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1793réf. 1229111793. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. royal 8vo xi 225; vii 187 1 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf rebacked a bit scuffed and untidy but quite sound internally good despite 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. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is 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 Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. Note that in the list of subscribers there is a "Mr. Blake". Very few books are known to have been subscribed to by Blake. 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
1877réf. 1229001877. London: John Pearson 1877. Large 4to 100 plates printed in black and white with black framing lines. Original upper blue-gray wrapper backstrip and lower wrapper supplied text block untrimmed. § A wonderful facsimile of copy D now at Harvard limited to 100 copies per Bentley and Keynes but an old Quaritch catalogue stated 250 an unlikely number although a copy is recorded with the number "385" on the front wrapper. This copy numbered 5 on the upper cover. Bentley attributed the publication to Chatto but revised it to Pearson in his Blake Books Supplement. The Rinder copy reproduced by the Trianon Press is in a smaller format and this large quarto has a much more imposing and appealing presence and seems to be a better facsimile - certainly this copy is clearer and more striking than copy C. Bentley BB 76 and BBS p. 88. "Blake's final and longest epic in illuminated printing constitutes a recapitulation and summation of his multiple interests ranging from his own mythology to biblical history from sexuality to epistemology and from the Druids to Newton. The cast of characters is vast but Los the artist's imagination at work in the material world Jerusalem and Albion the female and male portions of divided humanity who must be reunited the nature goddess Vala and Jesus play major roles." The Blake Archive Blake made five copies of Jerusalem but only colored one. A suite of 25 plates was also colored by Blake and a few posthumous copies were printed in tints. The one-hundred plates of Jerusalem were etched in relief with many designs in white-line etching between c. 1804 the date on the title page and 1820. unknown books
1805réf. 1228731805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips 1805. Small 8vo 6 212 1 indexpp. with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Overall a clean and very pleasing copy in contemporary calf skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip and red label. Bookplate of Benjamin Dickinson ink signature of J.W. Dickinson dated Oct. 9th 1824 later bookplate of Walter Hirst. § First edition with plates 1-3 in the first state. An important book in the Blake canon being his second version of the Ballads after the extremely rare 1802 edition see above for the frontispiece. "For this 1805 volume Hayley added twelve ballads to the four first published in 1802. Blake engraved new plates of his designs for three of the 1802 ballads plates 1-3 and both designed and engraved new illustrations for two of the additional ballads plates 4-5. Blake and Phillips were to "go equal shares . . . in the expense and the profits" Blake's letter to Hayley of 22 January 1805 Erdman page 763. Robert Southey's mocking review of Hayley's poems and Blake's illustration to "The Dog" Plate 1 appeared in the Annual Review for 1805." Bentley BB 465. Easson and Essick WBBI Vol. I VIII. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 403-407. unknown books
réf. 110779N.p.: n.d. Single sheet 8 x 5 ins b/w engraving of a ship sinking signed "Blake sc.". § A print by the "wrong Blake" as Bentley described the various other Blakes who were artists or engravers roughly within Blake's lifetime. The ship sank in 1803; curiously a similar image but reversed and unsigned was found in Google images. unknown books
1813réf. 1107781813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate folio etching on wove unwatermarked paper good. § From the second folio edition. Bentley Blake Books 435. unknown books
1995réf. 1105021995. San Francisco: John Windle 1995-98-2001. 3 vols. 8vo 241 221 410 lots illustrated. Original wrappers as issued. § Three of the earliest catalogues devoted to Blake and his circle by Windle -- the latest catalogue available on request is # 65 and contains some 800 entries. unknown books
1780réf. 1106711780. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned margins foxed and chipped. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen's College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. unknown books
1780réf. 1106731780. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned and foxed. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen's College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. unknown books
1808réf. 1107441808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown books
1980réf. 1087921980. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980. 8vo xxviii 235 pp with 25 black and white plates and one text illustration. The third edition revised and amplified. Near fine in original black cloth and dust-jacket. § Third edition. Bentley BBS refers to this edition but does not include it see p.96n. unknown books
1990réf. 1091591990. London and other UK Locations: Various c 1990 - 2010. 25 items mainly single 8vo sheets or smaller invitation cards issued by The Tate Gallery The Blake Society The Termenos Academy UK Universities and Colleges and Publishers and various other organisations. All in very good or new condition. §. unknown books
1939réf. 1089011939. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1939. 4to xix 175 pp.Frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations of the 280 exhibits drawn from across the US. Very Good in original illustrated wrappers as issued with small chip to top of paper spine. § One of the first great Blake shows entirely drawn from American collections. Bentley BB 647: "one of the most important Blake exhibitions.". unknown books
1979réf. 1090331979. London: The Collector Ltd 1979. 8vo 176 pp. Very good in magenta wrappers. § There are 5 essays covering Blake and Palmer including those by Michael Phillips Sir Geoffrey Keynes Raymond Lister and Arnold Fawcus. unknown books
