‎Blake william‎

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blake 1757-1827: Kunst um 1800: eine Ausstellung des British Council und der Hamburger Kunsthalle: Hamburger Kunsthalle 6. März bis 27. April 1975‎

‎4to. Munich: Prestel 1975. 4to 248pp. With 16 color plates and 4 b/w illustrations. Original wrappers a good copy with the library label and withdrawn red stamp of the Wallace Collection. § Catalogue of the British Council exhibition in Hamburg with essays by Johannes Kleinstück Siegmar Holsten Henry Crabb Robinson and David Bindman as well as a glossary bibliography and iconographical index. This exhibition was quite comprehensive and the illustrations include most of Blake’s graphic works. Apparently not in Blake Books Supplement. Prestel unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100275

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blake and his Circle: Exhibition Guide Birminham Museum and Art Gallery.‎

‎12mo. San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1965. 12mo 30pp.With 14 black and white illustrations.Near fine in pale green wrappers. § Bentley Blake Books 691: “30 Blake entries and 24 of his contemporariesâ€. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 123130

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blake's Illuminated Books - Vol. 1 Jerusalem: The Emanation of Giant Albion. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morton D. Paley.‎

‎Large 4to. London: Tate Gallery 1991. Large 4to 302pp.with 105pp of color plates. As new in original cloth and dust-jacket. § First trade edition reproducing the Stirling copy out of print. The longest of Blake's prophetic books which tells of the fall of Albion Blake's embodiment of man or the Western World. Six copies were printed between 1820 & 1827 and a further 4 copies were printed posthumously. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 88 149. Tate Gallery hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108826

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blake. Exhibition Catalogue.‎

‎8vo. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 8vo 40 pp with 24 illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good with slight wear and small marks to wrappers. § Bentley BB 657A. Tate Gallery unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 108912

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blake: The Renowned Collection of First Editions Original Drawings Autograph Letters and an Important Painting in Oils… Collected by the late George C. Smith Jr.‎

‎New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. 1938. 8vo 85 pp. Black and white illustrations. Lots 6–109 inclusive autograph letters books drawing and a painting. Original wrappers with light chipping backstrip worn. Priced throughout in pencil but without buyers' names. Very good. § An astonishing collection of Blake put together in a very short time by George C. Smith not to be confused with the dealer George D. Smith who died at the age of 45 after inheriting a very profitable publishing business begun by his grandfather. Most of the key peces were bought for Lessing Rosenwald although Sessler bought a few of the best items for Moncure Biddle and a Mrs. Collins who collected children's books. Bentley Blake Books 644. Parke-Bernet Galleries unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 102104

‎Blake William.‎

‎William Blakes'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.‎

‎Large 4to 231pp with 57pp of coloured plates. London: Tate Gallery 1995. Large 4to 231pp with 57pp of coloured plates. As new in original cloth and dust-jacket. § First Edition now out of print. Not found in Bentley. Tate Gallery hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108834

‎Blake William.‎

‎“Calling Card†sometimes called a bookplate for George Cumberland.‎

‎Sheet 10.2 x 12.8 cm. image and plate mark as per Essick 3.1 x 7.8 cm. and 3.3 x 8.1 cm. respectively. Printed in pale brown on a small 8vo sheet. Delicately printed with three tiny ink spots within the margins in very fine condition. § Blake’s last engraving executed for one of his closest friends. The images invoke one of Blake’s greatest themes—the relationships between time and eternity. Opinions vary on the purpose of this plate but it should be noted that at the time 1827 it was not uncommon to paste a calling card into a book as proof of ownership. However no book once owned by Cumberland has been located with his card pasted in. It has also been suggested that the name of Cumberland in the center was executed by a writing engraver and Blake added his borders later. 39 examples of this print are known to Essick not including examples now untraced all but three on laid paper printed later and three on card but it is quite rare in commerce. Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake XXI. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 654. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 108280

