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...
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...
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Behind Glass. 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.
Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. William Blake. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 4 (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...
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...
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.
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...
London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. First Edition. Octavo, iv, (4), 304, (16, ads) pp. With a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title, and seven plates, of which 5 are hand-coloured. With the first published state of the title page (“Zamiel/From the Book of Job” beneath the vignette). Original blue cloth, front end...
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...
London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. First Typographical Edition. Small octavo, xxi, (3), 74pp. Original plum cloth, blind stamped boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, a very good copy in the original binding, slightly faded around the edges (and more so on...
London: R. Noble, 1797. William Blake. First Edition. Large quarto, 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, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. “Explanation” leaf mounted at the front (lightly...
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