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1893réf. 1271871893. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. roy. 8vo I xvi 420 portrait frontispiece and a folding table at p.280; printed errata to all three volumes loosely inserted in vol. 1 II vi 435 frontispiece life cast of Blake's head folding table at p.8; III ix 99 frontispiece portrait "Blake by his wife"; followed by facsimiles. Original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers. A very good copy restored by Coriander Reisbord. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. unknown books
1893réf. 375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance." Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown books
1884réf. 55357Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1884. Very good. First edition of this posthumous selection from Thoreau's journal aptly following the theme of the season. Transcendentalist Thoreau idealizes one of the most powerful strains of the American spirit a "spiritual seeker philosopher and poet . who encouraged his readers to try the experiment of life for themselves" Walls xiii. Independent-minded and a committed naturalist his writing have had an enormous impact on popular American environmentalism. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Black coated endpapers top edge gilt. Illustrated with double-page map of Concord. Publisher's ads at fore and rear. 2 vi 382 16 pages. Early Connecticut bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Moderate spotting and wear to binding. Faint tidemark to margin of last few leaves else clean. Tight. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
1805réf. 1277681805. BLAKE William HAYLEY William. Ballads founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. London: Richard Phillips 1805. Octavo early 20th-century full blue morocco raised bands elaborately gilt-decorated spine top edge gilt uncut. $6000.Expanded second editionÑthe only obtainable editionÑof this poetry collection with five engravings by William Blake handsomely bound by Bedford.""These Ballads were originally intended to have been issued separately in fifteen quarto parts with numerous illustrations by Blake and for the benefit of the artist. Four parts were issued in 1802 but the series did not meet with success and was discontinued. Later it was arranged to issue them in the present again for Blake's benefit"" Keynes. This 1805 edition is an expanded version with additional poems of the extremely rare 1802 first edition which last appeared at auction 70 years ago. Blake reengraved the first three plates and added two more to illustrated the additional poems. The first three plates are in first state. Easson & Essick 41-44. Bookplates.Fine condition. hardcover books
1956réf. 2350357Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10x9x1. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket. 1/2 inch closed jacket tear jacket lightly toned otherwise minimal wear. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1956 Hard Cover. xiv 432 pp. Black-and-white photographs including Vincent Place Bridge 1890; East Main Street from Four Corners 1892; East Main Street looking west after removal of telephone poles 1899; Ontario Beach Park 1890's; Dreamland at Glen Haven 1890's; University of Rochester Football Squad 1897; Beach Scene 1900's; Wednesday Morning Club April 1898 members listed in caption; Close-up view of Otis Arch; Dedication of Civil War Memorial in Washington Square; Mayor James G. Cutler; Joseph T. Alling; Four Political Leaders George W. Aldridge William Craig Hiram H. Edgerton James Hotchkiss; Dr. Algernon Crapsey; Clinton N. Howard; Walter Rauschenbusch; Dr. Paul Moore Strayer; Traffic control at Four Corners about 1908 horses and buggies; Fire Parade 1909; Fire Engine in Snow Storm; Sibley Fire February 26-27 1904; Mr. Eastman at office desk; Solio printing at Eastman Kodak Company; 'Col.' Strong at his desk in Eastman Kodak office; President Rush Rhees; Bishop Thomas F. Hickey; Mrs. Helen B. Montgomery; Miss Susan B. Anthony; Augustus H. Strong; David Jayne Hill; Mrs. Mary T. Gannett; Mrs. Mary D. Mulligan; Labor Day Parade 1910; Rochester Day Parade Exposition Week 1908; View of Civic Center Plan at West Main and Broad Streets; Rattlesnake Pete's Museum; Flying Circus at Crittenden Park Field 1910; Hope Hospital 1902; Fourth of July 1918; Supervisors' Picnic 1910; Voting Machine Demonstration in High School early 1900s; Selden Patient Demonstration in New York 1906; Rochester Street Scene 1910; Joseph O'Connor; Louis M. Antisdale; Ernest R. Willard; Frank Gannett; Edward Bausch; Carl F. Lomb; Jeremiah Hickey; William Gleason; University of Rochester Commencement Procession; Thanksgiving Baskets Ready to Go; Dossenbach's Rochester Orchestra 1912; Isaac Adler; Edwin F. Fisher; Leroy E. Snyder; Dr. George Goler; Mr. and Mrs. Alf Klingenberg; George Herdle; George Eastman at Home; Suffragettes Honor Miss Anthony's Grave; Suffragette Parade on Main Street; Page of Cuts Showing Growth of Eastman Factories 1883-1914. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1839réf. 368615London: W. Pickering . and W. Newbery 1839. First letterpress edition issue without "The Little Vagabond. xxi iii 74 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green morocco gilt. Fine copy. Circular gilt vellum label of William Twopeny. First letterpress edition issue without "The Little Vagabond". xxi iii 74 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first letterpress edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience preceded only by the small number of copies of the illuminated first edition engraved and colored by Blake. With a laudatory Preface by the Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson 1812-99 who edited and arranged the present volume for publication. Wilkinson worked from Charles Augustus Tulk's copy of the illuminated first edition c.1795-1807; Tulk had previously lent his copy to Coleridge. The work appears in two issues with or without a poem entitled "The Little Vagabound" at page 71 which was supposedly canceled by the editor out of prudishness. No priority has been established Both issues appear with about equal frequency which is to say not often. Keynes 135; Bentley & Nurmi 161B; Bentley Blake Books 171 W. Pickering ... and W. Newbery unknown books