1794réf. 1087701794. London: J. Johnson 1794. Small 8vo viii 224 pp. with the frontispiece designed by Fuseli and engraved by Blake in the second state. Original calf worn at edges and corners both boards reattached spine worn with a small portion missing at top. Print block firm and clean with many aphorisms having a faint pencil cross or squiggle alongside. Frontispiece clear but with browning and slight spotting in the surrounding outer margins. § Third edition first printed in 1788 third state of the plate. The frontispiece is after a drawing by Fuseli see Essick Blake and His Contemporaries. 43 for the original drawing and is a powerful image. The text notes "End of Vol. I" but no further volumes appeared as a fire destroyed Lavater's manuscript at the printer. The Huntington Library has Blake's own copy extensively annotated throughout. Bentley BB 480. Essick and Easson 2 XXXII 1c. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XVIII. unknown books
1983réf. 1088541983. New York: Dover 1983. 4to 47pp with 35 colored illustrations. Near fine in original illustrated wrappers. Contains text version and brief commentary plus facsimiles of copy M of America and B G and K of Europe. § First Dover edition. Reproduces copy M of America and copies B G and K to create a 'complete' Europe; with very brief commentary and a complete transcription of the text. Not in Bentley. unknown books
1906réf. 1087871906. London: Chatto and Windus 1906. 2 vols. 8vo 1 publisher's announcement xxxiv including title page and tissue-guarded portrait of Blake re-engraved after Linnell's original portrait as previously engraved by Jeens for Gilchrist's "Life" 551; x including title and tissue-guarded frontispiece from "The Grave" 492 pp. Large- paper copy in brown buckram top edges gilt and paper labels to spines spare labels bound in at end. Very good clean copies with just light fading to spines a small chip to edge of label on vol. 1 and limited spotting to the end two or three pages of each volume. § First edition large-paper copy. The portrait frontispiece to vol. 1 is a reworking by an anonymous engraver of the Linnell portrait on ivory engraved by Jeens found in both editions of Gilchrist's "Life". See Keynes Complete Portraiture #27. Bentley BB 301. unknown books
1775réf. 1087571775. London: T. Payne 1775/1776. 3 vols 4to xx 516; 2 vi 535; viii 602 pp with 31 engravings on the 30 listed plates. A very good and attractive set in clean condition bound in original calf with gilt decorated rules to covers and gilt decoration to spine panels with six compartments and red and black labels. § Second edition of Vol. 1 and 2 1775 and only edition of Vol. 3 1796. The three maps are lacking. All other illustrations are present in good condition but including usual offsetting and a few showing minor mottling and browning. Plate XI stated in the List of Plates to be a Bartolozzi engraved plate designed by Cypriani from an original onyx Camaio by the Greek artist Tryphon is the correct plate although in fact it bears no plate No. and the imprint "G. B. Cipriani Del I.K. Sherwin Sculp." Although Bartolozzi normally signs his studio's plates J. K. Sherwin was an apprentice of Bartolozzi's and presumably was allowed to sign his engraving in this instance. The plate's design matches "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" from Tryphon's Camaio in the Duke of Marlborough's Collection see e.g Wikipaedia: "The Marlborough Gem". Bentley BB 439. Essick CBI p. 117 entry C. unknown books
1951réf. 1088361951. 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 cloth with gilt lettering and matching dust jackets. Good copies if slightly worn. § Jerusalem: 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy a black-and-white version published to accompany the Stirling colored copy see above. Bentley BB 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 BB 2961. unknown books
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
1783réf. 1087621783. London: C Bathurst T. Payne and others 1783. 5 vols 8vo 8 cxxxi 335; 4 407: 4 427; 4 438; 4 16 subscribers and errata 322 vi 55 errata and index pp. with a frontispiece also in each volume and 3 further plates in The Life of Ariosto following the preface in vol. 1. Original calf with moderate wear; carefully restored. Spines with red labels and raised bands all somewhat worn and the label to vol. 5 is missing. Internally a clean set with endpapers a trifle browned page edges slightly dusty and just a few occasional marks throughout the set. Plates are clean; the Blake plate is the frontispiece to vol. 3. Bookplate of Sir Charles Dance in each volume. § First edition. Blake's engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: "In a letter. to William Hayley Blake states that he is 'absorbed' in the study of several poets including Ariosto." Bentley BB 417A. Essick CBI XII. unknown books
1945réf. 1088841945. London: Faber and Faber 1945. Slim 4to 24 pp with 10 tipped-in color plates. Very good sewn into decorated pink wrappers as issued; slightly dusty at edges. § A selection of Blake's best-known images in color. Bentley BB 398. unknown books
1905réf. 1087791905. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384pp.Folding frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Very good in original brick-red cloth with tiny chip to paper spine label spare label bound in at end. § First Edition. Bentley Blake Books 300 ".a work of pioneer scholarly importance. meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligent unknown books
1979réf. 1088531979. London: Thames and Hudson 1979. 8vo 102 pp with colored reproduction of the original Copy G and a 35 page commentary. Very good in original illustrated wrappers with slight crease to one corner of rear wrapper. § Reissue of 1978 Shambhala edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 76. unknown books
1926réf. 1087881926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine and clear glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Near Fine. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. "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.". unknown books
