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19721073802 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #10 of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
1886302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L."<br/>The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown books
19724988.2London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1972. 1st edition thus. 1 of 616. Quarter sienna-brown morocco marbled boards slipcase. A near fine/fine copy with some slight rubbing to the slipcase at edges. 2 volumes. 20 plates in color collotype and stencil. 4to; 8vo. <br/><br/>A facsimile of the Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress; description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Number 313 of those copies numbered 1 to 540. The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
19724988.1London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1972. 1st edition thus. 1 of 616 cc. Quarter leather binding over marbled paper boards slipcase. Books - Nr Fine. Slipcase - VG some modest wear along edges/edge chip to center divider. 2 volumes 20 plates in color collotype and stencil. 4to. <br/><br/>A facsimile of the Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress; description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
1972CNJL1047London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Two volumes number 522 of 540 folio and octavo sizes unpaginated 21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary. "There is No Natural Religion" is a series of gnomic aphorisms written in 1788. The plates were made by relief etching on copper and are among Blake's earliest experiments in this method of etching for his illuminated books. The different states slightly vary in the order of the plates with copy L Series b considered to be Blake's first Illuminated Book. The text as described by Geoffrey Keynes in his description ".state Blake's belief in the spiritual and mystical nature of man and the unreality of vegetable existence and reason. In the first series he has stated and reiterated the inadequacy of regarding man as a creature limited in his perceptions by his natural organs. The idea of a 'natural' religion such as might have been satisfied by his Deist friends Paine Priestly and Godwin is therefore discarded as absurd. In the second series Blake has restated in the first Proposition the essence of the first series and has then proceeded to elaborate the effect that such mental limitation would have on its possessor. He would be filled with loathing and despair seeing nothing beyond himself performing the same dull round over and over again. Man is saved by his poetic or 'prophetic' faculties. These make his desires infinite not bounded by his natural organs allowing Blake to end with the triumphant cry of the mystic announcing his identity with God." <br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 is arguably the most original and highly regarded English author - unusual in that he excelled both as an author and an artist. Although thought mad by his contemporaries he was held in high regard for his expressiveness and for the synthesis of philosophical and mystical senses within his work. Blake's work has been spectacularly reproduced through the pochoir technique by Arnold Fawcus and his Trianon Press which has an undeniable claim to being the finest press of its kind in the last century and has long been known for their unrivaled artworks in fine colour printing. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Two volumes both in original quarter brown morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrips lettered in gilt twenty-one plates twenty of which were reproduced by colour collotype with water-color washes by hand through stencil and one monochrome engraving printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake each page is watermarked with Blake's monogram; the larger of the two volumes is folio size 12" by 9.38 and the smaller octavo size 7.25" by 5" unpaginated 21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary limited edition no. 522 of 540 of the regular editions 616 copies total. Both volumes housed in a single publisher's slipcase covered with the same hand-marbled paper.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy both volumes are internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean with only a hint of age-toning to backstrips corners are straight text block is tight and square; overall a fine copy. Slipcase is near fine overall clean and bright with a bit of shelfwear at edges and some minor chips at the opening; overall a fine example. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Bentley Blake Books 202. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust hardcover books
1960262421Seattle: University Of Wash. Press 1960. hardcover. near fine/very good. 346 pages 8vo brown cloth dust wrapper. Seattle: University of Washington Press 1960. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> University Of Wash. Press unknown books
1925292892London: Nonesuh 1925. hardcover. very good. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Volumes 1 and 2 only of 3 total. Short 4to 1/2 vellum vellum spines are discolored and scuffed but the interior is fine marbled boards untrimmed edges. London: Nonesuch Press 1925. Very good.<br/><br/> Nonesuh unknown books
1961300556New York Harper & Brothers 1961. 1961. First American edition so stated; "G-L". 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Larry Lurin unclipped; light soiling. Very good. 243 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harper & Brothers [1961]. hardcover books
193846973New York: Simon and Schuster 1938. Advance Reading Copy. Special Limited Preview Edition" of which this is no. 158 of an unspecified number. Octavo 21.5cm.; publisher's yellow card wrappers printed within double rule bound over glossy pictorial card wrappers jacket flap samples pasted inside wrappers; 8viii741pp. Wrappers rather chipped and toned along extremities slight spine lean else Very Good internally fine. This limited advance reading copy presented in manuscript to a Mr. James Tropp. Novel of modern Spain culminating with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Simon and Schuster unknown books
