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19791088538vo. London: Thames and Hudson 1979. 8vo 102pp with colored reproduction of the original Copy G and a 35 page commentary. Very good in original illustrated wrappers with slight crease to one corner of rear wrapper. § Reissue of 1978 Shambhala edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 76. Thames and Hudson unknown books
1929255880New York: Dent & Dutton 1929. hardcover. very good. Reproduced in Facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author in 1794 formerly in the possession of the late Baron Dimsdale. With a Note by Dorothy Plowman. Tall slim 8vo burgundy cloth. London & Toronto: Dent & Dutton 1929. Very good .<br/><br/> Dent & Dutton unknown books
1978292594Boulder: Shambhala 1978. hardcover. fine/fine. William Blake. Edited with a Commentary by Kay Parkhurst Easson and Roger R. Easson. 28 color plates 102pp. 8vo cloth-backed boards. Boulder: Shabhala 1978. Fine.<br/><br/> Shambhala unknown books
123269Brown UP: 1971. 4to xiv 82pp. original cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Fine reproduction of the NYPL copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley Blake Books 27: “The bibliographical details are novel and important.†1971. 4to hardcover books
1917Embry 95284Blake Society ca. 1917. Limited edition of 30 copies. Text block fine and bright. Small stains to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards near fine with light rubbing and with wear to edges and corners. B&W illustrations. White cloth spine over olive boards with paper label. Blake Society, ca. 1917. Limited edition of 30 copies. hardcover books
1920123193Slim 4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1920. Slim 4to 8 unnumbered hand-colored plates. Half red calf upper cover lettered in gilt upper cover slightly soiled. § The second Muir facsimile based on copy J in the Houghton Library and limited to 50 copies so stated. With Muir's limitation statement and copy number 5 pasted in the front. Bentley Blake Books 249b. William Muir unknown books
1885123176Tall slim folio. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. Tall slim folio 8 unnumbered hand-colored plates with no printed outline. Full red straight-grain morocco covers panelled in gilt backstrip gilt-lettered. A fine copy bookplate of C.H. Wilkinson dated 1938. § The Muir facsimile based on copy D in the British Museum and limited to around 50 copies. The plates are delicately colored and the text is in golden-brown. Bentley Blake Books 249b. Essick notes three versions of the ca. 1885 edition one entirely executed by hand another version with the correction of 'sprin' to 'springs' on leaf 5 line 7 and a third version with the final two leaves numbered 5 and 6 as in Blake's original the two prior versions do not have numbered leaves. William Muir unknown books
19651047324to. London: Trianon Press 1965. 4to 8 plates 5 pp. text plus the extra materials. Full brown morocco marbled paper-covered slipcase gilt lettering to backstrip. A fine copy. § Edition limited to 426 copies de luxe issue being copy XII of XX copies with a suite of progressive states of one plate an original guide-sheet and stencil etc. One of the more difficult Trianon Press books to find. Bentley Blake Books 26. “The first the simplest and the most charming of the prophetic books. best understood as a rewriting of Milton’s Comus.†Trianon Press unknown books
1884303028Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch 1884. Each title one of 50 copies. With 8 26 11 and 21 plates in the four works 66 total. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full white vellum gilt spine and upper cover titled in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Fine copy. Cloth slipcase. Each title one of 50 copies. With 8 26 11 and 21 plates in the four works 66 total. 1 vols. 4to. Four Muir Facsimiles in Special Binding. The Muir facsimiles were produced in editions of 50 copies; a few copies would have been bound up by Quaritch the distributor in white vellum as here. The wrappers are not preserved but the books are complete. Bentley 249 bce & g John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch unknown books
18851088074to. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 4to 1 preface by Muir 8 hand- colored leaves; 1preface by Muir 11 hand-colored leaves bound with tissue guards in original gray wrappers as issued by Muir: copies 24 and 30. Bound in contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco and gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards with H.C. Plimmer's bookplate. Very good. § The Thel facsimile is based on copy D colored by hand and limited to about 50 copies. Essick notes three versions of the ca. 1885 edition one entirely executed by hand this version with the correction of ’sprin’ to ’springs’ on leaf 5 line 7 and with the two final plates numbered 7 and 8 and a third version with the final two leaves correctly numbered 5 and 6 as in Blake’s original. The Visions facsimile also limited to around 50 copies is on Hodgkinson wove paper some copies were printed on a thinner “Antique Note†laid paper. Based on copy A in the British Museum. Bentley Blake Books 249 b and c William Muir hardcover books
1971WRCLIT45441Providence & New York: Brown University Press and The New York Public Library 1971. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Color facsimiles and b&w illustrations. First edition edited by Nancy Bogen. Foreword by David V. Erdman. Fine in price-clipped lightly rubbed and dust-smudged dust jacket. Brown University Press and The New York Public Library hardcover books
19308038San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1930 Number 8 of 300 copies printed for the Club by The Windsor Press. 24mo 5x3¾ inches. 22pp. Title page design and one plate by Julian A. Links Windsor Press logo. Limp vellum lettered on front cover in gilt. Bookplate tipped in at front but a very fine copy with slipcase slipcase label faded. One of the illustrations by Julian Links drew a letter of protest to Oscar Lewis from Rockwell Kent for it is blatantly derivative of one of Kent's bookplate designs. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1920302999London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown books
