4to. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 4to 42pp. 2 full-color tipped-in illustrations plus 8 double-sided tipped-in black and white illustrations. Original red printed wrappers detached. In protective glassine cover. Typed letter from the British Council loosely inserted. Very good. § Limited edition number 307 of 2000. Text in French. Prefaces by Philippe Soupault Eric Maclagan Jean Wahl and Archibald Russell. The works to be shown were chosen by Eric Maclagan Geoffrey Keynes Archibald Russell and John Rothenstein. Blake books 657B. Tate Gallery unknown
New York: Oxford University Press No Date. 8vo Brown illustrated four-fold. Blackwell’s Antiquarian Dept. stamped in black on rear. Very good. § Oxford University Press unknown
8vo. Princeton: Princeton University Library 1969. 8vo 61pp illus. Original marbled wrappers slightly worn but good with original label pasted to front wrapper. Very good. § First edition an excellent account of Blake’s engravings. Bentley Blake Books 700. Princeton University Library unknown
4to. Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art 1939. 4to xxii; 175pp. Frontispiece portrait of William Blake. Numerous illustrations throughout. First edition. With a 14 page introduction by the Blake collector A. Edward Newton. Covers spotted with water damage to bottom edge. Good. § One of the first great Blake shows entirely drawn from American collections. Bentley Blake Books 647: “one of the most important Blake exhibitions.†The Philadelphia Museum of Art 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. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p. 293. The Regents University of California unknown
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 Original wrappers a good copy with the library label and withdrawn red stamp of the Wallace Collection.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
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
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
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
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
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
San Marino CA: Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Near Fine. 1976. Soft Cover. 14 full page color plates selected and introduced by James Thorpe. Tight clean and crisp. Slight tanning to wraps otherwise As New. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. An excellent copy. ; 8vo; 30 pages . Huntington Library and Art Gallery paperback
<p>Harmondsworth UK: Penguin 1984 reprint. 251pp. paperback: Good text is age browned w/edge foxing; short rem. line bottom edge; else a clean complete & tight copy</p> Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin paperback
Bookseller reference : 17641 ISBN : 0140420428 9780140420425
New York: Harry N. Abrams 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 65 Color Illustrations. 4to - over 9�" - 12" Tall. Slight rubbing to wrappers; else a near fine copy internally. 159 pages. Catalogue of the Huntington Library's holdings; published "in association" title page. Foreword by Edward J. Nygren; includes bibliographical references and index. Harry N. Abrams paperback
Bookseller reference : L065676 ISBN : 0810925893 9780810925892
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. 11 b/w Illustrations / plates; 1 Folding Table chart. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" v 1 234 pages plates. Emphasis on Blake's poetical contributions with a few illustrations; notable particularly for the folding chart timeline. Slight sunning and rubbing to spine and spine label; slight rubbing and browning to covers; slight bumping to corners; previous owner's ink signature and date on front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
The Grolier Club of New York. Used - Very Good. 1953. Hardcover. Light wear to cloth. Previous owener's bookplate on fpep. Otherwise fine. Very Good. Subject: Literary Criticism. The Grolier Club of New York hardcover
Los Angeles: Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady 1978. Quarto. Parchment backed boards paper label. Frontis and plates. A bit of sunning and a few stray marks to boards bookplate on pastedown otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh in Bulmer types on Rives paper. Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady hardcover
8vo. Munchen: Prestel 1975. 8vo 248pp. Illustrated throughout. German text . Pictorial Wrappers with chipping to edges. Some curling to front wrapper with small crease to upper corner. Very good. § First edition. 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. Bentley BB C710 p. 957: “this splendid catalogueâ€. Prestel unknown
8vo. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 8vo 40pp. plus 42 monochrome plates at rear. Errata pasted to title page. Pictorial wraps. Water damaged with some plates stuck together. Fair. § Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery organized by the British Council also to be shown in Paris Antwerp and Zurich. Tate Gallery paperback
