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that to me it is hindrance & not action; it is as the dirt upon my feet, No part of me. What, it will be Questiond, When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, Holy, or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a sight. I look thro it & not with it. Blake, A Vision of the Last Judgment.

I assert for My Self that I do not behold the outward Creation &

Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. I question not my Corporeal

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A Catalogue of Books by and about Blake and his Circle from 17752008
mainly from the Collections of Roger and Kay Easson and Roger Lipman with additions from stock

William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller San Francisco 2009

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Interactive Table of Contents

Preface ix 1

Drawings and Paintings Illuminated Books 4

Separate Plates and Prints in Series Designed and Engraved by Blake

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Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists Plates by Blake and Thomas Butts, Father and Son Commercial Book Illustrations 11 11 15 Designed and Engraved by Blake

Designed by Blake and Engraved by Others Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings Pickering Editions Rossetti Editions Yeats Editions Sampson Editions Keynes Editions Erdman Editions 31 31 32 33 33 41 30 31 30

Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists

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front cover: The Ancient of Days, frontispiece, Europe a Prophecy. London: Trianon Press, 1969 (item 246). back cover: Los, the watchman, plate 1, Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London: Trianon Press, [1951] (item 252). frontispiece: Pencil sketch of Blake by John Linnell, 1826. The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake. London: Trianon Press, 1977 (item 266). Title page quotation is from Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro. Printed by Malloy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Finch Opaque paper, an acid-free paper certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Design and production 42-line www.42-line.com
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All Other Editions in English

Translations and Bilingual Editions Muir Facsimiles Hollyer Facsimiles 42 45

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books

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Blake Trust / Trianon Press Facsimiles All Other Facsimiles and Reproductions Reproductions of Manuscripts 53

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Books Featuring Reproductions of Blakes Art Illustrations to Youngs Night Thoughts Illustrations to Grays Poetry Illustrations to Miltons Poetry Illustrations to Blairs The Grave Illustrations to Thorntons Virgil Illustrations to the Book of Job Illustrations to Dante All Other Reproductions Catalogues and Bibliographies General 64 66 67 60 58 56 56 57 58 56

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Blakes Followers Edward Calvert Samuel Palmer

128 128 128 128 128 129 132

General Works on the Followers

Original Material

Bio/bibliographical Material Blake Set to Music Books and Ephemera Easson Slide Sets Romanticism 143 141 132 135

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 60

Illustrations to Bunyans Pilgrims Progress 60 64

The Paul Peter Piech Collection

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Collection Catalogues and Handbooks Exhibition Catalogues Auction Catalogues Biography and Criticism Books through 1900 Periodicals Blakes Circle 116 120 120 120 124 126 126 126 126 127 73 77 77 82

Sale and Dealer Catalogues, and Prospectuses

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Books from 1901 to the Present

George Cumberland John Flaxman Henry Fuseli William Hayley John Linnell George Romney Thomas Stothard John Varley

Preface
This bulk of this catalogue consists of the reference collection (with some rare books and prints) from the library of Roger R. Easson and Kay Parkhurst Easson. Roger and Kay have been devoted to Blake and his circle for over four decades and created the American Blake Foundation, whose publications can be found herein. The Eassons relationship with the University of Tulsa resulted in the donation to Tulsa of many of the rarest books and prints from their collection, and offered here is the enormous reference library they built, along with ephemera, an extensive collection of color slides of Blakes work, etc., as support for their rare book collection. At the end of this catalogue there is a section of inexpensive scholarly texts (many paperbacks and often annotated in ink) from their shelves; they are offered as listed by Roger Easson, and specially discounted for libraries, scholars, and students who may need multiple titles. By a happy coincidence, the books from the private collection of Roger Lipman, who bought some of the finest and rarest Blakes to have come to market in the last 20 years, came along at the same time. This provided the icing on the Eassons cake. Lipman had almost every significant Blake rarity that could be obtained in recent times, including such black tulips as Burgers Leonora, 1796 (item 56), Hayleys Ballads, 1802 (item 33), and Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825 (item 7) with the original label, invoice, and wrappers. To these are added the Blakes from inventory; all together this may perhaps be the largest booksellers catalogue of books by and about Blake and his circle ever to have been issued. A few notes about using this catalogue. The Eassons books frequently have underlining, marginal annotations, etc.; these have generally not been noted but prices have been kept as moderate as possible to reflect this. Indeed, every book has been priced within the last six months to be competitive with responsible online offerings. Some items have been repeated in different sections to make it easier to find them. In addition, a CD-ROM of the catalogue, with its entire text searchable, is included in place of an index; therefore, the writings of Erdman, for example, can quickly and easily be located within the several different sections where they are included. If the very human trait of wanting to collect the works by and about that remarkable man William Blake and the circle that sprang up around him, derives in part from the thrill of the chase and acquisition (and even perhaps the enjoyment of subsequent appreciation of values), it is nonetheless true that in the end it is the scholarly and aesthetic appreciation which go hand in hand to give the ultimate satisfaction. This catalogue is a testimony to the breadth and depth of material that comes with an interest in Blake and, despite its size, is but the tip of the iceberg of Blakeana that G.E. Bentley, Jr. devoted a lifetime to recording in his Blake Books, Blake Books Supplement, and Blake Records. Bentley notes that as many books were published about Blake from 1977 to 1995 as had been published from 1837 to 1976; since 1995 there has been no decline in the outpouring of material devoted to every aspect of Blakes life work, literary, artistic, philosophical, etc. In addition, it is important to note a truly remarkable modern resource, the William Blake Archive: a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor. The website has won two MLA awards and is regarded as a model of its kind. I personally owe an enormous debt to the kind, considerate, and generous scholars who over the years have shared their knowledge and understanding of Blake. Since my first employer in the 1960s, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (who had me working with the Blake Trust facsimiles they distributed for the Trianon Press), I have been blessed with a lineage of dealers, auctioneers, scholars, and collectors past and present, whom I wish to honor here. Richard Aaron, Nancy Bialler, Hattie Drummond, Andrew Edmonds, Arnold Fawcus, Colin and Charlotte Franklin, Donald Heald, Warren Howell, Ian Hustwick, David Llewellyn, Richard Lloyd, Nick Lott, Ed Maggs, Henry Wemyss, and Andrew Wyld in the commercial world; David Bindman, Robert Brandeis, Martin Butlin, John Commander, Dan De Simone, Detlef Drrbecker, Roger and Kay Easson, Morris Eaves, David Erdman, John Grant, Sandy Gourlay, Martin Hamlyn, Mary Lynn Johnson, Sarah Jones, Alan Jutzi, Tom Lange, Pamela and Raymond Lister, Karen Mulhallen, Morton Paley, and Joe

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William Blake Catalogue Viscomi in the library and scholarly world; and the collectors past and present I count myself happy to have met: Leonard Baskin, Raymond Danowski, Dick Estes, Adam Fuss, Alan Ginsberg, Elaine Klemen, Roger Lipman, Paul Mellon, Dean Pananides, Alan Parker, Lessing Rosenwald, Charles Ryskamp, Maurice Sendak, and Patti Smith, as well as those who prefer to remain anonymous though they are well known to those in the Blake world. Above all, however, I must place two people as my primi inter pares. Jerry Bentley (including, of course, Beth) has been generous with his time, knowledge, and funds, entrusting me with a few key purchases for the remarkable Bentley Collection now at Victoria University. We have gone to auctions together, most notably (and sadly) to the destructive sale of The Grave watercolors and we have broken bread together around the world in pursuit of Blake. If I have been of some slight assistance to him, he has returned the favor tenfold and I thank him and Beth profoundly for their company over the years. Bob Essick has been first and foremost a friend, with whom and for whom I have traveled widely, following leads he has suggested and attending auctions and book fairs on his behalf. It is humbling to have a customer whose knowledge is surely unequaled in his field, but he is a gentle patron and a kind friend who has saved me from some egregious errors in business and in bibliography. He edited this catalogue word for word, rewriting numerous entries and tidying up almost all of them; any appearance of scholarship is due to his sage and punctilious touch which turns booksellers fluff into solid matter. Numerous scholars, librarians, collectors, and dealers will attest to his generosity and I can only agree and thank him wholeheartedly for all his help. Although this is obviously a booksellers catalogue with no pretensions to be anything else, it is my hope that it may be of some value to librarians, collectors, and dealers in the future who become involved in Blake studies in some way or another. Blake wrote to William Hayley on May 28, 1804: I am not apt to believe literally what booksellers say. I hope that Blake might perhaps have been, if not pleased, at least amused that a bookseller would devote an entire catalogue to his canon. JW

For RNE

a high and generous spirit

Drawings and Paintings

1. Recto: The Last Trumpet. Pen and ink and ink wash over traces of pencil. Verso: in pencil, two studies of a right eye; a profile of an open-mouthed young man; the head of an eagle; the head of a lion, and the inscription 3/. London: ca. 1785. 81/16 85/16 inches (20.5 21.2 cm.). Framed, in fine condition. p.o.r. The Last Trumpet, lost since 1922, was acquired by the sculptor Frederick Tatham from Blakes widow and subsequently owned by the poet Francis Turner Palgrave (Butlin 1981, I, no. 617, p. 458). The composition is related to a pencil sketch Resurrection of the Dead (offered below) dated by Butlin to ca. 17801785 (Ibid., I, no. 79, p. 30; illus. II, fig. 77). The Last Trumpet was described by William Michael Rossetti as a drawing in Indian ink, An angel in the upper mid-plane of the design is blowing the trumpet, the tube of which comes forward in a conspicuous way. Souls, chiefly of women and children, are rising from the earth, and received by angels. The Biblical passage represented is from I Thessalonians 4:1617: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. This passage of Pauls letter to the Thessalonians calls on several Old Testament texts in which the trumpet is a means of gathering in the people of God and its sound a precursor to the sound of the voice of God himself (Isaiah 27:14, Joel 2:1, Zephaniah 1:1416, Isaiah 19:1619, for example). The lower right figure group in our drawing by Blake is repeated with some changes in The Day of Judgement etched by Luigi Schiavonetti for The Grave, a poem by Robert Blair published in 1808 (David Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, London 1978, plate 472). In his two-volume catalogue of Blakes work of 1981 Butlin had suggested the lost picture (this drawing) might be dated ca. 1805 and perhaps an illustration for The Grave, but when the drawing reappeared in 2000 he revised this opinion, recognizing it to be an early work of ca. 1785. This would accord with the recent sale of an early pencil drawing of the same subject, now offered here (see next item) which certainly dates to the early 1780s. Provenance: Mrs. Blake; Blakes executor Frederick Tatham (18051878); Sothebys 29 April 1862 (part of lot 173), bought by Francis Turner Palgrave; Pearson Catalogue 62 1886 (?); ? Sydney Style; anonymous sale Sothebys 23 March 1922 (lot 1208 with 7 Dante engravings), sold for 10 to Parsons. Literature: Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, 1863, II, p. 248, no. 86 (list compiled by William Michael Rossetti); Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, no. 617; Butlin, A Blake Drawing Rediscovered and Redated, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Summer 2000, 2224. Please note: this drawing is offered courtesy of W S Fine Art Ltd., Andrew Wyld (London). 2. Recto: The Resurrection of the Dead. Verso: in pencil, two studies of a leg, and of a bird. London: ca. 17801785. 67/8 97/16 inches (17.5 24 cm.), pencil on laid paper, clearly watermarked Pro Patria as noted by Butlin for two other drawings of the 1780s. Inscribed by Frederick Tatham: Drawn by William Blake / Vouched by Fredk. Tatham. $47,500. An important early preliminary drawing by Blake, characterized by Essick as the first thought for what was surely a major project, Blakes first visualization of the resurrection of the dead, one of the most important motifs in his art and poetry. This sketch is almost certainly a preliminary study for The Resurrection or The Last Trumpet, a wash drawing of ca. 17801785 (see above). Provenance: Mrs. Blake, Frederick Tatham, Alexander Macmillan, W. Graham Robertson, George Goyder, Lady Melchett, Maj. R.D. McDonald. 3. Recto: Untitled Visionary Head. Verso: blank. London: ca. 18191825. Pencil and black chalk, 143/16 101/4 inches (36 26 cm.). sold. A striking pencil drawing by Blake, heightened with chalk, the largest of all of Blakes visionary heads and hitherto unrecorded. It has been suggested that this may be the work sold from the Graham Robertson collection, 22 July 1949, with two other works in lot 58, described as a slight sketch of a head in a tall hat of the Italian renaissance (18.18s. to Maggs). That drawing, however, measured only 8 13 inches (20.3 33 cm.); note particularly that its height is less than its width (just the reverse of the drawing sold). For illustration and discussion, see Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Spring 2004. The canted cylinder forming the upper structure of the mans hat in this drawing resembles several varieties of helmets worn by horse-mounted soldiers during the Napoleonic era. The griffin decorating the hat recalls the eagle-headed and winged men in Jerusalem, plate 46. 1

item 1. The Last Trumpet. Pen and ink and ink wash over traces of pencil. London, ca. 1785.

William Blake Catalogue 4. Recto: Paolo and Francesca. Verso: blank. London: ca. 18241827. Single sheet of paper, 101/8 13 inches (20.7 33.1 cm.). Pencil. Inscribed in ink by Frederick Tatham Paolo and Francesca supposed for the Dante by Wm. Blake attested by Fredk. Tatham. Framed and glazed, in very good condition with no foxing or staining. Butlin notes a watermark of 1815. sold. A highly evocative and romantic drawing, full of life and passion, for Blakes last major work, the illustrations to Dantes Divine Comedy, being an image of the doomed lovers described by Dante in the first circle of Hell, canto 5, which does not occur in any of the finished drawings or prints though Keynes and Butlin note a similarity to the figures of Paolo and Francesca in The Whirlwind of Lovers. The encounter in which Francesca tells Dante
item 2. Detail, watermark, early preliminary pencil drawing for the Resurrection of the Dead, ca. 17801785.

Drawings and Paintings their sad tale is one of the most celebrated passages in the Commedia and indeed their fate is one of the most romantic stories in Western literature. The vigorous style of the drawing, executed with rapid strokes of the pencil without hesitation, is altogether typical of Blakes hand in the last decade of his life. Provenance: Mrs. Blake by inheritance; Frederick Tatham by inheritance; Quaritch by 1882, sold 1886 to the Blake collector W. Graham Robertson; his sale, Christies, in 1949; Mrs. Alastair Winterbottom. The drawing was exhibited by Robertson in 1906 and has otherwise remained unviewed and largely unknown, having only changed hands thrice in over 180 years. Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, no. 816 (giving all the references and provenance information). See also Kerrison Prestons catalogue of the Graham Robertson collection, the finest collection of Blakes drawings and paintings ever formed. Keynes, Pencil Drawings, First Series, no. 79 has an excellent reproduction of the drawing.

item 2. Recto, early preliminary pencil drawing for the Resurrection of the Dead, ca. 17801785.

item 2. Verso, early preliminary pencil drawing for the Resurrection of the Dead, ca. 17801785.

Illuminated Books
5. Songs of Innocence. Plate 23. Spring. 17891794. Mounted and archivally matted. The image only, printed in color and with additional handwork by Blake in watercolor and pen-and-ink within the image (see fuller notes below). sold. Trimmed to the design only, 15/16 215/16 inches (2.8 7.5 cm.). (including the vine extensions left and right). Etched in relief 1789, color printed and hand-colored ca. 17941796. One of only three plates from Innocence with color printing; the others are the designs only of plates 5 (The Shepherd) and 22 (the first plate of Spring), now both at the Yale Center for British Art. This is the only Blake etching known which has been cut along a design elementin this case, a vineto create a decorative frame. Blake may have printed the designs only, and masked the texts, of these 3 plates as part of, or as an experiment leading up to, his Small Book of Designs of 1796. Provenance: sold The Property of a Lady, Sothebys Belgravia, 5 April 1977, lot 207: to Easson. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 112 and 130. 6. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74 pp. Contemporary half calf, backstrip gilt, a very good copy in a contemporary binding. With an original plate from sold. the Songs. First Typographical Edition, the issue with the poem The Little Vagabond not present. This copy is unique in that it has been bound with a frontispiece, being an original plate from the Songs. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace 2009, described it thus: Introduction to Songs of Experience. A previously unrecorded posthumous impression in gray-black ink on wove paper without watermark, the sheet trimmed to [71/16 45/16 inches] 17.9 11 cm. to match the leaf size of a copy of William Pickerings 1839 ed. of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, into which this impression is bound as a frontispiece. Platemark [415/16 27/8 inches] 12.5 7.3 cm. (slightly larger than lifetime impressions, as is the case with all posthumous impressions). Inscribed in pencil below the image, See P. 37. (a reference to the page in the Pickering ed. on which the Introduction poem begins). Inscribed in pencil on the verso of the print, probably in the same hand, From a print shop in West Street, / given me by my Bro in Law / Mr. W. M. H. / 1857, / A. H. The recto of the front flyleaf inscribed in ink, Adelaide A. L. Hewetson. / From her husband, with affection. / 15th Nov. 1861. Adelaide Hewetson was the wife of John Hewetson (died 1876); they may have been related to H. Bendelack Hewetson, whose book of 1880, The Influence of Joy upon the Workman and his Work, contains reproductions of two of Blakes illustrations to Robert Blairs The Grave. In the pencil inscription on the verso of the print, A. H. is no doubt Adelaide Hewetson; W. M. H. must have been her husbands brother (possibly William M. Hewetson?). A final pencil inscription, on the verso of the front free endpaper, briefly describes the life of Roger Langois, an artist said to be a pupil of Flaxmans. This inscription seems unrelated to either the print or the book. This copy may have been a presentation copy from, or have belonged to, the editor J.J. Garth Wilkinson who has boldly signed the (anonymous) preface in pencil. Bentley, Blake Books, 171.

Separate Plates and Prints in Series

designed and engraved by blake
7. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 125/8 10 inches (32 25.4 cm.), engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Light foxing as always, a brilliant set; preserved in a red cloth box, morocco label titled in gilt. $87,500. First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word Proof removed). This set was last sold by Sesslers in Philadelphia in 1957, with their description present: In perfect and brilliant condition. It still is one of the finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blakes major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blakes last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of Biblical quotations, is above and below each image. It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blakes most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 17901914, no. 8). Provenance: private collection New York since 1957. 8. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 125/8 10 inches (32 25.4 cm.), engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Some foxing in several of the plates, modern half red morocco. The original label and invoice from 1826 are preserved at the front, and the original hand-lettered brown paper wrappers at the back. $82,500. First edition, limited to 150 proof sets. 9. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 125/8 10 inches (32 25.4 cm.), engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on French paper. Light foxing as always, a brilliant set; in the original blue paper boards as issued. $75,000.

item 7. Title plate, engraving for Illustrations of the Book of Job, proof set. London, 1826.

item 7. 1957 sales slip for Illustrations of the Book of Job from Philadelphia bookseller Charles Sessler.

William Blake Catalogue First edition, limited to 65 sets printed on French paper. This is, quite simply, the finest copy of this printing I have ever seen. 10. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London: March 8, 1825. Plate 19, Every one also gave him a piece of money Printed on handmade paper. A fine dark and rich proof impression from the original printing, in very good condition with full margins. $3950. Single plate from the suite of 65 sets on French paper. 11. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Title-page. London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2000. Single plate from the posthumous edition printed for Linnell by Holdgate Brothers from the original plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 421B. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625641C. 12. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 3: Thy Sons and thy Daughters London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2500. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 13. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 6: And smote Job with sore Boils London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2250. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 14. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 7: And when they lifted up their eyes London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2000. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 15. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 8: Let the Day perish London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2000. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 16. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 16: Thou hast fulfilled the Judgement of the Wicked London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2750. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 17. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 17: I have heard thee London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2500. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 18. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 18: And my Servant Job shall pray for you London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Engraving on India paper mounted on thick card paper. $2250. Single plate from the posthumous edition. 19. Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake and by him Engraved and Published October 8 1810. [London: probably prior to the first Colnaghi printing, about 5 March 1881]. Impression measures 365/8 1113/16 inches (93.9 30 cm.), printed on India paper and mounted on heavy wove paper; archivally matted, in fine condition. $17,500. Fifth and final state, with all the flaws denoting an extremely early printing still clearly visible, with much plate tone and with the preliminary drypoint lettering near the letters subsequently engraved clearly visible. Blake made substantial changes in the fourth state of this famous plate and it is only in the last two states of the plate that

Separate Plates and Prints in Series

item 19. Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims, engraving, fifth and final state. London, ca. 1881.

we find Blakes mature artistry as an original printmaker, bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings. Essick, Separate Plates of William Blake, XVI. See also William Blake, Printmaker. 20. George Cumberlands Card [Pasted into a copy of Bristol Beauties by George Cumberland]. London: W. Blake inv. and sc., 1827. Small 8vo, original half calf and marbled boards, neatly restored. The Blake plate is tipped onto the frontispiece below a photo of George Cumberland, Jr. Printed in black ink on a thick card. 4 5 inches (10.2 12.8 cm.), image 15/16 33/16 inches (3.4

8.1 cm.) as issued. Finely printed, in very good condition, trimmed close to the image and pasted down on the flyleaf. $29,500. Blakes last engraving, executed for one of his closest friends. The images invoke one of Blakes greatest themesthe relationships between time and eternity. Although probably intended as a calling card, two books have been located with this card pasted in, both written by George Cumberland, Jr. As George Cumberland, Sr. (who commissioned the plate) had 20 copies printed shortly after Blakes death which he gave to his two sons Sydney and George, Jr., it is likely that this card is one of those and thus one of the earliest of the printings. Thirty-nine examples of this print are known to Essick, not including examples now untraced (all but three on laid paper printed later, and three on card, of which one is described as printed in green ink); it is now quite rare. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, XXI: this impression not recorded.

item 7. Behemoth and Leviathan, engraving for Illustrations of the Book of Job, proof set. London, 1826.

item 20. Title page spread of Bristol Beauties, with tippedin frontispiece photograph of George Cumberland with Cumberlands card underneath. London, 1848.

item 20. George Cumberlands card. Blakes last engraving on the relationship between time and eternity, designed and printed for his close friend. London, 1827.

William Blake Catalogue 21. George Cumberlands Card. Sheet 4 5 inches (10.2 12.8 cm.), image 15/16 33/16 inches (3.4 8.1 cm.) respectively. Printed in pale brown on a small 8vo sheet. Delicately printed, with three tiny ink spots within the margins, in very fine condition. $17,500. Blakes last engraving, a posthumous impression as usually found. 22. Illustrations of Dante. London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Large folio, the complete set of seven line engravings; fine clear uniform impressions on India paper, mounted on wove paper, with almost none of the habitual foxing. In a green morocco case lettered in gilt, with the original label loosely inserted. sold. Philip Hofers set, inscribed by him in pencil as originating from Linnells collection. As fine a set as I have ever seen. John Linnell commissioned Blake to produce engravings for the Divine Comedy but they remained unfinished at his death in 1827 and became the property of Linnell, who published 38 sets in September of 1838. Another printing of 50 copies can be dated to ca. 1892; it is sometimes found in a full green morocco portfolio. The two printings are difficult to distinguish, for the quality of the 1892 printing is very fine and equals that of the 1838 printing. Though unfinished, these prints are still reckoned among the most powerful and moving of Blakes images and are especially impressive by virtue of their large size. Bentley, Blake Books, 448. Essick, The Printings of William Blakes Dante Engravings, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Fall 1990. 23. Illustrations of Dante. London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Large folio, the complete set of seven line engravings; fine, clear uniform impressions on India paper, mounted on wove

Separate Plates and Prints in Series paper. In a green morocco case lettered in gilt, with the original label and an early description loosely inserted in an envelope. p.o.r. Another set; see comments in the previous entry. 24. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 2: Circle of the Corrupt Officials, the Devils torturing Ciampolo London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. $8750. 25. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 4: Circle of Thieves. Agnolo Brunelleschi attacked by a six-footed serpent London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. $12,500. 26. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 5: Circle of Thieves. Buoso Donati attacked by the serpent London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. $8500. 27. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 6: Circle of the Falsifiers, Dante and Virgil covering their noses London, 1838 or ca. 1892. Fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper, a bit foxed. $7500. 28. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 2: Circle of the Corrupt Officials, the Devils torturing Ciampolo London, 1968. Clear uniform impression on handmade paper, matted. $2500. The 1968 printing, one of 25 sets printed for Lessing Rosenwald from the original plates, which were cleaned and inked to create very strong dark impressions full of contrast (and very different from the Linnell printings). Bentley, Blake Books, 448D. Essick, The Printings of William Blakes Dante Engravings, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Fall 1990. 29. Illustrations of Dante. Plate 6: Circle of the Falsifiers, Dante and Virgil covering their noses London, 1968. Fine, clear uniform impression on handmade paper, matted. $1750. Also from the 1968 printing. after Jean-Antoine Watteau. Two oval stipple-engravings printed in sepia, with touches of hand-coloring in blue and rose. Cleaned recently. sold. Second and final state of each. Morning is known in 7 copies in all, 3 of the first state and 4 of the second. Evening is known in 6 copies in all, 1 of the first state, 4 of the second, and 1 unidentified. Of the greatest rarity, these were the first separate prints executed by Blake after release from his apprenticeship in August of 1779. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, XXII and XXIII. 31. The Idle Laundress. [with] The Industrious Cottager. Engraved by Blake after George Morland. London: J.R. Smith, 1788. 2 prints, images 81/4 101/4 inches (21 26 cm.), with full margins and imprints. Color printed, uniformly browned, in very good condition. sold. Second state of The Idle Laundress, third state of The Industrious Cottager, beautifully color-printed and heightened by hand. These two prints were designed to be issued together but they are extremely rarely found so. The first is known in one copy of the first state, and Essick records only two copies of the second state (BM and Keynes); Essick has the third state (printed in 1803). The second plate is known in one copy each of the first and second states, and 4 copies of the third state. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, XXX and XXXI. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace 2009, records only two copies selling in the last 30 years.

plates by blake and thomas butts, father and son

32. Christ Trampling on Satan. [London: ca. 18061808]. Engraved by Thomas Butts, Jr., after Blakes design. Folio sheet with wide margins, plate mark 123/8 61/2 inches (31.5 16.4 cm.). Image 97/16 53/8 inches (24 13.6 cm.). In very fine clean condition, printed on wove paper. $1750. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, XLIV: one state only. 17 examples recorded, and 14 untraced (probably including some duplicates). The largest and most important plate executed by Butts (and possibly his father) under Blakes instruction, and the only one definitely based directly on one of Blakes own designs (see Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, no. 526, now National Museum of Walesa lovely pen and wash drawing dated to ca. 1800). Blake apparently lent or gave this drawing to Butts.

engraved by blake after designs by other artists

item 23. The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca Da Rimini, line engraving included in set of Illustrations of Dante, London, 1838 or ca. 1892.

30. Morning Amusement [and] Evening Amusement. London: August 10th and 21st, 1782. Engraved by Blake

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33. Hayley, William. Designs to a Series of Ballads, Written by William Hayley, Esq. and Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals. Drawn, Engraved, and Published by William Blake; with the Ballads Annexed, by the Authors Permission. Chichester. Printed by J. Seagrave, and sold by him and P. Humphry (et al.) for W. Blake, 1802. 4to, iv, 9 pp. With a frontispiece, a full-page plate (The Elephant), and three smaller plates including a view of Chichester Cathedral from a distance. Old half brown morocco, usual offsetting. $89,500. First edition of the prefatory matter and the first ballad (of four). One of the rarest letterpress publication containing engravings by Blake. The frontispiece, Adam and the Beasts, is one of Blakes most alluring images. The illustrations were drawn, engraved, and printed by Blake himself. The work was a financial disaster, and unfortunately Blake had borne most of the publication costs. He was eventually reduced to reusing unsewn sheets of the 1802 Ballads for sketch paper. Geoffrey Keynes, writing in 1921, states: This edition of the ballads is now extremely rare Keynes knew of only three copies: Huntington, B.B. MacGeorge, and W.A. White. Essick (see below) locates 7 complete copies (Cambridge, Essick, Huntington [2 copies], Library of Congress (Rosenwald Collection), Princeton, Trinity College (Hartford), and one untraced copy. Incomplete copies are at Bodleian Library (first ballad only), Westminster Public Library (Preston Collection, first ballad only), Library Company of Philadelphia (first ballad only), British Museum (ballads 12), G.E. Bentley, Jr. collection at Victoria University (ballads 12), Cambridge University Library (Keynes Collection, ballads 12 and a copy of ballad 2), National Library of Wales (ballads 13). Windle, Collecting William Blake, 9: 14 illustrations were designed and engraved by Blake and printed by him and his wife on their own handpress in the cottage at Felpham. Very few copies are known to exist but it is of great importance in the canon and separate plates do occasionally turn upall that most collectors can ever hope for. The copy offered here is the Monckton Milnes, Earl of Crewe, Moss, Todd, Bentley, Essick, Klemen, Lipman copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 466. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. I, VI. Essick, A Census of Complete Copies of Designs to a Series of Ballads, 1802, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Spring 2000. 34. Hayley, William. Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (8), 212 pp. With 5 engraved plates by Blake after his own designs. Original drab gray boards, printed paper label, a very fine copy. Ink signature on front free endpaper of Norman Davey dated 1913. Bookplate. $10,500. First edition, with the first three plates in the first state of two (plates 4 and 5 exist only in one state). The only other copy I have ever seen in the original boards was sold in 1992. Bentley, Blake Books, 465. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, VIII. 35. [another copy] Very early marbled boards, red roan backstrip lettered in gilt (worn), a very fine copy with large margins showing the plate marks. Bookplate of Lord Eversley. $6750. First edition, with the first three plates in the first state. 11

item 32. Christ Trampling on Satan, engraved by Thomas Butts, Jr., after a design by Blake. London, ca. 18061808.

item 33. Adam and the Beasts, frontispiece designed and engraved by Blake for William Hayleys Designs to a Series of Ballads. Chichester, 1802.

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William Blake Catalogue 36. [another copy] Polished calf, covers panelled in gilt, backstrip richly gilt, raised bands, gilt edges, a fine copy bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, so signed. Inoffensive ink inscription on front free endpaper. $4750. First edition, with the first three plates in the second state. 37. Hayley, William. Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper Chichester: J. Seagrave, 18031804. 3 vols., 4to, (2), xii, (8), 413; (4), 424; (6), xxxi, 416 pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text, the latter designed and engraved by Blake, the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Old diaper calf rebacked, new labels, a good set. $975. Second edition, final, and much improved, state of the Weatherhouse plate designed by Blake. Hayley, a considerable literary figure who had known Cowper personally, was the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their friend and patron Hayley. Bentley, Blake Books, 468A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIV. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. I, VII. Bound in at the end is another book entitled: Cowper, illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks London, 1803, published by Vernor and Hood and with an engraved title and 12 plates by Storer and Greig. This added text has nothing to do with Blake and only relates to William Cowper. 38. Thornton, Robert John. The Pastorals of Virgil London, 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (vii/viii), 12, xxiv (i/ iv), 214 pp; [I], [215]592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and three other designs by Blake engraved by others. Also one design by Poussin, drawn by Blake and engraved on wood by Byfield. Full polished calf, red and black labels, edges stained yellow, by Pratt. Bookplate in each volume of George Goyder. sold. A very fine copy of a scarce work in any condition as it was issued for use in schools. Blake contributed 17 woodcuts to this volume (as well as 10 other plates, of which he engraved six) which were not well received; nor were they well treated by the publisher who cut down the blocks and

Commercial Book Illustrations printed them erratically. Only a few proofs before they were trimmed are now extant. These blocks have remained among the most influential woodcuts in the history of British art and their influence can be seen in Calvert and Palmers art all the way up to the present. The blocks were saved by Linnell and were printed not long after Blakes death as separate impressions (perhaps by Calvert), and again in 1977 as a set by Iain Bain. Any impressions are now very hard to find. For a full discussion of this wonderful book, see Essicks masterly monograph A Troubled Paradise (San Francisco: John Windle, 1999). Bentley, Blake Books, 504. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. I, X. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, LIII. 39. [another copy] Old half brown morocco, marbled boards and edges, gilt-lettered backstrips, a little scuffed sold. and worn but internally fine. An apparently unique copy, possibly a remainder issue, with a small printed slip pasted over the pricing details at the foot of the title-page of volume I that reads: At the French and English Juvenile Library, No. 195, (St. Clements), Strand. In volume II the price of 15s has been scratched away. 40. [another copy] Retrospective early 19th-century full calf, red labels, by Court Benson. $47,500. A very good copy. 41. 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. London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 original woodcuts printed 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 back$6500. strip. As issued. Limited to 150 sets, this superb reprinting of Blakes woodcuts from the original blocks was executed by Iain Bain (the Bewick authority) and sold out immediately. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 262. 42. Essick, Robert N., and John Windle. A Troubled Paradise. William Blakes Virgil Wood Engravings. With an Afterword on Collecting William Blake by John Windle. San Francisco: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, 1999. Tall slim 8vo, 48 pp., 8 plates, hand-sewn in Japanese paper, finely printed with illustrations depicting some of Blakes original drawings and proofs, and the complete set of published prints. Enclosed in a folding quarter cloth box as issued. $3500. Deluxe edition, limited to 13 copies, each with an original Blake woodcut print matted and contained in the box. This is copy number IV and has the wonderfully moody woodcut of the waning moon over a plowed field with a lightning-blasted tree in the foreground (the fifth cut in the book and one of the most important: as Essick notes [p. 12]: The riven tree in the fifth design becomes the objective correlative of the shepherds sadness, its bifurcation evocative of the self-divisions of self-consciousness.). The text was designed and printed by Marianne Hinckle at the Ano Nuevo Island Press, bound and hand-sewn by Taurus Bookbinders. Essicks essay on the 1821 edition of Robert John Thorntons The Pastorals of Virgil offers insight into the inspiration and creation for Blakes wood engravings for Thorntons work and is illustrated with eight plates of Blakes wood engravings, proofs, and drawings. Windles essay describes twenty of Blakes major books and prints with points for collectors and dealers to be aware of. The woodcuts (lacking four) had been cut from an original edition of Thorntons Virgil by A. Edward Newton and pasted into an album as a gift for his daughter Caroline. They were removed from the album and archivally restored and matted for this edition by Zukor Art Services. 43. [Thornton, Robert John]. Remember Me! A New Years Gift or Christmas Present, 1825. London: I. Poole, [1824]. Small 8vo, xxiv, 372 pp. With an engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings including one by Blake and one based on a design by Linnell. 8 hand-colored botanical plates (4 after Thorntons Temple of Flora and 4 by Miss Thornton), 8 plates of engraved music, and a calendar with an engraved title-page and 6 plates. Publishers original printed white paper boards, original color-printed slipcase. Slight wear but a fine copy of this fragile booklet in its rarest sold. format. First edition, first issue of the book (no state variance in the plate). One of the rarest of all of the plates designed and engraved by Blake. The plate, titled The Hiding of Moses was the last plate designed and engraved by Blake himself for a commercial publication; the original drawing Moses placed in the Ark of Bulrushes, which closely echoes a tempera now untraced that was executed some 25 years earlier, is in the Huntington Library. Interestingly, the text refers to the skills of Blake as an artist in his rendition of this scene, a rare complimentary reference to Blake in a contemporary publication. Keynes, Blake Studies, chap. 13

item 34. The Fatal Horse, designed and engraved by Blake for William Hayleys Ballads. Chichester, 1805.

item 38. Thenot and Colinet, woodcut designed and executed by Blake for Robert John Thorntons The Pastorals of Virgil. London, 1821.

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William Blake Catalogue XIX, noting his six variant issues (none of which conform exactly with this copy). Bentley, Blake Books, 490A. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, XI (recording the Rosenwald proof and 3 copies). An added delight is the Linnell plate The Storm. Although small in size, The Hiding of Moses is one of Blakes supreme achievements in traditional intaglio graphics. In this respect, it is comparable to his Job engravings, but far rarer. This copy is in the publishers most innovative and desirable binding; exceptionally rare with the slipcase. 44. Wollstonecraft, Mary. Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations, Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and form the Mind to Truth and Goodness. A New Edition. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1791. 12mo, xii, 177, (3, ads.) pp., with 6 plates by Blake after his own designs. Modern polished tree calf, gilt backstrip, red and green labels, top edge gilt, a very tall copy in fine condition. Some plates have offset onto the facing page as usual. Joints restored. $6750. First edition to contain William Blakes characteristic illustrations, reminiscent in iconography to his designs for his own Songs of Innocence (1789). This copy has all the plates in the second, and much improved, state. This collection of didactic tales for youth, in part reinforcing the lessons of Wollstonecrafts first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, proved her most popular book, going through five editions by 1800. Bentley, Blake Books, 514A. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. I, III. Windle, Bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, A3b. 45. Young, Edward. The Complaint and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, viii, [1], 95, [2] pp. With the Explanation of the Engravings leaf, and 43 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. Full green morocco ca. 1890, gilt top, covers rehinged, a wonderfully well-margined copy, uncut at the fore- and lower edges. Armorial gilt stamps on both covers, armorial bookplate dated 1891, and modern bookplate $25,000. ff at front. First edition, the Henry Martin GibbsRobert N. Essick copy with Essicks notes recording that two plates are in the very rare proof state before imprint and (equally rare) only two plates with the imprints trimmed awaythis copy measuring the same as the only copy in original boards uncut that I have owned, at 17 131/8 inches (43.2 33.3 cm.). Blake completed 537 watercolor designs when he

Commercial Book Illustrations was commissioned to illustrate Youngs masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four Nights and possibly had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market, though the usual explanation is that Edwards went out of business before more Nights could be published. The response must have been tepid since no further Nights were published. The poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is today all but forgotten, save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 17901914, 3. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. I, IV. 46. [another copy] Modern straight-grain dark blue morocco by Aquarius, a very tall well-margined copy, untrimmed at the fore- and lower edges. $22,500. First edition, the Coleridge family copy with the bookplate of Bernard Lord Coleridge (Lord Chief Justice) and family signatures of J.T., Mary, and Jane Coleridge. 47. [another copy] A disbound copy in loose sheets, foreedges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges touching or partly touching 9 imprints (as usual except in totally uncut copies). Clean throughout except for two tiny stains on pages 90 and 91. The prior binding has been converted to a folder for the $15,000. loose leaves. First edition, with Essicks notes, recording the 9 imprints trimmed (some partially) away, on a blank sheet at front. This copy is perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing.

designed by blake and engraved by others

48. Blair, Robert. The Grave. A Poem. London: Bensley for Cromek, 1808. 4to, xiv, 36, (4) pp. With a portrait frontispiece after Phillips, etched title-page, and 11 plates engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti after Blakes designs. Original drab gray boards, printed paper label on upper cover, skillfully rebacked to match. $9750. First quarto edition, of exceptional rarity in boards as issued. A completely untrimmed copy, thus with the titlepage uncropped. Bentley, Blake Books, 435B. 49. [another edition] To which is added a Life of the Author. London: Bensley for Ackermann, 1813 [i.e. 1870]. 4to, (2), liv, 42 pp. With a portrait frontispiece, etched title, and 11 plates. Quarter brown calf, marbled boards, upper joint rubbed at head, occasional foxing or oxidization, a $975. good copy. Third quarto edition, printed from the same plates as both the 1808 and 1813 editions, but with the Spanish texts removed and the English texts restored in imitation of the true 1813 edition; actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Bentley, Blake Books, 435E.

item 43. Color-printed slipcase for Robert John Thorntons Remember Me! London, 1824.

item 43. The Hiding of Moses, last commercial illustration designed and engraved by Blake, in Robert John Thorntons Remember Me! London, 1824.

item 44. The Dog Strove to Attract his Attention, designed and engraved by Blake for Mary Wollstonecrafts Original Stories from Real Life. London, 1791.

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William Blake Catalogue 50. Blair, Robert. (separate plate) Deaths Door in The Grave. London: Cadell and Davis [sic], 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. $675. First published state from the very rare first folio edition, this is one of the best-known plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435A.

Commercial Book Illustrations 51. Blair, Robert. (separate plate) The Death of The Good Old Man in The Grave. London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. $675. First published state from the very rare first folio edition, this is another well-known plate in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435A. 52. De Mora, Jose Joaquin. (separate plate) El Valle de la Muerte Drawn by W. Blake. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti. Londres: R. Ackermann, 1826. Single plate, etching on wove paper, plate mark 11 61/2 inches (27.9 16.5 cm.), ample margins, a little dusty but very good. $275. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death from De Moras Meditaciones Poeticas, 1826. These are the same copperplates as those used for editions of Blairs The Grave, but with the English inscriptions removed and Spanish inscriptions substituted for publication of De Moras poems, each a response to one of Blakes designs. The only separate prints I have seen on the market in over 40 years of dealing in Blake are these 4, from the Essick collection released after acquiring a complete copy of the book. Bentley, Blake Books, page 529, and Blake Books Supplement, page 200 (noting that although Ackermanns name appears as publisher, the London Catalogue gives Murray as the publisher). 53. De Mora, Jose Joaquin. (separate plate) La Puerta de la Muerte Drawn by W. Blake. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti. Londres: R. Ackermann, 1826. Single plate, etching on wove paper, plate mark 113/4 63/4 inches (29.8 17.1 cm.), ample margins, a little dusty but very good. $275. Deaths Door from De Moras Meditaciones Poeticas, 1826. 54. De Mora, Jose Joaquin. (separate plate) La Muerte del Impio Drawn by W. Blake. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti. Londres: R. Ackermann, 1826. Single plate, etching on wove paper, plate mark 91/4 11 inches (23.5 27.9 cm.), ample margins, a little dusty but very good. $275. Death of the Strong Wicked Man from De Moras Meditaciones Poeticas, 1826. 55. De Mora, Jose Joaquin. (separate plate) La Resurreccion Drawn by W. Blake. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti. Londres: R. Ackermann, 1826. Single plate, etching on wove paper, plate mark 113/4 9 inches (29.8 22.9 cm.), ample margins, a little dusty but very good. $275. The Reunion of the Soul and the Body from De Moras Meditaciones Poeticas, 1826. 56. Burger, G.A. Stanley, J. T., trans. Leonora. A Tale, Translated and altered from the German of Gottfried Augustus Burger. [bound with], Burger, G.A.: Lenore. Ein Gedicht. [bound with], Seward, Anna. Llangollen Vale London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller, 1796; London: Gedrucht Bey S. Gosnell, 1796; London for G. Sael, 1796. 3 vols. in one, small 4to, xi, 16 pages in the first work, (and 2 others). With a frontispiece (slightly stained in outer margin of the image) and 2 illustrations (headpiece and tailpiece) designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Early quarter red morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip. Ink signature of Dayne Bell (?) at front, with a letter from J (?) Nicholson giving him the book. $19,750. 17

item 45. The folly and danger of pursuing the pleasures of sense as the chief objects of life illustrated by the figure of Death just ready to throw his pall over a young and wanton female. Engraving by Blake for Edward Youngs Night Thoughts. London, 1797.

item 48. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body, engraving designed by Blake for Robert Blairs The Grave. London, 1808.

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William Blake Catalogue First edition with Blakes illustrations, ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain illustrations designed by Blake. Four copies have sold in the last 30 years; none have appeared at auction. The year 1796 saw three translations of Burgers Lenore, one by J.T. Stanley, one by H.J. Pye, the Poet Laureate, and a third by W.R. Spencer, with designs by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Blake was commissioned to create three illustrations for the Stanley translation, including the frontispiece, Lenore, clasping her spectral bridegroom, which is famous for supposedly having hung as a separate print in C.G. Jungs office. The British Critic for September, 1796, spitefully compared Lady Dianas pictures with those of Blakes: We are highly impressed by the propriety, decorum and grace which characterises all the figures of this elegant artist [Lady Beauclerk], even those of a preternatural kind; forming a most striking contrast to the distorted, absurd and impossible monsters exhibited in the frontispiece to Mr. Stanleys last edition [i.e. Blakes design]. Nor can we pass by this opportunity of execrating that detestable taste, founded on the depraved fancy of one man of genius, which substitutes deformity and extravagance for force and expression, and draws men and women without skin, with their joints all dislocated; or imaginary beings which neither can nor ought to exist. The Analytical Review chimed in with comments including perfectly ludicrous, instead of terrific. Bentley, Blake Books, 440. Easson and Essick, William Blake: Book Illustrator, vol. II, XLVI. 57. Malkin, Benjamin Heath. A Fathers Memoirs of His Child. London: printed for Longman by T. Bensley, 1806. 8vo, iv, xlviii, 172 pp. With a frontispiece by Blake engraved by Cromek, and three plates (one folding). Contemporary straight-grained green morocco, backstrip darkened to brown, joints scuffed but sound, a very well-margined copy $1875. virtually untrimmed. First edition. Signed Olivia Bernard Sparrow on the title in an early hand. Bookplate of Kimbolton Castle. Malkin knew Blake well and in the long preface he devotes 24 pp. to an account of his friends life and genius, the first recorded account of Blake by a contemporary. The biographical account of Blake and his poetry (pp. xviiixli) are described by Keynes as the earliest available obtained from Blake himself. This is the first letterpress printing of several of Blakes best-known lyrics, including an interesting variant in the text of The Tyger. Bentley, Blake Books, page 18 (a good note on the book) and no. 482. 58. Scott, William Bell. William Blake Etchings from His Works With Descriptive Text. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Folio, 8 pp. of text and 10 plates. Original cloth-backed printed boards worn, repaired at head and foot. $375. First edition. An interesting collection, complete with 8 mounted original etchings on India proof paper and two lithographs, executed by Scott after Blakes designs. 59. Varley, John. A Treatise of Zodiacal Physiognomy, illustrated with engravings of heads and features. London: for the author and sold by Longman, 1828. 8vo, iv, 60 pp. Engraved frontispiece (plate 2) and 5 plates (complete) by John Linnell after Varley with contributions by William

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item 53. La Puerta de la Muerte, etching, separate plate. Designed by Blake, for inclusion in Jose Joaquin de Moras Meditaciones Poeticas. London, 1826.

item 56. O! how I dreamt of things impossible, frontispiece engraving designed by Blake for Gottfried Augustus Burgers Leonora. London, 1796.

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William Blake Catalogue Blake including a self-portrait and three plates based on Blakes famous Visionary Heads. Contemporary calf antique, backstrip tooled and lettered in gilt, red morocco label, by Benson. A beautifully restored copy of this great rarity. sold. First edition of this elusive Blake item, described by Gilchrist in 1863 as that singular and now very scarce book, and by Michael Rossetti as a precious and almost undiscoverable brochure. The BL copy is imperfect, lacking the final Blake plate. Although the printed front wrapper states No. 1 To be completed in four parts, no more parts appeared, perhaps because Varley was so constantly in debt. His publication had much to do with the contemporary fascination for physiognomy as well as astrology. Besides Blakes figure of the constellation Cancer, which may be a caricature self-portrait of Blake, it includes the most curious of all these visionary heads, and the most talked about (Gilchrist I, p. 254), the ghost of a flea, seen with mouth open, and in the next plate with jaw tightly shut. How Blake came to draw the apparition, and how he reported its explanation of the spirit world to Varley, is famously described on pp. 5455. The plates are in the order as described by Keynes. Keynes 248: extremely rare. Bentley, Blake Books, 501.

