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BLAKE William J.
The History of Putnam County N. Y.; With an enumeration of its Towns Villages Rivers Creeks Lakes Ponds
New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First. hardcover. good. Mountains Hills and Geological Features; Local Traditions; and Short Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers. 368pp. 12mo rebound in old green cloth with leather label label rubbed page 145 with small repaired tear with no loss of text scattered light foxing. New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First Edition<br/><br/> Stuyvesant Fish's own copy with his signature and bookplate. Stuyvesant Fish was a banker in New York City and president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1887 to 1906. He had an estate in Garrison New York in Putnam County. Some pages are annotated in pencil by Stuyvesant Fish. The author William Blake was a lawyer with an office in Cold Spring New York in Putnam County. Howes B-501. Nestler 1190.<br/><br/> Baker & Scribner unknown books
Bookseller reference : 232160
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BLAKE William J.
The Painter and the Lady
London: Cassell and Company Limited 1939. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix1389pp. Jacket quite brittle and worn with several long closed tears and crude tape repair to verso 2" loss at spine foot remaining spine panel a bit sunned foxing to textblock edges else Very Good in a Good only copy of the jacket. Novel by the Marxist economist and author set in the south of France "a tale of pre-Danzig days of the France of the Popular Front; of young idyllic love of passion at white-heat of democracy menaced by money-lust" rear jacket panel. Cassell and Company Limited unknown books
Bookseller reference : 46982
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BLAKE William J.
We are the Makers of Dreams
New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; tan top-stain; 342pp. Bit of foxing to text block edges and age-mottling to endpapers else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper unclipped with mild rubbing to extremities and a couple of tiny closed nicks VG to Near Fine. An attractive copy of this somewhat uncommon late novel by the one-time Parisian expatriate banker later Marxist economist and husband of the New Zealand novelist Christina Stead. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 40521
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BLAKE William J.
WE ARE THE MAKERS OF DREAMS
NY: Simon and Schuster 1960. First printing. 8vo pp. 342. VG in chipped dj. A novel about Europe in the 1930s. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 35276
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Blake William J. pseudonym of William Blech
An American looks at Karl Marx
New York: Cordon Co 1939. Hardcover. viii 746p. hardbound in 8x5.5 inch grey cloth boards; cloth is rather edgeworn at extremities with a tail-rim loss of about an eighth of an inch front hinge is cracked textblock is sound and square but expect a few pencilled marginal tics and several words of commentary in pencil. A good reading copy. Blech a Marxian banker was the partner of the novelist Christina Stead. Cordon Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 110225
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Blake William J. pseudonym of William Blech
Marxian Economic Theory and Its Criticism
New York: Cordon Co 1939. Hardcover. NB: item appeared under a different title same pagination; same year also indicated namely "An American Looks at Karl Marx"; we see none but external differences: item in hand runs viii 746p. hardbound in 8x5.5 inch green cloth boards spine-titled gilt; cloth spine is evenly dimmed with handling and the gilt lettering too. Inside find ownership date and initials on flyleaf purchased year of publication and a half-sentence underlined shakily in ink on p.v of the Preface. We see no other marks nor other sorts of flaw. Blech a Marxian banker was the partner of the novelist Christina Stead. Cordon Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 258267
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Blake William John Middleton Murray Note
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
London: J M Dent. 1932. Facsimile. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine but price-clipped dust jacket. ; Small Quarto . J M Dent hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22466
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Blake William Keynes Geoffrey
William Blake's Laocoon A Last Testament
London: The Trianon Press 1976. No. 80 of 380 numbered copies of an edition of 438 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Original beige cloth brown morocco spine. Fine. No. 80 of 380 numbered copies of an edition of 438 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p. 81 The Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 264231
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Blake William Malkin Benjamin Heath
A Father's Memoirs of His Child
London: T. Bensley for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. UNCUT in the original boards; rebacked in cloth endpapers renewed. Fine tall copy. First edition. Engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye and three plates one folding map. xlviii 172 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 25 x 15.5 cm. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake with whom he shared an interest in radical politics and on the death of his gifted six-year-old son Thomas in 1802 Malkin commissioned Blake to design the frontispiece for Malkin's FATHER'S MEMOIR. In his Preface to this work Malkin gives what the DNB calls the "first and fullest" account of Blake's early life and career and it was with this very tribute to his friend's idiosyncratic genius that Malkin first gave impetus to a more general appreciation of William Blake's art. Keynes 80; Bentley Blake Books p. 18 T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
Bookseller reference : 220643
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Blake William P.
