‎Blake william‎

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107850

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107825

‎Blake William Trianon Press.‎

‎All Religions are One.‎

‎4to. London: Trianon Press 1970. 4to 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco slipcase. Fine as issued. § Edition de luxe this being copy III limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley Blake Books 5. All Religions are One c. 1788 is “a small tractate perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing it exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’. and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107369

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107380

‎Blake William. Keynes Geoffrey. Trianon Press‎

‎The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake.‎

‎London: Trianon Press: 1977. 4to 155 pp. 51 plates. Original full brown morocco slipcase. A fine copy. § #5 of 36 de luxe copies signed by Keynes of a total edition of 562 copies. The definitive work about and reproducing all known portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Blake. The definitive work on all known portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Blake. Not in Bentley BB or supplement. Trianon Press 1977. 4to unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107381

‎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 recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107320

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107321

‎Blake William. Blair Robert. separate plate‎

‎“The Grave a Poemâ€: title-page to The Grave.‎

‎Single plate. London: Cromek 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 most famous plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cromek unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107319

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107329

‎Blake William. Hartley David.‎

‎David Hartley M.A. From a Painting by Shackelton.‎

‎Single sheet copperplate engraving. London: Johnson 1791. Single sheet copperplate engraving frontispiece 250 x 170 mm. Cleaned but still a little soiled paper rubbed between title and imprint with no loss signs of four folds. § Hartley’s Observations on Man 1791 has this frontispiece engraved by Blake -- it was also issued as a separate plate. Essick CBI XXII Johnson unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107313

‎Blake William. Thornton Robert John.‎

‎The Pastorals of Virgil.‎

‎London: 1821. 2 vols. small 8vo xii -vii/viii 12 xxiv -i/iv 214; I 215-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep backstrips lettered in gilt slight wear to joints vol. 1 invisibly repaired by Phil Dusel. A very fine set internally perfect. Enclosed in a modern protective box. § Presentation copy inscribed by Thornton to his daughter. A very fine copy of a scarce work in any condition as it was issued for use in schools; the impressions of the woodcuts in this copy are the richest I have ever seen. Blake contributed 17 woodcuts to this volume as well as 10 other plates of which he engraved six which were not well received; nor were they well treated by the publisher who cut down the blocks and printed them poorly. Only a few proofs before they were trimmed are now extant. These blocks have remained amongst the most influential woodcuts in the history of British art and their influence can be seen from Calvert and Palmer all the way up to the present day. The blocks were saved by Linnell and were printed not long after Blake's death as separate impressions perhaps by Calvert and again in 1977 as a set by Iain Bain. Any impressions are now very hard to find. For a full discussion of this wonderful book see Essick's masterly monograph A Troubled Paradise. San Francisco: John Windle 1999. Bentley Blake Books 504. Bindman 602-18. Easson and Essick I X. 1821. 2 vols unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107152

‎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 watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Matted a brilliant set with the original printed label preserved. § 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 the finest set 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. [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 107296

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 106796

‎Blake William; ed. by Jack Lindsay‎

‎Blake’s Poetical Sketches with an Essay by Jack Lindsay on Blake’s Metric.‎

‎Small 4to. London: The Scholartis Press 1927. Small 4to xxiv 86pp. Quarter-cloth with patterned boards. Bottom edgewear with bumping and wear to corners. Sun fading to backstrip. Lacking dust jacket. Pages untrimmed along bottom. Very good. § First edition with an introduction by Eric Partridge to Blake’s lyrical poetry. A pleasing piece of bookmaking with the feel of a private press book. Bentley BB 133. The Scholartis Press hardcover books‎

Ссылка продавца : 105940

‎Blake William. Hayley William.‎

‎A single plate from: Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake.‎

‎Chichester: J. Seagrave for Richard Phillips 1805. The Lion. Single plate full margins well printed first state. § See: Bentley Blake Books 465. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator VIII. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 403-407. J. Seagrave unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 106641

‎Story Alfred T. Blake William.‎

‎Life of John Linnell.‎

‎2 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1892. 2 vols. 8vo Vol. I: xxi 308pp; Vol. II: 284pp. 2 frontispieces with tissue guards and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to spine. Moderate foxing to title pages and throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. § First edition. John Linnell was an English Romantic painter 1792-1882. Linnell was one of the best friends and patrons of William Blake. Bentley Blake Books 2769. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover books‎