Commercial Book Illustrations plates. London: J. Johnson, 1798. Plates only. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted, good impressions of the plates, with the imprints untrimmed. $1250. One of Blakes scarcer works, seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. The plates are strong and lively renditions of moments such as the death of Cleopatra; with the recent discovery of an original drawing by Fuseli for Allens English History (now in the Essick Collection) we now are quite sure that the illustrations for both volumes were drawn by Fuseli. Bentley, Blake Books, 416. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXVII. 61. Ariosto, Lodovico. Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Lodovico Ariosto; With Notes By John Hoole. London: Printed for the Author; Sold by T. Bathurst, Payne and Son, 1783. 5 vols., 8vo, pp. [vii], cxxxi, 335; [iii], 407; [iii], 427; [iii], 438; 322, vi, [55, Index and Errata]. With an engraved plate in each volume, 3 other engraved plates in volume 1, Blake plate at p. 164 in volume 3. Old polished tree calf, gilt backstrip, rubbed, new labels, a good clean set. $1195. First edition (and thus) first state of the Blake plate. Blakes engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicted the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: In a letter to William Hayley, Blake states that he is absorbed in the study of several poets including Ariosto. Bentley, Blake Books, 417A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XII. 62. Bryant, Jacob. A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology Wherein an attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable; and to reduce Truth to its Original Purity. In this Work is given an History of the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Canaanites, Helladians, Ionians, Lelegs, Dorians, Pelasgi: Also of the Scyth, IndoScyth, Ethiopians, Phenicians. The Whole contains an Account of the principal Events in the first Ages, from Deluge to the Dispersion; also the various Migrations, which ensued, and the Settlements made afterwards in different Parts: Circumstances of great Consequence, which were subsequent to the Gentile History of Moses. London: Payne, 17751776. 3 vols., 4to, 20, 516; vi, 536, 26 (ads); viii, 602 pp. With 27 engraved plates and 3 maps, (two folding), by Basire, Chambers, and Bartolozzi. Contemporary calf, gilt panelled backstrips, red and green labels, some cracking to joints but sound, head and foot of backstrips chipped, one free endpaper loose. Withal, an attractive set in excellent condition internally. $1500. Second edition of volumes III and first of volume III (there is no second edition of volume III). It is my purpose in the ensuing work to give an account of the first ages; and of the great events, which happened in the infancy of the world. In consequence, I shall lay before the reader, what Gentile writers have said upon this subject, collaterally with the accounts given by Moses, as long as I find him engaged in the general history of mankind. Bentley, Blake Books, 439B: It is highly likely that Blake had some hand in at least a few of Basires [28] engravings. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, p. 117: There is a good possibility that Blake worked on the plates. I am not able, however, to determine the extent of his involvement, nor to attribute individual plates to his hand, with any certainty. Bentley, Blake Books, 439B. 63. Bryant, Jacob. A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology Wherein an attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable; and to reduce Truth to its Original Purity. With a Portrait and some Account of the Author; a Vindication of the Apamean Medal; Observations and Inquiries relating to various Parts of Antient History; a complete Index, and Forty-one Plates, neatly engraved. London: J. Walker [and 20 other booksellers], 1808. 6 vols., 8vo, with 41 plates reengraved after Basire, Chambers, and Bartolozzi chiefly by J. LeKeux, and none by Blake (see below). Contemporary calf, gilt panelled backstrips, red and green labels, gilt supra-libros on all covers, rebacked and a bit worn. Withal, an attractive set in excellent condition internally. $675. Third edition, so stated but actually the fourth after 3 quarto editions. Bentley, Blake Books, 439B: all the plates had to be re-engraved to supplement ten new plates. 64. Cumberland, George. Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that guided the Ancient Artists in composing their Figures and Groups [separate title] Inventions by G. Cumberland. [London: the author], 17951796. 4to, (4), iii, 52, (1, lately published): with 24 engraved plates including the second title. Original blue boards, (new) white paper backstrip. Some foxing and a water stain in the lower margin of the first 12 plates. A very fine completely untrimmed copy, as issued. $2500. First edition, presentation copy inscribed From the Author at the front. This group of engravings after designs by Cumberland was published as Thoughts on Outline in 1796; the engraved title to the suite of plates reads Inventions as above. The seven plates by Blake include the 21

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60. Allen, Charles. A New and Improved Roman History The Second Edition embellished with four copper

item 57. Benjamin Heath Malkins A Fathers Memoirs of his Child. London, 1806.

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Commercial Book Illustrations First edition thus, with four plates by Blake at the end with a separate introduction. They first appeared in Cumberlands Thoughts on Outline in 1796. Bentley, Bibliography of George Cumberland, p. 39. Bentley, Blake Books, 446A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXII (with a long note on the book). 71. Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. The Third Edition. [with] The Botanic Garden. Part II The Fourth Edition. London: Johnson, 1795, 1794. 2 vols. in one, 4to, xx, 218, 124, (2, directions to the binder, errata, ads); (2), viii, 200 pp. With a frontispiece to each volume, 10 plates in volume I and 8 in volume II. Contemporary tree calf, restored, some light spotting and foxing as usual, a very good copy bound with the half-title and instructions to the binder, etc., in the first part. $2250. Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake, the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado, both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado, plate. Bentley, Blake Books, 450C. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXI. 72. Enfield, William. The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces The Sixth Edition, corrected. London: Joseph Johnson, 1781. 8vo, xxxiv, 405, (1, ads) pp. With a frontispiece and 3 engraved plates after Stothard. Contemporary tree calf, upper hinge split but cords sound, pleasant early bookplate of W. Sterne. $675. Large-paper copy, with the plate facing p. 371 being engraved by Blake: the plate is in the first of two states. The print is especially strong and fresh, indicating an early printing of this much-to-be-used plate. This was Blakes first commercial engraving, first put in the 1774 edition when reissued in 1780 as per the date on the plate, contemporary with or just followed by this edition. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, 1. Bentley, Blake Books, 453B. 73. Flaxman, John. The Iliad of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman [with] The Odyssey [with] Compositions from The Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod. Designed by John Flaxman, engraved by William Blake. [with] Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed by John Flaxman, Engraved by Thomas Piroli, and Frank Howard. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1805; [Iliad and Odyssey]: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817; [Hesiod]: and Miss Flaxman and Miss Maria Denman, 1831. [Odyssey]. 4 vols., oblong folio. [Iliad] t/p and 39 plates. [Odyssey] t/p and 34 plates. [Hesiod] half title and 37 plates including the title. [Aeschylus] 2 t/ps and 35 plates numbered from 337. All complete and bound in original quarter green cloth and brown boards with the original printed label on the upper cover and red paper manuscript labels on the backstrips. Hinges repaired, some foxing mostly in the margins, especially at the front and back as usual. A very good set in original state. $2750. Of the four volumes, the only one entirely engraved by Blake was the Hesiod. Flaxman added 5 new designs to the Iliad for the 1805 edition, 3 engraved by Blake and 2 by his former partner John Parker. Parker engraved many plates for the Odyssey. First edition, second state of plate 20 in the Hesiod (correctly numbered 20). Bentley notes that 200 sets of the Hesiod were printed and they sold very slowly; in fact, 18 sets were still for sale in 1838. It is likely that this collection was brought together and bound up to match ca. 1831 when the Misses Mary Ann Flaxman (Flaxmans half-sister, who created the 6 designs for Hayleys Triumphs of Temper engraved by Blake in 1803) and Maria Denman (his sister-in-law) issued the Aeschylus. Complete sets of these printings in the original (perhaps remainder) bindings are very uncommon. See Bentley, The Early Engravings of Flaxmans Classical Designs (1964). Iliad: Bentley, Blake Books, 457, Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLVII. Hesiod: Bentley, Blake Books, 456A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, LI. 74. Fuseli, Henry. Lectures on Painting with additional Observations and Notes. London: J. Johnson, 1801. 4to, (6), 150 pp. With a vignette designed by Fuseli on the titlepage (not engraved by Blake), and an engraving at the end by William Blake after Fuseli. Old calf, red label, upper joint cracked, internally good save for a slight water stain in the margin of the final leaf (not touching the image). $1250. First edition, with the famous imaginary portrait of Michelangelo at the end. Essick, Commercial Book Illustrations, XL. Bentley, Blake Books, 459. 75. Gay, John. Fables. With a life of the Author and embellished with 70 Plates. London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols., royal 8vo, xi, 225; vii, 187, (1, advertisement) pp. Engraved title to each part, frontispiece to volume I, and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf a bit scuffed

item 64. Psyche Disobeys, engraved by Blake after George Cumberland for his Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that guided the Ancient Artists in composing their Figures and Groups. London, 17951796.

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Commercial Book Illustrations and untidy but quite sound, internally very good despite the usual browning and offsetting, and with huge margins. $1500. First edition with Blakes plates, this copy very tall, possibly large-paper. The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent, Wootton, and Gravelot, who illustrated the earlier printings of Gays Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible, and is listed among the subscribers to the edition, as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1, 29, 59, 73, 99, 109, 125, 133 and 181 in volume I; and those opposite pp. 1, 105 and 145 in volume II. This first issue is easily identified because it uses the long s throughout and the second does not. Bentley, Blake Books, 460A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXVI. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 17901914, 1. 76. Hayley, William. An Essay on Sculpture: In a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. Plate only. Frontispiece Pericles, a little browned around the edges. Engraved by Blake but not signed. $375. Blakes first (and perhaps happiest) collaboration with his patron William Hayley, one that also included Blakes friend of many years, John Flaxman. Bentley, Blake Books, 467. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXIX. 77. [the same] Second plate, Death of Demosthenes. $495. 78. [the same] Third plate, Thomas Hayley. $595. at the end for Epistles to Romney is not found in the small-paper copies. Several of Romneys figures in the plate engraved by Blake are similar to Blakes own iconography and it is a strong and vivid illustration. Bentley, Blake Books, 469. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIX. 80. Hayley, William. The Triumphs Of Temper. A Poem: in six Cantos. The twelfth edition, corrected. With New Original Designs, by Maria Flaxman. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Large 8vo (815/16 59/16 inches [22.7 14.2 cm.]), xii, 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Original boards, later rebacked, in a quarter morocco slipcase: a very good copy completely untrimmed, occasional light foxing, one gathering loose. Bookplate of A. Edward $4750. Newton. A large-paper copy, very rare in original boards as issued, this copy with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blakes engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley, Blake Books, 471A. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIII. 81. [the same, regular issue] Small 8vo, xii, 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Old calf panelled in gilt, red calf label, joints split but holding, with the half-title, a good copy. $475. 82. Hoare, Prince. An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England. London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Plate only. The frontispiece engraved by Blake after Joshua Reynolds. $875. The book has always been scarce and this is the only example of the frontispiece offered in the last 30 years. Bentley, Blake Books, 474. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLVIII. 83. Hogarth, William. The Works of William Hogarth London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Plate only, finely colored by a skilled hand probably in the early 19th century. A few tears and repairs in the margins not affecting the image. Matted. $4500. Blakes one plate was first included in Hogarths Works 1790 and is here present in the fourth state (of seven), and beautifully colored. No other colored example is known though when and by whom it was colored is

item 71. Tornado, engraved by Blake after Fuseli for the third edition of Erasmus Darwins The Botanic Garden. London, 1795.

79. Hayley, William. The Life of George Romney. Chichester: W. Mason, 1809. Large 4to, (8), 416, (7) pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates, including one by William Blake after Romney. Modern half green hard-grain morocco, gilt edges, binding scuffed on joints but quite sound, old signature of James Wynne on title. A fine fresh copy internally. $1650. First edition, large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue, the large-paper copies seem to be on heavier paper and the impressions look stronger: the small-paper copies show a Rye Mill 1807 watermark, whereas the large-paper copies have just an 1807 watermark. The 1-page advertisement

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William Blake Catalogue conjectural. Bentley, Blake Books, 475I. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XX. 84. [another copy] An uncolored example of the fourth state (of seven) in a good impression. $1500. 85. Hogarth, William. The Beggars Opera by Hogarth and Blake. A Portfolio Compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Philip Hofer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Large portfolio, with 11 plates, and text printed in a separate pamphlet of 28 pp. with illustrations. Original folding cloth box slightly worn. $975. Blakes one plate is here present in the seventh and final state. The portfolio contains reproductions of the original drawing, six oil paintings, and 3 states of the engraving. The final plate is a print pulled from the original plate (then in the Hofer collection). Bentley, Blake Books, 475I. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XX. 86. Lavater, John Casper. Aphorisms on Man: translated from the Original Manuscript London: J. Johnson, 1788. Small 8vo, [vii], 224 pp. With a frontispiece engraved by Blake after Fuseli. Old calf rebacked, red label, internally a good copy. Signature of Thomas Cox and bookplates of John Smith and Francis Edwin Murray. $695. First edition, first state of the plate. The frontispiece is after a drawing by Fuseli and is a powerful image. The text notes End of Vol. I but no further volumes appeared as a fire destroyed Lavaters manuscript at the printer. The

Commercial Book Illustrations Huntington Library has Blakes own copy, extensively annotated throughout. Bentley, Blake Books, 480. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XVIII. 87. Lavater, John Casper. Aphorisms on Man: translated from the Original Manuscript London: J. Johnson, 1794. Small 8vo, viii, 224 pp. With a frontispiece engraved by Blake after Fuseli, browned. Old calf rebacked, lacking a leaf of text. $295. Third edition (first printed in 1788), third state of the plate. Bentley, Blake Books, 480. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XVIII. 88. Lavater, John Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy, designed to the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind Translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D. London: for John Murray, et al., 178917921798. Large 4tos, 3 vols. in 5: [4], iv, [28], 178, 175*178*, 179281; xii, 238; [6], [239]444; xii, 252; [6], 253437, [13] pp., illus. with 173 copper-engraved plates and 359 copper-engraved images in the text by and after Thomas Holloway, Fuseli and others, including 4 by Blake. Early 19th-century diaper calf gilt, somewhat worn and with repairs to backstrips. Internally a very good set in $1750. worn but serviceable bindings. First edition in English. Unusually large copy with wide margins. Unusual, also, for the variant proof of the engraving (not by Blake) inserted at page 411 of volume 5 which differs from that printed in the text by the absence of the shaded background and of Holloways name. Important work on physiognomy notable for its fine engravings including plates by Fuseli and Blake. Ray considers this work to showcase some of Fuselis best work. There are four engravings by Blake including three vignettes in the text and a full-page plate after a painting of Democritus by Rubens. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XIX: Henry Fuseli played a significant role in the editing and illustrating of this translation and may have helped secure Blakes commission for the engravings Blakes own efforts as a portraitist, particularly the Visionary heads he drew for John Varley ca. 18191825, may have been influenced by physiognomical and phrenological theories (see Mellor 1978). In his Descriptive Catalogue of 1809, Blake describes his painting of Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims as representing the physiognomies or lineaments of universal human life In 1787 Blake engraved a separate plate of Lavaters head in physiognomic profile. Bentley, Blake Books, 481. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 17901914, 20. 89. The Novelists Magazine. Volume IX. London: Harrison, 1782. 8vo, covers detached and lower edges stained but not intruding into the plates. A complete copy with all the plates, including 2 hand-colored (see below), in a very damaged binding. $250. Volume IX contains 3 plates engraved by Blake after Stothard. This copy has all three in the first state, and the first two (Sentimental Journey, and David Simple) are colored by hand at an early date. The third, Launcelot Greaves, is uncolored. Bentley, Blake Books, 486A. Essick, Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XI and p. 6: This graphic involvement with Stothard permitted, perhaps even encouraged, Blakes stylistic development. 90. [the same] Vol. X. Grandison. Plate XXIII only. London: Harrison, 1782. First state, full sheet. $50. Bentley, Blake Books, 487A. Essick, Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XI. One of three plates by Blake after Fuseli. 91. [the same] Vol. X. Grandison. Plate XII only. London: Harrison, 1782. First state, cut down to the margin of the image and omitting the frame, signatures, etc. $75. Bentley, Blake Books, 487A. Essick, Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XI. 92. [the same] Grandison. Plate XII only. London: Harrison, 1782. Later printing of the first state with slightly less stippling, full-page. $50. Bentley, Blake Books, 487B. Essick, Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XI. 93. Rees, Abraham. The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Illustrated with numerous engravings, by the most distinguished artists. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al., 18191820. Vol. 4 of the plates, old half calf rather worn, usual foxing. $1250. First edition, issued in fascicles between 1802 and 1820. A single volume of Rees Cyclopaedia, complete with the four sculpture plates engraved by William Blake. Also loosely inserted is the Miscellany plate from volume 3, engraved by Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 489. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Engravings, LII. 94. Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf. Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children; with an introductory Address to Parents. Translated from the German Illustrated with

item 84. Beggars Opera, fourth state (of seven) engraved by Blake for The Works of William Hogarth. London, 1822.

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William Blake Catalogue fifty Copper Plates. In three Volumes London: Printed for J. Johnson. 1791. 3 vols., 12mo., with half-titles, frontispiece, and fifty plates (plates 21 and 36 bound as frontispieces in volumes II and III, plate 15 bound at p. 140 of volume I instead of p. 144), lacks advertisement leaf at the end of volume III; a fine copy in a discreet and attractive modern binding of gilt-panelled marbled calf, with the book-label of Pamela Lister. sold. First illustrated edition, with engravings by William Blake, second edition of the text (in 1790 Johnson had published the first edition of Mary Wollstonecrafts translation of Salzmanns Moralisches Elementarbuch, Leipzig, 1785, with a title-page that called for copperplates, but there were no plates). The original German edition had seventy illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki, fifty-one of which were copied for the English version and published with this edition. Two of the plates are not based on Chodowiecki; Essick thinks that one of these was designed by Blake. Gilchrist attributed all of the engravings to Blake, but Russell in The Engravings of William Blake (1912) and Keynes Bibliography of William Blake (1921) accepted a maximum of sixteen (their lists differ slightly). Easson and Essick, in William Blake: Book Illustrator (2 vols., 19721979), assign forty-five of the plates to Blake. In William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations (1991), Essick expresses doubts about some of the attributions, but stands by most of them. Bentley, Blake Books, 492A. Essick XXIII. Keynes (op. cit.) 104. Windle, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, B3b. 95. Shakespeare, William. The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens [sic], Esq. With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, From the most eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chambers London: Rivington [and 40 other booksellers], 1805. 10 vols., royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Old calf restored, some aging and browning as usual. The plates are mostly in good impressions. $4750. Large-paper issue of the best illustrated collection of Shakespeares plays (save only the elephant-folio Boydell perhaps). This was Fuselis major project as a book-illustrator and it succeeds brilliantly; the engravings are dramatic and rich, and, in this edition, well printed. Blake engraved two plates after Fuseli for the book, his only illustrations of Shakespeare. Volume VII, p. 235 (King Henry VIII) and 28 volume X, p. 107 (Romeo and Juliet). There was a nine-volume small-paper issue with greatly inferior printing of text and plates but, as Bentley observed the ten-volume edition is considerably more elegant. Bentley, Blake Books, 498. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XLVII. 96. Stedman, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a Five Years Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam London: Johnson, 1796. Blakes plate 1 only, A

Commercial Book Illustrations Coromantyn Free Negro Single plate, slightly soiled and creased, one small marginal tear repaired. $150. Bentley, Blake Books, 499. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXIII. 97. [the same] Blakes plate 3 only. A Private Marine Single plate, slightly soiled and creased, one small marginal tear. Dime-size stain in the upper right border within the border of the image, and a smaller one lower left outside the border. $150. 98. [the same] Blakes plate 5 only. The Skinning of the Abomia Snake Single plate, slightly soiled and creased, two small marginal tears repaired. $150. 99. The Wits Magazine; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth, Humour, and Entertainment. London: Harrison and Co., 17841785. 2 vols., 8vo, (2), 485, (1); 193, (1) pp. With a folding frontispiece and numerous folding engraved plates including five by Blake, one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary calf, somewhat worn and volume I lacking backstrip label. Withal a good set, very rare. $9750. First edition. Only one complete set has sold at auction since 1975 (Borowitz, 1976) and only one set has passed through the trade (Ximenes, some years ago) according to Essick, Blake in the Marketplace 2009. Bentley, Blake Books, 513. Essick, William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations, XVI. 100. [the same] Plate 1 only. The Temple of Mirth Single plate, engraved by Blake after Stothard. Trimmed to the margin of the plate, matted. $500. First state of the earlier of the two designs for this illustration, rare thus. A clean strong impression. 101. [the same] Plate 3 only. The Discomfited Duellists Single plate, engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins, a little soiled, folded vertically as usual. $400. 102. [the same] Plate 5 only. May-Day in London Single plate, engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins, a little soiled, folded vertically as usual. $400.

item 95. Come hither Man. I see that thou art poor, engraved by Blake after Fuseli for Romeo and Juliet in The Plays of William Shakspeare. London, 1805.

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Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings

pickering editions
103. The Poems of William Blake comprising Songs of Innocence and of Experience together with Poetical Sketches and some Copyright Poems not in any other edition. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1874. Sm. 8vo, xx, 165, (1 erratum) pp. Original blue cloth, gilt title, stamped Pickering and Chatto at foot of backstrip, black endpapers with a newspaper article pasted to front and rear endpapers. A good copy. $250. Edited by Richard Herne Shepherd. First printing thus, restoring the original text of some of Blakes bestknown poems which had been edited with revisions by Rossetti. Contains the first printing of five poems from the Pickering Manuscript (see item 330). Bentley, Blake Books, 292. 104. Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Pickering, 1868. Small 8vo, xiv, 96 pp. Original brown cloth, red printed paper backstrip label, mostly worn away. Backstrip loosened. Fair copy of a $275. scarce book. First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 23 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 129. 105. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74 pp. Original pebbled plum cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt (partly worn away as often), a very good copy in the original binding, slightly faded around the edges as usual, hinges neatly repaired. New quarter blue morocco folding case lettered in gilt. $12,500. First typographic edition, the issue with the poem The Little Vagabond not present; copies of each issue turn up with about the same frequency, which is to say, rarely. The preface (by J..J. Garth Wilkinson) gives a mostly favorable account of Blakes life in the context of his work and concludes stirringly: If the volume gives one impulse to the New Spiritualism which is now dawning on the world; if it leads one reader to think, that all Reality for him, in the long run, lies out of the limits of space and time; and that spirits, and not bodies, and still less garments, are men; if it gives one blow, even the faintest, to those term30 shifting juggleries which usurp the name of Philosophical Systems, (and all the energies of all the forms of genuine Truth must be henceforth expended on these effects) it will have done its work in its little day Bentley, Blake Books, 171 (this issue said by Bentley to have two leaves cancelled by the editor out of prudishness). 106. Songs of Innocence and Experience with Other Poems. London: Pickering, 1866. Small 8vo, xii, 108 pp. Original cloth, red printed paper label, a very good copy inscribed in ink C. Baker from Wm B March 1867. $475. The first appearance of the most important edition of

Blake to that time, with two previously unpublished poems here printed for the first time. Although a typographic edition of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography, neither of those versions were faithful to Blakes original text, with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at improvement. The editor of this edition gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blakes idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 (only twenty or so complete copies of each of which survive) though omitting lines from Mary and from Auguries of Innocence which contained the word whore. The additional poems, two of them previously unpublished, are printed from Blakes original manuscripts. Bentley, Blake Books, 335A.

251 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original quarter parchment, green boards, gilt top, a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Peel Sheldon. $650. Deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies on handmade paper. First edition thus, an important edition bringing the two poets together in the same year that Yeats edited Blakes entire canon with Ellis. Bentley, Blake Books, 293. 112. Poems edited by W.B. Yeats. London: George Routledge, [1905]. Sm. 8vo, xlix, 277, (6, ads) pp. Original blue cloth, backstrip gilt. $25. New edition. Ink signature at front. Bentley, Blake Books, 293C. 113. Poems edited by W.B. Yeats. Cambridge: Harvard Universty Press, 1969. Sm. 8vo, xlix, 277, (6, ads) pp. Original blue cloth, backstrip gilt, dust-jacket. As new. $15. New edition, reprinting the London: George Routledge, [1905] edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 293F (London edition only). 114. The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Edited by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. London: Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols., large 8vo, profusely illustrated with 296 lithographs. Original half brown morocco, backstrips gilt, gilt tops, light foxing, bindings a bit $2750. worn. First edition, large-paper copy, issued in a small edition. The facsimiles include All Religions are One, Laocoon, On Homer, Ghost, Marriage, Book of Los, Urizen, Ahania, Thel, Visions, Song of Los, America, Europe, Milton, and Jerusalem. The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance. Bentley, Blake Books, 369.

rossetti editions
107. The Poetical Works Lyrical and Miscellaneous. Edited, with a prefatory Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Aldine edition. London: George Bell, 1874. 12mo, cxxxiii, 231 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Old blue hard-grain morocco, gilt edges, slight wear but a pleasant copy. $145. First edition; scarce and still useful. Not to be confused with the Pickering 1874 edition of the same year edited by R.H. Shepherd. Bentley, Blake Books, 299. 108. [another edition] London: George Bell, 1890. Small 8vo, cxxxiii, 231 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original red cloth, frontispiece, backstrip darkened, a good copy. $50. Reprint of the third edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 299D. 109. [another edition] London: George Bell, 1891. Small 8vo, cxxxiii, 231 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original red cloth, frontispiece, backstrip darkened, a good copy. $50. Second printing of the reprint of the third edition. See Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 162 issue L. 110. [another edition] London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914. 12mo, cxxxii, 233 pp. Original cloth, a little worn. $45. This important edition is the first to print three manuscript poems by Blake: Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell, Song by a Shepherd, and Song by an Old Shepherd. Bentley, Blake Books, 299F.

sampson editions
115. The Lyrical Poems Text by John Sampson with an Introduction by Walter Raleigh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. Small 8vo, li, 203 pp., frontispiece illustration from Milton. Original green cloth, covers and backstrip gilt. $25. Second printing, first issued in 1905. Bentley, Blake Books, 275B. 116. The Poems Edited and arranged with a Preface by John Sampson. London: Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, 1921. Small 4to, xxxviii, 345 pp. Original deluxe 31

item 105. Title page of William Pickerings edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1839.

yeats editions
111. The Poems of Edited by W.B. Yeats. London: Lawrence and Bullen, the Muses Library, 1893. 12mo, liii,

William Blake Catalogue binding of full vellum stamped in gilt, Elizabeth Wade Whites copy with bookplate. sold. First edition of this collection, a lovely copy in the special binding. Bentley, Blake Books, 294. 117. [another copy] Original blue quarter-cloth. Top edge gilt. Very good. $45. 118. The Poems Edited and arranged with a Preface by John Sampson. London: Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Small 4to, xxxviii, 345 pp. Original black cloth. Very good. $35. Reprint of the 1921 edition of this collection. See Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 161 issue B. 119. 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. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384 pp. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth, printed paper label. $125. Backstrip a little darkened, a very good copy. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 300: This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance, well informed, meticulously accurate, well-balanced and intelligent. 120. The Poetical Works of William Blake. Including the unpublished French Revolution together with the minor prophetic books and selections from the Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Oxford edition. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1913. 8vo, lvi, 453, [1] pp., frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and 15 plates. Original gilt-lettered red cloth, backstrip slightly sunned. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 302A: an important and useful edition. 121. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press, 1928. Original blue cloth. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 302D. 122. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Original blue cloth. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 302H. orange vellum, slightly foxed and backstrip faded but internally fine. $150. First printing of the Centenary Edition, an amazing piece of bookmaking. Bentley, Blake Books, 303A. 124. [another copy] Original blue buckram, slightly faded but internally fine. $90. Bentley, Blake Books, 303A. 125. [another copy] Rebound in full green morocco, vertical inlays of red morocco, horizontal gilt tooling, backstrip faded to brown, a little worn but a pleasant copy internally fine. $125. This copy is charmingly bound by an amateur binder. Bentley, Blake Books, 303A. 126. [another printing] New York: Random House, and London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. 8vo, xi, 1152 pp. Printed on India paper. Original blue buckram, backstrip faded to brown but internally fine. $25. Third edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 303C. 127. [another printing] 1939. 8vo, xi, [1], 936 pp. Original blue buckram, backstrip faded as usual. $25. Fourth edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 303D. 128. [another printing] 1943. 8vo, xi, [1], 936 pp. Original blue buckram, backstrip faded as usual. $25. Fifth edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 303H. 129. [another printing] London: The Nonesuch Press, 1948. 8vo, xi, [1], 936 pp. Original blue buckram, dust-jacket. $20. Sixth edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 303I. 130. Writings. Edited in Three Volumes by Geoffrey Keynes. [and] The Life of Blake by Mona Wilson. London: Nonesuch Press, 19251927. Together 4 vols., royal 8vo, with a frontispiece and 58 plates in the Writings, and 24 plates in the Life. Original quarter parchment a bit soiled and one $375. backstrip stained, internally a good set as issued. Limited to 1500 sets, beautifully printed and illustrated and comprising Blakes entire canon. Bentley, Blake Books, 370A and 2981A. This copy has an amusing ALS from Keynes to the Eassons allowing them to reproduce illustrations from his works and gently chiding them for using his title (Blake Studies) for their journal. Kay Eassons reply is attached.

Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings 131. [another printing] London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, [1957]. 8vo, xv, [3], 936, [1] pp. Original red cloth-backed marbled cloth, moderately soiled and rather worn. $30. India paper edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 370B. Ownership signature of Desire Hirst. 132. [another copy] Original red cloth-backed marbled cloth, a fine copy. $30. 133. [another printing] London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo, xv, [1], 944 pp. Original cloth, wear to backstrip ends and corners, front joint a bit loose. $30. Ownership signature of Desire Hirst. Bentley, Blake Books, 370C. 134. [another copy] Original cloth, bookplate of Roger Easson to front pastedown. Very good. $30. 135. [another copy] Original cloth, dust-jacket, signature of Kay Long [Easson] to front pastedown. Very good. $30. 136. [another printing] London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971. 8vo, xv, [1], 944 pp. Paperback, a bit worn and annotated in places by Easson. Very good. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 370G. Third printing, revised, a very highly regarded edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 304C. 140. [another printing] Original cloth, dust-jacket, a bit worn. $20. Fourth printing, revised, a very highly regarded edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 304D. 141. [another copy] Original wrappers, a bit worn. $10.

142. [another printing] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 8vo, xxvi, 990 pp., 4 plates. Orange cloth in orange dust-jacket, a very good copy. $55. Newly revised edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 162F. 143. [another copy] Original wrappers, a bit worn. $15.

144. William Blake[:] Selected Poetry. New York: New American Library, Inc., 1976. Small 8vo, xxix, 303 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages browned. very good. $5. First Signet Classic Poetry Series edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 165. 145. [another edition] Illustrated wrappers. Pages browned, good. 1981. $5. First Meridian printing. A reprint of the first Signet Classic in 1976. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 165B.

erdman editions
137. The Poems of William Blake. Edited by W.H. Stevenson. Text by David V. Erdman. London: Longman, 1971. Thick 8vo, xxiii, 877 pp., illustrated. Original orange cloth, dustjacket. $45. First edition, with five plates and three maps (showing Blakes London, etc.). Bentley, Blake Books, 296: The edition is extremely valuable. 138. The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Commentary by Harold Bloom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1965. 8vo, xxiv, 906 pp., 4 plates. Dust-jacket, a $35. fine copy. First edition, a very highly regarded edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 304A: editorially of the first importance. 139. [another printing] 8vo, xxiv, 908 pp., 4 plates. Original cloth, a bit worn. $20.

all other editions in english (alphabetically)

146. Auguries of Innocence. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. NY: Grossman, 1968. 8vo, original boards, slipcase. $45. Facsimile trade reprint of the original edition which was issued in an edition limited to 100 copies, with a print signed by Baskin at the front. This edition was unlimited but nicely produced by Meriden Gravure. Bentley, Blake Books, 223B. 147. [another edition] Bronxville: Valenti Angelo, 1968. Slim tall 8vo, 9 pp. Original pink boards, printed label. $195. Limited to 35 copies, this one of a very few in boards as most copies were sewn in blue wrappers. Bentley, Blake Books, 224 (not noting limitation).

keynes editions
123. Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Complete in one Volume. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 8vo, xi, 1152 pp. Printed on India paper. Original limp 32

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William Blake Catalogue 148. [another edition] Together with the Rearrangement by Dr. John Sampson and a Comment by Geoffrey Keynes Kt. Burford: Cygnet Press, 1975. Slim 8vo, 18, (1, colophon) pp. Original orange printed wrappers, as new. $35. Limited to 375 copies, this copy is number 95. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 148. 149. The Augustan Books of English Poetry. William Blake. London: Ernest Benn, [1928]. Slim 8vo, 31 pp. Original printed wrappers. $5. One in a series of printings of English poets, this one containing 34 of Blakes best-known poems. Bentley, Blake Books, 351, indicating that Edward Thompson is the editor. 150. Blakes Poetry and Designs. Norton Critical edition. Mary Lynn Johnson, and John E. Grant, eds. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1979. 8vo, xlviii, 618 pp. With 112 plates of which 32 are in color. Red printed wrappers. Some signs of use. Very good. $20. First edition. A substantial and authoritative work. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 149. 151. The Book of Thel. Songs of Innocence. And Songs of Experience by William Blake. [London: Hacon and Ricketts, 1897]. Small 8vo, [lxxxi] pp. Printed on handmade paper (with tissue sheet inserted in title-page spread), with illustration and decorative border on title-page spread and 2 decorative initials, all by Charles Ricketts. Original blue cloth with printed paper labels on backstrip and upper cover. Covers a bit soiled, endpapers and tissue in titlepage spread darkened with age. $975. Limited to 210 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 237. Watry, The Vale Press, B9. 152. [another copy] Half morocco, marbled boards, gilt backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. $975. 153. Calligraphy. Eternity. 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. sold. Limited to 300 copies of which 40 were hand-bound. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blakes famous poem. Thomas Ingmire was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 155. 154. Calligraphy. Love to Faults is always Blind. San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire, 2003. Single sheet of paper, 10 71/4 inches (25.4 18.4 cm.). Calligraphed in several colors and heightened with gold, signed and dated. $575. 155. Calligraphy. And Everything That Lives Is Holy. San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire, 2003. 51/2 8 inches (14 20.3 cm.). Calligraphed in several colors, signed and dated. $500. 156. Calligraphy. Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience. New York: The Scribe Archway Press, 1946. 8vo, 44 pp. The Scribe advertisement bi-fold loosely inserted. Light green cloth in slipcase. Case split along bottom edge. Else very good. $15. First Scribe edition, issued in fine calligraphy by Reynard Biemiller. Bentley, Blake Books, 322. 157. A Choice of Blakes Verse. Selected with an Introduction by Kathleen Raine. London: Faber, 1970. 8vo, 151 pp. Paperback. $15. First edition of this scarce title, also issued in cloth. Bentley, Blake Books, 240. 158. Eight Songs of William Blake. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 8vo, 16 leaves, unpaginated. Gray paper-covered boards. Paper label affixed to front cover. Boards worn. Very good. $25. Limited edition of 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 252B. 159. Exoteric Writings of William Blake. Bunsho Jugaku, ed. Kyoto: The Sunward Press, 1933. 8vo, 103 pp. Frontispiece and another full-page illustration. Brown cloth boards with paper label to backstrip. Very good. $125. First edition, limited to 500 copies printed on Echizen handmade paper. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Alice MacFarland in July 1939. Bentley, Blake Books, 254. 160. Great English Poets. William Blake. Edited by Peter Porter. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1986. Small 8vo, 61 pp. Frontispiece and 11 color plates. Red paper-covered boards. Gilt backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $15. First edition, a pretty little gift book edited by the eminent poet Porter. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 168.

Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings 161. Infant Sorrow. Leicester: Black Knight Press, 1970. Slim Small 8vo, [9] pp. With four linocuts by Duine Campbell in olive green, rust brown, or blue-green. Sewn with brown thread into moss green card covers, cut flush, printed in black on the front, as issued. $45. Limited to 100 copies, handset in Bembo, signed by the artist and inscribed as a proof copy; printed on green Glastonbury Antique laid paper. A fine copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 262A. 162. Jerusalem, Selected Poems and Prose. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary by Hazard Adams. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970. 8vo, xxxv, 747 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated wrappers. Edgewear. Very good. $15. First Rinehart edition. A very substantial edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 266. 163. Jerusalem. A simplified version London: George Allen and Unwin, [1964]. 8vo, 235 pp. Original red cloth. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 81A. William R. Hughes, editor. 164. [another copy] Paper covers with minor wear and soiling, backstrip cover sunned. $15. Proof copy. 165. The Land of Dreams. Poems by William Blake. Selected and Illustrated by Pamela Bianco. New York: Macmillan

item 154. Love to Faults is always Blind. Calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire. San Francisco, 2003. In several colors heightened with gold.

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William Blake Catalogue Company, 1928. 8vo, 42 pp. Illustrated. Green cloth in green printed dust-jacket, chipping and torn along edges. Some soiling to covers. Very good. $45. First edition. A charming childrens book, scarce in the dust-jacket. Bentley, Blake Books, 270. 166. Laurel Poetry Series. Blake. Selected with an Introduction and Notes by Ruthven Todd. New York: Dell, 1960. Small 8vo, 159 pp., browned; paperback. Ink signature at front of Ray L. White. $15. A good selection of Blakes poetry (reprinted many times and thus evidently well received), with illuminating notes by Ruthven Todd who also wrote on Blakes art and printing techniques. The series was edited by Richard Wilbur. Bentley, Blake Books, 226A. 167. [another edition] New York: Dell, 1969. Small 8vo, 159 pp., paperback. $5. 6th printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 226F. 168. Letters together with a Life by Frederick Tatham. Edited from the Original Manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Archibald G.B. Russell. London: Methuen, 1906. 8vo, xlvii, 237, 40 (ads) pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates. Half red morocco, gilt top, fine. $145. First edition of this collection, this copy very pleasantly bound. Bentley, Blake Books, 88. 169. [another copy] Original blue cloth gilt, bookplate, a very good copy. $145. 170. The Letters of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. 8vo, 224 pp. 13 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. A fine copy. $35. Second edition, revised. Bentley, Blake Books, 93C: Comprehends fairly full notes, some related documents such as receipts, and provenances. 171. [another copy] Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Signed and dated 1970 at the front by Kay Long [Easson]. $35. Second edition, revised. US printing. 172. [another edition] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 8vo, xxviii, 235 pp., 16 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $45. Third edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, refers to this edition but does not include it (see p. 96n.) 173. Letters from William Blake to Thomas Butts 18001803. Printed in facsimile with an Introductory Note by Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 4to, ix pp., illustrated facsimiles of the original letters. Quarter gray cloth, marbled boards, printed label on upper cover. $125. Limited to 325 copies. Facsimiles of the only 10 letters known to have survived written by Blake to his friend and patron of thirty years, Thomas Butts (17591846). Also included is a rough draft of Butts reply to Blakes first letter, and a debtor and creditor account between them for the year 1805. This is the first time they were reproduced in facsimile, and the first time Butts letter was printed in full. Bentley, Blake Books, 90. 174. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and A Song of Liberty. With an Introduction by Francis Griffin Stokes. London: Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, 1911. Small 8vo, 79 pp. Original quarter cloth and red boards, printed paper label on backstrip, very good. $45. Bentley, Blake Books, 103. The introduction is 43 pp. Stokes wrote nothing else on Blake though he wrote on Shakespeare, Gray, and others. 175. [another copy] Half green crushed morocco extra, gilt backstrip, raised bands, gilt top. A very fine copy in a lovely gift binding. $145. 176. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Drawings by Clark Stewart. Knoxville, TN: Darkpool Press, 1972. 8vo, 35 pp. Illustrated. Handwritten note from illustrator to Roger Easson, dated October 23, 1972, loosely inserted. Very good in the original brown cloth lettered in gilt. $35 Limited edition, number 56 of 100. Bentley, Blake Books, 109: the 13 designs of naked women are unrelated to Blake. 177. Poems and Prophecies. Edited with an introduction Max Plowman. Supplementary Note, Select Bibliography, and Revisions to the Notes by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Dent, 1970. Small 8vo, xxxvi, 439 pp. and 4 pp. of advertisements. Red cloth with yellow illustrated dust-jacket. Top edge stained blue. Very good. $10. 1970 reprint. Everymans Library 792. Bentley, Blake Books, 287F. 178. Poems Edited by Alice Meynell. London: Blackie and Son, 1911. Small 8vo, xvi, 225 pp. Frontispiece. Gray paper-covered boards. Top of backstrip bumped. Some staining. Very good. $20.

Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings First Red Letter Library edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 289A. 179. Poems. Selected and Introduced by Ruthven Todd. London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. 8vo, 64 pp. Brown printed boards in illustrated dust-jacket, chipped. Very good. $10. Crown Classics. Bentley, Blake Books, 286. 180. Poems of William Blake. Selected by Amelia H. Munson. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1964. 8vo, 151 pp. Frontispiece. Light blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 295. 181. Poems from William Blakes Songs of Innocence. Drawings by Maurice Sendak. London: Bodley Head, 1967. Small slim 8vo, [21] pp. With eight illustrations by Sendak in the text. Original wrappers printed with a design from the book enlarged and reversed, a very good copy as issued, with a slight discoloration in the outer margin of the upper cover. $4250. First and only edition, limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. This copy has a letter from Margaret Clark who once worked at Bodley Head donating the book to a friends Sendak collection on the suggestion of Brian Alderson. One of Sendaks rarest and most sought-after books. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 161. 182. The Poems of William Blake. Edited by Aileen Ward. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Large 8vo, xxiv, 291 pp. 12 mounted plates. Quarter black morocco over burgundy cloth boards, backstrip stamped in gilt and burgundy, black portrait medallion in center of front cover. Black slipcase. Very good. $100. No. 1176 of 1500 limited edition copies. With very bright color reproductions from several illuminated books. Bentley, Blake Books, A296: a pretty piece of bookmaking. 183. The Poems with Specimens of the Prose Writings of William Blake. With a Prefatory Note, Biographical and Critical by Joseph Skipsey. London: Walter Scott, 1885. Small 8vo, viii, 281 pp. Blue cloth with paper label to backstrip. Very good. $35. First edition, a scarce little book with a loving and enthusiastic introduction by Skipsey. Bentley, Blake Books, 298A. 184. Poetical Sketches. By W.B. The Noel Douglas Replicas. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70 pp. Original paper over boards with printed glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Very good. $125. Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley, Blake Books, 132A. 185. [another edition] New York: Payson & Clarke, 1927. A presentation copy from Gene Degruson to Roger Easson, inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper. Very good. $75. US trade edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 132B.

item 181. Page from Poems from William Blakes Songs of Innocence. With drawings by Maurice Sendak. London, 1967.