‎Blake William. 1757 1827. Hagstrum Jean H.‎

‎WILLIAM BLAKE Poet and Painter. An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse‎

‎Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1964. 1st edition. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author on the ffep. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Dust jacket. NF/VG spine a bit sun-tanned. xi 1 156 pp including Index. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> The University of Chicago Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 30288

‎Blake William. Allen Charles. separate plates‎

‎A New and Improved Roman History… The Second Edition embellished with four copper plates.‎

‎All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. London: J. Johnson 1798. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted good impressions of the plates complete with the imprints untrimmed. § One of Blake’s scarcer works seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allen’s English History now in the Essick Collection we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley Blake Books 416. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XXXVII. J. Johnson unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100653

‎Blake William. Auction Catalogue.‎

‎Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Books Illuminated & Illustrated by William Blake. Monday May 19 1958.‎

‎8vo. London: Sotheby & Co. 1958. 8vo 20pp. plus 10 plates tipped in some in color. Original printed wrappers. Scattered notations in ink. Auction date Monday May 19 1958. Very good. § Sotheby & Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100656

‎Blake William. Auction Catalogue.‎

‎Collection of Paul Hyde Bonner. First Editions and Manuscripts of Outstanding Importance.‎

‎New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Inc. 1934. 8vo 67pp. Frontispiece William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion lot 11. Lightly soiled wrappers with some edgewear and chipping. Water damage to spine visible on frontispiece and titlepage. Pages browned. Good. § An important catalogue apparently overlooked by Bentley. American Art Association Anderson Galleries unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100673

‎Blake William. Auction Catalogue.‎

‎Sotheby’s Belgravia. Vistorian Paintings Drawings and Watercolours.‎

‎Oblong 8vo. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1977. Oblong 8vo 58pp. Illustrated in red printed wrappers. William Blake lots begin on page 24 with 3 reproduced images 2 in color. Estimates bi-fold loosely inserted. Some results noted in ink. Very good. § Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100668

‎Blake William. Auction Catalogue.‎

‎The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake the Property of the late Graham Robertson.‎

‎London: Christie Manson & Woods Ltd. 1949. 8vo 44pp. Paper over boards. 4 cm piece of spine missing from bottom. 11 page supplement listing modern pictures and drawings for the same sale loosely inserted. Many pages annotated with results in pencil. Very good. § Perhaps the greatest collection of Blake sold since the Linnell sale of 1918. Bentley Blake Books 659. Christie hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 100681

‎Blake William. Baskin Leonard. Gehenna Press.‎

‎Blake and the youthful ancients: being portraits of William Blake and his followers engraved on wood by Leonard Baskin and with a biographical note by Bennett Schiff.‎

‎Small 4to. Northampton Mass.: Gehenna Press 1956. Small 4to 11 inc. the first blankpp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers very good. § “Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press in Northampton Mass." This is copy number “X†which indicates a proof copy since the edition was issued in a quarter morocco binding and this copy is unbound. Six copies are recorded on WorldCat to which add Toronto Fisher Library and Essick CA. Leonard Baskin’s note from the Bibliography: “This was the last book which was made with my hands that cessation a benefaction since I was a compositor & pressman of no distinction. This book is an homage to Blake & the dear youths who plied him with honour in his late age. My increased skill in woodengraving is here made manifest & a pattern for a kind of Gehenna Press book makes its beginning here; an introduction succeeded by a series of prints. The title-page reveals the novice’s poking into historical sources & exemplars.†Gehenna Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 106796

‎Blake William. Bentley GE. G. E.‎

‎Tiriel. Facsimile and Transcript of the Manuscript Reproduction of the Drawings and a Commentary on the Poem by G.E. Bentley Jr.‎

‎4to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. 4to 9 94 pp with 25 black and white illustrations. Very Good in original beige cloth boards and gilt title with dust-jacket slightly frayed at head of spine. § First edition of this important facsimile. “Tiriel†was the first of Blakje’s prophetic books written c. 1789 but never engraved or printed by Blake who was dissatisfied with it. It was first published by W.M. Rossetti in 1874.Bentley BB 204. Clarendon Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108844

