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L’Allegro… Together with A Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Il Penseroso…. Together with a Note upon the Paintings by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. [Blake, William. Milton, John.] New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Large 8vo, 43; 44, [2] pp., 12 gravure plates after the paintings by William Blake. Gilt-lettered dark green cloth, slipcase; prospectus and newsletter. Limited to 1780 copies 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. ... $75.00

L’Allegro… Together with A Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Il Penseroso…. Together with a Note upon the Paintings by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. [Blake, William. Milton, John.] 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. ... $35.00

“Calling Card” (sometimes called a bookplate) for George Cumberland. [Blake, William.] Sheet 10.2 x 12.8 cm., image and plate mark as per Essick (3.1 x 7.8 cm., and 3.3 x 8.1 cm. respectively). Printed in pale brown on a small 8vo sheet. Delicately printed, matted and framed, in very fine condition. Blake’s last engraving, executed for one of his closest friends. The images invoke one of Blake’s greatest themes—the relationships between time and eternity. Opinions vary on the purpose of this plate but it should be noted that at the time (1827) it was not uncommon to paste a calling card into a book as proof of ownership. However, no... $17,500.00

“Death’s Door”: in The Grave. [Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)] London: Cadell and Davis [sic], 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. From the first folio edition, this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 B. ... $675.00

“William Blake: The John Bull Who Saw Visions.” [Gaunt, William] London, New York and Paris: Realites Monthly Magazine, 1955. 4to, 72 pp. Illustrated magazine (January 1955, Number 50) with the William Blake article on pp. 38–43. Includes 12 Blake illustrations. Wrappers showing slight edgewear. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 1676: “Brief general account of ‘a typical Englishman’ inspired.” ... $10.00

(French) Léaud, Francis, ed. William Blake. [Blake, William] Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1968. Small 4to, 276, [8 advertisement] [1] pp., 8 plates. Paper covers, light soiling. Blake’s text in English and French with Léaud’s commentary in French. Bentley, Blake Books, 356. ... $10.00

A Choice of Blake’s Verse. Selected with an Introduction by… [Raine, Kathleen. Blake, William.] London: Faber, 1970. 8vo, 151 pages. Paperback. First edition of this scarce title, also issued in cloth. Bentley, Blake Books, 240. ... $15.00

A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake. [Blake, William. Erdman, David, editor.] Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, (1967). 2 vols, 8vo, xxxvi, 1-1146 & [x], 1147-2317 pp. Original red cloth; a very good set. Only edition. This essential work is virtually unobtainable. Bentley, Blake Books, 1579: “This wonderfully accurate and useful work.” Although the Concordance is now available online, the print format is still much sought after. ... $275.00

A Descriptive Hand-List of a Loan Exhibition of Books and Works Chiefly from the Collection of Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Assembled by Mrs. George M. Millard at the Little Museum of La Miniatura. [[Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue].] Pasadena, CA: Mrs. George M. Millard at the Little Museum of La Miniatura, 1936. 8vo, 32pp. Blue printed wrappers detached with some sunning and edgewear. Very good. Rare catalogue of an exhibit put on by Mrs. Alice Millard, printed by the young Ward Ritchie, signed in type at the end WR. Bentley, Blake Books, 639. ... $45.00

A Lima Lady on Horseback. [Smyth, William.] Peru (Lima presumably): c. 1835. Watercolor on paper, 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Matted, in very good condition. Smyth, (1800–77), was a Royal Naval officer and artist who entered the Navy in April 1813. Smyth passed his lieutenant’s examination in 1819 and served as a passed midshipman and mate including on the Blossom under Frederick Beechey in the Pacific, 1825 –28, until commissioned lieutenant during that voyage, in May 1827. From June 1831 to early 1835 he was lieutenant under Captain Charles Henry Paget in the Samarang, 28 guns, in the Pacific, crossed the Andes and made a voyage down... $2,000.00