1944Best.-Nr. 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
1839Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 775261970. Blake John Ballard. Safeguarding the Public: Historical Aspects of Medicinal Drug Control. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press 1970. xi 200 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $25. Contents: European Backgrounds; Scientific Backgrounds; Private Professional Controls; Federal Regulation. unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 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
1817Best.-Nr. 745791817. 2 titles in 1. 2 titles in 1. High-Stakes 1817 Irish Scandal: A Scarce Pair of "Crim. Con." Pamphlets Defended by Distinguished Anglo-Irish Barrister Phillips Trial. Blake Martin Joseph Defendant. Crim. Con. A Full Faithful & Impartial Report of that Curious Extraordinary and Interesting Trial with Speeches of Counsel and Judge's Charge In the Case Wherein Mark Browne Esq. Was Plaintiff and Martin Jos. Blake Esq. Defendant In an Action of Damages for Crim. Con. With the Plaintiff's Wife. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas Dublin On the 9th and 10th Days of July 1817 Before the Right Honorable Lord Norbury and a Special Jury of the City of Dublin; Damages laid at 30000. Dublin: Printed by J. Charles 1817. 48 pp. Bound with Phillips Charles 1787-1859. The Speech of Charles Phillips Esq. In the Case of Brown Versus Blake for Adultery; Delivered Before Lord Norbury and a Special Jury on the 9th July 1817. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia Press Office For John Cumming 1817. 31 pp. Octavo 8" x 5"; 20.3 x 12.7cm. Two titles bound together. Stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Two vertical fold lines to front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in places early library stamps to head of page 3 of Crim. Con. verso of title page head of page 7 and verso of final leaf of Speech. A very good copy of two scarce Irish legal pieces. $450. Crim. Con.: First edition; Speech: only edition. A second edition of Crim. Con. was published shortly after in 1817. Although it was a typical adultery trial Browne v. Blake attracted a fair amount of attention because of the high-stakes damages sought 30000 and the fact that Blake's lawyer was Charles Phillips: a leading Anglo-Irish barrister. Phillips was renowned for his oratory and expertise with adultery cases. Phillips successfully secured a defense verdict. Both titles are scarce. OCLC locates 5 copies of Crim. Con. all first editions 1 in a North American law library LA County and no copies of Speech. Crim. Con.: British Museum Catalogue Compact Edition 3:582. unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 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
1931Best.-Nr. 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
1925Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1880Best.-Nr. 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
1810Best.-Nr. 1302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes. Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages. In Good Plus condition. Bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth. The majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering. Some chipping and rubbing to boards. Includes 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume two. Some foxing/spotting throughout. With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume one. shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book"; Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1824Best.-Nr. 212463Warwick 1824. VG. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1817Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 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
1791Best.-Nr. 43999London: J. Johnson 1791. Darwin Erasmus 1731-1802. The botanic garden: A poem in two parts . . . 4to. xii 214 126 2; 2 ix 197 1pp. General title-leaf misbound before title-leaf to Part II. 20 engraved plates including 5 by William Blake 1757-1827; 2 of the plates are after drawings by John Henry Fuseli 1741-1825. London: J. Johnson 1791. 275 x 207 mm. Half calf gilt marbled boards in period style. Minor foxing and offsetting small marginal stains on two or three plates not affecting the images marginal tears in signature S and one plate repaired but very good. First Edition of Part I; third edition of Part II containing two more plates than the first edition of 1789. Darwin's first major literary work and the chief source of his fame during his lifetime. "The Botanic Garden an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited 'to entertain and charm.' The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science . . . to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany . . . and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus'" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Botanic Garden is also important for the five plates in Vol. I engraved by William Blake: four engravings of the Portland vase and the "Fertilization of Egypt" after a design by Fuseli. Keynes Blake 103. King-Hele Erasmus Darwin pp. 97-119. . J. Johnson unknown books
1886Best.-Nr. 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
1885Best.-Nr. 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
1886Best.-Nr. 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
1885Best.-Nr. 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
1884Best.-Nr. 303028Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch 1884. Each title one of 50 copies. With 8 26 11 and 21 plates in the four works 66 total. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full white vellum gilt spine and upper cover titled in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Fine copy. Cloth slipcase. Each title one of 50 copies. With 8 26 11 and 21 plates in the four works 66 total. 1 vols. 4to. The Muir facsimiles were produced in editions of 50 copies; a few copies would have been bound up by Quaritch the distributor in white vellum as here. The wrappers are not preserved but the books are complete. Bentley 249 bce & g John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 300789London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. First Edition #1214 of 1550 copies. Illustrated with 82 drawings printed in callotype. 4 xvi 168 pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press on Fabriano paper. 1 vols. 4to. Half natural canvas and cream paper over boards. Fine with part of vegetable parchment dj laid in. First Edition #1214 of 1550 copies. Illustrated with 82 drawings printed in callotype. 4 xvi 168 pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press on Fabriano paper. 1 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 42 The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 264231London: The Trianon Press 1976. No. 80 of 380 numbered copies of an edition of 438 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Original beige cloth brown morocco spine. Fine. No. 80 of 380 numbered copies of an edition of 438 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Bentley Blake Books Supplement p. 81 The Trianon Press unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 262596Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd 1915. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth. Spine darkened extremities a trifle worn. With the stamp of ownership of F. Gray Griswold bookplate of John M. Schiff and another and bookseller's label of The Sporting Gallery. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. With Autograph Letter Signed from Blake to F. Gray Griswold dated May 21st 1923. The 5 pp. letter written on rectos only contains a long discussion and criticism of Griswold's Observations on a Salmon River. Bruns p. 55; Watters p. 604 The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd unknown books
