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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 the 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
1917réf. 1251211917. London: Richard C. Jackson 1917. 4to 2 half-title frontispiece Blake portrait 16. Very good with slight wear to board covers and corners. The dedicatee's copy signed Mackenzie Bell 29th July 1920. § A facsimile produced for the "William Blake Society of Arts and Letters" in a limited edition of 100 copies plus 10 proofs by Richard C. Jackson to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Blake's birth. The facsimile claims to be the first edition of "Little Tom" in moveable type and reproduces Blake's two main designs in different colours - Little Tom on the boat in blue and with his mother in a rather pallid yellow. The title is in red and black. The book is printed on "Queen of Scots" hand-made paper and sewn into quarter cream buckram bound gray paper covered boards with a decorated and printed label in buckram mounted to the cover. Jackson was the founder of the Blake Society of Arts and Letters in 1901 and still President in 1917. The edition has a dedication page to Mackenzie Bell a poet and past Vice-President of the Society and this was apparently his own copy being signed by him on the front end paper. Bentley BB 470 E . Bentley refers to Jackson as being "mendacious" but gives no reason. Jackson does however defame and possibly libel Gilchrist in the colophon at the end of this facsimile so this is perhaps symptomatic. However the facsimile is certainly an impressive and attractive one. unknown books
1791réf. 1077541791. London: 1791. Single sheet 175 x 261 sheet 134 x 177 image mm being a good impression of the plate extracted from the book; recently cleaned. § A famous image with familiar Blake themes including the raging horse a maiden laid out on a rock a terrified figure tearing her hair etc. Essick Commercial Book Illustrations XLIX. unknown books
1803réf. 1241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations by Maria Flaxman. Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown books
1803réf. 1044001803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Roy. 8vo 9.5 x 5.75 ins. xii 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco gilt top other edges untrimmed an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley BB 471A. Essick CBI XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: "Possibly his greatest achievement however was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper 1781 which 'was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice' Bishop 53. This allegorical work aspired in rhyming couplets to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley 'for the lessons she had learnt from the poem' P. Jaffe Drawings by George Romney 1978 44 and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem 'made me Lady H. . for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty' ibid. Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.". unknown books
1922réf. 1079841922. London: Humphrey Milford and the Oxford University Press 1922. Folio. pp. 22. 117 plates including 6 in color on rectos only. Publisher's red cloth a bit worn but a good copy. § Limited to 650 copies this copy #249. This "unique copy" was found among Flaxman's papers after his death was auctioned in 1828 eventually sold to William Beckford was transferred to Hamilton Palace upon the marriage of Beckford's daughter to the tenth Duke and remained there until its discovery in a portfolio of prints. More recently it was purchased by Paul Mellon for Yale and was reproduced in full by the Trianon Press. unknown books
1962réf. 1015431962. London: University of London Press Ltd. 1962. 8vo 188pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip some sunning. Very good. § First edition. Bentley BB A315. unknown books
1893réf. 1271871893. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. roy. 8vo I xvi 420 portrait frontispiece and a folding table at p.280; printed errata to all three volumes loosely inserted in vol. 1 II vi 435 frontispiece life cast of Blake's head folding table at p.8; III ix 99 frontispiece portrait "Blake by his wife"; followed by facsimiles. Original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers. A very good copy restored by Coriander Reisbord. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. unknown books
1893réf. 1270451893. London: Quaritch 1893. Large 4to xxi pp. text 54 leaves printed in outline in reddish brown. Original half hardgrain morocco first blank and title-page foxed otherwise internally a very fine copy with some light wear to the backstrip. § A very scarce companion volume to the colored version both issued by Quaritch at the same time. Bentley Blake Books 173. Bookplate at the front of Pickford Waller and in the back that of Harris Elliott Kirk. unknown books
2007réf. 20250London: The Folio Society in association with the William Blake Trust 2007. Quarter Morocco. Silk moire cloth on boards. Slipcase with paper pastedown. Like New. Mint/Slipcase: Like New. William Blake. 4to. 30 by 21 cm. 303 pp. The Folio Society in association with the William Blake Trust unknown books
1893réf. 437283London: George Bell & Sons 1893. Hardcover. Good. Aldine edition later printing. 12mo. cxxxiii 231pp. Edited by William Michael Rossetti. Frontispiece portrait. Two-tone red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Spine darkened with ends chipped a good to about very good copy. George Bell & Sons hardcover books
1795réf. 1262351795. London: Johnson 1795-94. 2 vols. in one 4to xx 218 124 2 directions to binder and advertisement; 2 viii 200 2 directions to the binder lacking the errata and ads pp. With a frontispiece to each volume ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf marbled boards newly rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered label. A very good copy if a little aged -- early manuscript note loosely inserted about the Portland Vase copied from the Morning Chronicle c. 1796. § Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado plate. At page 87 appears the enigmatic circular image of an African man in chains titled "Am I not a man and a brother." Bentley 450B and C. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. unknown books
