‎Blake william‎

‎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

Référence libraire : 123980

‎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

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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

Référence libraire : 123971

‎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

Référence libraire : 123970

‎Blake William. Kunitz Stanley.‎

‎The Essential Blake. A Compact Collection of The Major Poems of a Visionary Poet. Selected by Stanley Kunitz.‎

‎Slim 8vo. New York: MJF Books 1987. Slim 8vo 8 92pp. Small portrait frontispiece. Red paper boards white paper backstrip dust-jacket as new. § First only edition of this selection. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p. 155. MJF Books hardcover books‎

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‎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

Référence libraire : 123898

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Death of The Good Old Manâ€: 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 best known plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davis unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 123900

‎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 cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 123894

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Descent of Man into the Vale of Deathâ€: in The Grave.‎

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

Référence libraire : 123895

‎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

Référence libraire : 123890

‎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

Référence libraire : 123892

‎Blake William. Keynes Geoffrey. Trianon Press.‎

‎Illustrations to the Bible.‎

‎Folio. London: Trianon Press 1957. Folio with 9 color plates and 156 illustrations. Original quarter morocco a superb copy virtually mint preserved in a quarter blue morocco box lettered in gilt § Limited to 460 copies this is #219. A very scarce book in good let alone fine condition as the size of the book and the fact that it was not issued with a box or a slipcase eve means most copies are more or less worn. This was the first time that Blake’s Biblical illustrations had been brought together. The catalogue raisonné was compiled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and comprises virtually every Biblical painting by Blake in existence. Bentley Blake Books 681. Trianon Press unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 123810

‎Young Edward. Blake William.‎

‎The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts.‎

‎Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to viii 1 95 2 pages; with 43 full-page engravings by Blake after his own designs surrounding the letterpress text. “Explanation†leaf bound in at the back. Half brown morocco backstrip gilt gilt top by Riviere; a very large copy measuring 16 1/2 x 13 inches thus preserving almost all the imprints. § First edition with Blake’s illustrations complete with the leaf of “Explanationsâ€. Essick and LaBelle explain in their commentary how Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned by the publisher Edwards to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. Edwards issued only the first four “Nights†or sections and had Blake etch and engrave 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake and Edwards ceased business shortly thereafter. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is largely forgotten save for this edition. Colored copies are known in two palettes the earlier of which may have been colored under Blake’s direction. Bentley Blake Books 515. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator vol. 1 IV. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 357-379. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 3. R. Noble unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 123299

‎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

Référence libraire : 123190

‎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

Référence libraire : 123269

‎Blake William‎

‎Poetical Sketches.‎

‎8vo. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70pp.Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. “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.†Bentley BB 132. Noel Douglas hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William. Sampson John.‎

‎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: Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384pp.Folding frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Very good in original brick-red cloth with tiny chip to paper spine label spare label bound in at end. § First Edition. Bentley Blake Books 300 ".a work of pioneer scholarly importance. meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligent". Clarendon Press hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 123279

‎Blake William. Keynes Geoffrey editor.‎

‎The Complete Writings of William Blake. With all the variant readings.‎

‎3 vols. London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House 1957. 3 vols. in one roy. 8vo 364 397 and 429 pp. Illustrated with 58 plates. Original full brown morocco extra a very good copy with the bookplate of Scott Cunningham at the front. § From a limited edition of 1500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper this is #L of 75 copies on Oxford India paper numbered I to LXXV. Bentley Blake Books 370 A. The Nonesuch Press; New York Random House unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 123179

‎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

Référence libraire : 110436

‎Mackmurdo Arthur Heygate; Horne Herbert; Image Selwyn. Blake William.‎

‎The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Issues 1-28 Complete.‎

‎London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. January 1886 - October 1888 and London: The Chiswick Press January 1889 - October 1892. 4to. 28 volumes illustrated by woodcut and photogravure in the original printed wrappers. Expectable browning to the untrimmed edges and occasional foxing and offsetting; issue no. 9 front wrapper spotted and rear wrapper very creased; issue 12 slight red staining to rear wrapper; issue 21 upper wrapper torn with large loss; issue 28 lower wrapper soiled and with a large chip. Despite the few flaws listed above the overall condition is in general clean and quite beautiful remarkably well-preserved for a large format elegant journal in its original wrappers. All enclosed in modern cloth boxes. § A complete run of the main series of the Century Guild Hobby Horse the first significant magazine dedicated to the visual arts in England preceding both the The Yellow Book and The Savoy and more egalitarian than either in its mission to create a unified vision of the arts and crafts in Victorian Britain. The quarterly magazine was the collaboration of architects Arthur Mackmurdo and Herbert Horne and the designer Selwyn Image who together formed the small but influential Century Guild of Artists. It featured essays on the fine and decorative arts architecture literature typography book design and collecting along with much original poetry. The Guild members were clearly well-connected particularly with the Pre-Raphaelites and regular contributors included W.M. Rossetti Christina Rossetti and Frederic Shields. Oscar Wilde contributed an essay on Keats May Morris one on embroidery and William Morris' lecture on "The Influence of Building Materials upon Architecture" appeared for the first time in print in its pages. There is an essay by Hubert Parry on English song writing original poetry from Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti and several essays by Alfred Pollard on book design. The contributors were particularly interested in the influence of William Blake and different issues featured several very important Muir facsimiles as well as the first typographic printing of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.A prepublication issue had been printed by George Allen for Mackurdo in 1884. After Mackmurdo and Image stepped away at the end of 1892 the magazine was renamed simply The Hobby Horse and survived for two more years before ending in 1894 the year The Yellow Book first appeared. Neither the prepublication issue nor these later issues are included in this series.An ambitious and quite beautiful production suffused with the spirit of the Arts & Crafts movement the issues are finely printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press illustrated with woodcut decorations and with photogravures of notable artworks. From the frontispiece art reproduced with the permission of many famous names to the appended directories of recommended craftsmen and women May Morris William Muir W.M. Rossetti among them the issues form a rich record of the thoughts and activities of a fascinatingly intertwined group of artists authors and designers in the act of revolutionizing the visual arts in England.Complete runs like this are very uncommon in institutions and in the trade. Kegan Paul hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 122998

‎Wicksteed Joseph. Blake William.‎

‎Blake’s Innocence and Experience. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts…‎

‎London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1928. Small thick 4to 301 pp. with 4 color plates 55 monochrome plates and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt original printed dust-jacket backstrip browned otherwise a fine copy. § First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. Only the second copy I have ever seen in the dust-jacket and the first copy of the British edition the other was the NY of the same year. Bentley Blake Books 2954. Dent hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 123132

‎Wagenknecht David. William Blake‎

‎Blake’s Night. William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral.‎

‎8vo. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1973. 8vo xiii 321 pp. with ten plates. Original brown cloth dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books A 2908: “A laborious analysis.†Harvard UP hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 123129

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Descent of Man into the Vale of Deathâ€: in The Grave.‎

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

Référence libraire : 107772

‎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

Référence libraire : 107776

‎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