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William Blake Catalogue 186. Blakes Poetical Sketches with an Essay by Jack Lindsay on Blakes Metric. London: The Scholartis Press, 1927. Small 4to, xxiv, 86 pp. Quarter cloth with patterned boards. Bottom edgewear with bumping to corners. Chipped and soiled dust-jacket. Pages untrimmed along bottom. Very good. $75. First trade edition, with an introduction by Eric Partridge. A pleasing piece of bookmaking with the feel of a private press book. Bentley, Blake Books, 133. 187. Poetical Sketches. Introduction by Robin Hamlyn. London: Tate Publishing, 2007. 8vo, xxi (introd.); (4), 70 pp. (facs.) Original brown boards, dust-jacket, new. $20. A new facsimile of the extremely rare first book by Blake, from copy Q. See Bentley, Blake Books, 128. 188. The Poetical Works of William Blake in Two Volumes. Edited and annotated by Edwin J. Ellis. London: Chatto and Windus, 1906. 2 vols., 8vo, xxxiv; 551; [1] errata; 492 pp. Frontispiece of Blake in volume I; Reunion of the Soul and Body, volume II. Quarter buckram with paper over boards. Leather backstrip label with gilt to backstrip. Moderate wear to edges. Moderate foxing to first and last few pages of each volume. Pages unopened. Top edge gilt. $95. Very good. First edition. The portrait frontispiece to volume I is a re-engraving by an anonymous engraver of the Linnell portrait on ivory engraved by Jeens found in both editions of Gilchrists Life. See Keynes, Complete Portraiture, no. 27. Bentley, Blake Books, 301. 189. The Portable Blake. Selected and Arranged by Alfred Kazin. New York: Viking Press, 1946. Small 8vo, xii, 713 pp., original cloth. Good, sound copy. $20. First printing of one of the handiest editions of Blake, with sections illustrated with The Gates of Paradise and Illustrations of the Book of Job. The text is essentially the Nonesuch Press edition, with Kazins introduction and Crabb Robinsons Reminiscences at the end. Bentley, Blake Books, 306A. 190. [another edition] New York: Published by the Viking Press, 1967. $2.50. Thirteenth printing. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 163, M or N. 191. The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Jerusalem [and] Milton. Edited by A.G.B. Russell and E.R.D. MacLagan. London: A.H. Bullen, 1904, 1907. 2 vols., 4to, xvii, 127; xvi, 57 pp. Original gray boards lettered in gilt, very good (and usually found falling apart). $100. First editions. These two volumes are not easy to come by; no further works were published. Bentley, Blake Books, 77, 119. 192. The Prophetic Writings of William Blake. Edited by D.J. Sloss and J.P.R. Wallis, with a General Introduction, Glossarial Index of Symbols, Commentary, and Appendices. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 648 [649]; xxii, 361 pp. Frontispieces, one double-page, and 10 plates. Original dark blue cloth. Very good. $175. Bentley, Blake Books, 309A: The fresh transcriptions and bibliographical notes are of value, as is the Index of Symbols. 193. [another edition] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1964. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. $150. Lithographic reprint of the 1924 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 309C. 194. [another edition] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1969. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. $100. Reprint of the 1964 edition. 195. Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction by Denis Saurat. London: Westhouse, 1947. Thin 4to, 120 pp., with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth, red pictorial dust-jacket, fine. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 367: The introduction (pp. 723); the text is taken from the Keynes editions. 196. Selected Poems. Edited by Stanley Gardner. London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1962. 8vo, 188 pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip, some sunning. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 315A. 197. Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by F. W. Bateson. London: Heinemann, 1964. Small 8vo, xxx, 144 pp., color frontispiece. Original black cloth, dust-jacket. $20. Reprint of the 1957 edition, with corrections. Bentley, Blake Books, 318D: the notes are original and illuminating. 198. Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Basil de Slincourt. Oxford University Press, 1968. Small 8vo, xxvi,

Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings 309 pp. Original blue cloth, pink dust-jacket. $10. Last reprint of the 1927 Worlds Classics edition, reissued in 1951, 1957, and 1963. Bentley, Blake Books, 316E. 199. Selected Poetry and Prose. Edited by David Punter. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. 8vo, ix, 283 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Diagonal crease along upper corner of front cover. Very good. $5. First edition. Routledge English Texts. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 165. 200. Selected Writings. Edited by Robert F. Gleckner. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. Small 8vo, xxvi, 195 pp. Printed wrappers. Some signs of wear, some creases. Good. $5. First edition. Crofts Classics. Bentley, Blake Books, 320. 201. Selections from the Writings With an Introductory Essay by Laurence Housman. London: Kegan Paul, 1893. Small 8vo, xxi, 259 pp. Frontispiece. Original parchment $45. lettered in red, a bit dusty but internally good. First edition of this selection. The frontispiece shows The Sons of God appearing before the Lord i.e., plate 2 from Illustrations of the Book of Job, with the central design only. Bentley, Blake Books, 325. 202. [another copy] Original red cloth, signature dated June 1912 at front: a good copy. $45. Variant binding. 203. Songs. [The Piper: Cradle Song 1 and 2: Infant Sorrow: Infant Joy]. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1935. 12mo, 12 pp., printed in red and black. Original blue wrappers, white printed label on upper cover reading POEMS. $75. Limited to a few copies printed to celebrate the birth of Jonathan Baird Ritchie. Ritchie printed a second collection in 1941 to celebrate another childs birth (see below). Bentley, Blake Books, 329. 204. Songs (Second Series). [Spring The Lamb To Spring The Nurses Song]. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1941. 12mo, [11] pp. With two blue color-printed illustrations. Original printed wrappers, as issued. $75. Printed to celebrate the birth of Duncan Ritchie. A scarce item. Bentley, Blake Books, 338. 205. Songs of Innocence. Portland: Mosher, 1904. Slim small 8vo, [viii], 110, (1) pp. Original stiff printed wrappers, cracking to backstrip, pages unopened. Internally very good. $20. First Mosher edition, which includes some poems not from Songs of Innocence. Nicely printed on good paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 150. 206. [another copy] Original printed wrappers, slightly worn. sold. 207. Songs of Innocence [and Of Experience]. London: Arthur Humphreys, 1911. 12mo, 64 pp. Illustrated. Stiff printed wrappers. Blue cloth slipcase with printed label on upper cover. Very good, unopened as issued. $50. First edition. A beautiful little edition printed in red and black with headpieces (not by Blake) throughout. Bentley, Blake Books, 177. 208. Songs of Innocence. With a Preface by Thomas Seccombe and Twelve Coloured Illustrations by Honor C. Appleton. London: Herbert and Daniel, 1911. 8vo, xvii, 49 pp. 12 illustrations. Full white cloth, soiled. Gilt decorated. Pages deckled. Some foxing. Some splitting to hinges. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 153: the illustrations are distressing. A less critical eye might find them quite charming and sweet, and the whole book prettily printed and designed. 209. Songs of Innocence. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. With a Prefatory Letter by W. B. Yeats. Boston: Hale, Cushman and Flint, 1927. 4to, xi, 42 pp., with 12 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth, very good. $20. First edition, second impression, published by the Medici Society in London and Boston. The preface by Yeats describes how he met the 16-year-old artist Parsons whose illustrations are here printed with a selection of Blakes poems. Bentley, Blake Books, page 161. Wade 278. 210. Songs of Innocence. Yellow Springs: Kahoe and Company, 1928. 8vo, 28 pp. Quarter cloth with green paper-covered boards. Gilt lettered. Unopened. Very good. $35. First edition. Nicely printed and probably a limited edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A162. 211. Songs of Innocence and Experience. A Great English Poetic Work. London: Chatto and Windus, 1941. Small

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William Blake Catalogue 8vo, 47 pp. Printed cardboard covers. Mild edgewear. Very good. $10. An attractive little pocket edition, part of a series (Zodiac Books) of poets published during the war. Bentley, Blake Books, 184B, repeated at A185. 212. Songs of Innocence and Experience. With Introduction and Notes by A.M. Wilkinson. London: University Tutorial Press, 1971. Small 8vo, xx, 66 pp. Full cream cloth with lettering to front and backstrip. Very good. $10. Reprint, first published in 1958. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 135 issue H. 213. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Supplementary Material by Ruth E. Everett. New York: Bard Books/ Published by Avon, 1971. Small 8vo, 160 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Mild edgewear. Very good. $7.50. First printing, Bard edition (March 1971). Bentley, Blake Books, 191. 214. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and Other Works. Edited by R.B. Kennedy. With a selective appendix of shorter poems from Blakes manuscripts. Annotated Student Texts series edited by Mark Roberts. Plymouth, United Kingdom: Northcote House, Harper and Row, 1988. 8vo, 272 pp. Paper covers, very light wear. $10. Second edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 166 issue C. 215. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, unabridged. New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1992. 8vo, viii, 52 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages slightly wrinkled. Very good. $5. First Dover Thrift edition. A cheap and easy way to have the poems in a portable format. Edited by Philip Smith. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 136. 216. Spring. Designed and Printed by Linda Anne Landers at Spoon Print Press. [London, 1993]. Slim 8vo, printed on one sheet of stiff handmade paper folded to make 8 pp. (one blank), with a cover illustration and three illustrations in the text, printed in black, text in red. As new. $35. Limited to 150 copies signed by the artist. 217. The Tyger. London: Spoon Print Press, 1996. Square 8vo (611/16 55/16 inches [17 13.5 cm.]), 16 pp. 2 doublepage and 4 full-page colored linocuts by Linda Anne Landers. Sewn into white covers with a repeat Tyger in 40 blue extending across both covers. Handmade envelope, sewn with silk thread, printed with a repeat Tyger (another one) in gray. A fine copy. $100. Limited to 60 numbered copies on heavy Fabriano paper, printed and signed by the artist. 218. William Blake a Selection of Poems and Letters. [London]: Penguin Books, 1970. Small 8vo, 251 pp. Printed wrappers. Mild edgewear. Pages browned. Very good. $10. Edited by Jacob Bronowski. Penguin Books reprint, first issued in 1958. Bentley, Blake Books, 360G. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 168 issue H. 219. William Blake an Introduction. Anne Malcolmson, ed. London: Constable Young, 1967. 8vo, 127 pp. With 14 plates, eight in color. Original green cloth, dust-jacket. $15. First edition of this selection, with a brief biographical introduction. Bentley, Blake Books, 359A. 220. William Blake. Kettering: J.L. Carr, [1964]. 12mo, [16] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. A tiny pamphlet, with a portrait of Blake on the upper cover, a reproduction of an ALS from Blake dated Sept. 16 1800 on the lower cover, and a very brief selection of poems within. Bentley, Blake Books, 357 and Blake Books Supplement, page 168. 221. William Blake. Edited by Michael Mason. The Oxford Authors. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 8vo, xxv, [xxvi], 601 pp. Original blue cloth, dustjacket. $30. A wide-ranging selection of prose and poetry. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 168: the oddly arranged text is modernized from William Blakes Writings (1978). 222. [another copy] Paper wrappers with light wear to fore-edge and corner, slight internal marginal toning. $20. 223. Bentley, G.E., Jr. William Blakes Writings edited by G.E. Bentley, Jr. Volume I, Engraved and Etched Writings. Volume II, Writings in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. 2 vols., 8vo, lvi, 745; vii, [746]1820 pp. Illustrated throughout and with maps of Blakes Britain at the end of volume II. Original blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. $75. The first volume contains all the text of the illuminated

Typographic Editions of Blakes Writings books, along with numerous reproductions and bibliographical details; the second volume includes the printed books, manuscripts, marginalia, letters, lost works, etc., with extensive bibliographical material at the end. In conjunction with Blake Books, this is a most useful work. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 169. 224. The Works of William Blake. Selected Poetry and Prose. Roslyn, NY: Blacks Readers Service Company, 1953. Small 4to, [4], 313 pp. Original cloth, backstrip gilt-decorated, with a black lettering label. $15. The text is reprinted from Northrop Fryes Modern Library edition of 1953. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 165 issue B. 225. Donne, John [and] The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne and the Complete Poetry of William Blake. Edited by Robert Silliman Hillyer. New York: The Modern Library, 1941. Thick 8vo, lv, 1045 pp. Green cloth. Gilt set in black on front and backstrip. Minor bumping to $15. corners and edges. Very good. First Modern Library edition. Both texts are from the Nonesuch Press editions. Bentley, Blake Books, 241. 228. (French) Laud, Francis, ed. William Blake. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1968. Small 4to, 276, [8 advertisement] [1] pp., 8 plates. Paper covers, light soiling. $10. Blakes text in English and French with Lauds commentary in French. Bentley, Blake Books, 356. 229. (German) William Blake Ausgewhlte Dichtungen bertragen von Adolf Knoblauch. Berlin: Oesterheld, 1907. Slim tall 8vo, 84 pp. Original printed gray wrappers, a little $75. worn, booksellers stamp on title-page. Limited to 650 copies on handmade paper (there were also 20 deluxe copies in a vellum binding on Japan paper). Knoblauch published two volumes of translations of Blakes poems; this, the second, includes Los, Urizen, Ahania, Europe, and Los and Enitharmon. Bentley, Blake Books, 361. 230. (German) Zwischen Feuer und Feuer. Poetische Werke Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Hamburg: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996. 8vo, 501 pp. 18 illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $20. First edition, inscribed by Thomas Eichhorn, editor, to The American Blake Foundation, dated July 1st, 1997. Translated with annotations by Eichhorn, and with a foreword by Susanne Schmid. Not found in Bentley. 231. (Italian) Ungaretti, Guiseppe. Visioni di William Blake. Arnoldo Mondadori, Editore. Milano: Mondadori, 1965. 8vo, 544 pp. With 37 illustrations. Brown cloth. Printed dustjacket, signs of wear, few closed tears. Very good. $20. First edition of this selection, with English and Italian on facing pages. Bentley, Blake Books, 348. 232. (Romanian) Poeme. Bucaresti: Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta, 1957. 8vo, 111 pp. Printed wrappers, lightly soiled. Few scattered pencil marks inside. Very good. sold. Blake in Romanian. Not found in Bentley. Cicerone Theodorescu is the translator in this bilingual edition.

translations and bilingual editions

226. (French) Le Mariage du Ciel et de LEnfer. Traduction Nouvelle Suivie de Deux tudes sur William Blake par Daniel-Rops. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1946. 8vo, 115 pp. Illustrated with 9 two-tone woodblocks. Printed wrappers. Protective mylar. Unopened. Very good. $20. Number 573 of limited edition of 2000 numbered copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 112. There are nine plates scarcely related to Blake. 227. (French) Le Mariage du Ciel et de LEnfer. Traduction par Andr Gide. Paris: Charlot, 1947. 12mo, 57 pp. Printed wrappers, some browning. Pages unopened. Very good. $30. Number 1253 of 3400 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 111. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 100 issue F.

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Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books

muir facsimiles
233. A Private Collection of Muir Facsimiles. Muir facsimiles have become almost impossible to find. This superb collection of 35 titles is offered en bloc for $245,000. As each copy is hand-colored, each one is unique and thus the presence here of several duplicates is instructive in terms of seeing Muirs work in context. Aside from Essicks collection, we know of no other comparable private holding of Muir, whose devotion to reproducing Blake from the originals takes one as close to their spirit as most collectors can get. (See Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Summer 1985, for Essicks article on the history of Muir facsimiles; and the Summer 1993 issue for Bentleys article on Muir and Quaritch, and Keri Davies article on Muir and the Blake Press at Edmonton.) America a Prophecy. London: Quaritch, 1887. Folio, 18 leaves, richly colored by hand. Original wrappers, slight wear as usual. Limited to around 50 copies of which, according to Keynes in 1921 (see Bentley), 6 were colored. This copy no. 34 was delivered to Quaritch on 22 April 1920. By 1929 Quaritch records 12 colored copies. An intriguing facsimile, taken from copy A now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, then in the possession of Quaritch. See Bentley, Blake Books, page 100 and no. 249j. The Templeton Crocker copy with book label. [another copy] Original wrappers, slight wear as usual, bound into modern boards. The Book of Thel [with] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [with] Visions of the Daughters of Albion [with] There is No Natural Religion [and] All Religions Are One. London: Pearson and Muir, 18841885. 4 vols. in one, 4to, 8 and 26 and 11 and 21 plates. Original stiff white vellum lettered in gilt on backstrip and upper cover, gilt top. A very fine copy. Each title limited to 50 copies. A few copies were bound up by Quaritch (the distributor) in this vellum binding, which preserves the fragile books in perfect condition. The printed wrappers were not saved but the text is complete. Bentley, Blake Books, 249b, c, e, and g. The Book of Thel. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 4to, preface and 8 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically 42 and colored by hand vividly. Full green crushed morocco, original printed wrappers bound in. Based on copy D, colored by hand and limited to about 50 copies of which this is no. 38. Essick notes three versions of the ca. 1885 edition, one entirely executed by hand, this version with the correction of sprin to springs on leaf 5 line 7 and with the two final plates numbered 7 and 8, and a third version with the final two leaves (correctly) numbered 5 and 6 as in Blakes original. Bentley, Blake Books, 249b. [another copy] Original blue wrappers inserted into a modern protective marbled cover. A fine copy as issued. Limited to about 50 copies; this is copy no. 2. The plates are delicately colored and the text is printed in goldenbrown. Loosely inserted is a 2-page manuscript note on Thel by Muir and an old Quaritch note on the Muir facsimiles. [another edition] London: Wm. Muir, 1920. 4to, 8 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically and colored by hand vividly. Original printed wrappers. Delivered to Quaritch by Muir in 1920, and previously issued by Muir in 18851887 in three variant formats. According to Quaritch catalogue 693, only 32 copies of this version were actually produced. Bentley, Blake Books, 20. This version is based on copy J, printed in green, whereas the 1885 versions are based on copy D. Europe a Prophecy. Edmonton: William Muir, 1887. Folio, 17 plates, richly hand-colored. Original printed wrappers dated September 1887, backstrip perished, leaves loose. Limited to about 50 copies, this copy is no. 8 and signed by Muir. Based on three different copies. With the frontispiece The Ancient of Days, which is perhaps Blakes most famous image. Bentley, Blake Books, 249k1. [another copy] Original blue printed wrappers, white paper backstrip (chipped). Copy no. 38 of 50 copies signed by Muir. The First Book of Urizen. Edmonton, 1888. [bound with] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. London: Quaritch, 1885. 2 vols, in one, large 4to, full green straight-grain morocco gilt, fine copies. Limited to only about 25 copies (Keynes)m and 50 cop-

ies. Urizen is probably the rarest of all the Muir facsimiles. Marriage is copy no. 15 (unsigned), and Urizen is no. 13, signed by Muir. Bentley, Blake Books, 249c and l. The Gates of Paradise, by Wm. Blake, Lambeth, 1793. Edmonton, 1888. 4to, iv pp. text, 18 black-and-white plates. Original printed wrappers, slight chipping to backstrip and edges, but a remarkably fine copy. Limited to about 50 copies etched by Mary Hughes according to Bentley; this is copy no. 26 signed by Muir. Unlike Essicks copy no. 12, this copy has no programme printed inside the back wrapper. Bentley, Blake Books, 249m. The facsimile is convincing enough per se that plates from it have been offered as originals on occasion. Copies in such fine condition are almost unheard of. Bentley, Blake Books, 249m. Little Tom The Sailor. Century Guild Hobby Horse. Vol. 1, no. 4. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co., 1886. 4to, pp. 12160. With the Blake plate and two other plates. Original decorative wrappers, fine. Of especial interest in this volume is the superb reproduction by Muir (uncredited) of Blakes Little Tom The Sailor, one of his rarest pieces, along with an essay on the print by H.H. Gilchrist in which he records that but two or three copies were known to him, including one colored by Mrs. Blake in the British Museum which he regarded as inferior to the uncolored example here reproduced. This reproduction has often been taken for the original; it is cut in half as usual, and in perfect condition. See Bentley, Blake Books, 470B: BD [i.e. the three issues of this plate] are extremely persuasive facsimiles. For Gilchrists essay see Bentley, Blake Books, 1683. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. London: Muir, 1885. 4to, 27 leaves in color and introduction by Muir, 3 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blakes manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the separate plate A Divine Image; later blue cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Limited to 50 copies, this copy inscribed by Muir For The Times (newspaper presumably). Reproduces copy Athe Beckford-Harvard copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 249e. Milton, A Poem in Two Books. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1886. 4to, (4), 45 hand-colored plates, (2) leaves. Lovely decorative morocco binding by de Coverley retaining the original pale blue wrappers. A fine copy, numbered 30 and signed by Muir.

Limited to about 50 copies, based on copy A. Muirs preface is 5 pp. and at the end is a 3-page facsimile of Blakes letter of March 16, 1804. Bentley, Blake Books, 249f. On Homers Poetry. The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Vol. 1, no. 7. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co., 1887. 4to, pp. 81128 With a Burne-Jones frontispiece, a Blake plate, and other illustrations. Original decorative wrappers, fine. Of especial interest in this volume is the superb reproduction by Muir (uncredited) of Blakes On Homers Poetry, one of his rarest pieces, along with an essay on the print by H.P. Horne. Bentley, Blake Books, 1885. The Burne-Jones frontispiece is a print from the Song of Songs entitled Quae est ista The Song of Los. Edmonton, 1890. Folio, 8 hand-colored and printed colored plates. Original wrappers, tiny fragments from tissues adhering to two plates, otherwise a fine copy. Of all Muir facsimiles, this may be the closest to a Blake original in terms of appearance. Muir used a special printing technique unique to this title to approximate Blakes reticulated color printing, and the thickness of coloring is quite remarkable. In this copy it has resulted in a few tiny pieces of the tissue guards adhering to the surface but these could easily be removed. Intended to be an edition of 50 copies, but fewer than that were issuedKeynes states about twenty-five copies were made. Bentley, Blake Books, 249n. Songs of Innocence [and] Songs of Experience. Edmonton, 1885. 2 vols., 4to, 34; 30 leaves. Original printed wrappers, paper backstrips (Innocence renewed), modern slipcases. Fine copies as issued, with the tissue guards present. Limited to 50 copies of each, Innocence being copy no. 41 and Experience copy no. 22. These are among the most alluring and successful of Muirs facsimiles. Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy (copy D) and he is recorded at the end as the publisher in London in 1884 but his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Experience is taken from the Beckford copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 249a and d. [another set] Original deluxe binding (probably done for Quaritch) of stiff vellum lettered in gilt, a fine copy. Limited to around 50 copies of each. Songs of Innocence has an illuminated leaf at the end with Muirs colophon stating this is copy no. 47, dated 1884.

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Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books

blake trust / trianon press facsimiles

The Blake Trust facsimiles produced by the Trianon Press are recognized as the finest examples of their kind. Working from the originals, each leaf is faithfully hand-colored through stencils onto specially created paper to achieve an astonishing exactitude, then beautifully hand-bound in leather, marbled boards, and matching slipcases. The deluxe editions included examples of the stencil process, ancillary material, and usually a full leather binding. The Times Literary Supplement stated that nothing like these books had ever been printed before and that it was highly unlikely that they could be printed again. 237. All Religions are One. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco, slipcase. $1250. Edition Deluxe, limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates, of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 5. 238. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1970. Original quarter green morocco, marbled boards and slipcase. Backstrip quite faded as often. $200. Limited to 662 copies.
item 234. Title page of Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience. Edmonton, 1885.

239. Americaa Prophecy. London: Trianon Press, 1963. Folio, 18 color facsimile leaves, 8 pp. commentary. Quarter blue morocco, slipcase. $975. Limited to 480 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 9. 240. William Blakes Illustrations to the Bible. London: Trianon Press, 1957. Large folio, with 9 color plates and 156 illustrations. Original quarter morocco. $975. Limited to 460 copies. The catalogue raisonn was compiled by Keynes and comprises virtually every Biblical painting by Blake in existence. Bentley, Blake Books, 681. 241. The Book of Ahania. London: Trianon Press, 1973. 4to, 6 color facsimile leaves, 5 pp. of commentary. Quarter black morocco, slipcase. $475. Limited to 808 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, A15. 242. The Book of Los. London: Trianon Press, 1976. 4to, 5 color plates and commentary, and progressive states of the plates, and an original copperplate, etc. Full brown morocco, slipcase. As new. $1275. 45

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235. All Religions are One. London: Frederick Hollyer, 1926. Small 4to, title, 10 leaves. Original quarter cloth, brown boards lettered in black. Fine. $175. Limited apparently to a small number of copies, of which some were colored. This copy, inscribed by Ann Hollyer as a gift, is stated to be a trial or proof copy though without any evidence. Bentley, Blake Books, 4 and Blake Books Supplement, page 52. 236. The Book of Thel. London: Frederick Hollyer, 1924. 4to, colophon at front, color title-page, 8 leaves of facsimile. Original blue boards, backstrip with printed lettering label. $275. Limited to 125 copies (not noted by Bentley), this being copy 10. Bentley, Blake Books, 21.

William Blake Catalogue Copy no. VII of XXXII Deluxe copies, in an edition limited to 512 copies in all. The companion volume to the Book of Ahania. One copy of The Book of Los is known. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 62. 243. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1976. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase. $475. Limited to 512 copies. 244. Blakes Illustrations of Dante. London, The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Oblong folio, original half brown morocco, gilt, oatmeal cloth, slipcase. As new. $5500. The edition consists of 440 copies printed on Lana Rag paper, this copy being one of the top edition of 18 copies (numbered I-XVIII), which also includes a recent printing of one of the original copperplates and an additional set of the facsimile engravings as well as material showing the stages of the making of the facsimile. The first accurate reproduction of Blakes seven engravings for the Divine Comedy, first issued in 1838. This new edition has an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes; three facsimiles of early states, and monochrome reproductions of Blakes watercolor designs for the plates, and the seven plates in superb facsimile. 245. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1978. Oblong folio, quarter morocco, cloth, slipcase. As new. $395. Limited to 376 copies. 246. Europe a Prophecy. London: Trianon Press, 1969. Folio, 17 color plates, 9 pp. of commentary, 1 monochrome facsimile. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, slipcase. $395. Limited to 526 copies. Facsimile made from copies B and G, printed on Arches pure rag paper, the color plates rendered by collotype and pochoir. Bentley, Blake Books, 34. 247. Poems by Mr. Gray. William Blakes Water-Colours illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray. With an Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 4to, xx, 71 pp. With 16 color plates and 116 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $45. Introductory handbook to the facsimile of Blakes watercolors for Grays poems. Bentley, Blake Books, 385. 248. [another copy] London: Trianon Press, 1971. Original wrappers. $25. 46 249. Water-Colour Designs For The Poems Of Thomas Gray. A Facsimile with Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. London: Trianon Press, 1972. Folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copperplate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blakes pencil lines and the tone of the paper. Original sheets, enclosed in a portfolio of marbled boards, morocco backstrip lettered in gilt. $2750. Limited to 100 copies issued unbound in portfolio, of a total edition of 320 sets and 36 deluxe copies with extra material. For exhibition purposes this is the version to have as the sheets are issued singly and thus the entire 116 leaves (and text and extra material) can be displayed at once. In this, one of Blakes most extravagant tours de force, he took Grays poems as a springboard for epic watercolors. Mounting the text on a large sheet, he painted all around the margins some of his most powerful and striking designs. The illustrations to a poem on the death of a favorite cat drowned in a goldfish bowl, for example, are a classic example of his visionary powers transcending the prosaic. Bentley, Blake Books, 385. 250. [another issue] London: Trianon Press, 1972. 3 vols., folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copperplate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blakes pencil lines and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco backstrips, slipcases, a fine set as issued. $2750. Limited to 220 copies thus. 251. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1971. Small folio, 72 pp., with 16 color facsimile leaves, suites of progressive plates, and 116 monochrome illustrations. Marbled boards, morocco backstrip, slipcase, a fine copy as issued. $1250. Limited to 28 copies so inscribed and signed by Geoffrey Keynes. This is the deluxe edition of the trade version of the Gray, issued by the Trianon Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 705A. 252. Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, [1951]. 4to, (6), ix text, and 100 pochoir colorplates. Full blue morocco extra by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, a gorgeous copy sumptuously bound (as the book deserves). In a cloth box. $5750. Limited to 516 copies. The definitive facsimile of one

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books of Blakes greatest works and the first of the magnificent series of facsimiles created by the Trianon Press of Blakes illuminated books. The Preludium is by Joseph Wicksteed and the Bibliographical Statement by Geoffrey Keynes. Blakes etched copperplates, giving the text of his poem and the basis of the designs, were printed by him in a rich orange ink and were then illuminated by hand in water colours and gold. The etched base has now been reproduced by collotype in orange and the prints have then been coloured by hand by a stencilling process, so that the final result bears the closest possible resemblance to Blakes original plates. An average of forty-four applications of water colours was required for each full page illustration, of which there are four. Of the remainder, fifty-one have some text with designs filling half the page or more, and thirty-five have text with small marginal decorations. (introduction.) Copies were issued in fascicles, or a blue buckram binding (see below): this copy was bound for presentation and is magnificent. Bentley, Blake Books, 78. 253. [another copy] Blue buckram, gilt title. Very good copy in a worn folding box. $4000. 254. Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes. [with] Wicksteed, Joseph. William Blakes Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Trianon Press, [1951] [and] London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, [1954]. Small 4to, 116 text, errata, 100 facsimile pp. [and] Small 4to, xv, 264 pp. Both volumes in original orange cloth, with gilt lettering and dust-jacket. $325. [Jerusalem]: 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy, a black-and-white version, published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 79. [Commentary]: First edition, 1500 copies printed. This commentary was intended to go with the full-scale color facsimile and this black-and-white Rinder facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 2961. 255. Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Trianon Press, [1951]. Small 4to, 116 text, errata, 100 facsimile pp. Original orange cloth, with gilt lettering and dust-jacket. $125. 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy, a black-and-white version, published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 79. 256. Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end, 8 color facsimile trial proofs, 12 pp. of text and an extra suite of 14 states of plate 19 with a matching guide-sheet and stencil. Original full brown morocco, slipcase. $2250. Limited to 32 deluxe copies with extra material, proofs, stencil, etc. This is the facsimile of Lord Cunliffes copy and Kerrison Prestons proofs; the coloring differs markedly from the Stirling copy also published in facsimile by Trianon. As new. Bentley, Blake Books, A82. 257. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase, bookplate. $575. Limited to 500 copies. 258. Milton, A Poem. London: Trianon Press, 1967. 4to, 50 color plates, 13 pp. of printed text. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. As new. $575. Limited to 426 copies. The second-longest and penultimate of Blakes illuminated books, exceptionally rich with numerous full-page plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 120. 259. The Song of Los. London: Trianon Press, 1975. 4to, 8 plates, 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate, and 22 additional progressive proof plates, and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco, prospectus inserted, a fine copy in slipcase. $1950. One of 32 deluxe copies with the extra plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process. The total edition was limited to 432 copies. One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons. Bentley, Blake Books, A137. 260. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1975. 4to, 8 plates and 10 pp. of commentary. Original quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, and slipcase. $750. Limited to 458 copies. 261. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Small 8vo, 54 plates, 3 pp. printed text at end. Full green morocco, slipcase, a very good copy. $4750. Limited to 526 copies; the superb color facsimile of the RosenwaldLibrary of Congress copy Z. One of the scarcest and most desirable of the Trianon Press books. Bentley, Blake Books, 187. 262. Songs of Innocence. London: Trianon Press, 1954. 8vo, [vi] pp. letterpress, 31 color collotype facsimile plates. Full 47

William Blake Catalogue orange morocco, slipcase, a fine copy. $550. Limited to 1600 copies, of which most were issued in an orange cloth binding. Early Trianon facsimile, reproducing copy B. Bentley, Blake Books, 165. 263. There is No Natural Religion. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco, slipcase, new. $1250. Edition Deluxe, limited to 50 copies with additional proof sheets, progressive plates, original stencil, etc. Bentley, Blake Books, 202. 264. [another edition] London: Trianon Press, 1971. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase, as new. $450. Limited to 590 copies. 265. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. London: Trianon Press, 1959. Folio, 11 plates, 7 pp. text. Quarter orange morocco, slipcase, fine. $750. Limited to 426 copies. One of the scarcer titles of the Press, especially in fine unfaded condition. Bentley, Blake Books, 216. 266. Keynes, Geoffrey. The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake. London: Trianon Press, 1977. 4to, 155 pp., 51 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. $495. Limited to 26 lettered copies for the Trustees, of a total edition of 562 copies. The definitive work on all known portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Blake. 267. [another issue] Trianon Press, 1977. 4to, 155 pp., 51 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. $495. Limited to 562 copies. 269. Stony Brook 3 /4. George Quash, ed. Stony Brook, NY: Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1969. 8vo, 391 pp. and [9] pp. of advertisements. Illustrated. Printed wrappers in glassine wrapper. A few nicks and creasing. Very good. $15. First edition. A marvelous relic of the 1960s, packed with poetry, essays, photos, etc. Contains for no apparent reason William Blakes America: A Prophecy. Bentley, Blake Books, A9: a reduced facsimile in Black on Yellow paper of copy C or D, with no related text at all. 270. 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. Normal, IL: The American Blake Foundation, 1974. 4to, 21 pp. and 27 facsimile plates. Full red morocco, gilt lettering to backstrip. Full cloth slipcase. Near fine. $275. Limited edition facsimile of copy E. Eassons own copy, bound in full morocco. A facsimile of an uncolored copy that includes in the limited editions four plates from the RosenwaldLibrary of Congress edition, the copperplate of plate a, The Chaining of Orc sketch, and a possible title-page design. Bentley, Blake Books, B9. 271. [another issue] Quarter red morocco, gilt lettering to backstrip, with marbled boards. Very good. $200. Limited edition facsimile of copy E, one of 26, this copy lettered R and signed by G.E. Bentley, Jr. 272. [another issue] Full red cloth, gilt lettering inside black label on backstrip. Gilt title to front cover. Very good. $30. Limited numbered edition, this being number 200 of 474. 273. [another issue] 18 uncolored plates loosely inserted in a printed envelope. Very good. $25. 18 plates from the book. 274. Blakes America: A Prophecy and Europe: A Prophecy. Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books with 35 Plates in Full Color. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983. 4to, 47 pp. 35 color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. First Dover edition. Reproduces copy M of America and copies B, G, and K to create a complete Europe; with very brief commentary and a complete transcription of the text. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 149.

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books 275. The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin. London: Heinemann, 1969. 2 vols., oblong 8vo. Text volume XIV, 40 pp., with 12 illustrations; facsimile volume to match, in calf-backed green buckram, slipcase faded, backstrip slightly scuffed to one volume, otherwise very good. $100. Limited to 800 copies. The facsimile of the notebook was printed by the Trianon Press. This is the small notebook which was broken up and sold at auction a few years ago. Almost invariably the facsimile volume is sprung, with many leaves coming loose. This copy, though sprung, has not yet suffered loose leaves. Bentley, Blake Books, 401: includes 36 Visionary Drawings by Blake. 276. The Book of Thel. [London: Pearson, 1876]. Tall slim folio, [9] leaves printed in brown ink in facsimile of the 1789 original. Quarter brown cloth and boards, leather backstrip label (worn), internally fine. $300. A single work extracted from the Works issued by Pearson in 1876 in a thick volume. The facsimiles were executed by hand and the edition was limited to 100 copies. This is the only separate issue from that collection I have ever seen or heard of. Bentley, Blake Books, 368. 277. The Book of Thel. London: Gollancz, 1928. Thin 4to, 8 leaves and colophon. Original black cloth, scuffed. $25. Facsimile limited to 1700 copies for the UK and the USA. Bentley, Blake Books, 22. 278. The Book of Thel. A Facsimile and a Critical Text Edited by Nancy Bogen. Providence: Brown University Press, 1971. 4to, xiv, 82 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $45. Fine reproduction of the New York Public Library copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley, Blake Books, 27: The bibliographical details are novel and important. 279. The Book of Urizen. Introduction by Clark Emery. Florida: University of Miami Press, 1966. Small 8vo, 54 pp. and 27 black-and-white plates. Illustrated wrappers. Signs of wear. Very good. $10. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 41A: Introduction dealing largely with Gnosticism. 280. [another edition] 1969. Illustrated wrappers. Bentley, Blake Books, 41B. $10. 281. The Book of Urizen Edited and with a Commentary by Kay Parkhurst Easson and Roger Easson. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978. Tall 8vo, 102 pp. including a full-color reproduction of the original. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $35. A very good-quality trade printing of Urizen, from copy G (RosenwaldLibrary of Congress) with one plate from copy C (Mellon). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 76. 282. [another copy] Wrappers. $20.

283. (Spanish) El Libro de Urizen. Version en Castellano de Avantos Swan. Madrid: Swan, 1984. 8vo, 141 pp. with 28 full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers, edges curled with minor soiling. Very good. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 76 issue C. 284. Europe: A Prophecy: Volume Two of Materials for the Study of William Blake. Introduction by G.E. Bentley, Jr. Normal, IL: The American Blake Foundation, 1976. 4to, 23 loose leaves of text and 38 loose plates and 3 folded and uncut leaves each with 8 illustrations, double-sided. All loosely inserted in a quarter morocco binding with mar$50. bled boards. Very good to near fine. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 6970. This reproduces an uncolored copy, copy H with ancillary material (see Bentley). Essick contributed a bibliographical introduction. 285. Europe a Prophecy (1794). Introduction by G. E. Bentley, Jr. Memphis: The American Blake Foundation, 1978. Folio portfolio, unbound, (2), 33 pp. 38 plates on 19 leaves. In a blue cloth portfolio and slipcase. $75. Limited to 149 numbered copies signed by Bentley. This facsimile includes some color plates which are useful for comparison. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 6970. 286. The First Book of Urizen. Reproduced in facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author in 1794 formerly in the possession of the late Baron Dimsdale. With a Note by Dorothy Plowman. London and Toronto: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1929. Small 4to, 28 color plates and 25 pp. of text. Original red cloth gilt, dustjacket, very fine. $125. A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley, Blake Books, 39. 287. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise. [NY: privately printed for W.A. White, 1897?]. Small 8vo, 21 single sheets printed in black and white on card paper, with a facsimile 49

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268. America. a Prophecy. [New York, 1947]. 8vo, [19] pp. Lithographs printed on yellow paper. Quarter red cloth, yellow paper boards. Illustration affixed to front. Light shelf wear. Very good. $35. An odd reproduction, printed on yellow paper, with a color plate from Visions of the Daughter of Albion on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley, Blake Books, 8B (the A issue had an introduction by Ruthven Todd and a title-page).

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William Blake Catalogue plate mark around the image. Enclosed in a later half cloth and marbled portfolio with ties, lettered in black ink. sold. One of the rarest of Blake facsimiles: the quantity issued is unknown and even the date and place of printing are conjectural. William A. White was one of the greatest American Blake collectors and this facsimile was made from his copy (copy D) now at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Bentley, Blake Books, 46 (and see 45). 288. Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 1804. [London: John Pearson, 1877]. Large 4to, 100 plates, printed in black and white, with black framing lines. Modern quarter brown morocco and cloth boards, a few leaves at the back with slight paper damage in the margin. $1650. A wonderful facsimile of copy D (now at Harvard), limited to 100 copies. Bentley attributed the publication to Chatto but revised it to Pearson in his Blake Books Supplement. The Rinder copy reproduced by the Trianon Press is in a smaller format and this large quarto has a much more imposing and appealing presence and seems to be a better facsimilecertainly this copy is clearer and more striking than copy C. Bentley, Blake Books, 76, and Blake Books Supplement, page 88. As is well known, Blake made five copies of Jerusalem of which he only colored one complete set, the other four all being black and white. A suite of 25 plates was also colored by Blake later, and a few posthumous copies were printed in tints. 289. [another copy] Original blue-gray wrappers untrimmed, internally slightly foxed as usual, wrappers chipped at edges. Bookplate. $1500. 290. [another edition] Doskow, Minna. William Blakes Jerusalem: Structure and Meaning in Poetry and Picture. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1982. 8vo, 283 pp. Full cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with mild bumping and wear. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 456: a detailed reading with a facsimile of Jerusalem copy C. 291. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. [London: John Camden Hotten, 1868]. 4to, 27 hand-colored plates over lithographic ground, printed on special paper reproducing Blakes original paper. Original gray boards, buckram backstrip (possibly a remainder binding), the usual foxing, a good copy. $1975. The first facsimile of a Blake book (excepting only a 50 few selections in monochrome in Gilchrists first edition of the Life). Limited to 150 copies, this facsimile is rarely found in acceptable condition as the watercolor usually turns almost black and the paper tends to fox badly. In this copy the foxing is almost completely absent from the images though quite noticeable in the margins and at the front and back. The facsimile is from copy F, now at the Pierpont Morgan Library. The limitation is derived from Hottens ledger sheets as cited by Paley, Hotten, Swinburne, and the Blake Facsimiles of 1868, in the Spring 1976 issue of Bulletin of the New York Public Library. Bentley, Blake Books, 99. 292. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Reproduced in facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author between the years 18251827 and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. With a Note by Max Plowman. London and Toronto: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1927. Small 4to, 27 color plates and 24 pp. of text. Original $150. brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket, very good. A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley, Blake Books, 104. 293. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Clark Emery, Introduction. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1973. Small 8vo, 104 pp. and 27 illustrations. Printed wrappers. Very good. $10. Sixth printing, first published in 1963. Bentley, Blake Books, 108. A black-and-white reproduction of copy I. 294. The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell. With an introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Designed by Arnold Fawcus and produced by The Trianon Press, Paris. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 8vo: xxvii [xxviii], [27] pp. Title-page in sepia and 27 plates including title-page in color in double-page spreads alternating with those bearing notes to the plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $35. Trade edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 100. 295. [another copy] Paperback. $15.

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books (RosenwaldLibrary of Congress). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 102. 297. [another copy] Wrappers. $15. 4to, xxi pp. text, 54 leaves printed in outline in reddish brown and then colored by hand and heightened in gold, except for two plates which remain uncolored. Modern half blue morocco, first blank and title-page foxed, otherwise a very fine copy. $1250. This is a made-up copy with most of the plates very finely colored but with 2 plates uncolored and the text for the uncolored issue present rather than the (different) text for the colored issue. Bentley, Blake Books, 173. 302. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Liverpool: Henry Young and Sons, 1923. Small 4to, (7) pp. of text, 54 illuminated leaves guarded with tissues. Original roan, very well restored and rebacked, gilt top, internally a fine copy. $5500. Limited to 51 copies, beautifully illuminated by Samuel Hurd from the original in the British Museum. This facsimile was executed over a period of 81/2 years using the same methods by which Blake printed the original. The British Museum copy T, reproduced here, differs substantially from all other copies especially in the coloring; thus comparison of this example with other facsimiles gives quite an insight into Blakes changing sentiments toward this his most famous work. This is one of the rarest of all Blake facsimiles, and one of the most valuable. Bentley, Blake Books, 178. 303. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Liverpool: Henry Young and Sons, 1923. Small 4to, (7) pp. of text, 54 uncolored leaves printed in orange. Original blue boards, cloth backstrip, paper label on upper cover, covers slightly foxed, internally very fine. sold. Limited to 100 copies, of 151 copies (with the first 51 being hand-colored). Although the colored version is obviously more desirable, the uncolored version enables the interested observer see the exact outlines of the plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 178. 304. Songs of Innocence. [and] Songs of Experience. London: Benn, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo, color facsimile, no text. Original black cloth, gilt. $40. A good trade facsimile though issued without any commentary. Bentley, Blake Books, 160. 305. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 1794. Albion Facsimiles Number One From copy in the Houghton Library, Harvard. [Introduction by Ruthven Todd. 51

298. Songs of Innocence Color Facsimile of the First edition with 31 Color Plates. New York: Dover, 1971. 12mo, 55 pp. 31 color plates. Blue cloth in dust-jacket. Very good. $15. First Dover edition. Reproduces copy B (Rosenwald Library of Congress). A pleasant little edition, with a brief foreword and the text in letterpress at the end. Bentley, Blake Books, 168. 299. Facsimiles of what is believed to be the Last Replica of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake. With an Introduction by Edwin J. Ellis. London: Quaritch, 1893. Large 4to, xxiii pp. text, 54 leaves colored by hand and heightened in gold. Original half hard-grain morocco, recased, internally a very fine copy. $6750. Limited to 50 copies: Fifty copies in Water-colours, on printed outlines, touched with gold, in exact imitation of Blakes own work, have been made, of which this is No. 22 [signed] Edwin John Ellis. This copy with bookplates of Louis Dyer, and Pamela and Raymond Lister, and an ink inscription to Norman Crawford Maclehose dated 1896. This is an extremely rare (and absolutely gorgeous) facsimile of copy U; Bentley, Blake Books, notes the uncolored companion volume in Blake Books, no. 173 and the colored copy in Blake Books Supplement, pages 13435 (issue B). The colorist was either a Mr. Laing or (according to Quaritch) William Griggs. 300. Facsimiles of the Original Outlines before Colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake. With an Introduction by Edwin J. Ellis. London: Quaritch, 1893. Large 4to, xxi pp. text, 54 leaves printed in outline in reddish brown. Original half hardgrain morocco, first blank and title-page foxed, otherwise a very good copy, head of backstrip repaired. $1750. A very scarce companion volume to the colored version (see above), both issued by Quaritch at the same time. Bentley, Blake Books, 173. 301. Facsimiles of the Original Outlines before Colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake. [but actually Facsimiles of what is believed to be the Last Replica of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake.] London: Quaritch, 1893. Large

296. Milton. Edited and with a Commentary by Kay Parkhurst Easson and Roger R. Easson. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978. Tall 8vo, 178 pp. including a full-color reproduction of the original. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $35. A very good-quality trade printing of Milton, from copy B (Huntington) and with plates af from copy D

William Blake Catalogue Sequence adopted by Joseph H. Wicksteed.] United Book Guild New York and London: Falcon Press, 1947. Small 8vo, (6) pp. of text and the facsimile in black and white. Original green and blue cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 186. 306. [another copy] Original green and blue wrappers, dust-jacket. Fine. $20. First edition, the cheaper paper binding but otherwise the same as the preceding. Bentley, Blake Books, 186. 307. The Songs of Innocence and of Experience. New York: Orion Press, 1967. 8vo, xviii pp. and 54 full color plates opposite text. One supplementary black-and-white plate. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, a fine copy. $125. Trade edition, printed in 6- and 8-color offset with facing transcript and following explication, an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes and a publishers note by Arnold Fawcus. An excellent facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 190B. 308. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press, 1970. 8vo, xviii pp. and 54 full color plates opposite text. One supplementary black-and-white plate. Errata slip tipped in before rear cover. Blue wrappers. Very good. $30. First Oxford University Press paperback edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 135 issue C. 309. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, very good. $45. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 135 issue F. 310. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Facsimile of Sixteen Original Plates Etched by William Blake. London: Academy Editions, 1971. 4to, [37] pp. 16 plates printed in brown. Glazed paper boards. Very good. $10. First of the Academy editions. Letterpress text facing the facsimile pages. Bentley, Blake Books, A191. 311. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Selected Plates Reproduced in Facsimile from Originals in the Huntington Library. Selected and introduced by James Thorpe. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, [1975]. 8vo, 31 pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. Very good. $10. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A333: slightly enlarged facsimile from copy E and N, with transcripts on facing pp. 312. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. 2 vols., large and smaller 4to, the larger bound in full red morocco, the smaller loose in wrappers as issued, both enclosed in brown cloth folding boxes, new as issued. sold. Editions limited to 35 and 40 copies, with 16 color plates and an uncolored proof in part one, and 19 plates in part two of which 17 are monochrome and two are hand-colored. Both versions are accompanied by Joseph Viscomis study of Blakes printing processes especially written for this edition. Printed by Paul Ritchie from facsimile relief etchings on a rolling press with handmade intaglio ink on dampened wove paper, repeating as closely as possible Blakes original printing technique and the paper he used. The coloring is by hand not stencil, and uses inks made to 18th-century formulas to re-create the colors in copy B in the British Museum made by Blake in 17941795. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 13536. 313. (German) Lieder der Unschuld und Erfahrung. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Werner Hofmann. Berlin: Insel Verlag, 1976. Small 8vo, 115 pp. Pages 962 with full-page, full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $15. Early but not first printing (913 thousand). A complete reproduction of copy T, rarely reproduced. Bentley, Blake Books, C191: persuasive facsimile German translation, and Hoffmanns Nachwort. 314. There is No Natural Religion. London: Pickering and Co., 1886. 8vo, 12 leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish brown highlighted in black (3 colored), original printed blue wrappers. In a later full blue morocco binding, lettered in gilt, fine. $2500. 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, very well executed (the rest were not colored and were printed in a dark brown without highlights). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 140. 315. There is No Natural Religion. [in] Manifold Review. 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. Very good. $5. A reproduction of copy L, and quite rare. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 140.

