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Blake William.
Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
London: W. Pickering Chancery Lane and W. Newbery 6 Chenies Street Bedford Square 1839. Small 8vo xxi 3 74 pp. Original pebbled plum cloth upper cover lettered in gilt partly worn away as often a very good copy in a variant original binding slightly worn around the edges upper hinge a touch weak internally bright and very attractive. Enclosed in a modern protective box. § First Typographical Issue the issue with the poem “The Little Vagabond†not present - this has long been held to be the first issue see Keynes although others have claimed that it was present but cancelled due to content and thus this is the second issue. Either case is plausible; copies of each issue turn up with about the same frequency which is to say rarely. The preface by J.J. Garth Wilkinson gives a mostly favorable account of Blake’s life in the context of his work and concludes stirringly: “If the volume gives one impulse to the New Spiritualism which is now dawning on the world;-if it leads one reader to think that all Reality for him in the long run lies out of the limits of space and time; and that spirits and not bodies and still less garments are men; if it gives one blow even the faintest to those term-shifting juggleries which usurp the name of “Philosophical Systems†and all the energies of all the forms of genuine Truth must be henceforth expended on these effects it will have done its work in its little day.†Keynes Blake 135 issue without “The Little Vagabond". Bentley Blake Books 171 this issue said by Bentley to have two leaves canceled by the editor out of prudishness. W. Pickering hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 106538
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul. edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Sheperd.
Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake’s original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at “improvementâ€. The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake’s idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from “Mary†and from “Auguries of Innocence†which contained the word “whoreâ€. The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake’s original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. Pickering hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 105253
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Small 8vo. London: Trianon Press 1955. Small 8vo 54 color plates 3 pp. printed text at end. Full teal morocco slipcase backstrip faded as usual and lightly rubbed at crown a very good copy with the book plate of the California physician K. Garth Huston. § Limited to 526 copies this being number 9; the superb color facsimile of the Rosenwald-LC copy Z. One of the scarcest and the most desirable of all the magnificent Trianon Press Blake facsimiles which have been hailed as the finest examples of color collotype facsimile printing of the 20th century. The colophon notes that as many as thirty stencils were used to create each plate. Bentley Blake Books 187. Blake and his wife Catherine hand-printed and bound fewer than forty copies of the Songs of Innocence and the combined Songs of Innocence and of Experience and yet they have become his most popular and enduring work. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 122595
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
12mo. London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. 12mo 64 pp.In stiff folded wrappers over card covers. Wrappers age-darkened and browned and slightly worn at edges. Very good internally unopened. Printed in red and black with engravings tipped in: these are reduced-sized classical designs not by Blake. § First edition. A beautiful little edition printed in red and black with headpieces not by Blake throughout. Bentley BB 177. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108793
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
2 vols. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 2 vols. 4to 34; 30 leaves hand-colored with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued enclosed in a modern quarter-blue morocco folding box lettered in gilt. § Limited to around 50 copies of each "Innocence" inscribed "No. 0 Pearson's copy" and "Experience" inscribed "for The Times". These are amongst the most alluring and successful of Muir’s facsimiles. Songs of Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy and he is recorded at the end as the Publisher in London in 1884 but his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience is taken from the Beckford copy. The general title to both works is found at the end of Experience. Bentley BB 249 a and 249 d. Loosely inserted in the box is a prospectus from John Pearson for a series of facsimiles after Blake and a 4-pp ALS from Muir to the editor of The Times. Last sold by Heritage Bookshop in 1998. William Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 122888
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
2 vols. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 2 vols. in one. 4to 34; 30 leaves hand-colored with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued; copies No. 24 Innocence and 11 Experience. Full dark red morocco gilt top gilt-lettered backstrip with gilt device at foot bookplates of Thomas William Waller and Willis Vickery. Very good with tissue guards as issued. § Limited to around 50 copies of each. These are amongst the most alluring and successful of Muir’s facsimiles. Songs of Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy and he is recorded at the end as the publisher in London in 1884 but his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience is taken from the Beckford copy. The general title to both works is found at the end of Experience. Bentley BB 249 a and 249 d. William Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 122385
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Blake William.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Proof Copy of the Frontispiece.
A single hand-coloured specimen proof copy of the frontispiece for Muir's 1927 facsimile. London: Quaritch for William Muir 1927. A single hand-coloured specimen proof copy of the frontispiece for Muir's 1927 facsimile prepared from the Beaconsfield original. Fine. § A lovely hand-colored facsimile of Blake's famous frontispiece being a unique proof inscribed by Muir: “This a specimen page not to be sold of the Centenary of Blake’s death Edition of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience facsimilied sic from the Beaconsfield original now being prepared by William Muir.†Quaritch for William Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108835
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Blake William.
