18 364 résultats
1942réf. 66555Edinburgh. 9 June 1942. Poet novelist and editor Todd writes to Prof. Tinker following up on the possibility that the copy of his edition of Gilchrist's LIFE he sent to him "may be edifying the fish at the bottom of the Atlantic" and continues on in great detail about the success of the edition and expands to encompass all of his then ongoing Blake projects with passing mention of Edwin Wolf Lessing Rosenwald Graham Robertson Geoffrey Keynes and details about his ongoing work compiling a catalogue of Blake's work. In excess of 700 words. Partial break at horizontal fold not affecting text otherwise very good. unknown books
1880réf. 140947503London: Macmillan and Co 1880. Second Edition. Very Good. 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. Bound in the publisher's dark green cloth boards ornately stamped in gilt. Complete in two volumes. Very Good. Light wear to cloth with some rubbing through at joints and tips light rubbing to gilt. Foxing and light offsetting to endsheets and preliminaries contemporary ownership notation to both volumes and light toning to contents. The exceptional second edition of Blake's life and prose a true apex of late Victorian decorated bindings. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1863réf. 140947684London: Macmillan and Co 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. xiv 2 389 1; viii 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Front hinges starting front joints starting at head of spine L-shaped split to top of rear joint of Volume I advancing across the spine panel and Volume II binding exposed at page 268. The binding by Burn & Co. their ticket to Volume II back pastedown is an unusually attractive example of High Victorian design and the gilt remains bright against the maroon cloth. Alexander Gilchrist's biography and selected works of William Blake established Blake's place in the Western canon and remains a standard reference work. The artist and poet a peripheral figure at the time of his death in 1827 was taken up by the pre-Raphaelites several of whom completed the second volume of Gilchrist's work after he died suddenly of a fever. Chief among the secondary authors was Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had purchased Blake's annotated sketchbook at the age of nineteen and added his own pages. An important work with a powerful influence on the art and literature of the late 19th century. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1964réf. 89683London: Trianon Press 1964. First Limited Edition. No. 451 of 525 signed copies. Quarto. Quarto morocco over marbled paper-covered boards in matching slipcase; 103 pp; 32 plates in color. Touch of wear to slipcase but a lovely Near Fine copy. Trianon Press unknown
1964réf. 89683London: Trianon Press 1964. First Limited Edition. No. 451 of 525 signed copies. Quarto. Quarto morocco over marbled paper-covered boards in matching slipcase; 103 pp; 32 plates in color. Touch of wear to slipcase but a lovely Near Fine copy. Trianon Press unknown books
réf. 1890London: Museum Press 1956. . 8vo maroon cloth; dust jacket London: Museum Press, 1956. hardcover books
réf. 1889London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1925. . 8vo blue cloth; endpapers browned from original glueing; ownership signature on front free endpaper London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1925. hardcover books
1930réf. 13943London: Dent 1930. First edn. 8vo pp. 395. Gray cloth a very good copy. Dent unknown
réf. 124Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press 1966. . Large 8vo apple-green cloth dust jacket very minor soiling on back. Second Impression Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1966. hardcover books
1930réf. 13943London: Dent 1930. First edn. 8vo pp. 395. Gray cloth a very good copy. Dent unknown books
1896réf. 6716Boston: winter 1896. Octavo-sized correspondence record book 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. The original engraved invitation precedes the individual acceptance and rejection few letters which are divided by sex. A complete list of attendees is included as is the handwritten menu perhaps a contract with notes on what was to be supplied by the caterer Joseph Lee and what by Mrs. Blake. The stationery includes many addresses on Beacon Hill as well as the Porcellian Club Somerset Club Hasty Pudding Club etc. Some wear to the binder and to some of the correspondence at folds or at the edges. Generally near very good. A stationer’s - Shipman - adhesive half-leather letter file book. winter hardcover
1896réf. 6716Boston: winter 1896. Octavo-sized correspondence record book 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. The original engraved invitation precedes the individual acceptance and rejection few letters which are divided by sex. A complete list of attendees is included as is the handwritten menu perhaps a contract with notes on what was to be supplied by the caterer Joseph Lee and what by Mrs. Blake. The stationery includes many addresses on Beacon Hill as well as the Porcellian Club Somerset Club Hasty Pudding Club etc. Some wear to the binder and to some of the correspondence at folds or at the edges. Generally near very good. A stationer’s - Shipman - adhesive half-leather letter file book. winter hardcover books
