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1809réf. 1087411809. Chichester: W. Mason 1809. Large 4to 8 416 7 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout just traces of ageing on the first few pages. § First edition large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue the large-paper copies are on heavier paper and the impressions are stronger. The 1-page advertisement at the end for "Epistles to Romney" is not found in the small-paper copies. Blake's plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Bentley BB 469 Essick CBI XLIX: large-paper issue has an "1807" watermark without a maker's name; the small paper is watermarked "Rye Mill / 1807.". unknown books
réf. 142114London: Jonathan Cape 1982. First edition early printing of this Dahl classic which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo original cloth illustrated by Quentin Blake. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Love Doug Roald Dahl 1984." Additionally signed by Quentin Blake below. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of the twentieth century. Dahl's ability to twist words into a clever and creative new language is fascinating to children and is evident in BFG. The gruesome descriptions of the horrid giants and the subtle allusions to other stories will entertain children young and old. An animated adaptation was released in theatres in 1987 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It was also the basis for the 2016 film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg written by Melissa Mathison and starring Mark Rylance Ruby Barnhill Penelope Wilton Jemaine Clement Rebecca Hall Rafe Spall and Bill Hader. Jonathan Cape hardcover
réf. 11356Collection complète, du n° 1 (mai 1940) au n° 13 (été 1948). Sont joints treize avis de parutions pour divers volumes des éditions de l'Arbalète (Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Henri Michaux, Jean Genet, Antonin Artaud, Henri Pichette). Ensemble en très bon état. /// Les 7 premiers numéros sont rares ; le premier, " rédigé par des soldats ", fut censément tiré à une centaine d'exemplaires et il est d'une très grande rareté. A partir du n° 9, le tirage atteint 2.000 exemplaires. /// Ecrits de Jean Wahl, Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet, Georges Hugnet, Michel Leiris, Raymond Queneau, Louis-René des Forêts, Olivier Larronde, Ernest Hemingway, Guy du Montcel, Gustave Thibon, Pierre Boutang, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Blake (poèmes traduits par René Tavernier), Klabund (poème traduit par Camille Bryen), Jean Tardieu, Martin Heidegger, Louis Aragon, Federico García Lorca, Henri Michaux, Marc Beigbeder, Marc Barbezat, Fernand Lot, Robert Ganzo, Arthur Rimbaud (poèmes présentés par Pascal Pia), C.- F. Ramuz, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus (" L'Espoir et l'absurde dans l'uvre de Franz Kafka "), Jean-Paul Sartre, Mouloudji, André Rouveyre, Boris Vian. Le n° 9 est entièrement consacré à la littérature américaine.
réf. 108664London The Crime Club 1938. . First edition first impression; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth titles to spine in black mild partial browning to the endpapers trace of erasure to front free endpaper with the dust-jacket some mild ghosting to the spine through the jacket but an exceptional copy in the little tanned and very slightly rubbed dust-jacket. The poet laureate Cecil Day Lewis wrote a number of detective works under the name Nicholas Blake of which this title is by far the best regarded. Copies of this UK printing in this condition with the jacket are extremely uncommon. London, The Crime Club, 1938. hardcover
1789réf. 14263London: C. Cooke 1789. 2nd or 3rd edition. Hardcover. Likely to be an original subscriber's copy listed as "Wilson - Crown Court Broad St." likely to be "John Wilson" whose red gilt leather ownership label is mounted into the front board with special blind tooled lines surrounding it. A second or third edition published between 1789 & 1791 according to research by Alan Frost published in the LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No. 8 1971. A very bright unsophisticated copy of this work which has become increasingly scarce. Ferguson 59 describes a 1 volume edition & cites only the Mitchell Library copy. Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's Voyages and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest Tasmania New Zealand Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time. It is these contemporary images which make this work scarce as so many have been broken up. The extended title references Columbus and Cook in the same sentence as "first Discoverers" of different continents; "from the Celebrated Columbus the first Discoverer of America to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay:." Folio. Frontispiece title page verso blank i Royal Licence ii Address to the Reader 1-990 Texts etc. 2 pp Directions to the Binder 2 pp A List of Subscribers Complete with 90 plates & 22 maps the map of Great Britain has original hand color; the map of Europe has been hand colored not unpleasantly but not professionally. Maps and plates are in very good condition with no refolding or cracking which is usual in this work. Bound in period reversed calf red gilt title label on spine. Matching early reverse calf strengthening of outer hinge a couple of splits on leather of spine and very chipped at top and bottom o/w a very nice copy. "The geography books which appeared in the closing decades of the eighteenth century. are of considerable significance to students of the history of ideas for the light they shed on English interest in geography and geographical exploration at the end of the eighteenth century. One of the most imposing of these usually quite imposing books is Thomas Bankes Edward Warren Blake and Alexander Cook's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. A massive folio volume this was a popular work running to six editions in the ten years from 1787 to 1797."Frost Thomas Bankess Complete System The La Trobe Journal 1971. Extedned title - All the late important Discoveries made by the English and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations in the different Hemispheres from the Celebrated Columbus the first Discoverer of America to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay:. C. Cooke hardcover
1920réf. 302999London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown
1920réf. 303032London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers light chipping to edges else fine. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown
1920réf. 302999London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 21 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown books
1920réf. 303032London: Wm. Muir 1920. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers light chipping to edges else fine. No. 16 of 50 i.e. 32 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations colored by hand. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley Blake Books 249 Wm. Muir unknown books
