1 088 résultats
19342196865The Modern Library 1934. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First thus stated on copyright page. Lacks jacket. Minor loss of gilt from spine titles. 1934 Hard Cover. xvii 288 pp. Translated from the original French by William Hume Blake with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs. The Modern Library hardcover books
16497Margaret Todd. Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1918. First Edition. 574 pages. Original cloth board. 9 x 6 in. Frontispiece portrait of Jex-Blake. <br/><br/>Sophia Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom. She led the campaign to secure women access to a University education when she and six other women collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. A leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other medical schools were training women. In addition to her medicine work she led the campaign for women's rights to a University education in the UK. Comes with rare pamphlet reprinted from R.F.H. Magazine detailing her life. Very good. unknown books
18861092194to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text 24 On Homer’s Poetry 25 blank. Original wrappers upper wrapper titled in manuscript lower wrapper blank stitched as issued. Bookplate of Templeton Crocker. § Copy #50 of 50 copies numbered and signed by Muir. Includes “All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5 as in other copies and also the separate plate “On Homer’s Poetry†not found in the other copies above but present in copy #40 for sale at James Cummins. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. 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." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†BB#249g. Bentley Blake Books 249 G. The Templeton Crocker/Herbert M. Evans copy with the Crocker bookplate at the front and Howell’s note “HME†at the back priced $100. William Muir unknown books
1977Embry 152775U. of Chicago Press 1977. Fine in near fine lightly soiled dust jacket with a short closed tear in mylar cover. B&W illustrations and maps. U. of Chicago Press, 1977. unknown books
1980100763Oblong 12mo. Hancock VT: Top Drawer Enterprises 1980. Oblong 12mo 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Very good. § Top Drawer Enterprises unknown books
1980100764Oblong 12mo. Hancock VT: Top Drawer Enterprises 1980. Oblong 12mo 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Stained on 2 panels. Good. § Top Drawer Enterprises unknown books
2013293982Los Angeles: Bruce Little 2013. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Blake Little. 104 full page color photographs of "beefy" men. Small folio gray cloth d.w. Los Angeles: Bruce Little 2013. Limited First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by the artist on half title.<br/><br/> Laid-in is a digital proof of one of the plates signed by the photographer.<br/><br/> Bruce Little unknown books
194029824London: Collins for the Crime Club 1940. FIRST EDITION. Very light spotting to fore and top edges. Cloth clean and bright. Near fine book in a dust jacket that would be near fine but for an oddly- shaped price clip at bottom of front flap. Spine panel of jacket very slightly faded. Short tear at top edge. Overall a crisp copy of this scarce Nigel Strangeways mystery. Scarc in jacket. <br/><br/> Collins for the Crime Club hardcover books
19471328376London: The Crime Club 1947. Hardcover. 12mo; Fourth impression 1947; G-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine orange with black print; DJ in mylar mild edgewear wear to front hinge and crease to spine; Boards in blue cloth with black print cocked spine wear to corners edges and spine caps crease to spine; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers age-toning to paper clean text; 284 pages. STOCK IMAGE. 1328376. FP New Rockville Stock. The Crime Club hardcover books
2007259931Las Vegas NV: Nazca Plains Corp 2007. Magazine. 63p. 8.25x10.5 inches guest editiorial stories reviews erotic illustrations and cartoons very good magazine in pictorial wraps. Bad-boy heir to leathersex traditions of Drummer Mach and International Leatherman. Nazca Plains Corp unknown books
2007259930Las Vegas NV: Nazca Plains Corp 2007. Magazine. 64p. 8.25x10.5 inches guest editiorial stories reviews erotic illustrations and cartoons very good magazine in pictorial wraps. Bad-boy heir to leathersex traditions of Drummer Mach and International Leatherman. Nazca Plains Corp unknown books
1954104701Large 8vo. New York:Heritage Press 1954. Large 8vo 43; 44 2 pp. 12 gravure plates after the paintings by William Blake. Quarter red cloth marbled boards. § Reprint of the edition designed by Bruce Rogers. The illustrations are from the Blake designs in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the two works by Milton which they illustrate have been printed dos-a-dos. Heritage Press hardcover books
1780110671Single 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
