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William Blake. [Paley, Morton] London: Phaidon: 1978. 4to, 192 pp.; with 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, first printing, well printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182. ... $45.00

“John Camden Hotten, A.C. Swinburne, and the Blake Facsimiles of 1868.” [Paley, Morton D.] New York: New York Public Library, 1976. Small 4to, pp. [259]–296. Stapled green wrappers. Good. Author’s offprint of his article, inscribed by Paley to James D. Hart of the Bancroft Library. ... $30.00

Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blake’s Thought. [Paley, Morton D.] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 8vo, [xiii], 272 pp. 8 plates. Blue cloth in orange illustrated dust-jacket with edgewear. Ink annotations. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2347: “incorporates revised versions of Paley’s articles on ‘The Mental Traveller’, Ahania, and ‘The Tyger’, and apparently his doctoral dissertation as well.” ... $20.00

The Apocalyptic Sublime. [Paley, Morton D.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 4to, 196 pp. With seven color and 85 black and white illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, an uncommon study of apocalyptic subjects in British art including a chapter on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 598. ... $45.00

William Blake and Dr. Thornton’s “Tory Translation” of the Lord’s Prayer. [Paley, Morton D.] [West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002]. 8vo, pp. 263–86. Offprint, stapled. Scarce article by Paley on the marginalia written by Blake in 1827 in Thornton’s edition of The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated… Inscribed by Paley to Essick: “(from the Grant festschrift) for Bob, with thanks, Morton.” Paley is referring to Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in honor of John E. Grant. Edited by Alexander S. Gourlay. (see above) ... $15.00

William Blake. [Paley, Morton D.] Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. 4to, 192 pp. With 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue A. ... $45.00

William Blake. [Paley, Morton D.] Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln, Mainz: W. Kohlhammer, 1978. 4to, 194 pp. 116 illustrations. Black cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Cardboard slipcase with minor edgewear. Text in German. Book as new. First edition in German. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue B. ... $30.00

The Blake Newsletter. A Reprinting of the Early Issues. [Paley, Morton D., and Morris Eaves, eds.] Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1974. 4to, 44 pp. Illustrated. Black and white printed wrappers with red lettering. Includes volumes I and II, 1967–1969. 4 pp. of the originals reprinted per page of this volume. Very good. A useful way to have the earliest issues. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 376. ... $15.00

The Blake Newsletter [later] Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly. [Paley, Morton D., et seq.] [Various places]: 1967–1979, 1997–2005. 80 issues, 4to, illustrated. Original wrappers, a very good set with the index. A good run of the first and more recent years of the Blake Newsletter/ Illustrated Quarterly, skipping 1980–1996 (which are available from the publisher at $7.50 an issue). From the website: “[It] was born as the Blake Newsletter on a mimeograph machine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Edited by Morton D. Paley, the first issue ran to nine pp., was available for a yearly subscription rate of two dollars for four issues, and included the fateful words, ‘As far as... $500.00