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‎[BLAKE] - GRAY (Thomas)‎

‎William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray.‎

‎London, William Blake Trust & Trianon Press, 1971. In-4 broché, sous rhodoïd, XX-72 pp., [30] pp. de reprod. en noir, ill. en coul. dans le texte.‎

‎Belle reproduction en fac-similé réduit de l'ouvrage paru en 1790. Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 7,15 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 14 €) (z C : 24 €)‎

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‎[Blake, Daniel H]‎

‎WAUPUN WIS. NOV. 30TH 1861. in manuscript: DEAR BR. DOOLITTLE. PROF. CONATTY OF KENOSHA AND MYSELF ARE TRYING TO RAISE A COMPANY TO BE CALLED THE 'TEACHERS' COMPANY' FOR THE FIRST WISCONSIN CAVALRY. WE HAVE JUST COMMENCED AND IT IS GOING TO BE EXCEEDINGLY DIFFICULT TO RAISE MEN NOW; BUT CAN YOU NOT ASSIST THIS GREAT AND GLORIOUS CAUSE BY SENDING ME ONE OR MORE MEN WE WANT THE TEACHER ELEMENT PREDOMINANT BUT THE POINT IS TO RAISE A COMPANY OF GENTLEMEN TO GO IN IT BE HE TEACHER OR NOT. YOURS FRATERNALLY D.H. BLAKE‎

‎Printed broadside 5" x 8" with salutation in ink manuscript. Some margin browning and light margin chipping else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Blake was Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waupun. Beneath his printed signature is written in ink "Pastor Cong. Ch". Professor Conatty was T.J. Conatty a public school teacher in Kenosha and a prominent figure in the Wisconsin Teachers' Association. He was later implicated in a bribery scheme with James Rood Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin 1857-1869. On Conatty's behalf Doolittle was to use his influence with President Lincoln to obtain cotton permits during General Banks's occupation of New Orleans; in return Doolittle would receive 25% of the profits. We haven't ascertained whether Senator Doolittle is the "Br. Doolittle" to whom this printed letter is addressed. <br /> This unusual ephemeral Civil War broadside is unrecorded. Waupun is in southeastern Wisconsin about sixty miles northwest of Milwaukee.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of October 2023 or anywhere else. unknown‎

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‎[Blake, Isabel W ] [From Old Catalog]‎

‎Candy Making at Home‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1359171185.G ISBN : 1359171185 9781359171184

‎[BLAKE, William] [1757-1827]‎

‎All Religions Are One. Description And Bibliographical Statement at end by Geoffrey Keynes 1887-1982‎

‎London: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust 1970. No. 567 of an Edition Limited to 662 copies. 4to. ff. 4. 10 collotype plates printed in colour with some water-colour washes added by hand. printed on Arches rag paper. original quarter morocco hand-marbled paper sides. matching slipcase London: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1970 unknown‎

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‎[Blake, William]; Alexander Gilchrist‎

‎Life of William Blake with Selections from his Poems and Other Writings‎

‎London: Macmillan and Co 1880. Second Edition. Very Good. Second edition A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Bound in the publisher's dark green cloth boards ornately stamped in gilt. Complete in two volumes. Very Good. Light wear to cloth with some rubbing through at joints and tips light rubbing to gilt. Foxing and light offsetting to endsheets and preliminaries contemporary ownership notation to both volumes and light toning to contents. The exceptional second edition of Blake's life and prose a true apex of late Victorian decorated bindings. Macmillan and Co unknown‎

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‎[Blake, William]‎

‎Poetical Sketches. By W.B.‎

‎1783. London: Printed in the Year 1783. London: Noel Douglas 1926. <br /> <br /> 8vo original paper over boards. Very good.<br /> <br /> § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.<br /> <br /> Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Wikipedia. unknown‎

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‎[Blake, William]‎

‎Poetical Sketches. By W.B. The Noel Douglas Replicas‎

‎1783. London: Printed in the Year 1783 i.e. London: Noel Douglas 1926. <br /> <br /> 8vo 70pp. Original paper over boards with worn printed glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Very good.<br /> <br /> § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.<br /> <br /> Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Wikipedia. unknown‎

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‎[BLAKE, William] BINYON, Laurence‎

