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1805réf. 1079151805. London: C. and J. Rivington 1805. 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodsley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare's plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli's major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed "the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegant." Bentley 498. Essick CBI XLVII. unknown
1805réf. 1079151805. London: C. and J. Rivington 1805. 10 volumes royal 8vo with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle Cromek Rhodes Dodsley and two by William Blake. Original calf rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip also rather worn. Volume 1 has some cracking to spine. Some spotting. Volume 1 has one minor worm hole on the lower margin the goes through a number of pages to the rear pastedown. Volume 3 has a small worm hole that goes through the entire lower margin of the book and becomes two holes that continues to the back pastedown. Volume 9 has some minimal worming at the rear pastedown. The text in all volumes is unaffected. Volumes 1 and 3 have a few untrimmed pages. Each volume has a bookplate from the previous owner Henry Frederick Thistlethwayte at front. Volume 1 is inscribed with a note from Thistlethwayte to his son Alfred. The plates are fine impressions. § Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare's plays save only the elephant-folio Boydell. This was one of Fuseli's major projects as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich and in this edition well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book. Vol. VII for King Henry VIII and vol. X for Romeo and Juliet. There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but as Bentley observed "the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegant." Bentley 498. Essick CBI XLVII. unknown books
1956réf. C93589Emery Walker. 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 - -- 86 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- 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 . 1956. Emery Walker hardcover
1886réf. 184113London: privately printed 1886. God becomes as we are that we may be as he is One of the rarest Blake facsimiles especially so in the original wrappers one of 50 hand-coloured large paper copies. Blake wrote these aphorisms in 1788 and printed them in the 1790s shortly after his invention of "illuminated printing". This edition was published the same year as William Muir's facsimile; no priority between the two editions has been established. Octavo. 12 illustrated plates printed in reddish brown 9 tinted by hand in black 3 in colour all loose as issued. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Wrappers bright extremities of rear wrap toned one small nick a few marks to plates not affecting impressions; an excellent copy. Keynes 218; not in Bentley. unknown
1986réf. C86296Thames & Hudson. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 494 pages; many 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 . 1986. 0500274088 . Thames & Hudson paperback
1925réf. 2091202133213191Nonesuch Press 1925. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 books in total Nonesuch Press paperback
1880réf. 323501London: Macmillan 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth both volumes fine. The Henry Buxton Forman copy with his bookplate. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist 1863 and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings. G.E.Bentley Blake Book 1680B; H. Buxton Forman 59 Macmillan unknown
1880réf. 323501London: Macmillan 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth both volumes fine. The Henry Buxton Forman copy with his bookplate. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. Plates Portraits and Facsimiles. xxi 2 1-431; ix 4 1-383 pp. Printed by R. Clay. 2 vols. 8vo. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist 1863 and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings. G.E.Bentley Blake Book 1680B; H. Buxton Forman 59 Macmillan unknown books
1863réf. 140947684London: Macmillan and Co 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. xiv 2 389 1; viii 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Front hinges starting front joints starting at head of spine L-shaped split to top of rear joint of Volume I advancing across the spine panel and Volume II binding exposed at page 268. The binding by Burn & Co. their ticket to Volume II back pastedown is an unusually attractive example of High Victorian design and the gilt remains bright against the maroon cloth. Alexander Gilchrist's biography and selected works of William Blake established Blake's place in the Western canon and remains a standard reference work. The artist and poet a peripheral figure at the time of his death in 1827 was taken up by the pre-Raphaelites several of whom completed the second volume of Gilchrist's work after he died suddenly of a fever. Chief among the secondary authors was Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had purchased Blake's annotated sketchbook at the age of nineteen and added his own pages. An important work with a powerful influence on the art and literature of the late 19th century. Macmillan and Co unknown
