Bucknell University Press 1986. 8vo 319pp black and white illustrations. Very good hardback copy in chipped and frayed dust jacket. Bucknell University Press, 1986 hardcover
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 The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake’s original manuscripts.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
4to. London: Ernest Benn; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1926. 4to xiv 140 pp. 82 plates with additional text on the tissue guards. White buckram backstrip decorated boards in printed dust-jacket; a good copy. § First edition limited to 1000 copies. There was also a de luxe edition of 100 copies with an extra color plate. Bentley Blake Books 627. Ernest Benn; New York Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover
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
William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. sixth impression with coloured frontispiece and 69 illustrations cr.8vo. pp. 107 original cloth with dust jacket dust jacket worn and torn text a little foxed but a very good copy binding sound and contents clean William Heinemann Ltd., 1925 hardcover
William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. new edition with coloured frontispiece and 82 illustrations sm.8vo. pp. 112 cloth a trifle foxed but a very good copy with remains of dust jacket William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 hardcover
Alvin Redman Limited 1960. First Edition with 32 illustrations in colour and black & white 8vo. pp. 256 hardback Without dust jacket small Boots Borrowers Library label on upper cover upper corner of eight leaves creased but binding sound and contents reasonably clean. Alvin Redman Limited, 1960 hardcover
Collins 1961. reprinted profusely illustrated in black and white and colour cr.4to. pp. 240 original cloth with dust jacket price clipped ownership inscription on blank verso of endpaper a fine copy with fine dust jacket binding firm and contents clean Collins, (1961) hardcover
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