Ceramic Art: A Report On Pottery Porcelain Tiles Terra-Cotta And Brick; With A Table Of Marks And Monograms A Notice Of The Distribution Of Materials For Pottery Chronicle Of Events Etc. Etc.
New York: D. Van Nostrand Publisher 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. 148 pages of text. 23 x 15 cm. The author was United States Centennial Commissioner and Delegate to the International Jury Group 1 Vienna. This book from the volume of Reports of the Massachusetts Commission to Vienna. 7 pages of adverts and 48 pages of Scientific Van Nostrand titles. Signed presentation copy. Illustrated. Chromolithograph of Minton floor tiles from Miller & Coates. Fresh clean copy. Nicks to backstrip head and foot. D. Van Nostrand, Publisher hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22709
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BLAKE William P.
Geological Section from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey War Department. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 26.75 x 38.5".<br/><br/> This fascinating geological section of the Mississippi River derives from the investigations of Jules Marcou a French geologist who worked extensively in North America. In 1853 under the service of the U.S. government he became the first geologist to cross the United States as part of the Pacific railroad exploration headed by A.W. Whipple that was then then underway. This map was the result of his travels and was published as part of a report entitled "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4." Presented as a geological cross-section the map is color-coded to indicate the type and age of the rock along the river as per a key in the upper left. Mountain ranges are simply but delicately rendered and valleys are labeled beneath each section to show their expanse. The map also provides the locations of various creeks forts Indian territories and intersecting rivers. The map is in good condition with original folds as issued. Some tears at folds. William P. Blake was the Geologist of the Office of the Unites States Pacific Railroad Surveys. These surveys were conducted in 1853-1855 in the interest of finding possible routes for a transcontinential railroad. This map functions as a document of the kinds of investigations conducted in this period of rapid Western expansion.<br/><br/> U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey, War Department unknown books
Bookseller reference : 250690
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Blake William P.
Geology and Veins of Tombstone Arizona
American Institute of Mining Engineers. Very Good. 1881. Pamphlet. A paper from Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers read at the Washington Meeting February 1881. Stringbound with light soil and a blue penciled number and holes from rubbing on top front. William Phipps Blake was a well-known geologist educator and mining consultant who wrote prolifically and conducted studies throughout the world. Here he writes of the gold and silver deposits of Tombstone. Only two copies found on OCLC. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 11 pp . American Institute of Mining Engineers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 011719
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Blake William P. editor
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867 Volume V.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 26; 19; 90 with 5 bw folding plates; 19 with 1 folding plate; 18; 13; 28; 213 with 9 bw folding plates and several bw illustrations; 70; and 18. Contains articles on cereals beet-root sugar and alcohol Culture and Products of the Vine school-houses and popular education munitions of war instruments and apparatus of medicine and musical instruments. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 162989
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Blake William P. editor
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867 Volume I.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers however are rubbed spine cloth is wrinkled and end papers are a bit foxed none to contents. Ex-lib. copy with marks to spine fep and title page; no others. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. Brown cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and insignia on spine. Paginated as 184; 324 with one bw folding plate; 43; 7 plus XXXII bw plates including some folding; 47; 39; and index 66 pp. Contains the Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts with the 7 bw plates; Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights Measures and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 163003
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Blake William P. editor
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867 Volume VI
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG clean crisp and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 143; 115; 51; 86; and 401. Occasional tables/charts but with no illustrations or plates. Reports on wool cotton silk clothing and woven fabrics and education. With a list of the reports in order of succession in the various volumes. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 162990
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Blake William P. editor
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867 Volume I.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1870. Leather bound. Contents NF clean crisp and tight. Covers however are rubbed and chipped at spine with a small chunk missing mid-spine see photo. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition as if never viewed with no chips or tears. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 184; 324 with one bw folding plate; 43; 7 plus XXXII bw plates including some folding; 47; 39; and index 66 pp. Contains the Introduction with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts with the 7 bw plates; Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights Measures and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports. Government Printing Office hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 162987
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Blake William P. editor
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867 6 volumes set
Washington DC: GPO 1870. Hardbound. VG ex library set with minimal markings small ancient paper label on each spsine bookplates. Perforation stamp to each title-page. Six volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite marbling to all page edges. Many plans fold-outs illustrations. Pagination as follows: Volume I: 4 184; 324; 43 1; 8; 47 1; 39 1; 66pp. Folding plan 33 folding plates. Volume II: 4 v 1 183 1; vii 1 369 1; ix 1 146pp. 8 folding plates. Volume III: 4 ix 1 669 1pp. 8 folding plates. Volume IV: 4 166; 72; 49 1; 21 1; 31 1; 96; 104pp. 16 folding plates. Volume V: 4 26; 19 1; 90; 19 1; 19 1; 13 1; 28; 13 1; 213 1; 70; 18pp. 16 folding plates. Volume VI: 4 143 1; 2 115 1; 51 1; 86; 2 401 1pp. A fabulous set in wonderful condition and very minimally marked. An indispensible reference. Uncommon in leather. GPO hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 134851
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Blake William Pamela Bianco Illus..
