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19281014918vo. New York: Macmillan Company 1928. 8vo 42pp. Illustrated. Green cloth some soiling to covers. Very good. § First edition. A charming children’s book scarce in the dust-jacket. Bentley BB 270. Macmillan Company hardcover books
179737372London: R. Noble for Richard Edwards 1797. Large quarto. 16 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches. 4 engraved section titles and 39 pages with engraved border illustrations by William Blake with the letterpress Explanation of the Engravings leaf. Uncut on the fore-edge and lower edge. Minor offsetting as usual. Later half dark green morocco and green moire cloth boards by Riviere & Son spine with raised bands in seven compartments lettered in the second and fourth the others with a repeat decoration in gilt burgundy glazed endpapers top edge gilt.<br/> <br/>A spectacular work illustrated by Blake.<br/> <br/>"Of the merit of Mr. Blake . the editor conceives it to be unnecessary to speak. To the eyes of the discerning it need not be pointed out; and while the taste for the arts of design shall continue to exist the original conception and the bold and masterly execution of this artist cannot be unnoticed or unadmired" advertisement p.viii. Blake originally intended the present work to be the first installment of a much larger illustrated edition of Young's best selling poem. He chose 43 images to engrave from the 537 drawings in watercolour he had made around pages of the first edition of Young's poem inlaid in album sheets. Perhaps baffled by the novelty of Blake's interpretations the public remained unreceptive and the book remains what is essentially a remarkable fragment: a tantalising hint of what might have been. A large copy. Bentley notes that "the paper was only marginally larger than the copperplate and even in untrimmed copies . parts of the platemark may not appear." With the explanation leaf often wanting.<br/> <br/>Bentley Blake Books 515; Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 337-379; Dover 1975; Easson and Essick William Blake Illustrator Vol. I IV; Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 3. R. Noble for Richard Edwards unknown books
194135790London 1941. Engraving printed on Rives wove paper watermarked "France". A rich impression in excellent condition. Fifth state of five. Image size: 11 3/4 x 37 inches. Final state of the largest Blake engraving.<br/> <br/>"Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage" wrote William Blake 1757-1827 poet and probably the most imaginative and original artist in the history of British art. "We all pass on each sustaining one or other of these characters nor can a child be born who is not one or other of these characters of Chaucer." Working in an archaic style intended to evoke the engravings of Chaucer's time Blake presents us with the cast of Chaucer's Tales as they begin their pilgrimage. Since Blake understood his subject so well and wrote with such elegance we can do no better than to use as a guide his own description of the engraving: "The time chosen is the early morning before sunrise when the jolly company are leaving the Tabarde Inn. The Knight and Squire with the Squire's Yeoman lead the Procession; next follow the youthful Abbess her nun and three priests; her greyhounds attend her. Next follow the Friar and Monk and then the Tapiser the Pardoner and the Sompnour and Manciple. After this 'Our Host' who occupies the centre of the cavalcade and directs them to the Knight as the person who would be likely to commence their task of each telling a tale in their order. After the Host follows the Shipman the Haberdasher the Dyer the Franklin the Physician the Ploughman the Lawyer the Poor Parson the Merchant the Wife of Bath the Miller the Cook the Oxford Scholar Chaucer himself; and the Reev comes as Chaucer has described:- And ever he rode hindermost of the rout." The view is eastward from the Tabard in Southwark across the Bridge from London as Blake conceived it to have been in Chaucer's day. He based his costumes on ancient monuments and other records. "As a literary piece" it has been noted Blake's engraving "has hardly an equal in the whole field of art." The engraving was begun late in 1809 and issued by the artist in October the following year. In his Prospectus for the issue Blake declared that the English nation would 'flourish or decay' according to the recognition they gave him for his year's labor. The printing plate survived and passed after Blake's death through the estate of Blake's wife finding its way to the collection of John Giles. Sold at auction with Giles collection in 1881 the printing plate was purchased by Colnaghi who issued restrikes on laid India paper. By 1940 the plate was in the possession of a New York art dealer who sold it to the wife of noted collector A. Edward Newton for her to present to her husband as a fiftieth anniversary present. After Newton's death the plate was sold with his famed library at auction on 16 April 1941 for the princely sum of $2300 to Charles J. Rosenbloom via his agent at the Parke Bernet sale Philadelphia bookseller Charles Sessler. Before delivering the printing plate to Rosenbloom Sessler had a small number of prints pulled on French hand-made paper. Although Rosenbloom only authorized 35 prints Essick and Young identified at least ninety-one impressions. "Whereas most of the identifiable Colnaghi restrikes were flatly printed the Sessler prints were heavily inked and printed. The plate shows minimal wear and the Sessler prints are generally preferable to Colnaghi's earlier printings -- probably because of better cleaning of the copper and superior presswork" Essick and Young. Rosenbloom donated the plate to Yale University in 1973.<br/> <br/>Robert Essick and Michael Young "Blake's Canterbury Print: The Posthumous Pilgrimage of the Copperplate" in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly Vol. 15 No. 2 Fall 1981 pp. 78-82; Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI. unknown books