1920303032London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers light chipping to edges else fine. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown books
1885303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Bentley 249b unknown books
1928WRCLIT54180London & New York: Gollancz/Payson & Clarke 1928. Quarto. Gilt decorated cloth. First edition of this color facsimile of the BM copy printed on Japan vellum. One of a total of 1700 numbered copies. Spine a bit dull bookplate else nice. BENTLEY & NURMI 24-6. Gollancz/Payson & Clarke hardcover books
192829976London & New York: Victor Gollancz and Payson and Clarke Ltd 1928. Edition limited to 1700 copies this copy no. 672; slim 4to pp. 18 printed on rectos only; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine faded and rubbed at extremities. Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum. <br/><br/> Victor Gollancz [and] Payson and Clarke Ltd hardcover books
1928WRCLIT17297London & New York: Gollancz/Payson & Clarke 1928. Quarto. Gilt decorated cloth. First edition of this color facsimile of the BM copy printed on Japan vellum. One of a total of 1700 numbered copies. Spine a bit dull bookplate else nice. BENTLEY & NURMI 24-6. Gollancz/Payson & Clarke hardcover books
1930WRCLIT29477San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1930. 12mo. Gilt vellum over stiff wrappers. Slight tanning at endsheet gutters vellum shows natural slight mottling and a bit of foxing otherwise very good in slipcase with slight darkening to the label. One of three hundred numbered copies printed at the Windsor Press. One of the illustrations by Julian Links drew a letter of protest from Rockwell Kent for it is blatantly derivative of one of his bookplate designs. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1930310071San Francisco: Book Club of California 1930. No 10 of 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press. Decoration by Julian A. Links. 22 pp. 12mo. Original full vellum lettered in gilt paper slipcase with label. Vellum and slipcase a touch toned faint browning to folds of letter. Housed with letter in quarter morocco clamshell box. Links Julian A. No 10 of 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press. Decoration by Julian A. Links. 22 pp. 12mo. With TLS of Rockwell Kent charging plagarism. With a typed letter signed of Rockwell Kent to Oscar Lewis secretary of the Book Club of California voicing his strong displeasure with the illustrations by Julian Links for this edition. Dated May 13 1930 the letter reads in part: "I am glad that I took the trouble to call the matter to your attention for my complaint does put you in the position of calling the printers to account for what is unquestionably a breach of professional ethics. I am sorry that it is not the policy of the Book Club to supervise more carefully the production of the books that appear within its imprint. I feel the book of Thel irrespective of the plagiarism involved in the illustrations has been very badly illustrated Book Club of California unknown books
197662884to. London: Trianon Press 1976. 4to 5 color plates and commentary and progressive states of the plates and an original copper plate etc. Full brown morocco slipcase. As new. § Copy # VII of XXXII de luxe copies in an edition limited to 512 copies in all. The companion volume to the Book of Ahania. One copy of The Book of Los is known. Bentley Blake Books supplement p. 62. Trianon Press unknown books
197629953Lambeth: printed by Wm. Blake 1793: i.e. Paris: Trianon Press 1976. Edition limited to 538 copies this one of 480 bound in quarter morocco; 4to pp. 18; 5 hand-stenciled collotype illustrations; commentary and bibliographical history by Geoffrey Keynes; fine copy in publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> [i.e. Paris: Trianon Press unknown books
1976CNJL1042London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blake William. Number 113 of 480 quarto size unpaginated 5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary. "The Book of Los" published in 1795 is one of Blake's prophetic books a sort of retelling of "Urizen" from the perspective of the character "Los". "The Book of Ahania" along with "The Book of Los" were some of the last of the series of Illuminated Books completed by Blake while living in Lambeth. The manner of their execution suggest that he was wearying with the effort of making the splendid books that preceded them and was seeking for a less laborious method of production. He completed only one copy of each book and then laid them aside as if dissatisfied with his experiment. He never included either of them in any list of his productions and is not known to have disposed of them to any customer or patron. They therefore remained unknown until late in the nineteenth century. <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: Original quarter adobe-brown morocco with hand-marbled paper sides backstrip lettered in gilt 5 plates reproduced by the collotype and pochoir processes printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake paper is watermarked with Blake's monogram; quarto size 12" by 9.75" unpaginated 5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary limited edition no. 113 of 480 with 538 total copies. Housed in publisher's slipcase covered with the same hand-marbled paper with leather guards on the head and tail of the opening. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean corners are straight text block is tight and square; overall a fine copy. Slipcase is also fine clean and free of chips or toning; a beautiful example.<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
19731106794to. London: Trianon Press 1973. 4to 6 color facsimile leaves 5 pp.of commentary. Quarter black morocco slipcase. As new. § #283 of 808 copies. Bentley BB A15. “Blake suppressed the “Book of Ahania†and recast her tale in “The Four Zoasâ€. She is Urizen’s ‘Shadowy Feminine Semblance’ â€. Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
19731080364to. London: Trianon Press 1973. 4to 6 color facsimile leaves 5 pp. of commentary. Quarter black morocco with marble boards. Black mockup slipcase with edge wear and splitting that has been partially repaired with tape. Notes at front in pencil. Book is in fine condition. § Unnumbered maquette. Trianon Press hardcover books
