Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pp. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Some shelf wear, dust jacket considerably worn. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: “particularly useful”. More
Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1987. 8vo, xxvi, 518pp. Illustrated. Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket in protective mylar. Very good. § First edition of this very substantial book. Bentley, BBS, p.356: “an attempt to provide the reader with a process text that plausibly retells this immensely complex...narrative”. More
Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More
Oxford: University Press, 1977. Thick 8vo, 1079 pages. Frontispiece. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Dust jacket shelf worn and somewhat faded with slight tearing, interior bright and clean. § First edition. The Blake Bible. More
Florida: University of Miami Press, 1969. Small 8vo, 54 pp. plus 27 black and white plates. Printed wrappers. Signs of wear, staining to lower edge. § Second edition. Bentley, BB, 41B: “ dealing largely with Gnosticism”. More
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Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964. Slim 12mo, [16]pp. With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Backstrip somewhat worn, and chipped, with fading and shelfwear to edges and tips. § Limited to 500 copies (but surely..... More
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968. 8vo, 224 pages, with a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § Final revised edition, the best single account of Blake's manuscripts. Bentley, Blake Books, 93 C: “Comprehends fairly full notes, some related documents such as receipts, and provenances.” Includes importabt notes..... 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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 8vo, xxvi, 990 pp., 4 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket torn and faded. § Newly revised edition of the very highly regarded 1965 edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 162 entry F: “editorially of the first importance”. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384 pp. Folding frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Very good in original brick-red cloth, with tiny chip to paper spine label, spare label bound in at end. § First Edition. Bentley, Blake Books 300 "...a work of pioneer scholarly importance... meticulously accurate, well-balanced and intelligent"..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo, viii, 449 pp. With 2 leaves of ads at the front, and another 2 at the back, dated 1818. Original boards, paper backstrip (slightly rubbed with loss of label), some wear to boards, a very fine copy entirely uncut and in original state as issued..... More
New York: Anchor/Doubleday and Company, 1963. Small 8vo, 495pp. Printed wrappers. Good with some creasing and wrinkling to spine, fading and general wear, internally clean. § First Anchor Books edition. The first chapter is devoted to Blake; followed by chapters on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others. Bentley, BB..... More
New York: Harper Colophon, 1969. 8vo, 207 pp. 16 plates. Wrappers illustrated in orange, black and white, some edgewear and fading, underlining and short notes in pencil throughout. § Bentley, BB, 1288 I: “one of the most illuminating books on Blake”. More
Berkeley: UC Press, [1977]. 8vo, 181 pp., 11 color plates and plates with 58 black-and-white illustrations. Paperback. Shelf wear and some fading to backstrip. § First American printing. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement p.449, B. More
Oxford: OUP, 1957. 8vo, xx, 143 pp., 77 illustrations. Original blue cloth, with worn printed dust jacket. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1448: “These suggestive attempts to apply modern psychological distinctions to Blake’s art are most effective in the first chapter. The 77 plates include all of For the..... More
New York and London: Routledge, 2016. 8vo, xxxii, 387pp. 44 plates preceding text. Blue wrappers, lettered in black. Very light shelf wear, near fine. § Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and Culture, Volume 17. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Volume 1842. Bentley, BB supplement, p.19, noting that..... More
Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1972. 4to, xv, 55 pp, with XI plates comprising 63 pages of monochrome illustrations of engravings at various states. Original illustrated wrappers. Some wear and discoloration. § Vol. 1 (of two), complete in itself and covering only book illustrations both designed and engraved by..... More
Princeton University Press: 1982. 8vo, xi, 217 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers, backstrip somewhat faded. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 459. More
Princeton: 2017. 4to, xi, 232 pp. With approximately 133 vivd color illustrations, some full-page, throughout. Quarter hot pink cloth, decorated boards. As new. § A breakthrough catalogue linking Blake to the psychedelic era. "William Blake and the Age of Aquarius will explore the impact of British visionary poet and artist..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969. 8vo, xxii, 546 pages, 8 plates and 17 figures in the text. Illustrated wrappers, worn at edges, with some discoloration to wrappers, very occasional underlining in text. § Second Edition. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. 8vo, xxiv, 476 pp., plates with 121 illustrations, 8 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Dust jacket faded, somewhat creased and torn, interior clean. § First edition of this major compilation of 20 critical essays and illustrations including all of America copy K. Bentley, Blake..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, (1967). 2 vols, 8vo, xxxvi, 1-1146 & [x], 1147-2317 pp. Original red cloth; a good set if well used by Nelson Hilton. § Only edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1579: “This wonderfully accurate and useful work.” Although the Concordance is now available online, the print..... More
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1980. 8vo, xii , 114 pp.Very good in original blue cloth and Illustrated dust-jacket. § Bentley, BBS, p 469. In another study, Fairchild made a connection between George Lucas, Blake, and the films THX and American Graffiti. Bentley seems skeptical. More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, [1966]. 8vo, xi [xii], 156 pp. 80 plates. Original green cloth, grey dust jacket, illustrated in red, dust jacket with some fading and torn at edges, spotting to upper edge. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1770: “on the relationship of text and design.”..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2021. 8vo, x, 390 pp. With 18 b/w illustrations. Yellow cloth, dust-jacket, a few pages dog-eared, otherwise as new. § A fascinating and well presented study of the visionary Blake. "It is these [visions] that shaped his attitudes to politics, sex, religion, society, and art. Thanks..... More
