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18681087781868. London: Pickering 1868. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo xiv 96 pp. A good copy in original cloth with a small amount of wear at spine ends and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. Small bookplate of John Johnson on front pastedown.<br /> <br /> § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley BB 129. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.<br /> <br /> Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Wikipedia. unknown
18901087828vo. London: William Griggs 1890. 8vo 4 70 pp.New wrappers. § Printed on darkened paper particularly towards the outer edges consistent with Bentley's description of Griggs's "very persuasive facsimile" of 1890 of which 50 copies were issued. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia. Bentley BB 130. William Griggs unknown books
1868108778Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pp.A good copy in original cloth with a small amount of wear at spine ends and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley BB 129. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover books
1868100636Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pages. Original brown cloth red printed paper backstrip label mostly worn away. Backstrip loosened. Fair to good copy. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley Blake Books 129. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover books
182961047Boston: Richardson Lord & Holbrook 1829. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii13-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page Rhode Island Historical Society; scattered foxing and toning to text still a complete fresh copy Good and sound. <br /> <br /> An anonymous early work by Blake identified as such in the catalog of the American Antiquarian Society which adds the following note: "Later editions which include additional stories describe themselves as "By the author of Evenings in Boston." That work a juvenile reader first published in 1827 has been attributed to John Lauris Blake. Five of its twelve chapters are set in Cuba where Blake may have traveled during a period of failing health in the 1820s." SABIN 67664. Richardson, Lord & Holbrook unknown
18966716Boston: winter 1896. Octavo-sized correspondence record book 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. The original engraved invitation precedes the individual acceptance and rejection few letters which are divided by sex. A complete list of attendees is included as is the handwritten menu perhaps a contract with notes on what was to be supplied by the caterer Joseph Lee and what by Mrs. Blake. The stationery includes many addresses on Beacon Hill as well as the Porcellian Club Somerset Club Hasty Pudding Club etc. Some wear to the binder and to some of the correspondence at folds or at the edges. Generally near very good. A stationer’s - Shipman - adhesive half-leather letter file book. winter hardcover
18966716Boston 1896. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small 'dancing' party for the society 'A' list of Boston. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. Also includes a complete list of the final attendees and a manuscript record of the menu and engraved invitation accompany the individual acceptance and rejection few letters. Very good; some wear to the binding. A stationer's Shipman adhesive half leather letter file book. hardcover books
18241245961824. London: I. Poole 1824. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo xxiv 372pp. With an engraved frontispiece 4 full-page engravings including one by Blake 8 hand-colored botanical plates 8 plates of engraved music a calendar with an engraved title-page and 6 plates and 12 blank leaves titled "Album 1825" recorded by Keynes but not noted in other copies we have had. Publisher's original full brown calf central panels on both covers blind-stamped within a richly gilt border backstrip with four raised bands gilt-decorated lettered REMEMBER ME slightly scuffed and small black splotch ink on lower cover occasional small spots on plates as usual a very good copy of a de luxe issue binding on the first of three editions of the book.<br /> <br /> § First edition first issue of the book no state variance in the plate with a very early pencil inscription from one woman to another illegible repeated on the next leaf. One of the rarest of all of the plates designed and engraved by Blake. There was a reissue dated 1826 as part of the title probably published late in 1825. The plate titled 'The Hiding of Moses' was the last plate designed and engraved by Blake himself for a commercial publication; the original drawing 'Moses placed in the Ark of Bulrushes' which closely echoes a tempera now untraced that was executed some 25 years earlier is in the Huntington Library. Bentley BB 490B. Easson and Essick WBBI Vol. I XI recording the Rosenwald proof and 3 copies. Keynes Blake Studies XIX recording 7 variants but not mentioning the 1826 printing. Also see Bentley's detailed essay and census of copies in "Remember Me! Customs and Costumes of Blake's Gift Book" University of Toronto Quarterly 80.4 fall 2011: 880-92. Bentley in the U of T Quarterly 2011 noted: "The gift book Remember Me! with Blake's wonderful engraving of the 'Hiding of Moses' was more remarkable for its decorations than for its literary contents. Of the twenty-four copies recorded each differs from the others in the pattern of binding colour of fore-edges endpapers and the decorated sleeve-case. Despite this varied elegance the work had only a modest sale and the same sheets were re-issued in 1825 for the 1826 gift-giving season. This paucity of sales may be related to the fact that the publisher John Poole had little experience of book distribution. His speciality was as a maker of Marble Paper and Fancy Pocket-Books not in selling them.". unknown
