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1975123980Oblong 12mo. San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire 1975. Oblong 12mo 11pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers fine. § Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all -- exceptionally scarce and beautiful -- we have had one copy in the last 30 years. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blake’s famous poem printed found in the "Notebook" 1787-1818. Thomas Ingmire was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement his work can be found in public and private collections around the world; it is the subject of Michael Gullick's Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire 1989 and codici 1: a teacher's notebook on modern calligraphy & lettering art 2003. His teaching experience and influence extends throughout the United States to Canada Europe Australia Japan and Hong Kong. Thomas Ingmire unknown books
20930<p><b>BLAKE EUBIE</b>. 1883-1983. American ragtime pianist and composer of "I'm Just Wild about Harry" "Love Will Find a Way" "Charleston Rag" "Memories of You" and other hits. AMusMsS. <i>"Eubie Blake"</i>. 8pp. Small folio roughly 9½" x 12½". N.p.; after 1959. An autograph piano vocal score in pencil of his most famous song "I'm Just Wild about Harry" with notable differences from the original 1921 sheet music version. Seven pages of music and lyrics on four sheets of "King Brand" lined music paper totaling 90 triple measures in E-flat Major set to ¾ time; each page bearing Blake's 1959 Local 802 union stamp. Blake has written on the cover in blue ink "<i>I think Harry would be better for Waltz if Key of C. Sorry about this number in Lead Pencle</i>sic." He has added his initials "<i>E.B.</i>" in red ink to each of these two lines. The first page of music is headed "'<i>I'm Just Wild about Harry' The New Arrangement for Miss Swann Words by Noble Sissle Music by Eubie Blake</i>."</p><p>Blake the son of former slaves who nurtured their child's musical talent began composing while playing in clubs bordellos medicine shows and on the vaudeville circuit where he met composer Noble Sissle and formed the Dixie Duo. Together they composed the groundbreaking musical revue <i>Shuffle Along</i> with playwrights Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles whom they had met at an NAACP benefit. </p><p>After touring New Jersey and Pennsylvania <i>Shuffle Along </i>premiered on Broadway in 1921 and was an instant hit running for an unprecedented 504 performances and defying conventional wisdom that a show written by and starring African-Americans could be commercially successful. <i>Shuffle Along</i>launched the careers of Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson and was the first Broadway show to feature an all-black cast. Additionally its hit song "I'm Just Wild about Harry" broke the taboo against onstage romantic love between African-American characters.</p><p>One of only three songs written specifically for the show "I'm Just Wild about Harry" was originally composed by Blake as a Viennese waltz but "Lottie Gee the veteran performer who introduced it said for her to make it work it would have to be an up-temp one step. 'That cut me to the quick' Blake remembered. 'She was going to destroy my beautiful melody. I loved that waltz. Then Sissle went along with her… 'All right' I said 'we'll make it a one step'" <i>America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley</i> Furia and Lasser. Blake's handwritten notes on our manuscript's cover indicates that he still preferred a waltz tempo for his most famous song nearly 40 years after its debut. </p><p>The popularity of "I'm Just Wild about Harry" was revived in 1948 when President Harry S Truman used it during his reelection campaign. Detractors joked "I'm just mild about Harry." In recognition of its use Blake sent a manuscript excerpt of the song to Truman in 1967 erroneously reported on the internet as the original manuscript with a letter that stated "The interesting thing about 'Harry' was that it actually was written as an election song in the show whose plot was almost a parallel occurrence to the 1948 Presidential Campaign. The story was about the race for Mayor in a small Southern town. Our hero Harry Walton was the underdog in his race just as you were in the Election of 1948. Although we did not have a <u>Chicago Tribune</u>telling the people that his rival had been elected it first appeared that one of the candidates opposing Harry in our Race had won." </p><p>Among Blake's papers at the Maryland Historical Society are manuscripts of the song including one from 1959. However ours differs in both scoring and lyrics. Although Blake agreed to write out quotations from his best-known work this is the only full manuscript version of the song ever to be offered for sale. It belonged to Jazz musician Jim Hession Blake's friend and protégé. </p><p>Some scattered staining and wear with reinforced file holes in the left margin. In very good condition. One of America's most popular and enduring melodies with a long and fascinating history.</p> books
4450The score for the musical about Blake's life and music includes 15 songs and measures 11 3/4 x 9 inches. On the biographical page page 4 Blake signed on the upper margin in black pen ".Eubie Blake." Blake was a critical figure in African American music in the 20th century. unknown books
1969123970Folio. London: Trianon Press 1969. Folio 17 colour and one monochrome facsimile leaves and 9 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Very fine in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in slipcase as issued. § Limited to 526 copies this is copy #313. The frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†is surely Blake’s most famous single image. "The second of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" preceded by America and followed by The Song of Los Europe presents in mythopoeic form the fundamental philosophical positions in conflict in Blake's revolutionary era. Historical events are reconfigured into their universalized representations through Blake's own cast of characters including Enitharmon the female personification of fallen nature and history Orc the spirit of revolt and Los and Urizen the "Eternals" who would become central to Blake's mythic system of the "Zoas." These contending forces lead beyond political revolution to an apocalypse of biblical scope." The William Blake Archive. At the end is reproduced an extra etched leaf of text that Blake only included in two copies which tell of a fairy that Blake caught who sang him a song about the five senses of man.Europe survives in only fourteen known copies few complete all but one held by institutions. The remarkable Blake Trust Trianon Press facsimiles hand-colored using pochoir with extraordinary fidelity are for most of us the nearest possible thing to handling the original book. Martin Butlin noted in the Blake Quarterly: “The long list of color facsimiles produced by the Trianon Press under Arnold Fawcus for the William Blake Trust were above all objects of beauty recreating as near to perfection as possible Blake’s original achievements.†Bentley Blake Books 34. Trianon Press 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
108007The Grolier Club New York 1905. The De Vinne Press. Small 8vo 147 pp. Printed tan wrappers with titling and small illustration on front cover pages untrimmed. Cover is detached chipping along edges; good copy. § A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W. A. White M. J. Perry and Hoe. Bentley Blake Books 599. unknown books
1905100718Small 8vo. New York: The Grolier Club 1905. Small 8vo 147pp. Printed wrappers lightly chipped along edges. Pages untrimmed. A very good copy. § A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W.A. White M.J. Perry and Hoe. Bentley Blake Books 599. The Grolier Club unknown books
196824115Cleveland: K.D.S. / Century Books 1968. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear and corner creasing. Small price sticker remnant to front cover. Very good. 186pp. <br/><br/>Sleaze pulp purporting to be a psychological study of "the most mushrooming sexual aberration today" and the peculiar appeal of exhibitionism to the "depraved people" of the "Swinging Sixties." Book begins like all good scholarship with Webster's dictionary definition of "exhibitionist." K.D.S. / Century Books paperback books
1793259579London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. Bound to style in acid-stained calf covers gilt with outer roll border flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and volume label a.e.g. Title-pages trimmed with some loss light foxing to some plates. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. With 12 Plates by Blake. The Stockdale edition of Gay's Fables with 12 engravings by Blake who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Bentley & Nurmi 371A; Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1793259455London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long 's' throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco covers stamped in gilt with outer roll border flat spines divided into 6 compartments 2 with title and volume number the rest gilt with small tool a.e.g. marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities some foxing to title-pages. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long 's' throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay's Fables with 12 engravings by Blake who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Bentley & Nurmi 371A; Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1793287262London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition First Issue of John Gay's Fables. With the long 's' throughout. Complete with sixty-eight plates including twelve by William Blake in addition to the two engraved title pages one at the start of each volume. Said to be the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Minor foxing to the title pages and some plates and offsetting to the opposite pages of most plates. Japanese tissue repair to the front joint of Vol. I. Surface wear to the leather binding. Full calf with red and black leather labels. Very Good. ESTC N9619. Very Good binding. Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1793D11653London: John Stockdale 1793. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary morocco ornate gilt-stamped border on boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 2 volumes 4to; pp. xi 1 225; vii 1 187 1 ad; plus an engraved title-page for each volume and 68 plates including 12 by William Blake; collates complete. First Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout. Boards faintly rubbed; joints and edges of boards lightly bumped and scuffed. Some very faint foxing; the occasional dusty smudge; but overall internally bright and clean. Considered one of the finest examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. <br/><br/> John Stockdale hardcover books
17931229112 vols. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. royal 8vo xi 225; vii 187 1 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf rebacked a bit scuffed and untidy but quite sound internally good despite the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake’s plates. The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long “s†throughout and the second does not. Bentley Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. Note that in the list of subscribers there is a "Mr. Blake". Very few books are known to have been subscribed to by Blake. John Stockdale unknown books
17931092202 vols. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. in one royal 8vo xi 225; vii 1871 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked lower cover rehinged scuffed and untidy internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake’s plates. “The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two.†Sotheran’s. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long “s†throughout and the second does not. Bentley Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. John Stockdale 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
108086London: Printed for John Bell at the British Library Strand. MDCCLXXX 1780. 8vo. xlvii 205 pp. 14 fold-out copper plate engravings two armorial copper plate engraved headpieces. Olive-green cloth clamshell box. Original boards as issued untrimmed edges and binding are rubbed and chipped boards are discolored internally bright with complete set of plates; very good. § “A New Edition.†First published in 1771 here revised with a new set of plates. Text and title-pages in English and French. Plate number four engraved by a young William Blake. A simplified manual on fencing by Jean Olivier whom was considered a master of the small sword in his time. ESTC T135608. Printed for John Bell hardcover books
17911107614to. London: Johnson 1791. 4to single leaf 197 x 270 mm margins foxed a good strong impression with wide margins matted. § Designed by Fuseli and engraved by Blake for Erasmus Darwin's poem The Botanic Garden. One of Blake’s best-known commercial engravings. The image is of the God Anubis with the head of a dog praying to the star Sirius for rain his legs bestride a river and between them can be seen the winged figure of Jupiter Pluvius Jupiter giver of rain. Essick Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. Only state. Johnson unknown books
1793287790London: Joseph Johnson 1793. unbound. very good. William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Sheet toned and shows minor foxing 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 an enslaved woman with bound hands hung from a tree. In the background two European men direct two slaves wielding whips to carry out the punishment. <br><br> William Blake 1757-1827 was a British poet painter and printmaker.<br/><br/> Joseph Johnson 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
100866New York: Dover Publications Inc. 1977. Large 4to xxxii plus 75 full-page plates and 6 other illustrations. Silver illustrated wraps with curling to edges. Bumping to corners. Inscribed to the American Blake Foundation from “Bob and Jenijoy†on title page. Very good. § Bentley BBS p.215: “useful introduction. slightly reducedâ€. Dover Publications paperback books
200026862000. BLAKE Robert J. FLEDGLING. NY: Philomel Books 2000. Quarto pictorial board in dust jacket. First Edition fourth printing. Signed presentation from Blake on front endpaper: "To Susan and Susannah- always be kind to animals! Robert J. Blake." Fine in like d/j. $20.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
2012168457Colorado Springs: Fine Arts Center 2012. Paperback. VG. White wraps with color illustrations red-outline and black lettering. 119 pp. 87 plates mainly color. Contains plates a chronology and various essays by the authors. Fine Arts Center paperback books
19839002727Toronto: Methuen 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. <br/><br/> Methuen hardcover books
19761000874to. Santa Barbara: Museum of Art 1976. 4to 40pp. illus; orig. wrappers. § Scarce show of Blake and his circle edited by Larry Gleeson. Museum of Art unknown 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
