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
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: 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
London: Mess. Boydell & Co., London, Cheapside, [1803]. Large 4to (12.75 x 16.75 inches), [7] ff., + engraved title page, frontispiece, 2 portraits and 97 plates illustrating the most-famous scenes from Shakespeare. In the de luxe binding of publisher’s straight-grain red morocco gilt, gilt-extra backstrip, gilt design on both covers..... More
London: Published by the Proprietor, J. P. Neale, 1818. 2 vols, 4to (large paper?). Vol. 1: (18), [1-3], 4-72, (10), [1]-227, (19)pp. with engraved title, frontispiece, separate title page, 10 plates as called for plus one not mentioned in the Directions to the Binder ("Doorway to Oratory"). Vol 2: (2)..... More
Paul Hartmann, 1929. 4to, 86 pp., illustrated with 18 original etchings by Jean Bruller, hand-colored. Original printed wrappers over stiff card. Moderately foxed, backstrip paper with splits, binding cracked, but complete and with the bold illustrations still bright. § Copy number XXXIII of XXXV copies on Madagascar paper for La..... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. 4to. 12 leaves printed rectos only. Text and illustrations all engraved. Publisher's full red crushed morocco, gilt-stamped; backstrip darkened and somewhat dry and cracked. In a custom morocco-backed box. § One of 475 copies "printed for members only". An ornate printing of Burn's poem celebrating..... More
1937. Drypoint etching 10 1/2 x 7 1/2'' on handmade paper, mounted, signed by the artist and numbered in pencil; very good. § Out of 100 this is number 84. Samuel E. Chamberlain (1829-1908) was a soldier, painter, and author who traveled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico. More
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1835-1843 [and] 1844-1853. 2 vols. 8vo, 388; 428, [32, ads] pp. Bound alike in publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt on upper boards and backstrips. Occasional scattered foxing, vol. 2 cracked in places with two plates now detached, but overall in remarkably fresh and..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. Small 4to, original blue-green boards, backstrip & front cover lettered in black, with image of a beetle on front cover, after Nicholson; in printed pictorial dust-jacket. [v], 53 pp. Four plates printed in green & black, one plate printed in black, & numerous..... More
Cleveland: Hyacinth Press, 1949. Slim 8vo, 11 pp., with a frontispiece and 8 plates (7 mounted). Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine, head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies, a...... More
San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1987. Oblong royal 8vo, 75pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers, a little scuffed, very good. § Selections from the extraordinary Essick collection. Blake Books Supplement p. 304 (1987 November-1988 February). More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 8vo, (2), xvi, 96 pp. Signed proof of an original etching and 5 photogravure plates by Tuttle. Original quarter cream cloth and plain paper boards, priced ticket of Stanley Rose's bookshop on rear pastedown (see below). A fine, unopened copy in the worn but..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. 2 vols. Tall 8vo: xliv, 308; (iv), [309]-[608], (2)pp. Original dark blue cloth, dark blue morocco spine labels, uncut. Housed in original marbled paper slipcase. Interiors fine, minor chipping to spine labels, without the original glassine wrappers, slipcase worn and splitting. § Signed..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols. in one, royal 8vo, xi, 225; vii, 187,(1, advertisement) pp. Engraved title to each part, frontispiece to vol. I, and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked, lower cover rehinged, scuffed and untidy, internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting..... More
London: J. Buckland [etc.], 1788. Sm. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, viii (including woodcut frontispiece), 232 pp. Frontispiece and 68 woodcuts in the text. Old polished calf rebacked and lettered in gilt, minor scrape on lower cover, generally very good. § Apparently quite a scarce version which first appeared..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1915. 4to (13 x 10.5 inches). Woodcut title-page with triangular device enclosing the letters HDCP EG 1915. Original printed blue paper wrappers slightly soiled and spotted, internally perfect. Enclosed in a quarter blue morocco box. § First printing, limited edition; this is # 14 of 15..... More
Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. 4to, (xii), 49, (5) pp. With an extra suite of the engravings on Japon, wood-engraved self-portrait and 103 plates, a few printed in red or red and black, additional plates loose as issued in pocket at end. Original de luxe binding of quarter vellum. A very..... More
London: Lanston Monotype Corp. for Eric Gill, 1928. Very slim small 8vo, 17, (3) pp. Original black buckram, as new. Bookplate (by David Jones) of Walter Shewring. § A true rarity, limited to 55 copies and so inscribed in ink at the back by Eric Gill. Only two copies have..... More
Paris: Calmann Lévy, Éditeur, 1883. 12mo, (4), 210, (1) pp. Two engraved frontispieces plus 20 fine watercolor sketches done on blank pages or in the margins, including 3 full-page watercolor title pages. Bound by Paul-Romain Raparlier in full crushed blue morocco, gilt turn-ins, ornately gilt-tooled red morocco doublures, marbled endpapers..... More
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London: printed for John Murray, H. Hunter, T, Holloway, 1792 342 loose leaves approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/4”, almost all with engraved plates, edges gilt. Some minor foxing to outer margins, most leaves are chipped on the edge where they were bound; very good. § Hundreds of fine vignette..... More
London: Printed for J. Whiston and M. Lawrence, [1773]. Slim 8vo, [2], iv, [2], 1-104 pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates by J. Miller (so signed). Retrospective binding of red morocco paneled in gilt, backstrip richly gilt, by Phil Dusel for Stuart Bennett. Some evidence throughout of..... More
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1865. Oblong folio, 94, 96 pp. Half morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, upper board pictorially stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers. Backstrip and tips considerably rubbed and worn but binding sound overall, pages with occasional light foxing and closed tears. Very..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. Small 8vo, in sixes, 72 pp. Hand-colored folding frontispiece "Farming for Ladies", engraved title-page, and seven black and white plates (lacking one?). Full orange orange morocco, plain endpapers, backstrip stamped in gilt; possibly the work of a student but nicely done. Text moderately foxed, plates..... More
