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18161068098vo. London: Henry Colburn 1816. 8vo viii 449 pp. With 2 leaves of ads at the front and another 2 at the back dated 1818. Original boards paper backstrip slightly rubbed with loss of label some wear to boards a very fine copy entirely uncut and in original state as issued. § First edition of a fascinating contemporary reference work. It includes one of the earliest biographical references to William Blake “an eccentric and very ingenious artist†as well as a large number of writers such as Wordsworth Coleridge and Byron and hundreds of other authors forgotten today but amazingly no Shelley Mary or Percy no Keats and no Jane Austen. Bentley Blake Books 2929: “references to Blake under William Hayley W. Blake and William Blakeâ€. Some claim Watkins authored A-K and Shoberl the rest. Henry Colburn hardcover books
185347858Boston: Pblished for the Association by Sewall Harding 1853. 1st edition Sabin 5787. Original publisher's deep purple cloth binding with boards stamped in blind & gitl stamped spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. Spine sunned. Usual smattering of foxing & age-toning. Prior owner signatures to ffep. Very Good. vi 7 - 348 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Pblished for the Association by Sewall Harding hardcover books
1806220643London: T. Bensley for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. UNCUT in the original boards; rebacked in cloth endpapers renewed. Fine tall copy. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake with whom he shared an interest in radical politics and on the death of his gifted six-year-old son Thomas in 1802 Malkin commissioned Blake to design the frontispiece for Malkin's FATHER'S MEMOIR. In his Preface to this work Malkin gives what the DNB calls the "first and fullest" account of Blake's early life and career and it was with this very tribute to his friend's idiosyncratic genius that Malkin first gave impetus to a more general appreciation of William Blake's art. Keynes 80; Bentley Blake Books p. 18 T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
1806107755Single leaf. London: printed for Longman; by T. Bensley 1806. Single leaf 200 x 130 mm being the frontispiece by Blake engraved by Cromek. Trimmed to the image recently cleaned with a couple of almost invisible creases and an ink smudge on the child’s nose. § A sentimental commercial engraving. The child was Malkin’s son apparently an infant prodigy who died at the age of seven. Bentley Blake Books p. 18 a good note on the book and #482. printed for Longman; by T. Bensley unknown books
1828107872Single plate by William Blake. London: for the author and sold by Longman 1828. Single plate by William Blake cleaned by Court Benson. § From the first and only edition of this elusive Blake item. Includes Blake's figure of the constellation 'Cancer' which may be a caricature self-portrait of Blake himself. Keynes 248: 'extremely rare'. Bentley Blake Books 501. for the author and sold by Longman unknown books
1887109161Folio. Edmonton: William Muir 1887. Folio 18 plates printed in blue. Original wrappers rebacbacked top edge gilt fine. § Uncolored Muir facsimile limited to around 50 copies of which according to Keynes in 1921 only 6 were hand-colored. This is copy #3 signed priced and numbered by Muir. "In the first of his "Continental Prophecies" see also Europe and The Song of Los Blake explores the radical paradigms of political repression and revolt through a highly imaginative treatment of the American Revolution. While historical figures such as Washington and Paine appear much of the symbolic and thematic weight is placed on Blake's own invented mythological figures including "Albions Angel" and "Londons Guardian" forces of the British government Urizen the god of restrictive reason and the origin of political repression and fiery Orc the spirit of revolt. The American Revolution is viewed as a harbinger of universal revolution epistemological as much as political." The Blake Archive. Eighteen copies of the original are known to exist. William Muir's facsimiles of Blake's works were the most ambitious and in many cases the first of their kind until the Trianon Press began work for the Blake Trust in 1951. Upon establishing the Blake Press at Edmonton his goals were clear: "My desire and intention is to reproduce ALL the important works by Wm Blake that exist in book form and also some of his finest designs and this by methods of working as nearly the same as Blake himself used as the need of maintaining fidelity to his results will allow. I will not use either photography or chromolithography. All outlines are drawn and all the colouring is by hand. I produce fifty copies only of each book and each of them is numbered".Keri Davies writes "‘Muir’s facsimiles not only made Blake’s works in “Illuminated Printing†accessible for the first time in reliable copies and helped establish Blake’s reputation as visual artist alongside his reputation as poet but I feel must also have contributed to the most advanced ideas in English art of the 1880s." Bentley Blake Books 249j. William Muir unknown books
1868134590Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. Limited to 200 copies unnumbered. Hardcover. Reading copy. Ex-library covers and spine separated but present. Pages loose up to 19 and last endpapers rest held by binding edges fragile and chipping up to p. 43 minor elsewhere. Teal library portolio and slipcase Green cloth boards embossed border gold title on spine. 297 pp. A history of the theatre in Providence Rhode Island from 1745 to 1860. George H. Whitney hardcover books
