1978. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978. Tall 4to, 178 pp, including 45 colored facsimile plates from Copy B as Part One, 75 pp of text transcribed as Part Two, with Part Three being a Commentary, with 6 additional facsimile black and white plates from Copy D following at end. Very good in..... More
1928. London: Gollancz, 1928. Thin 4to, 8 leaves and colophon. Original black cloth, gilt, covered in mylar, bookplate of R. J. G. Johnson; very good copy. § Facsimile limited to 1700 copies for the UK and the USA. Bentley, Blake Books, 22. 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
1924. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1924. 8vo, 168 pp. Color frontispiece of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion (lot 116). A second tipped-in plate by Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (lot 115). All Blake lots, lots 108–34, with results noted in pencil and some in ink in..... More
39. A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley, BB, 39. 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..... More
1995. Hastings, Sussex: Pickpocket Books, 1995. Small slim 8vo, (16) pp, with 8 black and white illustrations in the text, from Blake's illustrated books and Thornton's "Virgil". Contains selections from Blake's prose and poems. As new in illustrated purple card wrappers, in a purple envelope. §. More
1838. [London: for John Linnell, 1838]. 7 plates, oblong folio, printed on laid paper only (not on India), lightly cleaned, in fine condition. § First printing (subsequent to a few proofs possibly pulled by Blake himself) preceding the 1838 printing on laid india on wove paper. Essick states (Blake Quarterly..... More
1968. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. 8vo, 224 pp. 13 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Signed and dated 1970 at the front by Kay Long. § Second edition, revised. US printing. More
2019. New York: Grolier Club, 2019. Small slim 8vo, 8pp. Oriiginal printed wrappers as issued, new. § Limited to 10 copies for sale. Printed by Jerry Kelly on the Kelly-Winterton Press, handset in Trump's Delphin type and printed on handmade Kelmscott paper with watermarks. This keepsake was issued by John..... More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70pp.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. “The original..... More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70pp.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. “The original..... More
1927. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1927. 8vo, 70pp. Original paper over boards. Very good. § US trade edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 132B. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length, printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt, who owned a small print shop in the Strand, and paid..... More
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
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
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
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
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
1806. London: J, Johnson, 1806. 2 vols. 4to, xviii, 423, (4, index and plate list); iv, 419 ( 6, index and plate list) pp, with 40 hand-coloured plates in both vol I and vol II as called for plus hand-coloured title page to vol I and coloured vignette to both..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