‎The Engraved Designs of William Blake.‎

‎London and New York:: Ernest Benn; Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition; deluxe limited; No. 30 of 100 copies; with an extra plate color frontispiece; but lacking the separate portfolio. publisher's quarter vellum and decorated paper-covered boards; t.e.g. This copy lacks the portfolio containing a second set of all the color and collotype plates. Edges of boards rubbed and light soiling to the vellum spine; contents fine. Folio. Illustrated; 20 plates in colour and 62 in collotype. Additional postage applicable. Ernest Benn; Charles Scribner's Sons, hardcover‎

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‎[BLAKE, William] SCHIAVONETTI, Louis‎

‎The Grave A Poem; "The Councillor King Warrior Mother & Child in the Tomb‎

‎1808. First Quarto Edition. Near fine. Single sheet 35.4 x 29.2cm : plate impression 21.4 x 26.7cm : text and image after the design by William Blake.<br /> <br /> Light toning to edges. From the First Quarto edition of Robert Blair's meditation on death and resurrection. Blair's poem is remembered today for having some of William Blake's most memorable designs. These were executed by Italian engraver Luigi Schiavonetti who was awarded the commission for executing the plates despite Blake having been asked to create the designs Blake Books 435 B. unknown‎

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‎[Blake, William] Erdman, David V; over 400 b/w Illustrations [Illustrator]‎

‎The Illuminated Blake‎

‎Anchor Press/Doubleday 1974. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Anchor Press/Doubleday hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : Q-038506053X ISBN : 038506053X 9780385060530

‎[BLAKE, William] WILSON, Mona‎

‎The Life of William Blake.‎

‎London:: The Nonesuch Press 1927. First edition; No. 1224 of 1480 copies. publisher's quarter art vellum and marbled boards. . Very light soiling and use to the binding; contents clean; tight and sound. . Small folio. Illustrated. The Nonesuch Press, hardcover‎

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‎[Blake, WIlliam] / [Philip Gilbert] / [William Quiller Orchardson] / [John Fullwood] / [John La Farge] Hamerton, PG P G‎

‎The Portfolio - Monographs on Artistic Subjects 21 Volumes in 7 with each Volume including three Monographs on a Subject or an Artist's Life and Work. Volumes include for example include: Josiah Wedgwood / John La Farge / William Blake / Japanese Wood-Engraving / Belgian Sculpture etc. see full List below.‎