182511080112mo. London: I. Poole 1825. 12mo frontispiece "A Tribute of Regard."; title-page "Remember Me" etc. with 1826 beneath "Christmas Present"; second engraved leaf recto "Calendar and Album 1826." verso January and February next three leaves with the rest of the Calendar; verso of third leaf "The Virgin Child and St. Johnâ€; 8 pp. of engraved music; contents and introduction i ii-xxiv; plate "Her screams aroused her servant"; 1 2-336. With the Blake plate at p. 32 and color plates at 42 73 88 89 93 148 149 275 b/w The Storm and 326 color. Publisher’s original printed yellow paper boards no backstrip occasional spotting but a good copy of this fragile booklet in its rarest format preserved in a cloth box. § Second issue of the book no variance in the plate the contents omits the blank leaves and the misnumbered leaves at the end. One of the rarest of all of the plates designed and engraved by Blake here in its rarest format. The plate titled ‘The Hiding of Moses’ was the last plate designed and engraved by Blake himself for a commercial publication; the original drawing ‘Moses placed in the Ark of Bulrushes’ which closely echoes a tempera now untraced that was executed some 25 years earlier is in the Huntington Library. BB #490B. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator XI recording the Rosenwald proof and 3 copies. Keynes Blake Studies XIX recording 7 variants but not mentioning the 1826 printing. Also see Bentley’s detailed essay and census of copies in “Remember Me! Customs and Costumes of Blake’s Gift Book†University of Toronto Quarterly 80.4 fall 2011: 880-92. I. Poole hardcover books
1855MASTER260191IWASHINGTON D.C.: BEVERLEY TUCKER PRINTER. VG REBOUND IN GREEN CLOTH WITH GILT LETTERING. Pages: 553. . 1855. HARDCOVER. VOL. 2 OF SERIES OF REPORTS TO 33RD CONGRESS. NO COLOR PLATES. LIGHT DAMPSTAINING TO SOME PAGE EDGES. BINDING TIGHT. . BEVERLEY TUCKER, PRINTER hardcover
1856MASTER201842IWASHINGTON D.C.: U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT. VG DISBOUND EXTRACT MATERIAL. LIGHT TONING & FOXING TO PAGES. Pages: 50. . 1856. TRADE PAPERBACK. TEXT BLOCK CLEAN & TIGHT. POPE'S EXPLORATION COVERS TERRITORY FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE RIO GRANDE. . U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT paperback
1870mon0003561653Government Printing Office 1870T. hardcover. Acceptable. . cover detached and shows moderate wear tear and soiling. pages tanned. volume 5 only. ex-library copy with usual markings. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870220806Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 6 books about 4000 pages total. Illustrated some folding. Ex-university library marks some wear and tear to the edges and spines. The back cover of volume I is water damaged. Cracked binding; the pages are tanned a little staining of foxing; a couple pages loose one illustration is torn and taped. A complete set of 6 books still. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 220806. . Government Printing Office hardcover
1870093709Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870 Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Contains the reports: Wool and Manufactures of Wool by E. R. Mudge and John L. Hayes The Report upon Cotton by E. R. Mudge and B. F. Nourse Silk and Silk Manufactures by Elliot C. Cowdin Clothing and Woven Fabrics by Paran Stevens The Report on Education by J. W. Hoyt and a list of the reports in order of succession in the volumes. 401 pages. Light exterior soils/marks; small faint stain on top edges of some pages. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870093710Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870 Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Contains the reports: Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N. M. Beckwith General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section report on the Fine Arts the Fine Arts applied to the Useful Arts Report of the International Committee on Weights/Measures/Coins Bibliography of the Exposition of 1867 and general alphabetical index to the Reports. Illustrated. Light exterior wear/marks. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870162990Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 143; 115; 51; 86; and 401. Occasional tables/charts but with no illustrations or plates. Reports on wool cotton silk clothing and woven fabrics and education. With a list of the reports in order of succession in the various volumes. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870162989Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 26; 19; 90 with 5 bw folding plates; 19 with 1 folding plate; 18; 13; 28; 213 with 9 bw folding plates and several bw illustrations; 70; and 18. Contains articles on cereals beet-root sugar and alcohol Culture and Products of the Vine school-houses and popular education munitions of war instruments and apparatus of medicine and musical instruments. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870162987Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents NF clean crisp and tight. Covers however are rubbed and chipped at spine with a small chunk missing mid-spine see photo. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 184; 324 with one bw folding plate; 43; 7 plus XXXII bw plates including some folding; 47; 39; and index 66 pp. Contains the Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts with the 7 bw plates; Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights Measures and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports. Government Printing Office hardcover
1870134851Washington DC: GPO 1870. Hardbound. VG ex library set with minimal markings small ancient paper label on each spsine bookplates. Perforation stamp to each title-page. Six volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite marbling to all page edges. Many plans fold-outs illustrations. Pagination as follows: Volume I: 4 184; 324; 43 1; 8; 47 1; 39 1; 66pp. Folding plan 33 folding plates. Volume II: 4 v 1 183 1; vii 1 369 1; ix 1 146pp. 8 folding plates. Volume III: 4 ix 1 669 1pp. 8 folding plates. Volume IV: 4 166; 72; 49 1; 21 1; 31 1; 96; 104pp. 16 folding plates. Volume V: 4 26; 19 1; 90; 19 1; 19 1; 13 1; 28; 13 1; 213 1; 70; 18pp. 16 folding plates. Volume VI: 4 143 1; 2 115 1; 51 1; 86; 2 401 1pp. A fabulous set in wonderful condition and very minimally marked. An indispensible reference. Uncommon in leather. GPO hardcover
1870286735Washington: Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volumes I-VI. Very good with wear at the spine ends a short tear at the top of the spine on volume III corners are bumped stain spot on front cover of volume I and a thin stain line on the spine of volume III. Reports on various exhibits and pavillions includes numerous illustrations and folded plates. Government Printing Office hardcover
18701191118.02Government Printing Office Washington DC 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Quarter leather binding over brown cloth. Covers and contents clean unworn no marking or writing. Binding sturdy square and tight. Leather still supple. Numerous reports contained therein including on photographic apparatus the Atlantic telegraph cables instruments and apparatus of medicine and surgery and most notewothy a 213 page "Reort on tjhe Munitions of War" with foldout illustrations of the Spencer rifle mechanism Remington rifle Krupp's 1000-pounder steel gun and cutaway illustrations of the 'Electric Gun' Henry gun and other weaponry. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC hardcover
1870162989Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 26; 19; 90 with 5 bw folding plates; 19 with 1 folding plate; 18; 13; 28; 213 with 9 bw folding plates and several bw illustrations; 70; and 18. Contains articles on cereals beet-root sugar and alcohol Culture and Products of the Vine school-houses and popular education munitions of war instruments and apparatus of medicine and musical instruments. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1870163003Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers however are rubbed spine cloth is wrinkled and end papers are a bit foxed none to contents. Ex-lib. copy with marks to spine fep and title page; no others. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. Brown cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and insignia on spine. Paginated as 184; 324 with one bw folding plate; 43; 7 plus XXXII bw plates including some folding; 47; 39; and index 66 pp. Contains the Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts with the 7 bw plates; Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights Measures and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1870162990Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 143; 115; 51; 86; and 401. Occasional tables/charts but with no illustrations or plates. Reports on wool cotton silk clothing and woven fabrics and education. With a list of the reports in order of succession in the various volumes. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1870162987Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents NF clean crisp and tight. Covers however are rubbed and chipped at spine with a small chunk missing mid-spine see photo. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 184; 324 with one bw folding plate; 43; 7 plus XXXII bw plates including some folding; 47; 39; and index 66 pp. Contains the Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts with the 7 bw plates; Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights Measures and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports. Government Printing Office hardcover books
