‎Blake william‎

‎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

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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

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‎Blake William.‎

‎General title William Blake’s Illuminated Books. Jerusalem: The Emanation of Giant Albion. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morton D. Paley.‎

‎Folio. Tate Gallery Publications London: The William Blake Trust 1991. Folio 302 pp. including 105 pages of color plates. Brown cloth in pictorial dust-jacket with protective plastic. As new. § The first volume in this series of Blake’s illuminated books. The hard-bound edition has been long out of print. The William Blake Trust hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎General title William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol 6 The Urizen Books: The First Book of Urizen The Book of Ahania The Book of Los. Edited with Introductions and Notes by David Worrall.‎

‎Folio. Princeton: The William Blake Trust 1995. Folio 231 pp. including 57 pp. of illustrations. Brown cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. The sixth volume in this series of Blake’s illuminated books. As new. § The sixth volume in this series of Blake’s illuminated books edited overall by David Bindman. As new. The hard-bound edition has been long out of print. The William Blake Trust hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job.‎

‎London: plates dated 1825 but published 1826. Folio 320 x 254 mm engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper some leaves 2 5 6 11 14 17 18 watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards fleurons at the outer corners double-rule inner frame enclosing a bloom roll gilt-ruled spine sewing bands with gilt red morocco onlays thick dark blue endleaves all edges gilt by Riviere: a brilliant set with no foxing at all interleaved with blanks at the time of binding with no offsetting. Lower cover of the binding at some time tied up with string with ensuing indentation. § First edition limited to 150 proof sets 65 sets were also printed on French paper and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed. This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text a series of biblical quotations is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense†S. Foster Damon A Blake Dictionary p. 217. “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art†Ray Illustrator and the Book in England #8. Note: as always the first plate after the title-page is misdated 1828. [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate #8 “Let the Day Perish Wherein I was born.â€‎

‎1826. Folio single sheet 16 1/4 x 11 image inc. platemark 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. § First edition from the printing of 65 sets with the word “Proof†on French wove paper. The plate depicts Job lamenting his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence Job 3:3. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. Provenance: Sotheby’s May 4& 5 1983. 3). Bentley unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 4: “And I only am escapedâ€.‎

‎e 1825 but published 1826. London: March 8 1828 i.e 1825 but published 1826. Single leaf recently cleaned. § First edition one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word “proof†removed. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 8: “Let the day perishâ€.‎

‎e 1825 but published 1826. London: March 8 1828 i.e 1825 but published 1826. Single leaf recently cleaned. § First edition one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word “proof†removed. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 107779

‎Blake William.‎

‎Jerusalem.‎

‎4to. London: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust 1951. 4to 6 ix 100 color plates. Very good in original dark blue buckram with protective acetate wrapper in a folding box with grey cloth spine and patterned paper covers slight fraying to cloth at top and bottom of front cloth spine for c 1/2" and tiny chip of loss to paper at top of rear of box. § Copy No. 393 of 516 issued. The first of the magnificent series of Blake Trust collotype and pochoir facsimiles by the Trianon Press of Blake’s illuminated books edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley BB 78. Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes. with Wicksteed Joseph. William Blake’s Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎London: Trianon Press 1951 and London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust 1954. Small 4to 116 text errata 100 facsimile pp.and Small 4to xv 264 pp.Both vols. in original orange cloth with gilt lettering and dust jacket. Good copies if slightly worn § Jerusalem: 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy a black-and-white version published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. Bently BB 79. Commentary: First edition 1500 copies printed. This commentary was intended to go with the full-scale color facsimile and this black-and-white Rinder facsimile. Bentley BB 2961. 9000$325. Trianon Press hardcover books‎

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‎BLAKE William.‎

‎Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion.‎

‎4to. London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust 1951. 4to 6 ix text and 100 pochoir colorplates. Blue buckram gilt title. Very good copy in a worn folding box. § Limited to 516 copies. The definitive facsimile of one of Blake’s greatest works and the first of the magnificent series of facsimiles created by the Trianon Press of Blake’s illuminated books. The Preludium is by Joseph Wicksteed and the Bibliographical Statement by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley 78. "Blake's etched copperplates giving the text of his poem and the basis of the designs were printed by him in a rich orange ink and were then illuminated by hand in water colours and gold. The etched base has now been reproduced by collotype in orange and the prints have then been coloured by hand by a stencilling process so that the final result bears the closest possible resemblance to Blake's original plates. An average of forty-four applications of water colours was required for each full page illustration of which there are four. Of the remainder fifty-one have some text with designs filling half the page or more and thirty-five have text with small marginal decorations.". Introduction Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Joshua passing over Jordan 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

