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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An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England
by Blake, William. Hoare, Prince
1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1806. 8vo, xxiv, 270, ii (publisher's booklist)pp., with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards, spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition, a very scarce book, especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare, an early owner, on the title page and other pages. Bentley, Blake Books 474. Essick,... Read More
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The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life": in The Grave
by Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)
1808. London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.
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Eternity. [He who binds to himself a loy]
by Blake, William
1975. [San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire, 1975]. Oblong 12mo, [11]pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers, fine. § Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all. Exceptionally scarce and beautiful, we have had one copy in the last 30 years. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blake's famous poem, found in the "Notebook" (1787-1818). Thomas Ingmire was the... Read More
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Wood Engravings of William Blake. 17 Subjects commissioned by Dr. Robert Thornton for his Virgil of 1821. Newly printed from the original blocks now in the British Museum. Introduction by Andrew Wilton
by Blake, William
1977. London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued. § Limited to 150 sets, this superb reprinting of Blake's only woodcuts from the original blocks was executed by Iain Bain (the Bewick authority) and sold out immediately. Very few sets have since come to market... Read More
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Poetical Sketches. By W.B.
by [Blake, William]
1783. London: Printed in the Year 1783. London: Noel Douglas, (1926). 8vo, original paper over boards. Very good. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length, printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt, who owned a small print shop in the Strand, and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet, dilettantes to whom Blake had... Read More
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William Blake Engraver: A Descriptive Catalogue... by Charles Ryskamp. With an Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1969. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1969. 8vo, 61pp, illus. Original marbled wrappers, slightly worn but good, with original label missing. Very good. § Only edition of this essential, and most useful, study, in a very handy format. Bentley, BB, 700.
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Christ descending into the Grave": in The Grave
by Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)
1813. London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.
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Leonora. A Tale, Translated and altered from the German of Gottfried Augustus Burger
by Blake, William. Burger, G. A. Stanley, J. T., translator
1796. 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... Read More
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There is No Natural Religion
by Blake, William
1971. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase a trifle worn. § Limited to 590 copies, this copy no. 5. Bentley, Blake Books, 202.
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Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd
by Blake, William
1868. London: Pickering, 1868. Small 8vo, xiv, 96 pp. A good copy in original cloth, with a small amount of wear at spine ends, and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages, but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. Small bookplate of John Johnson on front pastedown. § First... Read More
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[General title] William Blake's Illuminated Books. Jerusalem: The Emanation of Giant Albion. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morton D. Paley
by Blake, William
1991. Tate Gallery Publications, London: The William Blake Trust, [1991]. Folio, 302 pp., including 105 pages of color plates. Brown cloth in pictorial dust-jacket, with protective plastic. As new. § The first volume in this series of Blake's illuminated books. The hard-bound edition has been long out of print.
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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. "K. Preston" in Pencil to top right corner. Some sun-fading and edgewear. Invitation, program of events and newspaper clippings related to the opening of the exhibit loosely inserted. Very good. § Bentley, Blake Books, 674.
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Sotheby's Belgravia. Vistorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours..
by [Blake, William. Auction Catalogue]
1977. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1977. Oblong 8vo, 58pp. Illustrated in red printed wrappers. Estimates bi-fold loosely inserted. Some results noted in ink. Very good. § William Blake lots begin on page 24 with 3 reproduced images, 2 in color.
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L'Allegro... Together with A Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Il Penseroso.... Together with a Note upon the Paintings by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
by Blake, William. Milton, John
1954. New York: Heritage Press, 1954. Large 8vo, 43; 44, [2] pp., 12 gravure plates after the paintings by William Blake. Quarter red cloth, marbled boards, minimal rubbing, near fine. § Reprint of the edition designed by Bruce Rogers. The illustrations are from the Blake designs in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the two works by Milton which they illustrate have been printed dos-a-dos.
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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 small folio, 103 pp., illus. Original printed wrappers, a few smudges, internally very good. § Interesting exhibition catalogue placing Blake in the culture of his time. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 293.
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Books and Prints by William Blake from the Collection formed by the Late Frank Rinder, Esq
by Blake, William
1993. London: Christie's, 1993. Small 4to, original printed wrappers. Fine. § A small but choice sale of 13 lots most now in America, including the black and white copy of Jerusalem from which the Trianon Press facsimile was made (now in a private collection in Chicago) and several lots bought by Sendak and Essick.
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The Meeting of a Family in Heaven": in The Grave
by Blake, William. Blair, Robert. (separate plate)
1808. London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.
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Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion
by Blake, William. (Trianon Press)
1974. London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase, fine. § Limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 289. Jerusalem is the longest of Blake's prophetic books and tells of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of man, or the Western World. This is the facsimile of Lord Cunliffe's copy and Kerrison Preston's proofs; the coloring differs markedly from the Stirling... Read More
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Le Mariage du Ciel et de L'Enfer. Traduction inédite par André Gide
by Blake, William. André Gide, Translator
1923. Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, Éditeur, 1923. 12mo, 65 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine, opened copy in the original glassine. § First edition of André Gide's translation of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. On 1550 copies, the present copy is No. 8 of only 23 on Japon, the tirage de tête.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 3: Title Page to the Songs of Innocence
by Blake, William
1955. London: The Trianon Press, 1955. Single proof plate (127 x 230mm, image measures 74 x 124mm), collotype and hand stenciling, a few light marks, trimmed. § Single proof plate from the superb Trianon Press color facsimile of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake and his wife Catherine hand-printed and bound fewer than forty copies of the Songs of Innocence and the combined Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This facsimile was based on... Read More
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The Heads of the Poets. Eighteen in Number--of Which Seventeen Have Not Been Hitherto Published... with Introduction by Thomas Wright
by Blake, William. [Wright, Thomas]
1925. Olney, Bucks.: The Blake Society, 1925. 4to, [24] pages. Six plates, additional illus. Original wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. Very good. § One of 100 numbered copies. A scarce item from the eccentric Wright - not located in Bentley but probably there somewhere.
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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 oblong 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 English Vision: Etchings and Engravings by...William Blake...Introduction by Graham Sutherland
by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
1973. London: William Weston Gallery, 1973. 12mo, [60]pp. Illustrated, including 12 images of Blake engravings from The Book of Job. Stapled printed wrappers. Mild water damage to spine edge. Good. §.
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Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints designed and Engraved by William Blake
by Blake, William. Hayley, William
1805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp., 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... Read More
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