Steven Albahari. Used - Very Good. 2004. 1st Cloth square quarto 171 pp. illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Red cloth with photographic plate in laid on front board; housed in white clam shell slipcase. Some wear to slipcase including a few scuffs and half inch tear at head of joist. Otherwise fine. Very good. #473 of 915. Boldly signed by Witkin on front endpapers. Subject: Photography. Steven Albahari hardcover
Bookseller reference : Q02889 ISBN : 1892733110 9781892733115
London: Trianon Press 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant folio. 22" tall by 16" wide. Containing nine color plates including a lithographed frontispiece. Tissue guards present. Publisher's 1/4 morocco over decorated boards. Tips lightly rubbed else an exceptionally sharp copy. One of 506 hand-numbered copies. Very large and heavy tome. <br/><br/> Trianon Press hardcover
Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1979. Hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket. Volume 1 only. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21184 ISBN : 0198118856 9780198118855
London: Double Elephant Folio and Quarto Co. 1973. Unbound. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Louis Schiavonetti. unpaginated A portfolio of the illustration to the original 1804 edition. The portfolio covers have separated at the spine and the rear cover is chipped at the lower fore-corner. Double Elephant Folio and Quarto Co. unknown
Bookseller reference : 031035 ISBN : 070450054X 9780704500549
London: Printed at the Burleigh Press Bristol for Fanfrolico Press 1927. FIRST EDITION. 203 x 133 mm. 8 x 5 1/4". 4 p.l. including a blank 55 1 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green paper boards and burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettering. With an etching by Lindsay at the front. Light staining on front pastedown vestiges of bookplate otherwise very fine. A substantial analysis divided into six parts this as the book indicates "is not a critical essay on Blake's poetry but an effort to define the condition of mind his work represents and to expose its psychological machinery from the inside by employing an idiom which is as close poetically as Lindsay can make it to the nature of the subject and by accepting life as existing in terms of the values Blake creates. [Printed at the Burleigh Press, Bristol, for] Fanfrolico Press unknown
8vo. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 1988. 8vo xxv xxvi 601 pp. Original blue cloth dust-jacket. § A wide-ranging selection of prose and poetry. Bentley Blake Books Supplement page 168: “the oddly arranged text is modernized from William Blake’s Writings 1978.†Oxford University Press hardcover
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. 1938. 8vo 85 pp. Black and white illustrations. Lots 6–109 inclusive autograph letters books drawing and a painting. Original wrappers with light chipping backstrip worn. Priced throughout in pencil but without buyers' names. Very good. § An astonishing collection of Blake put together in a very short time by George C. Smith not to be confused with the dealer George D. Smith who died at the age of 45 after inheriting a very profitable publishing business begun by his grandfather. Most of the key peces were bought for Lessing Rosenwald although Sessler bought a few of the best items for Moncure Biddle and a Mrs. Collins who collected children's books. Bentley Blake Books 644. Parke-Bernet Galleries unknown
Penguin Poets 1964. Early edition. Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Neat former owner's signature to inside cover which bothers none of the text. Penguin Poets, 1964 paperback
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers 1911. First edition. 18 pages of text printed rectos only 42 pages of plates. 1 vols. 4to. Bevelled brown cloth. Minor bubbling to cloth else fine. First edition. 18 pages of text printed rectos only 42 pages of plates. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley Blake Books 516 The Liverpool Booksellers unknown
New York: Henry Holt 1946. Thick octavo. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First edition. Pencil ownership signature of F.A. Pottle. Light shelf-wear to bottom edge else very good in a lightly spine-sunned dust jacket with a couple of short tears to the head and toe of the spine and light wear to the corners. Henry Holt hardcover
London: Macmillan 1926. viii1982pp. Cloth. Lower fore corners bumped slight cracking at gutter after half-title bookseller label to rear pastedown fore-edge foxed offset from endsheets to facing pages else very good without a dust jacket. First edition published in Macmillan's English Men of Letters series edited by J. C. Squire. BENTLEY & NURMI 973. Macmillan hardcover
Wythenshaw Manchester: The William Morris Press n.d. Oblong folio 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. Not in Bentley. Scarce. The William Morris Press unknown
CHICAGO: J. Philip O'Hara with Trianon Press 1972 1972. ISBN:0879556005. A fine first edition in like dj. Quarto. 72pp. plates. F. Hardcover. Book. CHICAGO: J. Philip O'Hara with Trianon Press, 1972 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : poe13-0467 ISBN : 0879556005 9780879556006