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books 316. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Reproduced in facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author in 1793 now in the British Museum. With a Note by John Middleton Murry. London and Toronto: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1932. Small 4to, 11 color plates and 25 pp. of text. Original beige cloth gilt, edges browned, internally very good with the prospectus loosely inserted. $65. A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Murry. Bentley, Blake Books, 214. 317. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Edited by Robert N. Essick. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2002. 4to, vii, 11 color plates, 78 pp. text with illustrations in color and black and white. Original cloth, dust-jacket, new. $15. Latest edition of the Visions, reproducing the Huntington Librarys copy with related drawings. Essicks commentary explains Blakes invention of the unique method he used to etch the text and designs. With an extensive bibliography and index to the commentary. An excellent production beautifully produced and wonderfully well priced given the quality of reproduction. 318. [proof copy] 6 unnumbered leaves bearing color reproductions, bound into gray boards. $15. Proof copy of the reproduction of copy E at the Huntington Library, annotated by Essick. 319. [general title] William Blakes Illuminated Books. A complete set of the six volumes as described below. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press with The William Blake Trust, [19911995]. 6 vols., large 4to, original cloth, dustjackets, as issued. Full description below. $975. The set consists of: Jerusalem: The Emanation of Giant Albion. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morton D. Paley. 302 pp., including 105 pp. of color plates. The first volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. Jacket just a trifle worn; as new. [with] Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Andrew Lincoln. 209 pp., including 57 pp. of color plates. The second volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. Jacket a trifle worn; as new. [with] The Early Illuminated Books: All Religions are One, There is no Natural Religion, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi. 286 pp., including 100 pp. of illustrations, most in color. The third volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. Jacket just a little worn; as new. [with] The Continental Prophecies. America: A Prophecy. Europe: A Prophecy. The Song of Los. Edited with Introductions and Notes by D.W. Drrbecker. 367 pp., including 77 pp. of illustrations. Brown cloth in pictorial jacket. The fourth volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. As new. [with] Milton: A Poem and the First Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil, Laocon. Edited with Introductions and Notes by Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi. 286 pp., including 72 pp. of illustrations. The fifth volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. As new. [with] The Urizen Books: The First Book of Urizen, The Book of Ahania, The Book of Los. Edited with Introductions and Notes by David Worrall. 231 pp., including 57 pp. of illustrations. The sixth volume in this series of Blakes illuminated books. Jacket slightly worn; a fine copy. Complete sets of the six volumes in cloth are now out of print. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 88, 149 (vol. I); pages 136, 149 (vol. II). 320. Erdman, David V., ed. The Illuminated Blake. New York: Anchor Press, 1974. Oblong 8vo, 416 pp. Illus. Original white and blue cloth in a pictorial dust-jacket. Very good. $85. With extensive commentary from Erdman. Jacket a trifle chipped along the edges. Although not printed in color, Bentley, Blake Books, A261 notes: This is a major work of scholarship and an important piece of criticism. 321. [another copy] Paper covers, minor soiling and wear, small piece torn from edge of back cover. $35. The soft-bound American edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A261. 322. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press., 1975. Oblong 8vo, 416 pp. Illus. Original white and blue cloth in a pictorial dust-jacket. Very good. $75. First British edition, preceded by the US edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A261B.

reproductions of manuscripts
323. Blakes Illuminated Manuscript of Genesis [fly-title]. [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1975]. Folio, 14 pp. of letterpress text by Wark, and 11 leaves of facsimile. Enclosed in a modern cloth portfolio. sold. Proof set (never published, one of only two copies made) of the only complete full-size color reproduction of

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William Blake Catalogue the Genesis Manuscript in the Huntington Library. It was photographed in color and reproduced on gray-tinted paper, with text by R.R. Wark printed on single folio sheets letterpress. Butlin shows the two title-pages in color in the catalogue raisonn, reduced; the manuscript has never been reproduced in proper facsimile, although Essick reproduces it in black and white reduced (see item 449). It was intended to be a publication of the American Blake Foundation but was never issued. Paley, The Traveller in the Evening (2008), pp. 26066, etc. discusses the manuscript at some length, based on Essicks long study in The Works of William Blake in the Huntington Collections, pp. 88115. It was Blakes last pictorial work on a Biblical subject. Bentley, Blake Books, 66 (for the original). 324. An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated By Michael Phillips. With a Preface by Haven OMore. Cambridge, 1987. Small folio, viii, 110 pp. Facsimile interleaved. Original cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase. As new. $145. A beautiful facsimile finely printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, in a limited edition. Publication financed by the inimitable Haven OMore (see Basbanes, A Gentle Madness, new edition, for much on this enigmatic man). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 85. 325. The Note-Book of William Blake, Called the Rossetti Manuscript. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935. 4to, xii, 163 pp. and unnumbered plates of of the photo-reproduced notebook. Original blue buckram. Neat penciled notes on a rear blank. Spine a trifle faded. Fine. $200. Limited to 650 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 123A. 326. The Notebook of William Blake called the Rossetti Manuscript. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1970. 8vo, xii, 163 pp. and the facsimile plates. Purple buckram cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $45. Reprint of the 1935 first edition published by Nonesuch Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 123B. 327. The Notebook of William Blake: a Photographic and Typographic Facsimile. Edited by David V. Erdman and Donald K. Moore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. 4to, 105 pp. and double-spread pages of facsimile and typographic transcription between pages [65] and [66]. Dark blue cloth, dampstaining with part of dust-jacket stuck to front. Orange printed dust-jacket, sunfaded with some chipping. Some bumping and edgewear. Very good. $125. First edition of this version, highly praised by Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 14: The Notebook edition is an extraordinary accomplishment, changing the order of some pp., analysing the whole minutely, and reproducing the text both photographically and typographically, the latter with wonderful fidelity to the shape of the original. Bentley, Blake Books, A123. 328. [another edition] Revised edition. [New York]: Readex Books, 1977. 4to, xv, 107 pp. with 120 notebook pp. in facsimile and typed translation. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $95. Not in Bentley. 329. [another copy] Orange printed wrappers. Some bumping. Very good. $50. First paperback edition of this version. 330. The Pickering Manuscript. William Blake. Introduction by Charles Ryskamp. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. 8vo, 32 pp. Original printed wrappers. $25. Nicely produced facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 127: the first facsimile of the manuscript. 331. Tiriel. Facsimile and Transcript of the Manuscript, Reproduction of the Drawings, and a Commentary on the Poem by G.E. Bentley. Oxford University Press, 1967. 4to, (9), 94 pp. Illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket a bit soiled. $45. First edition of this important facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 204. 332. Vala; or, The Four Zoas. A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript of the Poem and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G.E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Large folio, xviii, 220 pp. 142 pp. of plates. With the editors presentation slip laid in. Cloth, dust-jacket (torn). Internally fine. $400. First edition thus. A fine production of the only facsimile of this huge manuscript. Bentley, Blake Books, 212. 333. [another copy] Cloth a bit faded, with one smudge to the backstrip. Bookplate of George Goyder. $350.

Facsimiles and Reproductions of the Illuminated Books 334. The Four Zoas: A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript With Commentary on the Illuminations. Edited By Cettina Tramontano Magno and David V. Erdman. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1987. 4to, 258 pp., includes plates which begin on page 115 through the end. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with only slight signs of wear. Text bright and clean. Very good. $350. First edition of this version, lauded by Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 14, 143: includes a very close reading of the poem, particularly of the designs and their sexual meanings, with reduced-size photographs which seem to reveal details not previously detected.

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illustrations to youngs night thoughts
335. Keynes, Geoffrey. Illustrations to Youngs Night Thoughts done in water-colour by William Blake from the original water-colours in the library of William Augustus White, with an introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Cambridge: Fogg Museum, 1927. Large 4to, with 5 color plates and 25 monochrome plates, and introductory text. Original blue cloth portfolio slightly worn, internally fine. $350. Limited to 500 copies. An excellent job of color facsimile showing the glory of the water-colors. Bentley, Blake Books, 395. 336. Essick, Robert N. Night Thoughts or the Complaint and the Consolation. Illustrated by William Blake. Text by Edward Young. Illustrated by William Blake. Text by Edward Young. Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Robert N. Essick (and) Jenijoy La Belle. New York: Dover, [1975]. 4to, xxi pp. and the reduced facsimile. Original red cloth. $35. A useful reduced (to 66 percent) facsimile, here in the rare binding (usually found in wrappers). Bentley, Blake Books, A515. 337. [another copy] Original wrappers. $25. University Press, 1922. Folio, 22 pp. With 117 plates, including 6 in color on rectos only. Publishers red cloth, a good copy. $875. Limited to 650 copies. This unique copy was found among Flaxmans papers after his death, was auctioned in 1828, eventually sold to William Beckford, was transferred to Hamilton Palace upon the marriage of Beckfords daughter to the tenth Duke, and remained there until its discovery in a portfolio of prints. More recently it was purchased by Paul Mellon for Yale and was reproduced in full by the Trianon Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 384.

illustrations for Milton. Smalley managed to convince the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, and Museum of Modern Art to allow him to reproduce these drawings in their collections. Bentley, Blake Books, 410. 345. Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake. Vol. I: Paradise Lost. Vol. II: Miscellaneous. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 vols., 8vo, [xii], 359; [viii], 283 pp. Title-pages in sepia and black, 27 plates. Full brown calf lettered in gilt, gilt tops, a deluxe binding (probably later) $475. on the regular edition. A beautiful set in a luxurious binding. Limited to 1450 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 394. 346. Comus a Mask. With eight illustrations by William Blake. Edited from the edition of 1645 and the autograph manuscript. With a Preface by Darrell Figgis. London: Benn, 1926. 4to, xxiii, 36 pp. With eight plates. Original black cloth. A very good copy. $100. Limited to 300 copies well printed on handmade paper. An attractive book. Bentley, Blake Books, 388. 347. Paradise Lost. With the illustrations by William Blake printed in color for the first time and with prefaces by Philip Hofer and John T. Winterich. New York: Heritage Press, 1940. Royal 8vo, xx, 311 pp. With a frontispiece and 8 color plates. Original cloth, slipcase. Very good. $30. Nicely printed edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 391. 348. Paradise Lost. New York: Studio Publications, 1947. Folio. 9 colored plates, and one page of text in reddish brown printed portfolio wrapper. Very slight edgewear of wrapper, and one minor crease at lower corner flap, signature on front wrapper of Peter Benson. Plates and text page in very good condition. $50. Bentley, Blake Books, 392. The introductory note is by Henry P. Rossiter. 349. Sinderen, Adrian van. Blake the Mystic Genius. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1949. 4to, 119 pp., illustrations. Original quarter cloth. Very good. $45. 1100 copies printed. Bentley, Blake Books, 2898. This has the LAllegro and Il Penseroso designs, and Blakes accompanying MS, nicely reproduced, the watercolors in color. 350. LAllegro Together with A Note upon the Poems by W.P. Trent. Il Penseroso. Together with a Note upon the Paintings by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. New York:

Limited Editions Club, 1954. Large 8vo, 43; 44, [2] pp., 12 gravure plates after the paintings by William Blake. Giltlettered dark green cloth, slipcase; prospectus and newsletter. $75. Limited to 1780 copies 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. Bentley, Blake Books, 386, 393, 284B (Tinkers essay); see also Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 175, for an explanation of the two issues. 351. On the Morning of Christs Nativity; Miltons Hymn with illustrations by William Blake and a Note on the Illustrations by Martin Butlin. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1981. 4to, xii, 24 pp., seven color plates (six full-page). $275. Limited to 325 copies. A beautiful book, printed on handmade paper, with a new note by Martin Butlin adding to previous scholarship published by Keynes in 1923 and a much better printing of the color plates. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 175.

illustrations to miltons poetry

340. Paradise Lost. Illustrations by William Blake. Liverpool: Lyceum Press, 1906. 4to, ix, 397 pp. With 12 color plates. Original boards, cloth backstrip with some soiling, paper label. Very good. $150. Bentley, Blake Books, 390. The preface is signed S.S. probably Sydney Style who owned several of the watercolors. 341. On the Morning of Christs Nativity. Miltons Hymn with 6 illustrations by William Blake and a Note by Geoffrey Keynes. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Quarter vellum, green buckram, very good. $275. Deluxe edition limited to 150 copies on handmade paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. 342. [another edition] 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper label. $150. First trade edition. Light dust soiling, corners faintly worn, but a very good copy. 343. [another copy] Cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper label. $150. First trade edition, with George Goyders bookplate, a very good copy. 344. Twenty-Seven Drawings by William Blake being Illustrations for Paradise Lost, Comus, and The Bible. McPherson, Kansas: Carl J. Smalley, [1925]. Large slim 4to, t-p. [2] pp. text, and 27 black-and-white plates. Original boards, backstrip chipped at head and foot as usual. $25. Limited to 1050 copies. The book reproduces all Blakes

illustrations to blairs the grave

352. The Grave. A Poem. New York: Appleton, 1903. Small 8vo, original red cloth, gilt top, printed label on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. $45. Reduced size facsimile following the 1808 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435H. 353. Blakes Grave: A Prophetic Book. Being William Blakes Illustrations for Robert Blairs The Grave, Arranged as Blake Directed. Edited by S. Foster Damon. Providence: Brown University Press, 1963. Folio, 43 pp. Illus. Original $145. brown boards. Fine copy. First edition, a scarce book. Publishers presentation bookplate on the front pastedown. Bentley, Blake Books, 435K. 354. William Blakes Illustrations to The Grave. Seattle: Double Elephant Folio and Quarto Co., Inc., 1969. Large 4to, [22] pp. 32 numbered plates and frontispiece and illustrated title-page reproduced from the 1808 original. Tan illustrated wrappers. Light bumping to corners. Very good. $5. Bentley, Blake Books, 435L. An inexpensive but useful reproduction.

338. Erdman, David et al. Designs for Edward Youngs Night Thoughts. A Complete Edition. Edited by David V. Erdman, John E. Grant, Edward J. Rose, Michael J. Tolley. Oxford University Press, 1980. 2 vols., large 4to, xvi, 99 pp.; viii pp., and 537 reproductions of watercolor drawings and 43 engravings. Original cloth, dust-jackets, boxed. $450. Published at 150: a remarkable example of scholarly publishing worthy of its subject. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 7, noting that the two planned volumes of commentary were still in preparation. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 177. The commentary has been abandoned.

illustrations to grays poetry

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Books Featuring Reproductions of Blakes Art William Blake. London: Ernest Benn, 1927. 4to, [6], 56, [4] pp., with 22 plates. Original black cloth, sprung, some slight foxing in margins. $20. A scarce edition, well printed by the Westminster Press with collotype plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 431. 364. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Title-page. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Large 4to, text, illustrations including 63 color facsimile plates, in six fascicles in original wrappers with labels, enclosed in a new blue cloth box. $2250. A magnificent production, showing for the first time the three colored sets and the drawings for the smaller set, as well as reproducing in fine facsimile the proof issue of the first printing. Issued in a small edition and hard to find in good condition. Bentley, Blake Books, 374: The 134 plates of this excellent edition include Blakes pencil drawings and water-colours and proofs of his engravings. For the genesis of Job it is of crucial importance. Despite the Trianon Press edition of 1987, this edition is still a necessity as it reproduces both the Butts and Linnell sets of Job watercolors in color which are only found in black and white, much reduced in size, in the Trianon edition. 365. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Reproduced in Facsimile from the original New Zealand set made about 18231824, in the Possession of Philip Hofer. With a Note by Philip Hofer. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1937. 4to, [5], 22 color plates, 9 pp. note at end. Original black cloth, $150. gilt top, dust-jacket. A fine copy. Deluxe issue, limited to 120 copies specially bound for Hofer, this copy inscribed by Hofer to Ruthven Todd. Bentley, Blake Books, 375. 366. Illustrations of the Book of Job The Doctrine of Job. New York: United Book Guild, 1950. Slim folio, title-page and 21 plates, each with Damons commentary. Original black cloth, with printed label on upper cover, a good copy. $20. A useful edition for S. Foster Damons commentary. Bentley, Blake Books, 432B. 367. Blakes Job: William Blakes Illustrations of the Book of Job. With an Introduction and Commentary by S. Foster Damon. Providence: Brown University Press, 1966. 4to, ix, 66 pp., with 22 plates included in the pagination. Original blue cloth, orange dust-jacket, a fine copy. $45. First edition. An essential reference work on Blakes Job, and a completely different book from his earlier study of Job published in 1950. Bentley, Blake Books, 433A. 368. [another edition] Providence: Brown University Press, 1967. 4to, ix, 66 pp., with 22 plates included in the pagination. Original blue cloth, very good. $30. First edition, second printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 433B. 369. [another edition] Original black cloth, orange printed dust-wrapper. Fine. $45. Third printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 433C. 370. [another edition] New York: E.P. Dutton, 1969. Printed wrappers. Light wear. Very good. $10. First Dutton paperback. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 198 issue C. 371. [another edition] Hanover and London: Brown University Press, 1982. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 198 issue E. 372. King, Horace Maybray. Songs in the Night: a Study of the Book of Job. With Illustrations by William Blake and an Introduction by Professor Arthur S. Herbert. London: Colin Smythe Ltd., 1968. 8vo, 69 pp. Quarter vellum. Brown illustrated boards. Black endpapers. Very good. $45. Limited edition, number 93 of 100. A paperback version was issued at the same time. Bentley, Blake Books, 434. 373. Blakes Job. A Commentary by Andrew Wright. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. 8vo, xxi, 67 pp. 21 illustrations. Blue with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. Small 3/16-inch (1 cm.) tear along top fore edge of backstrip. Some curling to edges. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, B3007: with about a page of conventional commentary for each [plate]. 374. The Book of Job. Illustrated by William Blake with an Introduction by Michael Marqusee. New York, London, and Ontario: Paddington Press, 1976. 8vo, 52 pp. and 21 plates. Illustrated green wrappers. Minor edgewear. Very good. $10. First edition of this useful and inexpensive reference work. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 197. The text includes the complete authorized version of the Book of Job. Marqusee does not seem to have written anything else relating to Blake. 59

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356. The Illustrations for Thorntons Virgil, with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Phillips. The Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. 8vo, 38 pp. illustrations in the text, 13 pp. of illustrations from Blakes woodcuts. With a portfolio of 17 electrotype plates. Decorated paper over boards. Very good. $225. Limited to 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Includes 8 proof plates from the first state, and the 16 original pencil drawings, all reproduced here for the first time. Bentley, Blake Books, 510. 357. 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. London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 original woodcuts printed 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 $6500. backstrip. As issued. Limited to 150 sets, this superb reprinting of Blakes woodcuts from the original blocks was executed by Iain Bain (the Bewick authority) and sold out immediately. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 262.

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358. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. Large 4to, 79 pp., and heliotype facsimiles of the title-page and 21 plates of the original. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, gilt edges, a very good copy. $1500. First American edition, one of Blakes earliest appearances in the USA (Roberts in Boston published the Rossetti edition of the Works in 1875). It is also the first reproduction in facsimile of the Book of Job, the first edi-

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Books Featuring Reproductions of Blakes Art 384. Bindman, David. Complete Graphic Works of Blake. New York, 1978. Folio, 492 pp; illustrated throughout. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $100. Indispensable single-volume reference to Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 15051 issue B. 385. [another copy] Original cloth, dust-jacket. Hinge repaired with tape, a bit shaken, but perfectly readable. $60. 386. Butlin, Martin. William Blake. London: Tate Gallery, 1972. Oblong 8vo, 16 pp. and 32 plates, some in color. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. Third impression, first printed in 1966 in the Tate Gallery Little Book Series. Bentley, Blake Books, 412C. 387. [another printing] Paperback. $15. Fourth impression, first printed in 1966 in the Tate Gallery Little Book Series. 388. Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. 2 vols., large 4to, xxvi, 668 pp.; vol. II, 1193 illustrations. $375. Original cloth, dust-jackets. The definitive work on the subject, long out of print and hard to come by. The study reproduces virtually every extant original Blake work of art, including 104 leaves of color reproduction. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 297. 389. Figgis, Darrell. The Paintings of William Blake. London: Ernest Benn, 1925. 4to, xv, 117 pp., 100 plates, with additional text on the tissue guards. White vellum backstrip, decorated boards. Accompanied by an additional $500. portfolio of plates. Very good. First edition, limited to 250 copies printed on Van Gelder paper, bound in pigskin with an extra plate in colour. This copy signed by Figgis and numbered (84); seldom found in good condition. An attractive and well-illustrated book. Accompanied by an additional set of plates in brown cloth portfolio. Bentley, Blake Books, 408. 390. [another issue] White buckram backstrip, decorated boards. Backstrip a trifle soiled; small bookplate mounted on the title-page. Very good copy. $135. First edition, limited to 1150 copies; seldom found in good condition. An attractive and well-illustrated book. Bentley, Blake Books, 408. 391. Grigorescu, Dan. Grafica Lui William Blake. Bucaresti, Romania: Editura Meridiane, 1983. 8vo, 42 pp. and 89 illustrations. Printed wrappers with some wear. Very good. $20. A selection of Blakes images printed in black and white, with a 32-page introduction in Romanian. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182. 392. Greenough, Ruth Hornblower. The Bible for My Grandchildren, Arranged from the King James Version. Privately Printed, 1950. 2 vols., 4to, xiii, 347 pp.; viii, 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers, showing maps of Biblical periods. Color frontispiece in both volumes, 13 additional illustrations in volume I and 21 additional illustrations in volume II, all from designs by William Blake with decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover and backstrips. Top edge gilt, fore-edges and bottom deckle-edged. Slipcase. Very good. $150. Limited edition, one of 1000 sets produced under the direction of the Merrymount Press. A quite lovely printing, with excellent reproductions of the plates and well designed and printed text. Bentley, Blake Books, 371. 393. Greenough, Ruth Hornblower. The Home Bible Arranged for Family Reading. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950. Large 8vo, 393 pp. With illustrations from designs by William Blake. Red cloth with signs of wear, spotted and soiled. Printed dust-jacket with much edge$40. wear. Very good. An inexpensive reprint of the limited edition produced under the direction of the Merrymount Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 372. 394. Huntington Library. Essick, Robert N. William Blake at The Huntington. An Introduction to the William Blake Collection New York: Abrams, 1994. 4to, 159 pp. Illustrated with 64 color plates. Original wrappers, fine, inscribed by a bookseller to a collector. $20. Nice copy of this essential guide to one of the greatest Blake collections in the USA. 395. Keay, Carolyn. William Blake Selected Engravings. New York: Academy Edition, 1975. 4to, 9 pp. text and 81 pp. illustrations including 4 in color. Original orange cloth, dust-jacket. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, A517 and see Supplement, page 18n: Of the scholarly and reproductive qualities [of Keays book] it is most charitable to be silent. Most of the

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375. Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante. London: Privately Printed for the National Art-Collections Fund and Issued to the Subscribers Only, 1922. Large folio, unbound as issued, 3 preliminary leaves, 103 plates (including one in color). Housed in the publishers quarter linen portfolio. A fine copy. $1750. Limited to 250 copies, very scarce in good condition. A beautifully produced set of the original drawings for Dante commissioned by Linnell. The collotypes were made by Emery Walker and printed on fine handmade paper. A very scarce title. Bentley, Blake Books, 380A. 376. The Inferno from La Divina Commedia as translated by the Reverend Henry Francis Cary New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Large folio, 210 pp. With 7 full-page plates reproducing the seven original engravings by Blake. Full brown calf, red label, binding scuffed, internally fine. $200. Limited to 1200 copies. There is one page of text about the engravings by Blake. The reproductions of the plates are quite good, and full-size. Bentley, Blake Books, 449. 377. The Divine Comedy. New York: Heritage Press, 1944. Small folio, xxii, 492 pp. With 32 plates printed in red (Inferno), brown (Purgatorio), and white (Paradiso). Original cloth, no slipcase. $20. Translation by Melville Best Anderson; introduction by Arthur Livingston. The plates are reduced from the Emery Walker printing of 1922. Bentley, Blake Books, 381. 378. Blakes Illustrations of Dante. London: Trianon Press, 1979. Oblong folio, quarter morocco, cloth, slipcase. As new. $395. Limited to 376 copies. The first truly accurate full-size reproductions of Blakes seven engravings for the Divine Comedy. This new edition has an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes; three facsimiles of early states, and monochrome reproductions of Blakes watercolor designs for the plates. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 208.

Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. New York: Spiral Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1941. Small folio, xxxii, 213 pp. 29 plates. Original green cloth faded, no box. $50. Limited to 1500 copies with tipped-in color plates reproducing Lord Crewes set of Blake watercolors. Bentley, Blake Books, 377. 380. Bunyan, John. The Pilgrims Progress illustrated with Watercolors by William Blake. New York: Heritage Press, 1941. Roy. 8vo, xvi, 189, (1) pp., with 12 color plates. Original brown cloth, slipcase. $30. A very pleasantly printed and produced book, with an introduction to the printing history of the Pilgrims Progress by John Winterich. Bentley, Blake Books, 378. 381. Bunyan, John. The Pilgrims Progress. Including an Introduction to the Book and a Note on the William Blake Designs by A.K. Adams New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1968. 8vo, xxiii, 303 pp. 16 pp. of illustrations including reproductions of the frontispiece and 8 designs by William Blake. Blue cloth in blue printed dust-jacket. Very good. $15. Great Illustrated Classics, unabridged edition. Quite a nice printing of the text, with the illustrations in brown which is odd but not offensive. Bentley, Blake Books, 379. 382. Dark Figures in the Desired Country. Blakes Illustrations to The Pilgrims Progress. By Gerda S. Norvig. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. Large 8vo, 327 pp. 28 color plates. Black-andwhite frontispiece, 70 black-and-white illustrations in the text and 58 in the appendix. Blue cloth in pictorial dust$35. jacket. Very good. First edition. The color plates reproduce Blakes watercolors previously reproduced in the 1941 edition published by the LEC. This is the first scholarly full-length study and is a beautifully produced book. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 28.

all other reproductions (alphabetically)

383. Bertram, Anthony. William Blake. The Worlds MastersNew Series. London and New York: Studio Publications, [1948]. Small 4to, 64 pp., portrait and 48 numbered illustrations, many full page. Decorated boards, a little light soiling, minor creasing to backstrip cover, rubbed along joints. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 411.

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379. Bunyan, John. The Pilgrims Progress illustrated with 29 watercolor paintings by William Blake now printed for the first time. Edited by G.B. Harrison. With a new 60

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William Blake Catalogue reproductions seem to have been made from the 1876 Works (for which see Bentley, Blake Books, 368). 396. [another copy] 4to, paperback. $5. 403. Keynes, Geoffrey. William Blakes Illustrations to the Bible. London: Trianon Press, 1957. Large folio, with 9 color plates and 156 illustrations. Original quarter morocco. $975. Limited to 460 copies. The catalogue raisonn was compiled by Keynes and comprises virtually every Biblical painting by Blake in existence. Bentley, Blake Books, 681. 404. Keynes, Geoffrey. A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet. London and Paris: The Trianon Press, 1964. 4to, [103] pp. With 32 plates reproduced in color collotype with hand stencilling. Original quarter morocco, marbled boards, matching slipcase, as new. $200. Limited to 525 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 291 issue B. 405. [another copy] Original quarter morocco, marbled boards, matching slipcase, backstrip slightly faded as usual. $150. 406. [another edition] New York and Paris: The Orion Press with The Trianon Press, 1964. 4to, [103] pp. With 32 plates. Original cloth in lightly soiled and chipped dustjacket. Warmly inscribed by Kay and Roger [Easson] to a close friend. $20. First American trade edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 291 issue C. 407. Klonsky, Milton. William Blake the Seer and His Visions. New York: Harmony Books, 1977. Small folio, 142 pp., with numerous illustrations including some in color. Original wrappers as issued. $20. An inexpensively produced book on Blake with a good number of useful illustrations. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182. 408. Paley, Morton. William Blake. London: Phaidon, 1978. 4to, 192 pp., with 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $45. First edition, first printing, well printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182. 409. Tennant, Pamela. The Book of Peace. Being a Collection of Prose and Verse. With Illustrations from the Drawings of William Blake. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. Small 4to, vii, 125 pp. With a frontispiece and 5 plates, of which 3 are by Blake. Original quarter morocco, very good. $15.

Books Featuring Reproductions of Blakes Art An early and scarce compilation with four plates and eight poems by Blake, as well as poems by numerous others. Fourth reprint (November 1910). Bentley, Blake Books, 403E. 410. Wells, William. William Blakes Heads of the Poets for Turret House the residence of William Hayley Felpham. [Wythenshaw, Manchester: The William Morris Press, 1969]. Oblong 8vo, 43 pp., 24 illustrations. Pictorial wrapper with light wear. $25. With an introduction by G.L. Conran, director of the City of Manchester Art Gallery, which houses the Heads of the Poets. Scarce. Bentley, Blake Books, 2944. 411. Willard, Helen. William Blake Water-color Drawings. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, [1957]. Small thin 8vo, (64) pp., 28 black-and-white illustrations. Original wrappers, as new. $15. Nine drawings for Paradise Lost, accompanied by a verse for each one; Eight drawings for the masque, Comus, accompanied by stage directions and script; Seven drawings of characters from Shakespeares plays; and Nine drawings by the visionary Blake to illuminate his prophecy on the Scriptures. Well printed by Meriden Gravure. Bentley, Blake Books, 414. 412. Wright, Thomas. The Heads of the Poets. Eighteen in Numberof Which Seventeen Have Not Been Hitherto Published with Introduction by Thomas Wright. Olney, Bucks.: The Blake Society, 1925. 4to, [24] pp. Six plates, additional illustrations. Original wrappers, a bit soiled and worn. Very good. $145. One of 100 numbered copies. A scarce item from the eccentric Wright. Bentley, Blake Books, 406.

397. Pencil Drawings by Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to, xvi, [164] pp., 82 plates. Original half linen, tan boards. Slight wear but very good. $125. Limited to 1550 copies, this being number 474. The essential work on the subject, beautifully produced by the Nonesuch Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 409. 398. Blakes Pencil Drawings. Second Series. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. [London]: Nonesuch Press, 1956. 4to, xi [xii], [114] pp. 56 plates. Original rust cloth, dust-jacket. $45. Limited to 1440 copies. This volume adds 56 new drawings to the prior 86 reproduced by the Nonesuch Press in 1927. Bentley, Blake Books, 402. 399. [another edition] Drawings of William Blake: 92 Pencil Studies. New York: Dover, 1970. Large 8vo, xiv, [184] pp., illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. Very good paperback. $25. A combined selection of drawings from the 1927 and 1956 editions. Bentley, Blake Books, 405. 400. The Faber Gallery. Blake (17571827) with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes. [London]: Faber and Faber, [1945]. Slim 4to, 24 pp., 10 tipped-in color plates. Original printed wrappers. $25. A selection of Blakes best-known images in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 398. 401. [another edition] The Pitman Gallery. New York, 1949. Slim folio, with ten tipped-in color plates. Original orange wrappers with a color plate tipped onto the upper cover, slightly worn. $15. First American edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 398B. 402. Keynes, Geoffrey. William Blakes Engravings. London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. 4to, 30 pp. of text, 118 plates followed by the Virgil woodcuts and eight relief etchings from the Songs. Original cloth. $40. First edition of this useful reference work with selected plates from all of Blakes major works. Bentley, Blake Books, 517.

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general (alphabetically by author)
413. Bentley, G.E. Blake Books. Annotated Catalogue of William Blakes Writings in Illuminated Printing, in Conventional Typography, and in Manuscripts and Reprints thereof, Reproductions of his Designs, Books with his Engravings, Catalogues, Books he owned, and Scholarly and Critical Works about him. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Thick 8vo, 1079 pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth, dustjacket. Very good. $50. First edition. The Blake Bible. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 294. 414. Bentley, G.E. Blake Records. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 8vo, xxviii, 678, [1] pp., 60 plates. Dust-jacket with a little wear to edges. $45. In and of itself very useful, though reprinted in 2004 in one volume, with the supplement and with additions, at $125. Bentley, Blake Books, 1158. 415. Bentley, G.E., and Martin Nurmi. A Blake Bibliography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. 8vo, xix, 393 pp. Illus. Original cloth, upper hinge cracked but holding. Bookplate of Roger Easson, signed. Heavily annotated by Easson. $15. First edition. The essential reference until Bentleys Blake Books and Essicks various books came along. Bentley, Blake Books, 686. 416. Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. [London]: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 4to, 492 pp. 655 plates. Brown cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $150. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 15051 issue A. 417. Binyon, Laurence. The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. London: Studio, Limited, 1922. 4to, vii, 29 pp. With 16 color plates and 92 black-and-white plates. Original parchment, upper cover lettered in gilt, black label on backstrip, original gray cloth folding box. $495. Edition Deluxe limited to 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 404. 418. [another copy] Original parchment, upper cover lettered in gilt, black label on backstrip, slight staining at end from blue endpapers bleeding into the margins, loose in the binding but sound and complete. The Goyder-Klemen copy with bookplates. $395. Edition Deluxe limited to 200 copies. 419. [another edition] Original quarter parchment, gray boards, blue label on upper cover, original box (rather worn) within which a pristine copy in original tissue wrappers, prospectus loosely inserted. $175. First trade edition, very rare in such fine condition. 420. [another copy] Original quarter parchment, gray boards, blue label on upper cover, edges slightly worn. $125. 421. Binyon, Laurence. The Engraved Designs of William Blake. London: Ernest Benn; New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1926. 4to, xiv, 140 pp., 82 plates, with additional text on the tissue guards. White buckram backstrip, decorated boards in printed dust-jacket; a good copy. $175. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. There was also a deluxe edition of 100 copies, with an extra color plate. Bentley, Blake Books, 627A. 422. [another copy] White buckram backstrip, decorated boards; a good copy. $125. 423. [another copy] White buckram backstrip, decorated boards; a sound ex-library copy with the usual markings. $50. This copy once in the library of the Rosenbach Company. 424. [another edition] New York: Da Capo Press, 1967. 4to, xiv, 140 pp., 82 plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. Some edgewear and soiling. Very good. $40. Facsimile reprint. First published in 1926. Bentley, Blake Books, 627B. 425. Easson, Roger, and R.N. Essick. William Blake: Book Illustrator. A Bibliography and Catalogue of the

Commercial Engravings. Normal, IL, 19721979. 2 vols., 4to, 55 pp.; 113 pp., with plates. Original cloth. $125. Volume I covers only book illustrations both designed and engraved by Blake, and is an essential reference tool not replaced by any later work by Essick or indeed anyone else. Volume II has been superseded in part by Essicks William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations. Bentley, Blake Books, 709: this important work; vol. II, Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 296. 426. [another set] Original wrappers. $75.

427. [another copy, Volume I] Normal, IL: American Blake Foundation, 1972. 4to, 55 pp. with plates. Original cloth. Signed. Very good. $75. Limited signed edition, number P of 126 copies. Volume I (of two), complete in itself and covering only book illustrations both designed and engraved by Blake. 428. [another copy] Original cloth. 429. [another copy] Original wrappers. $50. $35.

434. Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of William Blake. New York: Grolier Club, 1921. Thick large 4to, xvi, 516 pp., with 4 color plates, 40 black-and-white plates, and 12 illustrations in the text. Original blue quarter morocco lettered in gilt, buckram boards, slightly worn but internally fine. $1500. Limited to 250 copies. Beautifully printed and illustrated by the Chiswick Press, this work is one of the most desirable of the Grolier Clubs many fine books. Bentley, Blake Books, 617: still of very great importance for independent judgements. See also Breslauer and Folter 150. This copy belonged to A. Edward Newton, who had pasted in a receipt from Blake to Butts for a copy of the Songs. That receipt has since been removed and was recently sold separately by Kenneth Rendell. Joseph Holland bought this copy at the Newton sale, marked in pencil all the items he owned, and inserted facsimile prints of the Little Tom and Cumberland card images, which are still present. 435. [another edition] New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. Thick large 4to, xvi, 516 pp., with 44 black-and-white plates, and 12 illustrations in the text. Original blue quarter cloth. $200. Sadly the reprint does not have the four color plates in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 617B. 436. Keynes, Geoffrey. Engravings by William Blake. The Separate Plates. A Catalogue Raisonne. Dublin: Emery Walker, 1956. Large 4to, xiii, 87 pp.; with 45 plates in collotype, including 4 in color. Original quarter blue cloth, a very good copy. $175. Limited to 500 copies. Although Essicks work on the separate plates adds much material and corrects errors in Keynes, this is a beautiful and still useful book with superb reproductions by the master of the collotype Emery Walker. Bentley, Blake Books, 669: extremely important. 437. Keynes, Geoffrey and Edwin Wolf. William Blakes Illuminated Books A Census. New York: Grolier Club, 1953. 4to, xix, 125 pp. With 8 plates. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, fine with the original prospectus. $100. Limited to 400 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 666A. 438. [another edition] New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. 4to, xix, 125 pp. With 8 plates. Original blue and gray cloth lettered in gilt. $45. Reprint of the Grolier Club edition of 1953. Bentley, Blake Books, 666B.

430. [another copy, Volume II] 4to, 113 pp. with plates. Original cloth. Signed. Very good. $50. Limited edition, number E of 126 copies. 431. [another copy] Limited edition, number 69 of 126 copies. $30.

432. Essick, Robert N. The Separate Plates of William Blake. A Catalogue. Princeton University Press, 1983. Large 4to, xxviii, 302 pp. With 114 illustrations of which 9 are in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $45. The definitive work, expanding and correcting Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 301: a magisterial work. 433. Essick, Robert N. William Blakes Commercial Book Illustrations. A Catalogue and Study of the Plates Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 4to, (xviii), 138 pp. With 295 black-and-white illustrations. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jacket. sold. First edition, long out of print and much sought after as the definitive work on Blakes commercial engraving for books. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 310: a magisterial record particularly original in discriminating the states of the engravings.

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William Blake Catalogue 439. Russell, Archibald G.B. The Engravings of William Blake. London: Grant Richards, 1912. Large 8vo, 229 pp. Frontispiece, 31 plates. Original black cloth, gilt lettering. A very good copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. $100. Limited to 500 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 603A: Russells pioneer work is yet valuable for its independent conclusions. 440. [another copy] Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. $100. American edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 603B. 441. [another edition] New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968. 8vo, 229 pp. 32 illustrations. Green cloth, gilt to backstrip. Light bumping. Very good. $35. Reprint. First published in Boston, 1912. Bentley, Blake Books, 603C. Second edition, second printing. See Bentley, Blake Books, 646 (not noting this printing). 448. [another printing] San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1969. 8vo, vii, 55 pp. and 38 plates. Quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Label pasted to backstrip. A very good copy. $15. Second edition, third printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 646C. 449. Huntington Library. Essick, Robert N. The Works of William Blake in the Huntington Collections. A Complete Catalogue. [San Marino]: Huntington Library, [1985]. 8vo, xviii, 256 pp. With 50 black-and-white illustrations in the $45. text. Original illustrated glazed boards, fine. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 303: A densely valuable description of all the original Blake materials in the Huntington, including many not covered by Baker (1938) or Wark (1957). The 50 plates include all those for Blakes Illuminated Genesis MS (11), Miltons Comus (8), Paradise Lost (12), and On the Morning of Christs Nativity (6). 450. Preston, Kerrison. Notes For A Catalogue of the Blake Library at The Georgian House Merstham. Cambridge: Golden Head Press, 1960. Small 4to, 48 pp. Original wrappers. $45. First edition. A useful collection of notes on books by and about Blake and describing some original material from Prestons collection. Bentley, Blake Books, 684A. 451. [another edition] Original plain gray wrappers. $30. Second revised edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 684B. 452. Preston, Kerrison. Catalogue of the Preston Blake Library. Westminster, 1969. 8vo, unpaginated. Original printed wrappers custom bound into quarter blue morocco lettered in gilt. Very fine. $145. Phyllis Goff lists 700 items by and about Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 701A. 453. Preston, Kerrison. William Blake: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Preston Blake Library. Westminster: Westminster City Libraries, 1972. 4to, 24 single-sided leaves. Brown printed wrappers, stapled. Very good. $25. Also by Phyllis Goff. Bentley, Blake Books, 701B. 454. Robertson, W. Graham. Preston, Kerrison. The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson described by the

Catalogues and Bibliographies Collector. London: Published for The William Blake Trust by Faber and Faber Limited, [1952]. 8vo, 263 pp., 64 plates. Original cloth with lightly chipped dust-jacket, staining $75. along backstrip. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 664. 455. Rosenwald Collection. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1977. 4to, xxi, 517 pp. 12 tipped-in color plates. Illustrated map endpapers. White cloth with purple and gilt to front and backstrip. Light soiling to covers; some occasional signs of $30. damp, causing wrinkled leaves. Very good. The hardbound version of this catalogue. Rosenwalds superb collection, donated to the Nation, is arranged by century. Only William Blake gets a separate section to himself. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 294. 456. Stirling Maxwell Collection. William Blake 17571827. Six Paintings in the Stirling Maxwell Collection Pollok House. Glasgow, [1967?]. Slim small 8vo, 16 pp. With 6 plates. Original wrappers. $10. Reproduces Adam Naming The Beasts the Canterbury Pilgrims Eve Naming The Birds A Vision Of The Last Judgment Christs Entry Into Jerusalem and The Entombment. Introduction unsigned but possibly by Stuart Henderson, director of the Museum. 457. Tate Gallery. Butlin, Martin. A Catalogue of the Works of Blake in the Tate Gallery. London: Tate Gallery, 1957. Small 4to, vi, 72 pp., 40 plates. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket. $30. With an introduction by Anthony Blunt and a foreword by John Rothenstein. A very good copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 679A. 458. [another copy] Yellow wrappers with scuffing and slight water damage causing wrinkling to top edge of the first few leaves. Some loss to front wrapper as a result, very $5. good inside. 459. [another edition] London: The Tate Gallery, 1971. Oblong folio, 80 pp. 109 illustrations, many in color. Dark red cloth covers with gilt to front and backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with only slight edgewear. $30. Revised edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 679B. 460. Tate Gallery. Butlin, Martin. Tate Gallery Collections Volume Five. William Blake 17571827. Seattle: The Tate Gallery in association with University of Washington Press, 1990. Large 4to, 251 pp. Illustrated throughout in color. Original red cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $40. New edition, updating and adding to previous edition. Describes 172 works in The Tate, with a new article on the formation of the collection by Krzysztof Cieszkowski. Not in Bentley, Blake Books Supplement. 461. Thorne Collection. The Blake Collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp., 30 plates. Original wrappers, fine. $25. Limited to 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the Pierpont Morgan Library; this catalogue was written by Bentley with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp. Bentley, Blake Books, 706.

exhibition catalogues (chronologically)

462. Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of the Works of William Blake. London: Spottiswoode and Co., 1876. 4to, 71 pp. Tipped-in illustrations between pp. 14 and 15. Marbled paper boards with glassine cover. Original wrappers bound in. One-page typed letter to Dr. Roger Easson from Ed Epps Antiquarian Books and Prints loosely inserted. Very good. sold. An astonishing exhibition catalogue of 333 entries. Bentley, Blake Books, 571. 463. Grolier Club. Exhibition of the Works of William Blake. New York: Grolier Club, 1905. Small 8vo, [xix], 147 pp. Original wrappers. $45. A scarce detailed catalogue of 148 works mostly lent by W.A. White, M.J. Perry, and Hoe. Bentley, Blake Books, 599. 464. Carfax Exhibition of Works by William Blake Born 1757. Died 1827. 14 June to 31 July 1906. London: Carfax, 1906. 8vo, 40 pp. Original gray printed wrappers, very $125. good. Rare catalogue wherein is reprinted parts of Blakes original descriptive catalogue to accompany the paintings, etc., in this show. Bentley, Blake Books, 600. 465. The National Gallery, British Art. Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Works by William Blake. London: Darling and Son, Ltd., 1913. 8vo, 75 pp. Purple printed wrappers with some sunning and edgewear. Very good. Inscribed on upper cover Under revision and with a sheet of 67

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442. Fitzwilliam Museum. Bindman, David, ed. William Blake Catalogue of the Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. Cambridge: Heffer, 1970. Oblong small folio, viii, 88 pp., color frontispiece and 74 illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. $35. First edition (also issued in wrappers). Bentley, Blake Books, 703. 443. [another copy] Original brown cloth, lacking dustjacket. $25. 444. [another copy] Original wrappers. $25.

445. Huntington Library. Catalogue of William Blakes Drawings and Paintings in the Huntington Library. By C.H. Collins Baker. San Marino, 1938. 8vo, 42 pp., 24 plates. Original quarter cloth. $25. Pencil notes at front and back. Bentley, Blake Books, 646A. 446. [another edition] San Marino, 1957. 8vo, vii, 55 pp., 38 plates. Original quarter cloth; a very good copy. $30. Revised and enlarged by R.R. Wark from the 1938 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 646B. 447. [another printing] San Marino, 1963. 8vo, vii, 55 pp., 38 plates. Original quarter cloth; a very good copy. $35. 66

William Blake Catalogue manuscript notes inserted. $50. Kerrison Prestons copy with his (?) notes. Bentley, Blake Books, 604. 466. Grolier Club. William Blake An Exhibition. New York: Grolier Club, 1919. Thin small 8vo, 12 pp. Original printed wrappers, detached. $35. A small but very fine selection of original pieces from unnamed members collections. A scarce pamphlet, well worth owning. The prior Grolier Club exhibition of Blake, in 1905, was drawn from the collections of White, Perry, and Hoe and was much larger. Bentley, Blake Books, 612. 467. Burlington Fine Arts Club: Catalogue Blake Centenary Exhibition. London: Privately Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1927. Large 4to, 63 pp., 48 of 49 plates, lacking the color plate. A good copy in original cloth. $50. A sumptuous catalogue with text by Binyon, Russell, and Keynes and fine gravure plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 632A (the second issue had no plates). 468. Harvard. Loan Exhibition of Works of William Blake. [Cambridge, MA]: Fogg Art Museum, 1930. Slim 4to, (21) mimeographed leaves printed on one side only. Taped in a two-ring binder, typed label on upper cover. $250. Extremely scarce catalogue of an astounding Blake exhibit, including 12 pencil drawings, 3 pen and wash drawings, 44 watercolors, 4 tempera paintings, 4 manuscripts, 3 copies of the Poetical Sketches 1783, multiple copies of the illuminated books (58, including trial leaves, etc.), relief etchings, and virtually all of the book illustrations of any import. In quality and quantity, this exhibition has hardly been equaled in modern times. This is the only copy I have ever seen of this catalogue. Bentley, Blake Books, 637. 469. A Descriptive Hand-List of a Loan Exhibition of Books and Works Chiefly from the Collection of Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Assembled by Mrs. George M. Millard at the Little Museum of La Miniatura. Pasadena, CA: Mrs. George M. Millard at the Little Museum of La Miniatura, 1936. 8vo, 32 pp. Blue printed wrappers with some sunning and edgewear. Wrappers split along backstrip about 6 15/16 inches (17 cm.) from top. Very good. $45. Rare catalogue of an exhibit put on by Mrs. Alice Millard, printed by the young Ward Ritchie, signed WR in type at the end. Bentley, Blake Books, 639. 470. An Exhibition of William Blakes Water-Color Drawings of Miltons Paradise Lost. San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1936. Small 8vo, 15 pp. and 12 plates in black and white. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. $20. Introduction by C.H. Collins Baker. Bentley, Blake Books, 640A. 471. [another printing] 1938. In original blue printed wrappers. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 640C. 472. William Blake, 17571827. A Descriptive Catalogue Selected from Collections in the United States. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1939. 4to, xix, 175 pp. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated. Later quarter green morocco; a very good copy. $75. One of the first great Blake shows entirely drawn from American collections. Bentley, Blake Books, 647: one of the most important Blake exhibitions. 473. [another copy] Original illustrated paper wrappers. $30. 474. William Blake. [London]: Tate Gallery, 1947. 8vo, 40 pp., with 24 illustrations. Original wrappers, very good. $35. Bentley, Blake Books, 657A. 475. William Blake. Catalogue de LExposition Paris: Galerie Rene Drouin, 1947. 4to, 42 pp. 2 full-color tippedin illustrations and 8 double-sided tipped-in black-andwhite illustrations. Original red printed wrappers, detached. In protective glassine cover. Typed letter from the British Council loosely inserted. Very good. $35. Limited edition, number 307 of 2000. Text in French. Prefaces by Philippe Soupault, Eric Maclagan, Jean Wahl, and Archibald Russell. The works to be shown were chosen by Eric Maclagan, Geoffrey Keynes, Archibald Russell, and John Rothenstein. Bentley, Blake Books, 657B. 476. William Blake Exposition Organise par The British Council. Mai-Juin 1947. Bruxelles: Editions de la Connaissance, S.A., 1947. 8vo, 32 pp. and 32 pp. of plates. Color frontispiece, all other plates in black and white. Illustrated wrappers, chipping to backstrip. Text in French. Very good. $30. Slight differences in content from the previous entry

Catalogues and Bibliographies but essentially the same catalogue organized by the British Council; tipped in is a newspaper article on Blake and loosely inserted is a letter from Mrs. Frances Emerson to Joseph Holland. Bentley, Blake Books, 657C. 477. An Exhibition of Original Works by William Blake (17571827) from the Graham Robertson Collection. Bournemouth: Sydenham and Co., 1949. 8vo, 12 pp. Black, white, and red printed wrappers with light soiling to edges. Very good. $25. Bentley, Blake Books, 658, guessing that the catalogue was by Kerrison Preston. 478. Arts Council of Great Britain. The Tempera Paintings of William Blake. A Critical Catalogue. With an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1951. 4to, 32 pp., 13 collotype plates, one folding. Paper covers, lightly soiled and darkened. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 663. 479. Masters of British Painting, 18001950. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956. 8vo, 160 pp. 104 plates. Green paper over boards, gilt-stamped. Chipping to head and heel of backstrip. Edgewear. Stanley J. Rose in ink to front free endpaper. Hennessey and Ingalls sticker to bottom corner of front pastedown. Very good. $20. Includes a section on Blake with text and 5 illustrations (one in color). Introduction to the show by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie. Not in Bentley. One handwritten leaf of notes in ink along with 4 pp. of typed notes loosely inserted, being scholarly notes on some Blake images. 480. William Blake and His Circle. British Museum Bicentenary Exhibition. [London: British Museum, 1957]. Slim folio, 32 pp., original printed blue wrappers stapled into a file folder. $125. This extremely scarce pamphlet is a most useful and fascinating catalogue of an extraordinary exhibition at the British Museum; there are over 100 entries and the exhibition, in addition to showing all the treasures of the British Museum, was augmented with many items loaned by Geoffrey Keynes. The catalogue is a typescript reproduced on cheap paper, and few copies can have survived. Bentley, Blake Books, 680. 481. The Art of William Blake. Bi-Centennial Exhibition October 18th December 1st, 1957. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution, 1957. Small 4to, 46 pp. Color illustration on front cover, and 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. $25. Bentley, Blake Books, 674. 482. [another copy] Original printed wrappers. $25.