‎Blake William. Bentley GE. Jr. G. E.‎

‎Vala; or The Four Zoas. A Facsimile of the Manuscript a Trancript of the Poem and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G. E. Bentley Jr.‎

‎Large folio. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1963. Large folio xviii 220 pages. 142 pages of plates. Gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover dust jacket worn and with tears and nicks otherwise fine. § First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley Blake Books 212. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 110703

‎Blake William. Blair Robert‎

‎The Grave A Poem.‎

‎London: Printed by T. Bensley for R.H. Cromek 1808. Rare first edition subscriber's copy of Robert Blair`s famous poem which initiated a fashion for mortuary poems illustrated with 11 etchings by William Blake. Quarto bound in three quarters morocco marbled endpapers with the famous engraved frontispiece portrait of William Blake after the painting by Phillips engraved title page with 11 additional plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after Blake's drawings designed at the request of Cromek. With the poem dedicated to the Queen by Blake list of subscribers four-page prospectus for the Procession of Chaucer`s Pilgrims to Canterbury by Thomas Stothard at rear. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare and desirable. In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for Robert Blair's Grave from which Cromek planned to select twenty for this deluxe edition of the poem. While The Grave originally appeared in 1743 this 1808 edition was to become famous for its illustrations demonstrating "the rare imaginative power of William Blake" Magnusson 162. A dispute over a preliminary etching "in white-line" called "Death's Door" which Cromek rejected resulted in Blake's being prevented from engraving his own designs so the 12 drawings eventually selected were rendered by Louis Schiavonetti "with a mingled grace and grandeur which won for them a wider popularity. Never has the theme of death been handled in pictorial art with more elevation and beauty" DNB. Printed by T. Bensley for R.H. Cromek unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 109096

‎Blake William. Blair Robert.‎

‎The Grave. A Poem.‎

‎4to. London: Bensley for Cromek 1808. 4to xiv 36 4 pp. With a portrait frontispiece after Phillips etched title page and 11 plates engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti after Blake’s designs. Original drab gray boards printed paper label on upper cover preserved in a red cloth box worn. The finest copy we have ever seen. § First quarto edition of exceptional rarity in boards as issued. A completely untrimmed copy thus with the title-page uncropped. Bentley Blake Books 435B. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 465-476."In October 1805 Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805 Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image Deaths Door in white-line but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus also of November 1805 Cromek announced that Luigi or Louis Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." The William Blake Archive Bensley for Cromek hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 107825

‎Blake William. Blair Robert.‎

‎The Grave. A Poem. Illustrated by twelve Etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti from the Original Inventions of William Blake Incomplete Set.‎

‎e. London: Bensley for Ackermann 1813 i.e. 1870. 4to plates only without the Frontispiece Death’s Door and The Soul’s Reunion with the Body i.e. etched title and 9 plates. As issued in the original pebbled brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt occasional foxing or oxidization an adequate copy. Includes 22 newspaper clippings from the 10s 20s 30s and 40s all related to Blake a brochure for Cambridge University Press’s An Island in the Moon facsimile a brochure for Scolar Press’s The Grave facsimile and a few other articles. § Third quarto edition printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Bentley Blake Books 435e. Bensley for Ackermann hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 107840

‎Blake William. Blair Robert.‎

‎“The Death of the Strong Wicked Man.†A single plate from Robert Blair's The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled and worn image clean. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 107321

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎Title-page to The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cromek 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margin including the note "Subscriber's copy" at the very bottom often trimmed off. § From the first quarto edition this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cromek unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 123890

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“Christ descending into the Graveâ€: in The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 107329

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“Death’s Doorâ€: in The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cadell and Davis 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davis unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 123898

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Counseller King Warrior Mother & Child in the tombâ€: in The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 110744

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Day of Judgmentâ€: in The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper full margins cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 123892