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 Original wrappers a good copy with the library label and withdrawn red stamp of the Wallace Collection.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
Small 8vo. New York: Dell 1969. Small 8vo 159pp.; paperback. § 6th printing. A good selection of Blake’s poetry reprinted many times and thus evidently well received with illuminating notes by Ruthven Todd who also wrote on Blake’s art and printing techniques. The series was edited by Richard Wilbur. Bentley 226. Dell paperback
Large 8vo. New York: Dover 1970. Large 8vo xiv 184 pp. illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. Very good paperback. § A combination though not complete of the 1927 and 1956 editions of the drawings from Nonesuch. Bentley Blake Books 405. Dover paperback
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
Oblong 12mo. Hancock VT: Top Drawer Enterprises 1980. Oblong 12mo 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Very good. § Top Drawer Enterprises unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
Wythenshaw Manchester: The William Morris Press n.d. Oblong 8vo 43 pages 24 illustrations. Pictorial wrapper with light wear. § Conran was the director of the City of Manchester Art Gallery which houses the Heads of the Poets. Bentley BB 2944. Scarce. The William Morris Press unknown
8vo. Princeton: Princeton University Library 1969. 8vo 61pp illus. Original marbled wrappers slightly worn but good with original label detached but loosely inserted. Very good. § First edition an excellent account of Blake’s engravings. Bentley Blake Books 700. Princeton University Library unknown
Small 8vo. San Marino CA: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1936. Small 8vo 15pp. plus 12 plates in black and white. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. § Introduction by C.H. Collins Baker. Bentley Blake Books 640. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
4to. Washington: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution 1962. 4to 44pp. Illustrated with William Blake’s The Wise and Foolish Virgins on page 30 in Black and White. Gray printed wrappers some sun-fading. Very good. § National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
London: Florence Press Chatto and Windus 1926. Small 4to xxxviii 345 pages. Original black cloth. Some fading to backstrip. Very good. § Reprint of the 1921 edition of this collection. See Bentley Blake Books 294. Florence Press hardcover
4to. Cambridge: At the University Press 1923. 4to 32 2 pp. 6 plates. Cloth and decorated paper over boards paper label. § First edition. Light dust soiling corners faintly worn but a very good copy. Bentley Blake Books 389. At the University Press hardcover
Oblong 4to. Meriden CT: Meriden Gravure Company 1954. Oblong 4to 6pp. plus 3 plates. In sewn salmon-colored printed wrappers sun-faded and creased from top to bottom in center. Very good. § Limited edition of 400 printed by The Stinehour Press: Lunenburg: Vermont. Bentley BB 1867. Meriden Gravure Company unknown
8vo. Sewanee TN: The University of the South 1963. 8vo 172pp. numbered 352-524. 6 pages of advertisements in the front. Blake article appears on pages 352-450. Published in The Sewanee Review Summer 1963 Volume LXXI Number 3. Blue printed wrappers with some sunning to edges mild edgewear. Title of journal excised from title page. Very good. § Bentley BB 2482. The University of the South unknown
Tall 8vo. Boulder: Shambhala 1978. Tall 8vo 178 pp. including a full-color reproduction of the original. Original cloth dust-jacket. Very good. § A very good-quality trade printing of Milton from copy B Huntington and with plates A-F from copy D Rosenwald. Bentley BBS p.102. Shambhala hardcover
Small 8vo. Florida: University of Miami Press 1969. Small 8vo 54pp. plus 27 black and white plates. Printed wrappers. Signs of wear. Very good. § Second edition. Bentley BB 41B: “ dealing largely with Gnosticismâ€. University of Miami Press unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
4to. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library 1971. 4to 65pp. plus 30 plates. Printed wrappers with mild edgewear. Signs of water damage to bottom corner especially rear. Very good. § Limited edition: 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the Morgan Library; this catalogue was written by G.E. Bentley with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp. Bentley Blake Books 706. The Pierpont Morgan Library unknown
London: Paul Grinke No Date. Oblong 8vo 28pp. Wrappers. § Item 32 page 17-19 The Battle of Ai by Thomas Stothard with engravings by Blake during his development as a commercial engraver. Paul Grinke unknown
8vo. Princeton: Princeton University Library 1969. 8vo 61pp illus. Original marbled wrappers slightly worn but good with original label missing. Very good. § First edition an excellent account of Blake’s engravings. Bentley Blake Books 700. Princeton University Library unknown
4to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1926. 4to ix pp. illustrated facsimiles of the original letters. Quarter gray cloth marbled boards printed label on upper cover. § Limited to 325 copies. Facsimiles of the only 10 letters known to have survived written by Blake to his friend and patron of thirty years Thomas Butts 1759-1846. Also included are a rough draft of Butts’ reply to Blake’s first letter and a debtor and creditor account between them for the year 1805. This is the first time they were reproduced in facsimile and the first time Butts’ letter has been printed in full. Bentley Blake Books 90. Clarendon Press hardcover
Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth red pictorial dust-jacket slightly faded along backstrip triangle cut from front dust jacket ink inscription on front endpaper; very good copy. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover
Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981. Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. § Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown
Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pages. Original brown cloth red printed paper backstrip label mostly worn away. Backstrip loosened. Fair to good copy. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley Blake Books 129. “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.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover
8vo. Purchase New York: Manhattanville College 1974. 8vo 1 page preface and 6 page introduction 27 plates with accompanying text bibliography. Original wrappers very good. § Well illustrated catalogue with commentary for each plate. Bentley Blake Books A 710. Manhattanville College unknown
Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth red pictorial dust-jacket very good. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover
Small 4to. Washington: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution 1957. Small 4to 46pp. Color illustration on front cover plus 21 plates in black and white. Yellow printed wrappers. Some sun-fading. Very good. § Bentley Blake Books 674. National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution unknown
8vo. San Marino California: The Huntington Library 1969. 8vo 55pp. plus 38 plates in rear. Quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Label pasted to backstrip. “Roger Easson†in pencil to front paste down. A very good copy. § Second Edition Third Printing. Bentley Blake Books 646 C. The Huntington Library hardcover
Large 4to. Gloucestershire UK: The Whittington Press 1981. Large 4to bi-fold with tipped-in color plate of The Old Dragon loose. Light soiling. Very good. § Announcement of the May 1981 limited edition publication Milton’s Hymn On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity with Illustrations by William Blake by Whittington Press in association with Angscot Productions. The Whittington Press unknown
12mo. London: William Weston Gallery 1973. 12mo 60pp. Illustrated including 12 images of Blake engravings from The Book of Job. Stapled printed wrappers. Mild water damage to spine edge. Good. § William Weston Gallery unknown
New York: Christie Manson & Woods International 1977. Large 8vo 115pp. plus numerous tipped-in plates. Includes lot 20 William Blake’s “Illustrations of the Book of Job†with black and white illustration opposite page 25. Printed paper-covered boards with mild wear to extremities. Auction date May 26 1977. List of estimates loosely inserted. Very good. § Christie hardcover
8vo. Hamburg: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1996. 8vo 501pp. 18 illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. § First edition inscribed by Thomas Eichhorn editor to The American Blake Foundation dated July 1st 1997. Translated with annotations by Eichhorn and with a foreword by Susanne Schmid. Not found in Bentley. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
Oblong small folio. Santa Barbara CA: The Regents University of California 1976. Oblong small folio 103 pp. illus. Original printed wrappers § Interesting exhibition catalogue placing Blake in the culture of his time limited to 1200 copies. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p. 293. The Regents University of California unknown
8vo. London: Longman York Press 1998. 8vo 96pp. Printed wrappers. As new. § First edition. York Notes Advanced. Punter is a well-established writer on Blake with numerous articles to his credit -- Bentley lists eleven up to 1995. Longman York Press unknown
Small 4to. Washington: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution 1957. Small 4to 46pp. Color illustration on front cover plus 21 plates in black and white. Yellow printed wrappers chipping to spine. Some sun-fading. Very good. § Bentley Blake Books 674. National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution unknown
London: Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge 1924. 8vo 168pp. Color frontispiece of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion lot 116. A second tipped-in plate by Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell lot 115. All Blake lots lots 108-134 with results noted in pencil and some in ink in margins. Wrappers soiled. Water damage to bottom edge and spine. Chipping to spine. Good. § The great MacGeorge collection. Bentley BB 623. Sotheby unknown
Normal IL: Art Gallery Illinois State University 1971. 4to 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley BB 704. Art Gallery unknown
Oblong 4to. Santa Barbara CA: The Regents University of California 1976. Oblong 4to 103pp. 132 illustrations 5 in color. Yellow illustrated wrappers. Slight evidence of water damage along spine. Very good. § The Regents University of California unknown
Small 8vo. New York: The Grolier Club 1905. Small 8vo 147pp. Printed wrappers lightly chipped along edges. Pages untrimmed. A very good copy. § A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W.A. White M.J. Perry and Hoe. Bentley Blake Books 599. The Grolier Club unknown
New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1974. 8vo 52pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. § An exploration of the nearly uniformly negative image of “the city†in literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes a look at William Blake on pages 10-11. Harper & Row unknown
8vo. London: Bertram Rota Ltd. 1974. 8vo 155pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers with some staining along spine edge. Very good. § A major catalogue from Rota offering i.a. some private press editions of Blake. Bertram Rota Ltd unknown
Single-sided black and white glossy illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981. Single-sided black and white glossy illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. § Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown
Small 8vo. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1964. Small 8vo 8 151 1pp. Original light blue cloth stamped in black to backstrip; frontispiece and four illustrations from paintings and engravings by Blake in black and white. Pastedowns damaged when articles pasted in were removed lacking dust jacket clipping from dust jacket affixed to front free endpaper some pencil annotations library copy with the usual markings. Good. § First edition. Includes images courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library from Blake’s illustrations to the Pastorals of Virgil and the frontispiece to Europe. Includes an introductory biographical sketch. Bentley Blake Books 295. Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover
Roy. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake’s engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: “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.†J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
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