Blake in the Garden
by Blake, William. Landers, Linda
2005. [London:] Linda Anne Landers, 2025. Folio, 4 leaves. [5]pp. with hand-stencilling in color, paper cutouts, and laid-on or laid-in printed inserts including handwritten colophon. String-sewn blue card wrappers with hand-stencilled paper onlays. New. § Number 5 of 14 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, whose highly creative and visionary re-imagining of Blake's poems have earned considerable attention and respect from the book arts collectors. The starting point for this book is the famous story... Read More
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To the Nightingale. With a Statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes
by Blake, William, attrib
1981. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981. 8vo, 7 leaves, 3 with letterpress, the remainder blank. Bookplate of L. Turner on front pastedown on which has been hand-noted "Given to me by Sir Geoffrey Keynes when I visited him at his house". Green card wrappers with printed label on upper cover. Very good. § No. 23 of 100 copies in all, signed and numbered by Geoffrey Keynes, who believed that the poem had originally been written... Read More
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Eight Songs of William Blake
by Blake, William
1926. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 8vo, 16 leaves, unpaginated. Gray paper covered boards. Top portion of spine missing. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Glassine wrapper. Very good. § Limited edition of 200 copies.
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The Faber Gallery. Blake (1757-1827) with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Keynes
by Blake, William
1945. 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.
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The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson
by Blake, William. Sampson, John
1905. 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
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Commentary by Harold Bloom
by Blake, William. Erdman, David V., editor
1982. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 8vo, xxvi, 990 pp., 4 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket torn and faded. § Newly revised edition of the very highly regarded 1965 edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 162 entry F: "editorially of the first importance".
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An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated By Michael Phillips. With a Preface by Haven O'More
by Blake, William
1987. Cambridge: 1987. Small folio, viii, 110 pages. Facsimile interleaved. Original cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase. As new. § Finely printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, in a limited edition. Publication financed by the inimitable Haven O'More (see Basbanes, A Gentle Madness, new edition, for much on this enigmatic man), with a foreword by O'More.
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The Tiger's Eye
by [Blake, William]
1947. Woodstock, VT: The Elm Street Press, October 1947. 8vo, 108 pp. Illustrations from Blake's engravings on pages 72-75. Illustrated wrappers, with chipping to spine and creasing to front and back. Pages with some browning to edges. Internally very good. §.
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Imagination and Vision: Prints and Drawings of William Blake
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1971. [Normal, IL]: Art Gallery, Illinois State University, 1971. 4to, 32 pages. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley, BB, 704.
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William Blake in the Art of his Time
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1976. Santa Barbara, CA: The Regents University of California, 1976. Oblong 4to, 103pp. 132 illustrations, 5 in color. Yellow illustrated wrappers. Slight evidence of water damage along spine. Very good. §.
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America. a Prophecy
by Blake, William
1947. [New York: 1947]. 8vo, [19] pp. Woodblock prints on yellow paper. Quarter red cloth, black paper boards. Illustration affixed to front. Very good. § An odd reproduction, printed on yellow paper, with a color plate from 'Visions' on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley, BB, 8B (the first 'A' issue had an introduction by Ruthven Todd and a title-page).
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There is No Natural Religion
by Blake, William
1886. London: Pickering & Co., 1886. Small slim 4to, printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page, [12] leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black, of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere, dark green glazed endpapers, backstrip lettered in gilt, lower cover rehinged. § Large-paper copy, privately printed for Pickering in an edition of 50 copies. One of the rarest Blake facsimiles, and, only in the large-paper edition,... Read More
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The Book Of Urizen. Edited and with an Introduction by Kay Parkhurst Easson And Roger R. Easson
by Blake, William
1979. 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.
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The Death of The Good Old Man": in The Grave
by Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)
1808. London: Cadell and Davis, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.
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Illustration from A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
by [Blake, William. Sales Announcement]
1981. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard's book A Visit to William Blake's Inn. Very good. §.
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The Art of William Blake. Bi-Centennial Exhibition October 18th - December 1st, 1957
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1957. Washington: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution, 1957. Small 4to, 46pp. Color illustration on front cover, plus 21 plates in black and white. Yellow printed wrappers. Some sun-fading. Very good. § Bentley, Blake Books, 674.
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William Blake Catalogue of the Preston Blake Library Presented by Kerrison Preston in 1967
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1969. Great Britain: Westminster City Libraries, 1969. 8vo, [127]pp. White printed wrappers. Very lightly soiled. With handwritten notes on Trianon Press stationary loosely inserted. Very good. § Lists 700 items by and about Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 701.
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The Gates of Paradise. For Children. For the Sexes
by Blake, William. (Trianon Press)
1968. London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as issued), cloth slipcase, gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly flaked. § Copy #14, with the first three volumes bound in morocco. From... Read More
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![America: A Prophecy. Materials for the Study of William Blake Volume I. [With Editorial Comments by Roger Easson, A Bibliographical Introduction by G.E. Bentley, Jr., and a Check List of Secondary Materials in English by Easson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/650/313/1567313650.0.l.jpg)
America: A Prophecy. Materials for the Study of William Blake Volume I. [With Editorial Comments by Roger Easson, A Bibliographical Introduction by G.E. Bentley, Jr., and a Check List of Secondary Materials in English by Easson]
by Blake, William
1974. Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1974. 4to, 21 pp. and 18 facsimile plates in black and white. Near fine in illustrated red wrappers, and an additional loose set of the 18 facsimilies and the Check-List of Secondary Materials in English which accompanies Easson's Editorial Comments and Bentley's Introduction. Original orange cloth, as new. § Limited to 474 copies, this is #74. There were 26 copies issued in quarter morocco. Trade edition, reproducing copy E... Read More
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Burlington Fine Arts Club: Catalogue Blake Centenary Exhibition
by Blake, William
1927. London: Privately Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1927. Large 4to, 63 pp., 49 plates. A good copy in original cloth, some discoloration to the green cloth along edges. Slipcase. Very good. § A sumptuous catalogue with text by Binyon, Russell, and Keynes and fine gravure plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 632A (the second issue had no plates).
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Manifold Review
by [Blake, William. Sale Announcement]
1980. Hancock, VT: Top Drawer Enterprises, 1980. Oblong 12mo, 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Stained on 2 panels. Good. §.
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The Printer and the Artist: A Catalogue of Private Press Books & Illustrated Books from the United Kingdom. Europe and America
by [Blake, William. Sale Catalogue]
1974. London: Bertram Rota Ltd., 1974. 8vo, 155pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers with some staining along spine edge. Very good. § A major catalogue from Rota, offering i.a. some private press editions of Blake.
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The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death": in The Grave
by Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)
1813. London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.
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William Blake and his Circle: Exhibition Guide, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
by Blake, William
1965. San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1965. 12mo, 30 pp. With 14 black and white illustrations. Near fine in pale green wrappers. § Bentley, Blake Books 691: "30 Blake entries and 24 of his contemporaries".
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The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake the Property of the late Graham Robertson
by Blake, William
2219. London: Christie's, July 22, 1949. 8vo, 44 pp, illustrated with 16 full page black and white plates. Very Good in original wrappers, slightly dusty, with pencil annotations of prices and buyers for all 90 lots. § Bentley, Blake Books 659.
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