1955. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Small 8vo, 54 plates, 3 pp. printed text at end. Full brown morocco, slipcase, a fine copy. § Limited to 526 copies, this is #399; the superb color facsimile of the Rosenwald-LC copy (Z). One of the scarcest and most desirable of the Trianon Press... More about Songs of Innocence and of Experience
London: printed for Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at their shops on St. Margarets-hill in Southwark, and at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain, MDCLXIII. [1663]. Folio, [34], 176, 179-274, 279-470, 473-472, 485-500, [4], 37, [1] pp. Title page printed in red and black. First... More about Mare clausum; The right and dominion of the sea in tvvo books. In the first, the sea is proved by...
1810. Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James’s-Street, Bath; and Sold by Cadell and Davies, Strand, Hatchard, Piccadilly, London; and S. Cheyne, Edinburgh, 1810. 2 vols., 8vo, xv, 208, (1); xii, 274, (1)pp. With a portrait frontispiece in "Fragments". Original tree calf, backstrips stamped in gilt, slightest wear but a.... More about The Book of Job translated from the Hebrew, by the Late Miss Elizabeth Smith; WITH: Fragments, in...
1480. Paris: c. 1480. 150 cm x 98 cm. Slight wear to inner margin, small hole in text portion. In an elaborate gold frame. § Arch-toped miniature showing the Virgin in blue holding the Child and a fruit, seated on a donkey, Joseph in front with a staff, a.... More about The Flight into Egypt
1490. Naples: late 15th century. A cutting, 173 mm x 182 mm, with historiated initial 'E' (doubtless the introit 'Ecce advenit... for Mass at Epiphany), 147 mm x 152 mm. Slight spots of rubbing. In an elaborate gold frame. § The Virgin and Child seated on the right with... More about Adoration of the Magi
1480. France (possibly Maine or Anjou): c. 1480. Single leaf, 162 mm x 110 mm. Slight fading, in an old frame with metal fittings. A finely painted miniature with the use of gold modeling and the cloud of cherubim in the tradition pioneered by Jean Fouquet. § The Virgin... More about Coronation of the Virgin, miniature from a Book of Hours
1940. [London: Sessler printing, c.1940's]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., an excellent impression, in deep, rich black ink on wove paper, watermarked FRANCE, lower right, watermark partially trimmed; recently cleaned. § Final state, lacking the drypoint inscriptions added in the fourth state. it is worth noting that the... More about Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved &...
1998. San Francisco, California, 1998/2017. 15 x 11 inches. Pen, watercolor, and collage on paper, mounted on paper by Jackson, with ink and gold leafed calligraphy by Ingmire. The mounted illustration is signed and dated “OLJ 6-22-98”. Signed and dated at lower right in pencil by Ingmire. Mounted in a.... More about How You Hear It
1998. San Francisco, California, 1998/2017. 15 x 11 inches. Pen, watercolor, and collage on paper, mounted on paper by Jackson, with ink and gold leafed calligraphy by Ingmire. The mounted illustration is signed and dated “OLJ 6-24-98”. Signed and dated at lower right in pencil by Ingmire. Mounted in a.... More about It is Not
2014. California, U.S.A., 2014. 20 x 19.5 inches. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. Loosely mounted to illustration board. Verso has a label with the artists contact information. Fine condition. § Yukimi Sasago Annand is a calligrapher and text artist living and working in Southern California. Annand studied communication design... More about Into Nature
2013. Goldkronach, Germany, 2013. 11.75 x 11.75 inches. Blue and black inked backgrouground, with red and white inked calligraphy in both English and German on paper. The piece is partially affixed to a hinged, windowed mat. Fine condition. § Andrea Wunderlich has worked as a calligrapher since 2003. Together with... More about Before the Invention
2000. Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2000. 10 x 15.25 inches. Chinese ink, gold leaf on gesso, and watercolor on Sanders 90 lbs. C.P.. Signed and dated on lower front in pencil. 2 labels taped to verso, one with artist’s contact information, and another card with a printed, illustrated portrait of the... More about Butterflies
2016. San Francisco: 2016 11 x 8.5 ins. Calligraphed in several colors and heightened with gold, numbered 7/50, signed and dated. § Thomas Ingmire (San Francisco) was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. A vivid expression of the modern... More about He who Binds to Himself a Joy
2016. San Francisco: 2016. 11 x 8.5 ins. Calligraphed in several colors and heightened with gold, numbered 2/25, signed and dated. § Thomas Ingmire (San Francisco) was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. A vivid expression of the modern... More about Love to Faults is always Blind
1997. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1997. 8vo, 141pp. Original dark brown buckram, stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; frontispiece from photography of Willey, and illustrated throughout from photographs, drawings, and maps. Description of this Keepsake of the Friends of the Bancroft Library... More about Personal Memoranda. The Journal of His Voyage to California in 1848-1849. By Samuel Hopkins...