190323193London 1903. Engraving by Thomas Butts after Blake. Laid paper. First and only state. Hand written in ink upper right corner "Cent quatre vingt septieme 187" A determined Christ walks over the vanquished Satan.<br/> <br/>This fascinating engraving after a Blake drawing depicts a muscular and single-minded Christ with a bow in one hand and arrow in the other walking on the beard and chest of Satan who despite his lifeless eyes reaches for Christ's bow. Blake's Christ is more reminiscent of Hercules or Gilgamesh than the Christ known to us through church iconography and his Satan reminds us more of Zeus than Christianity's Devil. Archibald Russell in The Engravings of William Blake Houghton Mifflin 1912 that this image illustrates a passage in Paradise Lost Bk.VI 763 but was an allegory for the triumph of imagination or creativity over reason. Thomas Butts senior 1757-1845 and junior 1788-1862 were both given drawing and engraving lessons by Blake starting in March 1806. They produced a number of plates from Blake's designs although his level of direct involvement can only be estimated. The present plate was sold by the Butts' descendants at Sotheby's lot 20 24 June 1903. The plate was acquired shortly after the auction by Edward J. Shaw of Walsall. He apparently had printed a number of impressions by December 1903. These are the earliest recorded impressions of this plate other than a single impression sold with the plate at the auction. The plate remained in Shaw's possession until 1925 when it was sold at Sotheby's 29 July lot lot158 to Mansfield. The New York dealers E.Weyhe bought a number of impressions and possibly the plate itself as they still had multiple copies for sale as late as 1965. Essick records 18 copies of this print on various paper types but no order of precedence is given and he had not seen any `proof' impressions.<br/> <br/>Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake. unknown books
197729157London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1977. 1st thus. 1 of a total limitation of 562. Handsome olive-colored quarter morocco binding with grey rough-weave cloth boards. Matching cloth slipcase. Spine very lightly sunned. Ex-lib with small stamp in top left corner of p. 7. Withal a Nr Fine copy in a similar slipcase. 155 pp. 60 images. 4to. 11-5/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
19724988.2London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1972. 1st edition thus. 1 of 616. Quarter sienna-brown morocco marbled boards slipcase. A near fine/fine copy with some slight rubbing to the slipcase at edges. 2 volumes. 20 plates in color collotype and stencil. 4to; 8vo. <br/><br/>A facsimile of the Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress; description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Number 313 of those copies numbered 1 to 540. The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
19724988.1London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1972. 1st edition thus. 1 of 616 cc. Quarter leather binding over marbled paper boards slipcase. Books - Nr Fine. Slipcase - VG some modest wear along edges/edge chip to center divider. 2 volumes 20 plates in color collotype and stencil. 4to. <br/><br/>A facsimile of the Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress; description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
1893WRCLIT73714London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Three volumes. Large thick octavo. Original green cloth spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Spines somewhat rubbed and dull some shelfwear to joints and lower edges and bumps and wear to fore-tips endsheets a bit foxed and cloth a bit handsoiled some cracking and subtle repairs to inner hinges; still not a wholly disagreeable set of a work particularly susceptible to such issues. First edition. One of five hundred sets comprising the regular paper issue. Controversial in its interpretation of Blake's texts this work nonetheless remains in this issue and binding something of a landmark of 1890s book production. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" - Bentley. Wade quotes Yeats's inscription in his own copy about the nature of this collaboration: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." WADE 218. BENTLEY 369. Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
1893WRCLIT68725London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Three volumes. Large thick octavo. Original green cloth spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Some modest rubbing at extremities but a quite bright sound very good or better set. First edition. One of five hundred sets comprising the regular paper issue. Controversial in its interpretation of Blake's texts this work nonetheless remains in this issue and binding something of a landmark of 1890s book production. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" - Bentley. Wade quotes Yeats's inscription in his own copy about the nature of this collaboration: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." WADE 218. BENTLEY 369. Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
2003Embry 165049Princeton University Press 2003. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W and color reproductions of works by William Blake. Princeton University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2002Embry 192024Huntington Library 2002. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Full page reproductions. Huntington Library, 2002. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1906Embry 115263Charles Scribner's Sons 1906. First U.S. edition. Small inked name and light browning to front free endpaper light rubbing very good to near fine. Blue cloth no dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First U.S. edition. hardcover books
