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 about Blake's Illustrations of Dante. Plate 5: “Circle of Thieves. Buoso Donati attacked by the...

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. More about The Counter-Arts Conspiracy. Art and Imagination in the Age of Blake

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 about Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience

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 about Poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Drawings by Maurice Sendak

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 about Illustrations of the Book of Job

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... More about The Complaint and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts