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William Blake and His Circle. British Museum Bicentenary Exhibition. [London: British Museum, 1957]. Slim folio, 32 pp., original printed blue wrappers stapled into a file folder. This extremely scarce pamphlet is a most useful and fascinating catalogue of an extraordinary exhibition at the BM; there are over 100 entries and the exhibition, in addition to showing all the treasures of the BM, was augmented with many items loaned by Geoffrey Keynes. The catalogue is a typescript reproduced on cheap paper, and few copies can have survived. Bentley, Blake Books, 680. ... $125.00

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

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

Blake’s Humanism. [Beer, John.] Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. ... $25.00

The Pleasures of Human Life: Investigated Cheerfully, Elucidated Satirically, Promulgated Explicitly, and Discussed Philosophically in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, & Neuter Pleasures, Interspersed with Various Anecdotes, and Expounded by Numerou [Benevolus, Hilaris [John Britton]. Blake, William.] London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807. Small 8vo, xvi, 223 pages + 24 pages of ads. Illustrated with 5 hand-colored etchings by Rowlandson and 2 hand-colored headpieces engraved by W. Bond. Original blue-grey boards, printed paper label, backstrip chipped along joints but quite sound, a very fine completely unsophisticated copy as issued. Second edition, printed in the same year as the first in the same number of copies (1000). Following the success of the anonymous Miseries of Human Life 1806 (by James Beresford) Britton brought this book out with amusing illustrations by Rowlandson. It was immediately successful and the... $375.00

Complete Graphic Works of Blake. [Bindman, David.] New York: 1978. Folio, 492pp; illustrated throughout. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Indispensable single volume reference to Blake. ... $150.00

Complete Graphic Works of Blake. [Bindman, David.] New York: 1978. Folio, 492pp; illustrated throughout. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Hinge repaired with tape, a bit shaken, but perfectly readable. Indispensable single volume reference to Blake. ... $100.00

William Blake: His Art and Times. [Bindman, David.] [London]: Thames and Hudson, (1982). 4to, 192 pp. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations, including 20 in color. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Fine in dust-jacket. An exhibition catalogue prepared for the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Also issued in wrappers. ... $30.00

The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. [Binyon, Laurence. Blake, William.] London: Studio, Limited, 1922. 4to, vii, 29 pp. With 16 color plates and 92 black-and-white plates. Original quarter parchment, gray boards, blue label on upper cover, edges slightly worn. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 404. ... $125.00

The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. [Binyon, Laurence. Blake, William.] London: Studio, Limited, 1922. 4to, vii, 29 pp. With 16 color plates and 92 black-and-white plates. Original parchment, upper cover lettered in gilt, black label on backstrip, slight staining at end from blue endpapers bleeding into the margins, loose in the binding but sound and complete. The Goyder-Klemen copy with bookplates. Edition de luxe limited to 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 404. ... $495.00