1981réf. 52490London: Jonathan Cape 1981. First printing. Near fine. Uncorrected proofs for the first edition of this Dahl novella in which a boy whips up a heinous concoction of household "ingredients" to pacify his cantankerous grandmother. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original dark orange printed wrappers with provisional price £4.50 and date of publication "May 7 1981". Illustrated throughout in black and white. 96 pages. Wrappers with light wear slight bump at spine head. Jonathan Cape unknown books
1944réf. 49490New York: Simon & Schuster 1944. Very good plus. Lovely vintage copy sixth printing of this colorful ABC book one of the earliest titles in the Little Golden Books series. 8'' x 6.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. 42 pages. Early owner name to inner front board. Binding with light edgewear a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. Leaves with a bit of bumping to corners. Clean. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1994réf. 48491New York: Morrow Junior Books 1994. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this collection of lullabies and sleepy time poems with an exceptional original drawing of a fairy child admiring a butterfly. Michael Hague's detailed art is very much in the aesthetic tradition of Golden Age artists like Howard Pyle and Arthur Rackham. His illustrations for collections of classic stories make his art a touchstone of many childhoods. 12'' x 8.75''. Original blue cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped $18.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 80 pages. Inscribed by Hague to title page with original drawing of a child with antennae looking at a butterfly. Jacket with a hint of bumping to spine ends. Bright. Morrow Junior Books unknown books
1890réf. 323142London: Reproduced in facsimile by W. Briggs 1890. One of 50 copies. Facsimile of London 1783 edition. 70 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Morocco spine and boards spine perished. One of 50 copies. Facsimile of London 1783 edition. 70 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. After the extremely rare 1783 edition only 23 copies are traced by Bentley several of these imperfect which was distributed by Blake to friends. Bentley 129; Keynes 26 note Reproduced in facsimile by W. Briggs unknown books
1931réf. 44986Springfield MA: The Linweave Association 1931. First edition. Very good plus. Luxurious compilation of fine printing and illustration samples demonstrating the quality of Linweave papers. Collection of ten Linweave Limited Editions originally distributed as individual mailings sent to publishers and printers to highlight the rich possibilities of Linweave Papers for fine press printing and presented here as a bound compilation of "present-day American printing at its best". Selections include works by Daniel Chase illustrated by John Burlin; Po Chu-i illustrated by Victor Helleu; William Blake illustrated by Theodore Ross; Samuel Taylor Coleridge illustrated by Uriel; Robert Southey illustrated by Paul Hesse; Leigh Hunt illustrated by Jack Perkins; Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Carolyn Edmundson; and Ernest Dowson illustrated by Jefferson Clark. 12'' x 9''. Original quarter green cloth with pale green boards. Pale green endpapers. Sunning to spine and edges; light scuffing and touches of soil to boards. Occasional smudges to page margins. The Linweave Association unknown books
1925réf. 326742London: Nonesuch Press 1925. Copy No. 124 of 1500 sets. Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville 1823 and 59 collotype plates. xvii 364 1; vii 397 ;vii 429 pp. 3 vols. 4to. Quarter parchment and marbled boards. Spine with minor soiling some toning to endsheets. Very good. Blake William. Copy No. 124 of 1500 sets. Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville 1823 and 59 collotype plates. xvii 364 1; vii 397 ;vii 429 pp. 3 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 24 Nonesuch Press unknown books
1927réf. 300827London: Nonesuch Press 1927. First edition Number 1102 of 1500 copies of the Writings and #820 of the Life. Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville 1823 and 59 collotype plates. xvii 364 1 ; vii 397 ; vii 429 pp. Text set in Monotype Baskerville and printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade Vidalo LIFE: xv i 397 1 pp. 3 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown calf minor rubbing. Blake William. First edition Number 1102 of 1500 copies of the Writings and #820 of the Life. Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville 1823 and 59 collotype plates. xvii 364 1 ; vii 397 ; vii 429 pp. Text set in Monotype Baskerville and printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade Vidalo LIFE: xv i 397 1 pp. 3 vols. 4to. With addendum to the Life. 4 pp. Dreyfus 24 Nonesuch Press unknown books