Chicago: J. P. O'Hara 1972. Book. Fine/very good . 72 pp.blue cloth hardbound in Fine condition dustjacket in very good condition with slight wear to the top corner edge J. P. O'Hara hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58 ISBN : 0879556005 9780879556006
London: William Blake Trust / Trianon Press 1971. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. First edition. Commemorative catalogue published to accompany the exhibition arranged by the William Blake Trust. Precedes the cloth edition by a year. Very good. William Blake Trust / Trianon Press hardcover
Normal IL: American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University. Original brown cloth. Copy O of 26 publisher's copies bound in brown linen numbered A-Z for the Directors of the American Blake Foundation. SIGNED by Roger Easson and Robert Essick. Small faint spot at head of spine Very Good Plus. No Dust Jacket. . Very Good. Hard Bound. First Edition. 1972. American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University unknown
Bookseller reference : 018856 ISBN : 0913130028 9780913130025
New York: Abrams / Huntington Library 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 65 Color Illustrations. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. A very good copy. 4to 159 "An introduction to the William Blake Collection" title page. Foreword by Edward J. Nygren. Abrams / Huntington Library paperback
Bookseller reference : 0417527 ISBN : 0810925893 9780810925892
Normal: The American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University 1972. Paperback. xv55p.plates 8.5x11 inches preface illustrated with reproductions of the engravings first paper edition in original pictorial wraps with a small crinkled tear at top of front cover light external soiling. Bears a personal inscription signed by author/bibliographer Easson. The American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University paperback
Bookseller reference : 119524 ISBN : 091313001x 9780913130018
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1964. 1st edition. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author on the ffep. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Dust jacket. NF/VG spine a bit sun-tanned. xi 1 156 pp including Index. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> The University of Chicago Press hardcover
London: Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press 1922. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/None Issued. Folio. An unusually fine copy of this splendid work and inscribed by the owners of the original drawings - highly rare. 117 plates including 6 in colour on rectos only. This work by Blake is undergoing increased critical appraisal and is highly important. <br/> <br/> Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press hardcover
London: Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press 1922. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/None Issued. Elephant Folio. A very good copy of this splendid work with only light wear to the folio cloth binding which is some 20" high by 15" wide. Warmly inscribed by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton - highly rare with such an inscription from the then owners of the designs. This copy also with the highly pleasing ownership signature of Ruthven Todd. This is copy number 8 of 650 numbered copies. 117 plates including 6 in colour on rectos only. This work by Blake is undergoing increased critical appraisal and is highly important. <br/> <br/> Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press hardcover
Albany: State University of New York Press 1982. Second printing. 8vo. deep green cloth pp. xv 294. With contributions by Hazard Adams Donald Pease Leroy Searle Jay Parini Robert J. Bertholf Alicia Ostriker Robert F. Gleckner Myra Glazer Annette S. Levitt Susan Levin Minna Doskow Eileen Sanzo and William Dennis Horn. The essays relate Blake's influence to W.B. Yeats Walt Whitman Hart Crane T.S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Theodore Roethke Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg James Joyce D.H. Lawrence Joyce Cary Doris Lessing. and Karl Marx. Originally published at US $64.50; A near fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Albany: State University of New York Press, (1982). Second printing. hardcover
-Trianon Press 1971-. Exhibition catalogue. First edition 1971. 285x225mm xx72 pages plus pages of plates. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback. Very good in glassine wrap. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions Auctions Collections etc. with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence. -Trianon Press, 1971- paperback
BLAKE WILLIAM. William Blake 1757-1827. A Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of William Blake Selected from Collections in the United States. Phila. Philadelphia Museum of Art 1939. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. 175pp. Orig. wrappers. Fine. unknown
St. Martin's Press 1978 Some yellowing to the edge of the text pagesotherwise near fine. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. St. Martin's Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 000983 ISBN : 0312880235 9780312880231
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