483. An Exhibition of English Drawings and Water Colors from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution, 1962. 4to, 44 pp. Illustrated with William Blakes The Wise and Foolish Virgins on page 30 (in black and white). Gray printed wrappers, some sun-fading. Very $10. good. 484. An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake Poet Printer Prophet. Arranged by the William Blake Trust. A Commemorative Handbook with a study by Geoffrey Keynes and a foreword by Lessing J. Rosenwald. Paris: Trianon Press, 1964. 4to, 56 pp., with a frontispiece and 15 color plates. Original color-printed wrappers. $15. The original 1964 catalogue. Bentley, Blake Books, 688A. 485. William Blake: An Annotated Catalogue. Ithaca, NY: Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, February 27 March 29, 1965. Large slim 4to, 44 pp. illustrated in black and white. Original orange printed wrappers, very good. $10. An important exhibition catalogue edited by A.S. Roe. Bentley, Blake Books, 689. 486. William Blake 17571827. Winnipeg, Canada: Smithsonian ExhibitionBlake Trust, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1965. 4to, 4-fold illustrated program for the exhibition of Blakes work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, September 25 to October 24, 1965. Previous owners name in ink to rear panel. Very good. $5. Bentley, Blake Books, 690. 487. William Blake and his Circle: Two Exhibitions at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, November 1965 through February 1966. [San Marino, 1965]. 12mo, 30 pp. Illustrated. Light green printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 691.

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William Blake Catalogue 488. William Blake Engraver: A Descriptive Catalogue by Charles Ryskamp. With an Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Princeton, 1969. 8vo, 61pp, illus. Original marbled wrappers, slightly worn but good. $15. First edition, an excellent account of Blakes engravings. Bentley, Blake Books, 700. 489. For Friendships Sake. William Blake and William Hayley. Manchester: City Art Gallery, The William Morris Press, Ltd., 1969. Oblong 8vo, 15 pp. Stapled wrappers, salmon-colored paper. Very good. $10. A preliminary study of the Blake headssee William Blakes Heads of the Poets for Turret House the residence of William Hayley Felpham. City Art Gallery Manchester, 29th April to 18th May 1969. Organized for the Manchester Cathedral Arts Festival. Bentley, Blake Books, 697. 490. Imagination and Vision: Prints and Drawings of William Blake. [Normal, Ill.]: Art Gallery, Illinois State University, 1971. 4to, 32 pp. illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. $15. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Art No. 84. Bentley, Blake Books, 704. 491. Calendar of Exhibitions Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, June 1972. San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1972. 4to, trifold with reproduction of an engraving from Blakes Book of Job (plate 21). Very good. $5. 492. William Blake The Apocalyptic Vision. Preface and Catalogue by Harvey Stahl. Introduction by Bruce Daryl Barone. Purchase, NY: Manhattanville College, 1974. 8vo, 14 page introduction, 27 plates with accompanying text, bibliography. Original wrappers, fine. $20. Well-illustrated catalogue with commentary for each plate. Bentley, Blake Books, A710. 493. William Blake, 1757-1827: Kunst um 1800: eine Ausstellung des British Council und der Hamburger Kunsthalle: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 6. Mrz bis 27. April 1975. Munchen: Prestel, 1975. 8vo, 248 pp. Illustrated throughout. German text. Blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket with minor signs of wear. Very good. $45. First cloth-bound edition. Catalogue of the British Council exhibition in Hamburg with essays by Johannes Kleinstck, Siegmar Holsten, Henry Crabb Robinson, and David Bindman, as well as a glossary, bibliography and iconographical index. This exhibition was quite comprehensive and the illustrations include most of Blakes graphic works. Bentley, Blake Books, C710A (page 957): this splendid catalogue. 494. [another copy] Pictorial Wrappers with chipping to edges. Some curling to front wrapper with small crease to upper corner. Very good. $25. 495. William Blake in the Art of his Time. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976. Oblong small folio, 103 pp., illus. Original printed wrappers. $25. Interesting exhibition catalogue placing Blake in the culture of his time; limited to 1200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 293. 496. Followers of Blake. Santa Barbara, CA: Museum of Art, 1976. 4to, 40 pp., illus; orig. wrappers. $20. Show of Blake and his circle, edited by Larry Gleeson. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 293. 497. Butlin, Martin. William Blake. [London]: Tate Gallery, [1978]. Large 4to, 164 pp. including 339 illustrations, some full-page and in color. Original cloth, dustjacket, fine. $75. Catalogue of the exhibition of 9 March 21 May 1978, with an illustration for each item displayed. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 295 (first impression). 498. [another copy] Pictorial paper covers with slight wear. $25. 499. Masterpieces at the Tate. London: The Tate Gallery, 1978. Folded 8vo with 7 double-sided pages. Illustrated in black and white. Very good. $5. Guide to the location of some of the Tates great paintings including Blakes Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car. 500. William Blake: His Art and Times. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982. 4to, 192 pp. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations, including 20 in color. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Fine in dust-jacket. $30. An exhibition catalogue of the Mellon Collection prepared by David Bindman for the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 298.

Catalogues and Bibliographies 501. William Blake and His Circle. Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery, 1993. Slim small 8vo, 24 pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original wrappers. $10. Introduction by Paul Stirton, focusing on Blake collections in Glasgow. 502. Mellon Collection. Noon, Patrick. The Human Form Divine. William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection. New Haven: Yale, 1997. Royal 8vo, 87 pp. With 55 color plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket, as issued. $25. This is a nicely produced introduction to the collection at the Yale Center for British Art. 503. [another copy] Original wrappers, as issued. $10. First edition. With superb color plates. Text by Martin Myrone.

sale and dealer catalogues, and prospectuses (chronologically)

509. Collotype Facsimiles Letters from William Blake to Thomas Butts, 18001803 Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1926. Folded leaf announcing the sale of two Jane Austen titles and the William Blake facsimile. Lightly browned. Very good. $5. 510. Original Drawings by William Blake. London: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1949. 8vo, 16 pp. with two reproductions of Blake sketches (Corinna the Theban and Laocoon). Printed stapled wrappers, glossy paper with some bumping to corners and minor soiling. Very good. $10. 511. Blake: The Mystic Genius by Dr. Adrian Van Sinderen. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, [1949]. 4to announcement with tipped-in color illustration. Original order form loosely inserted. Near fine in original envelope. $5. 512. Announcing the First Publication of Genesis, The Seven Days of the Created World, from the holograph of William Blake. New York: Philip C. Duschnes and The Cummington Press, 1951. 4to, 4 pp. folded announcement. This manuscript, 209 lines of blank verse descriped as item no. vii in the Keynes bibliography of Blake Overleaf here, an opening from the book is reproduced; and a prospectus follows. Order form loosely inserted. Very good. $15. 513. William Blake: Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante. New York: Da Capo Press, October 15, 1968. 4to bifold, [4] pp. Front cover illustrated with plate 53. Full page illustration from plate 15 on verso. Also includes illustrations from plates 51 and 65. Very good. $5. A sales prospectus for the reprint. 514. The Four Zoas. Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1970. 4to, Illustrated bi-fold announcement of the limited first edition printing of The Four Zoas by Landon Dowdey assisted by Patricia Hopkins Rice, published by The Swallow Press. Letter loosely inserted. Very good. $5. 515. William Blake Samuel Palmer and the English Visionaries. An Exhibition of the Engravings for William 71

504. William Blake. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, 1997. 8vo, 84 pp. 6 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Printed wrappers. Very good. $25. With text by Malcolm Cormack and afterword by David Bindman. 505. William Blake. London: Tate Gallery, 2000. Large 4to, 301 pp. profusely illustrated in color throughout. Original wrappers. $20. The magnificent full catalogue of the great Tate exhibition of 2000 that then travelled (with some additions and subtractions) to the Metropolitan Museum, NewYork. With articles by Robin Hamlyn, Michael Phillips, Peter Ackroyd, and Marilyn Butler. 506. William Blake. London, 2000. Slim sm. 8vo, [16] pp., illustrated. Printed orange wrappers, fine. $10. The printed gallery catalogue of the great Tate exhibition issued for those who visited the show, with brief descriptions of Blakes life, times, works, etc. and events planned for the 2000 show. Probably written by Robin Hamlyn. 507. William Blake at Syracuse University. New York: Syracuse University Lubin House, 2003. Oblong roy. 8vo, [56] pp., illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Original dark blue wrappers, die-cut to reveal illustration on upper cover. Fine. $15. Includes illustrations from the Songs (in color) Gays Fables, and the Book of Job. 508. Gothic Nightmares. Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. London: Tate Publishing, 2006. 4to, 224 pp. Illustrated throughout. Printed wrappers. Very good. $45.

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William Blake Catalogue Blakes Masterwork, The Book of Job San Francisco: Thackrey and Robertson, [ca. 1970]. 4to, 18 leaves, including cover. Stapled booklet. Very good. $5. 516. A Curriculum of the Soul. Canton, NY: The Institute of Further Studies, [1970s?]. 8vo. One leaf stapled inside printed yellow wrappers announcing the sale of 25 facsimiles, each of which corresponds to a stanza of verse from the front and rear wrappers, all produced for sale by The Institute of Further Studies. $5. 517. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Master Drawings and Prints. Los Angeles, CA: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Booksellers, 1971. 8vo, 48 pp. Illustrated, including a Blake image (item 5: A Standing Archer). Printed wrappers with some water damage to backstrip. Good. $5. 518. William Blake Trust. Hand-Coloured Facsimiles and other works published by The Trianon Press. London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1973. 4to, [8] pp. includes front and rear wrapper. Illustrated. Order request from Blackwells stapled over imprint on front. Very good. $10. Announcing the publication of a number of William Blake facsimiles along with other publications from Trianon Press. 519. The Printer and the Artist: A Catalogue of Private Press Books and Illustrated Books from the United Kingdom. Europe and America. London: Bertram Rota Ltd., 1974. 8vo, 155 pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers with some staining along backstrip edge. Very good. $25. A major catalogue from Rota, offering several private press editions of Blake. 520. William Blakes Laocoon: A Last Testament With Related Works: On Homers Poetry and On Virgil, The Ghost of Abel. London: The Trianon Press, 1976. 4to, bi-fold. Illustrated front cover with full-page image of Blakes Laocoon. Very good. $10. 521. 19th and 20th Century Prints. London: P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., Ltd., 1977. 4to, unpaginated. 128 color and black-and-white plates, including 3 pp. of Blake prints, with description. Price list and condition of sale loosely inserted. Slight evidence of water damage along backstrip. Very good. $5. This includes color reproductions of important proofs from Jerusalem. 522. The Wood Engravings of William Blake: Seventeen Subjects Commissioned by Dr. Robert Thornton for his Virgil of 1821, Newly Printed from the Original Blocks now in the British Museum; A Prospectus. London: British Museum Publications, Ltd., 1977. Small oblong 8vo, 11 pp. Five reproduced woodcuts on off-white card-stock pages. Orange printed dust-jacket over plain off-white wrappers. Postal delay slip loosely inserted. Near fine. $10. Prospectus by Kenneth Clark. 523. William Blakes Designs for Edward Youngs Night Thoughts: A Complete Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Large full-color poster, approximately 143/16 113/8 inches (36 29 cm.), advertisement. Order form and information on rear. Folded in fours. $10. 524. Miltons Hymn On the Morning of Christs Nativity with Illustrations by William Blake. Gloucestershire, UK: The Whittington Press, 1981. Large 4to, bi-fold with tipped-in color plate of The Old Dragon (loose). Light soil$5. ing. Very good. Announcement of the May 1981 limited edition publication Miltons Hymn On the Morning of Christs Nativity. 525. Blakes Wonderful Car Delivers Us Wonderfully Well: Illustration from A Visit to William Blakes Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Full color poster with color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willards book A Visit to William Blakes Inn. Some wear along folds. Very good. [and] Illustration from A Visit to William Blakes Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim oblong 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willards book. Very good. $10. 526. William Blake and the Moderns. New York: State University Press, [1982]. Slim 8vo tri-fold. Bright orange mailer with the mailing label addressed to Kay Easson. Announcement and order form for Blake and the Moderns, edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Annette S. Levitt. Near fine. $5. 527. John Howell Books Anniversary Catalogue 19121982. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1982. 8vo, 187 pp.

Catalogues and Bibliographies Illustrated, including Blakes A Whirlwind of Lovers from Illustrations of Dante on page 27. 3 Blake items listed for sale. In dark blue printed wrappers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped cover. Some curling to top edge. Price list loosely inserted along with a compliments slip and a bifold of the Rosselli Oval Planisphere (15071508). Very good. $10. Over the decades Howell had a number of interesting Blake items and many were purchased (and resold) in the 1970s for the eponymous scion (and murderer) John DuPont. 528. William Blake. New York: Oxford University Press, [1988]. 8vo. Brown illustrated tri-fold with order form. Return envelope loosely inserted. Very good. $5. literature included the Poetical Sketches ($445), Book of Thel ($793), America ($3600), Europe ($4600), Gates of Paradise ($610), Night Thoughts (colored by Mrs. Blake, $240), and Hayleys Ballads 1802 (the Borden copy, $370). Bentley, Blake Books, 609. 532. The John Linnell Collection of Works by William Blake. London: Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, 1918. 8vo, 30 pp. Gray printed sewn wrappers, split along the backstrip almost entirely. Ink notes to front wrapper. Results listed in margins in ink throughout. Creased from top to $75. bottom along middle. Good. A scarce and extremely useful catalogue, showing the holdings of Blake left with Linnell at his death. Bentley, Blake Books, 608. 533. The Library of the Late H. Buxton Forman [Part One]. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1920. 8vo, 219 pp. Illustrated, including reduced facsimile of page 1 of an unpublished manuscript by William Blake [lot 68] on page 19. Illustrated wrappers, with backstrip almost completely worn away. Rear wrapper detached. Lots of edgewear. Arthur Swann in ink to front wrapper. Fair. $30. Bentley, Blake Books, 613: lots 3572 some of them important.. 534. American and English Men of Letters Also an Original Painting in Tempera and an Original Watercolor Drawing by William Blake. New York: The American Art Association, 1923. 8vo, unpaginated. Frontispiece of William Blakes Christ Appearing to the Apostles (lot 13). Also includes illustration of Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell (lot 15). Printed wrappers, detached. Results noted $15. in pencil throughout. Good. The Charles Eliot Norton sale of 2 May 1923; the Marriage drawing is a Camden-Hotten fake. 535. Catalogue of the Well-Known and Valuable Library of the Late Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge, Esq. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1924. 8vo, 168 pp. Color frontispiece of Blakes Visions of the Daughters of Albion (lot 116). A second tipped-in plate by Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (lot 115). All Blake lots, lots 10834, with results noted in pencil and some in ink in margins. Wrappers soiled with a small triangular piece missing from bottom corner of front wrapper. Very good. $25. The great MacGeorge collection. Bentley, Blake Books, 623.

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529. Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Rare Books, Illuminated and other Manuscripts, Books of Prints, and some Autograph Letters. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, [November] 1885. 8vo, 384 pp. Original wrappers. Pages browned with light chipping to edges. Blake lots 60813, pp. 78 and 79. Good. $35. The Ellis collection of literature and Americana, with only a few Blake lots but notably including Blakes notebook that had belonged to D.G. Rossetti. Not in Bentley. 530. Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York. New York: The Anderson Auction Company, 1911. 8vo, 605 pp. Illustrated, including a reproduction of Blakes Milton (lot 393) tipped-in facing page 72. Full brown cloth with gilt to front cover and backstrip. Moderate wear. Wrappers $45. bound in. Very good. Part One, AK. Includes a few choice Blake titles, such as an inscribed Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, Milton, and Europe. Hoes library was the greatest ever sold in the USA to that date and fetched nearly $2,000,000a figure not surpassed until 1966. Bentley, Blake Books, 665. Later sales had a few more Blake items. 531. Catalogue of the Library of Herschel V. Jones. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1918. 8vo, 187; 127; 94; [4] pp. Red cloth with gilt to backstrip. William Blake lots begin page 51. Results noted in pencil throughout. Very good. $60. A very important sale of one of the earlier Blake collectors in the USA. Jones astounding collection of English

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William Blake Catalogue 536. [another copy] Wrappers soiled. Water damage to bottom edge and backstrip. Chipping to backstrip. Good. $20. 537. Rare First editions of Famous Writers of the XVIth to XXth Century English and American. New York: American Art Association, Inc., 1926. 8vo, unpaginated. Blake lots 39 through 50, including an image from The Gates of Paradise [lot 40]. Red printed wrappers. Signs of water damage along bottom edge creeping up along the backstrip. Front wrapper chipped at top corner. A good copy. $15. Not in Bentley. 538. First Editions and Library Sets New York: American Art Association, Inc., 1927. 8vo, unpaginated. Printed wrappers, design in red with black lettering. Some edgewear. Four Blake lots (5962). Name (Arthur Swann) in ink to front cover. Results written in pencil throughout. Very good. $10. Arthur Swann was a renowned collector of literature, famed for the superb condition of his books which oldtimers still recall: hence, In Swann condition. 539. Original Manuscript on Painting by William Blake. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1928. 8vo, 29 pp. Illustrated, including a tipped-in image of the William Blake manuscript (lot 13), Directions for Landscape Painting facing page 2. Printed wrappers, front cover detached. Water staining along bottom half of backstrip edge covering all pages. Results indicated in pencil throughout. Good. $10. Not mentioned by Bentley, probably because the manuscript is not in fact by Blake. 540. A Few Choice Books and Manuscripts Chiefly from Private English Collections. New York: The Anderson Galleries, [1928]. Small 4to, 57 pp. Illustrated, including one Blake image, a reproduction of Simeon Prophesying over the Infant Christ on page 9. Lots 11 through 14 are Blake items. All realized prices written in pencil next to each lot. Printed wrappers, separated from backstrip, but still attached. Water damage to bottom half of gutter edge. A fair copy. $5. Sale number 2198, Friday evening, November 25. No name attached to the sale. Not in Bentley. 541. Catalogue of Important Autograph Letters, Literary, Historical and Medieval Manuscripts, Valuable Printed Books, Drawings by William Blake, etc. London: Sotheby and Co., 1928. 8vo, 164 pp. Illustrated, including two Blake illustrations tipped in, opposite pp. 21 and 23. Printed green wrappers, lightly soiled with some water stains to edges. Good. $25. A mixed consignor sale including two drawings the property of Miss Brenda G. Warr, Oberon and Titania, and What is Man from the Book of Job: and the Albin Martin suite of watercolor copies of the Book of Job consigned by his daughters in New Zealand and thought at the time to be originals (reproduced in the Pierpont Morgan Library facsimile but dismissed by Lindberg and others later). 542. Catalogue of the Eminent A. Edward Newton Collection Formed by George H. Sargent with an Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Metuchen, NJ: Charles F. Heartman, 1931. 8vo, 81 pp. Frontispiece photograph of A. Edward Newton. Inscribed to Evans from A. Edward Newton(?) on front free endpaper. First signature loosened. Includes Blakes Act of Creation [lot 4]. Results noted in red in margins throughout. Gray paper over boards with label to front cover. Spine splitting at head with small, 3/16-inch (1 cm.) piece missing. Very good. $30. Limited edition, one of 299. 543. Rare Books from the Library of the Late Willis Vickery Comprising First editions by Blake New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1933. 8vo, 137 pp. Tipped-in plate from Blakes Songs of Innocence and Experience (lot 16). Wrappers. Spine damaged. Water damage to bottom edge creeping up the backstrip. Prices realized written in margins in pencil to many lots. Newspaper article from 2 March highlighting the first session of the sale loosely inserted. Advertisement for American Book Prices Current inserted in rear. Good. $10. Auction catalogue for sale number 4025, March 13, 1933. 544. Collection of Paul Hyde Bonner. First editions and Manuscripts of Outstanding Importance. New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1934. 8vo, 67 pp. Frontispiece William Blakes Visions of the Daughters of Albion (lot 11). Lightly soiled wrappers with some edgewear and chipping. Water damage to backstrip visible on frontispiece and title-page. Pages browned. Good. $25. An important catalogue apparently overlooked by Bentley.

Catalogues and Bibliographies 545. Catalogue of the Very Well-Known and Valuable Library, The Property of Lt.-Col. W.E. Moss London: Sotheby and Co., 1937. 8vo, 206 pp. Frontispiece of Blakes America a Prophecy (lot 169). Two other Blake illustrations tipped in (lot 144, Songs of Innocence and lot 176, The Gates of Paradise). The Blake Collection begins on page 21 and includes lots 138225. Green printed wrappers with ink notations to front cover. Results also noted in ink to select lots. Prices and buyers names loosely inserted. Mild water damage to backstrip. Very good. $20. A landmark sale with several outstanding pieces, lots 138284. Bentley, Blake Books, 643. 546. William Blake: The Renowned Collection of First Editions, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, and an Important Painting in Oils Collected by the late George C. Smith, Jr. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1938. 8vo, 85 pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Lots 6109, inclusive, autograph letters, books, drawing and a painting. Original wrappers with light chipping, backstrip worn. $35. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 644. 547. The A. Edward Newton Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1941. 8vo, 22 pp. Printed paper over boards with bookplate label affixed to front cover. Announcement for the collection of William Blake Books on page 16. Some mild dampstaining to backstrip edge. Very good. $10. 548. Rare Books, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts collected by the late A. Edward Newton (18641940). New York: Parke-Bernet, 1941. 3 vols., large 8vo, 230, 276, 177 pp. Numerous Blake illustrations. All three volumes with shelf wear. Dust-jackets with edgewear, volume I in protective glassine wrapper and with prices penciled in margins. Very good. $75. First Part: April 16, 17 and 18. Second Part: May 14, 15, 16 and Third Part: October 29, 30, 1941. A grand but sometimes sad sale, including some wonderful Blake, lots 11586, selling at ludicrously low prices. Bentley, Blake Books, 650. 549. [the same, Volume I only, with all the Blake lots] New York, 1941. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. $25. 550. The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake the Property of the late Graham Robertson London: Christies, July 22, 1949. 8vo, 44 pp., illustrated. Original boards, a little worn. $30. Bentley, Blake Books, 659. Surely the sale of the century. 551. [another copy] Illustrated. Original printed wrappers, a little worn. $20. 552. [another copy] Unillustrated, priced, with buyers. Original printed wrappers, a little worn. $15. 553. [another copy] Unillustrated. Original printed wrappers, a little worn. $10. 554. Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents [containing manuscript poem I asked a thief ] New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1950. 8vo, 293 pp. Facsimile page of lot 93, William Blakes I asked a thief. Original wrappers with light chipping, backstrip browned. Very good. Not in Bentley. $10. 555. Catalogue of William Blakes Book of Urizen, The Property of Major T.E. Dimsdale. London: Sotheby and Co., 1956. Large 8vo, 84 pp. and tipped-in plates, the last of which showing two images from lot 531, William Blakes Book of Urizen. Original printed wrappers with results, prices, and buyers. Auction date February 27 and 28, 1956. Very good. Not in Bentley. $15. 556. Catalogue of The Celebrated Collection of Books Illuminated and Illustrated by William Blake, the Property of the late Mrs William Emerson. London: Sotheby and Co., 1958. 4to, 20 pp., with 3 color plates, 7 black-and-white plates, and illustrations in the text. Original wrappers as issued, slightly worn. Annotated throughout with prices, buyers, and other notes. $25. This copy of the catalogue belonged to someone with knowledge of and interest in Blake who attended the sale, as there are notes throughout referring to the annotators own copies of various items, other copies known to him, etc. The sale held on 19 May, 1958, included in the 15 lots the largest group of illuminated books by Blake then in private ownership, being mostly the collection of William White inherited by his daughter Mrs. Emerson. Among the highlights were the Gaisford copy of the Book of Thel, 1789; an uncut copy of Songs of Innocence, 1789; the Hanrott copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 178994, contemporary red morocco; Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793; Europe, 1794; and the only copy in private ownership of the Song of Los, 1795: the last three bound together sold

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William Blake Catalogue for 23,000, then the highest price ever paid for a book lot at auction, surpassing the 1946 sale of a Gutenberg Bible; the Crewe copy of America, 1793; a colored copy of Youngs Night Thoughts; a tempera painting of St. Matthew together with three of the illustrations for Tiriel, and an unpublished design for Blairs The Grave, the property of Eustace Bishop, Esq. Bentley, Blake Books, 682A. 557. Catalogue of British Drawings of the 17th to 19th Centuries: The Property of H. C. Green, Esq. London: Sotheby and Co., 1961. 8vo, 46 pp. Illustrated, including William Blakes The Morning after the Battle (lot 14) tipped in facing page 6. Green printed wrappers with ink notations to top of front wrapper. Results noted in pencil to Blake lot. Mild edgewear. Very good. $5. 558. Highly Important Natural History Books and Autographs New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International, 1977. Large 8vo, 115 pp. and numerous tipped-in plates. Includes lot 20, William Blakes Illustrations of the Book of Job with black-and-white illustration opposite page 25. Printed paper-covered boards with mild wear to extremities. Auction date May 26, 1977. List of estimates loosely inserted. Very good. $10. 559. Printed Books Including the Leipzig Collection of Fine Bindings New York: Christie, Manson and Woods International, 1977. Large 8vo, 128 pp. with numerous tipped-in plates, some in color. Includes lot 110, Youngs Night Thoughts reproduced in color opposite page 37. Printed wrappers. Auction date Friday, November 18, 1977. Very good. $15. 560. Sothebys Belgravia. Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours London: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co., 1977. Oblong 8vo, 58 pp. Illustrated in red printed wrappers. Blake lots begin on page 24 with 3 reproduced images, 2 in color. Estimates bi-fold loosely inserted. Some results noted in ink. Very good. $10. 561. The Larger Blake-Varley Sketchbook. London: Christie, Manson and Woods, 1989. Slim 4to, 60 pp., illustrated. Fine. $15. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 306. 562. Books and Prints by William Blake from the Collection formed by the Late Frank Rinder, Esq. London: Christies, 1993. $10. 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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563. Bray, Anna Eliza. Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. with Personal Reminiscences. London: Bradbury and Evans for John Murray, 1851. 8vo. xxiv, 246 pp. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original printed boards, rebacked, hinges strengthened, otherwise a good copy. $65. First edition of this standard work. Bentley, Blake Books, 1273. 564. [Britton, John]. The Pleasures of Human Life: Investigated Cheerfully, Elucidated Satirically, Promulgated Explicitly, and Discussed Philosophically in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures, Interspersed with Various Anecdotes, and Expounded by Numerous Annotations. London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Small 8vo, xvi, 223 pp. and 24 pp. of ads. Illustrated with 5 hand-colored etchings by Rowlandson and 2 hand-colored headpieces engraved by W. Bond. Original blue-gray boards, printed paper label, backstrip chipped along joints but quite sound, a very fine $375. completely unsophisticated copy as issued. Second edition, printed in the same year as the first in the same number of copies (1000). Following the success of the anonymous Miseries of Human Life, 1806 (by James Beresford) Britton brought this book out with amusing illustrations by Rowlandson. It was immediately successful and the first two editions sold out quickly. There is a plate illustrating a print collector, facing the text which discusses the folly of indiscriminately collecting books, prints, coins, shells, or other nicknacatory [which] must appear ridiculous to the looker-on [and which will] enrich knaves at the expence of fools and another showing a hilarious traffic jam in Bond Street. A recent note in Notes and Queries points out a very early reference to William Blake and Henry Fuseli in the text (pp. xxi in this ed.). In the US edition of the same year it is thought to be the second reference to Blake printed on this continent. 565. Carr, J. Comyns. Essays on Art. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1879. 8vo, 253 pp. and one leaf of advertisements. Dark green cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip, black decorative border to covers. Some edgewear and fraying. Very good. $35. First edition. Carr wrote the article on Blake for the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1875; he was a very early analyst (and fan) of Blake as a painter: His poetry takes its place with equal and greater English verse; but in certain qualities of his art Blake as an Englishman stands almost alone. (p. 76). Bentley, Blake Books, 1345. 566. Cunningham, Allan. Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects London: John Murray, 18301833. 6 vols., sm. 8vo, quarter vellum and marbled boards of the period. $250. Second editions of volumes 1 and 2, and first editions of the rest. Volume 2 contains an important early biography of Blake. Numerous other contemporaries of Blake such as Nollekens are also mentioned. Bentley, Blake Books, 1433A and B. 567. (Cunningham) Great English Painters. Selected Biographies from Allan Cunninghams Lives of Eminent British Painters. Arranged and edited, with an introduction by William Sharp. London: Scott, 1886. Sm. 8vo, [xxxvi], 311 pp. Old half calf, covers detached, text good. $15. Issued as the tenth volume of The Camelot Classics.Blake is found from pp. 275311; interestingly the text varies from the first edition, especially in the quotations from Blakewhich conform more accurately to modern editions of Blakes writings. Bentley, Blake Books, 1433J. 568. Garnett, Richard. William Blake Painter and Poet. London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1895. 8vo, 80 pp. Frontispiece from the Book of Job, 6 additional tipped-in plates, and 19 additional illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers with tape reinforcement to backstrip and fore-edge of front wrapper. Some pencil annotations in the margins. Pages untrimmed. Internally very good. $35. Edition of The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects with many Illustrations Published Monthly. Number 22, October 1895. Bentley, Blake Books, 1669. 569. Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blakes own Works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a few of Blakes Original Plates. London: Macmillan, 1863. 2 vols., 8vo, xv, 389; vii, 268 pp., with a portrait frontispiece in vol. I, a 77

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William Blake Catalogue folding frontispiece of the Canterbury Pilgrims in vol. II, and numerous illustrations. Original brown cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs, good. $350. First edition. Of especial interest are the 3 electrotypes from the Virgil woodblocks and the 17 electrotypes from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680A. 570. [another copy] Contemporary half red morocco, giltpanelled backstrips, gilt tops, water stain at foot of frontispiece to volume I, otherwise a good copy. $350. First edition. 571. [another edition] A New and Enlarged Edition illustrated from Blakes own Works. With additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. London: Macmillan, 1880. 2 vols., 8vo, xvii, 431; ix, 383 pp., with a portrait frontispiece in each volume and numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs. A very good copy of this attractive binding. $795. Second edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680B. 572. [another copy] Original blue cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs. A very good copy of this attractive binding. $795. Second edition. Philip Sassoons copy with his bookplate in volume I; earlier ink signature of Courtauld, Cut Hedge, Feby. 1887 and Clare Warracks pencil signature. 573. [another copy, missing volume I] Volume II only, 8vo, ix, 383 pp., with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs. A very good copy of this attractive binding. $475. Volume II contains all the texts and illustrative materials. 574. [another edition] Edited with an Introduction by W. Graham Robertson and numerous Reproductions from Blakes Pictures many hitherto unpublished. London: John Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1928. Thick 8vo, xxii, 533 pp. With a frontispiece and fifty plates. Original red cloth. $15. Third printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680E. 575. [another edition] London: Phaeton Press, 1969. 2 vols., 8vo, xvii, 431; ix, 383 pp., with a portrait frontispiece in each volume and numerous illustrations. Original red cloth, as new. $45. Facsimile reprint of the second edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680H. 78 576. [another edition] Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973. 8vo, xxi, 431, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Bright red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $10. Volume I only (biography), the US issue with an introduction by W.A.G. Doyle-Davidson. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 484 issue K. 577. [another edition] Edited by Ruthven Todd. With Notes, Introduction, Bibliography, a New Index, Etc. Everymans Library No. 971. London: J.M. Dent and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, [1945]. 12mo, xi [xii], 422, 4 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket worn. $30. Second Everymans Library edition, with the notes slightly enlarged from the first (1942). Illustrated throughout the text with the Virgil woodcuts. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680G: probably the best biography of Blake which has appeared. 578. Gilchrist, Anne. Her Life and Writings. Edited by Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist. With a prefatory note by William Michael Rossetti. Second edition. London: Fisher Unwin, 1887. 8vo, xxi, 368 pp. With a portrait frontispiece and 11 plates. Facsimile autograph on half-title. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. $45. The text includes material on Blake and his followers, Walt Whitman, the Rossettis, etc. At the end are three essays she wrote, including her long piece on Whitman whose work she arranged to be published in England for the first time. Bentley, Blake Books, 1681: of considerable importance. 579. Knowles, John. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Esq. M.A.R.A., Keeper and Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy in London; Member of the First Class of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 3 vols., 8vo, xvi, 439; (4), 39; (4), 408 pp. Recent blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Covers lightly soiled, some water staining to prelims of volume I. $125. First edition. This account of his life was the standard (and indeed only) biography until Peter Tomorys The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli (1972). Bentley, Blake Books, 2066. 580. Pilkington, Matthew. A General Dictionary of Painters a New Edition, corrected and revised twentysix new Lives of Artists of the British School by Allan Cunningham. London: Tegg, 1840. Thick 8vo, cxii, 671, 8 (ads.) pp. Original cloth worn, upper hinge split, internally good. $45.

Biography and Criticism First edition thus, the first with an entry on Blake. The 1805 edition was edited by Fuseli, from which this edition was revised and enlarged. Bentley, Blake Books, 2401, noting that Blake did not appear in any earlier editions. 581. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-atLaw, F.S.A. Edited by Thomas Sadler. London: Macmillan and Company, 1869. 3 vols., 8vo, xxiii, ii, errata tipped-in, 509 pp.; 529 pp.; 598 pp. Frontispiece to first volume. One page of ads at end of volume 2. Half morocco with linen boards. 5 raised bands to backstrip with gilt design and lettering set in burgundy panels. Top edge gilt. Some edgewear, especially to head of volume 3. A very good set. $200. First edition. With much on Blake, especially in volume 2. Bentley, Blake Books, 2535: These contemporary accounts of Blake, chiefly dating from 18251827, are of the very first importance. Bentley, Blake Books, 2535A. 582. [another edition] Edited by Edith Morley. London: J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1938. 3 vols., 8vo, 1136 pp. continuously paginated. Frontispieces. Burgundy cloth with printed dust-jackets. Light chipping to all three jackets. Sunning to spines. Very good. $100. First of this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2536. 583. [another printing] New York: AMS Press, 1967. 3 vols., 8vo, 1136 pp. continuously paginated. Frontispieces. Orange cloth. Very good. $60. A facsimile reprint. 584. Scott, William Bell. Minto, W., ed. Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott and Notices of his Artistic and Poetic Circle of Friends, 1830 to 1882. New York: Harper, 1892. 2 vols., 8vo, x, [2], 356; viii, [2], 346 pp. 25 illustrations including 8 etchings, 8 reproductions of sketches, and 5 photogravures. Original blue-green cloth, a very good copy. $275. First American edition. In addition to a brief mention of Blake in volume I including reference to his illustrations to The Grave, there is also much on the pre-Raphaelites and their circle, to which Scott belonged. Bentley, Blake Books, 2676; New York issue not recorded. 585. Smith, John Thomas. Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake. London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. 2 vols., 8vo, (leaf indicating This copy now contains 132 extra illustrations), x, 424; vi, 488 pp. 135 plates (extra illustrated; see below for list). Bound by Bayntun in red morocco with covers paneled in gilt with a double fillet, backstrips panelled in gilt with single and double fillets, also with tooling and title in gilt. $1250. First edition, extra illustrated with (mostly) original engravings of people and places appearing in the text of the book (see below for list of plates). This interesting collection of biographical anecdotes about and around Nollekens by the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum includes a section on Blake in volume II, pp. 45488, which is among the earliest biographical accounts of Blake. Of great interest is the listing of Blakes books and prints in the collection of Richard Thomson, with sufficient detail to merit being regarded as a preliminary bibliography. Smith also touches on Blakes techniques of printmaking. Many well-known anecdotes about Blakes life appear here for the first time. A second, revised edition appeared in 1829. Bentley, Blake Books, 2723A. Illustrations to Volume I: Frontispiece: Joseph Nollekens, Esqr. R.A. Engraved by William Bond from a Drawing by John Jackson, Esq. R.A. Facing pages: 3. Birthplace of Nollekens [written in ink under: 28 Dean St. Soho]. 5. Michael Angelo [with letterpress text on the artist below]. 7. L. Herne. 23. Sixteen String Jack Rann. 30. James Duke of Monmouth [in 2 colors]. 31. The Grand Hotel, Covent Garden, London [written in pencil below: Lowes Hotel]. 36. Sir Joshua Reynolds. From a Picture by himself in his Majestys Collection. 40. Sr. Christopher Wren. From an Original by Sr. Godfrey Kneller. 43. Nicholas Poussin. 51. Saml. Johnson L.L.D. 61. Paul Vansomer. 70. Angelica Kauffmann R.A. 74. His Most Gracious Majesty, George William Frederick, the Third. 84. [Nollekens resting on a bust of Fox. No caption. Foldout.] 79

William Blake Catalogue 88. Francis Grose F.S.A. 93. Benjamin West Esqr. President of the Royal Academy. 94. Francis Hayman Esq. Painter and Designer; Born 1708, Died 1776. 114. Loutherbourg. 123. Coll. John Liborne. 138. Paul Sandby Esqr. From a Miniature by P. Jean. Engraved by Joh. Thomson. 141. Marco Ricci. 143. Lieut. Genl. Sir Eyre Coote KB. KC and MP. 156. Mr. Quick in the Character of Spade. 161. Elias Ashmole. 171. William Seward, Esqr. F.R.S. and A.S.S. 177. Richard II. Drawn by Vertue. Engraved by Worthington. 194. Industry and Idleness. Plate 4. The Industrious Prentice a Favourite, and Entrusted by His Master. 204. Rubens. From the original Picture by himself in his Majestys Collection. 214. Drury Lane Theatre. 215. Miles Peter Andrews Esqr. M.P. 224. Spurzheim. 225. Cockpit Royal. 231. Chas Hutton. 232. Samuel Richardson. 240. Rembrandt. From the original Picture by himself in his Majestys Collection. 246. Old Queens Head, Islington. 267. O the Roast Beef of Old England. 274. Sir Isaac Newton. From and Original by Enoch Seeman. 286. Prince Hoare Esqr. 318. John Flaxman. From the original Picture by John Jackson, in the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Dover. 324. Napoleon. 333. Caleb Whitefoord, Esqr. 338. Thomas Gilliland, Esq. 360. John Northcote Esqu. [ John is crossed out in pencil, with James written above it]. 368. Charles James Fox. From a Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession of Lord Holland. 376. Westminster Abbey. 378. Sir Wm Staines Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. 1801. 391. Sir Francis Bourgeois R.A. 408. Sir William Beechey. 413. Hannah More. 80 Illustrations to Volume II: Frontispiece: Nollekens autograph [marked underneath in ink: An Original Autograph]. 11. Mr. Spencers 16. The Rakes Progress. Plate 1. The Young Heir Takes Possession of the Misers Effects. 22. Middlesex Hospital. 35. Tomb of Nollekens. 35. The Rt. Honble. Thomas Grenville. 36. Duke Wellington [sic]. 44. The Right Honourable William Pitt. Engraved by Cook from a Drawing by Bromley. 46. London from the Tower of Saint Saviours. 47. Mrs. Siddons After a Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds (engraved by W. Holl). 48. The Rt. Honble. Robert Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry. 50. Duchess of St. Albans [written underneath in pencil: Mrs. Coutts]. 52. Francis Rawdon, Marquis of Hastings. 54. The Honourable Sr. Cloudesly Shovell, Kt. 55. Johnson From a Bust by J. Nollekens, R.A. 56. David Wilkie, Esq. R.A. 57. James Butler. First Duke of Ormond. 66. Sir Thomas Lawrence (Late President of the Royal Academy). 70. Lady Sarah Napier. 90. The Monument of Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale Esqu. and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale. 91. Sir Horace Vere. 92. Handel. From a Picture in the Collection of His Majesty at Windsor (engraved by J. Thomson). 96. Wm. Shakespear at the Age of 40. 104. Fete Ventienne [from a painting by Watteau]. 105. Watteau. 107. Laurence Delvaux. 108. Epaminondas [in 3 colors]. 109. Alexander Pope 112. Sr. John Barnard. 113. Monument of Shakespear. 114. Michael Rysbrack. 128. Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. F.R.S.-S.A. 140. The Finding of Moses [with 20th-century printed description tipped-in facing plate]. 144. Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) After the Portrait by George Romney. 154. Marriage a la Mode. The Contract. 155. Joseph Vernet. 156. John Bacon Esq. R.A.

Biography and Criticism 160. Frontispiece to European Magazine, V. 38.: Statue of His Majesty, in Somerset Place. Drawn and Engraved by S. Rawle. 162. Charles, Marquis Cornwallis. 180. Lord Nelson. 182. Venus. 183. T. Banks. Sculptor R.A. 188. Thomas Sutton Esqr. 189. Stratford Bust [this written in pencil beneath image]. 195. Two medallions of Shakespeare [written in ink below: The Group on the Shakespeare Gallery]. 197. Christies Auction Rooms, 1790. After Rowlandson [20th-century color reproduction]. 205. William, Duke of Cumberland. 218. Dr. Monsey. Engraved from a Sketch drawn by Mr. Forster. 220. Marriage a la Mode. Death of the Countess. 226. Marriage a la Mode. Scene with the Quack. 233. Mr. Robert Perreau. 234. La Soeur. 241. Richard Tyrrel Esqr. late Captain of the Buckingham. 263. James Craggs, Esqr. Junr. (Secretary of State) From a Picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the Marquis of Buckinghams Collection at Stowe. 274. Charles Rogers Esqr. 275. Mr. Macklin. 281. Ruins of St. Paul Covent Garden. 286. John Opie Esqr. R.A. 291. Sir Joshua Reynolds. 296. Charles Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham. 300. George Keate Esqr. 309. Henry Fielding. 316. The Forum at Rome. 336. G. Morland. 340. William Hogarth [with letterpress description under the image]. 341. Hogarth Illustrated. By John Ireland. Vol. II, Nature [engraved title-page]. 343. Analysis of Beauty No. 2. 347. Strolling Actresses Rehearsing in a Barn, from the Engraving by Hogarth. 349. Peg Woffington. 355. The Battle of La Hogue. 362. Mrs. Opie. 369. Benjamin West. 373. His Majesty, Ernest-Augustus, King of Hanover. 374. His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. 390. 396. 398. 409. 415. 428. 431. 434. 454. 466. Prince Hoare Esqr. Lady Hamilton. Study. Rafaelle. Henry Fuseli, Esq. R.A. [by G. Harlowe, engraved by J. Rogers]. Izaak Walton. Lavater [ J. Chapman, sculp.]. John Flaxman [engraved by R. Woodman]. William Blake [20th-century reproduction]. The Meeting of A Family in Heaven The Completion of All Joy. Drawn by W. Blake [Autotype reproduction]. $250.

586. [another copy] Old calf, restored and rebacked.

587. [another copy] Recently bound in blue morocco, giltlettered backstrip. Very good. $250. 588. Story, Alfred T. William Blake: His Life Character and Genius. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893. 8vo, (8), 160 pp. With a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates. Original brown buckram lettered in gilt, gilt top. $175. First edition, large-paper issue limited to 280 copies. Story wrote the life of Linnell (see below) and had access to much original Blake material through Linnells sons; four of the five illustrations here are reproduced from original drawings. Bentley, Blake Books, 2772. 589. Swinburne, A.C. William Blake, a Critical Essay. With Illustrations from Blakes Designs in facsimile coloured and plain. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. 8vo, iv, (4), 304, (16, ads) pp. With a color frontispiece and eight plates of which 6 are colored by hand. Original blue cloth, a fine copy. Bookplate of Raymond and Pamela Lister. Old description from Blackwells in Oxford, priced 450. $395. First edition, second state (of 3) of the title-page (reading Zamiel). An important study of Blake especially valued for the striking color facsimiles by Hotten from the British Museum copies. The binding differs slightly from the later edition, being blind-stamped with three rectanglesthe later edition being stamped with a single gilt rectangle. See Paley, John Camden Hotten, A.C. Swinburne, and the Blake facsimiles of 1868, [in] Bulletin of the New York Public Library (1976), for a fascinating account of the publication of these first color facsimiles of any of Blakes work, in which he identified the facsimilist as H.J. Bellars and gives much information on the creation and coloring of the facsimiles. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795A. Wise, Ashley Library, VI, p. 78. 81

William Blake Catalogue 590. [another edition] Original blue cloth, hinges weak, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Lord W. Kerr and another; Hottens printed slip announcing the facsimile of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell tipped in. $225. First edition, third state of the title-page as usual. The printed slip announcing Hottens facsimile is extremely rare. 591. [another copy] Full blue morocco. Gilt to backstrip and covers. Harleyford House in gilt to front cover. $200. 592. [another edition] Original blue cloth, hinges weak. $185. Second edition (but actually a reprinting of the first edition) of the first book of criticism on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795B. 593. [another copy] Original blue cloth, backstrip restored, one plate bound in upside down. $175. 594. [another edition] New York: Dutton, 1906. Sm. 8vo, x, 340 pp. Frontispiece. Original black cloth a bit worn. $30. Fourth printing, this version without the color plates from earlier printings. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795D. 595. [another edition] London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925. 12mo, x, (4), 310 pp. Original blue cloth, hinges weak. Gilt stamped to cover, lettering to backstrip. Top edge gilt. Some chipping to backstrip. Good. $15. Third edition. Golden Pine Editions. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795E. 596. [another edition] Edited with an Introduction by Hugh J. Luke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1970. 8vo, xxiv, 319 pp. Original wrappers. $25. Revised edition from the 1868 first edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795G. 597. Thomson, James. Shelley, a Poem: With Other Writings Relating to Shelley to which is Added an Essay on the Poems of William Blake, by the Same Author. London: Chiswick Press, 1884. 8vo, xii, 128 pp. Quarter morocco with marbled boards. Front hinge loose. Some chipping to backstrip. Usual edgewear. Bookplates affixed to front free endpaper and front pastedown. Very good. $150. Printed for Private Circulation only, limited to 190 copies, 160 copies on toned paper and 30 copies on Whatmans 82 handmade paper, numbered and signed by the editor, this being number 16. Bentley, Blake Books, 2837: of historical interest. 598. Yeats, W.B. The Savoy, Vol. 2, No. 4, August 1896. Arthur Symons, ed. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 8vo, 100 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Edgewear. Pages unopened. Very good. $50. First edition of this issue; contains W.B. Yeats: [Blakes] Opinions on Dante, one of three articles by Yeats that appeared in The Savoy on Blake and Dante. Bentley, Blake Books, 3051A.

