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1780110673Single plate. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. A little browned around the edges very good. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen’s College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. Harrison and co unknown books
1954159400New York: The Limited Editions Club / George Macy Company 1954. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with faint label mark on spine; i. d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages incl. pocket and card; inscription from one person to another; otherwise clean. A turn-around book. Black cloth gilt letters on spine and on both covers; marbled flyleaves and book dividers. 88 total pp. 12 BW plates. Two two two books in one. Half of this volume is John Milton's "Il Penseroso" and the other half is "L'Allegro." Both texts include 6 BW illustrations each as rendered by English painter and poet William Blake 1757-1827. #1392 of 1780 copies. Nice! The Limited Editions Club / George Macy Company hardcover books
2014233933San Francisco: Left Magazine 2014. Magazine. 60p 9x6 inches landscape format articles ads photos events reviews interviews very good slick LGBT entertainment magazine for the Bay Area stapled pictorial wraps. Left Magazine unknown books
1967110976Cleveland: K.D.S. 1967. Paperback. 190p. very good first printing PBO in original pictorial wraps. Lesbian pulp fiction masquerading as case histories. An Original Century Book CB 014. K.D.S. paperback books
2015150113San Antonio Texas: McNay Art Museum 2015. Softcover. VG. Blue & color illus. wraps 68 pp. many color & BW illus. two fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition focusing on the performance art created by American artist Lesley Dill b. 1950 from 1993-2015. With an artist interview conducted by Rene Paul Barilleaux; photographs and descriptions from more than 20 years' worth of performances; and an illustrated essay on the artist and Russian avant-garde. Includes a brief artist bio. Highly illustrated and worth a look. McNay Art Museum unknown books
19261012554to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1926. 4to ix pp. illustrated facsimiles of the original letters. Quarter gray cloth marbled boards printed label on upper cover. § Limited to 325 copies. Facsimiles of the only 10 letters known to have survived written by Blake to his friend and patron of thirty years Thomas Butts 1759-1846. Also included are a rough draft of Butts’ reply to Blake’s first letter and a debtor and creditor account between them for the year 1805. This is the first time they were reproduced in facsimile and the first time Butts’ letter has been printed in full. Bentley Blake Books 90. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1839487161839. BLAKE J.L. LETTERS TO AN ONLY DAUGHTER ON CONFIRMATION: BEING A MANUAL FOR THE YOUTH OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Philadelphia: Published by J.W. Whetham 1839. 16mo. original brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. A series of letters and essays on the importance and aspects of Christian confirmation. Signed presentation from Blake in pencil on the front endpaper to Bishop Jackson Kemper a famous American frontier missionery: "Bishop Kemper with the respects of The Author." With Kemper's ink signature on the front pastedown. Kemper was the Bishop of Wisconsin and was the founder of Nashotah House and Racine College. He promoted outreach to the Indians and urged translations of Scripture and services into Native American languages. Good gilt bright but spine & edges rubbed little cracking spine & one signature slightly pulled modern bookplate of Lloyd dudley Rapp on the front pastedown. Scarce!! $250.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19681232818vo. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1968. 8vo 224 pages with a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original blue cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Final revised edition the best single account of Blake's manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 93 C: “Comprehends fairly full notes some related documents such as receipts and provenances.†Includes importabt notes on Blake's extant manuscripts receipts etc. Harvard UP hardcover books
19061080028vo. New York: Scribners 1906. 8vo xlvii 237 40 ads pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates. Original blue cloth gilt ink stain and ink signature on front endpaper a very good copy. § First edition of this collection. Bentley Blake Books 88. Scribners hardcover books
19061087808vo. London: Methuen 1906. 8vo xlvii 237pp plus 40pp publisher's booklist. 12 black and white plates. Very good in original dark blue cloth with top edges gilt and gilt embossed figure on spine. Spine slightly faded and some minor spotting to edges of first signature. § First and only edition. Bentley Blake Books 88. Methuen hardcover books
