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2014ill., ril. La Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri (terminata nel 1321) è universalmente considerata la più grande opera letteraria composta in lingua italiana e un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale. Il poema che descrive il viaggio di Dante attraverso Inferno, Purgatorio e Paradiso, a un livello più profondo rappresenta l'allegoria del viaggio dell'anima verso Dio. Negli ultimi anni di vita, il poeta e artista William Blake (1757-1827) portò a termine 102 illustrazioni del capolavoro dantesco, spaziando dagli schizzi a matita agli acquerelli. Come l'onnicomprensivo poema dantesco, i lavori di Blake spaziano da scene di sofferenza a immagini di luce, da orribili trasfigurazioni umane fino alla perfezione della forma fisica. Pur rimanendo fedele al testo, Blake apportò il proprio punto di vista ad alcuni dei temi centrali dell'opera dantesca, introducendo elementi interpretativi propri a concetti vasti quali il peccato, la colpa, il castigo, la vendetta e la salvezza. Oggi le illustrazioni di Blake, rimaste a diversi stadi di completezza al momento della sua morte, sono disperse in sette diverse istituzioni. Questa nuova edizione - corredata da dieci pagine pieghevoli formato paesaggio - le riunisce nuovamente, accompagnandole a brani tratti dal poema dantesco, in un'eccezionale accoppiata di due dei più raffinati talenti artistici della storia. Sono inoltre incluse un'introduzione alla Divina commedia e un'analisi delle illustrazioni di Blake.
2014ill., br. Il più ortodosso degli scrittori e il più eterodosso degli artisti, ovvero il cattolico Gilbert Keith Chesterton e il visionario William Blake: un incontro apparentemente impossibile e che invece prende corpo in questo piccolo capolavoro dimenticato. Apparsa originariamente nel 1910 e finora mai tradotta in italiano, la rapida biografia che Chesterton dedica all'autore dei "Canti dell'Innocenza e dell'Esperienza" è molto più che una semplice ricognizione nella vita di un personaggio eccentrico, inclassificabile e geniale. Pittore mancato e occasionale frequentatore dello spiritismo in gioventù, Chesterton riconosce in Blake gli elementi di un'intesa profonda, fondata anzitutto sulla virtù - universale, eppure tipicamente inglese - dell'immaginazione, da intendersi non come costruzione fantastica ma come capacità di cogliere con un colpo d'occhio la reale sostanza delle cose. Il risultato è un pamphlet paradossale e pungente, nel quale le considerazioni di natura artistica si mescolano a fulminanti notazioni di politica e di costume (una fra tutte: l'Inghilterra del passato grandioso come nazione di bottegai e dunque di poeti, contrapposta al presente nel quale prosperano solo i "proprietari di negozi"). Paradossale e ispirato, Chesterton scorge nell'isolamento di Blake rispetto al suo secolo, il Settecento, un'anticipazione della propria irriducibilità alle categorie novecentesche...
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1949Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 48 fine collotype plates, 8 electrotypes and several illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, green top, uncut, backstrip midly sunned else a very good, clean copy.
19828vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; pictorial red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, grey top, grey endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case.
1970Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on watermarked rag paper, with 10 splendid collotype reproductions in the text; marbled boards, green morocco back lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy housed in publisher's marbled board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 391).
2002Sm. folio, with very numerous wonderful illustrations and photographs throughout; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES; THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Wonderfully illustrated account of Blake's action-packed two-year tenure as the first-ever Children's Laureate. This is a signed copy of the limited edition printed for Chris Beetles Gallery.
19958vo., First Edition, with 63 plates on 24; cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. Excellent survey of the great spymaster and the secret institutions he served for half a century.
19628vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. With a personal name-stamp on front free endpaper.
20044to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the major exhibition mounted severally by Kimbell Art Museum, Walters Art Museum and the National Gallery.
1977Sm. 4to., First Edition thus; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. The standard reference and one of the great author bibliographies. Effectively a radically updated and expanded version of the first edition of 1964 by Bently and Nurmi.
20132 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 116 fine watercolour plates in facsimile; pictorial cloth, morocco back, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, Commentary Volume in brown cloth, gilt back, the two volumes housed in publisher's buckram solander case lettered in gilt, a fine set. EDITION LIMTED TO 1000 SETS. This splendid FS production reproduces the original watercolours, acquired by Paul Mellon in 1966 and now in the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. A number of scholars have written about this work, but Irene Tayler’s 1971 book, Blake’s Illustrations to the Poems of Gray, remains the most comprehensive and compelling reading. Presented here as a separate commentary volume, Tayler’s account tells how the illustrations were produced, relates Blake’s interpretation of the poems to his own ideas, and provides a detailed commentary on each poem.
19488vo., Centenary Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, front panel of dustwrapper mounted on new leaf at front, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The Nonesuch Centenary edition, first published in 1927, is the first single-volume version of the splendid three-volume set of 1925.
19358vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 7 plates and 2 maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean crisp copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Albion AX-5 (238); NMM II/1, 306.Albion AX-5 (238); NMM II/1, 306.
20078vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20048vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations throughout; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1998Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. SCARCE.
20188vo., with very numerous illustrations in the text; orange cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in black, gilt top, a fine copy in publisher's printed slip-case.
19928vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in blue and black, and plates; green cloth, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With the Firm's presentation slip loosely inserted.
19668vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. Enser, p.371.
1987Folio, First Edition, with fine coloured reproductions throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf, boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a splendid, crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER [1775-1849] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably [as here] the first issue with uncorrected page numeral [891] on p.198, and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables, each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake, Clarke, Eastgate, Grainger, Landseer, Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation (first published in 1722) to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange (first published 1692, many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text). Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies, but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19568vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 35 plates on 30 and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
2007Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with 105 fine full-page coloured facsimiles; blue silk cloth, burgundy morocco back lettered in gilt, burgundy top, burgundy endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case. High quality facsimile of the unique coloured copy now housed in the Yale Center for British Art. Published by FS to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Blake's birth. SCARCE.
20218vo., First Edition thus, with two-colour illustrations in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt.