1717réf. 206651717. Very good condition. Robert Blake 1598 - 1657 was one of the pre-eminent British admirals and naval tacticians of the 17th century the chief contributor to Britain's naval supremacy who built the largest British navy of the day and whose talents are thought to rival or surpass those of Lord Nelson. Blake made the first set of rules and regulations for the Navy 'The Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea' and wrote about his new methods for conducting naval blockades and landings a significant revision of the existing naval tactics 'Sailing instructions and Fighting Instructions'. Blake's naval experience included battles in the English Civil War the Anglo Dutch War and the Anglo Spanish War. Engraved by M. V de Gucht. Three quarter length portrait in armor holding truncheon at his right side; naval battle scene in distance. 4 x 6 1/2"; paper 5 1/2 x 7 1/2" unknown
1953réf. 45488Oakland CA : s.i. 1953. Very Good. Oakland CA: s.i. ca. 1953. Photo-illustrated broadsheet palm card 22.5x8.5cm promoting three records by Bahamian calypso and goombay performer Blind Blake 1915-1986 adorned with a halftone photograph of Blake performing. Contemporary rubber-stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Shop in Oakland California on recto mild toning and a couple tiny nicks; Very Good. Includes track lists and prices to three Blake albums as well as those of fellow Calypso performers The Percentie Brothers and George Symonette. Tracks listed include Blake's work "Run Come See Jerusalem" concerning the 1929 Bahama hurricane and the murder ballad "Jones! Oh Jones!" Blind Blake material uncommon in retail. s.i. unknown
1953réf. 45488Oakland CA : s.i. 1953. Very Good. Oakland CA: s.i. ca. 1953. Photo-illustrated broadsheet palm card 22.5x8.5cm promoting three records by Bahamian calypso and goombay performer Blind Blake 1915-1986 adorned with a halftone photograph of Blake performing. Contemporary rubber-stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Shop in Oakland California on recto mild toning and a couple tiny nicks; Very Good. Includes track lists and prices to three Blake albums as well as those of fellow Calypso performers The Percentie Brothers and George Symonette. Tracks listed include Blake's work "Run Come See Jerusalem" concerning the 1929 Bahama hurricane and the murder ballad "Jones! Oh Jones!" Blind Blake material uncommon in retail. s.i. unknown books
1949réf. 81774Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1949. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Harry P. Martin / who qualifies on two counts - one the fraternity of the book; two a friend of E.L. Deitch who gives this volume with the aproval of / Louis Blake Duff" dated March 1949. Octavo 20cm. Yellow cloth; dustwrapper; 224pp. Tight straight and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper slightly soiled on lighter portions; small sticker remnant to front panel; Very Good. Duff 1878-1959 was a Canadian journalist bibliophile and private press printer proprietor of the Baskerville Press in Welland Ontario. In the current somewhat uncommon work Duff takes us on a breezy somewhat windy actually tour of death-by-hanging in all ages concluding with a chapter considering the abolition of hanging which he notes at this time was still the most common means of legal execution in many Western countries. A contemporary Canadian reviewer apparently either blind or immune to Duff's rather baroque prose style noted that: ".Mr. Duff's book because of its very restraint is more eloquent propaganda for the abolition of capital punishment than any number of learned treatises" Fred Landon in The Canadian Historical Review Sep. 1949. A nifty little book probably unknown to many collectors of books on the subject; uncommon in the trade and this copy nicely inscribed. The Ryerson Press unknown
1949réf. 81774Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1949. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Harry P. Martin / who qualifies on two counts - one the fraternity of the book; two a friend of E.L. Deitch who gives this volume with the aproval of / Louis Blake Duff" dated March 1949. Octavo 20cm. Yellow cloth; dustwrapper; 224pp. Tight straight and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper slightly soiled on lighter portions; small sticker remnant to front panel; Very Good. Duff 1878-1959 was a Canadian journalist bibliophile and private press printer proprietor of the Baskerville Press in Welland Ontario. In the current somewhat uncommon work Duff takes us on a breezy somewhat windy actually tour of death-by-hanging in all ages concluding with a chapter considering the abolition of hanging which he notes at this time was still the most common means of legal execution in many Western countries. A contemporary Canadian reviewer apparently either blind or immune to Duff's rather baroque prose style noted that: ".Mr. Duff's book because of its very restraint is more eloquent propaganda for the abolition of capital punishment than any number of learned treatises" Fred Landon in The Canadian Historical Review Sep. 1949. A nifty little book probably unknown to many collectors of books on the subject; uncommon in the trade and this copy nicely inscribed. The Ryerson Press unknown books
réf. 202501982Paris, Grund, 1994 ; in-4, 190 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état avec sa jaquette - Pains, tartes et gâteaux.
réf. 201903648New Jersey, Pearson Education - Prentice Hall, 1979 ; in-4, 239 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bon état avec sa jaquette.
