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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
1969réf. 1089361969. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland 1969. 8vo 34pp 129 exhibits listed with 2 illustrations. Near fine in wrappers. § Bentley Blake Books 699. unknown books
1926réf. 1087901926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Bentley BB 132. unknown books
2000réf. 1091242000. London: The Blake Society 2000 - 2017. From 2008 to 2017 there are 10 color illustrated annual programmes the later versions with several high quality color reproductions of Blake's designs- usually 4 per programme. There are further miscellanea containing details of events and several occasional lecture texts and articles on Blake's work produced by Members. All in very good or as new condition. §. unknown books
1949réf. 1089231949. Bournemouth: Bournemouth Arts Club 1949. 8vo 12pp with decorated card wrappers printed in red and black. Very good with rear cover slightly dusted. § From the inside rear cover of the catalogue it appears the compiler was Kerrison Preston. Bentley BB 658. unknown books
1947réf. 1089121947. London: Tate Gallery 1947. 8vo 40 pp with 24 illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good with slight wear and small marks to wrappers. § Bentley BB 657A. unknown books
1957réf. 1091121957. London: British Museum 1957. Slim folio 32 pp.Mimeographed typescript catalogue typed double-sided good in wrappers staple bound with no spine ; lightly browned at edges. § This extremely scarce pamphlet is a most useful and fascinating catalogue of an extraordinary exhibition at the BM; there are over 100 entries and the exhibition in addition to showing all the treasures of the BM was augmented with many items loaned by Geoffrey Keynes. The catalogue is a typescript reproduced on cheap paper and few copies can have survived. Bentley BB 680. unknown books
2015réf. 1091402015. London: Tate Gallery 2015. Square 4to 12 pp color illustrated calendar for wall hanging - overall size 30 x 30 cm. With 12 good quality colored designs by Blake from the Tate's holdings mainly from the Large Designs or paintings each 28 x 20.5 cm. As new . Staple bound with repeat of the " Newton" design to cover with hole cut for pinning to wall in each right hand margin. §. 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
1784réf. 1087601784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins folded as usual. A little soiled but a good strong impression. § One of five plates Blake engraved for The Wit's Magazine. Bentley BB 513 Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XIV pp 36-38. unknown books
1806réf. 1087301806. London: J Johnson 1806. 2 vols. 4to xviii 423 4 index and plate list; iv 419 6 index and plate list pp with 40 hand-coloured plates in both vol I and vol II as called for plus hand-coloured title page to vol I and coloured vignette to both volumes. 16 of the plates and the two title page vignettes are by Blake. Contemporary diamond calf with gilt rules and decoration including to spine with general light wear the front cover of vol I rehinged; internally good some offsetting and spotting to reverse of a few plates occasional mild foxing to margins but generally a good clean copy. § Second edition revised and enlarged very scarce colored. Stedman's account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana 1772-1777 with 40 hand-colored plates 16 by William Blake. A best-seller in its day and translated many times Stedman's narrative was an important resource for the abolitionist movement across Europe even though Stedman himself was not straightforwardly anti-slavery. Stedman based the text on personal diaries he kept on his travels now held by the University of Minnesota albeit with his numerous accounts of sexual liaisons with free and enslaved women reduced and romaticised. Essick writes that "Stedman's narrative of the brutalities of slavery very probably influenced Blake's own anti-slavery position"; Blake's graphic illustrations of abused slaves infused with human dignity undoubtedly influenced the reading public and advanced the abolitionist's cause. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXXIII. Bentley Blake Books 499. unknown books
1939réf. 3433glLondon: Cassell and Company Limited 1939. Octavo blue cloth hardcover 237 pp. Very Good with light sunning to spine and former-owner bookplate; in a Good dust jacket with rubbing to edges. Cassell and Company Limited, (1939). hardcover books
1991réf. 4104bdNewton Abbot: David & Charles 1991. First Edition. The first color plate depicting a de Haviland DH bears the inscription “my favorite” and is signed by the artist. Oblong folio brown cloth hardcover 96 pp. Seventy-five color illustrations mostly full page plates numerous black & white sketches. Fine former-owner bookplate in dust jacket. David & Charles, (1991). First Edition. hardcover books
1957réf. 1091901957. Washington: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution 1957. Small 4to 46pp. Color illustration on front cover plus 21 plates in black and white. Yellow printed wrappers chipping to spine. Some sun-fading. Very good. § Bentley Blake Books 674. unknown books
1813réf. 1092141813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown books
