London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, [c.1855]. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1: xviii, 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red, complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume, including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco, all edges gilt, with original backstrip and upper panel..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 vols, large 4to, [i-xx], [1]-330 including appendix, [6, index]; [i-iv], [1]-275, [1, blank],[4, index]pp. 83 plates in all, viz: 1 plan and 1 portrait both uncolored, 1 colored line engraving and 80 full-page aquatints. Old half red morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt-pannelled backstrip, marbled sides..... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1942. 4to, xvii, 485 pp. 12 etched plates by Chamberlain. Publisher's red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, original slipcase. Slightest hit of fading to backstrip else a fine copy inside and out, slipcase sunned, paper label to slipcase..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. 8vo, xxviii, 198 pp. Signed by Ross on the colophon. Padded floral patterned cloth binding, red label with gilt lettering to backstrip, red cloth slipcase. Fine copy. § Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Gordon Ross. Prefatory notes by W. M...... More
Mount Vernon: Limited Editions Club, 1937. 3 vols. 8vo, xiii, 431; 685 pp. 9 lithograph plates and numerous in-text illustrations, signed by Wilson on the colophon. Rust colored cloth. A fine set with slight shelf wear to slipcase. § Limited to 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. With a new..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo. This is..... More
Great Britain, John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo, 122 pages. Fifteen black and white plates by Michael Ayrton. Original blue cloth with black plate and gold lettering on the spine. Slight tearing on upper jacket spine, and pages somewhat loose, fair condition. § First edition. Rigby Graham, Romantic Book Illustration in England..... More
New York: John Lane, 1905. Large 4to, 367, xcvipp. With hundreds of illustrations in the text including several in color and on separate leaves. Original olive green cloth lettered in green, backstrip faded to brown. § A scarce and massive compilation of art of the period including crafts. Baldry contributed..... More
San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this issue..... More
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London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More
[New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of..... More
[New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2 lacking..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Large 4to, text, illustrations including 63 color facsimile plates, in six fascicles in original wrappers with labels; near fine copy, small stain to one wrapper, enclosed in the original blue cloth box, rather worn. § A magnificent production, showing for the first time the..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase, fine. § Limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 289. Jerusalem is the longest of Blake's prophetic books and tells of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1972. Folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Original sheets, marbled boards, morocco backstrip lettered in gilt,quarter brown morocco box..... More
Northampton, Mass.: Gehenna Press, 1956. Small 4to, [11 inc. the first blank]pp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers, very good. § “Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard Baskin..... More
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". § First..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1978. Oblong folio, quarter morocco, cloth, slipcase. As new. § Limited to 376 copies. The first accurate reproduction of Blake’s seven engravings for the Divine Comedy, first published in 1838. This new edition has an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes; three facsimiles of early states, and..... More
London: Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press, 1922. Folio. pp. 22. 117 plates, including 6 in color on rectos only. Publisher's red cloth, a bit worn but a good copy. § Limited to 650 copies, this copy #249. This “unique copy” was found among Flaxman's papers after his death..... More
Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Large 8vo (22.7 x 14.2 cm.), xii, 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt titled backstrip, marbled edges, minor rubbing to backstrip and corners, faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves..... More
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..... More
Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1987. 22 separate plates, approx. 15.75 x 12.25 inches (30 x 31 cm) each, printed in color on Arches, housed in a tri-fold paper folder. Very good condition. § The New Zealand Set are careful watercolor copies of the central designs of the..... More
Cornopolis: Imprimerie de l’Encorné, [i.e. Lille: printed for the author chez Bloquel], [c. 1837?]. 12mo, 3-107, (1)pp. With a folding hand-colored frontispiece. Printed on yellow paper, bound with three “sermons” at the end. Early quarter calf, marbled boards, bookplate of E. Alexander. § Very rare and amusing treatise on cuckoldry;..... More
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 2009. 8.5”x10” portfolio, containing 1 introductory bifold, and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white, along with book descriptions. Top right corner of introductory bifold creased, else near fine. § First edition thus. An interesting and..... More
[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #131); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show..... More