19061011158vo. London: Methuen 1906. 8vo xlvii 237 pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates. Half red morocco gilt top fine. § First edition of this collection this copy very pleasantly bound. Bentley Blake Books 88. Methuen unknown books
186255195Providence: A. Crawford Greene steam book and job printer 1862. First edition 8vo pp. 38 2; self-wrappers stitched as issued; very good. Blake 1809-1879 is buried in Bristol R.I. Not in Bartlett. Sabin 5786. <br/><br/> A. Crawford Greene, steam book and job printer unknown books
1976101504Small 8vo. Berlin: Insel Verlag 1976. Small 8vo 115pp. Pages 9-62 with full page full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Early but not first printing 9-13 thousand. Bentley BB C191: “persuasive facsimile. German translation. and Hoffmann’s ‘Nachwort’.†Insel Verlag unknown books
18031051664 vols. Chichester: J. Seagrave 1803-04. 4 vols. in 3 4to 8 table of contents 1-413 2; 6 iii-xii introductory letter 1-424; 4 i-iii iv-xxxi 1-416 1; 2 ads 1-122 22 pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text one designed and engraved by Blake 4 engraved by Blake after other artists and 1 engraved by Caroline Watson. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders on both covers. Backstrips and labels chipped covers rubbed with minor loss of calf hinges considerably worn yet sound. Armorial bookplate of Mrs Gosling in all three vols. § Second edition final state of the “Weatherhouse†plate designed by Blake. Hayley’s position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley however “the plates for vols i-ii are much more clearly and darkly printed in the second edition so indicated on the title pages than the first. Perhaps many of the lines were cut more deeply when the plates were converted in their second states but more careful inking and printing could account for the considerable tonal differences. One hesitates to blame Mrs. Blake for the poor impressions of the first states but that may indeed be the case†Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations 86. Bentley Blake Books 468 A. Easson & Essick I VII. J. Seagrave unknown books
18031050323 vols. Chichester: J. Seagrave 1803-04. 3 vols. 4to 10 table of contents iii-xiii 1-413; 8 1-424; 2 1-iii iv-xxxi 416 4 6 1-122 24 pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text one designed and engraved by Blake the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Original polished brown half calf marbled paper over boards. Backstrips of each volume with two black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Hinges and joints of vol. III just starting. Some spotting and foxing along edges of text blocks and within the text itself sometimes within the image. Minor rubbing and wear at extremities. Armorial bookplate of the Corbollis family on front pastedown of each volume. Excellent original copies in fantastic overall condition. § Second edition final state of the “Weatherhouse†plate designed by Blake. Hayley’s position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley however “the plates for vols i-ii are much more clearly and darkly printed in the second edition so indicated on the title pages than the first. Perhaps many of the lines were cut more deeply when the plates were converted in their second states but more careful inking and printing could account for the considerable tonal differences. One hesitates to blame Mrs. Blake for the poor impressions of the first states but that may indeed be the case†Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations 86. Bentley Blake Books 468 A. Easson & Essick I VII. J. Seagrave hardcover books
18031027843 vols. Chichester: J. Seagrave 1803-04. 3 vols. 4to 2 xii 8 413; 4 424; 6 xxxi 416 pages. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text one designed and engraved by Blake the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Old diaper calf rebacked new labels a good set. § Second edition final state of the “Weatherhouse†plate designed by Blake. Hayley’s position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley. Bentley Blake Books 468 A. Easson & Essick I VII. Bound in at the end is another book entitled: Cowper Illustrated by a Series of Views in or near The Park of Weston-Underwood Bucks. London: 1803 published by Vernor and Hood and with an engraved title and 12 plates by Storer and Greig. This added text has nothing to do with Blake and only relates to William Cowper. J. Seagrave unknown books
189288902 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1892. 2 vols. 8vo Vol. I: xxi 308pp; Vol. II: 284pp. 2 frontispieces with tissue guards and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to spine. Moderate foxing to title pages and throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. § First edition. John Linnell was an English Romantic painter 1792-1882. Linnell was one of the best friends and patrons of William Blake. Bentley Blake Books 2769. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover books
