1927. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Royal 8vo, xvi, 398, (4) pp. With a frontispiece and 24 plates. Original quarter parchment, very good. § No. 605 of 1480 copies, beautifully printed and illustrated. Bentley, BB, 2981 A: “scrupulously use[d] contemporary accounts of Blake which had not appeared in print before..... More
1942. London: J.M. Dent, [1942]. Small 8vo, xii, 420 pp. Original pink cloth with slight fading to spine. § First edition thus. Bentley considered this Todd edition to be " .. probably the best biography of Blake that has appeared." Bentley, BB, 1680 F. More
1809. Chichester: W. Mason, 1809. Large 4to, (8), 416, (7) pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates, including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards, with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout..... More
1863. London: Macmillan, 1863. 2 vols, 8vo, [i-v], vi-xv, [1]-389; [i-v], vi-vii, [1-3] 4-268 pp. In addition to the portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, the folding frontispiece of the Canterbury Pilgrims in vol. 2, and numerous illustrations from Job and Songs, this is an extra-illustrated copy with 34 bound, tipped-in..... More
1971. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. 4to, xii, 263 pp. With a frontispiece and 55 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket torn, a very good copy. § Second edition, greatly enlarged and revised. An important collection of essays even though some of the scholarship has been superseded. Bentley, Blake Books, 2010 B.... More