186819454Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. First edition. Cloth a little worn with a small split near the foot of the front joint; hinges just a little loosed from the inserted material but overall a very good copy. . 8vo original green cloth gilt lettering 297 pages. A unique augmented copy of this detailed local theatre history with the pencil ownership signature of Samuel W. Brown--presumably Providence worthy Samuel Welch Brown 1824-1907--and the semi-legible pencil signature of perhaps his son Arthur Brown; this copy includes a CDV portrait mounted to the verso of the front blank and annotated in the margin in pencil as Charles Blake; also with a folded printed column similar to a galley proof mounted to the rear endpaper and headed "Charles Blake" with the pencil annotation at the head "Written in imitation of the obituary notices by E. H. Hazard in the Journal by Mr. Blake himself" as well as two tipped-in playbills--one a large approx. 17 x 6.25 inch playbill advertising a performance of Howard and the Foxes among other attractions at Cleveland Hall and with an imprint for Greene Granite Building; and smaller 6.75 x 4.75 inch handbill advertising the "the Young and Beautiful American Actress!" Alice Placid Mann appearing in 1862 at the Providence Theatre on Pine at Dorrance. Also includes a marginal pencil note to one page alluding to the performance style of one actor a mounted clipping from 1880 relating to the Dorrance Street Theatre and some promiscuous inserted 20th century newspaper clippings. Sabin 5764. George H. Whitney, unknown books
18061087518vo. London: Richard Phillips 1806. 8vo xxiv 270pp ii publisher's booklist with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design " The Graphic Muse". Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder : there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. Richard Phillips hardcover books
1812WRCAM44679Worcester: Isaac Sturtevant 1812. 36pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on the titlepage. Some foxing tanning and staining. Good. Fourth of July oration given just a few weeks after the outbreak of the War of 1812 often called the "second war of American independence." Blake makes the expected comparisons between the past conflict and the one that was then unfolding. SABIN 5767. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24887. Isaac Sturtevant hardcover books
18124130Worcester M.A.: Pr. by Isaac Sturtevant 1812. 8vo. 34 pp. <br><br>Published at the request of a numerous assembly of citizens from various parts of the county and the members of the Washington Benevolent Society who joined in the celebration" as stated on the title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 5767; Shaw & Shoemaker 24887. Removed from a nonce volume. Front page and final two pages soiled. Five-digit number rubber stamped on title-page. Upper half of final leaf torn away. One long tear without loss of text to penultimate leaf. Pr. by Isaac Sturtevant unknown books
1874WN6286ANew York: Harper & Brothers 1874. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Wear on spine ends corners and edges. Some marking and soiling on boards. Glue remnant from label removal on front pastedown. Accoounts include the Polaris Expedition the cruise of the "Tigris"'' and the ice floe drift of Capt. Tyson. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1874153520New York: Harper 1874. First Edition. hardcover. very good. Large folding map laid in; many illustrations. 486pp. 6pp. of ads. 8vo original decorative blue cloth; spine ends repaired previous owner's notations on first blank page. New York: Harper 1874. Very good.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
18961342084Boston: Houghton Mifflin adn Company 1896. Riverside edition. Hardcover. Octavo; volume 7 only; Riverside edition; Fair; Hardcover; Spine green with gold print; Boards in green cloth with gold print light wear to spine caps and corners slight blemish on rear slightly cocked spine; Text block has gilt top edge cracked hinges front and rear hinge tear to half-title page inscription in ink on half-title page puckering to entire text block else clean and tight; vii 470 pages. 1342084. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton, Mifflin adn Company hardcover books
1898133500New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1898. Octavo inserted frontispiece original pictorial tan cloth stamped in red blue black and gold. First edition. Eight stories several first published in CENTURY MAGAZINE and NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Wright III 4301. Cloth rubbed at spine ends a very good copy. #133500 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
18761029004to. London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1876. 4to 71pp. Tipped-in illustrations between pages 14 & 15. Original wrappers worn contents good. § An astonishing exhibition catalogue of 333 entries with a 9pp. introduction by William B. Scott. Bentley Blake Books 571. Spottiswoode & Co unknown books
187522709New York: D. Van Nostrand Publisher 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. 148 pages of text. 23 x 15 cm. The author was United States Centennial Commissioner and Delegate to the International Jury Group 1 Vienna. This book from the volume of Reports of the Massachusetts Commission to Vienna. 7 pages of adverts and 48 pages of Scientific Van Nostrand titles. Signed presentation copy. Illustrated. Chromolithograph of Minton floor tiles from Miller & Coates. Fresh clean copy. Nicks to backstrip head and foot. D. Van Nostrand, Publisher hardcover books
1881108279Impression measures 93. London: Colnaghi printing after 5 March 1881. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm. printed on laid India paper; recently cleaned. § Final state: it is worth noting that the only difference between the so-called fourth and fifth states is the absence of the scratched dry-point inscriptions clearly visible in a few prints and less and less visible until completely absent by the time Sessler was printing the plate. Instead of “states†the more accurate definitions might be very early to very late 4th state and in that scheme then this print would be well after the early impressions with some or most of the scratched inscriptions visible but before the Sessler printings of the 1940s none of which were on laid India. “‘Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims’ was one of Blake’s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.…†However Blake wasn’t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. “Most contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and ‘Gothic’ in the pejorative sense.… The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few years†Essick pp. 86-88. “It is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blake’s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.†Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books