1932réf. 1072551932. N.p.; n.d.: Probably USA: c. 1932-33. 4to 19 manuscript ff. numbered. Enclosed in a blue cloth box bookplates of Kenneth A. Lohf. Age-toned rust from paper clip very good. § An interesting unpublished manuscript written out for Binyon by his wife Cicily probably being the text of an essay or talk given by Binyon while in the US in 1932/33 for the Norton lectures. Hatcher in his biography of Binyon notes a lecture with the exact title as given here. It has never been published. It was last sold at Christie's East Dec 2 1994 lot 20 $550. unknown
1932réf. 1072551932. N.p.; n.d.: Probably USA: c. 1932-33. 4to 19 manuscript ff. numbered. Enclosed in a blue cloth box bookplates of Kenneth A. Lohf. Age-toned rust from paper clip very good. § An interesting unpublished manuscript written out for Binyon by his wife Cicily probably being the text of an essay or talk given by Binyon while in the US in 1932/33 for the Norton lectures. Hatcher in his biography of Binyon notes a lecture with the exact title as given here. It has never been published. It was last sold at Christie's East Dec 2 1994 lot 20 $550. unknown books
1795réf. 1262351795. London: Johnson 1795-94. 2 vols. in one 4to xx 218 124 2 directions to binder and advertisement; 2 viii 200 2 directions to the binder lacking the errata and ads pp. With a frontispiece to each volume ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf marbled boards newly rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered label. A very good copy if a little aged -- early manuscript note loosely inserted about the Portland Vase copied from the Morning Chronicle c. 1796. § Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado plate. At page 87 appears the enigmatic circular image of an African man in chains titled "Am I not a man and a brother." Bentley 450B and C. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. unknown
1795réf. 1262351795. London: Johnson 1795-94. 2 vols. in one 4to xx 218 124 2 directions to binder and advertisement; 2 viii 200 2 directions to the binder lacking the errata and ads pp. With a frontispiece to each volume ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf marbled boards newly rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered label. A very good copy if a little aged -- early manuscript note loosely inserted about the Portland Vase copied from the Morning Chronicle c. 1796. § Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado plate. At page 87 appears the enigmatic circular image of an African man in chains titled "Am I not a man and a brother." Bentley 450B and C. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. unknown books
réf. 121283London Jonathan Cape 1989. . First edition first impression inscribed by the author on the upper free endpaper 'Sammy Love Roald Dahl'; 4to 255 x 20 mm0; illustrations by Sir Quentin Blake offsetting from Dahl's inscription of upper pastedown and jacket flap otherwise internally bright and near-fine; publisher's boards pictorial dust-jacket just a hint of fading to the spine otherwise a near-fine copy. A signed first edition of this gleefully malevolent plundering of traditional nursery rhymes a 'wonderful addition to the literature of the absurd.' Errington A9a London, Jonathan Cape, 1989. hardcover
1978réf. C86295Putnam. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 492 pages; 765 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Graphic Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1978. 0399121528 . Putnam hardcover
1806réf. 1087511806. London: Richard Phillips 1806. 8vo xxiv 270 ii publisher's booklistpp. with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. The artist and playwright Prince Hoare had been appointed honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1799. In this call-to-arms he argues for the importance of the Arts to a nation's prestige and morals the role of the Royal Academy the peculiar genius of English artists and the need for public patronage. unknown
1803réf. 1241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise 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 by Maria Flaxman. Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown
1803réf. 1044001803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pp. 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 BB 471A. Essick CBI 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.". unknown
1886réf. 1228871886. London: Quaritch 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper unprinted. In a fine decorative marbled calf binding by de Coverley. § Limited to 50 copies facsimilied by Muir E. Druitt H.T. Muir and J.D. Watts. This copy originally numbered copy 26 and signed by Muir Muir has crossed out "26" and written "Saturday Review." Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Bentley BB 249 G. unknown
1886réf. 302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown
1886réf. 302993London: Quaritch 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Some splitting and marginal chipping internally fine. Brown morocco backed folding case. No. 40 of 50 copies signed by Muir. William Muir facsimile. 23 plates including Preface and title all hand colored save for the final plate On Homer's Poetry. 1 vols. 4to. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." The last leaf of the facsimile is the single page On Homer's Poetry. Bentley Blake Books 249g Quaritch unknown books
1886réf. 1228871886. London: Quaritch 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper unprinted. In a fine decorative marbled calf binding by de Coverley. § Limited to 50 copies facsimilied by Muir E. Druitt H.T. Muir and J.D. Watts. This copy originally numbered copy 26 and signed by Muir Muir has crossed out "26" and written "Saturday Review." Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Bentley BB 249 G. unknown books
1803réf. 1241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise 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 by Maria Flaxman. Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown books
1803réf. 1044001803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pp. 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 BB 471A. Essick CBI 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.". unknown books
1806réf. 1087511806. London: Richard Phillips 1806. 8vo xxiv 270 ii publisher's booklistpp. with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition a very scarce book especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare an early owner on the title page and other pages. Bentley Blake Books 474. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLVIII. The artist and playwright Prince Hoare had been appointed honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1799. In this call-to-arms he argues for the importance of the Arts to a nation's prestige and morals the role of the Royal Academy the peculiar genius of English artists and the need for public patronage. unknown books
