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17931092202 vols. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. in one royal 8vo xi 225; vii 1871 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked lower cover rehinged scuffed and untidy internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake’s plates. “The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two.†Sotheran’s. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long “s†throughout and the second does not. Bentley Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. John Stockdale unknown books
1793D11653London: John Stockdale 1793. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary morocco ornate gilt-stamped border on boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 2 volumes 4to; pp. xi 1 225; vii 1 187 1 ad; plus an engraved title-page for each volume and 68 plates including 12 by William Blake; collates complete. First Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout. Boards faintly rubbed; joints and edges of boards lightly bumped and scuffed. Some very faint foxing; the occasional dusty smudge; but overall internally bright and clean. Considered one of the finest examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. <br/><br/> John Stockdale hardcover books
1793287262London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition First Issue of John Gay's Fables. With the long 's' throughout. Complete with sixty-eight plates including twelve by William Blake in addition to the two engraved title pages one at the start of each volume. Said to be the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Minor foxing to the title pages and some plates and offsetting to the opposite pages of most plates. Japanese tissue repair to the front joint of Vol. I. Surface wear to the leather binding. Full calf with red and black leather labels. Very Good. ESTC N9619. Very Good binding. Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1793259579London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. Bound to style in acid-stained calf covers gilt with outer roll border flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and volume label a.e.g. Title-pages trimmed with some loss light foxing to some plates. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates later issue with short "s" throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. With 12 Plates by Blake. The Stockdale edition of Gay's Fables with 12 engravings by Blake who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Bentley & Nurmi 371A; Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
1793259455London: Printed for John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long 's' throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco covers stamped in gilt with outer roll border flat spines divided into 6 compartments 2 with title and volume number the rest gilt with small tool a.e.g. marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities some foxing to title-pages. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates first issue with the long 's' throughout. 2 engraved title-pages with vignette "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake. ii xii 225; ii vii 188 pp. 2 vols. 8vo 10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay's Fables with 12 engravings by Blake who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best examples of Blake's work as a reproductive engraver. Bentley & Nurmi 371A; Ray England 1; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI Printed for John Stockdale unknown books
196824115Cleveland: K.D.S. / Century Books 1968. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear and corner creasing. Small price sticker remnant to front cover. Very good. 186pp. <br/><br/>Sleaze pulp purporting to be a psychological study of "the most mushrooming sexual aberration today" and the peculiar appeal of exhibitionism to the "depraved people" of the "Swinging Sixties." Book begins like all good scholarship with Webster's dictionary definition of "exhibitionist." K.D.S. / Century Books paperback books
108007The Grolier Club New York 1905. The De Vinne Press. Small 8vo 147 pp. Printed tan wrappers with titling and small illustration on front cover pages untrimmed. Cover is detached chipping along edges; good copy. § A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W. A. White M. J. Perry and Hoe. Bentley Blake Books 599. unknown books
1905100718Small 8vo. New York: The Grolier Club 1905. Small 8vo 147pp. Printed wrappers lightly chipped along edges. Pages untrimmed. A very good copy. § A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W.A. White M.J. Perry and Hoe. Bentley Blake Books 599. The Grolier Club unknown books
1969123970Folio. London: Trianon Press 1969. Folio 17 colour and one monochrome facsimile leaves and 9 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Very fine in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in slipcase as issued. § Limited to 526 copies this is copy #313. The frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†is surely Blake’s most famous single image. "The second of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" preceded by America and followed by The Song of Los Europe presents in mythopoeic form the fundamental philosophical positions in conflict in Blake's revolutionary era. Historical events are reconfigured into their universalized representations through Blake's own cast of characters including Enitharmon the female personification of fallen nature and history Orc the spirit of revolt and Los and Urizen the "Eternals" who would become central to Blake's mythic system of the "Zoas." These contending forces lead beyond political revolution to an apocalypse of biblical scope." The William Blake Archive. At the end is reproduced an extra etched leaf of text that Blake only included in two copies which tell of a fairy that Blake caught who sang him a song about the five senses of man.Europe survives in only fourteen known copies few complete all but one held by institutions. The remarkable Blake Trust Trianon Press facsimiles hand-colored using pochoir with extraordinary fidelity are for most of us the nearest possible thing to handling the original book. Martin Butlin noted in the Blake Quarterly: “The long list of color facsimiles produced by the Trianon Press under Arnold Fawcus for the William Blake Trust were above all objects of beauty recreating as near to perfection as possible Blake’s original achievements.†Bentley Blake Books 34. Trianon Press hardcover books