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
réf. 1228841983. Manchester: Manchester Etching Workshop 1983. 4to 16 hand coloured and one uncoloured facsimile plates each mounted on brown card in a full brown morocco 3-part folding binding with gilt embossed replicas of the "Innocence" and "Experience" title pages as decorations on two of the covers. Fine as issued all in a deep brown cloth folding box. § The colored facsimile volume only as issued. De luxe issue of the limited edition of 40 copies this being #V of V i.e. five copies with an extra plate "Infant Sorrow". Accompanied by Joseph Viscomi's " The Art Of William Blake's Illuminated Prints" as part of the edition but this limited to 200 copies. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 135. Essick Blake Quarterly Summer 1985: "In many ways one of the most accurate facsimiles ever published and beyond question the most accurate hand-colored reproduction of plates from an illuminated book. To my eyes it is also one of the two or three most beautiful facsimiles when considered as a work of graphic art". In this set is a letter from the printer Paul Ritchie stating that there were only five copies thus 4 went to people on the project and this copy to L.G. Bell the late collector of editions of Blake's "Songs unknown books
1930réf. 310071San Francisco: Book Club of California 1930. No 10 of 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press. Decoration by Julian A. Links. 22 pp. 12mo. Original full vellum lettered in gilt paper slipcase with label. Vellum and slipcase a touch toned faint browning to folds of letter. Housed with letter in quarter morocco clamshell box. Links Julian A. No 10 of 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press. Decoration by Julian A. Links. 22 pp. 12mo. With a typed letter signed of Rockwell Kent to Oscar Lewis secretary of the Book Club of California voicing his strong displeasure with the illustrations by Julian Links for this edition. Dated May 13 1930 the letter reads in part: "I am glad that I took the trouble to call the matter to your attention for my complaint does put you in the position of calling the printers to account for what is unquestionably a breach of professional ethics. I am sorry that it is not the policy of the Book Club to supervise more carefully the production of the books that appear within its imprint. I feel the book of Thel irrespective of the plagiarism involved in the illustrations has been very badly illustrated Book Club of California unknown books
1927réf. 1104431927. London: Quaritch 1927. 2 vols 4to 28 and 22 hand-colored plates plus 4 more hand-colored plates and one plate colored in brown only; original printed wrappers as issued. Bookplate of Raymond and Pamela Lister. In a green cloth slipcase. § The second Muir facsimiles of these titles both inscribed by Muir "For Review." Proof copies without the printed material added to the wrappers and with inscriptions on both upper wrappers by Muir signed by him. About 50 copies were printed. The coloring is exceptionally bright and clear in these early copies. They were "facsimiled by Joseph Patrick Trumble Sophia Elizabeth Muir and William Muir from the Beaconsfield Originals in the British Museum with in Experience as an appendix 4 plates from the other British Museum copy. Also one plate for which no colouring is known 'A Divine Image' which seems to belong to the Songs although not included in them by Blake." Bentley Blake Books 162 Innocence and 144 Experience. unknown books
1824réf. 212463Warwick 1824. VG. unknown books
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
1817réf. 2124581817. Royal 8vo. Minor splits. Royal 8vo. "Education will be very useful to us in all our business through life-and if we have not an education we shall feel very unhappy." My sentiments exactly. 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
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
1885réf. 303029Edmonton 1885. No. 39 of 50 copies on Hodgkinson wove paper. William Muir facsimile. Preface and 11 hand-colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. Full dark green levant preserving wrappers with an unrecorded folding announcement from Muir bound in at front. No. 39 of 50 copies on Hodgkinson wove paper. William Muir facsimile. Preface and 11 hand-colored plates. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley 249c unknown books
1886réf. 302951London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1886. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. Blake plate folded fine. Volume bound in contmporary quarter brown morocco and cloth marbled endsheets t.e.g. Minor rubbing to joints. Very good. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. First volume of the Hobby Horse publication of the influential Century Guild. Notable for the fine facsimile of the rare Blake broadside Little Tom the Sailor. The ballad is by William Hayley and in the autumn of 1800 Blake engraved the two images on pewter. The broadside was "Printed for & Sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the benefit of her orphans". The facsimile is uncredited but is by William Muir. Bentley 407b Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co unknown books
1885réf. 303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Bentley 249b unknown books