Biography and Criticism 604. Altizer, Thomas J.J. History as Apocalypse. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. 8vo, 265 pp. Wrappers with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. Much on Blake, including chapter 8, Blake and the French Revolution. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 336. 605. Ansari, Asloob Ahmad. Arrows of Intellect: A Study in William Blakes Gospel of the Imagination. Aligarh, India: Naya Kitabghar, 1965. 8vo, 248 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1085. 606. Arguelles, Jose A. The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression. Berkeley and London: Shambhala, 1975. 8vo, 264 pp. Blue printed wrappers. Light scuffing and shelf wear. Very good. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 354: Blakes Grand Theme is that Modern technological civilization is a state of hell. 607. Ashe, Geoffrey. Camelot and the Vision of Albion. New York: St. Martins Press, 1971. 8vo, 233 pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $15. First US edition. Examines Blakes relationship to Arthurian Britain, the Druids, Stonehenge, etc. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 355. 608. Ault, Donald. Visionary Physics: Blakes Response to Newton. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 8vo, xv, 229 pp. Frontispiece. Some highlighting and underlining. Blue cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. Minor edgewear. Roger Easson, Memphis, 9.4.82 in ink to front free endpaper. Very good. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, B1098. 609. Ault, Donald. Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blakes The Four Zoas. Foreword by George Quasha. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1987. 8vo, xxvi, 518 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket in $60. protective mylar. Very good. First edition of this very substantial book. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 356: an attempt to provide the reader with a process text that plausibly retells this immensely complex narrative. 610. Bagdasarianz, Waldemar. William Blake Versuch Einer Entwicklungsgeschichte des Mystikers. Zurich and Leipzig: Max Niehans Verlag, 1935. 8vo, vii, 171 pp. Printed wrappers. Minor edgewear. Very good. $15. Only printing. Swiss Studies in English, volume II. Bentley, Blake Books, 1107. 611. Ba-Han, Maung. William Blake, his Mysticism. Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1973. 269 pp. and errata. 3 title pp. from 1924, 1973, and 1976. Maroon cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $75. First reprint of a scarce book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1110: Blakes mysticism consists in his insistence on the supreme value of self. Blake Books Supplement, page 357 issue B. 612. [another edition] Maroon cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $10. Cheap reprint of a reprint of a scarce book. In this edition p. 125 is blank (thus lacking text). 613. Baine, Rodney M. and Mary. The Scattered Portions: William Blakes Biological Symbolism. Athens, Georgia: [the author], 1986. 8vo, 260 pp., and 77 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $25. First edition, discussing the biological images and symbols in Blake. The Baines wrote several articles together and separately on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 358. 614. Barker, F.G. Books and Bookmen. Edited by Frank Granville Barker. London: Hansom Books at Artillery Mansions, 1973. 4to, 146 pp. Illustrated magazine. On pp. 4042 appears a reference to William Blake in an article, Draughtsmen and Colourists by Douglas Cooper. Very good. $5. 615. Beaumont, Elie de. William Blake. Van Trio Aan Zijn Zakenvrienden, 1959. 8vo, 24 pp. Frontispiece. One full-page illustration on page 14. Original publishers stapled wrappers, pictorial dust-jacket. Very good. Volume 2 of Curiosa $10. Typografica. Bentley, Blake Books, 1139. 616. Beer, John. Blakes Humanism. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes and Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143.

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599. Ackroyd, Peter. Blake. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995. 8vo, 399 pp. Abundantly illustrated with plates, many in color, and illustrations throughout the text. Dust-jacket, signed by author. Near fine. $15. First edition, published a year before the US edition. 600. [another edition] New York: Knopf, 1996. Dustjacket. Near fine. $15. First American edition, published a year after the London edition. 601. Adams, Hazard. Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968. 8vo, xvii, 328 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Light bumping to corners. Very good. $40. New edition, originally published in 1955. Cornell Studies in English, vol. XL. Bentley, Blake Books, 776B: an intelligent case for the view that in effect Blakes early poems strive to express the same system that the later prophetic books approach. 602. Adlard, John. The Sports of Cruelty: Fairies, Folksongs, Charms, and other Country Matters in the work of William Blake. London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1972. Small 8vo, 159 pp. Frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A792. 603. Altizer, Thomas J.J. The New Apocalypse: the Radical Christian Vision of William Blake. E. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967. 8vo, xxi, 226 pp., portrait frontispiece of Blakes life mask. Original blue cloth, dustjacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 807.

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William Blake Catalogue 617. Beer, John. Blakes Visionary Universe. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes and Noble, [1969]. 8vo, xiv [xvxvi], 394 pp. With 78 illustrations, one on folded sheet with a bit of wear to fore-edge. Dust-jacket with minor wear and a little chipping, light extremity wear to cloth. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1144: an attempt to deal with Blakes struggle to create artistic myth on the grand scale(p. 53) particularly in Vala and Jerusalem. 618. Behrendt, Stephen C. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. 4to. 211 pp. 56 figures, 6 black and white, and 24 color plates. Rose cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold on backstrip. Glossy illustrated dustjacket. Edgewear. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 363: the 86 reproductions include the sets for the Ode on the Morning of Christs Nativity and for Paradise Lost [the Huntington and the Boston MFA sets]. 619. Behrendt, Stephen C. Reading William Blake. New York: St. Martins Press, 1992. 8vo, xv, 196 pp. 16 illustrations in black and white. Black cloth in illustrated dustjacket. Some underlining throughout. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 364: pays special attention to the interplay between verbal and visual texts. 620. Bellin, Harvey F. and Darrell Ruhl. Blake and Swedenborg: Opposition is True Friendship. The sources of William Blakes arts in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. An Anthology. With an introduction by George F. Dole. New York: Swedenborg Foundation, [1985]. Oblong 4to, x, 157 pp. Illustrations throughout the text. Color illustrated paper covers, a very nice copy. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 364 65: intended as a comprehensive exploration of Emanuel Swedenborgs influences on Blake. 621. Bentley, G.E., Jr. William Blake. The Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1975]. 8vo, xix, [1], 294 pp., 20 plates. Dust-jacket with minor sunning and soiling at backstrip. $35. Bentley, Blake Books, A1181. 622. Bentley, G.E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. 8vo, xxvii, 532 pp. With 136 illustrations (many in color) and numerous figures in the text. Black cloth with gilt to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $30. First edition. With Ackroyd, Wilson, and Gilchrist, an essential reference for Blake biography. 623. Berger, P. William Blake, Poet and Mystic. Authorised Translation from the French by Daniel H. Conner. London: Chapman and Hall, 1914. Thick 8vo, xii, 420 pp. Original brown buckram, very good. $30. First edition in English. Bentley, Blake Books, 1185C. 624. Bertholf, Robert J. and Annette S. Levitt, eds. William Blake and the Moderns. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. 8vo, xv, 294 pp. Orange printed wrappers. Sunning to backstrip. Very good. $15. First paperback edition of this collection of essays examining Blakes influence on modern poetry; by Adams, Pease, Ostriker, Gleckner, etc. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 370 (listing the titles of the 14 essays). 625. Bertram, Anthony. William Blake. The Worlds MastersNew Series. London and New York: Studio Publications, [1948]. Small 4to, 64 pp., portrait and 48 numbered illustrations, many full-page. Decorated boards, head and foot of backstrip chipped away. A reading copy. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 411. 626. Bidney, Martin. Blake and Goethe: Psychology, Ontology, Imagination. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988. 8vo, xvi, 184 pp. Red cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Textured brown printed dust-jacket. As new. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 372: shared insights and closely analagous myths. 627. Bindman, David. Blake as an Artist. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977. 8vo, 256 pp. With 72 pp. of illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $25. The standard art-historical study. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 373. 628. Bishop, Morchard. Blakes Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley. London: Gollancz, 1951. 8vo, 372 pp. With 22 illustrations. Original green cloth, dust-jacket lightly chipped and soiled. Very good. $30.

Biography and Criticism First edition, a scarce book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1210: this excellent work. 629. Blackstone, Bernard. English Blake. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1949. 8vo, xiii, 455 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 10 plates. Dark blue cloth, dust-jacket, very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1212: a useful, rather miscellaneous book; the most stimulating section is on the Island in the Moon. 630. [another edition] Blue cloth with printed dust-jacket, very fine. $20. New edition, with a new foreword by Blackstone. Bentley, Blake Books, 1212B. 631. [another copy] with printed dust-jacket, chipped. Roger Easson in blue ink written on front free endpaper. Very good. $10. 632. Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. New York: Anchor/Doubleday and Company, 1963. Small 8vo, 495 pp. Printed wrappers. Some creasing and wrinkling to backstrip. Very good. $10. First Anchor Books edition. The first chapter is devoted to Blake; followed by chapters on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others. Bentley, Blake Books, 1232B. 633. Bloom, Harold. Blakes Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument. New York: Anchor Books, 1965. Small 8vo, xi, 502 pp. Original printed wrappers. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 1227C: Paraphrastic explications. 634. Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. 8vo, 157 pp. Pencil underlining. Blue cloth in printed dust-jacket with some edgewear. Very good. $45. First edition. Numerous mentions of Blake. 635. Bloom, Harold. A Map of Misreading. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 8vo, 206 pp. Blue cloth in printed dust-jacket. Light pencil underlining on select pages. Some edgewear. Very good. $45. First edition. A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Blooms other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. 636. Bloom, Harold. Kabbalah and Criticism. New York: Seabury Press, 1975. 8vo, 126 pp. Blue cloth in blue printed dust-jacket, backstrip sunned with small tears at heel of jacket backstrip. Very good. $20. First edition. Not about Blake per se but cites Blake in the text a number of times. 637. Bloom, Harold. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. 8vo, 293 pp. Blue printed wrappers, light edgewear. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 414. 638. Bloom, Harold. The Breaking of the Vessels. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 8vo, xiii, 107 pp. Gray cloth in printed dust-jacket. Minimal edgewear. Very good. $15. First edition. The three chapters of this slim volume deal with poets from Milton to Wallace Stevens in various aspects, language, originality, and transumption. 639. Bloom, Harold. Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. 8vo, 204 pp. Black cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 415. 640. Blunt, Anthony. The Art of William Blake. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. 8vo, 122 pp., 64 pp. of illustrations. Original green cloth, dust-jacket. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1235A: the best general introduction to his art suggestive rather than definitive. 641. [another edition] New York: Harper, 1974. 8vo, 122 pp., 64 pp. of illustrations. Original wrappers. $20. Reprint of the first edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 417 issue D. 642. Blyth, R.H. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1960. Small 8vo, xiv, 446 pp. 9 illustrations and frontispiece. Black printed stiff wrappers with minimal signs of use. Very good. $10. First Dutton paperback edition. First US edition, reprint of 1942 edition by Hokuseido Press, Tokyo. Contains some 25 references to Blake.

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William Blake Catalogue 643. Bogan, James and Fred Goss. Sparks of Fire. Blake in a New Age. Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1982. 8vo, 458 pp. Illustrated. Yellow and blue wrappers. Minor bumping and edgewear. Very good. With the extremely rare record album issued with the book. $75. First edition of this amazing compilation of hippies, beatniks, and others responding to or commenting on Blake. Arundel Books notes of their copy (lacking the record): Anthology of modern American poets inspired by the writings and/or illustrations of Blake; contributors include James Broughton, Kent Clair Chamberlain, Robert Duncan, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Hirschman, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Robert Kelly, Michael McClure, George Quasha, Gary Snyder, Carolyn White, Roger Zelazny, and others. The 33 rpm record (in 45 format) has Ginsberg, Orlovksy et al singing Blake: it is titled Blakes Greatest Hits. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 41819, records 26 articles more or less referencing Blakeincluding Roger Easson at the end On building a Blake Library. Peter Paul Piech (see below) contributed a Graphic Manifesto. 644. Bottrall, Margaret. The Divine Image: A Study of Blakes Interpretation of Christianity. Roma: Edizioni di Storia E Letteratura, 1950. 8vo, 119 pp. Frontispiece. Stapled wrappers with aged tape at head and heel of backstrip. Wrappers loosened with some folds to rear. Internally sound. A very good copy. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1260A. This first printing is quite rare. 645. Bottrall, Margaret. Songs of Innocence and Experience. A Selection of Critical Essays edited by Margaret Bottrall. London: Macmillan, 1970. 8vo, 245 pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1261, gives a list of the essays herein contained, authors including such as Malkin, Lamb, and Linnell, up to Kathleen Raine. 646. Boutang, Pierre. William Blake. Essais et Philosophie. Paris: LEditions de lHerne, 1970. 8vo, 314 pp. 19 illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Minor edgewear. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1264: An extensive gloss on selected poems; For the Sexes is reproduced. 647. Bracher, Mark. Being Formd. Thinking through Blakes Milton. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1985. 8vo, xvi, 288 pp., unillustrated. Original paperback. $25. 86 First edition apparently scarceone other copy located for sale since 2000. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 424. 648. Bronowski, Jacob. William Blake, 17571827: A Man without a Mask. London: Secker and Warburg, 1947. Small 8vo, (4), 153 pp. 16 illustrations. Original cloth. $25. Third and best edition. The paper in previous printings is always very browned. In this edition much better paper was used. Bentley 1288D: one of the most illuminating books on Blake. 649. [another edition] Pelican Books, [1954]. Small 8vo, 218 pp. 16 illustrations, paperback, rather browned but still usable. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 1288E. 650. Bronowski, Jacob. William Blake and the Age of Revolution. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. 8vo, 207 pp. 16 plates. Cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Few closed tears. $20. Wear to edges. Underlining throughout. Good. First edition of this thoroughly revised version of Bronowskis book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1288I. 651. Brooke, Stopford A. Studies in Poetry: William Blake, Walter Scott, Shelley and Keats. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc., 1967. 8vo, 253 pp. Full light blue cloth with light soiling. Very good. $15. A reprint of Bentley, Blake Books, 1291. 652. Bruce, Harold. William Blake in this World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. 8vo, v, 234 pp. Frontispiece, 10 plates, and a chart. Original blue cloth, very good. $15. First edition, useful. Bentley, Blake Books, 1304. 653. Bruder, Helen P. William Blake and the Daughters of Albion. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martins Press, 1997. 8vo, xi, 291 pp. Black cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket with some signs of wear. Pencil annotations. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 18: a partisan exercise in feminist-historicist methodology but quite good on Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Essick). 654. Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1973. 8vo, xvii, 326 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Some edgewear. Very good. $25.

Biography and Criticism Second paperback edition. Facsimile reprint of the original edition printed in 1901. With a chapter on Blake. Bucke, a doctor who worked with the mentally ill, was one of Whitmans three literary executors, the author of one book on Whitman (1883), and the editor of others. Inspired by Whitmans mysticism to pursue the topic of this, his magnum opus, he cites Whitman numerous times as one of his sources, which also included the Bible, Socrates, Balzac, Bacon, Pushkin, Blake, Carlyle, Pascal, Dante, numerous Hindu texts, Spinoza, Swedenborg, Tennyson, and Thoreau. Bucke died the year after this book appeared (McDonnell Rare Books, of the original edition). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 42928, this issue not recorded; see also Bentley, Blake Books, A1306 on page 965 for earlier editions. 655. Burdett, Osbert. William Blake. London: Macmillan, 1926. Small 8vo, viii, 199 pp. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1316. 656. [another copy] Original gray cloth, edgewear. $15. printed rectos only, 42 pp. of plates. Original brown buckram, a very good copy. $275. Limited to 250 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 516. 660. [another copy] Original quarter blue buckram, blue printed boards, a good copy. $125. 661. Byrd, Max. Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974. 8vo, xvii, 200 pp. Blue cloth. Blackand-white illustrated dust-jacket. Mild edgewear. Very good. $30. First edition. Chapter 6 is Cowper and Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 430. 662. Callahan, Patrick Jeremiah. Historical and Critical Problems in William Blakes America. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1969. 8vo, 225 pp. Blue paper wrappers. Title and author typed in sticker affixed to front. Facsimile of doctoral dissertation submitted to $20. University of Nebraska, 1968. Only printing. Bentley, Blake Books, A1332. 663. Carter, Peter. The Gates of Paradise. Illustrated by Fermin Rocker. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. 8vo, 134 pp. Blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket with protective mylar cover. $15. First edition. In this novel, Blake is seen through the eyes, of his friends and his enemies, his wife, his matterof-fact apprentice, a Government spyand they are seen through his transforming gaze (jacket blurb). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 433. 664. Cary, Elizabeth Luther. The Art of William Blake. His Sketchbook. His Water-Colours. His Painted Books. With Numerous Illustrations. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1907. 8vo, 56 pp. and 51 full-page plates, including frontispiece. Quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering, edges sun-faded. Some wear to edges. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1349. An important early study of Blakes art by a woman. Carys first article on Blake, apparently the first by any American woman, appeared in 1905. 665. Cheney, Sheldon. Men Who Have Walked with God. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1945. 8vo, xiv, 395, viii pp. 32 illustrations. Black cloth with spotting to covers, hinges loose but holding. Ink signature at front. Good. $30. 87

657. [another edition] New York: Macmillan, 1926. Small 8vo, viii, 199 pp. Original green cloth. $20. First American edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 429 issue B. 658. Butlin, Martin et al. William Blake and His Circle. Papers delivered at a Huntington Symposium. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1989. 8vo, 142 pp. With 12 color plates, and 49 black-and-white illustrations. Original wrappers. $30. Scarce collection of papers by leading scholars: The Physicality of William Blake, the Large Color Prints of 1795 by Martin Butlin; The Order of Blakes Large Color Prints by David Lindsay; The Song of Los by D.W. Drrbecker; Sir Joshua and His Gang: William Blake and the Royal Academy by Aileen Ward; The Art of the Ancients by Morton D. Paley; The Comedy of the English School of Painting by Morris Eaves; and An Island in the Moon reviewed by Robert N. Essick. This is a book publication of an issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 52 (1989); see Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 51718. 659. Butterworth, Adeline M. William Blake Mystic. A Study. Together with Youngs Night Thoughts: Nights I and II. With Illustrations by William Blake. And frontispiece, Deaths Door, from Blairs The Grave. Liverpool and London: Simpkin, Marshal [etc.], 1911. 4to, 18 pp. of text

William Blake Catalogue First edition. Chapter 10 is entitled A Mystic in the Age of Enlightened Scepticism. Bentley, Blake Books, 1378: an impressionistic, exclamatory account. 666. [another edition] New York: Delta Publishing, 1974. 8vo, 395, viii pp. 32 illustrations. Printed wrappers. Small tear to top of backstrip. Covers soiled. Good. $10. 667. Chesterton, G.K. William Blake. [edited by Edward Garnett]. London: Duckworth, [ca. 1910]. 12mo, 210 pp.; frontispiece in color and 31 plates. Original red cloth gilt. $15. A scarce little work decried by Bentley, Blake Books, 1381A. It is variously found in red, green, and brown cloth or boards bindings. 668. Chevalier, Tracy. Burning Bright. New York: Dutton, 2007. 8vo, 311 pp. Quarter cloth. Printed dust-jacket. As new. $15. First edition. Chevalier, an American living in London, wrote the highly acclaimed Girl with a Pearl Earring and is working on a book about Mary Anning the fossil collector. Burning Bright captures Blakes London and his life through the people of the time. 669. Clark, Kenneth. Blake and Visionary Art. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1973. 8vo, 22 pp. Stapled red printed wrappers. Very good. $5. W.A. Cargill Memorial Lectures in Fine Art. Lord Clark of Saltwood (Kenneth Clark) delivered the second W.A. Cargill Memorial Lecture in Fine Arts on Thursday, 6th November 1969. Slides from the lecture are identified in type in the margins alongside the text when they were shown. Bentley, Blake Books, B1390 on page 966. 670. Clark, Lorraine. Blake, Kierkegaard and the Spectre of Dialectic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 8vo, 238 pp. Blue cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 438: Kierkegaard defines a concept of irony in which he and Blake saw the true passion of Romanticism. 671. Clark, Steve and David Worrall, eds. Historicizing Blake. New York: St. Martins Press, 1994. 8vo, 188 pp. Black cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. Light bumping. Very good. $75. First edition. Essays putting Blake back into the cultural context of his time (blurb) by Beer, Bruder, Clark, Cox, 88 Dorrbecker, Mary L. Johnson, Larissey, Lincoln, Mee, McAlman, and Worrall. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 18. 672. Clark, Steve and David Worrall. Blake in the Nineties. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martins Press, 1999. 8vo, xiii, 240 pp. Black cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $75. First edition. Essays by Essick, Viscomi, Larissey, Behrendt, Hilton, Esterhammer, Clark, Ferber, Schuchard, Worrall, and Daviesthe 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake, initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to a reevaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work (jacket blurb). A companion volume to Historicizing Blake (1994). Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 19. 673. Clarke, John. Blake. New York: The Institute of Further Studies, 1973. 8vo, [60] pp. in stapled black paper wrappers, illustrated by Guy Berard. Near fine. $5. First edition. A Curriculum of the Soul, no. 7. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 438. 674. Clarke, John Henry. William Blake on the Lords Prayer. London: The Hermes Press, 1927. 8vo, 174 pp. Frontispiece. Red cloth, blind-ruled edges with gilt lettering to cover and backstrip. Sunfading to backstrip. Some minor bumping to corners. Very good. $60. First edition of this virulently anti-Semitic fragment about true religion and also about Blake (Bentley). Bentley, Blake Books, 1397A. 675. [another edition] New York: Haskell House, 1971. 8vo, 174 pp. Blue cloth. Lightly soiled. Very good. $40. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, 1397B. 676. Clarke, John Henry. From Copernicus to William Blake. [Pennsylvania: Folcroft Library Editions, 1969]. 8vo, 49 pp. Frontispiece. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $15. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1395B, but without the reprint title-page coming just before the facsimile title-page of the 1928 edition. 677. Clarke, John Henry. The God of Shelley and Blake. London and New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 21 pp. Stapled printed wrappers with light sunning to backstrip. A very good copy. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1396B.

Biography and Criticism 678. Clutton-Brock, Alan. Blake. London: Duckworth, [1933]. 8vo, 140 pp. Original red cloth. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1402A: A trivial, inaccurate book, which finds that Blake was mad 679. [another edition] New York: Haskell House, 1970. 8vo, 140 pp. Original red cloth. New. $25. Reprint of the 1933 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1402B. 680. Collins, Christopher. The Poetics of the Minds Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 8vo, xxviii, 188 pp. Blue printed wrappers. Some highlighting to preface. Kay Parkhurst Eassons name in ink to verso of front wrapper. Very good. $10. A few glancing references to Blake. 681. Connolly, Tristanne J. William Blake and the Body. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 8vo, xvii, 249 pp. Frontispiece and 14 illustrations throughout text. Sparse pencil annotations. Gray cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. $45. Very good. First edition. Re-evaluates Blakes central image: the human form (jacket blurb). 682. Cooper, Andrew M. Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. 8vo, 233 pp. Full cloth, light purple boards with printed dust-jacket. Very good. $20. First edition. Chapter 3 is Blakes Escape from Mythology: Self-Mastery in Milton. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 442 issue B. 683. Coutts, Francis. The Heresy of Job with the Inventions of William Blake. London: John Lane, 1907. 8vo, 139 pp. and 21 pp. of plates. Full blue cloth with pasted label to backstrip. Joints repaired. Boards soiled. Top edge gilt. Good. $20. First edition. Blakes Job is reproduced in reduced facsimile at the end. Bentley, Blake Books, 427. 684. Cox, Stephen D. The Stranger Within Thee: Concepts of the Self in Late Eighteenth Century Literature. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. 8vo, 185 pp. Marbled paper-covered boards. Red lettering to front and backstrip. As new. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 444. 685. Cox, Stephen. Love and Logic. The Evolution of Blakes Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 8vo, xii, 314 pp. 9 black-and-white plates. Gray cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $25. Later printing. First published in 1992. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 444: Blakes simultaneous evolution of a theory of love and a practice of logic. 686. Curran, Stuart and Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. Blakes Sublime Allegory: Essays on the Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. 8vo, xix; 384 pp. Yellow cloth in yellow illustrated dust-jacket. Minor edgewear. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A1437, pages 96768. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 446. 687. Damon, S. Foster. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. Providence: Brown University Press, 1965. Royal 8vo, xii, 460 [46163] pp.; 12 plates (including 2 double-page maps), some with accompanying keys. Original cloth, dust-jacket with some chipping and closed tears, a very good copy. $45. First edition, the best of four printings. This enormous work is particularly useful in identifying Blakes allusions to people in the Bible and to places in Britain. Bentley, Blake Books, 1445A. 688. [another edition] With a new Index by Morris Eaves. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979. 8vo, xii, 532 pp. Printed orange wrappers. Creasing to backstrip. Some annotations in ink on a small number of pages. Very good. $20. First edition with the Eaves index. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447 issue E. 689. Damon, S. Foster. Note On The Discovery Of A New Page Of Poetry In William Blakes Milton. Boston: Merrymount Press, 1925. 4to, (5), 14 pp., with 3 color plates. Original marbled boards, label, lightly soiled. Very good. $125. Limited to 150 copies, printed by the master printer D.B. Updike with the text compiled and edited by Damon from the fourth known copy of Milton extant, belonging to a member of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston. Bentley, Blake Books, 1450. 690. [another edition] Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1972. 4to, (5), 14 pp., with 3 color plates. Original cloth, slightly worn. $45. Reprint of the Boston: Merrymount Press, 1925 edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447 issue B. 89

William Blake Catalogue 691. Damon, S. Foster. William Blake, his Philosophy and Symbols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Large 8vo, xv, 487 pp. With a frontispiece and one plate. Original quarter brown cloth, blue boards, slipcase (rather worn). sold. First edition. Bentley 1455: the first thoroughly scholarly book about Blake of great importance. The Boston edition is much less common than the London of the same year. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447 issue B. 692. [another edition] Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958. Large 8vo, xiv, 487 pp. With a frontispiece and one plate. Original red cloth lettered in black on backstrip. Former owners names to front free endpaper (Kay Long and Roger Easson). Very good. $50. Second reprint, originally published in 1924, first reprinted in 1947 and again in 1958. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447 issue D. 693. Damrosch, Leopold. Symbol and Truth in Blakes Myth. Princeton University Press, 1980. 8vo, xiv, 395 pp., 35 illustrations. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447: a study in philosophical interpretation with the premise that the mythology rests on the philosophy. 694. Daugherty, James. William Blake. New York: The Viking Press. 1969. 8vo, 128 pp. With 21 plates. Reddish cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Top edge stained red. Very good. $10. Fourth printing. First published in 1960. Bentley, Blake Books, 1462: This short biography for children reprints the 21 Job drawings and the Canterbury Pilgrims engraving. Bentley, Blake Books, 1462D on page 968. 695. Davies, J.G. The Theology of William Blake. London: Archon Books, 1966. 8vo, [8], 167 pp. Original blue cloth, light blue printed dust-jacket, backstrip-sunned. Very good. $15. Reprint of 1948 edition. See Bentley, Blake Books, 1466B: illuminating on Blakes relations with the Swedenborgians. Issued in 1965: a variant issue of the Archon reprint. 696. Davies, J.M.Q. Blakes Milton Designs: The Dynamics of Meaning. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1993. 8vo, xix, 346 pp. 143 illustrations. Green cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $50. First edition. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 7. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 19. 90 697. Davies, Peter. Student Guide to William Blake. London: Greenwich Exchange, 1996. Slim 8vo, 76 pp., paperback. $5. A good place to start, especially for younger readers. 698. Davis, Michael. William Blake: A New Kind of Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. 8vo, 181 pp., 11 color plates and plates with 58 black-and-white illustrations. Original green cloth, dust-wrapper. As new. $20. First American printing. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 449: a responsible synopsis of Blake biographies and of his major writings. 699. [another copy] Paperback. 700. [another edition] Dust-jacket with minor wear. $20.

Biography and Criticism to Blakes art are most effective in the first chapter. The 77 plates include all of For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise. 705. DiSalvo, Jackie. War of Titans: Blakes Critique of Milton and the Politics of Religion. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. 8vo, xi, 391 pp. Red cloth with gilt to front cover and backstrip. Light bumping. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 454: What distinguishes Blakes vision from Miltons is his far more democratic faith in the people themselves. 706. DiSalvo, Jackie, G.A. Rosso, and Christopher Z. Hobson, eds. Blake, Politics, and History. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. 8vo, xxxii, 387 pp. 44 plates preceding text. Quarter cloth with illustrated paper over boards. Gilt lettering to backstrip. As new, but with underlinings and annotations. $40. First edition. Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and Culture, Volume 17. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1842. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 19, noting that there are 19 essays. 707. Donoghue, Denis. Thieves of Fire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. 8vo, 139 pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket, clipped. Very good. $15. First US edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A1506: notes for a typology of the imagination. 708. Dorfman, Deborah. Blake in the Nineteenth Century: His Reputation as a Poet from Gilchrist to Yeats. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. 8vo, xv, 314 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket, backstrip sunned. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1509: a useful survey, concentrating on Gilchrist and Ellis and Yeats. 709. Dortort, Fred. The Dialectic of Vision. A Contrary Reading of William Blakes Jerusalem. Foreword by Donald Ault. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1998. 8vo, xxviii, 468 pp. 3 plates. Illustrated wrappers. As new. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 20: an important study of the iconography of style and forms. 710. Doskow, Minna. William Blakes Jerusalem: Structure and Meaning in Poetry and Picture. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1982. 8vo, 283 pp. Full cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with mild bumping and wear. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 456: a detailed reading with a facsimile of Jerusalem copy C. 711. Dumbaugh, Winnifred. William Blakes Vision of America. Pacific Grove, CA: The Boxwood Press, 1971. 8vo, viii, 58 pp. Blue cloth with blue illustrated dust-jacket. Mild edgewear. Very good. $20. First edition, scarce. Bentley, Blake Books, 1522: a brief, derivative, inaccurate account. 712. Dunbar, Pamela. William Blakes Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 4to, xv [xvi], 207 pp., frontispiece in color and 92 plates. Dustjacket. Very good. $45. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 457. 713. Eaves, Morris. William Blakes Theory of Art. Princeton University Press, 1982. 8vo, xi, 217 pp. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 459. 714. Eaves, Morris. The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Imagination in the Age of Blake. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Oblong 8vo, xxix, 287 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Some scattered pencil annotations. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 459: an important essay in historiography. 715. Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 8vo, xix, 302 pp., with 36 illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. Pencil underlinings and notes. $20. First edition of this compilation, with essays by Eaves, Aileen Ward, Joseph Viscomi, Susan Wolfson, David Bindman, Saree Makdisi, Jon Mee, Robert Ryan, David Simpson, Nelson Hilton, Andrew Lincoln, Mary Lynn Johnson, Robert N. Essick, and Alexander Gourlay. 716. Edwards, Thomas R. Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 8vo, 232 pp. Red cloth with blue lettering. Printed dust-jacket. Some bumping to corners and mild shelf wear. Very good. $20. First edition. Chapter IV, The Revolutionary Imagination, has much on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, A1537 on page 970. 91

$20. Second impression. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 449 issue B. 701. Deen, Leonard W. Conversing in Paradise: Poetic Genius and Identity-as-Community in Blakes Los. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983. 8vo, 274 pp. Yellow cloth in yellow illustrated dust-jacket. Sun fading $20. to backstrip. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 450: a speculative attempt to see Blakes myth as poetry. Highly regarded by Essick. 702. De Luca, Vincent Arthur. Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime. Princeton University Press, 1991. 8vo, xv, 238 pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $30. First edition, second printing. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 450: An important book. 703. Dickinson, Kate L. William Blakes Anticipation of the Individualistic Revolution. Submitted in Partial Requirement for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1969. 8vo, 54 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $30. First published in 1915 and reprinted 1969. Bentley, Blake Books, 1486B. 704. Digby, George Wingfield. Symbol and Image in William Blake. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. 8vo, xx, 143 pp., 77 illustrations. Original cloth, fine. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1448: These suggestive attempts to apply modern psychological distinctions

William Blake Catalogue 717. Ellis, Edwin J. The Real Blake. A Portrait Biography. London: Chatto and Windus, 1907. 8vo, xviii, 443 pp. With a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original red cloth. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1547: an amusing note praising some aspects of the book while ridiculing others (such as the suggestion that Blake was Irish). 718. [another edition] New York: Haskell House, 1970. 8vo, xviii, 443 pp. With a frontispiece and 12 plates. Green cloth. Very good. $20. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 1547B on page 970. 719. England, Martha Winburn and John Sparrow. Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers. New York: New York Public Library, 1966. 8vo, [x], 153 pp. With 5 illustrations, and vignettes in the text. Original red cloth, a very good copy. $25. First edition. Foreword by David Erdman: The general subject of this group of studies is the hymn movement of the eighteenth century. Fathered by the Puritan hymnodist Isaac Watts, this movement is seen to have been nourishedmore than anyone had realizedby transfusions from Herbert, Donne, and other metaphysical poets; to have been brought to immense power and range by the Wesleys; and to have exerted no simple influence upon the modes and tunes of subsequent English and American poets. The whole subject of the Moravians and their influence on Blake was recently discussed in Why Mrs. Blake Cried by Marsha Schuchard (2006). One of the illustrations is a portrait of Emily Dickinson. Bentley, Blake Books, 1552: a very wide-ranging discussion. 720. Erdman, David V. Blake Prophet against Empire. A Poets Interpretation of the History of his own Times. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. 8vo, xxii, 546 pp., 8 plates and 17 figures in the text. Green cloth in dust-jacket. Kay Parkhurst Easson, former owner, identified on front free endpaper in ink. Very good. $15. Second edition. See Bentley, Blake Books, 1561B: a massive, extraordinarily original and thorough analysis of the part played by radical politics in Blakes life, art, and writing. 721. [another edition] Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977. 8vo, xxi, 582 pp., 8 plates and 22 figures in the text. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. Third edition, first paperback edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 463 issue C. 722. Erdman, David V., ed. A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [1967]. 2 vols., 8vo, xxxvi, 11146 and [x], 11472317 pp. Original red cloth. A very good set. $275. First edition. This essential work is virtually unobtainable. Bentley, Blake Books, 1579: This wonderfully accurate and useful work. Although the Concordance is now available online, the printed format is still much sought after. 723. Erdman, David V., ed. The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for 1983. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1984. 8vo, xxviii, 474 pp. Orange cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $20. Very useful review arranged by author with often lengthy reviews of the relevant publications for that year. 724. Erdman, David V., ed. The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for 1984. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. 8vo, xxviii, 456 pp. Brown cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $20. Very useful review arranged by author with often lengthy reviews of the relevant publications for that year. 725. Erdman, David V., ed. The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for 1986. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1987. 8vo, xxix, 540 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $20. Very useful review arranged by author with often lengthy reviews of the relevant publications for that year. 726. Erdman, David V., ed. Blake and His Bibles with an Introduction by Mark Trevor Smith. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1990. 8vo, xvii, 237 pp. Illustrated. Yellow cloth with red lettering to cover and backstrip. Minor shelf wear. Very good. $50. First edition. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 1. With essays by Grant, Johnson, Sandler, Davies, Smith, and Spector. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 462. 727. Erdman, David V. and John E. Grant, eds. Blakes Visionary Forms Dramatic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. 8vo, xxiv, 476 pp., plates with 121 illustrations, 8 in color. Dust-jacket with wear to top edge, light soiling and sunning. $35. First edition of this major compilation of 20 critical essays and illustrations including all of America copy K. Bentley, Blake Books, 1580, devoting two pages to the contents.

Biography and Criticism 728. Essick, Robert N., ed. The Visionary Hand: Essays for the Study of William Blakes Art and Aesthetics. Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1973. Thick 8vo, xvi, 558 pp. With 164 black-and-white illustrations. Original wrappers. $25. Collection of essays edited by Essick from various sources ranging from early 19th-century commentary to the present day. Scarce and very useful. Bentley, Blake Books, A1583 on page 971. 729. Essick, Robert N. The Altering Eye: Blakes Vision in the Tiriel Designs. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. 8vo, pp. 5059. With 6 illustrations. Original gray wrappers, stapled. $25. Offprint from William Blake: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Keynes. Edited by Morton Paley and Michael Phillips. Bentley, Blake Books, A2350 on pages 98889. 730. Essick, Robert N. and Donald Pearce, eds. Blake in his Time. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. 8vo, xix, 253 pp.; 144 illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket worn with signs of water damage. Good. $45. First edition of this collection, dedicated to Sir Anthony Blunt. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 46668. 731. Essick, Robert N. William Blakes Relief Inventions. Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1978. Folio, (34) pp., with a frontispiece and 8 illustrations. Quarter velin. As new. $75. One of 365 copies. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 466: A short, technical, illuminating essay a beautifully made book with eight Blake plates printed by Blakes methods. 732. Essick, Robert N. William Blake, Printmaker. Princeton University Press, 1980. Large 4to, xxii, 283 pp., color frontispiece and 236 illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket slightly worn. $150. First edition of this substantial and essential scholarly work. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 21. 733. Essick, Robert N. William Blake and the Language of Adam. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 8vo, 272 pp. 8 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Pencil annotations throughout. Very good. $45. First edition. Presentation slip inscribed by Essick To Kay and Roger [Easson] inserted. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 465: a highly sophisticated study of the language of Blakes writings. 734. Essick, Robert N., ed. William Blake Images and Texts. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1997. 8vo, viii, 183 pp. 18 color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Mild shelf wear. Some pencil underlining. Very good. $30. First edition of this important collection of essays by Viscomi, Mellor, Bindman, Rajan, Eaves, and Mitchell, with an introduction by Essick. The Huntington Librarys copy of Visions of the Daughters of Albion is reproduced in full and in color for the first time. 735. Essick, Robert N., and John Windle. A Troubled Paradise. William Blakes Virgil Wood Engravings. With an Afterword on Collecting William Blake by John Windle. San Francisco: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, 1999. Tall slim 8vo, 48 pp., 8 plates, hand-sewn in Japanese paper, finely printed with illustrations depicting some of Blakes original drawings and proofs, and the complete set of published prints. Enclosed in a folding quarter cloth box as $3500. issued. Deluxe edition, limited to 13 copies, each with an original Blake woodcut print matted and contained in the box. This is copy number IV and has the wonderfully moody woodcut of the waning moon over a plowed field with a lightning-blasted tree in the foreground (the fifth cut in the book and one of the most important: as Essick notes [p. 12]: The riven tree in the fifth design becomes the objective correlative of the shepherds sadness, its bifurcation evocative of the self-divisions of self-consciousness.). The text was designed and printed by Marianne Hinckle at the Ano Nuevo Island Press, bound and hand-sewn by Taurus Bookbinders. Essicks essay on the 1821 edition of Robert John Thorntons The Pastorals of Virgil offers insight into the inspiration and creation for Blakes wood engravings for Thorntons work and is illustrated with eight plates of Blakes wood engravings, proofs, and drawings. Windles essay describes twenty of Blakes major books and prints with points for collectors and dealers to be aware of. The woodcuts (lacking four) had been cut from an original edition of Thorntons Virgil by A. Edward Newton and pasted into an album as a gift for his daughter Caroline. They were removed from the album and archivally restored and matted for this edition by Zukor Art Services. 736. [another edition] Tall slim 8vo, 48 pp., 8 plates, handsewn in Japanese paper, finely printed with illustrations depicting some of Blakes original drawings and proofs, and the complete set of published prints. $35. Trade edition limited to 512 copies. 93

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William Blake Catalogue 737. Esterhammer, Angela. Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 8vo, 245 pp. Green cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Some pages with underlining. Otherwise very good. $25. First edition. 738. Ferber, Michael. The Social Vision of William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. 8vo, xii, 254 pp. Black cloth, title in gilt set in red on backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 471: an exercise in what I have called left antiquarianism about the politics of spiritual fraternity from Milton to Marx. 739. Fisch, Harold. Jerusalem and Albion: The Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth-Century Literature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. 8vo, ix, 301 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Red and orange printed dust-jacket with small tear to top of backstrip. $20. Slight wear. Very good. First edition. Several mentions of Blake and the Kabbalah, Biblical imagery, Gnostic heresy, etc. Bentley, Blake Books, 1607. 740. Fisher, Peter F. The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary. Edited by Northrop Frye. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. 8vo, xi, 261 pp. Full cloth in printed dust-jacket. Some sunning and fraying to edges. Light pencil marginalia to first few pages. Very good. $15. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 1611B: a study of Blakes context as an intellectual revolutionary. 741. Fiske, Irving. Bernard Shaws Debt to William Blake. With Foreword and Notes by G.B.S. Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1974. 8vo, 18 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $5. Exact photographic facsimile of the original edition published in 1951 at Shaws behest. The cover has been enlarged and a portrait of Blake added. The brief biography of Irving Fiske is new. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 472 issue C. 742. [another edition] Quarry Hill: Irving Fiske, 1979. Small 8vo, 18 pp. Stapled wrappers. Some browning. Very good. $5. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 472 issue E. 94 743. Fox, Susan. Poetic Form in Blakes Milton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. 8vo, xvi, 242 pp. 6 illustrations. Light pencil markings. Gray cloth with illustrated dustjacket. Mild edgewear. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 21. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 47475. 744. Freeman, Kathryn S. Blakes Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four Zoas. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 8vo, 208. 8 illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. As new. $15. Published in the State University of New York Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. 745. Freeman, Rosemary. English Emblem Books. New York: Octagon Books, 1970. 8vo, xiv, 256 pp. 31 illustrations and frontispiece. Underlining in ink throughout. Red cloth with gilt design to front and lettering to backstrip. Very good. $15. Second Reprinting, originally published 1948. With a section on Blake, comparing his methods with Wither, and other references. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 475, but the 1970 issue isnt listed (Octagon 1966 is B). 746. Frosch, Thomas R. The Awakening of Albion: The Renovation of the Body in the Poetry of William Blake. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974. 8vo, 211 pp. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1638: a literalistic reading of Blakes imagery of the fall and resurrection of the human body. 747. Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. 8vo, x, 462 pp. With 6 plates. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. Some chipping to edges especially top edge. Very good. $75. First edition, now scarce. Bentley, Blake Books, 1646A: magisterial. Frye, long of the University of Toronto, was for decades the dean of Blake scholars and more widely of literary theory and criticism. His Great Code (see below) was translated and published in 22 languages. 748. [another edition] Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. 8vo, x, 462 pp. With 6 plates. Original red wrappers a bit worn and heavily annotated by Easson. $5. First edition, third printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 1646F. 749. [another edition] Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. 8vo, x, 462 pp. With 6 plates. New 3-page in-

Biography and Criticism troduction dated 1969. Purple printed wrappers. Very good. $30. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 1646G. 750. Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957. 8vo, x, 383 pp. Green cloth, blue and gilt to backstrip. Ink underlining to introduction. Kay Parkhurst in ink to front free endpaper. Very good. $20. First edition. Numerous references to Blake and to The Book of Thel, The Four Zoas, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Mental Traveller. 751. Frye, Northrop. Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1963. 8vo. 264 pp. Printed wrappers, some creasing along backstrip edge. Ink underlining throughout. Good reading copy. $10. First softcover edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1642. One chapter devoted entirely to Blake and numerous other references including a chapter on Blake and Joyce. 752. Frye, Northrop. Blake A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1966. 8vo, 183 pp. Original wrappers. $15. First edition of this collection. Bentley, Blake Books, 1643. 753. Frye, Northrop. The Well-Tempered Critic. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1967. 8vo, 160 pp. Printed wrappers. Slight signs of wear. Very good. $10. Second printing. General lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 1961, with glancing references to Blake. 754. Frye, Northrop. A Study of English Romanticism. New York: Random House, 1968. Small 8vo, 180 pp. Ink underlining throughout. Bookplate of Kay Parkhurst Long to front free endpaper. Printed wrappers with some edgewear. Good. $10. First printing. Numerous references to Blake and his prophetic books, etc. 755. Frye, Northrop, ed. Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1968. 8vo, 133 pp. Printed wrappers with light edgewear. Very good. $10. Fourth printing and Columbia paperback edition. Several mentions of Blake. 756. Frye, Northrop. The Modern Century: The Whidden Lectures 1967. London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. 8vo, 123 pp. Printed wrappers, lightly bumped. Small sticker affixed to front. Very good. $10. First Oxford paperback. The ever-interesting Frye lectures, with of course reference to Blake, Milton, and modern poets. 757. Frye, Northrop. The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1970. 8vo, xii, 316 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Some edgewear. Very good. $10. Trade paperback. Chapters 10 and 11 are about Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 1647B. 758. Frye, Northrop. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. 8vo, viii, 199 pp. Light brown cloth with black lettering to backstrip. Printed dustjacket. Very good. $20. First edition of these lectures given at Harvard in 1975. Blake is cited several times along with The Mental Traveller and the Songs of Innocence. 759. Frye, Northrop. Spiritus Mundi: Essays On Literature, Myth And Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. 8vo, xiii, 296 pp. Green cloth in green printed dustjacket. Few closed tears. Sunning to backstrip. Very good. $20. First edition. Contains Blakes Reading of the Book of Job. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 478 issue B. 760. Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible as Literature. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 8vo, xxiii, 261 pp. Blue cloth, front embossed with gilt to backstrip. Printed dustjacket. Very good. $15. First edition, with several references to Blake and to the Auguries of Innocence, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and the Preludium to Europe. 761. Frye, Northrop. Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. 8vo, xxiv, 342 pp. Quarter cloth. Printed dust-jacket with some edgewear. Very good. $20. First edition. With numerous references to Blake.

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William Blake Catalogue 762. Frye, Northrop. Denham, Robert D., ed. Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays 19741988. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 8vo, xviii, 386 pp. Full cloth with printed dust-jacket. As new. $20. First edition. With numerous references to Blake and some of his principal works. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 477. 763. (Frye) Denham, Robert D. Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. 8vo, xiii, 449 pp. Full cloth with white lettering. Printed dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. 764. (Frye) Hamilton, A.C. Northrop Frye: Anatomy of his Criticism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. 8vo, xxii; 294 pp. Bright red printed wrappers. Tightly bound, appears unread. Near fine. $10. 765. Fuller, David. Blakes Heroic Argument. London: Croom Helm, 1988. 8vo, xv, 297 pp. With 16 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $40. First edition, scarce. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 480. 766. Gallant, Christine. Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. 8vo, 198 pp. Gray cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Some shelf wear. Very good. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 481: An assertive but useful psychological reading of Blakes poetry [especially Vala and Milton] that is Jungian in orientation. 767. Gardner, Charles. William Blake the Man. London and New York: Dent, 1919. Small 4to, 202 pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates. Original green cloth. $35. First edition, an attempt to trace the mental and spiritual growth of William Blake as disclosed in his works. Bentley, Blake Books, 1662. 768. Gardner, Charles. Vision and Vesture: A Study of William Blake in Modern Thought. London: Dent, 1929. Small 8vo, xi, 226 pp. Original slate cloth. $35. Revised and enlarged edition, first printed in 1916. Includes much on other writers such as Goethe, Nietzsche, G.B. Shaw, and W.B. Yeats. Bentley, Blake Books, 1660C. Quite uncommon in either edition. 96 769. Gardner, Stanley. Infinity on the Anvil: A Critical Study of Blakes Poetry. Oxford: Blackwell, 1954. 8vo, vii, 160 pp. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, dust-jacket with small tear in backstrip. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1664A: effectively analyses the dramatic conflicts in Blakes early poetry (to 1794) but finds his later Prophecies barren of poetry. 770. Gardner, Stanley. Blake. London: Evans, 1968. Small 8vo, 160 pp. Original gray cloth. $20. First edition, often reprinted. Bentley, Blake Books, 1663A: An elementary straightforward work. 771. [another edition] New York: Arco, 1968. Small 8vo, 160 pp. Original white cloth, pictorial upper cover. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 1663B. 772. Gardner, Stanley. Blakes Innocence and Experience Retraced. London: Athlone Press; New York: St. Martins Press, 1986. 8vo, xviii, 211 pp. 16 leaves of plates, illus. $35. Original green cloth in dust-jacket. As new. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 482: A critical examination illuminatingly informed 773. Gardner, Stanley. The Tyger the Lamb and the Terrible Desart: Songs of Innocence and of Experience in Its Times and Circumstance. Including Facsimiles of Two Copies. Madison and Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. 8vo, xi, 256 pp. Illustrated. Brown cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $50. First edition. Perhaps the first time the Songs have been printed in a colored and an uncolored version side by side in good quality reproductions. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 22. 774. Gaunt, William. Arrows of Desire: A Study of William Blake and his Romantic World. London: Museum Press, 1956. 8vo, 200 pp. Frontispiece and 16 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1671: this superficial book. 775. George, Diana Hume. Blake and Freud. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. 8vo, 253 pp. 8 illustrations. Brown cloth in printed dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 483: as much a reconsideration of Freud as it is of Blake (jacket blurb).

