1944. New York: Random House, 1944. 8vo, 132 pp. Original blue boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Original printed dust-jacket faded and somewhat wormed at the folds. § First edition, first printing, preceding the UK first edition. As noted by the publisher on the copyright page this was..... More

1856. London: Whittaker and Co., (1856). Oblong 8vo, original printed boards. Engraved title-page and twenty-four lithographic plates. Covers somewhat soiled and worn, rubbed at extremities of binding, lacking front free endpaper, short tear to one plate, some stain, a very good copy. § First Edition of this humorous visual short..... More

1945. London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by..... More

5188. [London: Colnaghi printing, after 5 March 1881]. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm., printed on laid India paper; recently cleaned. § Final state: it is worth noting that the only difference between the so-called fourth and fifth states is the absence of the scratched dry-point inscriptions clearly visible in..... More

1963. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, without dust jacket, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley, Blake Books..... More

1893. London: Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols., large 8vo., profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition, although spines now a little dulled with rubbing to edges and spine ends. All volumes very clean internally, with traces of dustiness to the..... More

1887. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1887. 4to, pp 81-128, with a Burne-Jones frontispiece and other illustrations as called for. Includes Blake's "Sibylline Leaf on Homer and Virgil" at p 113, facsimilied by William Muir (but uncredited), with Herbert p.Horne's note on the illustration at pp 115/116. Very Good..... More

1862. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862 2 vols., 8vo, (8), 316; (2), iv, 301pp. Original green cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good set. § First book edition, though the majority of the essays appeared first in Household Words and All The Year Round. Inexplicably scarce -- no copy..... More

1803. London: Mess. Boydell & Co., London, Cheapside, [1803]. Large 4to (12.75 x 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..... More

1900. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Press, 1900. 8vo, untrimmed, unpaginated. Title page and each stanza with gilt-ruled borders filled with elaborate, hand-colored Art Nouveau designs. Three quarter brown morocco with marbled paper boards, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages with traces of the usual offsetting from the gilt, marbled..... More

1809. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1809. Tall 4to, 134 pp. Red half-morocco and marbled boards with gilt to spine. Backstrip and joints repaired. Decorative endpapers. Untrimmed pages. Contains the inserted slip, pasted to page [4] which defines the word “Pelloch” (porpoise) which occurs on p. 8..... More

1705. London: Printed by R. J. for T. Newborough, at the Golden Ball, J. Knapton, at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and R. Burrough, 1705. 8vo, [xxiv], 621, [10(index)] pp. Contemporary panelled calf, long ago rebacked, with original backstrip laid down, and corners restored, four black morocco backstrip labels..... More

1876. London: Macmillan, 1876. 8vo, xi, (2), 83, (3)pp, with a frontispiece and 8 full-page b/w wood-engraved illustrations after Henry Holiday and an “ocean chart” (actually blank) at p. 17. Original pictorial tan cloth, covers decoratively stamped in black with illustrations by Holiday, backstrip lettered in black, invisibly repaired and..... More