3019. London: Christie's, 30th Nov 1993. 4to, 37pp, with 16 black and white illustrations. Mint in illustrated wrappers. § A small but choice sale of 13 lots most now in America, including the black and white copy of Jerusalem from which the Trianon Press facsimile was made (now in a.... More about The Rinder Collection of William Blake
1886. Edmonton: William Muir, 1886. 4to, [25] leaves including the preliminary and final blank. Original wrappers, upper cover lettered in manuscript (by Muir?) and signed and numbered by Muir. § Copy #50 of 50 copies, signed by Muir. Includes “ All Religions are One”, and Muir's own version of the... More about There Is No Natural Religion. By Wm. Blake. Facsimilied at Edmonton Anno 1886 by Wm. Muir, E....
2002. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2002. 4to, vii, 11 color plates, 78 pp. text with illustrations in color and black and white. Original cloth, dust-jacket, new. § Latest edition of the Visions, reproducing the Huntington Library’s copy with related drawings. Essick’s commentary explains Blake’s invention of the unique method he..... More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Edited by Robert N. Essick
1988. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 8vo, xxv, [xxvi], 601 pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. § A wide-ranging selection of prose and poetry. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 168: “the oddly arranged text is modernized from William Blake’s Writings (1978).”. More about William Blake. Edited by Michael Mason. The Oxford Authors
1887. Edmonton: William Muir, 1887. Folio, 18 plates, richly colored by hand. Original wrappers, rebacked, top edge gilt, fine. § Muir facsimile limited to around 50 copies of which, according to Keynes in 1921 (see Bentley), only 6 were hand colored. This is copy #3, signed, priced and numbered by... More about America a Prophecy
1887. Edmonton: William Muir, 1887. Folio, 17 plates, richly hand colored. Original printed wrappers dated September 1887, backstrip renewed, gilt top, fine. § Limited to fewer than 50 copies, this copy numbered #11 signed, priced and numbered by Muir. Based on three different copies. With the frontispiece “The Ancient of... More about Europe a Prophecy
1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco, slipcase. Fine as issued. § Edition de luxe, this being copy III limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates, of an edition in all of 662 copies... More about All Religions are One
1975. London: Trianon Press, 1975. 4to, 8 plates, 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate, plus 22 additional progressive proof plates, and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco, prospectus inserted, a fine copy in slipcase. As new. § #28 of 32 de luxe... More about The Song of Los
1928. New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. 8vo, 42pp. Illustrated. Green cloth, some soiling to covers. Very good. § First edition. A charming children’s book, scarce in the dust-jacket. Bentley, BB, 270. More about The Land of Dreams. Poems by William Blake Selected and Illustrated by Pamela Bianco
1981. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981. 8vo, (20 pp), 3 with letterpress, the remainder blank, but one with Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s inscribed dedication of this copy to Terry Buckley. Near fine in original green calf over marble papered boards. § #59 of 100 copies in all, of a poem... More about To the Nightingale. With a Statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes
1990. London and other UK Locations: Various, c 1990 - 2010. 25 items, mainly single 8vo sheets or smaller invitation cards, issued by The Tate Gallery, The Blake Society, The Termenos Academy, UK Universities and Colleges, and Publishers and various other organisations.. All in very good or new condition. §. More about 2 Folders Containing Details of Events, Performances, Publications, Lectures and Courses about or...
1780. London: Harrison and co., [1780-81]. Single plate, 10 x 7.5 ins. A little browned around the edges, very good. § 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... More about Abraham and the Three Angels (in) The Protestant’s Family Bible. Containing the Old and New...
1802. Chichester. Printed by J. Seagrave, and sold by him and P. Humphry (et al.) for W. Blake, 1802. Frontispiece, 250 x 174 (sheet), 175 x 160 (platemark) mm, printed in black on wove paper. Recently cleaned, trimmed close to the right plate mark but not touching it, other margins... More about Adam and the Beasts
1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, with 10 facsimile leaves, 32 pp of the progressive collotype printings,plus the 5 pp.commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Full green morocco, near fine with green marbled slipcase. § De luxe edition limited to 36 copies. All Religions are One (c. 1788) is “a small... More about All Religions are One
1926. London: Frederick Hollyer, 1926. Small 4to, title, 10 leaves. Original quarter cloth, brown boards lettered in black. Fine. § Limited apparently to a small number of copies, of which some were colored. This copy, inscribed by Ann Hollyer as a gift, is stated to be a trial or proof... More about All Religions are One
1947. New York: United Book Guild, 1947. 8vo, (8; Half-title,with colour frontispiece of Thiralatha from "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" tipped-in, Title page, and 3pp foreword by Ruthen Todd), 18 pp : lithographs in dark green ink printed on yellow paper. Very good in quarter red cloth over black... More about America, a Prophecy
1947. New York: United Book Guild, 1947. 8vo, (8; Half-title,with colour frontispiece of Thiralatha from "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" tipped-in, Title page, and 3pp foreword by Ruthen Todd), 18 pp : lithographs in dark green ink printed on yellow paper. Very good in quarter red cloth over black... More about America, a Prophecy
1947. [New York: 1947]. 8vo, [19] pp. Woodblock prints on yellow paper. Quarter red cloth, black paper boards. Illustration affixed to front. Very good. § An odd reproduction, printed on yellow paper, with a color plate from ‘Visions’ on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the... More about America. a Prophecy
1974. Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1974. 4to, 21 pp and 18 facsimile plates in black and white. The non limited edition version, without the 9 extra facsmile plates from variant copies. Near fine in illustrated red wrappers, and an additional loose set of the 18 facsimilies and the... More about America: A Prophecy. Materials for the Study of William Blake Volume I. [With Editorial Comments...
20 postcard reproductions of Blake's (16) and Palmer's (4) pictures and drawings from various galleries, many from the Tate, plus a few from The Fitzwilliam Museum and one from Boston. §. More about Assorted Postcards
1968. Bronxville: Valenti Angelo, 1968. Slim tall 8vo, 9pp. Original pink boards, printed label. § 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 is a poem from one... More about Auguries of Innocence
1975. Burford: Cygnet Press, 1975. Slim 8vo, 18, (1, colophon) pp. Original orange printed wrappers, as new. § Limited to 375 copies, this copy is number 95. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p.148. Auguries of Innocence is a poem from one of William Blake's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript... More about Auguries of Innocence. Together with the Rearrangement by Dr. John Sampson and a Comment by...
1928. London: Ernest Benn, [1928]. Slim 8vo, 31pp. Original printed wrappers. § One in a series of printings of English poets, this one containing 34 of Blake’s best known poems. More about The Augustan Books of English Poetry. William Blake
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, repaired. § Limited to 800 copies. The facsimile of the notebook... More about The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and...
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 about Blake’s America: A Prophecy [and] Europe: A Prophecy. Facsimile Reproductions of Two...