‎1894. Original / First Edition. 21 Volumes bound in seven Volumes. London Seeley and Co. 1894-1896. Quarto 19.2 cm wide x 27.2 cm high. c. 1600 pages with a total of 37 Etchings / Engravings. Hardcover / All Volumes in their original very decorative Art Nouveau-Bindings with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and frontcover. All Bindings in protective Collectors-Mylar. Excellent actually stunning condition with only minor signs of wear and occasional foxing to some of the illustrations only. One layer loosened in the 1895-Volume. This collection of 21 Volumes Bound in seven Volumes includes: 1. 1894 - Annual Volume One 3 Volumes in 1: I. William Sharp - "Fair Women In Painting and Poetry" With Etchings by Alma-Tadema / Sir Peter Lely / Daniel Mytens etc. II. C.J.Cornish - "The New Forest" Illustrated by Lancelot Speed Alexander Ansted and John Fullwood III. Walter Armstrong - "Thomas Gainsborough" _______________________________________________________ 2. 1894 Annual Volume Two - 3 Volumes in 1: I. P.G.Hamerton - "The Etchings of Rembrandt" With Plates Etched in Facsimile by Amand Durand The four wonderful Rembrandt-Etchings are: a. Rembrandt with the Broad Hat and Embroiderd Mantle b. The Rat Killer c. Johannes Lutma d. Rembrandt's Mother seated looking to the right II. Rev. W.K.R.Bedford - "MALTA and the Knights Hospitallers" With Plates etched: a. "Isola Point" - Etched by A. Ansted b. "Rabato Gozo" - Drawn by T.H.Crawford and Engraved by Walter L. Colls c. "Citta Vecchia" - Etched by A. Ansted from a drawing by Edward Lear d. "Chapel of our Lady of Philermos" - Engraved by Walter L. Colls III. A.H. Church - "Josiah Wedgwood - Master-Potter" His Precursors / His Early Years / As Master-Potter / His Ceramic Improvements / His Invention of the "Jasper" Body / The Barberini or Portland Vase / Cameo His Cameos Medallions and Plaques / His Portrait Cameos / Vases in the Jasper Body / Miscellaneous Productions in Jasper / Later Years / Position as an Art-Potter / Collections and Collectors // Illustrations in the Wedgwood-Volume include: 1. Portland Vase / 2. Plaque Sacrifice of Iphigenia / 3. Two Medallions A Zephyr / 4. Medallion Portrait of Flaxman __________________________________________________ 3. 1895 - Annual Volume One - 3 Volumes in 1: I. C.J.Cornish - "The Isle of Wight" a. With an original etching by John Fullwood: "Freshwater Gate" Frontispiece b. With an original etching after E.Duncan: "Isle of Wight - The Fleet leaving Portsmouth" c. With an original etching by John Fullwood: "Bonchurch" d. With an original etching by Thomas Huson: "Sandown Bay" Also includes several text-illustrations of the Isle of Wight II. Julia Cartwright - "Raphael in Rome" III. L.Binyon - "Dutch Etchers" _____________________________________________________ 4. 1895 - Annual Volume Two - 3 Volumes in 1: I. Julia Cartwright Mrs. Henry Ady - "The Early Work of Raphael" Illustrated II. Walter Armstrong - "The Art of William Quiller Orchardson" WIth original engravings and text-illustrations III. George Grahame - "Claude Lorrain - Painter & Etcher" Illustrated _______________________________________________________ 5. 1895 - Annual Volume Three - 3 Volumes in 1: I. Richard Garnett - "William Blake - Painter and Poet" With an etching "The Sons of God" and several illustrations also in colour: a. "The Sons of God" From the Book of Job b. "The Lamb and Infant Joy" from Songs of Innocence c. "The Fly and the Tiger" From Songs of Experience d. "The Book of Thel Title-page in two facsimiles by W.Griggsl e. "America" With 19 further text-illustrations by William Blake including a rare portrait of Blake II. Olivier Georges Destree - "The Renaissance of Sculpture in Belgium" Illustrated III. W.H.James Weale - "Gerard David - Painter and Illuminator" Illustrated ______________________________________________________________________ 6. 1895 - Annual Volume Four - 3 Volumes in 1: I. W.J.Loftie - "Whitehall" With many interesting historical illustrations on Whitehall and Scotland-Yard II. Professor Anderson - "Japanese Wood-Engravings" Illustrated beautifully some in colour after Utagawa Toyokuni Utamaro Katsugawa Shuncho etc. III. Claude Phillips - Antoine Watteau Illustrated _______________________________________________________________ 7. 1896 - Annual Volume - 3 Volumes in 1: I. Claude Phillips - The Picture Gallery of Charles I. Illustrated II. Cecilia Waern - "John La Farge - Artist and Writer" Illustrated with a stunning engraving of "Prosperitas" an illustration of "The Wolf Charmer" etc. etc. III. Richard Garnett - Richmond on The Thames Illustrated with stunning engravings by a. John Fullwood "Richmond Hill" - Engraving b. Clough Bromley "The Thames from Buccleugh Gardens" - Engraving c. T.Huson "The View from Richmond Hill" - Engraving d. T.Huson "Richmond Bridge" - Engraving and many text-illustrations "The Portfolio" was a British monthly art magazine published in London from 1870 to 1893. It was founded by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and promoted contemporary printmaking especially etching and was important in the British Etching Revival. Early contributors included Francis Turner Palgrave 1824–1897 and Sidney Colvin 1845–1927. The mid-nineteenth century in France and Britain saw a rise in the interest in etching. Hamerton had spent the 1860s in France with his French wife Eugénie. The impetus for the launch of The Portfolio came in the wake of the foundation in Paris of the Société des aquafortistes in 1862 and to a lesser extent from the longer established Etching Club from 1838. Etchings by many French etchers such as Paul Rajon 1843–1888 and Alfred Brunet-Debaines 1845–1939 were a marked feature of the publication. Indeed The Standard remarked in 1874 that the publication's "speciality as probably most people know is the etchings with which it is adorned." Rajon published twelve etchings in the periodical before his untimely death. The New York Times lavished praise on the publication when in 1875 it remarked that it could not "eulogize too highly the merits of this periodical in all its departments. It is without question the most beautiful in regard to illustration which emanates from the press." The late nineteenth-century British author George Gissing wrote in his diary for December 1895 sic. that he took the magazine for his son because of its good pictures. In a survey of the etching revival in 1878 the Magazine of Art highlighted the centrality of Hamerton and his monthly magazine which had "so ably and unceasingly pleaded the cause of etching" in Britain. Wikipedia ______________________________________________________________________ Philip Gilbert Hamerton 10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894 was an English artist art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist of the English Etching Revival. Hamerton was born at Laneside a hamlet near Shaw and Crompton Lancashire England. His mother died giving birth to him and his father died ten years later. When he was about five he was sent to live with his two aunts at an estate called the Hollins1 on the edge of Burnley where he attended Burnley Grammar School. Hamerton's first literary attempt a volume of poems was unsuccessful leading him to devote himself for a time entirely to landscape painting; he camped out in the Scottish Highlands where he eventually rented the former island of Inistrynich in Loch Awe upon which he settled with his wife Eugénie Gindriez the daughter of a French republican magistrate in 1858. Discovering after a time that he was more suited to art criticism than painting he moved to Sens and later to Autun3 where he produced his Painter's Camp in the Highlands 1863 which was very successful and prepared the way for his standard work on Etching and Etchers 1866. In the following year he published Contemporary French Painters and in 1868 a continuation Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism. He had by now become art critic to the Saturday Review which necessitated frequent visits to England forcing him to give it up. He proceeded in 1870 to establish and edit an art journal of his own The Portfolio a monthly periodical each number of which included of a monograph upon some artist or group of artists often written by him. The journal championed printmaking especially etching. He selected and wrote the accompanying text for Etchings by French and English Artists London: Seeley 1874 which included work by Alphonse Legros and Léon Gaucherel. The discontinuation of his painting gave him time for writing and he successively produced The Intellectual Life 1873 perhaps the best known and most valuable of his writings; Round my House 1876 notes on French society by a resident; and Modern Frenchmen 1879 admirable short biographies. He also wrote two novels Wenderholme 1870 and Marmorne 1878. In 1884 Human Intercourse another volume of essays was published and shortly afterwards Hamerton began his autobiography which he brought down to 1858. In 1882 he issued a finely illustrated work on the technique of the great masters of various arts under the title of The Graphic Arts and three years later another splendidly illustrated volume Landscape which traces the influence of landscape upon the mind of man. His last books were: Portfolio Papers 1889 and French and English 1889. In 1891 he removed to Villa Clématis in the Parc des Princes district of Boulogne-Billancourt in the southwest suburbs of Paris. He died there suddenly on 4 November 1894 aged sixty occupied to the last with his labours on The Portfolio and other writings on art. In 1897 'Philip Gilbert Hamerton: an Autobiography 1834–1858; and a Memoir by his wife 1858–1894' was published. Wikipedia hardcover‎