1887109160Folio. Edmonton: William Muir 1887. Folio 17 plates richly hand colored. Original printed wrappers dated September 1887 backstrip renewed gilt top fine. § Limited to fewer than 50 copies this copy numbered #11 signed priced and numbered by Muir. Based on three different copies see below. With the frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†which is perhaps Blake’s most famous image. Bentley BB 249k1: "plates 1 and 4 are from originals in Mr. Muir's possession copy c plates 2 5-6 and 8 are from copy D and plate 7 9-18 from copy A." See also Bentley Blake Books Supplement pp.66-69. William Muir unknown books
4450The score for the musical about Blake's life and music includes 15 songs and measures 11 3/4 x 9 inches. On the biographical page page 4 Blake signed on the upper margin in black pen ".Eubie Blake." Blake was a critical figure in African American music in the 20th century. unknown books
20930<p><b>BLAKE EUBIE</b>. 1883-1983. American ragtime pianist and composer of "I'm Just Wild about Harry" "Love Will Find a Way" "Charleston Rag" "Memories of You" and other hits. AMusMsS. <i>"Eubie Blake"</i>. 8pp. Small folio roughly 9½" x 12½". N.p.; after 1959. An autograph piano vocal score in pencil of his most famous song "I'm Just Wild about Harry" with notable differences from the original 1921 sheet music version. Seven pages of music and lyrics on four sheets of "King Brand" lined music paper totaling 90 triple measures in E-flat Major set to ¾ time; each page bearing Blake's 1959 Local 802 union stamp. Blake has written on the cover in blue ink "<i>I think Harry would be better for Waltz if Key of C. Sorry about this number in Lead Pencle</i>sic." He has added his initials "<i>E.B.</i>" in red ink to each of these two lines. The first page of music is headed "'<i>I'm Just Wild about Harry' The New Arrangement for Miss Swann Words by Noble Sissle Music by Eubie Blake</i>."</p><p>Blake the son of former slaves who nurtured their child's musical talent began composing while playing in clubs bordellos medicine shows and on the vaudeville circuit where he met composer Noble Sissle and formed the Dixie Duo. Together they composed the groundbreaking musical revue <i>Shuffle Along</i> with playwrights Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles whom they had met at an NAACP benefit. </p><p>After touring New Jersey and Pennsylvania <i>Shuffle Along </i>premiered on Broadway in 1921 and was an instant hit running for an unprecedented 504 performances and defying conventional wisdom that a show written by and starring African-Americans could be commercially successful. <i>Shuffle Along</i>launched the careers of Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson and was the first Broadway show to feature an all-black cast. Additionally its hit song "I'm Just Wild about Harry" broke the taboo against onstage romantic love between African-American characters.</p><p>One of only three songs written specifically for the show "I'm Just Wild about Harry" was originally composed by Blake as a Viennese waltz but "Lottie Gee the veteran performer who introduced it said for her to make it work it would have to be an up-temp one step. 'That cut me to the quick' Blake remembered. 'She was going to destroy my beautiful melody. I loved that waltz. Then Sissle went along with her… 'All right' I said 'we'll make it a one step'" <i>America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley</i> Furia and Lasser. Blake's handwritten notes on our manuscript's cover indicates that he still preferred a waltz tempo for his most famous song nearly 40 years after its debut. </p><p>The popularity of "I'm Just Wild about Harry" was revived in 1948 when President Harry S Truman used it during his reelection campaign. Detractors joked "I'm just mild about Harry." In recognition of its use Blake sent a manuscript excerpt of the song to Truman in 1967 erroneously reported on the internet as the original manuscript with a letter that stated "The interesting thing about 'Harry' was that it actually was written as an election song in the show whose plot was almost a parallel occurrence to the 1948 Presidential Campaign. The story was about the race for Mayor in a small Southern town. Our hero Harry Walton was the underdog in his race just as you were in the Election of 1948. Although we did not have a <u>Chicago Tribune</u>telling the people that his rival had been elected it first appeared that one of the candidates opposing Harry in our Race had won." </p><p>Among Blake's papers at the Maryland Historical Society are manuscripts of the song including one from 1959. However ours differs in both scoring and lyrics. Although Blake agreed to write out quotations from his best-known work this is the only full manuscript version of the song ever to be offered for sale. It belonged to Jazz musician Jim Hession Blake's friend and protégé. </p><p>Some scattered staining and wear with reinforced file holes in the left margin. In very good condition. One of America's most popular and enduring melodies with a long and fascinating history.</p> books
