Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. Large 4to, 296 pp. Original light blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Front pastedown inscribed “Carolyn Beadel: from the Bush Girls, Aug 12 - 1911”. Complete with 16 full-colour plates as inserts and many black and white illustrations throughout. Some wear to boards, slightly... More about The Emerald City of Oz
Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1908. Slim 4to, 256 pp. Light blue cloth boards with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers printed in yellow and black. Some small nicks and minor warping to lower cover, some wear and minor soiling to upper cover, slight general rubbing. Headcap and tail bumped, binding slightly shaken... More about Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Kay Easson’s copy, signed and with her annotations and underlinings. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More about Blake’s Humanism
New York: The New York Public Library, 1964. 8vo, 63pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers with a few very small closed tears along edges. Very good. The only significant study of the subject. More about The Early Engravings of Flaxman’s Classical Designs
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Jan. 1, 1817 [but later]. Folio, half-title, t/p, 37 plates. Modern pale blue boards, paper backstrip, printed label on upper cover. Presentation slip from Flaxman pasted in at the front. Later printing on wove paper from the original plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 456... More about Compositions From the Works and Days, and Theogony of Hesiod. Engraved by William Blake
London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols. in one, royal 8vo, xi, 225; vii, 187,(1, advertisement) pp. Engraved title to each part, frontispiece to vol. I, and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked, lower cover rehinged, scuffed and untidy, internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting... More about Fables. With a life of the Author and embellished with 70 Plates
London: Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Limited, 1926. 4to, xxiii, [1], 35, [1]. With 8 b/w plates by William Blake.Original black cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase. Jacket torn and browned, book fine. Limited to 300 copies beautifully printed by the CUP on hand-made paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 388. More about Comus: A Mask. With Eight Illustrations by William Blake. Edited from the Edition of 1645 and the...
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... More about L’Allegro… Together with A Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Il Penseroso…. Together with...
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... More about L’Allegro… Together with A Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Il Penseroso…. Together with...
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper label. First edition. Light dust soiling, corners faintly worn, but a very good copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. More about On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity Milton’s Hymn with illustrations by William Blake and a...
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Quarter vellum, green buckram, very good. De luxe edition limited to 150 copies on hand-made paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. More about On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity Milton’s Hymn with illustrations by William Blake and a...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, [viii], 283; [xii], 359 pp. Title pages in sepia and black, 27 black-and-white plates. Full stiff vellum, gilt-lettered backstrip, covers slightly bowed and spotted in the vellum. Two gift inscriptions at front. De luxe edition, limited to 95 copies on... More about Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake. Paradise Lost. Miscellaneous Poems....
London: Oxford University Press: 1913. 8vo, lvi, 453 [1] pp, with 16 black and white illustrations. Very good in original brown cloth with gilt titles. . Oxford Edition, including The French Revolution, previously unpublished, and selections from other works, including Milton and The Four Zoas. Bentley, Blake Books 302 A;... More about The Poetical Works of William Blake. Including the unpublished French Revolution together with...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384pp.Folding frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Very good in original brick-red cloth, with tiny chip to paper spine label, spare label bound in at end. First Edition. Bentley, Blake Books 300 "...a work of pioneer scholarly importance... meticulously accurate, well-balanced and intelligent" More about The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress...
London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep, backstrips lettered in... More about The Pastorals of Virgil
London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733. Thick 8vo, xvi, 700, lx (index) pages. Original calf, final two leaves creased, lacking rear free end-paper. William Blake’s copy, signed on the title-page “William Blake his Book” in brown ink. The signature corresponds almost exactly with the example reproduced by Bentley in..... More about Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea. Or, A Complete English Dispensatory, In Four...
London: Mess. Boydell & Co., London, Cheapside, [1803]. Large 4to (12.75 x x 16.75 inches), [7] ff., + engraved title page, frontispiece, 2 portraits and 97 plates illustrating the most-famous scenes from Shakespeare. In the de luxe binding of publisher’s straight-grain red morocco gilt, gilt-extra backstrip, gilt design on both... More about Boydell’s Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare; Consisting of a Series of...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1932. 27 pp. Fold-out facsimile of one of Scott's letters and 3 illustrations. Bound in green paper-covered boards with a rust colored leather spine. Some wear on the spine, otherwise fine. Unnumbered edition of 300 copies. More about Sir Walter Scott 1832-1932
London: Printed By The Proprietors; and Sold By All Booksellers in Town and Country, 1795. Small 4to, viii, 338 pp., frontispiece and 7 other copper plate engravings. Half leather with marbled boards, quite worn, corners reinforced with card, pages somewhat browned. Bookplate recording presentation of the book by Rev. John... More about The Holy War, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 8vo, 450 pp. Original publisher’s marbled cloth with gilt label, top edge gilt. Five woodcuts, stencilled in colour by the Curwen Press. Extremities lightly worn, small bookseller label partially removed from rear pastedown. Very good. Number 832 of an edition limited to 1600. “The 500... More about The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Life & Death of Mr. Badman
London: Heritage Press, 1942. 8vo, 189 pp. Original publisher’s linen cloth with gilt labels, speckled edges, and 12 full colour illustrations by William Blake. Slight browning to cloth and endpapers, backstrip sunned. In original brown slipcase, waterstained. The classic tale complemented by Blake’s incomparable illustrations and thoughtful book design by..... More about The Pilgrim’s Progress
New York: Spiral Press for the LEC, 1941. Small folio, xxxii, 213pp. 29 plates. Original green cloth. Slipcase. Foxing in hinges of back and front endpapers, slipcase is worn; very good copy. Limited to 1500 copies (this being number 996) with 29 tipped-in color plates reproducing Lord Crewe’s set of... More about The Pilgrim’s Progress… illustrated with 29 watercolor paintings by William Blake now printed...
London: Rupert Hart-Davis and New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. Small 8vo (184 x 122 mm), 95 pp., three plates. Blue paper wrappers, printed in red. Wrapper edges slightly worn and faded, else very good. A footnote to Carter and Pollard’s original exposé of the Thomas Wise forgeries, An Enquiry..... More about The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. Footnote to an Enquiry
New York: Haskell House, 1971. 8vo, 174pp. Blue cloth. Lightly soiled. Very good. Reprint of the first (1927) edition of this “virulently anti-Semitic fragment about true religion and also about Blake” (Bentley). Bentley, BB, 1397 B. More about William Blake on the Lord’s Prayer
Birmingham: by the Author, 1804. 12mo, xi, [i] 184pp. Engraved portrait, with the half-title. Occasional spotting; expertly rebacked; still an attractive, untrimmed copy in the original drab boards. First edition of this collection of provincial verse by John Collins (1742-1808), the actor, poet and sometime bookseller who became noted in... More about Scripscrapologia; or, Collins's doggerel Dish of All Sorts. Consisting of songs adapted to...