The Land of Dreams.
Hampshire Bookshop 1928. Limited edition. Some sunning to spine and edges one-half inch split to upper front joint still near fine in lightly sunned slipcase with a split seam to upper edge. B&W drawings. Green cloth in slipcase. Signeed by illustrator. Hampshire Bookshop, 1928. Limited edition. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : Embry 103547
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Blake William Trianon Press.
All Religions are One.
4to. London: Trianon Press 1970. 4to 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco slipcase. Fine as issued. § Edition de luxe this being copy III limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley Blake Books 5. All Religions are One c. 1788 is “a small tractate perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing it exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’. and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107369
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Blake William Trianon Press.
The Song of Los.
4to. London: Trianon Press 1975. 4to 8 plates 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate plus 22 additional progressive proof plates and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco prospectus inserted a fine copy in slipcase. As new. § #28 of 32 de luxe copies with the extra plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process. The total edition was limited to 458 copies. One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons. Bentley Blake Books A137. “The Song of Los completes the cycle of the four continents. the complete work tells the story of mankind from Adam to the Last Judgment the triumph of death and the general resurrection caused by the revolution.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 105218
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Blake William Trianon Press. Dante.
Blake’s Illustrations of Dante.
Oblong folio. London: Trianon Press 1978. Oblong folio unlettered quarter morocco cloth worn. § The Trianon Press mock-up for the published edition which was limited to 376 copies. The first accurate reproduction of Blake’s seven engravings for the Divine Comedy first published in 1838. This new edition has an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes; three facsimiles of early states and monochrome reproductions of Blake’s watercolor designs for the plates. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 208. Trianon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 107359
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Blake William Wilson Mona
The Life of William Blake
London: Nonesuch Press 1927. No. 694 of 1480 copies. Frontispiece and 23 plates. 1 vols. Small thick 4to. Half vellum and marbled boards. Spine darkened else near fine. No. 694 of 1480 copies. Frontispiece and 23 plates. 1 vols. Small thick 4to. Nonesuch Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 59019
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Blake William.
2 Folders Containing Details of Events Performances Publications Lectures and Courses about or concerning Blake's Works plus one Obituary and other Blake Miscellanea.
25 items. London and other UK Locations: Various c 1990 - 2010. 25 items mainly single 8vo sheets or smaller invitation cards issued by The Tate Gallery The Blake Society The Termenos Academy UK Universities and Colleges and Publishers and various other organisations. All in very good or new condition. § Various unknown books
Bookseller reference : 109159
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Blake William.
A Letter from William Blake to Thomas Butts dated Jany. 10 1802.
Slim 12mo. Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1964. Slim 12mo 16pp. With 6 wood-engravings 4 printed on Japan tissue all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers printed label on upper cover mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with a fine woodcut of a rooster signed by Baskin in pencil. The company is still in business in Northampton. § Limited to 500 copies but surely fewer than that this is number 26. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear that says I must not stay I see a hand you cannot see that beckons me away. Naked we came here naked of Natural things & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly."Bentley Blake Books 94. Gehenna Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123975
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Blake William.
Abraham and the Three Angels in The Protestant’s Family Bible. Containing the Old and New Testament with the Apocrypha illustrated by explanatory Notes. With a compleat Concordance and general Index. By a Society of Protestant Divines.
Single plate. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. A little browned around the edges very good. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen’s College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. Harrison and co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110666
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Blake William.
