1951. London: Trianon Press, [1951] [and] London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, [1954]. Small 4to, 116 text, errata, 100 facsimile pp. [and] Small 4to, xv, 264 pp. Both vols. in original cloth, with gilt lettering and matching dust jackets. Good copies if slightly worn. § [Jerusalem:] 2500 copies..... More

1780. London: Harrison and co., [1780-81]. Single plate, 10 x 7.5 ins. A little browned and foxed. § First edition thus, issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another..... More

Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964. Slim 12mo, [16]pp. With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover, mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with..... More

1968. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968. 8vo, 224 pages, with a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § Final revised edition, the best single account of Blake's manuscripts. Bentley, Blake Books, 93 C: “Comprehends fairly full notes, some related documents such as receipts, and provenances.” Includes importabt..... More

Printed for & sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the Benefit of her Orphans. [n.d.] 55.9 x 22.9 cm., single sheet folded once, with some traces of mounting tape on the vertical margin, some creases but very good. § The very fine William Muir facsimile, often mistaken in..... More

1780. London: Harrison and co., [1780-81]. Single plate, 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned, margins foxed and chipped. § First edition thus, issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another..... More

1886. Edmonton: William Muir, 1886. 4to, 1 (blank), 2 (Preface), 3-23 text, (24) On Homer’s Poetry, (25 blank). Original wrappers, upper wrapper titled entirely in manuscript, lower wrapper blank, stitched as issued. Bookplate of Templeton Crocker. § Copy #50 of 50 copies, numbered and signed by Muir. Includes “All Religions..... 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

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

1805. London: C. and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, 10.5 x 6.5 ins., with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Contemporary diced russia, gilt-decorated and lettered, one or two minor chips..... 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

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, 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