1975123980Oblong 12mo. San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire 1975. Oblong 12mo 11pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers fine. § Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all -- exceptionally scarce and beautiful -- we have had one copy in the last 30 years. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blake’s famous poem printed found in the "Notebook" 1787-1818. Thomas Ingmire was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement his work can be found in public and private collections around the world; it is the subject of Michael Gullick's Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire 1989 and codici 1: a teacher's notebook on modern calligraphy & lettering art 2003. His teaching experience and influence extends throughout the United States to Canada Europe Australia Japan and Hong Kong. Thomas Ingmire unknown books
17981680London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First Edition in English. Three quarto volumes in five 339 x 272mm. Bound by J. Bohn in a close-to-contemporary diced Russian calf binding. Some of the joints reinforced and now all volumes holding well. Complete as to the text and with all five half-titles but with only 168 of the 173 full-page engraved plates by William Blake Bartolozzi Thomas Holloway and others. With the three engraved vignettes engraved by Blake Volume I pages 127 206 and 225 as well as a full-page plate engraved by Blake after Rubens V.I opposite page 159. <br/><br/>A Very Good set overall with light to moderate foxing near the plates most text leaves are generally in excellent shape. <br/><br/>Lavater 1741-1801 "was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists a class of pseudo-scientists who attempted to ascertain character on the basis of physical features.Von der Physiognomik 1772 an unillustrated two volume book was Lavater's first work on the subject; this was later expanded with the help of Goethe into the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente 1775-1778 and further perfected in a French translation Essais sur la physiognomie.supervised by Lavater himself. Lavater's physiognomy differed from those of his predecessors in that he paid special attention to the structure of the head particularly the forehead—a form of psychological indexing that exerted some influence on the development of phrenology and brain localization theories in the early nineteenth century. Lavater's work also influenced artists of the period both in the overall creation of portraits and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings" Norman Library.<br/><br/>Lavater's work on physiognomy was extremely popular and by 1810 sixteen German twenty English fifteen French two American two Russian one Dutch and one Italian versions had appeared. Among the portraits included are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. Garrison and Morton. Norman Library. Osler 3178. Printed for John Murray unknown books
1979105061Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 1979. Hardbound. VG/VG. Rust colored cloth. 232 pp. over 300 bw plates some color as well. Over 300 pieces are illustrated an annotated. Over 50 pages of illustrated Introductory text and remarks precede the item presentation. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited hardcover books
19821007798vo. San Francisco CA: John Howell Books 1982. 8vo 128pp. Illustrated. Item 83 on page 31: Hayley William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper with 6 engravings by William Blake. Printed wrappers. Very good to near fine. § John Howell Books unknown books
192573828London: Chapman & Hall 1925. Hardcover. Good. photos index xvi 206p. Original green cloth. 22cm. Backstrip and adjacent cover area faded. Corner worn. Former owner's name stamp embossed on title-leaf. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1957014838Harper & Brothers 1957. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition Stated $2.95 on Flap. Excellent Biblio-Mystery Excellent Condition. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
191757249NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1917. First Edition. Signed presentation from Jackson on the front endpaper: "To my cheery friend Charles Rufus Harte. Nov. 3/17. W. Jackson." Harte was a civil engineer and a member of the Connecticut Historical Society writing several books on the state's early iron industry and its civil engineers. Jackson was the editor of the "Electric Railway Journal. Tall 8vo. black cloth spine stamped in gilt; 487 pages. Illustrated. Very Good covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight. McGraw-Hill Book Company unknown books
19841015268vo. Madrid: Swan 1984. 8vo 141pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers with minor soiling. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.76 Swan unknown books
19841015258vo. Madrid: Swan 1984. 8vo 141pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers edges curled with minor soiling. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.76 Swan unknown books
100776Los Angeles CA: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers 1971. 8vo 48pp. Illustrated including a Blake image item 5: A Standing Archer. Printed wrappers with some water damage to spine. Good. § Zeitlin & Ver Brugge unknown books
19261015468vo. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1926. 8vo 16 leaves unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. Bentley BB 252B. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
19261015478vo. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1926. 8vo 16 leaves unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Top portion of spine missing. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Glassine wrapper. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
1926WRCLIT80816New York: William Edwin Rudge 1926. Boards paper label. One of 200 copies. A bit of rubbing at extremities but very good and sound. [William Edwin Rudge] hardcover books
