1968. Bronxville: Valenti Angelo, 1968. Slim tall 8vo, 9pp. Original pink boards, printed label; backstrip faded, else near fine § Limited to 35 copies, this one of a very few in boards as most copies were sewn in blue wrappers, Bentley, Blake Books, 224 (not noting limitation). Auguries of Innocence..... More
1928. London: Ernest Benn, [1928]. Slim 8vo, 31 pp. Original printed wrappers. § One in a series of printings of English poets, this one containing 34 of Blake’s best known poems. More
1805. [London]: 1805. Document Signed, one page, oblong small octavo, July 5, 1805. “Received of Mr. Butts five Pounds seven Shillings on further account.” Paper browned, small abrasions on back from having been mounted in a book. § See Windle: catalogue 26, item #9 (1995). The year 1805 was a...... More
1978. London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Oblong folio, original half brown morocco folding case, lettered in gilt. As new. § Grande de luxe copy number 17 with a recent restrike of one of the original copperplates, Plate 6: “Circle of the Falsifiers, Dante and Virgil..... More
1969. London: Heinemann, 1969. 2 vols., oblong 8vo, text vol. xiv, 40 pp., with 12 illustrations; facsimile vol. to match, in calf-backed green buckram, slipcase faded, backstrip scuffed on volumes 1 and 2. Facsimile volume with loose leaves as usual. § Limited to 800 copies. The facsimile of the notebook..... More
1983. New York: Dover, 1983. 4to, 47pp, with 35 colored illustrations. Near fine in original illustrated wrappers. Contains text version and brief commentary, plus facsimiles of copy M of America and B, G, and K of Europe. § First Dover edition. Reproduces copy M of America and copies B, G...... More
1979. London: The Collector Ltd, 1979. 8vo, 176 pp. Very good in magenta wrappers. § There are 5 essays covering Blake and Palmer, including those by Michael Phillips, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Raymond Lister and Arnold Fawcus. More
1928. London: Gollancz, 1928. Thin 4to, 8 leaves and colophon. Original black cloth, scuffed, with library bookplate at rear pastedown. § Facsimile limited to 1700 copies for the UK and the USA, with this being 37. Bentley, Blake Books, 22. More
1971. Brown UP: 1971. 4to, xiv, 82pp. original cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § Fine reproduction of the NYPL copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley, Blake Books, 27: “The bibliographical details are novel and important.”. More
1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. 8vo, 102 pp, with colored reproduction of the original (Copy G) and a 35 page commentary. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, with slight crease to one corner of rear wrapper. § Reissue of 1978 Shambhala edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement 76. More
1927. London: Privately Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1927. Large 4to, 63 pp., 49 plates. A good copy in original cloth, some discoloration to the green cloth along edges. Slipcase. Very good. § A sumptuous catalogue with text by Binyon, Russell, and Keynes and fine gravure plates. Bentley..... More
1827. [London: William Blake, 1827]. Printed in black ink on thick card. Very finely printed, in good condition though trimmed very close to the image at the left and right edges, once pasted down and thus with traces of mounting on the verso and pencil notes from an earlier collector..... More
1903. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 1903. 8vo, title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers, a bit worn. § A sale of the first order of importance, though only comprising 18 lots. Each lot is priced; the highest price was £5600 for the Illustrations of the Book of..... More
1903. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 1903. 8vo, title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers, in later cloth-backed marbled boards. § A sale of the first order of importance, though only comprising 42 lots, of which 23 were from the Butts collection comprising 18 original drawings, 4 printed..... More
5188. [London: Colnaghi printing, after 5 March 1881]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., printed on laid India paper; recently cleaned. § Final state: it is worth noting that the only difference between the so-called fourth and fifth states is the absence of the scratched dry-point inscriptions clearly visible in..... More
5188. [London: Colnaghi printing, about 5 March 1881]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., printed by Colnaghi on India paper and mounted on heavy wove paper; archivally matted, beautifully framed. A very good impression, crisp and clear, in fine original condition with no flaws. § Fifth and final state (but..... More
1926. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 8vo, 16 leaves, unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. Bentley, BB, 252B. More
1926. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 8vo, 16 leaves, unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Top portion of spine missing. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Glassine wrapper. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. More
1984. Madrid: Swan, 1984. 8vo, 141pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers, with minor soiling. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, BBS, p.76. More
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1975. [San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire, 1975]. Oblong 12mo, [11]pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers, fine. § Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all. Exceptionally scarce (and beautiful), we have had..... More
1949. Bournemouth: Bournemouth Arts Club, 1949. 8vo, 12pp, with decorated card wrappers, printed in red and black. Very good with rear cover slightly dusted. § From the inside rear cover of the catalogue it appears the compiler was Kerrison Preston. Bentley, BB, 658. More
1945. London: Faber and Faber, 1945. Slim 4to, 24 pp with 10 tipped-in color plates. Very good sewn into decorated pink wrappers as issued; slightly dusty at edges. § A selection of Blake’s best-known images in color. Bentley, BB, 398. More
2219. London: Christie’s, July 22, 1949. 8vo, 44 pp, illustrated with 16 full page black and white plates. Very Good in original wrappers, slightly dusty, with pencil annotations of prices and buyers for all 90 lots. § Bentley, Blake Books 659. More
39. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton, 1929. Small 4to, 28 colour facsimile plates and 25 pages of text. Very good in original red cloth with gilt title, with gray dust-jacket, slightly chipped to spine head and corners, slightly marked to front cover, and ink inscription along top..... More
1929. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton, 1929. Small 4to, 28 color plates and 25 pages of text. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket chipped and torn along edges; very good. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley, Blake Books, 39. More