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‎[Blake, William]‎

‎The Wit's Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth Humour and Entertainment‎

‎1784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784-1785. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. Lacking the folding frontispiece but with the 4 other plates engraved by Blake after Samuel Collings. Contemporary half morocco with pebbled cloth boards. A neatly restored copy plates with some closed tears and repairs.<br /> <br /> § Only edition quite scarce. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. unknown‎

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‎[BLAKE, William]‎

‎There Is No Natural Religion. Description And Bibliographical Statement at end by Geoffrey Keynes 1887-1982‎

‎London: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust 1971. 1971. 2 Vols. 4to. and 12mo. ff. 8. 22 collotype plates 20 printed in colour some with more colouring added through hand-stencil. printed on Arches rag paper. original quarter morocco hand-marbled paper sides. with matching slipcase. Fine slipcase slightly rubbed. No. 71 of an Edition Limited to 616 copies. London: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1971. unknown‎

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‎[Blake, William] Geoffrey Keynes and Edwin Wold II, ed‎

‎William Blake's Illuminated Books: A Census‎

‎The Grolier Club of New York 1953. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Light wear to cloth. Previous owener's bookplate on fpep. Otherwise fine. The Grolier Club of New York hardcover‎

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‎[Blake, William]; Bindman, David‎

‎William Blake his art and times‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0930606388.G ISBN : 0930606388 9780930606381