All Religions are One.
Small 4to. London: Frederick Hollyer 1926. Small 4to title 10 leaves. Original quarter cloth brown boards lettered in black. Fine. § Limited apparently to a small number of copies of which some were colored. This copy inscribed by Ann Hollyer as a gift is stated to be a trial or proof copy though without any evidence. Bentley Blake Books 4 and Blake Books Supplement p.52. Frederick Hollyer hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 5129
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Blake William.
America - A Prophecy.
Folio. London: Trianon Press 1963. Folio 18 color facsimile leaves and 8 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Very fine in quarter blue morocco over blue marbled boards in slipcase. § Limited to 480 copies this is #38. Bentley BB A9. “America was the first of Blake’s books to name a place Lambeth in the imprint. which was an act of defiant courage. for the first time he designated one of his books as “a prophecyâ€. he concentrated particularly on the dramatic events in Boston. Blake continued his tale in Europe and then to make the cycle of continents complete he wrote “Africa†and “Asiaâ€giving a general title of all four: The Song of Los.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123968
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Blake William.
America a Prophecy.
8vo. New York: United Book Guild 1947. 8vo 8; Half-titlewith colour frontispiece of Thiralatha from "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" tipped-in Title page and 3pp foreword by Ruthen Todd 18 pp : lithographs in dark green ink printed on yellow paper. Very good in quarter red cloth over black boards with a further colour plate tipped onto the front cover. The "A" issue of this edition preferable to the "B" edition without the foreword and publication imprint. § An odd reproduction printed on yellow paper with a color plate from ‘Visions’ on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley BB 8A. United Book Guild hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108847
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Blake William.
America a Prophecy.
8vo. New York: United Book Guild 1947. 8vo 8; Half-titlewith colour frontispiece of Thiralatha from "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" tipped-in Title page and 3pp foreword by Ruthen Todd 18 pp : lithographs in dark green ink printed on yellow paper. Very good in quarter red cloth over black boards with a further colour plate tipped onto the front cover. The "A" issue of this edition preferable to the "B" edition without the foreword and publication imprint. § An odd reproduction printed on yellow paper with a color plate from ‘Visions’ on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley Blake Books 8A. United Book Guild hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 109177
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Blake William.
America. a Prophecy.
New York: 1947. 8vo 19 pp. Woodblock prints on yellow paper. Quarter red cloth black paper boards. Illustration affixed to front. Very good. § An odd reproduction printed on yellow paper with a color plate from ‘Visions’ on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley BB 8B the first ‘A’ issue had an introduction by Ruthven Todd and a title-page. 1947]. 8vo hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 107865
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Blake William.
America: A Prophecy.
The American Blake Foundation 1974. Facsimile reprint one of 474 copies signed by the author of the introduction G. E. Bentley. Gutters lightly browned a few tiny spots to cover else fine. Rose cloth no dust jacket. The American Blake Foundation, 1974. Facsimile reprint, one of 474 copies signed by the author of the introduction, G. E. Bent hardcover books
Bookseller reference : Embry 97064
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Blake William.
America: A Prophecy. Materials for the Study of William Blake Volume I. With Editorial Comments by Roger Easson A Bibliographical Introduction by G.E. Bentley Jr. and a Check List of Secondary Materials in English by Easson
4to. Normal Illinois: The American Blake Foundation 1974. 4to 21 pp and 18 facsimile plates in black and white. Near fine in illustrated red wrappers and an additional loose set of the 18 facsimilies and the Check-List of Secondary Materials in English which accompanies Easson's Editorial Comments and Bentley's Introduction. All in the original illustrated envelope Blake Packet 1 published in 1976 by the American Blake Foundation addressed to Joseph Holland. § Trade edition reproducing copy E with additional material; see Bentley BB B9. The American Blake Foundation unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108851
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Blake William.
An Exhibition of Original Works by William Blake.From the Graham Robertson Collection.
8vo. Bournemouth: Bournemouth Arts Club 1949. 8vo 12pp with decorated card wrappers printed in red and black. Very good with rear cover slightly dusted. § From the inside rear cover of the catalogue it appears the compiler was Kerrison Preston. Bentley BB 658. Bournemouth Arts Club unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108923
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Blake William.
Assorted Postcards.