1946réf. 90012Paris: La Jeune Parque 1946. First Thus. One of 2000 copies on Velin de Lana this copy unnumbered; presumably one of a few hors-commerce author's copies. Inscribed on second flyleaf: "à Son Excellence Monsieur Duff Cooper / ce message d'amité franco-britannique en respectueux et fidèles souvenirs." Octavo 25cm. Morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 2 preliminary leaves; 14 115 19pp; illus; includes engraved extra-title frontispiece and 10 wood-engraved text illustrations by Jean-Vital Prost based on original designs by Blake. Spine leather minutely rubbed on raised bands gentle rubbing to bottom board edges else a very fresh Near Fine copy. Includes two brief essays on Blake by Daniel-Rops. With Cooper's handsome engraved rococco bookplate to front pastedown designed by Rex Whistler. Text in French. Lovely bibliophile edition of this modern French translation published immediately after the Second World War. The inscription to Cooper who had been appointed British Ambassador to France immediately after the fall of the Vichy government expresses "a message of Franco-British friendship." Perhaps this was intended as something of a peace offering as Daniel-Rops a prominent conservative Catholic intellectual had initially supported the conservative social direction of Pétain's "Revolution Nationale" and the Vichy régime - though as the war went on he became if not a critic of then at least no longer an apologist for Nazi collaborationism. Cooper who had been Churchill's Minister of Information at the beginning of the War and among the British Conservative Party's most steadfast anti-Fascists would have known something of Daniel-Rops' political pedigree perhaps lending an extra shade of meaning to the author's inscription. An interesting and distinguished copy of a beautifully-produced book with the fabulous Whistler bookplate. La Jeune Parque unknown
1946réf. 90012Paris: La Jeune Parque 1946. First Thus. One of 2000 copies on Velin de Lana this copy unnumbered; presumably one of a few hors-commerce author's copies. Inscribed on second flyleaf: "à Son Excellence Monsieur Duff Cooper / ce message d'amité franco-britannique en respectueux et fidèles souvenirs." Octavo 25cm. Morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 2 preliminary leaves; 14 115 19pp; illus; includes engraved extra-title frontispiece and 10 wood-engraved text illustrations by Jean-Vital Prost based on original designs by Blake. Spine leather minutely rubbed on raised bands gentle rubbing to bottom board edges else a very fresh Near Fine copy. Includes two brief essays on Blake by Daniel-Rops. With Cooper's handsome engraved rococco bookplate to front pastedown designed by Rex Whistler. Text in French. Lovely bibliophile edition of this modern French translation published immediately after the Second World War. The inscription to Cooper who had been appointed British Ambassador to France immediately after the fall of the Vichy government expresses "a message of Franco-British friendship." Perhaps this was intended as something of a peace offering as Daniel-Rops a prominent conservative Catholic intellectual had initially supported the conservative social direction of Pétain's "Revolution Nationale" and the Vichy régime - though as the war went on he became if not a critic of then at least no longer an apologist for Nazi collaborationism. Cooper who had been Churchill's Minister of Information at the beginning of the War and among the British Conservative Party's most steadfast anti-Fascists would have known something of Daniel-Rops' political pedigree perhaps lending an extra shade of meaning to the author's inscription. An interesting and distinguished copy of a beautifully-produced book with the fabulous Whistler bookplate. La Jeune Parque unknown books
4to (260 x 205 mm), 2 parts in one, first part the first edition, the second part is a third edition, [4], vii-xii, 214, 126, [2]; [2], ix, [1], 197, [1]pp., engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (5 folding), of which 5 plates by William Blake, occasional offsetting, signatures L & M misbound (part 2), scattered faint spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary full red morocco, single gilt fillet border to boards, smooth spine, seven gilt tooled bands producing 6 compartments, upper compartment with the Arnold crest - a demi tiger regardant bezanty holding a pheon, next compartment gilt lettered direct, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very nice copy. Epic poetic tribute to the lives, loves, and reproductive capacity of plants by the grandfather of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Botanic Garden is important for the five plates in part I which are engraved by William Blake: 'The Fertilization of Egypt,' engraved after the painting by Henry Fuseli, and four engravings of the Portland Vase. "The chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime, The Botanic Garden contains a great deal of important and frequently advanced scientific information in the nearly 300 footnotes and the 115 pages of appendices to its verses..."? The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Henry Arnold (1791-1844) to font paste-down; later bookplate of Ralph Hermon Major.
réf. 108664London The Crime Club 1938. . First edition first impression; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth titles to spine in black mild partial browning to the endpapers trace of erasure to front free endpaper with the dust-jacket some mild ghosting to the spine through the jacket but an exceptional copy in the little tanned and very slightly rubbed dust-jacket. The poet laureate Cecil Day Lewis wrote a number of detective works under the name Nicholas Blake of which this title is by far the best regarded. Copies of this UK printing in this condition with the jacket are extremely uncommon. London, The Crime Club, 1938. hardcover
1940réf. 105039Toronto: MacMillan Company of Canada Limited 1940. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition with Illustrations by Gagnon limited to 1000 copies. 7p.l.168pp. Octavo in original beige patterned linen cloth with gilt lettered brown cloth labels B&W frontispiece portrait of author and 8 colour plates by Clarence Gagnon. Dust jacket chipped along top and bottom edge with bookplate on front pastedown and gift inscription on front free endpaper. very good 1940 MacMillan Company of Canada Limited hardcover
1923réf. 93601923 Paris, Claude Aveline, 1923, in 12 broché, 65 pages..