‎[Blake, William Exhibition Catalogue]‎

‎William Blake and his Circle‎

‎1957. London: British Museum 1957. <br /> <br /> 4t0 32pp. Blue printed wrappers stapled some fading and soiling. Very good. <br /> <br /> § This extremely scarce pamphlet is a most useful and fascinating catalogue of an extraordinary exhibition at the BM; there are over 100 entries and the exhibition in addition to showing all the treasures of the BM was augmented with many items loaned by Geoffrey Keynes. The catalogue is a typescript reproduced on cheap paper and few copies can have survived. Bentley Blake Books 680. unknown‎

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‎[Boston Society]; Blake, Francis‎

‎Record of a Gilded-Age Boston Society Party‎

‎Boston: winter 1896. Octavo-sized correspondence record book 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. The original engraved invitation precedes the individual acceptance and rejection few letters which are divided by sex. A complete list of attendees is included as is the handwritten menu perhaps a contract with notes on what was to be supplied by the caterer Joseph Lee and what by Mrs. Blake. The stationery includes many addresses on Beacon Hill as well as the Porcellian Club Somerset Club Hasty Pudding Club etc. Some wear to the binder and to some of the correspondence at folds or at the edges. Generally near very good. A stationer’s - Shipman - adhesive half-leather letter file book. winter hardcover‎

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‎[Calypso Music; Caribbean] Blind Blake [Blake Alphonso Higgs]; The Percentie Brothers; George Symonette‎

‎Promotional Palm Card Authentic Bahamian Calypso: Blind Blake and the Royal Victoria Hotel Calypsos‎

‎Oakland CA : s.i. 1953. Very Good. Oakland CA: s.i. ca. 1953. Photo-illustrated broadsheet palm card 22.5x8.5cm promoting three records by Bahamian calypso and goombay performer Blind Blake 1915-1986 adorned with a halftone photograph of Blake performing. Contemporary rubber-stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Shop in Oakland California on recto mild toning and a couple tiny nicks; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Includes track lists and prices to three Blake albums as well as those of fellow Calypso performers The Percentie Brothers and George Symonette. Tracks listed include Blake's work "Run Come See Jerusalem" concerning the 1929 Bahama hurricane and the murder ballad "Jones! Oh Jones!" Blind Blake material uncommon in retail. s.i. unknown‎

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‎[CUISINE] - COLLISTER (Linda), BLAKE (Anthony) -‎

‎Le grand livre du pain.‎

‎Paris, Grund, 1994 ; in-4, 190 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état avec sa jaquette - Pains, tartes et gâteaux.‎

‎Très bon état avec sa jaquette - Pains, tartes et gâteaux.‎

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‎[DARWIN (Erasmus)]‎

‎The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes.‎

‎4to (260 x 205 mm), 2 parts in one, first part the first edition, the second part is a third edition, [4], vii-xii, 214, 126, [2]; [2], ix, [1], 197, [1]pp., engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (5 folding), of which 5 plates by William Blake, occasional offsetting, signatures L & M misbound (part 2), scattered faint spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary full red morocco, single gilt fillet border to boards, smooth spine, seven gilt tooled bands producing 6 compartments, upper compartment with the Arnold crest - a demi tiger regardant bezanty holding a pheon, next compartment gilt lettered direct, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very nice copy. Epic poetic tribute to the lives, loves, and reproductive capacity of plants by the grandfather of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Botanic Garden is important for the five plates in part I which are engraved by William Blake: 'The Fertilization of Egypt,' engraved after the painting by Henry Fuseli, and four engravings of the Portland Vase. "The chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime, The Botanic Garden contains a great deal of important and frequently advanced scientific information in the nearly 300 footnotes and the 115 pages of appendices to its verses..."? The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Henry Arnold (1791-1844) to font paste-down; later bookplate of Ralph Hermon Major.‎