20 postcard reproductions of Blake's 16 and Palmer's 4 pictures and drawings from various galleries many from the Tate plus a few from The Fitzwilliam Museum and one from Boston. § unknown books
Bookseller reference : 109156
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Blake William.
Auguries of Innocence.
Grossman Publishers 1968. One of 100 copies signed by the illustrator and with a original signed wood engraving laid in. Lower corners lightly bumped else fine in near fine publisher's slipcase with one seam starting. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Morocco backed boards. Grossman Publishers, 1968. One of 100 copies signed by the illustrator and with a original signed wood engraving laid in. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : Embry 95594
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Blake William.
Auguries of Innocence.
Slim tall 8vo. Bronxville: Valenti Angelo 1968. Slim tall 8vo 9pp. Original pink boards printed label. § Limited to 35 copies this one of a very few in boards as most copies were sewn in blue wrappers Bentley Blake Books 224 not noting limitation. Auguries of Innocence is a poem from one of William Blake's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript. It is assumed to have been written in 1803 but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of William Blake. Valenti Angelo hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 5371
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Blake William.
Blake’s America: A Prophecy and Europe: A Prophecy. Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books with 35 Plates in Full Color.
4to. New York: Dover 1983. 4to 47pp with 35 colored illustrations. Near fine in original illustrated wrappers. Contains text version and brief commentary plus facsimiles of copy M of America and B G and K of Europe. § First Dover edition. Reproduces copy M of America and copies B G and K to create a ‘complete’ Europe; with very brief commentary and a complete transcription of the text. Not in Bentley. Dover unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108854
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Blake William.
Catalogue of a choice Selection of the original Productions of William Blake the property of the Earl of Crewe.
London: Sotheby Wilkinson and Hodge 1903. 8vo title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers a bit worn. § A sale of the first order of importance though only comprising 18 lots. Each lot is priced; the highest price was £5600 for the Illustrations of the Book of Job watercolors; followed by £1960 for the watercolors to Milton’s Allegro and Il Penseroso. Virtually all the illuminated books are present. Bentley Blake Books 596. A scarce catalogue. Sotheby unknown books
Bookseller reference : 102895
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Blake William.
Catalogue of Drawings by William Blake the property of Captain Butts.
London: Sotheby Wilkinson and Hodge 1903. 8vo title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers in later cloth-backed marbled boards. § A sale of the first order of importance though only comprising 42 lots of which 23 were from the Butts collection comprising 18 original drawings 4 printed proofs and a bill from Blake to Butts. The remaining lots were from the Gilchrist collection. Bentley Blake Books 598. A scarce catalogue. Sotheby hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 102896
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Blake William.
Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8 1810.
Impression measures 93. 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 a few prints and less and less visible until completely absent by the time Sessler was printing the plate. Instead of “states†the more accurate definitions might be very early to very late 4th state and in that scheme then this print would be well after the early impressions with some or most of the scratched inscriptions visible but before the Sessler printings of the 1940s none of which were on laid India. “‘Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims’ was one of Blake’s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.…†However Blake wasn’t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. “Most contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and ‘Gothic’ in the pejorative sense.… The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few years†Essick pp. 86-88. “It is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blake’s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.†Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books
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Blake William.
Drawings of William Blake; 92 Pencil Studies: Selection Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
Large 8vo. New York: Dover 1970. Large 8vo xiv 184pp with 92 illustrations. Near fine in original illustrated wrappers. § A combination though not complete of the 1927 and 1956 editions of the drawings from Nonesuch. Bentley BB 405. Dover unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108882
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Blake William.
Eight Songs of William Blake.
8vo. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1926. 8vo 16 leaves unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. Bentley BB 252B. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 101546
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Blake William.
Eight Songs of William Blake.
8vo. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1926. 8vo 16 leaves unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Top portion of spine missing. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Glassine wrapper. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 101547
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Blake William.
El Libro de Urizen. Version en Castellano de Avantos Swan.
8vo. Madrid: Swan 1984. 8vo 141pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers with minor soiling. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.76 Swan unknown books
Bookseller reference : 101526
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Blake William.
El Libro de Urizen. Version en Castellano de Avantos Swan.
8vo. Madrid: Swan 1984. 8vo 141pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers edges curled with minor soiling. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.76 Swan unknown books
Bookseller reference : 101525
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Blake William.