Tate Gallery: William Blake Calendar for 2015.
Square 4to. London: Tate Gallery 2015. Square 4to 12 pp color illustrated calendar for wall hanging - overall size 30 x 30 cm. With 12 good quality colored designs by Blake from the Tate's holdings mainly from the Large Designs or paintings each 28 x 20.5 cm. As new . Staple bound with repeat of the " Newton" design to cover with hole cut for pinning to wall in each right hand margin. § Tate Gallery unknown books
Bookseller reference : 109140
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Blake William.
The Augustan Books of English Poetry. William Blake.
Slim 8vo. London: Ernest Benn 1928. Slim 8vo 31pp. Original printed wrappers. § One in a series of printings of English poets this one containing 34 of Blake’s best known poems. Ernest Benn unknown books
Bookseller reference : 100249
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Blake William.
The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin.
2 vols. London: Heinemann 1969. 2 vols. oblong 8vo text vol. xiv 40 pp. with 12 illustrations; facsimile vol. to match in calf-backed green buckram slipcase faded backstrip scuffed on volumes 1 and 2. Facsimile volume with loose leaves repaired. § Limited to 800 copies. The facsimile of the notebook was printed by the Trianon Press. This is the “small†notebook which was broken up and sold at auction a few years ago. Almost invariably the facsimile volume is sprung with many leaves coming loose. Bentley BB 401: “includes 36 Visionary Drawings by Blakeâ€. Heinemann hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 110727
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Blake William.
The Book Collector Spring 1979 : Blake and Palmer Essay Edition.
8vo. London: The Collector Ltd 1979. 8vo 176 pp.Very good in magenta wrappers. § There are 5 essays covering Blake and Palmer including those by Michael Phillips Sir Geoffrey Keynes Raymond Lister and Arnold Fawcus. The Collector Ltd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 109033
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Blake William.
The Book of Ahania.
4to. London: Trianon Press 1973. 4to 6 color facsimile leaves 5 pp.of commentary. Quarter black morocco slipcase. As new. § #283 of 808 copies. Bentley BB A15. “Blake suppressed the “Book of Ahania†and recast her tale in “The Four Zoasâ€. She is Urizen’s ‘Shadowy Feminine Semblance’ â€. Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110679
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Blake William.
The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 4to 1 preface by Muir 8 hand- colored leaves; 1preface by Muir 11 hand-colored leaves bound with tissue guards in original gray wrappers as issued by Muir: copies 24 and 30. Bound in contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco and gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards with H.C. Plimmer's bookplate. Very good. § The Thel facsimile is based on copy D colored by hand and limited to about 50 copies. Essick notes three versions of the ca. 1885 edition one entirely executed by hand this version with the correction of ’sprin’ to ’springs’ on leaf 5 line 7 and with the two final plates numbered 7 and 8 and a third version with the final two leaves correctly numbered 5 and 6 as in Blake’s original. The Visions facsimile also limited to around 50 copies is on Hodgkinson wove paper some copies were printed on a thinner “Antique Note†laid paper. Based on copy A in the British Museum. Bentley Blake Books 249 b and c William Muir hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108807
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Blake William.
The Book of Thel.
Blake Society ca. 1917. Limited edition of 30 copies. Text block fine and bright. Small stains to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards near fine with light rubbing and with wear to edges and corners. B&W illustrations. White cloth spine over olive boards with paper label. Blake Society, ca. 1917. Limited edition of 30 copies. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : Embry 95284
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Blake William.
The Book of Thel. A Facsimile and a Critical Text Edited by Nancy Bogen.
Brown UP: 1971. 4to xiv 82pp. original cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Fine reproduction of the NYPL copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley Blake Books 27: “The bibliographical details are novel and important.†1971. 4to hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123269
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Blake William.
The Book Of Urizen. Edited and with an Introduction by Kay Parkhurst Easson And Roger R. Easson.
8vo. London: Thames and Hudson 1979. 8vo 102pp with colored reproduction of the original Copy G and a 35 page commentary. Very good in original illustrated wrappers with slight crease to one corner of rear wrapper. § Reissue of 1978 Shambhala edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 76. Thames and Hudson unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108853
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Blake William.
The Book of Urizen. Introduction by Clark Emery.
Small 8vo. Florida: University of Miami Press 1969. Small 8vo 54pp. plus 27 black and white plates. Printed wrappers. Signs of wear. Very good. § Second edition. Bentley BB 41B: “ dealing largely with Gnosticismâ€. University of Miami Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 101395
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Blake William.