Référence libraire : 110673

‎Blake William.‎

‎Letters. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎8vo. 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 on Blake's extant manuscripts receipts etc. Harvard UP hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Lieder der Unschuld und Erfahrung. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Werner Hofmann.‎

‎Small 8vo. Berlin: Insel Verlag 1976. Small 8vo 115pp. Pages 9-62 with full page full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Early but not first printing 9-13 thousand. Bentley BB C191: “persuasive facsimile. German translation. and Hoffmann’s ‘Nachwort’.†Insel Verlag unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 101504

‎Blake William.‎

‎Lots Escape 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

Référence libraire : 110671

‎Blake William.‎

‎Milton. A Poem in 2 Books.‎

‎4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to 4 45 hand-colored plates 2 leaves. Contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco and gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards original wrappers bound in. A fine copy with the bookplate of H.C. Plimmer. § Limited to about 50 copies by Muir and his team based on copy A. Muir’s preface is five pages and at the end is a three-page facsimile of Blake’s letter of March 16 1804. The first facsimile of the second-longest and penultimate of Blake’s illuminated books which is known in only four copies. The poem follows the poet John Milton returned from heaven to the mortal world on a journey of self-discovery and renewal The William Blake Archive. Blake himself is present as the personification of Imagination and the poem contains many biographical allusions. It is exceptionally rich with numerous full-page plates. Blake’s famous poem “Jerusalem†appears in the preface to Milton only in copies A and B. Bentley BB 249f. William Muir hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 108806

‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches.‎

‎8vo. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70pp.Original paper over boards with title on spine and clear glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Near Fine. § 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.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.†Noel Douglas hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches. By W.B.‎

‎8vo. London: Printed in the Year 1783. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo original paper over boards. Gift inscription in front endpaper. Very good. § 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.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 Printed in the Year 1783. London Noel Douglas hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 9246

‎Blake William.‎

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

‎8vo. London: Printed in the Year 1783 i.e. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70pp. Original paper over boards with worn printed glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Very good. § 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.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 Printed in the Year 1783 i.e.) London Noel Douglas hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 100800

‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd.‎

‎Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pages. Original brown cloth red printed paper backstrip label mostly worn away. Backstrip loosened. Fair to good copy. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley Blake Books 129. “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.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 Pickering hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 100636

‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Complete in one Volume.‎

‎London: Nonesuch Press 1927 8vo printed on India paper. Original blue buckram backstrip slightly faded but internally fine. § Bentley Blake Books 303A. Nonesuch Press hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 101731

‎Blake William.‎

‎Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by F. W. Bateson.‎

‎Small 8vo. London: Heinemann 1964. Small 8vo xxx 144 pp. color frontispiece. Original black cloth orange illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket is chipped and has noticeable shelf wear front endpaper is creased; very good copy. § Reprint of the 1957 edition with corrections. Bentley Blake Books 318 D: “the notes are original and illuminatingâ€. Heinemann hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 101140

‎Blake William.‎

‎Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction by Denis Saurat.‎

‎Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth red pictorial dust-jacket slightly faded along backstrip triangle cut from front dust jacket ink inscription on front endpaper; very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 100130

‎Blake William.‎

‎Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction by Denis Saurat.‎

‎Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth red pictorial dust-jacket very good. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 101136

‎Blake William.‎

‎Songs of Experience.‎

‎Small 4to. London: Ernest Benn 1927. Small 4to 26 facsimile pages in full color very good copy in a dust-jacket which is illustrated with facsimile of the frontispiece. In original black cloth boards with gilt decoration and titles. Spine of dust jacket darkened and cover illustration slightly faded. Internally near fine. § A good trade facsimile issued without any commentary. Reproduces the Experience section of Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy A lacking the general title page. Also includes two plates from the Innocence section of copy A “The School Boy†and “The Voice of the Ancient Bard†and three plates from copy T “To Tirzah†“A Little Boy Lost†and “A Little Girl Lostâ€. BB#143A. Ernest Benn hardcover books‎

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