Manifold Review.
1980. Hancock, VT: Top Drawer Enterprises, 1980. Oblong 12mo, 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Very good. §. More
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Manifold Review.
1980. Hancock, VT: Top Drawer Enterprises, 1980. Oblong 12mo, 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Stained on 2 panels. Good. §. More
Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century English Master Drawings and Prints.
1971. Los Angeles, CA: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers, 1971. 8vo, 48pp. Illustrated, including a Blake image (item 5: A Standing Archer). Printed wrappers with some water damage to spine. Good. §. More
English Literature. John Howell Books.
1982. San Francisco, CA: John Howell Books, 1982. 8vo, 128pp. Illustrated. Item 83 on page 31: Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper with 6 engravings by William Blake. Printed wrappers. Very good to near fine. §. More
Milton’s Hymn On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity with Illustrations by William Blake.
1981. Gloucestershire, UK: The Whittington Press, 1981. Large 4to, bi-fold with tipped-in color plate of The Old Dragon (loose). Light soiling. Very good. § Announcement of the May 1981 limited edition publication Milton’s Hymn On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity with Illustrations by William Blake by Whittington Press in association..... More
Paul Grinke. Catalogue Five. Miscellany of Fifty Books, Manuscripts and Drawings, with a Note by Ruthven Todd on Stothard’s Drawing of the Battle of Ai.
London: Paul Grinke, [No Date]. Oblong 8vo, 28pp. Wrappers. § Item 32 page 17-19 The Battle of Ai by Thomas Stothard with engravings by Blake during his development as a commercial engraver. More
The Printer and the Artist: A Catalogue of Private Press Books & Illustrated Books from the United Kingdom. Europe and America.
1974. London: Bertram Rota Ltd., 1974. 8vo, 155pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers with some staining along spine edge. Very good. § A major catalogue from Rota, offering i.a. some private press editions of Blake. More
William Blake.
New York: Oxford University Press, [No Date]. 8vo, Brown illustrated four-fold. Blackwell’s Antiquarian Dept. stamped in black on rear. Very good. §. More
Illustration by Alice and Martin Provensen from A Visit to William Blake’s Inn by Nancy Willard.
1981. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Single-sided black and white glossy illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. §. More
Illustration from A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard.
1981. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. §. More
Illustration from A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard.
1981. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim oblong 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. §. More
The Poetical Works of William Blake. Including the unpublished French Revolution together with the minor prophetic books and selections from the four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem. Oxford Edition.
1913. 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..... More
The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson.
1905. 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
The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson.
1905. 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
The Prophetic Writings of William Blake. Edited with a General Introduction, glossarial Index of Symbols, Commentary, and Appendices...
1969. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1969. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 648 [649]; xxii, 361 pp. Frontispieces, one double-page, and 10 plates. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. § Lithographic reprint of the 1924 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 309 C: “The fresh transcriptions and bibliographical notes are of value..... More
Letters... together with a Life by Frederick Tatham. Edited from the Original Manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Archibald G.B. Russell.
1906. London: Methuen, 1906. 8vo, xlvii, 237pp, plus 40pp publisher's booklist. 12 black and white plates. Very good in original dark blue cloth with top edges gilt and gilt embossed figure on spine. Spine slightly faded, and some minor spotting to edges of first signature. § First and only edition..... More
Letters... together with a Life by Frederick Tatham. Edited from the Original Manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Archibald G.B. Russell.
1906. London: Methuen, 1906. 8vo, xlvii, 237 pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates. Half red morocco, gilt top, fine. § First edition of this collection, this copy very pleasantly bound. Bentley, Blake Books, 88. More
The Pastorals of Virgil...
1821. 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..... More
Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 1794. Albion Facsimiles Number One From copy in the Houghton Library, Harvard. [Introduction by Ruthven Todd. Sequence adopted by Joseph H. Wicksteed.]
1947. London: Falcon Press, 1947. 12mo, vi pp, (54, facsimile pages in black and white). Original two-tone cloth in blue with green spine with decorated paper label: pages slightly dusty to edges, with dust-jacket printed in red and black, foxed at front and back edges, and spine defective in central..... More
Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
1951. London: Trianon Press, [1951]. 4to, (6), ix text, and 100 color plates. Original blue cloth, folding box worn, very good. § Limited to 516 copies. The first of the magnificent series of facsimiles by the Trianon Press of Blake’s illuminated books, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books, 78..... More
Illustrations of the Book of Job (The New Zealand Set).
1987. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1987. 22 separate plates, approx. 15.75 x 12.25 inches (30 x 31 cm) each, printed in color on Arches, housed in a tri-fold paper folder. Very good condition. § The New Zealand Set are careful watercolor copies of the central designs..... More
Illustrations of the Book of Job.
1987. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1987 Publisher’s proofs in a box, including three copies of vol. 2 in variant bindings, one copy of vol. 1 black and white reproductions, and a suite of progressive proofs of plate 2. All within a quarter morocco box with gilt backstrip..... More
Reproduction of Three of Blake's Woodcuts from Thornton's Virgil, Facsimilied by William Muir in The Century Guild Hobby Horse No. 11.
1888. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1888. 4to, pp 81-12, with a William C. Ward frontispiece and other illustrations as called for. Includes "Three of the Illustrations to the Pastorals of Virgil by William Blake" at p 108, facsimilied by William Muir (but uncredited), by kind permission of H.H...... More
Songs of Innocence and Experience. With Introduction and Notes by A.M. Wilkinson.
1971. London: University Tutorial Press, 1971. Small 8vo, xx, 66pp. Full cream cloth with lettering to front and backstrip. Very good. § Reprint, first published in 1958. Bentley, BBS, p. 135 H. More
Original Stories from Real Life... plates only.
1791. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. 6 copperplate engraving plates (complete), 133 x 74 mm. or so, trimmed retaining the top edge text but lacking the imprint below the footer title. Cleaned, in very good condition. § First edition, second state of plates 1 and 2; a very attractive..... More