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1957123810Folio. London: Trianon Press 1957. Folio with 9 color plates and 156 illustrations. Original quarter morocco a superb copy virtually mint preserved in a quarter blue morocco box lettered in gilt § Limited to 460 copies this is #219. A very scarce book in good let alone fine condition as the size of the book and the fact that it was not issued with a box or a slipcase eve means most copies are more or less worn. This was the first time that Blake’s Biblical illustrations had been brought together. The catalogue raisonné was compiled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and comprises virtually every Biblical painting by Blake in existence. Bentley Blake Books 681. Trianon Press unknown books
19751052184to. London: Trianon Press 1975. 4to 8 plates 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate plus 22 additional progressive proof plates and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco prospectus inserted a fine copy in slipcase. As new. § #28 of 32 de luxe copies with the extra plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process. The total edition was limited to 458 copies. One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons. Bentley Blake Books A137. “The Song of Los completes the cycle of the four continents. the complete work tells the story of mankind from Adam to the Last Judgment the triumph of death and the general resurrection caused by the revolution.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
198710811222 separate plates. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1987. 22 separate plates approx. 15.75 x 12.25 inches 30 x 31 cm each printed in color on Arches housed in a tri-fold paper folder. Very good condition. § The New Zealand Set are careful watercolor copies of the central designs of the original engravings produced by the circle of John Linnell presented here in faithful facsimile. 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.†Trianon Press for the Blake Trust unknown books
19681075944 vols. London: Trianon Press 1968. 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo Vol. I 8vo i-vii-viii 50 4 pp. Vol. II 12mo 2 pp. 22 plates Vol. III 4 pp. 31 plates Vol. IV 12mo 2 pp. 10 plates negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco volume 4 in brown cloth as issued cloth slipcase gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly rubbed. § From an edition of 726 total copies this is the de luxe advance publisher’s copy including 700 numbered 1 to 700 of which the first 50 have additional material and are in a special binding. Volume I is an introductory volume followed by three volumes of plates. Bentley Blake Books 48. Trianon Press hardcover books
19681075954 vols. London: Trianon Press 1968. 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo Vol. I 8vo i-vii-viii 50 4 pp. Vol. II 12mo 2 pp. 22 plates Vol. III 4 pp. 31 plates Vol. IV 12mo 2 pp. 10 plates negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco volume 4 in brown cloth as issued cloth slipcase gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly rubbed. § From an edition of 726 total copies this de luxe copy unnumbered out of series including 700 numbered 1 to 700 of which the first 50 have additional material and are in a special binding. Volume I is an introductory volume followed by three volumes of plates. Bentley Blake Books 48. Trianon Press hardcover books
1972110461Folio. London: Trianon Press 1972. Folio with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Original sheets marbled boards morocco backstrip lettered in giltquarter brown morocco box. § Edition limited to 518 copies in all including 100 copies for Paul Mellon personally of which 12 copies were a super de luxe issue in three volumes with extra material 36 copies were a de luxe issue also with extra material but in sheets unbound18 copies were hors commerce contents unrecorded and 352 copies either bound in 3 volumes in slipcases or as a single set of the loose sheets in a box. This is #370.The 116 water-color illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems are among Blake's major achievements as an illustrator. They were commissioned in 1797 by Blake's friend the sculptor John Flaxman as a gift for his wife Ann to whom Blake addressed the poem that ends the series. The commission may have been inspired by the Flaxmans' seeing Blake's water-color designs to Edward Young's Night Thoughts begun in 1795. The Gray illustrations follow the same basic format. Blake cut windows in large sheets of the same type of Whatman paper used for the Night Thoughts illustrations and mounted in these windows the texts of Gray's poems from a 1790 octavo edition published by John Murray leaving out some prefatory materials fly-titles the notes and the 7 engraved illustrations. Blake then drew and colored his designs surrounding the letterpress texts. On blank versos near the beginning of each poem and in one case on a separate piece of paper pasted over letterpress text Blake inscribed with pen and ink either titles for each design or quotations from the poem to indicate the passage illustrated. On most text pages Blake also drew a pencil cross left of the first line of the illustrated passage. He numbered most leaves consecutively in pen and ink beginning a new sequence for each of the 13 poems.Blake conceived of his work as an illustrated book rather than a series of unbound designs as indicated by his offsetting Gray's texts above and to the right left on versos from the middle of each leaf—then the convention for all letterpress books. Although listed by William Michael Rossetti in his catalogue of Blake's drawings and paintings published in the 1863 and 1880 editions of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake the Gray illustrations were virtually unknown until their rediscovery by Herbert Grierson in 1919.The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest examples of the art of facsimile reproduction; working from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collection each leaf is faithfully hand-colored through stencils to achieve an astonishing exactitude. The Times Literary Supplement stated that nothing like these books had ever been printed before and that it was highly unlikely that they could be printed again. Bentley Blake Books 385. Trianon Press hardcover books
