![Item #124650 Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Illustrated by May Alcott. [With] Little...](/pictures/thumb/124650.jpg?v=1649955754)
1868. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868, 1869, 1871. 3 vols. Sm. 8vo, 341, (6, ads); iv, 359, (8, ads); viii (incl. ads), 376 pp. 4 plates in each. Quarter blue morocco, light blue boards, gilt decorated backstrips with raised bands, top edges, gilt; original cloth backstrips tipped into the rear of..... More
1763. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. Royal folio, 573 unnumbered leaves. A2, 1, B-13D2, *a-*e2, *f1. English binding of contemporary full blue-green morocco, covers with elaborate gilt border, backstrip richly gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped in gilt "HOLY BIBLE" and at the foot..... 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
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
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
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
8182. London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Large folio, title-page and 21 plates printed on India paper. Mounted on large sheets as issued, enclosed in a blue morocco box (slightly worn) lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Robert Pirie. § A very good set of the posthumous edition..... 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
1824. London: I. Poole, [1824]. Small 8vo, xxiv, 372pp. With an engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings including one by Blake, 8 hand-colored botanical plates, 8 plates of engraved music, a calendar with an engraved title-page and 6 plates, and 12 blank leaves titled "Album 1825" recorded by Keynes but not..... More
1825. London: I. Poole, [1825?]. 12mo, frontispiece “A Tribute of Regard...”; title-page “Remember Me” etc. with 1826 beneath “Christmas Present”; second engraved leaf recto “Calendar and Album 1826...”, verso January and February, next three leaves with the rest of the Calendar; verso of third leaf “The Virgin Child and St..... More
1885. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 2 vols. in one. 4to, 34; 30 leaves, hand-colored, with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued; copies No. 24 (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..... More
6183. London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74 pp. Original pebbled plum cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt (partly worn away as often), a very good copy in a variant original binding, slightly worn around the edges, upper..... More
![Item #122888 Songs of Innocence [and] Songs of Experience. William Blake](/pictures/thumb/122888_1.jpg?v=1647987436)
1885. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 2 vols., 4to, 34; 30 leaves, hand-colored, with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued, enclosed in a modern quarter-blue morocco folding box lettered in gilt. Wrappers rebacked and lightly repaired, some closed tears remaining, fine copies within. § Limited to around 50 copies of each..... More
![Item #110443 Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience. Facsimiles by William Muir. William...](/pictures/thumb/110443.jpg?v=1648828586)
1927. London: Quaritch, 1927. 2 vols, 4to, 28 and 22 hand-colored plates (plus 4 more hand-colored plates and one plate colored in brown only); original printed wrappers as issued. Bookplate of Raymond and Pamela Lister. In a green cloth slipcase. § The second Muir facsimiles of these titles, both inscribed..... More
![Item #122890 Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience. Facsimiles by William Muir. William...](/pictures/thumb/122890.jpg?v=1648763632)
1927. London: Quaritch, 1927. 2 vols, 4to, 28 and 22 hand-colored plates (plus 4 more hand-colored plates and one plate colored in brown only). Original grey/blue printed wrappers, brown paper backstrips, as issued. Fine as issued. § The second Muir facsimiles of these titles, vol. 1 inscribed and numbered by..... More
1977. 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..... More
1887. Edmonton: William Muir, 1887. Folio, 18 plates printed in blue. Original wrappers, rebacked, top edge gilt, fine. § Uncolored Muir facsimile limited to around 50 copies (of which, according to Keynes in 1921 only 6 were hand-colored). This is copy #3, signed, priced and numbered by Muir. "In the..... More
1796. London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller, 1796. Slim 4to, xi, 16 pp. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations (headpiece and tailpiece) designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Later full red straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip, a fine copy with a faded inscription on the title-page "Sophia Baillie". §..... More
1838. London: 1838 or ca. 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. § Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions. From 102 illustrations, ranging..... More
1821. London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214 pp; [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. Retrospective early 19th century full..... More
1821. 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..... More
1733. 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..... More
1764. London: R. Richardson, 1764 [vols. 1 and 2] and G. Robinson, 1773 [vol. 3] and 1781 [vol. 4]. 4 vols. 4to, xxiii, 269, [6], 301, [20]; [iv], 195, [36], 120, 160, 32; [iv], 507, [26], 37; [6], 304, 218, [7] pp. With copper-engraved frontispiece portrait & 25 copper-engraved plates..... More
1975. Menlo Park, CA: March-August 1975. 5 issues, Xeroxed. Issues 1, 2, 4, and 5 on letter sheets stapled in the top right corner. (1: 3pp. on 3 sheets. 2: 7pp. on 4 sheets. 4: 4pp. on 2 sheets. 5: 6pp. on 3 sheets.) Issue 6 is 8pp. on two..... More
1880. 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..... More
