c. 1955. Cast bronze sculpture approx 7 x 7 x 5 inches. Portrait sculpture of William Blake. “Based on the life mask taken in 1823 by James S. Deville a phrenologist, when Blake was in his sixty-sixth year, Baskin’s bronze portrait of 1955 is extremely faithful to the original, emphasizing...
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 wide...
[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 a few...
London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Matted, a brilliant set, with the original printed label preserved. First edition, limited to 150 proof sets...
Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 2 vols. in one. 4to, 34; 30 leaves, hand-colored, each part bound in its original gray wrappers as issued; both copies No. 20. bound in contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards, with the bookplate of H....
Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 2 vols. in one. 4to, 34; 30 leaves, hand-colored, with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued; copies No. 24m (Innocence) and 11 (Experience). Full dark red morocco, gilt top, gilt-lettered backstrip with gilt device at foot, bookplates of Thomas William Waller and Willis Vickery. Very Good...
London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74 pp. Original pebbled plum cloth, first state of the binding decorated in blind on both covers, the cartouche smaller than in the 2nd binding and with ruled lines in blind not...
London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued. Limited to 150 sets, this superb reprinting of Blake’s only woodcuts...
London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued in the original BM-issued numbered cardboard box; a few mounts slightly...
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 in...
London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733. Thick 8vo, xvi, 700, lx (index) pages. Original calf, final two leaves creased, lacking rear free end-paper. William Blake’s copy, signed on the title-page “William Blake his Book” in brown ink. The signature corresponds almost exactly with the example reproduced by Bentley in.....
London: Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Thomas Wight, 1598. Folio, [27], [392] ff., black letter, double-columns, title-page within a woodcut border, three divisional title-pages within woodcut borders, woodcut initials, ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, large woodcut coat of arms to verso of the prologues, and woodcut headpiece for...
December 23, 1871. 8vo, 2 pp., 25 lines in ink written on rectos only; first sheet with printed letterhead "Down, Beckenham, Kent." With original stamped and postmarked envelope. Letter and envelope both in fine condition and fully legible. Custom quarter leather portfolio case with inset portrait. A short but characteristic...
London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, ix, 502 pp. with a folding diagram facing p. 117. A very good copy, rebound without the ads in contemporary three-quarter brown calf, rebacked with backstrip laid down, marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, gilt pannelled backstrip with red morocco label, minor rubbing to the...
London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated copy...
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 3 vols. in 4 (vol. 2 having a separate appendix), 8vo, xxviii, [iv], [1]-559, 556-597 pp. with 17 engraved plates and 3 folding maps; xiv, [2] [1]-694, [2] pp. with 25 engraved plates and 2 folding maps; viii, 352 pp. with 6 engraved plates and 2...
London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLIII (1843); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846); London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLV (1845); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 5 vols., 8vo, see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green morocco extra, covers with...
London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, [May, 1849 - November 1850]. 8vo., 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued, 32, [1]-32, 4; 12, 33-64, 12; 12, 65-96, 4; 8 97-128; 4, 129-160; 8, 161-192, 8; 8, 193-224, 8; [14], 225-256; 12, 257-288, [22]; 12, 289-320, 8; 8, 321-352; 8, 353-384, 2...
London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCLIX (1859). 8vo., [ix], [1]-254, 16 etched plates including frontis and title vignette. Half dark-brown calf and forest-green diaper-cloth. The boards edges, corners and joints are rubbed, minor scattered foxing, some of the plates are loose from the stitching, small tear on the list of plates...
London: William Pickering, 1847. Small 4to, xxix, 268 pp., color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow, and black; wood-engraved initials. Early half black calf, gilt backstrip, red label, marbled boards, a very good copy beautifully cleaned and restored by Court Benson. First edition of Byrne’s work on Euclidean geometry...
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. 8vo., [iv], 401 pp. Original quarter white cloth, and black and white patterned paper boards, backstrip lettered in black, decorative endpapers that match the covers, original pictorial dust-jacket, fore-edge uncut. Dust-jacket has a few minor chips along the edges, a very good...
San Francisco: San Francisco Herald Office, 1855. 8vo, 104, (2) pp. Original dark blue polished calf, upper cover lettered in gilt, a remarkably fine copy in the de luxe binding, with a modern bookplate and old notes by John Howell-Books in the back. First edition in the English of the...
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. 8vo., [viii], [1]-408 pp., title-vignette, headpieces and tailpieces. Original blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on the backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy, dust jacket with a few small chips at edges and flap folds, backstrip very slightly faded, otherwise clean and.....
Waltham, St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 [and] London: Clover Hill Editions, 1977. 2 vols. plus extra material: 4to, iv, 16, (1, colophon) pp. With 10 large wood engravings by David Jones. Original red buckram, pale blue dust-jacket partially faded to almost white as usual, with a second unfaded...
Nuremberg , & Framkfurt, C. S.: Froberger, 1683. Francofurti ad Moenvm: Typis exscripti Wolfgangi Hoffmani, Impensa Matthaei Meriani, 1646-50. Two vols., folio, [xl], 8, 1154, [21], [3] pp.; [xxxiv], 984, [20] pp., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials, engraved title-pages, vignette on printed titles, four illustrations in text, engraved portrait of...
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