‎[Disraeli, Benjamin] Blake, Baron Robert Norman William‎

‎Disraeli by Robert Blake SIGNED First Edition.‎

‎1966. First Edition. London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1966. Large Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Disraeli XXIV 1 819 pages with 16 illustrations and two maps within the text. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth without the dustjacket Price includes the preparation of a custom-made clamshell-box for the buyer of this extremely rare book. Private giftinscription on endpaper. Binding a bit fragile and rear gutter starting. Boards slightly stained and a bit grubby. Still in very good condition. Interior very clean. This is one of the rare opportunities to buy this Magnus Opus in a signed version which is nearly impossible to find ! Signed and dated by Baron Blake on the titlepage: "Robert Blake - March 31st 1970". Robert Norman William Blake Baron Blake FBA FRSL 23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003 was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures. Robert Blake was born in Brundall Norwich the elder son of William Joseph Blake a schoolmaster and of Norah Lindley Blake née Daynes the daughter of a leading Norwich solicitor. The family firm was Daynes Hill & Perks subsequently acquired by Eversheds. He was said to be related to Admiral Robert Blake of the Parliamentary navy. Blake was educated at a dame school in Brundall; King Edward VI's Norwich School where his father taught History; and Magdalen College Oxford where he was an Eldon Law Scholar. He graduated from Oxford with a First in Modern Greats and a hockey Blue. One of his contemporaries at Oxford was Sir Keith Joseph. Blake had planned to go to the bar. However when the Second World War broke out he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery turning down an offer from a friend to join MI5. He was taken prisoner at the Siege of Tobruk in 1942 escaped from Italy in 1944 and was mentioned in despatches. He worked for MI6 from 1944 to 1946 where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. In 1947 he became a student fellow and tutor in Politics at Christ Church Oxford replacing Lord Pakenham who had joined Clement Attlee's government. His first work was an edition of the papers of Douglas Haig which did much to restore Haig's reputation. It was followed by a biography of Bonar Law written at the invitation of Lord Beaverbrook Law's executor. Blake's most famous work is his 1966 Disraeli a biography of Benjamin Disraeli which has been variously described as "the best single-volume biography of any British prime minister" and "the best biography of anyone in any language". He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy the following year. Having abandoned a project for a biography of Lord Derby in 1970 he published The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill a general history of the Conservative Party based on his 1968 Ford Lectures. The work was later extended to cover the period up to the premiership of Margaret Thatcher and later that of John Major. In 1968 he was elected provost of The Queen's College Oxford a post he retained until retirement in 1987. On 17 May 1971 on the recommendation of the Prime Minister Edward Heath Blake was created a life peer as Baron Blake of Braydeston in the County of Norfolk. In the House of Lords he took the Conservative whip. In 1972 he moved the address in reply to the Queen's Speech. His History of Rhodesia 1977 is according to Kenneth O. Morgan "essentially a study of white rule ending with sharp comments on the illegal breakaway regime of Ian Smith where Blake's views were much influenced by his friendship with the liberal Garfield Todd and his daughter". It makes interesting reading in conjunction with the less critical Rainbow on the Zambezi 1953 by Don Taylor. In 1987 Lord Blake was nominated in the election for the Oxford Chancellorship but lost to Roy Jenkins although polling ahead of Edward Heath. Blake was hurt by the fact that the Cabinet had decided to endorse Heath and became withdrawn from Oxford. In 1990 he was one of the leading historians behind the setting up of the History Curriculum Association. The Association advocated a more knowledge-based history curriculum in schools. It expressed "profound disquiet" at the way history was being taught in the classroom and observed that the integrity of history was threatened. In 1992 Blake gave the centenary Romanes Lecture on "Gladstone Disraeli and Queen Victoria". Blake was for many years Senior Member the University don responsible for ruling on internal disputes such as accusations of electoral malpractice of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Wikipedia hardcover‎

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‎[GIDE (André)] - BLAKE (William).-‎

‎Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer. Traduction inédite par André Gide.‎

‎1923 Paris, Claude Aveline, 1923, in 12 broché, 65 pages..‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE de la traduction de Gide ; un des exemplaires sur pur fil des papeteries Lafuma (n°1257). Le frontispice ayant été très mal tiré, l'éditeur a tenu à le faire réimprimé ; cet exemplaire est bien complet des deux épreuves du frontispice. ...................... Photos sur demande ...................‎

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‎[HAUTE TENSION] - BLAKE (Susan) -‎

‎Le salon de l'épouvante.‎

‎, John sinclair chasseurs de spectres haute tension, 1986 ; in-12, 155 pp., br.‎

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‎[LES AVENTURES DE BLAKE ET MORTIMER ] - VAN HAMME (Jean), BENOIT (Ted) -‎

‎L'ÉTRANGE RENDEZ-VOUS.‎

‎Bruxelles, Blake et mortimer, 2001 ; in-4, 66 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. EO : DL septembre 01.‎

‎EO : DL septembre 01.‎

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