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1813109308e. London: Bensley for Ackermann 1813 i.e. 1870. 4to 2 liv 42 pp. With a portrait frontispiece etched title and 11 plates all with tissue guards. Blind-stamped black cloth rebacked with black cloth lettered in gilt. § Third quarto edition printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Of this version Essick wrote: “I've also seen the true 1813 text and plates in a very similar cloth binding with just a few differences in the blind stamping but very much the same style and period. My theory on that is that Camden Hotten who produced the 1870 issues not only got the copperplates from Ackermann with the Spanish inscriptions for de Mora but also some remainders of the impressions and letterpress and bound these up in a slightly different just the blind stamping and perhaps the cloth color or weave fashion. He removed the Spanish on the coppers and had an engraver restore the 1813 English inscriptions then printed for both the portfolio and the 1870 issue of the text with the engravings. Bentley lists the 1870 issue in Blake Books but I don't believe he lists the portfolio issue of the plates only. I have a vague recollection however that he did note it in one of his later checklists of publications in the Blake Quarterly.†Bentley Blake Books 435E. Bensley for Ackermann hardcover books
18081078254to. London: Bensley for Cromek 1808. 4to xiv 36 4 pp. With a portrait frontispiece after Phillips etched title page and 11 plates engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti after Blake’s designs. Original drab gray boards printed paper label on upper cover preserved in a red cloth box worn. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First quarto edition of exceptional rarity in boards as issued. A completely untrimmed copy thus with the title-page uncropped. Bentley Blake Books 435B. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 465-476."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Bensley for Cromek hardcover books
1903100690Small 8vo. New York: Appleton 1903. Small 8vo original red cloth gilt top printed label chipped with piece missing on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. § Reduced size facsimile following the 1808 edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 H. Appleton hardcover books
1813107840e. London: Bensley for Ackermann 1813 i.e. 1870. 4to plates only without the Frontispiece Death’s Door and The Soul’s Reunion with the Body i.e. etched title and 9 plates. As issued in the original pebbled brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt occasional foxing or oxidization an adequate copy. Includes 22 newspaper clippings from the 10s 20s 30s and 40s all related to Blake a brochure for Cambridge University Press’s An Island in the Moon facsimile a brochure for Scolar Press’s The Grave facsimile and a few other articles. § Third quarto edition printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Bentley Blake Books 435e. Bensley for Ackermann hardcover books
1808123893Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned some residual soiling in the margins and a few flecks in the image. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most powerful images in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107321Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123891Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. One of Blake's most memorable images. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435b."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808109096London: Printed by T. Bensley for R.H. Cromek 1808. Rare first edition subscriber's copy of Robert Blair`s famous poem which initiated a fashion for mortuary poems illustrated with 11 etchings by William Blake. Quarto bound in three quarters morocco marbled endpapers with the famous engraved frontispiece portrait of William Blake after the painting by Phillips engraved title page with 11 additional plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after Blake's drawings designed at the request of Cromek. With the poem dedicated to the Queen by Blake list of subscribers four-page prospectus for the Procession of Chaucer`s Pilgrims to Canterbury by Thomas Stothard at rear. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare and desirable. In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for Robert Blair's Grave from which Cromek planned to select twenty for this deluxe edition of the poem. While The Grave originally appeared in 1743 this 1808 edition was to become famous for its illustrations demonstrating "the rare imaginative power of William Blake" Magnusson 162. A dispute over a preliminary etching "in white-line" called "Death's Door" which Cromek rejected resulted in Blake's being prevented from engraving his own designs so the 12 drawings eventually selected were rendered by Louis Schiavonetti "with a mingled grace and grandeur which won for them a wider popularity. Never has the theme of death been handled in pictorial art with more elevation and beauty" DNB. Printed by T. Bensley for R.H. Cromek unknown books
1963110703Large folio. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1963. Large folio xviii 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover dust jacket worn and with tears and nicks otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley Blake Books 212. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
1963107654Large folio. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1963. Large folio xviii 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover without dust jacket otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley Blake Books 212. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