186322648London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co 1863. First edition. Volume I contains Gilchrist's biography of Blake; Volume II prints a selection of Blake's poems and other writings. Fine copy. 2 volumes portrait and illustrations some fold-out marbled endpapers half red morocco and yellow buckram over boards t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe half-titles bound in. Fine copy. Macmillan and Co unknown books
18635924London: Macmillan 1863. First edition. Bentley said it better than we can: "Never has an important literary reputation been posthumously established so effectively instantaneously and forcefully. Gilchrist's title 'Pictor Ignotus' had not been mere showmanship. Blake had been unknown and Gilchrist made him sensationally well-known. From 1863 on Blake took an unchallenged place in literary and artistic history as one of the great figures of the Romantic Movement. Gilchrist's biography is still in many respects the best biography of Blake" pp. 12-13. 24 cm; 2 volumes. i-v vi-xv 1-389; i-v vi-vii 1-3 4-268 pages and 66 plates including the "Job" engravings and 16 plates from electrotypes of the copperplates of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Text illustrations. Folding plate of Canterbury pilgrims in volume 2. Bound in roughly contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt-tooled compartments on spine with original gilt-stamped morocco covers laid down on front pastedowns in both volumes. Binding somewhat worn at joints and edges but this is a sound copy internally without blemish. Reference: Bentley Blake Books 1234A. Macmillan hardcover books
18631048982 vols. London: Macmillan 1863. 2 vols 8vo i-v vi-xv 1-389; i-v vi-vii 1-3 4-268 pp. In addition to the portrait frontispiece in vol. 1 the folding frontispiece of the Canterbury Pilgrims in vol. 2 and numerous illustrations from Job and Songs this is an extra-illustrated copy with 34 bound tipped-in or loosely inserted engravings from The Grave Triumphs of Temper Aphorisms on Man Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper Botanic Garden and Gay’s Fables. 19th-century full tan-colored calf rebacked surely to accommodate the extra-illustrations triple gilt fillet borders on covers fleurons at corners gilt backstrip with red-colored morocco labels gilt turn-ins all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The front flyleaf in vol. I with a chip at the upper-right corner. Occasional spotting or foxing. See below for complete list of extra material. Very good. § First edition. This copy is unusual and desirable for the extra material from many of Blake’s most famous commercial engravings as follows: Volume I: Originally bound in opposite pp. 1 but now detached ‘Guillermo Blake’ T Phillips Pinx t L Schiavonetti V.A. Sculpt. Frontispiece from the very rare Meditaciones Poeticas 1826 folded three times 8-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches; and 11 additional engravings from the same edition are bound in after the text all folded in order of original appearance and fairly tightly cropped; and a single engraving from The Triumphs of Temper: Flaxman/ Blake Canto I Verse 29 1803 Cadell and Davies.Volume II: After pp. 268 we find the cropped title page from the quarto issue of The Grave 8-6/8 x 13 inches. After the text in vol. 2 resumption of grangerized material from the1803 Triumphs of Temper continues as follows: Canto II Verse 471; Canto III Verse 201; Canto VI Verse 294; Canto V Verse 43; and Canto IV Verse 328. The frontispiece from Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man showing William Cowper looking up measuring 8 x 9-1/2 inches. Four engravings from Life and Posthumous Writings Cowper: A View of St Edmunds Chapel; William Cowper Author of The Task; William Cowper Carmine Nobilem; and Mrs Cowper. From the 1799 J. Johnson 8vo edition of Darwin’s Botanic Garden: The Fertilization of Egypt London Dec 1st 1791 St Pauls Church Yard. 9 engravings from Gay’s Fables Vol I 1793: The Goat without a Beard; The Shepherd and the Philosopher; The Pin and the Needle; The Tame Stage; The Miser and Plutus; The Persian the Sun and the Cloud; The Butterfly and the Snail; The Setting Dog and the Patridge; and The Owl and the Farmer.Also of interest are the prints found in all copies - three from electrotypes of the Virgil prints and 17 from electrotypes of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Gilchrist was Blake’s first full-scale biographer. The work was unfinished when he died and largely completed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti who wrote the final chapter from Gilchrist’s notes with help from his brother William Michael and also Swinburne whose own book on Blake was the result of his researches when reviewing Gilchrist’s book. Bentley Blake Books 1680A. Macmillan unknown books