Biography and Criticism 776. Gillham, D. G. Blakes Contrary States: The Songs of Innocence and of Experience as Dramatic Poems. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1966. 8vo, vii, [1], 257 [258] pp. Green cloth, dust-jacket. Kay Long inscribed to front free endpaper along with notes in her hand throughout text. Very good. $35. Bentley, Blake Books, 1688. 777. [another copy] Green cloth. $25. Press, 1959. 8vo, xii, 322 pp. Ink annotations throughout. Brown cloth in printed dust-jacket, light tears along edges. Some shelf wear. Good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1702: An intelligent critical study. 784. Gleckner, Robert F. Blakes Prelude: Poetical Sketches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 8vo, xi, 202 pp. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 487. 785. Gleckner, Robert F. Blake and Spenser. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. 8vo, xi, 403 pp. Pencil markings in margins. White cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket, some wrinkling to edges. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 486: A densely argued critical work. 786. Gleckner, Robert F. and Mark L. Greenberg. Approaches to teaching Blakes Songs of Innocence and of Experience. New York: Modern Language Association, 1989. 8vo, xvi, 162 pp. Original wrappers. $10. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 48889. 787. Glen, Heather. Vision and Disenchantment. Blakes Songs and Wordsworths Lyrical Ballads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 8vo, ix, 399 pp. Paperback. $15. First edition of this examination of Romanticism in Blake and Wordsworth. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 490. 788. Godard, Jerry Caris. Mental Forms Creating: William Blake Anticipates Freud, Jung and Rank. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1985. 8vo, 173 pp. Frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Printed wrappers. Light shelf wear. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 490: Blake is dealt with particularly in chapters on his anticipation of Freud, Jung, and Rank (as the title suggests). 789. Goddard, Harold C. Blakes Fourfold Vision. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1965. Small 8vo, 38 pp. Frontispiece reproduction of Blakes Book of Job. Stapled yellow printed wrappers. Very good. $5. Reprint. A Pendle Hill Pamphlet, Number 86. Bentley, Blake Books, 1706. 97

778. Gillham, D.G. William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Presss, 1973. 8vo, x, 216 pp. Original wrappers. $15. First edition, in the British Authors Introductory Critical Series. Bentley, Blake Books, A1688 on page 974. 779. Ginsberg, Alan. Your Reason and Blakes System. Madras and New York: Hanuman Books, 1992. 12mo, 45 pp. Color illustrations from Blake. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine. $10. Second printing, first issued in 1988. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 485. 780. Givone, Sergio. William Blake, Arte e Religione. Milano: Mursia, 1978. 8vo, 210 pp. Printed wrappers. Minor wear. Very good. $10. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 485. 781. Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. The Dimensions of Job: A Study and Selected Readings. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. 8vo, x, 310 pp. Red, black and orange wrappers. Mild wear. Very good. $10. First paperback edition. A collection of 32 essays divided into sections: In the Judaic Tradition; In the Christian Tradition; In the Humanist Vein; The Issues of Theodicy; The Ways of God are a Mystery; Job as a Lesson in Faith. The essays are reprinted from other sources and include G.K. Chesterton, Soren Kierkegaard, G.W.F. Hegel, Archibald MacLeish, Martin Buber, Ernest Renan, etc. Blake is on pages 3941. 782. Glausser, Wayne. Locke and Blake: A Conversation Across the Eighteenth Century. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998. 8vo, 201 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering. As new. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 22. 783. Gleckner, Robert F. The Piper and the Bard: A Study of William Blake. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University

William Blake Catalogue 790. Goldsmith, Steven. Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1993. 8vo, xiv; 324 pp. Green printed wrappers. Appears unread. Near fine. $10. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 491. 791. Goslee, Nancy Moore. Uriels Eye: Miltonic Stationing and Statuary in Blake, Keats, and Shelley. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1985. 8vo, xiii, 262 pp. Yellow cloth in yellow printed dustjacket. As new. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 491: Blake transforms Milton from speaker and witness to sculptor. 792. Gourlay, Alexander S., ed. Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002. 8vo, xxxiii; 396 pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $35. First edition. Locust Hill Literary Series, Number 33. Essays by Behrendt, Davies, Ferber, Frost, Gourlay, McClenahan, Mee, Michael, Otto, Paley, Rosso, Spector, and Squibb. 793. Grant, John E., ed. Discussions of William Blake. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1961. 8vo, xi, 114 pp. Printed wrappers. Light edgewear. 13 essays on William Blake. Very good. $10. First edition. Discussions of Literature series. Bentley, Blake Books, 1724, noting that 4 of the essays were revised for this printing and the others are reprinted from other sources. Authors include Frye, Erdman, Fisher, Adams, Van Doren, Nurmi, Kuralis, etc. 794. Greenberg, Mark L., ed. Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blakes Poetical Sketches. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 8vo, 221 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $20. First edition. Contributors are Wolfson, Peterfreund, Vogler, de Luca, Hilton, and Gleckner. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 23. 795. Grimes, Ronald L. The Divine Imagination: William Blakes Major Prophetic Visions. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1972. 8vo, 199 pp. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $30. ATLA Monograph Series No. 1. Bentley, Blake Books, A1755. 796. Hagstrum, Jean H. William Blake Poet and Painter: An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, [1964]. 8vo, xi [xii], 156 pp. 80 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket soiled and torn, light extremity wear to covers. $45. Bentley, Blake Books, 1770: on the relationship of text and design. This is the first study in any depth of text/design relationships in the illuminated books. 797. Hagstrum, Jean H. The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1968. 8vo, 337 pp. 32 plates, frontispiece. Blue cloth with black letters to front, rear and backstrip. Very good. $20. Third Impression. Blake gets a brief mention under Gray. Hagstrum was a respected scholar who wrote several books and articles on Blake. 798. Hagstrum, Jean H. Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 8vo, xiv, 350 pp. 32 blackand-white plates. Red quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket, sunfading to backstrip. Some edgewear. Very good. $20. First edition, with numerous references to Blake. Not in Bentley, who mentions several other works by Hagstrum including others on sex and sexuality in Blake. 799. Hamblen, Emily S. On the Minor Prophecies of William Blake. With an Introduction by S. Foster Damon. London: Dent, [1930]. Thick 8vo, xiii, 395 pp. Original red cloth, dust-jacket, fine. $25. First edition, uncommon in dust-jacket. A most eccentric book, surprisingly with S. Foster Damon lending a hand: she had deliberately avoided reading any of those recent writers who also have attempted a complete inquiry [into Blake] and she had been assisted by visitations from the dead. The result is as might be expected. Bentley, Blake Books, 1780. 800. Hamblen, Emily S. Interpretation of William Blakes Job: Its Ancient Wisdom and Mystic Ways. New York: Occult Research Press, [ca. 1939]. 8vo, 35 pp. Dark red printed wrappers. Very light edgewear. Very good. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 1779: describes each plate in her own inimitably wise and mystic way, though there are no reproductions.

Biography and Criticism 801. Harper, George Mills. The Neoplatonism of William Blake. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. 8vo, xvi, 324 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Taylor the Platonist. Gilt-lettered olive green cloth, dustjacket. $40. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1793: occasionally persuasive arguments that Blake was extensively and deeply indebted to Plato and to Thomas Taylor. 802. Harris, Eugenia. The Poetry of William Blake. New York: Monarch Press, 1966. 8vo, 111 pp. Stapled printed black and red wrappers with light wrinkle to backstrip edge. Pages browned. Price of $1 printed to upper corner of front wrapper. Very good. $5. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1798. 803. Heppner, Christopher. Reading Blakes Designs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo, xvi, 302 pp. 14 color plates and 72 black-and-white illustrations. White cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $50. First edition of this substantial study, a new assessment and interpretation of Blake as illustrator of texts other than his own (jacket blurb). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 23. 804. Hilton, Nelson. Literal Imagination: Blakes Vision of Words. California University Press, 1983. Large 8vo, xvi, 319 pp. With 83 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition of this philological study based on the authors 1979 dissertation. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 507. 805. Hilton, Nelson and Thomas A. Vogler, eds. Unnamd Forms: Blake and Textuality. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. 8vo, xiii, 267 pp. Frontispiece and 27 illustrations throughout. Pencil annotations. Blue cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 508: Derrida is a starting point for many of these [10] essays. 806. Hirsch, E.D. Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Small 8vo, 335 pp. Original green cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1853: A psychologicalbiographical critique somewhat uncertain scholarship. 807. Hirst, Desire. Hidden Riches: Traditional Symbolism from the Renaissance to Blake. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964. 8vo, xv, [1], 348 pp., 8 plates and 14 figures in the text. $25. First edition, with two typed letters and a postcard from Hirst to the Eassons. Bentley, Blake Books, 1855A: on alchemical and mystical symbolism, largely. 808. Hobson, Christopher Z. Blake and Homosexuality. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2000. 8vo, 249 pp. Illustrated. Full cloth with red illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $35. First edition. Hobson had previously published or edited two books on Blake. 809. Hobson, Christopher Z. The Chained Boy: Orc and Blakes Idea of Revolution. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999. 8vo, 412 pp. Blue cloth in light blue dust-jacket. Mild edgewear. Some pencil annotations throughout. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 24. 810. Hofer, Philip. An Illustration by William Blake for the Circle of the Traitors, Dantes Inferno, Canto XXXII. Meriden, CT: Meriden Gravure Company, 1954. Oblong 4to, 6 pp. and 3 plates. In sewn salmon-colored printed wrappers. Very good to near fine. $30. Limited edition of 400 printed by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Bentley, Blake Books, 1867. 811. Holloway, John. Blake. The Lyric Poetry. London: Edward Arnold, 1968. 8vo, 79 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. $10. First paperback edition. Studies in English Literature number 34. Bentley, Blake Books, 1875: an interesting brief introduction. 812. Howard, John. Infernal Poetics: Poetic Structures in Blakes Lambeth Prophecies. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. 8vo, 259 pp. With 53 illustrations. Cloth in yellow dust-jacket. Minor edgewear. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 516: an attempt to focus on the way Blake used language and illustration to gain meaning. 813. Howard, John. Blakes Milton: A Study in Selfhood. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1976. 8vo, 300 pp.

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William Blake Catalogue Green cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket, some staining. Pencil annotations. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 51516. A discussion of Blakes view of the relationship of the material creation and the spiritual world. 814. Jackson, Wallace. The Probable and the Marvelous: Blake, Wordsworth, and the Eighteenth-Century Tradition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978. 8vo, vi, 218 pp. Original blue cloth, pale blue dust-jacket, as new. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 524. (Sometimes, Bentley gives the author and then the title of the chapter about Blake, with the title of the book itself coming later in his entry.) 815. James, David E. Written Within and Without: A Study of Blakes Milton. Frankfurt [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1977. 8vo, 187 pp. Original illustrated white wrappers, a good copy. $50. First edition of this rare book which may have been a Ph.D. thesis. It is volume 54, series 14, of European University Papers on Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 525. 816. James, Laura DeWitt. William Blake and the Tree of Life. Berkeley: Shambhala, 1971. 8vo, 126 pp., illustrated. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $20. First Shambhala edition. First issued in 1956 as The Finger on the Furnace. Bentley, Blake Books, 1949B. 817. Jenkins, Herbert. William Blake: Studies of his Life and Personality. Edited with an introduction by C.E. Lawrence. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Small 8vo, 110 pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth, stamped in black. Pages deckled. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1958: a collection of Jenkins articles on Blake. 818. John, Brian. Supreme Fictions: Studies in the Work of William Blake, Thomas Carlyle, W.B. Yeats, and D.H. Lawrence. Montreal and London: McGillQueens University Press, 1974. 8vo, xiv, 318 pp. Dust-jacket, light wear to corners and some sunning at backstrip. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, B1960: The vitalism central to Carlyle, Yeats, and Lawrence is expressed most plainly in The Marriage. 819. [another copy] Dust-jacket, light wear to corners and some sunning at backstrip. $20. Presentation inscription to Desire Hirst from the author. 820. Jordan, Frank, ed. The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1985. 8vo, xiii, 765 pp. Blue printed wrappers. Some edgewear. Ink signature of Roger Easson to title-page. Very good. $10. Fourth edition. The chapter on William Blake is by Mary Lynn Johnson. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 528: Dense, comprehensive, and valuable. 821. Jugaku, Bunsho. A Bibliographical Study of William Blakes Notebook. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1953. 4to, 175 pp., illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $45. Scarce work by the Japanese scholar. Bentley, Blake Books, 1970A: meticulous transcript. 822. [another edition] New York: Haskell House, 1971. 4to, 175 pp., illustrations Original cloth. $25. Bentley, Blake Books, 1970B. 823. Kaplan, Fred. Miracles of Rare Device: The Poets Sense of Self in Nineteenth Century Poetry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972. 8vo, 191 pp. Some pencil underlining to first pages. Cloth boards with printed dust-jacket. Mild edgewear and a few closed tears. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1984B: chapter 1 is From Blake to Browning and chapter 2 is Blakes Artist. Numerous other references to Blake throughout. 824. Keynes, Geoffrey. To Geoffrey Keynes. Articles contributed to The Book Collector to Commemorate his Eightyfifth Birthday. London: The Book Collector, 1972. 8vo, 112 pp. Printed wrappers, slightly sunned. $35. A pleasant and educational festschrift with essays by Blake scholars of the time. Includes Keynes own article, Blakes Engravings for Gays Fables with 12 plates. Bentley, Blake Books, 2015B. 825. Keynes, Geoffrey. Blake Studies: Notes on His Life and Works in Seventeen Chapters. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. Large 8vo, xiii, 208 pp. With 5 figures, 8 electrotypes and 48 plates. Green cloth, dust-jacket with a couple of tears, a very good copy. $50. First edition, reprinted in 1971 with revisions. Presentation copy inscribed by Rupert Hart-Davis to Roger Senhouse with a quote from Laocoon. Also loose-

Biography and Criticism ly inserted a 2-page ALS from Keynes to Easson about a visit. Bentley, Blake Books, 2010A. 826. [another copy] Green cloth. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A2080: considers Blakes unifying mythology of the Four Zoas resurrection as an appropriation of the imagination. 833. Langridge, Irene. William Blake: A Study of his Life and Work. London: Bell, 1904. 8vo, xii, 198 pp. With 50 plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Some edgewear, especially to head of backstrip. Very good. $30. First edition of one of the first books about Blake by a woman. Bentley, Blake Books, 2098. 834. Larrissy, Edward. William Blake. Preface by Terry Eagleton. Rereading Literature series edited by Terry Eagleton. [Oxford]: Basil Blackwell, [1985]. 8vo, xi [xii xvi], 166 pp. Original wrappers, new. $10. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 54445. 835. LaValley, Albert J. Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern: Studies in Carlyles Prophetic Literature and its Relation to Blake, Nietzsche, Marx, and others. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968. 8vo, 351 pp. Brown cloth with illustrated dust-jacket, closed tears along top edge. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2104. 836. Leader, Zachary. Reading Blakes Songs. Boston, London, and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 8vo, xxiii, [1], 259 pp. Dust-jacket with minor wear. $25. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 546. 837. Lindsay, Jack. William Blake: Creative Will and the Poetic Image. London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Small slim 8vo, (6), 55, (1) pp. Illustrations in the text by Lindsay. Original boards, cloth backstrip. Fine copy. $125. A scarce little book by the well-known Australian poet and artist Lindsay. Bentley, Blake Books, 2131A notes: A highly personal and impressionistic effort to define the condition of mind his work represents, and to expose its psychological machinery. 838. Lindsay, Jack. William Blake: His Life and Work. London: Constable, 1978. 8vo, xvii, 334 pp. With 20 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $15. First edition, a very good copy. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 552: A biography for the general reader with few pretensions to originality except for assertive analogies with religious and political radicals.

827. [another edition] Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. 4to, xii, 263 pp. With a frontispiece and 55 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket, a very good copy. $45. Second edition, greatly enlarged and revised. An important collection of essays even though some of the scholarship has been superseded. Bentley, Blake Books, 2010B. 828. Keynes, Geoffrey. William Blakes Laughing Song: A New Version. A Note by Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1969. 4to, [iv, 4]. Gray wrappers. $15. Presentation copy, shakily inscribed in ink on the front blank by Keynes and dated November, 1969. Bentley, Blake Books, 2047B. 829. Keynes, Geoffrey. The Gates of Memory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. 8vo, xi, [1], 428 pp. Abundantly illustrated throughout, mostly from photographs. Dust-jacket with slight wear. $15. First edition of Keynes autobiography, with much on Blake, the Blake Trust, book collecting, and the extraordinary Keynes family. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 534. 830. King, James. William Blake, His Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1991. 8vo, xviii, 263 pp. With a frontispiece, 21 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. As new. $15. First edition, well illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 535. 831. Korteling, Jacomina. Mysticism in Blake and Wordsworth. New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 174 pp. Bright pink cloth with gilt to backstrip. Very good. $20. First published in 1928. Bentley, Blake Books, 2077, dismissing the text as too general in its broad definition of mysticism. Bentley, Blake Books, 2077B on page 982. 832. Kremen, Kathryn R. The Imagination of the Resurrection: The Poetic Continuity of a Religious Motif in Donne, Blake, and Yeats. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1972. 8vo, 344 pp. 20 plates. Black cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Minor signs of use. Very good. $25.

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William Blake Catalogue 839. Lindberg, Bo. William Blakes Illustrations to the Book of Job. Abo: Abo Akademi, 1973. 8vo, 362 pp., 144 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. $200. First edition. Important and very scarce work by the Finnish scholar. Bentley, Blake Books, A2126: A major work, built round a catalogue raisonn of every Blake design relating to the Biblical Job, including the sources and interpretation of each particularly novel and important. Lindberg also contributed to the Blake Trust Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1987. 840. Lister, Raymond. Beulah to Byzantium: A Study of Parallels in the Works of W.B. Yeats, William Blake, Samuel Palmer, and Edward Calvert. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press, 1965. 8vo, 68 pp. Brown printed wrappers. Minor edgewear. Handwritten letter from Raymond Lister to $30. Easson loosely inserted. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2134: A lecture. 841. Lister, Raymond. William Blake: An Introduction to the Man and to His Work. With a Foreword by Professor G.E. Bentley, Jr. London: Bell, 1968. 8vo, 200 pp., With a color frontispiece and 31 black-and-white plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2137: A responsible introduction for the general reader. 842. [another edition] New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1969. 8vo, 200 pp. With a color frontispiece and 31 black-and-white plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Four sheets of handwritten letters from Lister loosely inserted. Very good. $20. First American edition. 843. Lister, Raymond. Infernal Methods: A Study of William Blakes Art Techniques. London: G. Bell, 1975. 8vo, xii, 102 pp. With 4 color plates and 66 illustrations. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $20. First edition of this important study. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 55253: brief conventional text on engraving, painting, colour-prints and the illuminated books. 844. Lister, Raymond. The Paintings of William Blake. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 4to, 176 pp., with 75 color plates. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $35. First edition of this important selection, well printed and produced. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182. 102 845. Lord, John. William Blake, Private Printer. Leistershire, England: Brewhouse Press, 1972. 4to. 8 pp. and 4 loose plates. Illustrated throughout. Original black and green pictorial wrappers with gilt-stamped title to front cover. Foldout text. Very good. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 2143. 846. Lowery, Margaret Ruth. Windows of the Morning. A Critical Study of William Blakes Poetical Sketches, 1783. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. 8vo, xi, 249 pp. Original printed wrappers as issued. $125. First edition, hard to find. Bentley, Blake Books, 2150A: This pioneering study of the sources of Blakes earliest poetry uses a large number of previously unnoticed contemporary references to Blake 847. [another edition] Archon Books, 1970. 8vo, xi, 249 pp. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. $50. Bentley, Blake Books, 2150B. 848. Lucas, John. William Blake. London and New York: Longman, 1998. 8vo, ix, 210 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $15. First edition. Longman Critical Readers Series. 11 essays on Blake from various sources, including Thompson, Erdman, Mee, Raine, Webster, Norvig, etc. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 27. 849. MacDonald, Greville. The Sanity of William Blake. With Six Illustrations of Blakes Drawings. New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 59 pp. 6 illustrations. Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. $25. Reprint of a talk originally published in 1908. Bentley, Blake Books, 2168: The thesis of this amusing lecture is that Blake had an especially sane kind of insanity. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 556 issue E. 850. Makdisi, Saree. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 8vo, xviii, 394 pp. 28 illustrations. Underlined and annotated in ink. Good. $15. First paperback edition. 851. Manning, Sylvia. Images of the City: London in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. New York: Harper and Row, 1974. 8vo, 52 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. $10. An exploration of the nearly uniformly negative image

Biography and Criticism of the city in literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes a look at William Blake on pp. 1011. 852. Masterman, C.M. Essays (Second Series). London: Jarrolds, [1930]. Small 8vo, 190 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Some foxing to endpapers. Very good. $30. First edition. pp. 15462: A Few Remarks on William Blake noting his insanity but also studying his intense spirituality and sexual sensuality rarely found in a mystic. Not found in Bentley. 853. Mee, John. Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 8vo, x [xixvi], 251 pp., 8 plates. Dust-jacket with light wear. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 571. 854. Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. Blakes Human Form Divine. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, [1974]. 8vo, xxiii, [1], 354 pp., 87 illustrations. Dust-jacket with edges darkened and several small $30. chips, light staining to fore-edges of a few pages. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A2211: assertive discussion of The conflict between his philosophical rejection of the human body and his aesthetic glorification of the human figure. A controversial book highly regarded by some scholars despite Erdmans criticism. 855. Miller, Dan, Mark Bracher and Donald Ault, eds. Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1987. 8vo, 380 pp. With 12 illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Some underlining and annotations throughout. Very good. $10. Paperback. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 574, listing the essays at length. 856. Milosz, Czeslaw. The Land of Ulro. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. 8vo, 287 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. Second printing. References Blake several times, as well as Swedenborg, Dostoevsky, Weil, etc. See Foster Damons Blake Dictionary for a description of Ulro, the material world. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 575. 857. Mitchell, W.J.T. Blakes Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1978]. 8vo, xix, [232] pp. 112 illus. Original orange cloth, light edgewear. A very good copy in a slightly worn dust-jacket. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2234: traces a dialectic relationship in Thel, Urizen, and Jerusalem. Also: Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 57576, a long note detailing the books contents. 858. Moore, Robert E. and Jean H. Hagstrum. Changing Taste in Eighteenth-Century Art and Literature: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar April 17, 1971. With an Introduction by Earl Miner. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1972. 8vo, 67 pp. 32 plates. Blue printed wrappers warmly inscribed on the front wrapper from Jean (Hagstrum) For Roger and Kay (Easson). With compliments slip laid in along with a handwritten 7 item to do list in the hand of Easson. A very good association copy. $25. 859. Morton, A.L. The Everlasting Gospel: A Study in the Sources of William Blake. New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 64 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. $20. Reprint of the 1958 edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 579 issue B: Blake participates in a radical politico-religious tradition that was most vocal and extreme in the seventeenth century chiefly Ranters, Muggletonians, and other extreme dissenters. 860. Muggeridge, Malcolm. A Third Testament. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Small 4to, 207 pp. 16 Blake plates in color and other black-and-white illustrations. Brown cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Minor edgewear. Very good. $20. First edition. Like Bronowskis Ascent of Man Muggeridge, a well-known TV personality in England, did a TV series on St. Augustine, Pascal, Blake, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, and Bonhoeffer. This is the book that came out of the series. The thrust of his book is the vision all these men shared of their society and its ills, and how they fought against it. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 580. 861. Murry, J. Middleton. William Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. 8vo, 380 pp. Original blue cloth. Cloth faded, slightly cocked, a very good copy. $145. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by Murry on the front free endpaper, dated July 6, 1941, and with an autograph note signed from Murry laid in. Bentley, Blake Books, 2262A: useful if unreliable. 862. [another copy] Cloth faded; a very good copy. $50.

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William Blake Catalogue 863. [another edition] London and Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1936. 8vo, 380 pp. Original green cloth. Cloth faded; a very good copy. $20. Reissue. Bentley, Blake Books, 2262B. 864. Nathan, Norman. Prince William B: The Philosophical Conceptions of William Blake. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1975. 8vo, 164 pp. Paper covers, a little light soiling. $15. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 585 issue B. 865. Nelson, Cary. The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. 8vo, 285 pp. 28 illustrations. Red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket, lightly chipped. Some pencil underlining. Kay Parkhurst Easson August 1973 in ink to upper corner of front free $15. endpaper. Very good. First edition. Chapter 6 is Blakes Jerusalem: a fourfold vision of the human body. Bentley, Blake Books, D2278 on page 986. 866. Nesfield-Cookson, Bernard. William Blake: Prophet of Universal Brotherhood. Foreword by Sir George Trevelyan. [Great Britain]: Crucible, The Aquarian Press, 1987. 8vo, 480 pp. Paper covers, very light wear. $45. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 58586. 867. Newton, Eric. The Romantic Rebellion. London: Longman, 1962. 8vo, 224 pp. Numerous black-and-white illustrations, one by Blake (Pity). Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Minor signs of use. Very good. $25. First edition. Not much on Blake but an interesting short section comparing him to Turner, and a few other references. Newton was an eminent British art historian whose best-known book was The Meaning of Beauty. 868. Nicoll, Allardyce. William Blake and His Poetry. London: Harrap, 1922. Small 8vo, [154] pp. Original gray cloth. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2285: a popular, ill-informed biography 869. [another copy] Half green morocco, rubbed and bumped. $20. 870. Norman, Hubert J. Cowper and Blake. A Paper read Olney: Wright, [1913]. Small 8vo, 62 pp. With the portrait of Cowper by Blake after Romney reproduced. Original beige cloth lettered in gilt, slight wear, portrait loose. $15. Scarce publication probably edited by Wright, mostly about Cowper. Bentley, Blake Books, 2290A. 871. [another edition] Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1970. Original green buckram lettered in gilt, new. $15. Facsimile reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 2290B. 872. Norvig, Gerda S. Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blakes Illustrations to The Pilgrims Progress. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. Large 8vo, 327 pp. 28 color plates. Black-andwhite frontispiece, 70 black-and-white illustrations in the text and 58 in the appendix. Blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Very good. $35. First edition. The color plates reproduce Blakes watercolors previously reproduced in the 1941 edition published by the Limited Editions Club. This is the first scholarly full-length study and is a beautifully produced book. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 28. 873. Nurmi, Martin K. Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Critical Study. Kent, OH: Kent State University Bulletin, 1957. 8vo, 63 pp. Full buckram. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2296A. 874. Nurmi, Martin. William Blake. London: Hutchinson, 1975. Small 8vo, 175 pp., four plates. Original printed wrappers. $15. First paperback edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A2299 on page 987. 875. [another edition] Kent State University Press, 1976. Original blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. $25. First US edition. This issue not in Bentley. 876. ONeill, Judith, ed. Critics on Blake. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970. Small 8vo, 120 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 2327 lists the over twenty essays, here printed in part or whole from Anon. to Yeats. Readings in Literary Criticism 7. 877. [another edition] Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. Small 8vo, 120 pp. Original decorated brown cloth. Fine. $20. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 594 issue B.

Biography and Criticism 878. Ostriker, Alicia. Vision and Verse in William Blake. Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. 8vo, x [xixiv], 224 pp. Black cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. $25. Bentley, Blake Books, 2335: a sensitive and responsible commentary on Blakes prosody. 879. Otto, Peter. Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity, and the Production of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 8vo, 244 pp. Three full-page Illustrations. Blue cloth with printed green dust-jacket. Very light edgewear. Very good. $50. First edition. This book focuses on the tension in Blakes poetry between a hermeneutics of suspicion and a hermeneutics of belief: it offers a new account of the way in which the major prophecies work and of the strategems they employ to consolidate error and so open their readers eyes to alterity. Central to this reading is a re-definition of the role of Los and Jesus in Blakes work (jacket blurb). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 596. 880. Owens, Norah. William Blake and Felpham (1800 1803). West Sussex: Bognor Regis Local History Society, 1986. 8vo, xiv, 21 pp. Illustrated. Stapled blue wrappers. Some creasing and wear. With Compliments signed by author and slip loosely inserted. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 597: a responsible account of Blake at Felpham, with some useful local minute particulars and 22 plates. 881. Paananen, Victor N. William Blake. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 8vo, xxi; 185 pp. Five full-page black-and-white plates, including frontispiece. Full red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $30. Twaynes English Authors Series. Updated edition, originally published in 1977. See Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 597: brief introductory account of the writings, mostly by paraphrase and summary of them. 882. Pagliaro, Harold. Selfhood and Redemption in Blakes Songs. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. 8vo, xiv, 161 pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 598: a reading of Songs as a basis for a sense of Blakes psychology of redemption. 883. Paley, Morton D., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. 8vo, 115 pp. Dark cloth. Printed dust-jacket. Text with ink annotations and underlining, mostly in the introduction. Good. $25. First edition of this collection of essays by Adams, Bloom, Damon, Erdman, Frye, Gleckner, Price, Nurmi, Wicksteed, Schorer, Ostriker, and Paley. Bentley, Blake Books, A2349. 884. [another copy] Printed wrappers. Text with ink annotations and underlining, mostly in the introduction. Good. $15. First paperback edition. 885. Paley, Morton D. Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blakes Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 8vo, [xiii], 272 pp. 8 plates. Blue cloth in orange illustrated dust-jacket with edgewear. Ink $20. annotations. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2347: incorporates revised versions of Paleys articles on The Mental Traveller, Ahania, and The Tyger, and apparently his doctoral dissertation as well. 886. Paley, Morton D. and Michael Phillips. William Blake: Essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1973. 4to, xiv, 390 pp. With 82 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 598. An important collection of essays, now hard to find. 887. Paley, Morton D. William Blake. Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. 4to, 192 pp. With 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $45. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue A. 888. Paley, Morton D. William Blake. Stuttgart, Berlin, Kln, Mainz: W. Kohlhammer, 1978. 4to, 194 pp. 116 illustrations. Black cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Cardboard slipcase with minor edgewear. Text in German. Book as new. $30. First edition in German. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue B. 889. Paley, Morton D. The Apocalyptic Sublime. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 4to, 196 pp. With seven 105

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William Blake Catalogue color and 85 black-and-white illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. $45. First edition, an uncommon study of apocalyptic subjects in British art including a chapter on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 598. 890. Paley, Morton D. William Blake and Dr. Thorntons Tory Translation of the Lords Prayer. [West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002]. 8vo, pp. 26386. Offprint, stapled. $15. Scarce article by Paley on the marginalia written by Blake in 1827 in Thorntons edition of The Lords Prayer, Newly Translated Inscribed by Paley to Essick: (from the Grant festschrift) for Bob, with thanks, Morton. Paley is referring to Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in honor of John E. Grant, edited by Alexander S. Gourlay (see item 792). 891. Paley, Morton D. The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo, 332 pp. with 38 black-and-white illustrations. Dark blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $35. First edition. Paleys latest book on Blake looks at Thorntons Virgil with Blakes only wood engravings, Laocoon, The Divine Comedy, The Book of Job, Genesis, Enoch, The Lords Prayer, the visionary heads, etc. 892. Percival, Milton O. William Blakes Circle of Destiny. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938. 8vo, viii, 334 pp. 11 illustrations and frontispiece. Green cloth with gilt set in green backstrip label. Lightly soiled covers. Ink name to front free endpaper. Pages clean. Very good. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2379A: This illuminating study of Blakes mythology is particularly useful for the Blakean sources and analogies it points to in alchemical, Biblical, and Kabbalistic literature. 893. [another edition] Red cloth with gilt design on front cover and lettering to backstrip. Very good. $25. Stated second Octagon printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 2379C. 894. Peterfreund, Stuart. William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Science. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. 8vo, xv, 255 pp. 8 illustrations. Black cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 29. Assesses Blakes relationship with various currents of the counter-Enlightenment (jacket blurb). 895. Phillips, Michael. William Blake The Creation of the Songs. From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 8vo, xi, 180 pp. Illustrated. Original paperback, new. $10. First American edition. Concentrates on the manuscript changes leading to the etched versions. 896. Phillips, Michael, ed. Interpreting Blake. Essays selected and edited by Michael Phillips. London, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, [1978]. 8vo, ix [x], 269 pp., 20 illustrations in the text. Dust-jacket with a bit of wear. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 60304. 897. Pierce, John B. The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 8vo, 188 pp. Illustrated. Full blue cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip, with illustrated dust-jacket. Minor edgewear and some wrinkling to dust-jacket. Some underlining in pencil in the preface. Very good. $45. 898. Pinto, Vivian de Sola, ed. The Divine Vision. Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, born November 28, 1757. With an introductory poem by Walter de la Mare. London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. 8vo, 216 pp., folding frontispiece and 8 plates. Dust-jacket soiled and in several pieces, backstrip area lacking; light extremity wear to cloth with small, unobtrusive dampstain to foot of backstrip cover. $35. First edition. Ownership signature of Desire Hirst. Bentley, Blake Books, 2402A. 899. [another edition] New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1968. 8vo, 216 pp., lacking frontispiece, with 8 plates throughout text. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $15. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books, 2402B. 900. Pinto, Vivian de Sola. William Blake, Isaac Watts, and Mrs. Barbauld. [London, 1957]. 8vo, (2), pp. 6787. Red wrappers hand-lettered. $15. Offprint of Pintos essay in The Divine Vision, inscribed by Pinto to Kenneth Hopkins. Bentley, Blake Books, 2402A.

Biography and Criticism 901. Plowman, Max. An Introduction to the Study of Blake. London: Dent, 1927. Small 8vo, 183 pp. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Original green cloth. $40. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2421A. 902. [another edition] London: Gollancz, 1952. Small 8vo, 183 pp. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Original blue cloth, dustjacket. $40. Reprint of the 1927 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2421B. 903. [another edition] New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1967. Small 8vo, [160] pp. 8 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. $15. First US edition. Reprint of the 1927 edition, with a new introduction by R.H. Ward. Bentley, Blake Books, 2421C. 904. Powys, John Cowper. William Blake. London: Village Press, 1974. Slim small 8vo, 14 pp. Original purple wrappers. $15. Reprint of the US 1923 edition. Scarce. Bentley, Blake Books, 2447C on page 990. 905. Preston, Kerrison. Blake and Rossetti. London: Alexander Moring Limited, The De la More Press, 1944. 8vo, 111 pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates. Original blue cloth. Wartime paper browned. A very good copy. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2451. 906. [another edition] New York: Haskell House Publishers, Inc., 1971. Large 8vo, 111 pp. 12 illustrations. 3 diagrams. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Light bumping to corners. Very good. $30. Facsimile reprint. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 609 issue B. 907. Punter, David. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Notes by David Punter. London: Longman York Press, 1998. 8vo, 96 pp. Printed wrappers. As new. $10. First edition. York Notes Advanced. Punter is a wellestablished writer on Blake with numerous articles to his creditBentley lists eleven up to 1995. 908. Raine, Kathleen. William Blake. London: Longmans Green for the British Council and the National Book League, 1951. 8vo, 40 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Blake and four plates, illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. Very good. $15. First edition of this study. Bentley, Blake Books, 2491A: not remarkable for accuracy. 909. [another edition] London: Longmans Green for the British Council and the National Book League, 1965. 8vo, 43 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Blake and four plates, illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers bound inside glossy printed boards. Very good. $15. Revised edition of this study. Bentley, Blake Books, 2491C. 910. Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Tradition. Bollingen Series XXXV: 11. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. 2 vols., royal 8vo, xxxii, 428; xi, 370 pp. 194 plates including 11 in color. Original cloth, dust-jackets, boxed as issued. $175. First edition, beautifully produced. Bentley, Blake Books, 2478: a learned and tendentious work. 911. Raine, Kathleen. William Blake. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1970. 8vo, 216 pp. 156 illustrations. Orange cloth with gilt to front and backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with a few closed tears. Some edgewear to cloth. Very good. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2492A: A frequently accurate biographical account, with emphasis on Blakes art. 912. Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Bollingen, 1977. 8vo, 116 pp. With 91 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Fine. $20. An abridgement of Raines Blake and Tradition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 613. 913. Raine, Kathleen. The Human Face of God: William Blake and the Book of Job. [London]: Thames and Hudson, [1982]. Large 8vo, 320 pp., 130 plates. Original maroon cloth. Dust-jacket faded. $45. First edition of this spiritual study of Blakes Book of Job, profusely illustrated. A scarce title. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 61415. 914. Raine, Kathleen. Golgonooza City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1991. 8vo, 182 pp., color illustration on upper cover. Original wrappers, as issued. $35. First American edition. Bentley, Blake Book Supplement, page 614. 915. Rawlinson, Nick. William Blakes Comic Vision. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 8vo, xiii; 292 pp. Gray cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Like new. $35. First edition. fascinating historical research to 107

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William Blake Catalogue demonstrate that comedy was an essential component of Blakes artistic Vision (jacket blurb). 916. Richardson, Alan. Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 17801832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo, 327 pp. Frontispiece. Dark blue cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $50. First edition. With numerous references to Blake. Not in Bentley, but see Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 621 for related essays published earlier. 917. Richey, William. Blakes Altering Aesthetic. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. 8vo, xii; 197 pp. 7 full page black-and-white plates. Purple cloth in printed dustjacket. Like new. $20. First edition, focusing on Blakes shifting attitudes toward the classical and the Gothic (jacket blurb). Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 31. 918. Rienaecker, Victor. William Blake: A Natural Visionary. London: John M. Watkins, 1957. 8vo, 12 pp. Stiff brown stapled wrappers. Some light spotting to title-page. Very good. $15. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A2520. 919. Ringbom, Hakan, ed. Style and Text: Studies Presented to Nils Erik Enkvist. Trelleborg, Sweden: Tryckeri AB Allehanda, 1975. 8vo, 441 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and backstrip. Very good. $30. Essay by Winston Weathers: The Construction of William Blakes The Tyger begins on page 289. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 674. 920. Robertson, W. Graham and Kerrison Preston. William Blake (17571827). The Graham Robertson Collection. Notes on Blakes large painting in tempera The Spiritual Condition of Man. [N.p.], 1949. 4to, 15 pp., 3 plates. Printed wrappers, lightly soiled, slight overall wear. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 2455. 921. Roe, A.S. Blakes Illustrations to the Divine Comedy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. Large 4to, 219 pp.; 105 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $45. First edition, third printing. Bentley, Blake Books, 2543C: a very sound study. 922. [another copy] Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971. Original blue cloth. Very good. $20. 923. Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon. Providence, [RI]: Brown University Press, 1969. 8vo, xlvi, 498 pp. Frontispiece and 31 plates. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (some closed tears especially along backstrip edge). Bookplate on front free endpaper. Very good. $75. First edition of this compilation of 22 essays by the most renowned Blake scholars of the time. Bentley, Blake Books, 2565 lists the essays in full, over 3 pages. 924. [another copy] Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (stained on upper cover). $75. 925. Rossetti, William Michael. Letters of William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake, and Shelley, to Anne Gilchrist and her son Herbert Gilchrist. New York: AMS Press, 1968. 8vo, 201 pp. Full red cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Very slight signs of wear and use. A very good $45. copy. Reprint of 1934 edition. Scarce. Bentley, Blake Books, 2574B. 926. Rosso, George Anthony, Jr. Blakes Prophetic Workshop: A Study of the Four Zoas. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1993. 8vo, 208 pp. 9 black-andwhite plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dustjacket with minor edgewear. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 627: examines the formal and social dimensions of The Four Zoas. 927. Rosso, G.A. and Daniel P. Watkins, eds. Spirits of Fire: English Romantic Writers and Contemporary Historical Methods. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1990. 8vo, 293 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Purple illustrated dust-jacket with mild edgewear. Very good. $20. First edition. Part three includes two essays on Blake, Rosso on The Four Zoas and Catherine McClenahan on Women and Gender in Blakes Pickering Manuscript. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 627 and 567 (McClenahans essay).

Biography and Criticism 928. Rothenberg, Molly Anne. Rethinking Blakes Textuality. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1993. 8vo, x, 164 pp. Blue cloth with illustrated dustjacket. Some pencil underlining. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 22. 929. Rudd, Margaret. Organizd Innocence: The Story of Blakes Prophetic Books. London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1956. 8vo, xv, 266 pp. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, dustjacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2586 (and see 2585). 930. Rudd, Margaret. Divided Image: A Study of William Blake and W.B. Yeats. New York: Haskell House, 1970. 8vo, 239 pp. Orange cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $15. Reprint. First published in 1953. Bentley, Blake Books, 2585B. 931. Sabri-Tabrizi, G.R. The Heaven and Hell of William Blake. New York: International Publishers, 1973. 8vo, xiii, 348 pp. 18 black-and-white illustrations and color frontispiece. Blue cloth, brightly illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A2611: emphasis upon Blakes consistent materialism and his social context. 932. Saurat, Denis. Blake and Milton. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965. 8vo, 159 pp. Original green cloth, very good. $25. First US edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2652B. 933. Saurat, Denis. Blake and Modern Thought. New York: Russell and Russell, 1964. 8vo, [xv]; 200 pp. Frontispiece and 7 collotype plates. Original green cloth, very good. $25. First US edition. Bentley 2654B: provocative study very useful 934. Schorer, Mark. William Blake: The Politics of Vision. New York: Holt, 1946. 8vo, xvi, 524 pp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket with chipping and a closed tear in the middle of the back. Very good. $40. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2672A: an important examination of the radical element in Blakes poetry and society. 935. Selincourt, Basil de. William Blake. London: Duckworth, 1909. 8vo, xi, 298 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 39 plates. Original red cloth stamped in gilt. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1480A. 936. [another copy] Quarter leather with blue cloth. Some wear to hinges. Very good. $45. 937. [another edition] New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1971. 8vo, xi, 298 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 39 plates. Original orange cloth. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1480B. 938. Short, Ernest H. William Blake. British Artists edited by S.C. Kaines Smith, M.A. London: Philip Allan and Co., 1925. Small 8vo, vi, 167 pp. 8 illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering to cover and backstrip. Covers embossed with geometric pattern. Spine sunned. Red ribbon bookmark. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2702A: a surprisingly informative little book. 939. [another edition] New York: Frederick Stokes, [1925]. Small 8vo, [viii], 167 pp. With a frontispiece and seven plates. Original red cloth. $35. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 639 issue B. 940. Singer, June. The Unholy Bible: A Psychological Interpretation of William Blake. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1970. 8vo, xvi, 270 pp. 24 plates and frontispiece. Red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $40. First edition. Inscribed and signed to Kay and Roger Easson on title-page. With a TLS from Singer to the Eassons in 1980 asking for their help in getting The Unholy Bible reprinted. It was reprinted in 2000 under a new title: Blake, Jung, and the Collective Unconscious, with a new preface. Bentley, Blake Books, 2707. 941. Singer, June. Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jungs Psychology. New York: Doubleday, 1973. Small 8vo, xxxv, 479 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. $15. First edition. Signed by the author on half-title. With several references to Blake. 942. Singer, June. Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality. New York: Doubleday, 1976. 8vo, viii, 375 pp. Quarter leather with paper-covered boards. Illustrated dust-jacket with a few closed tears. Very good. $20. First edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. With several references to Blake. 109

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William Blake Catalogue 943. Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 8vo, xvi, 289 pp. Red printed wrappers. Edgewear. Ink underlining. Kay Parkhurst Easson in ink to front free endpaper. Very good. $10. Third impression. Includes a study of Blakes Auguries of Innocence and The Clod and the Pebble. 944. Solomon, Andrew. Blakes Job: A Message for our Time. London: Palamabron Press, 1993. 8vo, viii, 86 pp. 21 black-and-white plates and title-page. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. First edition, a plate-by-plate analysis. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 33. 945. Soupault, Philippe. William Blake. Masters of Modern Art. London: John Lane, 1928. Small 4to, 61 pp., 40 plates. Original blue cloth. $25. Translated by J. Lewis May. Bentley, Blake Books, 2726B: The plates include all the engravings for The Grave and 14 for Youngs Night Thoughts. The essay is factually unreliable but it criticizes Blakes art usefully. 946. Speirs, John. Poetry Towards Novel. New York: New York University Press, 1971. 8vo, 336 pp. Black cloth. Gilt to backstrip. Blue printed dustjacket. Some soiling and sunning to backstrip. Few closed tears. Very good. $20. First edition of this study of language especially in 18thand 19th-century poets response to Shakespeare: obviously with much on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, A2733. 947. Spicer, H.O. The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blakes use of Biblical Typology in the Minor Prophecies. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1962. 8vo, 198 pp. Dark blue paper wrappers. Title and author typed in sticker affixed to front. Facsimile of doctoral dissertation submitted to Indiana University. Very good. $20. Facsimile edition of doctoral dissertation. Bentley, Blake Books, 2735. 948. Stedman, John Gabriel. The Journal Including an authentic Account of his Expedition to Surinam, in 1772. Edited by Stanbury Thompson. London: Mitre Press, 1962. 8vo, xxiv, 437 pp. With a portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, and 5 illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, dust-jacket a bit worn and chipped at edges, very good. $35. First edition of the journal, which was published in 1796 by Johnson as Narrative, of a Five Years Expedition, 110 against the revolted Negroes of Surinam with 16 plates engraved by Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2749. 949. (Stedman) Thompson, Stanbury. John Gabriel Stedman: A Study of His Life and Times. Stapleford: Thompson and Co., 1966. 8vo, 139 pp. 9 plates In halftone and 6 illustrations in the text and 2 folding charts. Red cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Some wear. Lightly soiled and worn illustrated dust-jacket. Few small closed tears. Very good. $20. First edition. One glancing reference to Blake noting that Stedman sent Blake and Johnson (his publisher) each a goose. Bentley, Blake Records, second ed., page 67. 950. Stevenson, Warren. Divine Analogy: A Study of the Creation Motif in Blake and Coleridge. Austria: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1972. 8vo, vii, 403 pp. Green wrappers. Very good. $40. A very substantial reproduction of his Ph.D. thesis expanded and revised. Bentley, Blake Books, A2756. 951. Stock, R.D. The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. 8vo, 395 pp. White cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Minimal shelf wear. Very good. $30. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 647. 952. Summerfield, Henry. A Guide to the Books of William Blake for Innocent and Experienced Readers. With Notes on Interpretive Criticism 1910 to 1984. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998. 8vo, 874 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Some bumping to corners. Very good. $30. First edition, a massive analysis of the history of Blake scholarship, fully indexed. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 33. 953. Symons, Arthur. William Blake. London: Constable, 1907. 8vo, xviii, 433 pp. Original blue buckram. A nice copy. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2804A. 954. [another edition] New York: Dutton, 1907. 8vo, xviii, 433 pp. Original blue buckram, an ex-library copy with discard stamp of Radcliffe College. Worn but usable. $20. First US edition. 955. [another edition] London: Cape, 1940. Small 8vo, 220 pp. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket by Reynolds Stone. A good copy. $15.

