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1780110666Single 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
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
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
17751087573 vols. London: T. Payne 1775/1776. 3 vols 4to xx 516; 2 vi 535; viii 602 pp with 31 engravings on the 30 listed plates. A very good and attractive set in clean condition bound in original calf with gilt decorated rules to covers and gilt decoration to spine panels with six compartments and red and black labels. § Vols I and II second edition 1775 and Vol III only edition 1796. The three maps are lacking. All other illustrations are present in good condition but including usual offsetting and a few showing minor mottling and browning. Plate XI stated in the List of Plates to be a Bartolozzi engraved plate designed by Cypriani from an original onyx Camaio by the Greek artist Tryphon is the correct plate although in fact it bears no plate No. and the imprint " G. B. Cipriani Del I.K. Sherwin Sculp.". Although Bartolozzi normally signs his studio's plates J. K. Sherwin was an apprentice of Bartolozzi's and presumably was allowed to sign his engraving in this instance. The plate's design matches "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" from Tryphon's Camaio in the Duke of Marlborough's Collection see e.g Wikipaedia: "The Marlborough Gem". Bentley BB 439. Essick CBI p. 117 entry C. T. Payne unknown books
17751087571775. London: T. Payne 1775/1776. <br /> <br /> 3 vols 4to xx 516; 2 vi 535; viii 602 pp with 31 engravings on the 30 listed plates. A very good and attractive set in clean condition bound in original calf with gilt decorated rules to covers and gilt decoration to spine panels with six compartments and red and black labels.<br /> <br /> § Second edition of Vol. 1 and 2 1775 and only edition of Vol. 3 1796. The three maps are lacking. All other illustrations are present in good condition but including usual offsetting and a few showing minor mottling and browning. Plate XI stated in the List of Plates to be a Bartolozzi engraved plate designed by Cypriani from an original onyx Camaio by the Greek artist Tryphon is the correct plate although in fact it bears no plate No. and the imprint "G. B. Cipriani Del I.K. Sherwin Sculp." Although Bartolozzi normally signs his studio's plates J. K. Sherwin was an apprentice of Bartolozzi's and presumably was allowed to sign his engraving in this instance. The plate's design matches "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" from Tryphon's Camaio in the Duke of Marlborough's Collection see e.g Wikipaedia: "The Marlborough Gem". Bentley BB 439. Essick CBI p. 117 entry C. unknown
179061157Printed for J Cooke 17 Paternoster Row. 1790. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only No date presumed 1790 iv 460pp lacking all plates and maps title page creased odd mark in text. Smartly bound in recent brown cloth leather spine label new endpapers; Quarto . Printed for J Cooke 17 Paternoster Row hardcover
1787g4041London: J Cooke. G : in good condition. Cover worn with loss to leather. Front board loose. Worming extinct to prelims. Occasional foxing and marks. 1787. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 390mm x 260mm 15" x 10". 990pp vi plates. 90 b/w plates 18 b/w maps 8 fold-out. . And Containing a Complete Genuine History and Description of the Whole World . with an Account of the Rise Progress and Present State of Navigation throughout the Known World. 2 volumes bouns as 1. William Cooper His Booke. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . J Cooke hardcover
1787024881London: J. Cooke 1787 Undated but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt spine labels rubbed & worn rebacked with original spines laid-down hinges slackening cloth tape strengthening to hinges both volumes some chipping to leather amateurish repairs internally clean & complete; pp. iv 1-460 with frontispiece 94 plates full-page 1/2 page &1/4 page on 51 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 1 full page; ii title last blank 461-990 page 663 erroneously labelled 635 4 list of Subscribers misbound between p.988 & 989 2 Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts with 70 plates full-page & 1/2 page on 39 sheets 6 folding maps/charts 10 full page see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8 October 1971 for a history of the book highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions. Very heavy set 9 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue intact but would benefit from some restoration. Ex-libris Charles Scobie ANARE Macquarie Island 1948 with his ownership signature and date 29-5-1941 to rear pastedown. First Edition. Hard Cover. G. J. Cooke hardcover
178914263London: C. Cooke 1789. 2nd or 3rd edition. Hardcover. Likely to be an original subscriber's copy listed as "Wilson - Crown Court Broad St." likely to be "John Wilson" whose red gilt leather ownership label is mounted into the front board with special blind tooled lines surrounding it. A second or third edition published between 1789 & 1791 according to research by Alan Frost published in the LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No. 8 1971. A very bright unsophisticated copy of this work which has become increasingly scarce. Ferguson 59 describes a 1 volume edition & cites only the Mitchell Library copy. <br /> <br /> Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's Voyages and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest Tasmania New Zealand Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time. It is these contemporary images which make this work scarce as so many have been broken up. <br /> <br /> Folio. Frontispiece title page verso blank i Royal Licence ii Address to the Reader 1-990 Texts etc. 2 pp Directions to the Binder 2 pp A List of Subscribers Complete with 90 plates & 22 maps the map of Great Britain has original hand color; the map of Europe has been hand colored not unpleasantly but not professionally. Maps and plates are in very good condition with no refolding or cracking which is usual in this work. Bound in period reversed calf red gilt title label on spine. Matching early reverse calf strengthening of outer hinge a couple of splits on leather of spine and very chipped at top and bottom o/w a very nice copy. <br /> <br /> "The geography books which appeared in the closing decades of the eighteenth century. are of considerable significance to students of the history of ideas for the light they shed on English interest in geography and geographical exploration at the end of the eighteenth century. One of the most imposing of these usually quite imposing books is Thomas Bankes Edward Warren Blake and Alexander Cook's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. A massive folio volume this was a popular work running to six editions in the ten years from 1787 to 1797."Frost Thomas Bankes's Complete System The La Trobe Journal 1971.<br /> <br /> Extedned title - All the late important Discoveries made by the English and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations in the different Hemispheres from the Celebrated Columbus the first Discoverer of America to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay:. C. Cooke hardcover
17891602030019Printed for C. Cooke No. 17 Pater-Noster-Row 1789-1790. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings 17 single engraving plates 9 single leaf maps 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good front board detached. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout affecting a few plates tanning to margins a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827 affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn lacking almost half with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold tears; The Chart map maps of Africa North America Italy Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated presumed to be the 2nd edition printed 1789-1790 1787-1788 was the 1st ed. This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific Cook's voyages and Australia New Holland. ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. <br><br> Contents: 5-106 Book I New Discoveries 107-314 Book II Asia 315-460 Book III Africa 461-576 Book IV America 577-944 Book V Europe 944-947 Supplement 947-948 Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation 949-953 A General Table of Coins 954-959 A New Geographical Table 960 The Superficial Contents of the Globe 961-980 A Guide to Geography 981-990 Index 2 pp. Directions to the Binder 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830 p. 242. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row hardcover
1798100653All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. London: J. Johnson 1798. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed. § One of Blake’s scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen’s English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley Blake Books 416. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXXVII. J. Johnson unknown books
17981006531798. London: J. Johnson 1798. <br /> <br /> All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed.<br /> <br /> § One of Blake's scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen's English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley BB 416. Essick CBI XXXVII. unknown
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