197291063 volumes. London: Trianon Press 1972. 3 volumes folio with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collo-type and hand-stencil color the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake's pencillings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards morocco backstrips slipcases a very good set as issued. § Limited to 220 copies thus; 100 copies were issued unbound in Port-folio and 36 de luxe copies with extra material. The 116 water-color illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems are among Blake's major achievements as an illustrator. They were commissioned in 1797 by Blake's friend the sculptor John Flaxman as a gift for his wife Ann to whom Blake addressed the poem that ends the series. The commission may have been inspired by the Flaxmans' seeing Blake's water-color designs to Edward Young's Night Thoughts begun in 1795. The Gray illustrations follow the same basic format. Blake cut windows in large sheets of the same type of Whatman paper used for the Night Thoughts illustrations and mounted in these windows the texts of Gray's poems from a 1790 octavo edition published by John Murray leaving out some prefatory materials fly-titles the notes and the 7 engraved illustrations. Blake then drew and colored his designs surrounding the letterpress texts. On blank versos near the beginning of each poem and in one case on a separate piece of paper pasted over letterpress text Blake inscribed with pen and ink either titles for each design or quotations from the poem to indicate the passage illustrated. On most text pages Blake also drew a pencil cross left of the first line of the illustrated passage. He numbered most leaves consecutively in pen and ink beginning a new sequence for each of the 13 poems.Blake conceived of his work as an illustrated book rather than a series of unbound designs as indicated by his offsetting Gray's texts above and to the right left on versos from the middle of each leaf—then the convention for all letterpress books. Although listed by William Michael Rossetti in his catalogue of Blake's drawings and paintings published in the 1863 and 1880 editions of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake the Gray illustrations were virtually unknown until their rediscovery by Herbert Grierson in 1919.The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest examples of the art of facsimile reproduction; working from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collection each leaf is faithfully hand-colored through stencils to achieve an astonishing exactitude. The Times Literary Supplement stated that nothing like these books had ever been printed before and that it was highly unlikely that they could be printed again. Bentley Blake Books 385. Trianon Press hardcover books
19511091744to. London: Trianon Press 1951. 4to 6 ix text and 100 color plates. Original blue cloth folding box worn very good. § Limited to 516 copies. The first of the magnificent series of facsimiles by the Trianon Press of Blake’s illuminated books edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley Blake Books 78. 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.†Trianon Press hardcover 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
1963110688Folio. London: Trianon Press 1963. Folio 18 color facsimile leaves 8 pages commentary. Full blue morocco contents a bit foxed slipcase. § Edition de luxe #19 of an edition limited to 20 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “America was the first of Blake’s books to name a place Lambeth in the imprint. which was an act of defiant courage. for the first time he designated one of his books as “a prophecyâ€. he concentrated particularly on the dramatic events in Boston. Blake continued his tale in Europe and then to make the cycle of continents complete he wrote “Africa†and “Asiaâ€giving a general title of all four: The Song of Los.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of the rarest Trianon Press publications and the first de luxe edition we’ve seen in many years. Bentley Blake Books A9. Trianon Press unknown books
19871106893 huge black slipcases. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust 1987. 3 huge black slipcases with contents in various formats see below. In perfect condition as issued. § Edition limited to 365 copies in three different formats and a super de luxe edition limited to 22 sets of which this is #D. The super de luxe issue includes David Bindman ed. William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job: The Engravings and Related Material with Essays Catalogue of States and Printings Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman Barbara Bryant Robert Essick Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. London: The William Blake Trust 1987. The work is housed in four cloth slipcases trimmed in morocco as follows:1. Text volume with the title page and colophon. Contents:Stephen Keynes “Acknowledgments.â€Charles Ryskamp “Foreword.â€David Bindman and John Commander “Preface.â€Geoffrey Keynes “The Development of the Job Designs.â€David Bindman “The Book of Job Designs from Butts Series to Final Engravings.â€Robert Essick “Blake’s Engravings to the Book of Job: An Essay on Their Graphic Form and Catalogue of States and Printings.â€Barbara Bryant “The Job Designs; a Documentary and Bibliographical Record.â€Quarter morocco and cover label. In the same slipcase: William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job: The Plates with related designs and with an Introduction and Plate-by-Plate Commentary by Bo Lindberg. Loose in fascicles in a quarter morocco folder quarter morocco clamshell box with cover label.2. Colour Versions of William Blake’s Book of Job Designs from the Circle of John Linnell. With an essay by Bo Lindberg. Text volume quarter morocco with cover label. Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “The New Zealand setâ€b. “The Collins setâ€c. “The Fitzwilliam platesâ€3. “Additional Material 1.†Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “Pages from the ‘Riches’ sketchbook with colour washes not publishedâ€b. “William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job Alternative printing of the engravings without plate markâ€c. “Facsimiles of subjects from the Butts version watercolours printed collotype by Emery Walker for the Pierpont Morgan Library edition 1935â€. Two mounted color reproductions.d. “Proofs guides and stencils for colour plates from Colour versions of Blake’s Book of Job designs Trianon Press Paris c. 1974â€4. “Additional Material 2.†Quarter-morocco clamshell box with cover label with the following quarter-morocco folders with cover labels as quoted below contents loose:a. “Label printed for original publication March 1826â€b. “Colour versions of William Blake’s Book of Job designs from the circle of John Linnell Collins & New Zealand sets & Fitzwilliam plates.†Housed in three paper folders. The same reproductions as those in box 2 above.Bentley BBS pages 198-99. Trianon Press for the Blake Trust hardcover books