1978réf. 1004901978. London: Trianon Press 1978. Oblong folio quarter morocco cloth slipcase. As new. § Limited to 376 copies. The first accurate reproduction of Blake's seven engravings for the Divine Comedy first published in 1838. This new edition has an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes; three facsimiles of early states and monochrome reproductions of Blake's watercolor designs for the plates. Bentley Blake Books Supplement 208. unknown books
1960réf. 56991960. Wythenshaw Manchester: The William Morris Press n.d. Oblong folio 43 pages 24 illustrations. Pictorial wrapper with light wear. § Retraces the history of the 18 "Heads of the Poets" tempera paintings that were created by Blake for his patron William Hayley. Includes a lengthy narrative and an annotated illustrated catalogue. Conran was the director of the City of Manchester Art Gallery which acquired the paintings in 1885. Not in Bentley. Uncommon. unknown books
1957réf. 509940Pawlet U.S.A. Vermont: Set and Printed by Claude Fredericks 1957. Softcover. Fine. First edition thus. Folio measuring 11½" x 15". 12pp. Marbled wrappers with paper spine label. First two leaves with very light foredge toning from the wrappers a bit of light wear at the spine else fine. A handsome production published at Christmas by Fredericks "for the pleasure of his friends." Copy number 130 of 180 copies published. Fredericks was a poet playwright printer writer and longtime professor of literature at Bennington College in Vermont. He was the proprietor of the Banyan Press and also noted for the journal he kept throughout most of his life ultimately consisting of over 65000 pages. (Set and Printed by Claude Fredericks) unknown books
1796réf. 1246441796. London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller 1796. Slim 4to xi 16 pp. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations headpiece and tailpiece designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Later full red straight-grain morocco gilt-lettered backstrip a fine copy with a faded inscription on the title-page "Sophia Baillie". § First edition with Blake's illustrations ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain illustrations designed by Blake. Four copies have sold in the last 40 years; two have appeared at auction. The year 1796 saw three translations of Burger's Lenore one by J. T. Stanley one by H. J. Pye the Poet Laureate and a third by W. R. Spencer with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Blake was commissioned to create three illustrations for the Stanley translation including the frontispiece "Lenore clasping her spectral bridegroom" which is famous for supposedly having hung as a separate print in C.G. Jung's office. The British Critic for September 1796 spitefully compared Lady Diana's pictures with those of Blake's: "We are highly impressed by the propriety decorum and grace which characterizes all the figures of this elegant artist Lady Beauclerk even those of a preternatural kind; forming a most striking contrast to the distorted absurd and impossible monsters exhibited in the frontispiece to Mr. Stanley's last edition i.e. Blake's design. Nor can we pass by this opportunity of execrating that detestable taste founded on the depraved fancy of one man of genius which substitutes deformity and extravagance for force and expression and draws men and women without skin with their joints all dislocated; or imaginary beings which neither can nor ought to exist." The Analytical Review chimed in with comments including "perfectly ludicrous instead of terrific." Lenore had a profound effect on the development of Romantic literature throughout Europe7 and a strong influence on the English ballad-writing revival of the 1790s.8 According to German language scholar John George Robertson5 Lenore exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world. . like wildfire this remarkable ballad swept across Europe from Scotland to Poland and Russia from Scandinavia to Italy. The eerie tramp of the ghostly horse which carries Lenore to her doom re-echoed in every literature and to many a young sensitive soul was the revelation of a new world of poetry. No production of the German "Sturm und Drang"-not even Goethe's Werther which appeared a few months later-had such far-reaching effects on other literatures as Bürger's Lenore; it helped materially to call the Romantic movement in Europe to life. In a similar tone English literature scholar Marti Lee claims that:6 "Lenore" had tremendous influence on the literature of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries and in fact today's popular horror books and movies are still feeling the reverberations. . In short Bürger's achievement while minor in itself helped father an international movement that led directly to the massive popularity of Gothic works then and now. . As the Gothic novel borrowed many of its original conventions from the German ballads as popularized by "Lenore" we can fairly say that Bürger is one of the most influential founding fathers of the Gothic and horror genres.Bentley Blake Books 440. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator vol. 2 XLVI. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 380-382. unknown books
1808réf. 1238991808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly spotted image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. 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
1808réf. 1073291808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly soiled image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. 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
1808réf. 1238981808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper; wide margins somewhat soiled. § From the first 4to edition this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown books
1813réf. 1092051813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper recently cleaned . § From the second 4to edition this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley Blake Books 435D. 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
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
1808réf. 1073201808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. unknown books
