San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927. 8vo, 61 pp. Quarter beige cloth with green patterned paper boards. Bookplate. A little age-toned, upper board faintly scratched; very good. § Limited to 250 regular copies printed on Bodleian book paper and 50 special copies printed on Whatman wove paper. This copy is on..... More
London: Constable and Co., 1909. 12mo, 16pp. Full page illustration following title-page. Original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, with red border on both covers. Pages untrimmed and bordered in red. Mild browning to endpapers. Very good. § First edition, first printing. More
Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. 12mo, 16pp. Printed in red and black. Original stiff card binding with paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Occasional soiling, small bump to the base of the spine. In the original green printed slipcase, worn. Very good. § A attractive printing by Mosher of..... More
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. 8vo, xv, 294pp. Orange printed wrappers. Sunning to backstrip. Very good. § First paperback edition of this collection of essays examining Blake’s influence on modern poetry; by Adams, Pease, Ostriker, Gleckner, etc. Bentley, BBS, p.370 (listing the titles of the 14 essays)..... More
London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller, 1796. Slim 4to, xi, 16 pp. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations (headpiece and tailpiece) designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Later full red straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip, a fine copy with a faded inscription on the title-page "Sophia Baillie". § First..... More
London: Quaritch, 1893. Large 4to, xxi pp. text, 54 leaves printed in outline in reddish brown. Original half hardgrain morocco, first blank and title-page foxed, otherwise internally a very fine copy with some light wear to the backstrip. § A very scarce companion volume to the colored version, both issued..... More
London: Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press, 1922. Folio. pp. 22. 117 plates, including 6 in color on rectos only. Publisher's red cloth, a bit worn but a good copy. § Limited to 650 copies, this copy #249. This “unique copy” was found among Flaxman's papers after his death..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo, viii, 449 pp. With 2 leaves of ads at the front, and another 2 at the back, dated 1818. Original boards, paper backstrip (slightly rubbed with loss of label), some wear to boards, a very fine copy entirely uncut and in original state as issued..... More
New York: Harper Colophon, 1969. 8vo, 207 pp. 16 plates. Wrappers illustrated in orange, black and white, some edgewear and fading, underlining and short notes in pencil throughout. § Bentley, BB, 1288 I: “one of the most illuminating books on Blake”. More
London: John van Voorst, 1853. Sm. slim 8vo, xvii, 120, (4, ads.)pp. Color frontispiece (partially slightly faded). Original grey-green cloth rebacked, front end-paper creased, internally clean and sound. § First edition of this early book on the subject. John Cocks was the first to discover the red seaweed Stenogramme interrupta..... More
Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1820. Two vols., sm. 8vo, xlv, (i), 336; (ii), 353 pp., half-titles present. Early half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt tops, backstrips faded as usual, minor scuffing to the leather, internally a very fine copy. Bookplate with..... More
Dallas: Neiman Marcus,1980. Folio, xiv, 270 pp. Maps and diagrams throughout, including one fold-out, by David Fuller, and a portrait of Dobie by Andrew Hoyem. Printed in black and red with gold initials drawn by Sumner Stone. Original quarter goatskin and handmade Mexican bark paper. A little musty but otherwise..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1984]. 8vo, xxi, 219, (3, post dedication and epilogue) pp. White cloth and boards with gilt facsimile signature on upper cover, purple dust-jacket, as new. § First American edition. James Patrick Donleavy (born April 23, 1926 New York City) is an Irish American author, born to..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, [1984]. 8vo, xxi, 223 pp. Light blue boards, crimson dust-jacket, portrait of the author on the lower cover, as new. § First UK edition, a better printed book than the smaller US edition. The dust-jacket portrait is not present on the US d/j. James Patrick Donleavy..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. 8vo, 382 pp. Publisher's green patterened boards with title labels on upper cover and backstrip, red endpapers, original color-printed dust-jacket with the flaps cancels as always. A near fine copy with only a little foxing to the textblock edge and very light wear to the..... More
London: William Pickering, 1832. Five vols., 8vo., cli, 172; vi, 316; viii, 320; vi, 309; vi, 317 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1907. 8vo, xviii, 443pp. With a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original red cloth, backstrip faded and spotted, occasional foxing. § First Edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1547: an amusing note praising some aspects of the book while ridiculing others (such as the suggestion that Blake was Irish)..... More
New York: Haskell House, 1970. 8vo, xviii, 443pp. With a frontispiece and 12 plates. Green cloth. Very good. § Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 1547: an amusing note praising some aspects of the book while ridiculing others (such as the suggestion that Blake was Irish). More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1906. 2 vols., 8vo, [1] (publisher's announcement), xxxiv, including title page and tissue-guarded portrait of Blake, re-engraved after Linnell's original portrait as previously engraved by Jeens for Gilchrist's "Life", 551; [x, including title and tissue-guarded frontispiece from "The Grave"], 492 pp. Large- paper copy in brown..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 2 volumes large folio, 548 pages full-colour facsimile & accompanying 362 pages commentary; as new in blue cloth, dust-jackets. In a blue cloth box, worn. A complete facsimile of all 537 watercolors from the original edition in the British Museum. As new. § William Blake was..... More
London: William Pickering, 1836. 8vo., viii, 236 pp., Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints and corners..... More
London: James Heath 1807. Copperplate engraving, 220 x 160 mm on a sheet 245 x 170 mm. Cleaned, in very good condition. § Single plate from A New Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 4. More
London: William Pickering, 1831. 8vo., clxxxii, 156 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints..... More
London: William Pickering, 1836. 8vo., cxxiv, 223 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints..... More
Portland: F. W. Baltes and Company, 1905. 8vo, 136 pp. Frontispiece and 27 drawings in black and white and one black and white photograph of Bodie, California. Original gray printed wrappers. Wrappers browned with some small chips, backstrip splitting at foot. § First printed in 1900 -- this copy signed..... More
