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
8vo. London: Henry Colburn 1816. 8vo viii 449 pp. With 2 leaves of ads at the front and another 2 at the back dated 1818. Original boards paper backstrip slightly rubbed with loss of label some wear to boards a very fine copy entirely uncut and in original state as issued. § First edition of a fascinating contemporary reference work. It includes one of the earliest biographical references to William Blake “an eccentric and very ingenious artist†as well as a large number of writers such as Wordsworth Coleridge and Byron and hundreds of other authors forgotten today but amazingly no Shelley Mary or Percy no Keats and no Jane Austen. Bentley Blake Books 2929: “references to Blake under William Hayley W. Blake and William Blakeâ€. Some claim Watkins authored A-K and Shoberl the rest. Henry Colburn hardcover
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
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 very 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 cancelled by the editor out of prudishness. W. Pickering hardcover
Chichester: J. Seagrave for Richard Phillips 1805. The Hermit’s Dog. Single plate full margins well printed only 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
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
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
Vantage Press 1972-01-01. Unknown Binding . LikeNew. Signed by the author. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket in a mylar protector Vantage Press unknown
Putnam Adult 2003-05-12. Hardcover. Good/soiled spot on spine where stick. Hardcover with dust jacket in good minus condition. EX LIBRARY BOOK. Sticker on first page. stamp on first page. light edge wear. Binding tight. Putnam Adult hardcover
MGM Video & DVD 2001-08-21. DVD. Like New. MOTHERMACS SHIPS TO US EUROPE VIA AIR MAIL. WE SHIP FROM TORONTO ONTARIO MOTHERMACS BRINGS OVER TEN YEARS OF QUALITY VALUE AND PROMPT SERVICE TO THE INTERNET NAVIRES Mothermacs de Toronto Ontario et apporte plus de DIX ANS DE SERVICE DE QUALIT MGM (Video & DVD) unknown
Oxford University Press 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. A nearly new copy: firm clean square and tight with no underlining or splits. Oxford University Press paperback
Sm. Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1817. Sm. 8vo xii 166pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt backstrip richly gilt marbled edges signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text perhaps by Cotes. § A beautiful copy handsomely bound with the frontispiece printed in five colors. Friedman Color Printing in England #31. The Vershbow copy with bookplate. DNB notes: “Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which ‘was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice’ Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley ‘for the lessons she had learnt from the poem’ P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem ‘made me Lady H. … for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty’ ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.†William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme 1805. Oblong folio. Engraved title and 39 full page outline engravings. Original half green hard-grain morocco gilt edges with the original gilt-lettered title on the upper cover very worn. Some foxing throughout as usual title-page creased the three Blake plates in good condition. § First edition. Reprinted several times to 1829 on a variety of papers it is effectively impossible to distinguish printings but it matters little as they are essentially identical. Bentley Blake Books 457 A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLVI. Longman unknown
Univ of Hawaii Pr. PAPERBACK. 0824807200 Clean text Good. Light to moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. . Good. Univ of Hawaii Pr paperback
Crown Publishers Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Oversize hardcover. 0517552647 . 10.90 X 8.70 X 0.50 inches . Crown Publishers Inc. hardcover
4to. London: Trianon Press 1975. 4to 8 plates 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate plus 22 additional progressive proof plates and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco prospectus inserted a fine copy in slipcase. As new. § #28 of 32 de luxe copies with the extra plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process. The total edition was limited to 432 copies. One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons. Bentley Blake Books A137. “The Song of Los completes the cycle of the four continents. the complete work tells the story of mankind from Adam to the Last Judgment the triumph of death and the general resurrection caused by the revolution.†Damon Blake Dictionary. Trianon Press unknown
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