193841952New York: Simon and Schuster 1938. Fourth printing. Octavo 22cm; cloth boards; dustjacket; viii7413pp. Tight Near Fine unmarked copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper price on rear flap $3.00 scuffed on front panel with light edgewear just Very Good. A novel of modern Spain culminating with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1953106261Small 4to. Roslyn New York: Black’s Readers Service Company 1953. Small 4to 4 313 pages. Original red cloth backstrip gilt-decorated gilt “William Blake†on upper board with a black lettering label. Ink signature on front endpaper very good. § No editor mentioned nor any previous edition referenced. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p.165. Black’s Readers Service Company hardcover books
18931226213 vols. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. large 8vo profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. The Doheny copy with book plate in all three volumes. “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance†Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. The book is also treasured by devotees of gilt-stamped bindings of which this is a striking example. Quaritch hardcover books
18931087763 vols. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. large 8vo. profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition although spines now a little dulled with rubbing to edges and spine ends. All volumes very clean internally with traces of dustiness to the uncut page edges. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance†Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. The book is also treasured by devotees of gilt-stamped bindings of which this is a striking example. Quaritch hardcover books
1893WRCLIT73714London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Three volumes. Large thick octavo. Original green cloth spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Spines somewhat rubbed and dull some shelfwear to joints and lower edges and bumps and wear to fore-tips endsheets a bit foxed and cloth a bit handsoiled some cracking and subtle repairs to inner hinges; still not a wholly disagreeable set of a work particularly susceptible to such issues. First edition. One of five hundred sets comprising the regular paper issue. Controversial in its interpretation of Blake's texts this work nonetheless remains in this issue and binding something of a landmark of 1890s book production. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" - Bentley. Wade quotes Yeats's inscription in his own copy about the nature of this collaboration: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." WADE 218. BENTLEY 369. Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
1893WRCLIT68725London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. Three volumes. Large thick octavo. Original green cloth spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait facsimiles and plates. Some modest rubbing at extremities but a quite bright sound very good or better set. First edition. One of five hundred sets comprising the regular paper issue. Controversial in its interpretation of Blake's texts this work nonetheless remains in this issue and binding something of a landmark of 1890s book production. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" - Bentley. Wade quotes Yeats's inscription in his own copy about the nature of this collaboration: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." WADE 218. BENTLEY 369. Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
17841046722 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. § Only edition. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. Harrison and Co hardcover books
17841017082 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. 8vo 2 485 1; 193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates including 5 by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary calf somewhat worn and vol. I lacking backstrip label. Withal a good set very rare. § Only edition. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic wqorks." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. Harrison and Co unknown books
1784108760Engraved by Blake after Collings. London: Harrison and Co. 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins folded as usual. A little soiled but a good strong impression. § Bentley BB 513 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XIV pp 36-38. Harrison and Co unknown books
1983101467London: Jonathan Cape 1983. First edition of Dahl's Whitbread Award-winning children's novel illustrated by Quentin Blake. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dahl's The Witches centers on the experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. "Don't be fooled by those witches with their black hats black cloaks and broomsticks though those are not REAL WITCHES. Real witches are exceedingly difficult to spot in the wild and dress in ordinary clothes looking very much like ordinary people." Dahl's vital indicators for spotting a real witch include facts like they always wear gloves they have no toes are bald as boiled eggs and they have blue spit. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals adults squirm with displeasure. He is undeniably special" Connolly 104. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
195409298New York: Harper & Brothers 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo 244 pages; first edition stated; pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.75 on front flap. Owner name and date on FFEP. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
196321079New Brunswick: Rutgers 1963. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated. ix 370pp. 8vo red cloth. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1963. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Rutgers unknown books
1963005873New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1963. xiv 370p. b/w illus. slightly chipped dj. Rutgers University Press unknown books
19701008034to. Chicago: University of Chicago 1970. 4to 44pp. Illustrated including an image on page 29 from William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell as performed at Rockefeller Chapel by The Cain Company of the University of Chicago. Red printed wrappers. Very good. § University of Chicago unknown books
1803104400Roy. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake’s engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
1817105709Sm. Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1817. Sm. 8vo xii 166 pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt backstrip richly gilt marbled edges signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text perhaps by Cotes. § A beautiful copy handsomely bound with the frontispiece printed in five colors. Friedman Color Printing in England #31. The Vershbow copy with bookplate. DNB notes: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