1842022317Boston: Gould Kendall Ad Lincoln 1842. Octavo. 12pp. publisher's ads at front frontispiece viii 910-276pp. 27 full page illustrations at rear. Improved by appropriate questions for the examination of scholars; also by illustrative notes and a dictionary of philosophical terms. This work is for the student and this edition has been introduced into the female department of the publicksic schools in Boston. A very good copy bound in full calf flat spine ruled in gilt black morocco spine label gilt previous owner's name on front endpapers dated 1845 and name stamped on covers some off-setting to title page some occasional toning to leaves but mostly clean. Gould, Kendall Ad Lincoln unknown books
1830WRCAM26386Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers of six lacking the frontispiece and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf black morocco label gilt. Worn along hinges at spine ends and extremities. Light foxing light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and lower portion of final few pages. Good only. Designed for educational purposes this beginner's guide to botany is actually written in the form of a conversation between "Mrs. B." and various young ladies. The Rev. J.L. Blake who was a prolific generator of school texts adapted the book "to the use of schools." The actual author Jane Marcet is identified on the titlepage only as the author of CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. McGRATH p.206. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2390. Published by Crocker & Brewster unknown books
1881Embry 182499Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston: 1881. First edition first printing. Page 26-27 browned from previously laid in article title page and front free endpaper foxed minor foxing to first few pages light wear to spine tips but for foxing to title page near fine in custom mylar cover. Green cloth no dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston: 1881. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1887109160Folio. Edmonton: William Muir 1887. Folio 17 plates richly hand colored. Original printed wrappers dated September 1887 backstrip renewed gilt top fine. § Limited to fewer than 50 copies this copy numbered #11 signed priced and numbered by Muir. Based on three different copies see below. With the frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†which is perhaps Blake’s most famous image. Bentley BB 249k1: "plates 1 and 4 are from originals in Mr. Muir's possession copy c plates 2 5-6 and 8 are from copy D and plate 7 9-18 from copy A." See also Bentley Blake Books Supplement pp.66-69. William Muir unknown books
1881110436Archival inkjet print. London: Colnaghi printing after 5 March 1881. Archival inkjet print 93.9 x 30 cm. printed by E.M. Ginger of 42-Line in Oakland CA. Framed. § Fine facsimile print of William Blake’s Canterbury Pilgrims 5th and final state. The reproduction by 42-Line is so good it is virtually indistinguishable from an original print.“‘Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims’ was one of Blake’s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.…†However Blake wasn’t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. “Most contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and ‘Gothic’ in the pejorative sense.… The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few years†Essick pp. 86-88. Blake made substantial changes in the fourth and fifth states of this famous plate and “it is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blake’s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.†Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books
1882108773Oblong quarto. London: George Bell 1882. Oblong quarto bound in original pale brown cloth with gilt title on cover lightly worn at edges and corners. The Hesiod Works and Days and Theogeny follows the Iliad and Odyssey and collates: - 4 half title and contents list of plates 37 plates being original engraved title plus 36 of the Blake engravings. The Aeschylus follows as the last. Generally very good internally with occasional foxing at ends of the volume. The binding has been repaired at some stage: due to the oblong format and weight of the pages the first signature is loose but the remainder holding firm. § Bentley BB 456. This reduced-size edition appears to be a re-issue of Bentley's C edition of 1881 by Bell only the Hesiod being present is implied by Bentley for that edition. 4 volumes in one of Flaxman's designs reduced to half size from Blake’s original prints for use by art students including Blake's designs for Hesiod published in 1817. George Bell hardcover books
18881088084to. Edmonton: William Muir 1888. 4to intaglio title page iv text prologue 18 leaves with Muir's black and white intaglio engraved plates sewed and more recently bound in vellum and new endpapers and fitted into a modern marbled slipcase. Original Muir wrappers not bound in. § Possibly one of the copies Quaritch had for sale as recently as 1942 when their catalogue records only 31 copies had been published rather than the 50 first envisaged and of these 31 at least some were still being offered for sale. The facsimile is convincing enough that plates from it have been offered as originals on occasion. Copies in such fine condition are almost unheard of. Bentley BB 249m. William Muir hardcover books