The Faber Gallery. Blake 1757-1827 with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Keynes.
Slim 4to. London: Faber and Faber 1945. Slim 4to 24 pp with 10 tipped-in color plates. Very good sewn into decorated pink wrappers as issued; slightly dusty at edges. § A selection of Blake’s best-known images in color. Bentley BB 398. Faber and Faber unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108884
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Blake William.
The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake the Property of the late Graham Robertson.
London: Christie’s July 22 1949. 8vo 44 pp illustrated with 16 full page black and white plates. Very Good in original wrappers slightly dusty with pencil annotations of prices and buyers for all 90 lots. § Bentley Blake Books 659. Christie’s unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108914
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Blake William.
The First Book of Urizen.
4to. London: Trianon Press 1958. 4to 27 plates 5pp text plus the extra materials. Full red morocco slipcase very good. § Limited to 526 copies of which this is copy V of XX with a suite of progressive states of one plate an original guide-sheet and stencil etc. The de luxe copy is very hard to come by. Even the trade edition is one of the more difficult Trianon Press books to find. Bentley Blake Books 40. “Blake’s most ambitious production thitherto. seven copies and a few scattered pages have been located. intended to be the first of a series dealing with activities in the supernatural world which caused the creation of the natural world and the early history of mankind.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110403
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Blake William.
The Four Seasons.
Sm. Seattle: Silver Quoin Press 1949. Sm. slim 4to 12pp. Title-page within a red border. Original blue paper wrappers as new. § No limitation stated doubtless printed in a tiny edition. Unrecorded by Bentley not noted in the Blake Archive. These were the first four poems in Blake's first book "Poetical Sketches". Silver Quoin Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 123271
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Blake William.
The Gates of Paradise. with There is no Natural Religion. and All Religions are One. with On Homer's Poetry and On Virgil.
4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1888. 4to intaglio title page iv text prologue 18 leaves with Muir's black and white intaglio engraved plates sewed. with 25 leaves including the preliminary and final blank. Original wrappers upper cover lettered in manuscript and signed and numbered by Muir. with 1 leaf signed and numbered by Muir. Dark green straight grain morocco panelled in gilt gilt top backstrip lettered in gilt slightly worn but internally perfect. § The "Gates" is copy #17 signed by Muir. The facsimile is convincing enough that plates from it have been offered as originals on occasion. Bentley BB 249m. "There is No Natural Religion" is copy #4 and includes “ All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." Upper wrapper present. "On Homer's Poetry" is a single leaf #4 signed by Muir. Bentley BB 249 h. William Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 122386
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Blake William.
The Idle Laundress. with Industrious Cottager. Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W. Blake.
2 prints. London: J.R. Smith 1788. 2 prints images 21 x 26 cms. with full margins and imprints. Well printed in brown ink cleaned and titles mounted below the prints in very good condition. § Second state of The Idle Laundress third state of Industrious Cottager good impressions. These two prints were designed to be issued together but they are extremely rarely found so. I have had two copies of the first plate third state and one copy of any state of the second plate. The first is known in one copy of the first state and Essick records only two copies of the second state BM and Keynes; Essick has the third state printed in 1803. The second plate is known in one copy each of the first and second states and 4 copies of the third state. Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake XXX and XXXI. J.R. Smith unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110752
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Blake William.
The Lyrical Poems of William Blake. Text by John Sampson with Introduction by Walter Raleigh.
Small 8vo. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1905. Small 8vo li 196 pp with frontispiece from "Milton". Very good in original green cloth with ornate gilt cover and spine rules and decoration and spine a touch darkened. § Bentley BB 275 A. First Sampson Edition. Clarendon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108795
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Blake William.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 4to 1p.preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p.appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards with the bookplate of H.C.Plimmer. Very good with tissue guards as issued. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 2. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley BB #249e. William Muir hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108803
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Blake William.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Muir facsimile.
4to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers stitched as issued a fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 40. Reproduces copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 122891
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Blake William.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Muir facsimile.
4to. London: Muir 1885. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers bound into full mottled calf red morocco vertical label on backstrip; upper hinge split but holding internally a very fine copy. § The superb Muir facsimile limited to 50 copies this copy numbered 31. Blake's prophetic book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is known in only twelve copies; Muir's facsimile reproduces copy A now owned by Harvard. “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. "Through the voice of the "Devil" Blake parodies and attacks the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg the cosmology and ethics of Milton's Paradise Lost and biblical history and morality as constructed by the "Angels" of the established church and state. Energy and passion are positively valorized; reason and temperance are characterized as restraints on spiritual insight and self-expression" The William Blake Archive. See Bentley Blake Books #249e. Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107426
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Blake William.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The rarest Muir facsimile.
