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The Novelist’s Magazine. Grandison. Plate XXIII. [(Blake, William)] London: Harrison, 1782. First state, full sheet. Essick, Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations, XI. ... $50.00

Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision. [Adams, Hazard] New York: Russell and Russell, 1968. 8vo, xvii, 328 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Light bumping to corners. Very good. New edition, originally published in 1955. Cornell Studies in English, vol. XL. Bentley, Blake Books, 776B: “an intelligent case for the view ‘that in effect Blake’s early poems strive to express the same system that the later prophetic books approach’.” ... $40.00

William Blake. A Reading of the Shorter Poems. [Adams, Hazard.] Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pages. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Annotated and underlined throughout in ink by Kay Long. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: “particularly useful”. ... $15.00

William Blake. A Reading of the Shorter Poems. [Adams, Hazard.] Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pages. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: “particularly useful”. ... $15.00

The Sports of Cruelty. Fairies, Folk-songs, Charms, and other Country Matters in the work of William Blake. [Adlard, John] London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1972. Small 8vo, 159 pp. Frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A792. ... $30.00

Divine Comedy. [Alighieri, Dante. [Blake Illustrations].] Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1978. 8vo, 409 pages. Full calf, elaborately decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Near fine. First Limited Franklin Library edition. ... $15.00

The New Apocalypse: the Radical Christian Vision of William Blake. [Altizer, Thomas J.J.] Michigan State UP: 1967. 8vo, xxi, 226 pages, portrait frontispiece of Blake’s life mask. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 807. ... $25.00

Arrows of Intellect. A Study in William Blake’s Gospel of the Imagination. [Ansari, Asloob Ahmad] Aligarh, India: Naya Kitabghar, 1965. 8vo, 248 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1085. ... $50.00

Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blake’s The Four Zoas. Foreword by George Quasha. [Ault, Donald] Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1987. 8vo, xxvi, 518 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket in protective mylar. Very good. First edition of this very substantial book. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 356: “an attempt to provide the reader with a process text that plausibly retells this immensely complex… narrative.” ... $60.00

William Blake his Mysticism. [Ba-Han, Maung] Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1973. 269 pp. and errata. 2 title pp. from 1924 & 1973. Green cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. First reprint of a scarce book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1110: “Blake’s mysticism consists in his insistence on the supreme value of ‘self.’” Blake Books Supplement, page 357 issue B. ... $75.00