1863réf. 140947684London: Macmillan and Co 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. xiv 2 389 1; viii 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Front hinges starting front joints starting at head of spine L-shaped split to top of rear joint of Volume I advancing across the spine panel and Volume II binding exposed at page 268. The binding by Burn & Co. their ticket to Volume II back pastedown is an unusually attractive example of High Victorian design and the gilt remains bright against the maroon cloth. Alexander Gilchrist's biography and selected works of William Blake established Blake's place in the Western canon and remains a standard reference work. The artist and poet a peripheral figure at the time of his death in 1827 was taken up by the pre-Raphaelites several of whom completed the second volume of Gilchrist's work after he died suddenly of a fever. Chief among the secondary authors was Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had purchased Blake's annotated sketchbook at the age of nineteen and added his own pages. An important work with a powerful influence on the art and literature of the late 19th century. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1808réf. 22141London: Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek 1808. First quarto edition. Original endpapers retained along with some provenance thereby. Edges trimmed not by Dusel! to 34.4 x 27 cm. A few finger smudges to text and to margins of a couple plates plate marked for page 21 out-of-place at page 23 and with some rubbing to plate caption. . Complete with 13 plates including portrait plate of Blake by Schiavonetti after the painting by T. Phillips and engraved title page: 2 fl. xvi 36 4 pp. 11 plates inserted in main text. New binding by Phillip Dusel of half red morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of Ferdinand Meath McVeagh 1789-1888 of Drewstown County Meath Ireland and period Post Office / Bookseller / Stationer's ticket to front pastedown. A very handsome and clean copy in a very tasteful modern fine binding in period style. Bentley 435-B. Printed by T. Bensley for RH Cromek hardcover
réf. 13275Brooklyn NY 1979. Near fine. Single sheet of Blake's stationery bearing his address in Brooklyn and printed with a lengthy list of songs and productions in which he played a role in composing. Letter in near fine condition with flattened mailing folds. Original torn mailing envelope retained with Vaughan's address in Hidden Hills CA written in Blake's hand and with a number of seemingly unrelated ink notations to verso. Autograph letter of more than 30 lines including postscript profusely apologizing to legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan for a remark he made to her along the lines of "when are you going to learn how to sing" The letter reads in full slightly edited for clarity: Dear Sarah I'm writing this letter to you and I'm trembling with fear. I shall never again joke with an artist any more. When I said to you "when are you going to learn how to sing" I was joking. I'm very very sorry that you took my joking as a Slander sic. I've told so many of your friends speaking you Lottie Gee. You both had you have got 2 ranges. I know another artist who had two voices. Anyhow you have it and you know when how to use it. So when I joked to you you knowing that I was a musician I was joking. Please for goodness sake don't think that I'm that dumb to ridicule your singing. No. No. No. Please. One of your friends said to me to send you my song "Memories of You." Now I'm afraid to send it to you. Any how whether you believe me or not I love your style of singing and please tell your husband I was only joking. Sincerely Eubie Blake. P. P. I have two numbers I'd like to send you--"Memories of You" and "Calling Romance." E. B." Blake lived a long life and had a long and successful career in jazz from the Ragtime era all the way into the postwar period of free jazz and experimentation. He is perhaps best remembered as the co-composer with frequent collaborator Noble Sissle of the hit 1921 musical "Shuffle Along." Blake was generous with his autograph and his long career in performance afforded him countless opportunities to give it. However we've never encountered such a revealing and heartfelt letter; much less to such a significant fellow jazz figure. The final request--that Vaughan pass along the apology to her husband--is in the opinion of this cataloguer an example of the kind of soft misogyny that could plague even some of the most accomplished women in the performing arts. unknown
1940réf. 49645London: The Crime Club 1940. 1940. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; reddish-orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 111-284 3 pp ads. A few very faint spots to upper right corner of front cover hint of foxing to text edges else clean internally; else a near fine bright copy in dustjacket with a jagged price-clip and remnant of a publishers' price sticker at lower front flap; gentle sunning to orange portions of spine with a few pinpoint rubbed spots. A sharp copy of the sixth novel featuring Oxford-educated private detective Nigel Strangeways. The story is set in a holiday camp called Wonderland which promises leisure activities and outdoor fun for the whole family until a series of sinister pranks by a character called the "Mad Hatter" culminate in murder. Along with A Question of Proof 1935 the scarcest of Cecil Day-Lewis's pseudonymous detective novels. An exceptional copy. The Crime Club, [1940]. hardcover
réf. 116223The Trianon Press. Leather. Very Good. 0x0x0. Number 336 of 526 copies. Collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil some heightened with gold original Morrocco with marbled board-slipcase 8vo Trianon Press 1955. Spine sun faded. Tight and unmarked looks unread. Please email for photos. The Trianon Press hardcover