Sm. London: Muir 1885. Sm. 4to 1p. preface by Muir 27 leaves hand-colored 1p. appendix 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. once badly stained in the margins now washed and cleaned by Court Benson. New brown cloth upper cover lettered in gilt. § The extremely rare variant of the superb Muir facsimile limited to maybe 5 copies; only two copies ever offered for sale are recorded by Essick this copy and the Essick copy. Reproduces the Fitzwilliam Cambridge copy I they have three very different copies of which there is only the Dent trade reproduction and this one. Muir has noted this in manuscript in the preface crossing out the reference to copy A - the Beckford-Harvard copy. Inscribed by Muir: "This copy is coloured after the Original in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. W Muir". “This book is Blake’s Principia in which he announced a new concept of the universe.†Damon Blake Dictionary. One of Blake’s most popular texts with numerous famous lines. See Bentley Blake Books #249e and 249h "On Homer's Poetry"; Blake Books Supplement p. 153. Muir hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123394
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Blake William.
The Plays of William Shakspeare sic accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens sic Esq. With a Series of Engravings from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli… and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes From the most eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage a Life of Shakespeare &c. by Alexander Chambers…
10 volumes. London: C and J. Rivington 1805. 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli’s major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book his only illustrations of Shakespeare. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed “the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegantâ€. Bentley 498. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLVII. C and J. Rivington unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107915
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Blake William.
The Poems… Edited and arranged with a Preface by John Sampson.
London: Florence Press Chatto and Windus 1926. Small 4to xxxviii 345 pages. Original black cloth. Some fading to backstrip. Very good. § Reprint of the 1921 edition of this collection. See Bentley Blake Books 294. Florence Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 101172
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Blake William.
The Poetical Works of William Blake. With a Prefatory Memoir by William Michael Rossetti.
Small 8vo. London: G. Bell 1924. Small 8vo cxxxii prefatory memoir 233 pp.Very good in blue cloth and gilt title to spine. § Rossetti acknowledges a debt to Gilchrist in compiling his substantial memoir which was first published in the 1874 Aldine edition of this compilation. This issue is in Bohn's Popular Library series. See Bentley 299 not noting this printing. G. Bell hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108799
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Blake William.
The Poetical Works. A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson.
8vo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth printed paper label. backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance well informed meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligentâ€. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 100629
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Blake William.
The Poetical Works. A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson.
8vo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth printed paper label Dryburgh House St. Bowells N.B. bookplate backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance well informed meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligentâ€. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 5708
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Blake William.
The Songs of Experience.
4to. London: William Muir 1927. 4to 27 4 plates hand-colored and one uncolored. Original printed gray wrappers brown paper backstrip as issued. § No. 23 of about 50 copies printed. The second Muir facsimile of this title inscribed by Muir “Made in Great Britain Copy No. 23†and signed by him on the front inside wrapper and the same information printed and filled in by hand at the end. The coloring is exceptionally bright and clear in these early copies. They were “facsimiled by Joseph Patrick Trumble Sophia Elizabeth Muir and William Muir from the Beaconsfield Originals in the British Museum with in Experience as an appendix 4 plates from the other British Museum copy. Also one plate for which no colouring is known 'A Divine Image’ which seems to belong to the Songs although not included in them by Blake.†Bentley 144. William Muir unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108811
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Blake William.
The Tiger’s Eye.
8vo. Woodstock VT: The Elm Street Press October 1947. 8vo 108pp. Illustrations from Blake’s engravings on pages 72-75. Illustrated wrappers with chipping to spine and creasing to front and back. Pages with some browning to edges. Internally very good. § The Elm Street Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 100806
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Blake William.
The University of Chicago Magazine.
4to. Chicago: University of Chicago 1970. 4to 44pp. Illustrated including an image on page 29 from William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell as performed at Rockefeller Chapel by The Cain Company of the University of Chicago. Red printed wrappers. Very good. § University of Chicago unknown books
Bookseller reference : 100803
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Blake William.
The Wit’s Magazine. Plate 3: “The Discomfited Duellists.â€
Engraved by Blake after Collings. London: Harrison and Co. 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins folded as usual. A little soiled but a good strong impression. § Bentley BB 513 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XIV pp 36-38. Harrison and Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108760
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Blake William.
The Wit’s Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth Humour and Entertainment.
2 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. § Only edition. "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. Harrison and Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 104672
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Blake William.
The Wit’s Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth Humour and Entertainment.