Ссылка продавца : 8890

‎BLAKE William‎

‎Songs of Innocence‎

‎London: Medici Society 1927. hardcover. very good. Parsons Jacynth. With a Prefatory Letter by W. B. Yeats. 12 color plates plus black & white text illustrations. 42pp. 8vo blue cloth dust 1927 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. London and Boston: The Medici Society 1927.<br/><br/> Medici Society unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 245698

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 105253

‎Hayley William Blake.‎

‎Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. By William Hayley.‎

‎4 vols. Chichester: J. Seagrave 1803-04. 4 vols. in 3 4to 8 table of contents 1-413 2; 6 iii-xii introductory letter 1-424; 4 i-iii iv-xxxi 1-416 1; 2 ads 1-122 22 pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text one designed and engraved by Blake 4 engraved by Blake after other artists and 1 engraved by Caroline Watson. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders on both covers. Backstrips and labels chipped covers rubbed with minor loss of calf hinges considerably worn yet sound. Armorial bookplate of Mrs Gosling in all three vols. § Second edition final state of the “Weatherhouse†plate designed by Blake. Hayley’s position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley however “the plates for vols i-ii are much more clearly and darkly printed in the second edition so indicated on the title pages than the first. Perhaps many of the lines were cut more deeply when the plates were converted in their second states but more careful inking and printing could account for the considerable tonal differences. One hesitates to blame Mrs. Blake for the poor impressions of the first states but that may indeed be the case†Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations 86. Bentley Blake Books 468 A. Easson & Essick I VII. J. Seagrave unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 105166

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 100561

‎Blake William. Young Edward.‎

‎The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts.‎

‎Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 9/10 with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 105075

‎Blake William.‎

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

‎Printed in black ink on thick card. London: William Blake 1827. Printed in black ink on thick card. Very finely printed in good condition though trimmed very close to the image at the left and right edges once pasted down and thus with traces of mounting on the verso and pencil notes from an earlier collector c. 1950 image and plate mark exactly as per Essick 1DD. § 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. Although probably intended as a calling card two books have been located with this card pasted in both written by George Cumberland Jr. Thus it has on occasion been sold as a “bookplateâ€. Examples on card not in Cumberland's book are exceptionally rare and have been presumed to be of the earliest printing and possibly by Blake himself. All other impressions on laid paper most often are posthumous. Thirty-nine examples in all are known to Essick not including examples now untraced of which eight are on card of which one is described as printed in green ink. Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake XXI see entry 1DD for identical measurements but not this copy. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 654. William Blake unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 105078

‎Hayley. William Blake.‎

‎Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. By William Hayley.‎

‎3 vols. Chichester: J. Seagrave 1803-04. 3 vols. 4to 10 table of contents iii-xiii 1-413; 8 1-424; 2 1-iii iv-xxxi 416 4 6 1-122 24 pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text one designed and engraved by Blake the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Original polished brown half calf marbled paper over boards. Backstrips of each volume with two black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Hinges and joints of vol. III just starting. Some spotting and foxing along edges of text blocks and within the text itself sometimes within the image. Minor rubbing and wear at extremities. Armorial bookplate of the Corbollis family on front pastedown of each volume. Excellent original copies in fantastic overall condition. § Second edition final state of the “Weatherhouse†plate designed by Blake. Hayley’s position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley however “the plates for vols i-ii are much more clearly and darkly printed in the second edition so indicated on the title pages than the first. Perhaps many of the lines were cut more deeply when the plates were converted in their second states but more careful inking and printing could account for the considerable tonal differences. One hesitates to blame Mrs. Blake for the poor impressions of the first states but that may indeed be the case†Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations 86. Bentley Blake Books 468 A. Easson & Essick I VII. J. Seagrave hardcover books‎

Ссылка продавца : 105032

‎Blake William. Young Edward.‎

‎The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts.‎

‎Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 87/88 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 104588

‎Blake William. Young Edward.‎

‎The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts Page 57 "Trembling each gulp lest death should snatch the bowl".‎

‎Large 4to. London: R. Noble 1797. Large 4to pp. 57/58 with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet fore-edges untrimmed some still with deckle minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. § First edition perfect for display or for teaching as the leaf is quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. The leaf is from from "Narcissa" the third night of Young's poem and the illustration shows a party of drinkers under a looming figure clutching a spear.Blake virtually in a frenzy completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young’s masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four ‘Nights’ and had Blake engrave and partially etch 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically today the poet Young once compared with Shakespeare and Milton is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley Blake Books 515. Essick and LaBelle Night Thoughts Dover 1975. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914 3. R. Noble unknown books‎

Ссылка продавца : 104612