1972119524Normal: The American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University 1972. Paperback. xv55p.plates 8.5x11 inches preface illustrated with reproductions of the engravings first paper edition in original pictorial wraps with a small crinkled tear at top of front cover light external soiling. Bears a personal inscription signed by author/bibliographer Easson. The American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University paperback books
19811087898vo. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press 1981. 8vo 20 pp 3 with letterpress the remainder blank but one with Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s inscribed dedication of this copy to Terry Buckley. Near fine in original green calf over marble papered boards. § #59 of 100 copies in all of a poem believed by Keynes to have been originally written by Blake for publication in Poetical Sketches. The attribution to Blake was made by Keynes in 1980 although it is not supported by some Blake scholars at present. Bentley BBS p140. Waterside Press hardcover books
193736231London: The Nonesuch Press 1937. 8vo. 9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches. 36pp. Illustrations throughout. Folder with extra suite of 17 electrotypes in rear pocket. Publisher's patterned cloth boards.<br/> <br/>Limited to 1000 numbered copies this no. 691 printed by the Curwen Press from design by Meynell.<br/> <br/>This fascinating work looks at the illustrations of the iconic English poet painter and figure in the field of visual arts William Blake. "17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype" Dreyfus.<br/> <br/>Dreyfus 110. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
287787London: Joseph Johnson. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" London: Joseph Johnson 1796. This book with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World became an important reference for early abolitionists.<br/><br/> Image shows the tattooed Ranger with pipe and rifle. Two men of a similar station can be seen in the background. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
1792287792London: Joseph Johnson 1792. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Shows light toning and minor foxing at edges otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" London: Joseph Johnson 1796. This book with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World became an important reference for early abolitionists.<br/><br/> This disturbing image shows a man impaled by a hook and hanging from a gallows. A human skull and bones occupy the foreground and the background shows two skulls on sticks and a three-masted ship. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
151051Stoke Ferry Norfolk: Daedalus Press nd. First edition. Poetry postcard that measures 4" x 6." A fine copy. Scarce with only 1 copy listed in OCLC. Daedalus Press unknown books
1793287788London: Joseph Johnson 1793. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" London: Joseph Johnson 1796. This book with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World became an important reference for early abolitionists.<br/><br/> Image shows the soldier in full uniform with rifle pistol and saber. Two similar soldiers a fort and three-masted ship can be seen in the background. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
287793London: Joseph Johnson. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Shows light toning and minor foxing at edges otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" London: Joseph Johnson 1796. This book with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World became an important reference for early abolitionists.<br/><br/> This image shows a European man in a large hat smoking a pipe while being attended to by an enslaved woman. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson unknown books
197041689London: Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust 1970. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Ten plates in facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Half morocco and boards. Vellum book label of Julia P. WIghtman. Fine in slipcase. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Ten plates in facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust unknown books
19708410London: Trianon Press 1970. Hardcover. Orig. half green morocco and marbled boards. Near fine in matching fine slipcase. Unpaginated. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Ten plates. This early tract consists of ten etched plates averaging in size about 5.5 x 4 cm. Keynes notes there is "some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced thought it is generally accepted that is must belong to a period of experimentation in the production of the plates for the Illuminated Books." Limited edition copy 405 of 662 copies. Spine faded to brown. Trianon Press hardcover books
1974260464Normal IL: American Blake Foundation 1974. 21 pages 18 unnumbered leaves of plates reproducing Blake's original work; slender paperback 8.5x11 inches very good. Materials for the study of William Blake Vol. 1. American Blake Foundation unknown books
1963213090London: The Trianon Press 1963. No. 168 of 480 copies. 1 vols. Folio. Original marbled boards dark blue morocco spine. Fine in original matching slipcase. No. 168 of 480 copies. 1 vols. Folio. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's America. The Trianon Press unknown books
198335101NY: Dover 1983. 4to pp. 47. With 35 plates in full color typeset text transcriptions brief summaries and explanations.Some pencil writing on title cover slightly dog-eared and scuffed at edges o/w VG. Dover unknown books