1994. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1994. 2 vols., folio, and portfolio containing loosely inserted printed items. Original unbleached cloth binding, both volumes with blind-stamped upper board and paper label to backstrip, matching cloth slipcase also with decorated paper label affixed to backstrip. Folio, 151 pp. illustrated throughout... More about The Ephemera of Adrian Wilson. An Annotated List, 1944-1988
1969. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969. 8vo, 164 pp. With a color frontispiece and 23 plates of which 6 are in color. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket slightly worn. § First edition in English. Bentley, Blake Books, 3004B. More about William Blake Painter Poet Visionary: An Attempt at an Introduction to his Life and Work
1986. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1986. 8vo, 319 pp. 79 illustrations. Original cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Some shelfwear. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 677: “A plate-by-plate analysis, with the 79 black and white reproductions of Comus (Huntington and Boston sets), L’Allegro (Pierpont Morgan), Il... More about Blake’s Vision of the Poetry of Milton. Illustrations to Six Poems
1946. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. Small 4to, [39] pp. 6 full-color illustrations with black and white illustrations throughout, black and white map endpapers. Full-color pictorial boards, edges lightly worn. Full-color pictorial dust-jacket, clipped, with light edgewear. Signed and inscribed on verso of front free endpaper with a.... More about Friendship Valley
1971. Cleveland & London: The Press of Case Western University, 1971. 8vo, xxiv, 342 pp. Frontispiece plus 12 black and white plates. Illustrated map endpapers. Blue cloth with blue illustrated dust-jacket. Some edgewear and signs of use. Very good. § First edition. Includes all of Blake’s illustrations to Paradise Regained... More about Calm of Mind: Tercentenary Essays on "Paradise Regained" and "Samson...
1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo, xviii; 250pp. 11 illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with some edgewear. Very good. § First edition. Studies of Blake’s response to the ideas, writings, and art of his contemporaries such as Wollstonecraft, Paine, Burke, Rousseau... More about Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake
1964. New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1964. 8vo, 276pp. Brick red cloth with gilt to backstrip. Some signs of wear. Very good. § Reprint of the 1927 edition, originally published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Bentley, BB, 2950 B: “leads to the conclusion that he is not a.... More about The Mysticism of William Blake
1986. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1986. 8vo, 319pp. 79 illustrations. Original cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Some shelf wear. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, BBS, p.677: “A plate-by-plate analysis, with the 79 Black-and-white reproductions of Comus (Huntington and Boston sets), L’Allegro (Pierpont Morgan), Il Penseroso (Pierpont Morgan), On the Morning... More about Blake’s Vision of the Poetry of Milton. Illustrations to Six Poems
1912. Olney: Thomas Wright, 1912. 8vo, 58, [4] pp. Blue cloth with gilt. Very light shelf wear. Pages unopened. Very good. § First edition, quite scarce. The last copy offered was at the Brick Row Book Shop in 2002. Prints informative addresses on aspects of Blake’s work and the Blake... More about The First Meeting of the Blake Society. Papers Read Before the Blake Society at the First Annual...
2004. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. 8vo, xxxiii, 230pp. Illustrated title-page plus 5 illustrations throughout. Red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. § First edition. “Blake’s major printed works, Milton and Jerusalem, are explicit and extensive engagements with the question of nation - and empire.” (blurb). More about Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation
