1868. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. 4to, 27 hand-coloured plates over lithographs, printed on paper replicating Blake's original supply. Rebound in full red morocco with gilt decoration and black leather gilt label to spine, in fitted red morocco slipcase. Very good with occasional pages spotted as usual in this edition..... More
1885. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 4to, 1p.preface by Muir, 27 leaves hand-colored, 1p.appendix, 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers, bound into contemporary half navy calf gilt with..... More
1886. Edmonton: William Muir, 1886. 4to, ff. (1) upper wrapper, (2) colophon, (3) preface, ff. 1-45 hand-colored plates, (2) facsimile of an ALS from Blake, lower wrapper. Modern blue buckram, original wrappers bound in. § Limited to probably fewer than 50 copies by Muir and his team, based on copy..... More
1783. London: Printed for the Author; Sold by T. Bathurst, Payne and Son..., 1783. Single sheet, a bit soiled, the volume and page numbers at the top rubbed away. § Blake’s engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: “In a...... More
1927. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to, xvi, [164] pp., 82 plates. Original half linen, tan boards, bowed and slightly soiled as always,but very good. § Limited to 1550 copies, this being number 1392. The essential work on the subject, beautifully produced by the Nonesuch Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 409..... More
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1805. London: C. and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodsley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More
1971. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 4to, xx, 71 pp, with 16 color plates and 116 illustrations. Very Good in original color illustrated card wrappers with slight wear and acetate dust-jacket. § First trade edition thus. Introductory handbook to the facsimile of Blake’s watercolors for Gray’s poems. Bentley, BB, 385. More
1893. London: Lawrence and Bullen, the Muses’ Library, 1893. 12mo, liii, 251 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original quarter parchment, green boards, gilt top, a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Peel Sheldon. § Deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies on hand-made paper. First edition thus, an important edition bringing the two..... More
2019. New York: Grolier Club, 2019. Small slim 8vo, 8pp. Original printed wrappers as issued, new. § Limited to 10 copies for sale. Printed by Jerry Kelly on the Kelly-Winterton Press, handset in Trump’s Delphin type and printed on handmade Kelmscott paper with watermarks. This keepsake was issued by John..... More
1926. London: Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Small 4to, xxxviii, 345 pages. Original black cloth. Some fading to backstrip. Very good. § Reprint of the 1921 edition of this collection. See Bentley, Blake Books, 294. More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine and clear glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Near Fine. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length..... More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good, with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards, and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. “The..... More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good, with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards, and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783..... More
1927. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1927. 8vo, 70 pp. Original paper over boards. Very good. § US trade edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 132B. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length, printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt, who owned a small print shop in the Strand, and..... More
1868. London: Pickering, 1868. Small 8vo, xiv, 96 pp. A good copy in original cloth, with a small amount of wear at spine ends, and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages, but..... More
1924. London: G. Bell, 1924. Small 8vo, cxxxii (prefatory memoir), 233 pp.Very good in blue cloth and gilt title to spine. § Rossetti acknowledges a debt to Gilchrist in compiling his substantial memoir, which was first published in the 1874 Aldine edition of this compilation. This issue is in Bohn's..... More
1905. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth, printed paper label, Dryburgh House, St. Bowells, N.B. bookplate, backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance..... More
1905. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth, printed paper label. backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance, well informed, meticulously accurate, well-balanced and..... More
1948. London: Nonesuch Press, 1948. Thick 8vo, xi, 936 pp. Original pale blue buckram, slightly faded on spine and with one or two minor marks. § A reissue of the Nonesuch Press 1927 edition in one volume. Bentley, BB, 303 F. More
1948. London: Nonesuch Press, 1948. Thick 8vo, xi, 936 pp. Original pale blue buckram, ink signature at the back "Baumgarten" and the date July 21, 1950. § A reissue of the excellent Nonesuch Press 1927 edition in one volume. Bentley, BB, 303 F. More
1927. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 8vo, printed on India paper. Original blue buckram, backstrip slightly faded but internally fine. § Bentley, Blake Books, 303A. More
1824. London: I. Poole, [1824]. Small 8vo, xxiv, 372pp. With an engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings including one by Blake, 8 hand-colored botanical plates, 8 plates of engraved music, a calendar with an engraved title-page and 6 plates, and 12 blank leaves titled "Album 1825" recorded by Keynes but not..... More
1825. London: I. Poole, [1825?]. 12mo, frontispiece “A Tribute of Regard...”; title-page “Remember Me” etc. with 1826 beneath “Christmas Present”; second engraved leaf recto “Calendar and Album 1826...”, verso January and February, next three leaves with the rest of the Calendar; verso of third leaf “The Virgin Child and St..... More
1780. London: Fielding and Walker, 1780 and J. Fielding: 1781. Two vols. in one, large thick folio, vol. 1 frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, 6, 632 pp., with 46 plates including 5 maps and a plan; vol. 2 with title page dated 1781, 494 pp., with 33..... More
1964. London: Heinemann, 1964. Small 8vo, xxx, 144 pp., color frontispiece. Original black cloth, orange illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket is chipped and has noticeable shelf wear, front endpaper is creased; very good copy. § Reprint of the 1957 edition, with corrections. Bentley, Blake Books, 318 D: “the notes are original and..... More
