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Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & Engraved by William Blake

1826réf. 140948122London: Published by the Author 1826. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of Blake's visionary interpretation of the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament. Folio. Engraved title and 21 engravings on drawing paper. Original buff paste board covers with publisher's printed label over quarter brown cloth; cloth perished at spine rebacked. A beautiful copy retaining the original boards housed in a custom clamshell case with spine tooled in gilt. The first edition was printed in a run of 315 copies and issued in three versions: 150 copies on laid India with the word "Proof" printed in the bottom margin of plates 65 copies on French paper with "Proof" and 100 on Whatman paper with the word "Proof" removed from the copper plates but still faintly visible in some pulls. This copy is from the latter which Keynes calls the Ordinary Issue. Two plates with watermark of "J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825" and one watermarked "J Whatman 1825" Plate No. 1 incorrectly dated "1828". Rubbing to covers light soiling light offsetting and subtle repairs to end sheets. Small chip to corner margin of Plate No. 5 far from the engraving. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Frederick Pollock to front pastedown additional mounted printed note from antiquarian bookseller "This book was purchased in 1941 from London whilst the great battle for civilization was in progress. -Francis Edward Ltd." An impressive production hailed by many to be Blake's greatest masterpiece completed just before the end of his life. "The story which Blake called 'Job's Captivity' fascinated him all his life. He alluded to it throughout his drawings and writings made a large separate print of Job in 1793 and then a series of twenty-one designs for his faithful patron Thomas Butts about 1810" Bentley. Blake took the plates from Butts' earlier commissions and began work on a second set for John Linnell his friend and fellow artist in 1821. Hoping to earn his impoverished aging friend much needed income Linnell completely backed the project monetarily while Blake went to task engraving. Only 20 of the 315 sets were sold during Blake's lifetime mostly to members of his inner circle marking this a commercial failure. However the work was widely recognized as an artistic success amongst the nobility and upper gentry with copies purchased for the King's Library and The Royal Academy. Like many artists Blake did not receive proper recognition until after his death. Admired by John Ruskin he writes highly of the artist in his 1857 text The Elements of Drawing that "The Book of Job . is of the highest rank in certain characters of imagination and expression; in the mode of obtaining certain effects of light it will also prove a very useful example to you. In expressing conditions of glaring and flickering light Blake is greater than Rembrandt." Bentley 421A Keynes 55 vi Ray 8. Published by the Author unknown books

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Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate; Horne, Herbert; Image, Selwyn Blake, William (Muir Facsimile)ABAA

The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Issues 1-28 Complete

1886réf. 1229981886. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. January 1886 - October 1888 and London: The Chiswick Press January 1889 - October 1892. 4to. 28 volumes illustrated by woodcut and photogravure in the original printed wrappers. Expectable browning to the untrimmed edges and occasional foxing and offsetting; issue no. 9 front wrapper spotted and rear wrapper very creased; issue 12 slight red staining to rear wrapper; issue 21 upper wrapper torn with large loss; issue 28 lower wrapper soiled and with a large chip. Despite the few flaws listed above the overall condition is in general clean and quite beautiful remarkably well-preserved for a large format elegant journal in its original wrappers. All enclosed in two modern cloth boxes. § A complete run of the main series of the Century Guild Hobby Horse the first significant magazine dedicated to the visual arts in England preceding both the The Yellow Book and The Savoy and more egalitarian than either in its mission to create a unified vision of the arts and crafts in Victorian Britain. The quarterly magazine was the collaboration of architects Arthur Mackmurdo and Herbert Horne and the designer Selwyn Image who together formed the small but influential Century Guild of Artists. It featured essays on the fine and decorative arts architecture literature typography book design and collecting along with much original poetry. The Guild members were clearly well-connected particularly with the Pre-Raphaelites and regular contributors included W.M. Rossetti Christina Rossetti and Frederic Shields. Oscar Wilde contributed an essay on Keats May Morris one on embroidery and William Morris' lecture on "The Influence of Building Materials upon Architecture" appeared for the first time in print in its pages. There is an essay by Hubert Parry on English song writing original poetry from Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti and several essays by Alfred Pollard on book design. The contributors were particularly interested in the influence of William Blake and different issues featured several very important Muir facsimiles as well as the first typographic printing of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. A prepublication issue had been printed by George Allen for Mackurdo in 1884. After Mackmurdo and Image stepped away at the end of 1892 the magazine was renamed simply The Hobby Horse and survived for two more years before ending in 1894 the year The Yellow Book first appeared. Neither the prepublication issue nor issues from the later incarnation are included in this series. An ambitious and quite beautiful production suffused with the spirit of the Arts & Crafts movement the issues are finely printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press illustrated with woodcut decorations and with photogravures of notable artworks. From the frontispiece art reproduced with the permission of many famous names to the appended directories of recommended craftsmen and women May Morris William Muir W.M. Rossetti among them the issues form a rich record of the thoughts and activities of a fascinatingly intertwined group of artists authors and designers in the act of revolutionizing the visual arts in England. Complete runs like this are very uncommon in institutions and in the trade. unknown books

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 713,21 €

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