1793réf. 1092201793. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. in one royal 8vo xi 225; vii 1871 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Old calf rebacked lower cover rehinged scuffed and untidy internally very good without the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake's plates. The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he was responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long "s" throughout and the second does not. Bentley BB 460A. Essick CBI XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. unknown books
1813réf. 1092031813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown books
1813réf. 1092061813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition this is one of the most famous plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown books
1947réf. 1091771947. New York: United Book Guild 1947. 8vo 8; Half-titlewith colour frontispiece of Thiralatha from "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" tipped-in Title page and 3pp foreword by Ruthen Todd 18 pp : lithographs in dark green ink printed on yellow paper. Very good in quarter red cloth over black boards with a further colour plate tipped onto the front cover. The "A" issue of this edition preferable to the "B" edition without the foreword and publication imprint. § An odd reproduction printed on yellow paper with a color plate from 'Visions' on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley Blake Books 8A. unknown books
1951réf. 1091861951. London: Trianon Press 1951 and London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust 1954. Small 4to 116 text errata 100 facsimile pp. and Small 4to xv 264 pp. Both vols. in original orange cloth with gilt lettering and dust jackets a bit worn. § Jerusalem: 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy a black-and-white version published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. Bently Blake Books 79. Commentary: First edition 1500 copies printed. This commentary was intended to go with the full-scale color facsimile and this black-and-white Rinder facsimile. Bentley Blake Books 2961. unknown books
1939réf. 1091871939. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1939. 4to xix 175 pp with numerous illustrations of the 280 exhibits drawn from across the US. Frontispiece portrait illustrated paper wrappers virtually as new. § One of the first great Blake shows entirely drawn from American collections. Bentley Blake Books 647: "one of the most important Blake exhibitions.". unknown books
1813réf. 1092071813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435D. unknown books
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
réf. 1077171972. London: Trianon Press 1972. Folio with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake's pencillings and the tone of the paper. Original sheets marbled boards morocco backstrip lettered in giltquarter brown morocco box. § Edition limited to 518 copies in all including 100 copies for Paul Mellon personally of which 12 copies were a super de luxe issue in three volumes with extra material 36 copies were a de luxe issue also with extra material but in sheets unbound18 copies were hors commerce contents unrecorded and 352 copies either bound in 3 volumes in slipcases or as a single set of the loose sheets in a box. This is copy 387. The 116 water-color illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems are among Blake's major achievements as an illustrator. They were commissioned in 1797 by Blake's friend the sculptor John Flaxman as a gift for his wife Ann to whom Blake addressed the poem that ends the series. The commission may have been inspired by the Flaxmans' seeing Blake's water-color designs to Edward Young's Night Thoughts begun in 1795. The Gray illustrations follow the same basic format. Blake cut windows in large sheets of the same type of Whatman paper used for the Night Thoughts illustrations and mounted in these windows the texts of Gray's poems from a 1790 octavo edition published by John Murray leaving out some prefatory materials fly-titles the notes and the 7 engraved illustrations. Blake then drew and colored his designs surrounding the letterpress texts. On blank versos near the beginning of each poem and in one case on a separate piece of paper pasted over letterpress text Blake inscribed with pen and ink either titles for each design or quotations from the poem to indicate the passage illustrated. On most text pages Blake also drew a pencil cross left of the first line of the illustrated passage. He numbered most leaves consecutively in pen and ink beginning a new sequence for each of the 13 poems. Blake conceived of his work as an illustrated book rather than a series of unbound designs as indicated by his offsetting Gray's texts above and to the right left on versos from the middle of each leaf-then the convention for all letterpress books. Although listed by William Michael Rossetti in his catalogue of Blake's drawings and paintings published in the 1863 and 1880 editions of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake the Gray illustrations were virtually unknown until their rediscovery by Herbert Grierson in 1919. The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest examples of the art of facsimile reproduction; working from the originals in Paul Mellon's collection each leaf is faithfully hand-colored through stencils to achieve an astonishing exactitude. The Times Literary Supplement stated that nothing like these books had ever been printed before and that it was highly unlikely that they could be printed again. Bentley Blake Books 385. unknown books
1819réf. 1072821819. London: Longman Rees Orme et al. 1819-20. Miscellany plate XVIII single plate small fold to left upper corner very clean very good condition. § First edition. unknown books