1886réf. 1085321886. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but Essick notes: "According to Blake Books Supplement page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early "bogus" or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi." The. unknown
1886réf. 1085321886. London: Pickering & Co. 1886. Small slim 4to printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere dark green glazed endpapers backstrip lettered in gilt lower cover rehinged. § Large-paper copy privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles and only in the large-paper edition very well executed the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights. Not in Bentley but Essick notes: "According to Blake Books Supplement page 140 the plates reproduced are the same as those in the Muir facsimile of 1886 apparently from copies A L and perhaps H. However Joseph Viscomi Blake and the Idea of the Book pp. 205 212-13 demonstrates that most of the plates a1 a2 a4 a8 a9 b3 b4 b12 in this Pickering facsimile were based on copy I one of the early "bogus" or facsimile copies now in the Morgan Library. The remaining plates a2 a5 a6 a7 were probably based on copy D Harvard or copy G Morgan according to Viscomi." The. unknown books
1983réf. 5241New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Limited First American Edition of this now famous Roald Dahl classic. This is copy #31 of a limited run of 300 copies. This copy signed by both author Roald Dahl and longtime collaborator Quentin Blake. Housed in original bright yellow slipcase which has some wear and mild staining on back side. The book is in very good shape and carries a personal gift inscription on the FFEP from 1987 stating 'To Grant with love Mom'. Signed in felt marker by Dahl and Blake on limited edition page. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover
1808réf. 24820London: R.H. Cromek 1808. Marbled boards. Very Good. William Blake. The 1808 1st edition with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake at the frontispiece his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled boards and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" Bentley 435B. R.H. Cromek unknown
1808réf. 24820London: R.H. Cromek 1808. Marbled boards. Very Good. William Blake. The 1808 1st edition with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake at the frontispiece his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled boards and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" Bentley 435B. R.H. Cromek unknown books
1813réf. 1087331813. London: J. Johnson 1813. 4to 8 plates from the 1813 third edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm. § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro" "A Private Marine." "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys" "The Skinning of the Aboma Snake" " Family of Negro Slaves." The Skulls of Lieut. Leppar." "March Thro' a Swamp or Marsh in Terra-Firma" "The Celebrated Graman Quacy". Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXXIII p 71 - 75. unknown
1813réf. 1087331813. London: J. Johnson 1813. 4to 8 plates from the 1813 third edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm. § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro" "A Private Marine." "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys" "The Skinning of the Aboma Snake" " Family of Negro Slaves." The Skulls of Lieut. Leppar." "March Thro' a Swamp or Marsh in Terra-Firma" "The Celebrated Graman Quacy". Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXXIII p 71 - 75. unknown books
2000réf. 2262Guilford CT U.S.A.: Globe Pequot Press The. New. 2000. Hardcover. 1585741124 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - ISBN= 1585741124 -- with a bonus offer-- . Globe Pequot Press, The hardcover
2000réf. 2265Guilford CT U.S.A.: Globe Pequot Press The. New. 2000. Hardcover. 1585740578 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - ISBN# 1585740578 -- with a bonus offer-- . Globe Pequot Press, The hardcover
2000réf. 23508New York New York U.S.A.: Lyons Press. New. 2000. Hardcover. 1585740578 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer-- . Lyons Press hardcover
1789réf. 1602030019Printed for C. Cooke No. 17 Pater-Noster-Row 1789-1790. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings 17 single engraving plates 9 single leaf maps 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good front board detached. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout affecting a few plates tanning to margins a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827 affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn lacking almost half with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold tears; The Chart map maps of Africa North America Italy Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated presumed to be the 2nd edition printed 1789-1790 1787-1788 was the 1st ed. This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific Cook's voyages and Australia New Holland. ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. Contents: 5-106 Book I New Discoveries 107-314 Book II Asia 315-460 Book III Africa 461-576 Book IV America 577-944 Book V Europe 944-947 Supplement 947-948 Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation 949-953 A General Table of Coins 954-959 A New Geographical Table 960 The Superficial Contents of the Globe 961-980 A Guide to Geography 981-990 Index 2 pp. Directions to the Binder 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830 p. 242. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row hardcover
