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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
180510791510 volumes. London: C and J. Rivington 1805. 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli’s major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book his only illustrations of Shakespeare. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed “the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegantâ€. Bentley 498. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLVII. C and J. Rivington unknown books
101172London: Florence Press Chatto and Windus 1926. Small 4to xxxviii 345 pages. Original black cloth. Some fading to backstrip. Very good. § Reprint of the 1921 edition of this collection. See Bentley Blake Books 294. Florence Press hardcover books
1924108799Small 8vo. London: G. Bell 1924. Small 8vo cxxxii prefatory memoir 233 pp.Very good in blue cloth and gilt title to spine. § Rossetti acknowledges a debt to Gilchrist in compiling his substantial memoir which was first published in the 1874 Aldine edition of this compilation. This issue is in Bohn's Popular Library series. See Bentley 299 not noting this printing. G. Bell hardcover books
19051006298vo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth printed paper label. backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance well informed meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligentâ€. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
190557088vo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth printed paper label Dryburgh House St. Bowells N.B. bookplate backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance well informed meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligentâ€. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
19271088114to. London: William Muir 1927. 4to 27 4 plates hand-colored and one uncolored. Original printed gray wrappers brown paper backstrip as issued. § No. 23 of about 50 copies printed. The second Muir facsimile of this title inscribed by Muir “Made in Great Britain Copy No. 23†and signed by him on the front inside wrapper and the same information printed and filled in by hand at the end. The coloring is exceptionally bright and clear in these early copies. They were “facsimiled by Joseph Patrick Trumble Sophia Elizabeth Muir and William Muir from the Beaconsfield Originals in the British Museum with in Experience as an appendix 4 plates from the other British Museum copy. Also one plate for which no colouring is known 'A Divine Image’ which seems to belong to the Songs although not included in them by Blake.†Bentley 144. William Muir unknown books
19471008068vo. Woodstock VT: The Elm Street Press October 1947. 8vo 108pp. Illustrations from Blake’s engravings on pages 72-75. Illustrated wrappers with chipping to spine and creasing to front and back. Pages with some browning to edges. Internally very good. § The Elm Street Press unknown books
19701008034to. Chicago: University of Chicago 1970. 4to 44pp. Illustrated including an image on page 29 from William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell as performed at Rockefeller Chapel by The Cain Company of the University of Chicago. Red printed wrappers. Very good. § University of Chicago unknown books
1784108760Engraved by Blake after Collings. London: Harrison and Co. 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins folded as usual. A little soiled but a good strong impression. § Bentley BB 513 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XIV pp 36-38. Harrison and Co unknown books
17841046722 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 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. § 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. Harrison and Co hardcover books
17841017082 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. 8vo 2 485 1; 193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates including 5 by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary calf somewhat worn and vol. I lacking backstrip label. Withal a good set very rare. § 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 wqorks." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. Harrison and Co unknown books
1953106261Small 4to. Roslyn New York: Black’s Readers Service Company 1953. Small 4to 4 313 pages. Original red cloth backstrip gilt-decorated gilt “William Blake†on upper board with a black lettering label. Ink signature on front endpaper very good. § No editor mentioned nor any previous edition referenced. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p.165. Black’s Readers Service Company hardcover books
19711106742 vols. London: Trianon Press 1971. 2 vols 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates and an 11 pp.description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes including a William Muir designed Plate 3 and an engraving from Hervey's "Meditations Among the Tombs" by Wall thought to have inspired Blake's "Application" design. Near fine in quarter brown morocco and marbled boards in slipcase. § Limited to 590 copies. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley BB 202. Trianon Press hardcover books
1886108532Small slim 4to. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but see Blake Books Supplement page 140. Essick notes: “According to BBS page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early “bogus†or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi.†Pickering & Co unknown books
19721076662 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #XLIV of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
19721073802 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #10 of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
18861088104to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper printed on the inside with the “Programme†dated November 1885. All bound into modern blue buckram red morocco label on backstrip bookplate of Joseph Holland and a Moncure Biddle typed library record at front Houghton Library Phil Hofer manuscript note pasted in at the back. A fine copy. § Copy No. 11 of 50.Includes “ All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†Bentley BB 249 G. William Muir hardcover books
109119London Paris and Clairvaux: Trianon Press. 29 prospectuses as follows:- Europe- 2 copies 1 with plate 13 1 plate 2; Jerusalem- 2 copies plate 4 and plate 25; The Song of Los- 10 copies 4 of plate1Title 3 of plate 4 3 of plate 6; The Book of Los- Plate 1Title; The Book of Thel- 2 copies 1 of plates 3 and 6; The Book of Ahania- Chapter 1all text; All Religions Are One- 3 copies Title "The Arguement" "Principle 5"; Designs for Thomas Gray's Poems- plate 11; Young's "Night Thoughts"- 4 colored plates with prospectus text in text boxes on a single folded sheet; There is No Natural Religion- "Principle IV"; Monochrome examples: Complete Portraiture.- 1 copy with 5 examples: Laocoon- 1 copy with 2 pp of examples; Dante- 1 copy with 2 examples. All very good or as new condition most folded as issued. § Issued by Quaritch to promote the facsimiles these generally showed a sample hand and stencil-colored or monochrome plate from the upcoming book now suitable for framing or reference. Trianon Press. 29 prospectuses as follows - Europe- 2 copies unknown books
1959123971Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco marbled boards slipcase very fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Bentley Blake Books 216. Trianon Press hardcover books
1959110677Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco slipcase fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. Bentley Blake Books 216. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
100255London: c. 1973. 8vo 6 unnumbered leaves bearing color reproductions bound into gray boards. § Proof copy of the reproduction of copy E at the Huntington Library annoated in ballpoint pen by Robert N. Essick probably for the published edition which had 78pp. of text. c. 1973]. 8vo hardcover books
1932101192Small 4to. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1932. Small 4to 11 color plates and 25 pages of text. Original beige cloth gilt edges browned internally very good with the prospectus loosely inserted. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Murry. Bentley Blake Books 214. Dent and New York Dutton hardcover books