London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Brown stain on rock under the seated official. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions. From 102 illustrations... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions. From 102 illustrations... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. A foxed copy. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions... More
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. First Edition. Oblong octavo, xxix, 287pp. Illustrated. Black cloth with illustrated dust-jacket, slightly edgeworn. Some scattered pencil annotations. Bentley, BBS, p.459: “an important essay in historiography. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, xx, 503 pages, 8 plates and 14 figures in the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket lightly worn along top edge. Presentation copy inscribed by Erdman to Marcia Allentuck the renowned Oxford and CUNY scholar. Bentley, Blake Books, 1561A: “a massive, extraordinarily original... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Cloth. Large quaro, xxviii, 302 pp. With 114 illustrations of which 9 are in colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket. The definitive work, expanding and correcting Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 301: “a magisterial work.”. More
Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. William Blake. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 2 (blank), (8), 212, 1 (Index), 3 (blank). With 5 engraved plates by Blake after his own designs. Early 20th-century calf, with gilt and red morocco label on the spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, R.E. Gathorne-Hardy’s... More
London and Paris: Trianon Press, 1964. Quarter morocco. Quarto, [103] pp. With 32 plates. Top edge gilt. Original quarter morocco, marbled boards, matching slipcase, fine with a few small scuffs to the spine and the barest hint of sunning. Limited to 525 numbered copies bound in quarter morocco and signed... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1953. Quarto, xix, 125 pages. With 8 plates. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine condition except the bottom corners are the tiniest bit bumped. Limited to 400 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 666. More
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London: 1927. The soft wraps are toned and pushed along the edges and corners, with a couple of minor (2mm) tears. 2 volumes, quarto. Songs of Innocence: 28 hand coloured plates, copied from the "Beaconsfield" original in the British Museum by Joseph Patrick Trumble, Muir, and William Muir. Songs of... More
Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. Cloth. Quarto, 192 pp. With 161 illustrations including 16 in colour. Original brown cloth, colourful illustrated dustjacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue A. More
London: Bodley Head, 1967. Small octavo, 19pp, [2]. Near fine in pictorial french fold wraps, saddle stitched, with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Privately issued. First and only edition, limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak’s rarest and most... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. First Edition. Octavo, iv, (4), 304, (16, ads) pp. With a hand-collared frontispiece, hand-collared title, and seven plates, of which 5 are hand- collared. With the 1st published state of the title page (“Zamiel/From the Book of Job” beneath the vignette). Original blue cloth, hinges... More
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto, 168 pages. 22 plates. Original green cloth, spine faded to brown. Top edge gilt. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2957: “This pioneering study of Blake’s iconography is of great historical and intrinsic importance”. Loosely... More
London: John Linnell, March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. posthumous printing. Large folio, title-page and 21 plates printed on India paper. Mounted on large sheets as issued, enclosed in a blue linen folder within a blue morocco box lettered in gilt. The box is slightly worn at the... More
London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. First Typographical Edition. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74pp. Original pebbled plum cloth, blind stamped boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, a very good copy in the original binding, slightly faded around the edges, with just a.... More
London: Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson, 178, 1780. Full calf. The Speaker. The sixth edition, corrected. Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson, 1781. Octavo, 21 x 13cm, full calf with narrow gilt border on boards, spine divided into six panels with elaborate gilt tooled devices except... More
London: R. Noble, 1797. William Blake. First Edition. Large 4to, viii, [1], 95, [2] pages; with 43 full-page engravings by Blake after his own designs surrounding the letterpress text. Half red hard grain morocco, gilt on the spine, gilt edges, by Riviere, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. “Explanation” leaf mounted at the... More