2 vols. London: Harrison and Co. 1784–1785. 2 vols. 8vo 2 485 1; 193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates including 5 by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary calf somewhat worn and vol. I lacking backstrip label. Withal a good set very rare. § Only edition. "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 wqorks." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. Harrison and Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 101708
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Blake William.
The Works of William Blake. Selected Poetry and Prose.
Small 4to. Roslyn New York: Black’s Readers Service Company 1953. Small 4to 4 313 pages. Original red cloth backstrip gilt-decorated gilt “William Blake†on upper board with a black lettering label. Ink signature on front endpaper very good. § No editor mentioned nor any previous edition referenced. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p.165. Black’s Readers Service Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 106261
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Blake William.
There Is No Natural Religion.
2 vols. London: Trianon Press 1971. 2 vols 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates and an 11 pp.description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes including a William Muir designed Plate 3 and an engraving from Hervey's "Meditations Among the Tombs" by Wall thought to have inspired Blake's "Application" design. Near fine in quarter brown morocco and marbled boards in slipcase. § Limited to 590 copies. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley BB 202. Trianon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 110674
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Blake William.
There is No Natural Religion.
Small slim 4to. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but see Blake Books Supplement page 140. Essick notes: “According to BBS page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early “bogus†or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi.†Pickering & Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 108532
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Blake William.
There is No Natural Religion.
2 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #XLIV of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107666
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Blake William.
There is No Natural Religion.
2 vols. London: Trianon Press 1972. 2 vols. 4to and small 4to with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco slipcase new. § Edition de luxe #10 of 50 copies with additional proof sheets progressive plates original stencil etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full book only came to light in 1953 and this is the first reproduction of the text. Such maxims are included as "Man's desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perciev'd sic" and "If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing despair must be his eternal lot" Schneideman. Bentley Blake Books 202. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107380
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Blake William.
There Is No Natural Religion. and All Religions are One.
4to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper printed on the inside with the “Programme†dated November 1885. All bound into modern blue buckram red morocco label on backstrip bookplate of Joseph Holland and a Moncure Biddle typed library record at front Houghton Library Phil Hofer manuscript note pasted in at the back. A fine copy. § Copy No. 11 of 50.Includes “ All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†Bentley BB 249 G. William Muir hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108810
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Blake William.
Various Prospectuses for Trianon Press facsimiles.
London Paris and Clairvaux: Trianon Press. 29 prospectuses as follows:- Europe- 2 copies 1 with plate 13 1 plate 2; Jerusalem- 2 copies plate 4 and plate 25; The Song of Los- 10 copies 4 of plate1Title 3 of plate 4 3 of plate 6; The Book of Los- Plate 1Title; The Book of Thel- 2 copies 1 of plates 3 and 6; The Book of Ahania- Chapter 1all text; All Religions Are One- 3 copies Title "The Arguement" "Principle 5"; Designs for Thomas Gray's Poems- plate 11; Young's "Night Thoughts"- 4 colored plates with prospectus text in text boxes on a single folded sheet; There is No Natural Religion- "Principle IV"; Monochrome examples: Complete Portraiture.- 1 copy with 5 examples: Laocoon- 1 copy with 2 pp of examples; Dante- 1 copy with 2 examples. All very good or as new condition most folded as issued. § Issued by Quaritch to promote the facsimiles these generally showed a sample hand and stencil-colored or monochrome plate from the upcoming book now suitable for framing or reference. Trianon Press. 29 prospectuses as follows - Europe- 2 copies unknown books
Bookseller reference : 109119
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Blake William.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco marbled boards slipcase very fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Bentley Blake Books 216. Trianon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 123971
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Blake William.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
Folio. London: Trianon Press 1959. Folio 11 plates 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco slipcase fine. § Limited to 426 copies of which this copy is unnumbered. One of the scarcer titles of the Press especially in fine unfaded condition. Bentley Blake Books 216. “It is a continuation though in thought only of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience. It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of the time.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 110677
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Blake William.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
London: c. 1973. 8vo 6 unnumbered leaves bearing color reproductions bound into gray boards. § Proof copy of the reproduction of copy E at the Huntington Library annoated in ballpoint pen by Robert N. Essick probably for the published edition which had 78pp. of text. c. 1973]. 8vo hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 100255
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Blake William.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Reproduced in facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author in 1793 now in the British Museum. With a Note by John Middleton Murry.
Small 4to. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1932. Small 4to 11 color plates and 25 pages of text. Original beige cloth gilt edges browned internally very good with the prospectus loosely inserted. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Murry. Bentley Blake Books 214. Dent and New York Dutton hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 101192
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