1886302951London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1886. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. Blake plate folded fine. Volume bound in contmporary quarter brown morocco and cloth marbled endsheets t.e.g. Minor rubbing to joints. Very good. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. First volume of the Hobby Horse publication of the influential Century Guild. Notable for the fine facsimile of the rare Blake broadside Little Tom the Sailor. The ballad is by William Hayley and in the autumn of 1800 Blake engraved the two images on pewter. The broadside was "Printed for & Sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the benefit of her orphans". The facsimile is uncredited but is by William Muir. Bentley 407b Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co unknown books
108281Printed for & sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the Benefit of her Orphans. n.d. 55.9 x 22.9 cm. single sheet folded once with some traces of mounting tape on the vertical margin some creases but very good. § The very fine William Muir facsimile often mistaken in the past as the original. The poem was composed by William Hayley. Originally etched in relief and white line by Blake on four plates printed in black ink uncolored; copies are also known hand colored or printed in brown ink. This is one of Blake’s rarest works; it is also amongst the rarest of Muir’s facsimiles; some were issued in The Hobby Horse and some separately - this is one of the separate issues and the only copy I have ever seen. They can be distinguished from the Hobby Horse examples since the latter were cut into two pieces to fit in the magazine always with slight loss of text at the cut or folded twice. Bentley Blake Books 470B or D. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 384. See also Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. who reports that the Muir facsimile was exhibited for some years as the original at the Pierpont Morgan Library.Essick notes: Muir “Little Tom†copies from my collection handlist. Gives the full watermark of the example bound in the Hobby Horse and Muir’s statement see first entry that his facsimile is based on an original owned by H. H. Gilchrist.Little Tom the Sailor. Datable to 1886. Laid paper leaf 56.8 x 23.1 cm. with watermark "POUNCY." On the printed front wrapper of his 1887 Europe facsimile Muir notes that his facsimile of Little Tom is "from Mr. Gilchrist's copy" now untraced. The facsimile is attributed to Emery Walker Ltd. rather than Muir in Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. page 109; this paper listed by Keynes as no. iii on page 110. Matted. Acquired July 1971 from Charles Sessler Books $200. BB#249i 470C or D. Idem. Laid paper leaf 61.8 x 21.3 cm. with watermark “JOHN DICKINSON & Co†this paper listed in Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. page 110 no. i. Folded twice and bound in The Century Guild Hobby Horse vol. 1 no. 4 Oct. 1886 which see under Biography and Criticism Periodicals through 1900. BB#249i 470B 1683. Idem. With the headpiece and tailpiece hand color in imitation of the original in the British Museum very probably hand colored by Blake or his wife Catherine. Inscribed in pen and brown ink “No 3 Wm Muir†upper left leaf of wove paper without watermark 60.3 x 23.0 cm. Quaritch records the delivery from Muir of a “coloured†copy of Little Tom on 11 May 1925 no copy number recorded. Quaritch’s catalogue 401 of May 1926 offers as item 243 a Muir facsimile of Little Tom with “two illustrations coloured by hand from the copy in the British Museum†for £1.1s. This catalogue dates the work to “1925†apparently the date of coloring possibly of printing but not of original execution as a lithograph. The same entry appears in Quaritch’s Dec. 1926 catalogue 405 item 256 1926 catalogue 427 item 248 and 1930 catalogue 434 item 2065. Acquired Nov. 2012 on $1316.99. BB#249i 470C or D hand colored copies not listed. Muir “Little Tom†copies from my collection handlist. Gives the full watermark of the example bound in the Hobby Horse and M unknown books
1960Embry 124985Lloyd's Register of Shipping N.d. circa 1960. First edition first printing. Very slight sunning to front panel still fine. B&W illustrations. Tan cloth no dust jacket. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, N.d. circa 1960. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1966155831Boston: Little Brown 1966. hardcover. very good/very good-. Illustrated. xii 435 pages 8vo cloth d.w.; bookplate inside front cover dust wrapper chipped. Boston: Little Brown 1966. A very good copy in a very good- dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
110779N.p.: n.d. Single sheet 8 x 5 ins b/w engraving of a ship sinking signed “Blake sc.â€. § A print by the “wrong Blake†as Bentley described the various other Blakes who were artists or engravers roughly within Blake’s lifetime. The ship sank in 1803; curiously a similar image but reversed and unsigned was found in Google images. n.d. Single sheet unknown books
