1963. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1963. 4to, 47 ff. with 16 two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original printed boards. A very good copy, prospectus loosely inserted. § Limited to 130 copies. The two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton are designed to represent the main characters' various emotional states. Likewise..... More
1816. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. 3 vols., sm. 8vo in 12s, (173 x 105 mm), [4], 322, [1, blank]; [4], 351, [352, printer's imprint]; [4], 363, [364, ads.] pp. Very early half calf, rebacked to style, blue/grey boards, tips scuffed. Ink signature in each volume of "Mr. Murray..... More
1948. 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..... 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
1947. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1947. 8vo, 309, [1]pp. plus color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip, original cream illustrated and printed dust jacket, top edge blue; color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white at the..... 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
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1952. 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
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
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1805. London: C and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... 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
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, dust jacket worn and with tears and nicks, otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this..... 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
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. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. The Doheny copy with book..... 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
1926. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, [viii], 283; [xii], 359 pp. Title pages in sepia and black, 27 black-and-white plates. Full stiff vellum, gilt-lettered backstrip, covers slightly bowed and spotted in the vellum. Two gift inscriptions at front. § De luxe edition, limited to 95..... More
1970. London: Macmillan, 1970. 8vo, 245 pp. Paperback. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1261, gives a list of the essays herein contained, authors including such as Malkin, Lamb, and Linnell, up to Kathleen Raine. 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
1966. The University of Texas, 1966. 8vo, 120 pp. Original white cloth lettered in brown on the upper board and backstrip, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a lightly toned dust-jacket. § Limited to 1000 copies. With entries for over 400 items from the Texas University collections including many..... 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
1835. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, MDCCCXXXV [1835]. 8vo, (xii), (1)-216 pp. Uncut in the original drab paper boards, white paper label. 1.5cm chip from head of backstrip and a small section rubbed white at foot, label soiled but just legible, boards clean, a few light spots to the first..... 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
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1843. London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLIII (1843); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846); London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLV (1845); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 5 vols., 8vo, illustrated with engravings see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green..... 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, some..... More
1941. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. 8vo, unpaginated. Original red paper wrapped boards printed in black, original unclipped red printed dust-jacket. A few light marks to the boards, dust-jacket faded and a little soiled. Very good. § A selection of John Donne chosen by New Directions for a special..... More