Eternity. He who binds to himself a loy
Oblong 12mo. San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire 1975. Oblong 12mo 11pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers fine. § Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all -- exceptionally scarce and beautiful -- we have had one copy in the last 30 years. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blake’s famous poem printed found in the "Notebook" 1787-1818. Thomas Ingmire was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement his work can be found in public and private collections around the world; it is the subject of Michael Gullick's Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire 1989 and codici 1: a teacher's notebook on modern calligraphy & lettering art 2003. His teaching experience and influence extends throughout the United States to Canada Europe Australia Japan and Hong Kong. Thomas Ingmire unknown books
Bookseller reference : 123980
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Blake William.
Europe A Prophecy.
Folio. London: Trianon Press 1969. Folio 17 colour and one monochrome facsimile leaves and 9 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Very fine in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in slipcase as issued. § Limited to 526 copies this is copy #313. The frontispiece “The Ancient of Days†is surely Blake’s most famous single image. "The second of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" preceded by America and followed by The Song of Los Europe presents in mythopoeic form the fundamental philosophical positions in conflict in Blake's revolutionary era. Historical events are reconfigured into their universalized representations through Blake's own cast of characters including Enitharmon the female personification of fallen nature and history Orc the spirit of revolt and Los and Urizen the "Eternals" who would become central to Blake's mythic system of the "Zoas." These contending forces lead beyond political revolution to an apocalypse of biblical scope." The William Blake Archive. At the end is reproduced an extra etched leaf of text that Blake only included in two copies which tell of a fairy that Blake caught who sang him a song about the five senses of man.Europe survives in only fourteen known copies few complete all but one held by institutions. The remarkable Blake Trust Trianon Press facsimiles hand-colored using pochoir with extraordinary fidelity are for most of us the nearest possible thing to handling the original book. Martin Butlin noted in the Blake Quarterly: “The long list of color facsimiles produced by the Trianon Press under Arnold Fawcus for the William Blake Trust were above all objects of beauty recreating as near to perfection as possible Blake’s original achievements.†Bentley Blake Books 34. Trianon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123970
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Blake William.
Facsimile Print of “Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8 1810.â€
Archival inkjet print. London: Colnaghi printing after 5 March 1881. Archival inkjet print 93.9 x 30 cm. printed by E.M. Ginger of 42-Line in Oakland CA. Framed. § Fine facsimile print of William Blake’s Canterbury Pilgrims 5th and final state. The reproduction by 42-Line is so good it is virtually indistinguishable from an original print.“‘Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims’ was one of Blake’s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.…†However Blake wasn’t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. “Most contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and ‘Gothic’ in the pejorative sense.… The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few years†Essick pp. 86-88. Blake made substantial changes in the fourth and fifth states of this famous plate and “it is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blake’s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.†Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110436
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Blake William.
Flaxman's Compositions: Homer - Hesiod - Aeschylus.
Oblong quarto. London: George Bell 1882. Oblong quarto bound in original pale brown cloth with gilt title on cover lightly worn at edges and corners. The Hesiod Works and Days and Theogeny follows the Iliad and Odyssey and collates: - 4 half title and contents list of plates 37 plates being original engraved title plus 36 of the Blake engravings. The Aeschylus follows as the last. Generally very good internally with occasional foxing at ends of the volume. The binding has been repaired at some stage: due to the oblong format and weight of the pages the first signature is loose but the remainder holding firm. § Bentley BB 456. This reduced-size edition appears to be a re-issue of Bentley's C edition of 1881 by Bell only the Hesiod being present is implied by Bentley for that edition. 4 volumes in one of Flaxman's designs reduced to half size from Blake’s original prints for use by art students including Blake's designs for Hesiod published in 1817. George Bell hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108773
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Blake William.
For Children. The Gates of Paradise by William Blake Lambeth 1793.
4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1888. 4to intaglio title page iv text prologue 18 leaves with Muir's black and white intaglio engraved plates sewed and more recently bound in vellum and new endpapers and fitted into a modern marbled slipcase. Original Muir wrappers not bound in. § Possibly one of the copies Quaritch had for sale as recently as 1942 when their catalogue records only 31 copies had been published rather than the 50 first envisaged and of these 31 at least some were still being offered for sale. The facsimile is convincing enough that plates from it have been offered as originals on occasion. Copies in such fine condition are almost unheard of. Bentley BB 249m. William Muir hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108808
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