19671107054to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. 4to 9 94 pp with 25 black and white illustrations. Very good in original beige cloth boards and gilt title with dust-jacket slightly worn. § First edition of this important facsimile. “Tiriel†was the first of Blake’s prophetic books written c. 1789 but never engraved or printed by Blake who was dissatisfied with it. It was first published by W.M. Rossetti in 1874. Bentley BB 204. Clarendon Press hardcover books
19671088444to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. 4to 9 94 pp with 25 black and white illustrations. Very Good in original beige cloth boards and gilt title with dust-jacket slightly frayed at head of spine. § First edition of this important facsimile. “Tiriel†was the first of Blakje’s prophetic books written c. 1789 but never engraved or printed by Blake who was dissatisfied with it. It was first published by W.M. Rossetti in 1874.Bentley BB 204. Clarendon Press hardcover books
107027OUP: 1967. 4to 9 94 pages. Illus. Original cloth dust-jacket a bit soiled and torn § First edition of this important facsimile. Bentley Blake Books 204. 1967. 4to hardcover books
1956106796Small 4to. Northampton Mass.: Gehenna Press 1956. 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. § “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.†Gehenna Press hardcover books
19771105008vo. London: BM Publications Ltd. 1977. 8vo introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper each in an individual folder all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued in the original BM-issued numbered cardboard box; a few prints and mounts are slightly foxed a little musty from storage a couple of spots on the cloth box. § Limited to 150 sets this superb reprinting of Blake’s only woodcuts from the original blocks was executed by Iain Bain the Bewick authority and sold out immediately. Very few sets have since come to market as most were purchased by institutions. The accompanying commentary volume includes an introduction by Lord Clark a technical account of the printing of the blocks by Bain and David Chambers an essay on the engravings by Andrew Wilton and the text of Ambrose Phillip's "Imitation of Virgil's First Eclogue" which the illustrations were made to accompany. Bentley BBS p.262. BM Publications Ltd hardcover books
19581006578vo. London: Sotheby & Co. 1958. 8vo 20pp. plus 10 plates tipped in some in color. Original printed wrappers. Scattered notations in ink on wrappers and pages. With results prices and buyers. Auction date Monday May 19 1958. Very good. § Sotheby & Co unknown books
19581006568vo. London: Sotheby & Co. 1958. 8vo 20pp. plus 10 plates tipped in some in color. Original printed wrappers. Scattered notations in ink. Auction date Monday May 19 1958. Very good. § Sotheby & Co unknown books
100665London: Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge 1924. 8vo 168pp. Color frontispiece of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion lot 116. A second tipped-in plate by Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell lot 115. All Blake lots lots 108-134 with results noted in pencil and some in ink in margins. Wrappers soiled. Water damage to bottom edge and spine. Chipping to spine. Good. § The great MacGeorge collection. Bentley BB 623. Sotheby unknown books
100673New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Inc. 1934. 8vo 67pp. Frontispiece William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion lot 11. Lightly soiled wrappers with some edgewear and chipping. Water damage to spine visible on frontispiece and titlepage. Pages browned. Good. § An important catalogue apparently overlooked by Bentley. American Art Association Anderson Galleries unknown books
100660New York: Christie Manson & Woods International 1977. Large 8vo 115pp. plus numerous tipped-in plates. Includes lot 20 William Blake’s “Illustrations of the Book of Job†with black and white illustration opposite page 25. Printed paper-covered boards with mild wear to extremities. Auction date May 26 1977. List of estimates loosely inserted. Very good. § Christie hardcover books
1977100668Oblong 8vo. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1977. Oblong 8vo 58pp. Illustrated in red printed wrappers. William Blake lots begin on page 24 with 3 reproduced images 2 in color. Estimates bi-fold loosely inserted. Some results noted in ink. Very good. § Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co unknown books
100667New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. 1941. 8vo 22pp. Printed paper over boards with bookplate label affixed to front cover. Announcement for the collection of William Blake books on page 16. Some mild dampstaining to spine edge. Very good. § A grand but sometimes sad sale including some wonderful Blakes lots 115-186 selling at ludicrously low prices. Bentley Blake Books 650. Parke-Bernet Galleries hardcover books
100681London: Christie Manson & Woods Ltd. 1949. 8vo 44pp. Paper over boards. 4 cm piece of spine missing from bottom. 11 page supplement listing modern pictures and drawings for the same sale loosely inserted. Many pages annotated with results in pencil. Very good. § Perhaps the greatest collection of Blake sold since the Linnell sale of 1918. Bentley Blake Books 659. Christie hardcover books
1798100653All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. London: J. Johnson 1798. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed. § One of Blake’s scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen’s English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley Blake Books 416. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXXVII. J. Johnson unknown books
19731080364to. London: Trianon Press 1973. 4to 6 color facsimile leaves 5 pp. of commentary. Quarter black morocco with marble boards. Black mockup slipcase with edge wear and splitting that has been partially repaired with tape. Notes at front in pencil. Book is in fine condition. § Unnumbered maquette. Trianon Press hardcover books
