8518. London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847-8. Two vols, 8vo., xii, [1]-320; xii, [1]-304 pp., title-page printed in black and red, ten hand-colored etchings and 120 woodcuts to each volume, including frontispieces. Contemporary half dark-blue calf ruled in blind, marbled paper boards, backstrip lettered and ruled..... More
1968. 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
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More
1900. Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some..... More
1944. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. 8vo,191 pp. Original green cloth, lettered in brown on backstrip and with publisher’s device on upper cover, cloth faded in places, internally very clean. Original clipped dust-jacket, faded in places and with some wear to the top edge. Very good. § First Edition..... More
1959. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. 8vo, 341 pp. Original orange cloth with beige linen backstrip, lettered in black on upper cover and in red, silver, and black on backstrip. Very good copy with small name and dates on front free endpaper, in a slightly faded, unclipped dust-jacket ($4.50)..... More
1975. New York: Viking Press, [1975]. 8vo, (7), 487pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, tiny stain on backtrip, edges just browned. § Advance reading copy with insert from the publisher. Signed by Bellow, who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The..... More
1928. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. 8vo, (x), 377 pp. Original plain tan boards, lettered in brown on the backstrip, top edge stained dark brown. Boards unevenly browned as usual, with a few spots and nicks, internally a fine, unopened copy in the original, lightly worn slipcase..... More
1940. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. 12mo, (iv), 8 pp. One copy in original wraps, near fine with a little toning, signed by Benét on the half title. One copy in original boards, boards toned, backstrip worn and dampstained. § Both formats of the first edition of..... More
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett..... More
1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. 8vo, xix, 393pp, with illustrations. Very good in original dust-jacket, worn at edges. § First edition. The Bible until Bentley’s BB and Essick’s various books came along. Bentley, BB, 686. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. § One of 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the PML; this catalogue was written by G.E. Bentley with an introduction by..... More
1964. New York: The New York Public Library, 1964. 8vo, 63pp, extensively illustrated throughout. Near Fine in original wrappers. § The only significant study of the subject. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. One of 1500 copies, with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp. § Limited to 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the Morgan Library; this..... More
1974. Princeton: Library Chronicle, 1974. Slim 8vo, pp. 321–324, one plate. Original red printed wrappers, stapled. ‘Extracted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume XXXV, Number 3, Spring 1974.’ Very good. § Offprint, inscribed by Bentley to George Goyder. Bentley, Blake Books, A1177. More
1964. UMinnP: 1964. 8vo, xix, 393pp. Illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket in protective plastic. A very good copy. § First edition. The Bible until Bentley’s Blake Books and Essick’s various books came along. More
1988. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo, xlviii, 152 pp, wth 5 black and white illustrations. Near fine in original blue cloth and clear acetate wrapper. § Reprinted in 2004 in one volume with additions, at $125. See Bentley, BB, 1158. More
1964. 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
1956. Oxford: Oxford University Press( for The Review of English Studies), 1956. 8vo, 23 pp.Inscribed offprint by Bentley for George Goyder, very good in stapled wrappers, with Goyder's pencil underlinings throughout. § Bentley, BB, 1157. More
1970. Bibliographical Society of America, 1970. 8vo, 16pp.Very good in gray wrappers. Inscribed offprint from vol 64, Fourth Quarter, of the Papers of The Bibliographical Society of America, from Bentley for George Goyder. Very good in stapled wrappers. § Bentley's thorough analysis of the two facsimiles dates both before 1825..... More
1932. n.p. 1932. Folio. Paperback. Large piece of material missing from back cover, shoddy backstrip repair with scotch tape. Library markings. Severe tanning. §. More
1884. Honolulu: J.H. Soper / The Hawaiian News Co, [1884-1888?]. Folio, 18 sets of sheet music, 16 are 3pp, one is 5pp, and one is 7pp. Full dark red velvet over flexible boards, upper cover lettered in gold and blind. § "During 1884 and 1886 Honolulu bandmaster Henry Berger had..... More
1914. London: Chapman and Hall, 1914. Thick 8vo, xii, 420 pp. Original green buckram. Reynold Boden bookplate to front pastedown, owner inscription to front free endpaper dated 1918. Some bumping to top and bottom of backstrip. Good. § First edition in English. Bentley, Blake Books, 1185. More
1909. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1909. Large 8vo, (20), 332, (8, index) pp. Illustrated throughout. Original green paper over boards stamped in gilt on both covers, dust-jacket, slipcase, a fine copy with the Joseph Halle Schaffner bookplate. § Number 302 of 370 copies on handmade paper printed in red and..... More
1982. 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..... More
