystical nature of man and the unreality of vegetable existence and reason. In the first series he has stated and reiterated the inadequacy of regarding man as a creature limited in his perceptions by his natural organs. The idea of a 'natural' religion such as might have been satisfied by his Deist friends Paine Priestly and Godwin is therefore discarded as absurd. In the second series Blake has restated in the first Proposition the essence of the first series and has then proceeded to elaborate the effect that such mental limitation would have on its possessor. He would be filled with loathing and despair seeing nothing beyond himself performing the same dull round over and over again. Man is saved by his poetic or 'prophetic' faculties. These make his desires infinite not bounded by his natural organs allowing Blake to end with the triumphant cry of the mystic announcing his identity with God." <br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 is arguably the most original and highly regarded English author - unusual in that he excelled both as an author and an artist. Although thought mad by his contemporaries he was held in high regard for his expressiveness and for the synthesis of philosophical and mystical senses within his work. Blake's work has been spectacularly reproduced through the pochoir technique by Arnold Fawcus and his Trianon Press which has an undeniable claim to being the finest press of its kind in the last century and has long been known for their unrivaled artworks in fine colour printing. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Two volumes both in original quarter brown morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrips lettered in gilt twenty-one plates twenty of which were reproduced by colour collotype with water-color washes by hand through stencil and one monochrome engraving printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake each page is watermarked with Blake's monogram; the larger of the two volumes is folio size 12" by 9.38 and the smaller octavo size 7.25" by 5" unpaginated 21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary limited edition no. 522 of 540 of the regular editions 616 copies total. Both volumes housed in a single publisher's slipcase covered with the same hand-marbled paper.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy both volumes are internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean with only a hint of age-toning to backstrips corners are straight text block is tight and square; overall a fine copy. Slipcase is near fine overall clean and bright with a bit of shelfwear at edges and some minor chips at the opening; overall a fine example. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Bentley Blake Books 202. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust hardcover books
1976CNJL1042London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Number 113 of 480 quarto size unpaginated 5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary. "The Book of Los" published in 1795 is one of Blake's prophetic books a sort of retelling of "Urizen" from the perspective of the character "Los". "The Book of Ahania" along with "The Book of Los" were some of the last of the series of Illuminated Books completed by Blake while living in Lambeth. The manner of their execution suggest that he was wearying with the effort of making the splendid books that preceded them and was seeking for a less laborious method of production. He completed only one copy of each book and then laid them aside as if dissatisfied with his experiment. He never included either of them in any list of his productions and is not known to have disposed of them to any customer or patron. They therefore remained unknown until late in the nineteenth century. <br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 is arguably the most original and highly regarded English author - unusual in that he excelled both as an author and an artist. Although thought mad by his contemporaries he was held in high regard for his expressiveness and for the synthesis of philosophical and mystical senses within his work. Blake's work has been spectacularly reproduced through the pochoir technique by Arnold Fawcus and his Trianon Press which has an undeniable claim to being the finest press of its kind in the last century and has long been known for their unrivaled artworks in fine colour printing. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter adobe-brown morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrip lettered in gilt 5 plates reproduced by the collotype and pochoir processes printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake paper is watermarked with Blake's monogram; quarto size 12" by 9.75" unpaginated 5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary limited edition no. 113 of 480 with 538 total copies. Housed in publisher's slipcase covered with the same hand-marbled paper with leather guards on the head and tail of the opening. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean corners are straight text block is tight and square; overall a fine copy. Slipcase is also fine clean and free of chips or toning; a beautiful example.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust hardcover books
19552263972New York: The Beechhurst Press 1955. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition one of 2500 copies. Errata slip laid in. 1955 Full-Leather. xiv 115 3 100 4 pp. The last book by the pioneering English poet and engraver William Blake etched in handwriting with accompanying sketches marginal figures and full-page illustrations. Finely bound in full crimson leather gilt titles and rules top edge gilt marbled endpapers. From the limitation page: "This is the first complete edition containing the text of Jerusalem in letter press with a facsimile of the engraved book. The facsimile of the 'Rinder' copy of Jerusalem was printed in deep etched gravure by Aulard & Cie. master printers in Paris. The frontispiece was reproduced in collotype by Daniel Jacomet & Cie. Paris. The book was designed by Arnold Fawcus and printed in 1952 by Berthod & Cie. Bourg Ain. The Beechhurst Press 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
1927105940Small 4to. London: The Scholartis Press 1927. Small 4to xxiv 86pp. Quarter-cloth with patterned boards. Bottom edgewear with bumping and wear to corners. Sun fading to backstrip. Lacking dust jacket. Pages untrimmed along bottom. Very good. § First edition with an introduction by Eric Partridge to Blake’s lyrical poetry. A pleasing piece of bookmaking with the feel of a private press book. Bentley BB 133. The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1978292594Boulder: Shambhala 1978. hardcover. fine/fine. William Blake. Edited with a Commentary by Kay Parkhurst Easson and Roger R. Easson. 28 color plates 102pp. 8vo cloth-backed boards. Boulder: Shabhala 1978. Fine.<br/><br/> Shambhala unknown books
20096633London: William Blake Trust 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase and Fine Portfolio. Tight bright and unmarred. Black cloth red leather matching slipcase gilt lettering. Small fo. Illus. color plates. <br/><br/>"Bound in gilt-lettered quarter deep scarlet calf over black moiré silk covered boards deep scarlet leather label blocked in gilt to the centre of the upper board; 96pp. illustrated throughout with colour and b/w reproductions of Blake's drawings and watercolours. Contents: Morton D. Paley William Blake and Robert Blair's 'The Grave'. Martin Butlin The History of Blake's Illustrations to 'The Grave' and The Newly Discovered Water-colours. Blake's twenty watercolour designs with a Catalogue and illustrated Commentaries by Martin Butlin. Robert Blair's The Grave from Cromek's edition 1808. Schiavonetti's engravings of twelve of Blake's designs from the 1808 edition. Blake's rejected engraving of 'Death's Door'. Printed throughout in black and white and colour on 200 gsm archival acid-free paper. With A portfolio 35x28x2.8 cm bound in maroon calf with tongue-and-strap closure blocked in gold flap blind-embossed with double rule border lined in red; all in close replication of the portfolio made sometime after 1822 to contain: 19 of 20 watercolour inventions by Blake in illustration of Blair's The Grave mounted on thick beige paper within ruled and tinted borders and trimmed to 33.3x26.7 cm; here reproduced in facsimile. One of 36 copies of the Portfolio Plates and Book in cloth-covered double slipcase numbered I-XXXVI." William Blake Trust hardcover books
196321229Oxford: Clarendon Press 1963. Hardcover. Very good/good. Large folio pp xviii 220 with 142 pages of plates. Grey cloth boards show minor surface wear. Binding sound text clean. Dust jacket has chipping a few short tears. Due to size shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Includes a complete transcript of the text and detailed study of the illustrations. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1927WRCLIT70604London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. Quarto. Quarter vellum and marbled boards. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Forecorners a bit bruised slight mottling to the vellum side panels otherwise a very good copy in later plain slipcase. First edition issued in an edition of 1480 numbered copies separate from but uniform in format with the Keynes Collected Works published by the Press two years earlier. With A.E. Newton's Oak Knoll bookplate tipped to the front pastedown. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1932WRCLIT30855New York: Cape and Ballou 1932. Cloth. Frontis. First U.S. edition. Spine gilding oxidized faint damp mark on lower cover else good or better in a tattered dust jacket. Cape and Ballou 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