Biography and Criticism St. Giles Library edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2804, this issue not recorded. 956. Tannenbaum, Leslie. Biblical Tradition in Blakes Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1982]. 8vo, xiii, [1], 373 [374] pp. Dust-jacket. Very good. $25. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 657. 957. Tanner, William E. and J. Dean Bishop, eds. Rhetoric and Change. Mesquite, TX: Ide House, 1982. 8vo, 217 pp. Bright red cloth with gilt lettering. Very good. $30. First edition. Contributors include Jacques Barzun, J. Dean Bishop, Kenneth Burke, Edward P.J. Corbett, Frank J. DAngelo, Kay Parkhurst Easson, Wilbur Samuel Howell, Richard L. Larson, Gerald J. Prince, Thomas O. Sloane, Martin Steinmann, Jr., William E. Tanner, Winston Weathers, W. Ross Winterowd and Richard E. Young. The essay that relates to Blake is Kay Eassons: Description as Cosmos: Blakes Settings in Milton. See next entry. 958. Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, eds. Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric. Dallas, TX: The Federation Press, 1983. 8vo, 47 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Light browning to backstrip. Very good. $10. Contains Description as Cosmos: Blakes Settings in Milton by Kay Parkhurst Easson. 959. Tayler, Irene. Blakes Illustrations to the Poems of Gray. Princeton University Press, 1971. 4to, 169 pp. Color frontispiece, reduced black-and-white facsimile after the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $30. First edition, a nicely produced study of the watercolors. Bentley, Blake Books, 2824. 960. Thompson, E.P. Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law. New York: New Press, 1993. 8vo, xxi, 234 pp. With 20 black-and-white plates. Quarter cloth with black paper over boards. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $25. First edition of the renowned historian and social critics only book on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 34. 961. Thorpe, James. William Blake: The Power of the Imagination. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1979. 8vo, 24 pp., with illustrations throughout (some in color). Original wrappers, inscribed by Jenijoy and Bob for Kay and Roger [Easson]. Very good. $10. An interesting beginners study with excellently chosen illustrations from the Huntingtons holdings. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 660. 962. [another copy] Presentation copy inscribed to Nicolas Barker. $10.

963. Todd, Ruthven. Tracks in the Snow. London: Grey Walls Press, 1946. 8vo, x, 133 pp. With a frontispiece, 46 plates, and illustrations in the text. Original cloth, dustjacket. $35. First edition of this scarce and important study, with much on Blake, Fuseli, and John Martin, etc. Bentley, Blake Books, 2856: Informative study of Blakes indebtedness to currents of thought among contemporary antiquarians. 964. [another copy] Original cloth. $15.

965. Todd, Ruthven. William Blake the Artist. London: Studio Vista, 1971. Small 8vo, 160 pp., 118 illustrations. Paperback. $95. First edition. A fine copy, inscribed by Ruthven Todd to Harry Ford with a long TLS about the travails surrounding publication, especially dealing with Studio Vista. Bentley, Blake Books, 2857. 966. [another copy] Paperback. $30.

967. Vaughan, William. William Blake. New York: St. Martins Press, 1978. 4to, [86] pp. 46 color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Some curling to edges. Very good. $10. First American edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 183 issue B. 968. [another edition] Black paper over boards. Illustrated dust-jacket with a small price sticker to bottom corner. Very good. $15. Reprint. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 183 issue D. 969. Vickery, Willis. Three Excessively Rare and Scarce Books and Something of Their Author. Cleveland: Printed for the Author, 1927. 8vo, 42 pp. Original linen-backed drab boards, printed cover label. A fine copy. $95. Bibliographical essay on William Blake, the three excessively rare and scarce books in the title referring to Poetical Sketches of 1783, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789 and 1794, and Descriptive Catalogue of 1809. All of these 111

William Blake Catalogue rarities were included in Vickerys personal collection. Bentley, Blake Books, 2904. 970. Viscomi, Joseph. The Art of William Blakes Illuminated Prints. Manchester, England: Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. 8vo, 25 pp. Booklet accompanying a single facsimile etching of The School Boy. Brown cloth folder stamped in gilt. Very good. $150. Limited to 125 copies, numbered on the title-page; this is a condensed version of the full facsimile issued by the Manchester Etching Workshop in colored and uncolored formats. The plate is uncolored. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 13536. 971. Viscomi, Joseph. Blake and the Idea of the Book. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Oblong small folio, xxxvi, 453 pp., profusely illustrated and with 13 color plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $375. First edition, long out of print. Bentley, Blake Books, postscript 2000, notes on page 11 that this is one of two books designated the most important and lastingly-influential of the last twenty-five years. In this highly innovative history of the book, Viscomi drastically revises our understanding of William Blake the printer as he explores the technology behind the Illuminated Books. 972. Vogler, Thomas A. Preludes to Vision: The Epic Venture in Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Hart Crane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. 8vo, 222 pp. Gray cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket with wear. Very good. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2907: an intelligent close reading of Milton as a prelude to Jerusalem. 973. Wagenknecht, David. Blakes Night: William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 8vo, xiii, 321 pp., with ten plates. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, A 2908: A laborious analysis 974. Warner, Janet A. Blake and the Language of Art. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1984. 8vo, xx, 211 pp. 106 illustrations. Yellow cloth in yellow printed dust-jacket. Some signs of wear. Very good. $45. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 672: A useful book arguing that Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary. 112 975. Weathers, William, ed. William Blake: The Tyger. Columbus: Merrill, 1969. 8vo, xii, (1), 126 pp. Illustrated. Original white and orange wrappers. $15. First edition. The essayists include Damon, Basler, Bier, Gardner, Nurmi, Adams, Paley, and others. Bentley, Blake Books, 2937. 976. Weathers, Winston (and others). The Nature of Identity: Essays presented to Donald E. Hayden by the Graduate Faculty of Modern Letters, the University of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK: The University of Tulsa, 1981. 8vo., 96 pp. Frontispiece of Donald E. Hayden. Stiff wrappers. Very good. $10. First edition. Weathers essay is William Blakes Book of Thel: A Transaction. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 674. 977. Webster, Brenda S. Blakes Prophetic Psychology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 8vo, xiv, 325 pp. With 76 illustrations. Original green cloth, dust-jacket. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 675: An attempt through Freudian myth to suggest that Blakes myth shows oppressive feelings of guilt [and] impulses of rage, envy, and sadism. 978. Werner, Bette Charlene. Blakes Vision of the Poetry of Milton. Illustrations to Six Poems. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1986. 8vo, 319 pp. 79 illustrations. Original cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Some shelf wear. Very good. $50. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 677: A plate-by-plate analysis, with the 79 black-andwhite reproductions of Comus (Huntington and Boston sets), LAllegro (Pierpont Morgan), Il Penseroso (Pierpont Morgan), On the Morning of Christs Nativity (Huntington and Whitworth), Paradise Lost (Huntington and Boston), and Paradise Regained (Fitzwilliam). 979. White, Hal Saunders. A Primer of Blake. Ames, IA: Littlefield, Adams, [1951]. 8vo, [vii], 94 pp. Original red buckram lettered in gilt. Very good. $30. A very scarce work on Blake which Bentley calls enthusiastic. Bentley, Blake Books, 2948. 980. White, Helen C. The Mysticism of William Blake. New York: Russell and Russell, Inc., 1964. 8vo, 276 pp. Brick red cloth with gilt to backstrip. Some signs of wear. Very good. $20.

Biography and Criticism Reprint of the 1927 edition, originally published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Bentley, Blake Books, 2950B: leads to the conclusion that he is not a great mystic in any sense that means anything. 981. Whittaker, Jason. William Blake and the Myths of Britain. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martins Press, 1999. 8vo, 215 pp. Black cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. $40. First edition, scarce. Purportedly the first full-length study of Blakes use of British mythology and history (jacket blurb). Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 36. 982. Wicksteed, Joseph. Blakes Innocence and Experience: A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts New York: Dutton, 1928. Small thick 4to, 301 pp., with 4 color plates, 55 monochrome plates, and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, original printed dust-jacket, very good. $250. First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. The only copy I have ever seen in the dust-jacket. Bentley, Blake Books, 2954. 983. [another copy] Original green cloth lettered in gilt, very good. $150. 984. Wicksteed, Joseph. Blakes Vision of the Book of Job, with Reproductions of the Illustrations. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910. 4to, 168 pp. 22 plates. Original green cloth, backstrip faded to brown. Top edge gilt. Very good. $125. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2957A: This pioneering study of Blakes iconography is of great historical and intrinsic importance. 985. [another edition] London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1924. 4to, 248 pp. 22 plates. Original green cloth, backstrip faded to brown. Top edge gilt. Very good. $45. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Bentley, Blake Books, 2957B. 986. Wicksteed, Joseph. Blakes River of Life: Its Poetic Undertones [wrapper title]. [Bournemouth: Sydenhams], [ca. 1951?]. 4to, 24 pp., illustrations. Blue stapled wrappers. Slightly sunned. A very good copy. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 2955: a brief philosophical discussion of Blakes picture. 987. Wilkie, Brian and Mary Lynn Johnson. Blakes Four Zoas: The Design of a Dream. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. 8vo, [18], 302 pp. Illustrations in the text. Original gray cloth, dust-jacket. As new. $35. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 678: an extended critical reading of the poem. 988. Williams, Nicholas M. Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo, xviii; 250 pp. 11 illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with some edgewear. Very good. $35. First edition. Studies of Blakes response to the ideas, writings, and art of his contemporaries such as Wollstonecraft, Paine, Burke, Rousseau, and Robert Owen. Bentley, Blake Books postscript 2000, page 37. 989. Williams, Nicholas, ed. Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 8vo, xii; 283 pp. Five illustrations. Full black cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Very good. $25. 990. Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Royal 8vo, xvi, 398, (4) pp. With a frontispiece and 24 plates. Original quarter parchment. Fine. $150. Limited to 1480 sets, beautifully printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books, 2981A: scrupulously used contemporary accounts of Blake which had not appeared in print before. This is a very full, accurate, and reliable work, and is sometimes called the standard biography of Blake. 991. [another copy] Original quarter parchment a little soiled. $125. 992. [another edition] London: Peter Davies, 1932. 8vo, 324 pp. With a frontispiece of Blakes life mask. Original blue/gray buckram, backstrip faded. $20. Second edition of this standard work first issued in 1927 by the Nonesuch Press; this edition edited by Geoffrey Keynes. The first edition had 24 illustrations, which were sadly omitted from this printing, as were the notes and appendices. A useful and inexpensive reading edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2981B. 993. [another edition] London: Hart-Davis, 1948. 8vo, xvii, 425 pp. Frontispiece and 5 plates. Original cloth, dustjacket, bookplate, edges lightly spotted. Very good. $30. 113

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Biography and Criticism The scarce third edition of Wilsons classic life of Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2981C. 994. [another edition] New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1969. 8vo, xv, 397 pp. With 24 plates including frontispiece. Full white cloth, lightly soiled, with gilt lettering to backstrip, set inside red label. Very good. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 2981F. 995. [another edition] London: Oxford University Press, 1971. 8vo, xiv, 415 pp. Unillustrated. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $25. Revised and best edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2981G. 996. Witcutt, W.P. Blake a Psychological Study. London: Hollis and Carter, 1946. Small slim 8vo, 127 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket slightly worn. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2988: brief, factually unreliable, but promising argument that Blake can be profitably illuminated by Jung. 997. Witke, Joanne. William Blakes Epic: Imagination Unbound. London: Croom Helm, 1986. 8vo, 231 pp. With 21 plates. Original black cloth, dust-jacket, as new. $25. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 682: a plate-by-plate analysis of the philosophical principles of Jerusalem 998. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony. The Romantics on Milton: Formal Essays and Critical Asides. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1970. Thick 8vo, xiii, 594 pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. $35. First edition. Essays from Blake to Keats. Not in Bentley. 999. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony. Nineteenth-Century Accounts of William Blake by Benjamin Heath Malkin, Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Allan Cunningham, Frederick Tatham, William Butler Yeats. Gainesville, FL: Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970. 8vo, 289 pp. Light green cloth with black lettering to backstrip. Signed by Wittreich on title-page. Additional inscription on front free endpaper to Roger and Kay Easson, dated 1 December 1970. Very good. $30. First edition thus. Reproduces the relevant sections in facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 2997. 1000. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, ed. Calm of Mind: Tercentenary Essays on Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in Honour of John S. Diekhoff. Cleveland and London: The Press of Case Western University, 1971. 8vo, xxiv, 342 pp. Frontispiece and 12 black-and-white plates. Illustrated map endpapers. Blue cloth with blue illustrated dust-jacket. Some edgewear and signs of use. Very good. $20. First edition. Includes all of Blakes illustrations to Paradise Regained, a catalogue of Blakes illustrations to Milton, and a study of the illustrators of Paradise Regained from 17131816, as well as several essays. Bentley, Blake Books, 2999 (Wittreich) and 1437 (Curran). 1001. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony. Angel of Apocalypse. Blakes Idea of Milton. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 8vo, xxiii, 332 pp. With 45 illustrations. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. $35. First edition of this important study. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 682. 1002. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, ed. Milton and the Line of Vision. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 8vo, xxi, 278 pp. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. $25. First edition. Includes one essay on Blake: Blake Encountering Milton by Jackie DiSalvo. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 454. 1003. Wolf-Gumpold, Kaethe. William Blake Painter Poet Visionary: An Attempt at an Introduction to his Life and Work. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969. 8vo, 164 pp. With a color frontispiece and 23 plates of which 6 are in color. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket slightly worn. $20. First edition in English. Bentley, Blake Books, 3004B. 1004. Wright, Julia M. Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 8vo, xxxiii, 230 pp. Illustrated title-page and 5 illustrations throughout. Red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $35. First edition. Blakes major printed works, Milton and Jerusalem, are explicit and extensive engagements with the question of nationand empire (jacket blurb). 1005. Wright, Thomas, ed. The First Meeting of the Blake Society. Papers Read Before the Blake Society at the First Annual Meeting, 12th August, 1912. Olney, Bucks.: Thomas Wright, 1912. 8vo, 58, [4] pp. Blue cloth with gilt. Very light shelf wear. Pages unopened. Very good. $150. First edition, quite scarce. Prints informative addresses 115

item 982. Dust-jacket. Joseph Wicksteeds Blakes Innocence and Experience. New York, 1928.

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William Blake Catalogue on aspects of Blakes work and the Blake Societys aims by S. Foster Howe, Walter Jealous, Herbert Jenkins, George Leonard, Greville Macdonald, F.C. Owlett, and Thomas Wright. Wrights later Life of William Blake (1929, see below) is noted by Bentley as a curious combination of original, fruitful research and garbled facts which make it frequently suggestive and rarely reliable. Bentley, Blake Books, 3016. 1006. Wright, Thomas. Key to Blake: Blake for Babes. A Popular Illustrated Introduction to the Works of William Blake. Olney, Bucks.: Thomas Wright, 1923. 8vo, 39 pp. Four leaves of illustrations. Original gray cloth. Spine a trifle darkened; a very good copy. $75. First edition, a scarce work by the eccentric Wright in the form of a conversation between Wright and 3 children about Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 3013. 1007. Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Blake. Olney, Bucks: Thomas Wright, 1929. 2 vols., 4to, xx, 168; (7), 192 pp. 135 illustrations, maps and plans, including 2 in color. Original green cloth gilt. $30. First edition, privately printed in a small number. Wright was an eccentric scholar who self-published numerous works; though deemed uneven, there is much useful information on Blake including some previously unpublished material. Bentley, Blake Books, 3017. 1008. Young, Mildred Binns. Woolman and Blake Prophets for Today. Lebanon, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet 177, 1971. Small 8vo, 32 pp. Original printed wrappers. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 3062: Brief and distinct parallels between Blake and the U.S. Quaker John Woolman (d. 1772). 1009. Youngquist, Paul. Madness and Blakes Myth. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. 8vo, [xiv], 194 pp. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. As new. $20. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 694: By treating hallucinatory experiences as literal facts, Blake creates a context that dramatizes, in myth, the inner division he suffers. Virginia. Volume Twelve. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1959. 8vo, 260 pp. 8 plates. Brown cloth with paper label affixed to front and backstrip. Pages deckled. Light bumping to corners. Very good. $30. Bentley, Blake Books, 1161: Blakes relationship with Flaxman traced through manuscript references, some of them new. 1011. Bentley, G.E., Jr. A Unique Prospectus for Blakes Grave Designs. Princeton, NJ: Library Chronicle, 1974. Slim 8vo, pp. 32124, one plate. Original red printed wrappers, stapled. $20. Offprint, inscribed by Bentley to George Goyder. Bentley, Blake Books, A1177. 1012. Bronowski, J. Blakes Idylls. London: New Statesman and Nation, 1955. 4to, 35 pp. (numbered 667 702). Newspaper. Blake article appears on pp. 69192 and is a review of Blakes Songs of Innocence by the Trianon Press. Pages browning. Very good. $15. 1013. [Cary, Elisabeth Luther]. The Scrip. Volume III, 19071908. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1907 1908. 8vo, 272 pp. Blake frontispiece. Brown cloth, gilt to backstrip. Very good. $25. Bentley, Blake Books, 1353/54. Notes on William Blake, 3 and 4 by Elisabeth Luther Cary, pp. 115 and pp. 6779. Parts 1 and 2 appeared in The Scrip, vol. II. 1014. Colby Library Quarterly. (Blake Issue) Volume XIII, Number 2. Waterville, ME, June 1977. Slim 8vo, illustrated. Original wrappers, fine. $20. The William Blake issue. Contributors: Heppner, C., A Desire of Being; Warner, Janet, Blake and the Language of Art; Stevenson, Warren, Interpreting Blakes Canterbury Pilgrims; Rose, Edward, Blake and the Double; Sutherland, John H., Blakes Milton. A scarce title. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pages 43940. 1015. Easson, Roger and Kay, eds. Blake Studies. Volumes 19, complete. Tulsa, OK, Normal, IL and Memphis, TN: University of Tulsa, Illinois State University, and Memphis State University, 19681980. 8vo, vols. 19, each with two issues, except volume 9 in which numbers 1 and 2 were published together as one volume. Illustrated. All in wrappers. Very good. $175. Complete set of the semi-annual publication, with numerous important contributions to Blake scholarship.

Biography and Criticism Bentley, Blake Books, 1218; see also Blake Books Supplement, pages 41013. Almost every issue is also available separately at $15; please enquire for issues needed. An index to the entire journal is available online. 1016. Easson, Roger and Kay, eds. Blake Studies Volume 1, numbers 1 and 2. Tulsa, OK: University of Tulsa, 1968. 8vo, 2 vols., 8vo, 104; 216 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Volume 1, Number 1, with closed tear approximately 2 inches (5 cm.) from top of rear wrapper. Minor edgewear. A very good set. $45. See Bentley, Blake Books, 1218. 1017. Efron, Arthur, ed. Paunch. Number 4041. April 1975. Buffalo, NY: Arthur Efron, 1975. 8vo, 172 pp. Printed wrappers. An essay on William Blake by Margaret Wooster and Arthur Efron. Very good. $10. An exchange of letters on William Blake by Margaret Wooster and Arthur Efron regarding Blakes sexual fears and alleged hostility towards women. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 684. 1018. Erdman, David V. The Suppressed and Altered Passages in Blakes Jerusalem. Reprinted from Studies in Bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Vol. XVII (1964), pp. [1]54. 6 plates of illustrations. Printed wrappers, moderately soiled, a bit of staining and wear. $25. Presentation copy from the author (signed David) and with a three-line annotation by him to the text of the last page. Bentley, Blake Books, 1574. 1019. Erdman, David V. Blake Studies. Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 1973. Normal: Illinois State University, 1973. 8vo, stapled as issued, with 16 illustrations. $25. Offprint of Erdmans article on Blakes Milton. Inscribed by Erdman to Desire Hirst with an affectionate note. 1020. Essick, Robert N. and Morton D. Paley. The Printings of Blakes Designs for Blairs Grave. [London: The Book Collector, 1975]. 8vo, pp. 53552, with 5 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. $20. Offprint from The Book Collector, Volume 24, Number 4. The text is the definitive proof that the 1813 small folio printing of The Grave was in fact printed by John Camden Hotten in 1870 using the original plates with the text reset. Bentley, Blake Books, B1583 on page 971; see also pages 52829. 1021. [another copy] Inscribed on the front wrapper to Roger and Kay (Easson), Best Wishes, Bob (Essick). Very good. $25. 1022. Essick, Robert N. William Blakes The Phoenix: A Problem in Attribution. Iowa City: Philological Quarterly, 1988. 8vo, pp. 36581, with 3 illustrations. Offprint, stapled. $15. Scarce article by Essick on the newly discovered manuscript The Phoenix and its attribution to Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 466. 1023. Essick, Robert N. William Blakes The Death of Hector. Studies in Romanticism, 1988. 8vo, pp. 97100, with 3 illustrations. Original self-wrappers stapled. $15. Essicks short essay on Blakes elaborate pencil drawing, which he purchased at Christies in 1985. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 466. 1024. Fawcus, Arnold. Blakes Illustrations for the Book of Job. London: Times Literary Supplement, 1974. Folded folio, 27 pp. (numbered 25076). Illustrated newspaper with 6 Blake images on page 271 with accompanying article. Paper browning. Friday 15 March 1974, issue number 3,758. Good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, B1593 on page 972. 1025. Gaunt, William. William Blake: The John Bull Who Saw Visions. London, New York and Paris: Realites Monthly Magazine, 1955. 4to, 72 pp. Illustrated magazine ( January 1955, Number 50) with the William Blake article on pp. 3843. Includes 12 Blake illustrations. Wrappers showing slight edgewear. Very good. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1676: Brief general account of a typical Englishman inspired. 1026. Grant, John E. This is not Blakes The Tyger. [in] The Iowa Review, Volume 19, Number 1. Ames: University of Iowa, 1989. 8vo, 183 pp. Illustrated. Original printed $15. wrappers. Very good. First edition. Grants essay appears on pp. 11255, with a color illustration of The Tyger on the back wrapper. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 493. A long and significant study of Blakes most famous poem. 1027. Grigson, Geoffrey. A Trio of Underestimated VirtuesI. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1955. 4to, 42 pp. (numbered 682724). $10. Newspaper, The Listener (Volume LIV, Number 1391, 117

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William Blake Catalogue October 27, 1955), in which the Blake article appears on pp. 70001. Illustration of William Blake at Hampstead from a line drawing by John Linnell, about 1825. Staples rusting. Some edgewear. Pages browned. Very good. 1028. Helms, Randel. Proverbs of Heaven and Proverbs of Hell. New York: Arthur Efron, 1974. 8vo, 96 pp. Blake article appears on pp. 5158 in Paunch, Number 38, March, 1974. Yellow wrappers with cover art by Priscilla Bowen. Very good. $10. 1029. Hirst, Desire. New Light on William Blake. The Month. January 1958. London: Longmans Green, 1958. 8vo, 64 pp., original printed wrappers. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 1856: a survey of recent scholarship. 1030. Hirst, Desire. Review of Blakes Heads of the Poets. Blake Studies. Volume 3 Number 1, Fall 1970. Normal: Illinois State University, 1970. 8vo, 100 pp., original color$10. printed wrappers. 1031. Lucie-Smith, Edward. The Fiery Vision of William Blake is Burning Bright. Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Associates, 1982. 8vo, 156 pp. Smithsonian Magazine (Volume 13, Number 6: September 1982) with the William Blake article appearing on pp. 5059 including 11 full-color images. Very good. $15. 1032. Matheson, William. Lessing J. Rosenwald: A Splendidly Generous Man. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. 4to, 153 pp. Illustrated, including 3 Blake images (pp. 2, 8, and 19) as part of the Matheson article on Rosenwalds book collection. Printed wrappers with very light wear. Very good. $10. Printed in The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 1033. Nagabodhi, ed. 150th anniversary of William Blakes death. FWBO Newsletter 36. Winter 1977. London: Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, 1977. 8vo, 40 pp. Illustrated in printed wrappers with mild edgewear. Stapled note to verso of front wrapper to Roger Easson from Samuel Bercholz. Very good. $10. Art and the Creative Vision issue to commemorate the 150th anniversary of William Blakes death. Sangharakshitas essay in this issue is probably related to, or the same as, his pamphlet listed in Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 631. 1034. Paley, Morton D., et seq. The Blake Newsletter [later] Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly. [Various places], 19671979, 19972005. 80 issues, 4to, illustrated. Original wrappers, a very good set with the index. $500. A good run of the first and more recent years of the Blake Newsletter/ Illustrated Quarterly, skipping 19801996 (which are available from the publisher at $7.50 an issue). From the website: [It] was born as the Blake Newsletter on a mimeograph machine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Edited by Morton D. Paley, the first issue ran to nine pp., was available for a yearly subscription rate of two dollars for four issues, and included the fateful words, As far as editorial policy is concerned, I think the Newsletter should be just thatnot an incipient journal. The production office of the Newsletter relocated to the University of New Mexico when Morris Eaves became co-editor in 1970, and then moved with him in 1986 to its present home at the University of Rochester. In June 1977 (vol. XI, no. 1) it became Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, marking its emergence from a slight newsletter to a fullfledged illustrated magazine, essential reading for Blake scholars and researchers. Bentley, Blake Books, 1217 and Blake Books Supplement, pages 376410. 1035. Paley, Morton D., and Morris Eaves, eds. The Blake Newsletter. A Reprinting of the Early Issues. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1974. 4to, 44 pp. Illustrated. Black-and-white printed wrappers with red lettering. Includes volumes I and II, 19671969. 4 pp. of the originals reprinted per page of this volume. Very good. $15. A useful way to have the earliest issues. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 376. 1036. Paley, Morton D. John Camden Hotten, A.C. Swinburne, and the Blake Facsimiles of 1868. New York: New York Public Library, 1976. Small 4to, pp. [259]296. Stapled green wrappers. Good. $30. Authors offprint of his article, inscribed by Paley to James D. Hart of the Bancroft Library. 1037. Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Tradition. London: Panton House, 1956. 8vo, 88 pp. Blake article appearing on pp. 5154 of Encounter (Volume VII, Number 5, November 1956). Illustrated wrappers with some staining and edgewear. Spine chipped. Pages browning. Very good. $20. Bentley, Blake Books, 2477. 1038. Raine, Kathleen. Blakes Debt to Antiquity. Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1963. 8vo, 172

Biography and Criticism pp. (numbered 352524). 6 pp. of advertisements in the front. Blake article appears on pp. 352450. Published in The Sewanee Review, Summer 1963, Volume LXXI, Number 3. Blue printed wrappers with some sunning to edges, mild edgewear. Title of journal excised from titlepage. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 2482A. 1039. Rice, Howard C., Jr. Lesser Known Examples of Blakes Engraving Skill. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1970. 4to, 36 pp. Full-page Blake illustration on page 2. Blake article with accompanying illustrations on pp. 2632 published in University: A Princeton Quarterly (Fall 1970, Number 46). Yellow and red printed wrappers with ink note on front cover. Address label affixed to rear. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 2515. 1040. Rousseau, G.S., ed. Annals of Scholarship. Metastudies of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Volume 4, Number 1. New York: Annals of Scholarship, Inc., 1986. 8vo, 138 pp. Printed wrappers. Crease to upper corner of front cover. Contains two articles on William Blake. Very good. $15. Contains Hilton, Blake and the Perception of Science, and Greenberg, Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Technology and Artistic Form. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 506: Blake was literate in the science of his day.; also page 494 for the Greenberg essay. 1041. Ryskamp, Charles. William Blake, Engraver. The Princeton University Library Chronicle. Volume XXXI, Number 2, Winter 1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. 8vo, 85 pp. [numbered 69154]. Illustrated. Dull red printed wrappers, some sunning and edgewear. William Blake article begins on page 135 in Library Notes. Very good. $15. Brief review (3 pp.) of the exhibition of Blake at Princeton upon which Ryskamps catalogue was based. 1042. Schneiderman, Stuart. The Western Gate. Buffalo, NY: The Western Gate, 1970. 8vo, [40] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Cover illustration, The Covering Cherub, by William Blake. Very good. $5. Essay by Schneiderman, Blakes Prophecy: The Opening of the Western Gate. Daniel Zimmerman, ed. Bentley, Blake Books, A2663 on page 993. 1043. Thorndike, Joseph J., ed. Horizon. Autumn, 1972. Volume XIV, Number 4. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., 1972. 4to, 111 pp. and 8 pp. of full-color, full-page Blake illustrations. Yellow clothcovered boards with laid in illustration. Gilt to front and backstrip. Light soiling. Very good. $20. Two articles of Blake interest: Quotations from Chairman Blake, by Frederic V. Grunfeld; and Blake: Lost and Found, by Arnold Fawcus. The former relates Blake to communism and socialistic idealism (Mao and Marx, e.g.). In the latter, Fawcus tells how the Gray watercolors were reproduced by the Trianon Press, with excellent color reproductions. Bentley, Blake Books, A1593 and A1758 (the Grunfeld article). 1044. Tolley, Michael J. On the Cutting Edge of Blake Scholarship. Adelaide, Australia: Adelaide University Graduates Union, 1968. 4to, 8 pp. Blake illustration on page 4 accompanying a Blake article on pp. 4 and 5 in the Adelaide University Graduates Union Monthly Newsletter and Gazette, December 1968. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $15. Bentley, Blake Books, 2862. 1045. Tolley, Michael J. Blakes Songs of Spring. [N.p.: n.d.]. Offprint. 8vo, 32 pp. (numbered 96128) including 6 illustrations. Offprint in plain light blue wrappers. Near fine. $10. No information found about publisher, place, or date printed. Not in Bentley. 1046. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony. Divine Countenance: Blakes Portrait and Portrayals of Milton [in The Huntington Library Quarterly]. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1975. 8vo, 98 pp. (paginated 105203) with the Blake article by Wittreich appearing on p. 125. Blue printed wrappers. A very good copy. $15. Volume XXXVIII, Number 2 dated February 1975. Bentley, Blake Books, A2995 on page 1001.

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1047. Bentley, G.E. A Bibliography of George Cumberland 17541848: comprehending his published books (17801829) and articles (17691847) and his unrecorded works in manuscript. New York: Garland Publishing, 1975. 8vo, 140 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece. Full bright red cloth, black lettering to backstrip. This Volume For Review card taped to front cover. Very good. $55. A review copy. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (vol. XI). Bentley, Blake Books, A1151 on page 961. section titles, on uniform laid paper, some with watermarks of 1809 and 1815. Neatly mounted on card, with pencil ruled frames, and elegantly bound, mid 1860s, by M.M. Holloway in blue morocco, elaborately gilt with a wide roll-tooled border, spine gilt in six panels, all edges gilt. p.o.r. Flaxmans illustrations for Hesiod, in outline and without text, were the last of a series by him which also included Homer, Dante, and Aeschylus. Flaxmans early biographer W.G. Constable describes them as the best work of their kind done by Flaxman. For publication they were stippleengraved by William Blake, and were Blakes principal means of income for the years 1814 to 1817, earning him a total of some 200. Flaxman was a great advocate of Hesiod, the classical poet presented as rival (losing rival) to Homer, and imagery from Hesiod appears in his work since the late 1770s. In contrast to the other illustrated editions he produced, he made these drawings (and com-

John flaxman
1048. Pen and ink over pencil drawings, the complete suite of 37 designs for Compositions from the Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod, including the title-page and two

missioned their engraving, with an element of conscious patronage of Blake) speculatively, not making the arrangement with Longman to publish until 1816, the year before their publication. Although very profitable in the end, they were something of a labor of love, which he took many years to complete, working on them at spare moments. Flaxman died in 1826, and Christies held two sales of his property in 1828. In the first sale of June 28 the title-page mentions Original drawings of Mr. Flaxman, to illustrate Hesiod. Morocco but they dont appear in the sale itself; they do however appear in the second sale, of July 1, where lot 84 is described as The Drawings from Hesiod by Mr. Flaxman, 37 in number, handsomely bound in morocco, lettered, etc. These were not sold at the sale, and are marked passed in the auctioneers marked copy, a slightly ambiguous usage which at the time also seems to have been used for withdrawn items. They descended with the rest to his estate to his heir Maria Denman, and were offered in Christies sale of April 10, 1862 The Whole of the Celebrated Drawings and remaining Works of the Great

Sculptor John Flaxman as lot 448, The original finished drawings to Hesiod, executed for the engravings by Blake, 37 in number, including the frontispiece: they are mounted on lavender-coloured paper, in a scrap-book, bound in purple morocco. These are certainly the present drawings, since they were bought by the albums binder Holloway (for 231, by far the largest price of the sale), but there is a small chance that they might not be the same album as that offered in 1828, since handsomely bound in morocco, lettered is reduced to in a scrapbook, bound in purple morocco. Holloway were dealers as well as binders, and also bought various individual drawings at the sale, which they bound up in very similar style: this album was later owned by Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston and is now in the British Museum department of Prints and Drawings. It is not clear for what purpose these drawings were made. They do not have the aspect of composition drawings, nor are they tracings from the finished work. Some of the paper is watermarked, dated 1809 and 1815, in one

item 1048. First title page drawing, pen and ink over pencil.

item 1048. Second title page drawing, pen and ink over pencil.

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Blakes Circle case definitely postdating Blakes return of the engraved plate, which we therefore take to mean that these drawings cannot have been what Blake worked from. Each drawing demonstrates minor differences in detail from the engraved version, and the title-pages have major differences, particularly in the disposition of the lettering: in the drawings the second title-page (with the central scales of justice) bears the full text drawn by john flaxman engraved by william blake which text only appears on the first title-page in the published book, and also has an entirely different caption above the image. We feel safe in concluding from these variations that the drawings are not copied by a third party. Thomas Hope, Flaxmans patron and acolyte, owned albums of the other three illustrated books. Those for the Dante (which Hope had commissioned) are in the Houghton Library at Harvard (shelf mark 007483156), and those for the Iliad and the Odyssey are at the Chicago Art Institute. (Offered courtesy of Maggs Bros., description by Edward Maggs edited by Robert N. Essick.) 1049. Dante Alighieri. Cary, Henry Francis, trans. The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri with 109 Illustrations by John Flaxman. London: Oxford University Press, 1923. 8vo, xlv; 578 pp. Frontispiece with 109 illustrations by John Flaxman. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Bumping to corners. Three Blake postcards pasted to front and rear pastedowns and front free endpaper. Very good. $25. Pleasant little edition with reduced reproductions; the postcards are from the British Museum series in the 1920s. 1050. Bentley, G.E., Jr. The Early Engravings of Flaxmans Classical Designs. New York: The New York Public Library, 1964. 8vo, 63 pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers with a few very small closed tears along edges. Very good. $20. The standard catalogue of the subject. 1051. Essick, Robert and Jenijoy La Belle, eds. Flaxmans Illustrations to Homer, drawn by John Flaxman. Engraved by William Blake and Others. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. Large 4to, xxxii and 75 full-page plates and 6 other illustrations. Silver illustrated wrappers with curling to edges. Bumping to corners. Inscribed to the American Blake Foundation from Bob and Jenijoy on title-page. Very good. $100. 1052. Wark, Robert R. Drawings by Flaxman in the Huntington Collection. San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1970. Oblong 8vo, 94 pp. Illustrated. Red printed wrappers. Very good. $10.

item 1048. Modesty and Justice returning to Heaven, drawing, pen and ink over pencil. item 1048. The Good Race, drawing, pen and ink over pencil.

item 1048. 1860s blue morocco binding by M.M. Holloway; gilt spine, edges, and borders.

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Blakes Circle 1054. Fuseli, Henry. Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope. [by Sir Brooke Boothby Bart]. London: W. Bulmer, 1796. Folio, 89 pp. With a frontispiece, 2 plates, and several illustrations in the text. Original blue boards, printed label on upper cover, slightly foxed here and there but generally a fine untrimmed copy as issued. $4500. First edition, one of a tiny number of large-paper copies. Only one other copy has been located (in the Essick collection, Fuselis own copy). The frontispiece is a stippleengraving proof before all letters by Benedetti after the painting by Fuseli and is one of the largest book illustrations after Fuseliit measures almost 12 7 inches (30.5 17.6 cm.). The poems memorialize the death of Boothbys daughter Penelope at the age of five and include a laudatory reference to Fuseli; Boothby was a member of the Lichfield literary circle and was immortalized in a portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby. Weinglass 139. 1055. Antal, Frederick. Fuseli Studies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956. 8vo, xii; 176 pp. and 64 pp. of plates in black and white at rear. Full dark red cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Light blue illustrated dust-jacket, clipped. Some chipping and edgewear. Dust-jacket formerly stuck to front cover leaving some small remnants of $45. white to dark red covers. Internally very good. First edition. A well-illustrated study of the many-sided artistic achievements of Fuseli. 1056. Exhibition Catalogue. Henry Fuseli, 17411825. London: Tate Gallery, 1975. 4to, 143 pp. 8 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wrappers. Light signs of wear. Very good. $25. A well-illustrated catalogue of a great exhibition. 1057. Ganz, Paul. The Drawings of Fuseli with a Foreword by John Piper. New York: Chanticleer Press, Inc. 1949. 4to, 79 pp. and 106 pp. of plates. Color frontispiece. Full red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with light chipping to edges. Very good. $50. First printing. 1058. Keay, Carolyn. Henry Fuseli. London and New York: Academy Editions and St. Martins Press, 1974. 4to, 88 pp. Four double-sided color plates and 84 text illustrations, many full-page. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket, clipped, with minor edgewear. 2-cm. closed tear to bottom rear. Very good to near fine. $50. First American edition. 1059. Knowles, John. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Esq. M.A.R.A., Keeper and Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy in London; Member of the First Class of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 3 vols., 8vo, xvi, 439; (4), 39; (4), 408 pp. Recent blue cloth with gilt lettering to backstrip. Covers lightly soiled, some water staining to prelims of volume I. $125. First edition. This account of his life was the standard (and indeed only) biography until Peter Tomorys The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli (1972). Bentley, Blake Books, 2066. 1060. Leslie, Charles Robert. Autobiographical Recollections. Edited, with a prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist by Tom Taylor. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, lviii, 363 pp. Frontispiece. Half red morocco, marbled boards, 5 raised bands on backstrip with gilt design. Some $75. edgewear. Marbled endpapers. Very good. First edition. References Fuseli as an early influence. 1061. Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Fuseli. Alhambra: Borden Publishing Company, 1969. 4to, [2] pp. introduction and [44] pp. of plates. Orange printed wrappers. Sunfading to backstrip. Very good. $15. First edition. 1062. Pilkington, M[atthew]. A Dictionary of Painters from the Revival of the Art to the Present Period. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions, an Appendix, and an Index by Henry Fuseli, R.A. London, J. Walker; Wilkie and Robinson [et al.], 1810. 4to, xxiv, 678 pp. Old calf scuffed and worn, but a perfectly serviceable copy good for reading. $100. Second edition to be revised by Fuseli, following the 1805 edition. Pilkingtons dictionary was originally published in 1770. Fuselis Advertisement states that in this 1810 edition he added considerably more than 300 names and characters of artists, mostly of the Spanish school (Boston Book Co.). Blake did not rate a mention until the 1840 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2401, noting that Blake did not appear in any earlier editions. 1063. Powell, Nicolas. The Drawings of Henry Fuseli. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1951. 4to, 51 pp. and 64 fullpage black-and-white plates. Full green cloth with gilt lettering set inside burgundy label along backstrip. Torn and chipped illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $50. First edition of this work by the respected scholar Powell, who also published a study of Fuselis most famous painting, The Nightmare. 125

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1053. Fuseli, Henry. St. Johns Vision of the Seven Lights by Thomson after Fuseli: from the Macklin Bible. London: The Macklin Poets Gallery, 1797. Separate print, matted, borders browned, print strong and clear. $1500. Fuseli painted this work for Thomas Macklins Bible

Gallery. It was engraved by James Thomson and published, with an imprint date of 14 Jan. 1797, in Macklins 1800 edition of the Bible. Blake illustrated the same passage from Revelation for The Royal Universal Family Bible (pl. imprint dated 23 Feb. 1782). In that Bible (1800), the single plate after Fuseli is in volume 6. The original painting sold for 137,900 in 1997.

item 1053. St. Johns Vision of the Seven Lights, separate plate. Engraved by James Thomson after Fuseli, for the Macklin Bible. London, 1797.

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William Blake Catalogue 1064. Schiff, Gert. Johann Heinrich Fussli. Zurich and Munchen: Berichthaus and Prestel, 1973. 2 vols., 4to, 740; 613 pp. Volume 1, text; volume 2, illustrations. Gray cloth with red label and gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jackets for both volumes. Very minor edgewear. Very good. $475. First edition (text in German) of the definitive catalogue. 1065. Schiff, Gert and Paola Viotto. LOpera Completa di Fussli. Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1977. Large 4to, 124 pp. including 64 full color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Slight signs of wear. Very good. $20. 1066. Tomory, Peter. The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. 4to, 255 pp. 267 plates, 13 in color. Full red cloth stamped in gilt to front cover with gilt lettering to backstrip. Some fraying to cloth along bottom edge. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $65. First edition. 1067. Vitali, Lamberto. Johann Heinrich Fussli Disegni Dipinti. Catalogo a cura di Lamberto Vitali. Saggio introduttivo di Gert Schiff. Milano: Electra Editrice, 1977. Squarish 8vo, 61 pp. with 47 plates. Full brown cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Near fine. $30. Fuseli exhibition catalogue. 1068. Weinglass, D.H. Prints and Engraved Illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli. A Catalogue Raisonn. London: Scolar Press, 1994. 4to, 412 pp. Illustrated. Full green cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Bumping to corners and edges. Pages bright. A very good copy. $75. First edition of this standard catalogue. numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Full dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Illustrated dustjacket. Slight edgewear. Very good. $75. First edition. 1071. Story, Alfred T. Life of John Linnell. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1892. 2 vols., 8vo, xxi, 308 pp.; 284 pp. 2 frontispieces (with tissue guards) and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to backstrip. Moderate foxing throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. $375. First edition, with much on Blake, since Linnell was a close friend and patron of William Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2769.

Blakes Circle Wellington Shield and a lovely drawing by Fuselis assistant student, von Holst. Original half red morocco, some volumes with the covers detached but internally a fine set. sold. A unique collection of Stothards work, based around the first edition of the first full biography of the artist by his daughter-in-law, expansively extra illustrated with original watercolors, drawings, and engravings after Stothard by many of the greatest engravers of the late 18th and early 19th century. Bentley, Blake Books, 1273. 1075. Johnson, Samuel. Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. A New Edition with Engravings. London: printed for E. and S. Harding by M. Ritchie, 1796. Small 8vo, 236 pp. With a frontispiece and 3 plates. Early calf, backstrip repaired at foot. Collectors stamp TC in a circle at foot of title. Binding worn, internally very good. $375. First edition with Stothards illustrations, a scarce printing of Johnsons only novel, which proved hugely popular and has gone through well over 500 editions and translations. Possibly a large-paper copy, with very wide margins. 1076. Rogers, Samuel. Italy: A Poem. [with] Poems. London: T. Cadell, et al., 1830. London: T. Cadell, 1834. 8vo, vii, [1], 284 pp. (without ad leaf ), 55 steel-engraved vignettes in the text after Turner, Stothard, and others. 8vo, viii, 295, [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of Rogers, 33 vignettes after Turner, 35 engraved vignettes after Stothard and 4 additional engraved vignettes. Both volumes bound in full publishers hard-grain dark green morocco, central gilt vignettes, gilt-titled backstrips, a.e.g., light rubbing to joints and extremities (more so to Poems), minor foxing and soiling to contents of Poems. $350. First editions with these illustrations [the poems were published much earlier]. Ray notes that these books caught the fancy of a young John Ruskin and determined the main tenor of my life. Ray adds: Turners illustrations for the companion volume [Poems] are if anything superior to those for Italy. In both books his delicate and graceful vignettes, which are miracles of fine detail, seem fairly to float upon the page. Provenance: Bookplate of Roger Utter in Italy. Bookplate of Anna Maria Ridgway in Poems. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 17901914,13. Hodnett, Five Centuries of English Book Illustration, p. 141: steel engravings of unsurpassed brilliance. 1077. Rogers, Samuel. Italy: A Poem. [with] Poems. London: Moxon, 1838. [and] London: Moxon, 1838. 2 vols., large 4to, vii, 274, (2 ads) pp. 56 steel-engraved plates on India paper after Turner, Stothard, and others; viii, 266 pp. 54 steel-engraved plates on India paper after Turner, Stothard, and others. Both volumes bound in full publishers hard-grain dark green morocco by Hayday (so signed), central gilt vignettes, gilt-titled backstrips, gilt edges, slight occasional foxing and soiling but generally excellent copies as issued. $1500. Best editions, incorporating the unsold suites of India paper proofs, printed on larger paper. The bindings are an exact copy of the previous set, though obviously much bigger. 1078. Young, Edward. Night Thoughts with the Life of the Author. London: printed by Whittingham for T. Heppenstall, 1798. Large 8vo, [23], 364 pp. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Young, engraved title-page, and eight engraved plates after Stothard by various engravers. Early mottled calf, covers panelled in gilt, backstrip gilt with single black label, sprinkled blue edges. Upper joint just splitting but sound. Light spotting to plates mostly in $350. margins, generally a pleasant copy. First edition illustrated by Stothard, an appealingly wellmargined copy. Blakes version appeared the year before, in 1797.

george romney
1072. Gamlin, Hilda. George Romney and His Art. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1894. 8vo., xi, 332, (1, ads) pp., with a portrait frontispiece, 17 fine plates (several in photogravure with original tissue guards present) and a full-page facsimile in the text. Original green cloth, gilt. $75. First edition. The final chapter touches on Blake and his involvement in Hayleys Life of Romney which contains a well-known Blake engraving.

thomas stothard
1073. Stothard, Thomas. The Ambitious Step-Mother. Original pen-and-ink drawing, 35/8 33/4 inches (9.2 9.6 cm.). Matted with the original engraving by Leney after Stothard. London: Printed for G. Cawthorn, British Library, Strand. Nov. 28, 1795. A fine preliminary drawing for the print, showing a figure with a lamp casting light on two cloaked figures. Ambitious Step-Mother is a play by Nicholas Rowe, first published in 1735. The plate was published in the Cawthorn issue of Bells British Poets, 1795. $125. The inscription reads: Cleo: Speak lower I am a friend Long live Artaxerxes. 1074. Bray, Anna Eliza. Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. with Personal Reminiscences. London: Bradbury and Evans for John Murray, 1851. 8vo, an extra-illustrated set expanded to 10 volumes, with 829 extra illustrations including a few proofs (notably a Blake proof for volume 13 of Bells Poets), 10 autograph manuscripts (signatures, letters, etc.) and 69 original drawings generally of exceptional quality for this kind of production, especially the suite of drawings for the

John varley
1079. The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin. London: Heinemann, 1969. 2 vols., oblong 8vo. Text volume, xiv, 40 pp., with 12 illustrations; facsimile volume to match, in calf-backed green buckram, slipcase faded, backstrip slightly scuffed to one volume, otherwise very good. $100. Limited to 800 copies. The facsimile of the notebook was printed by the Trianon Press. This is the small notebook which was broken up and sold at auction a few years ago. Almost invariably the facsimile volume is sprung, with many leaves coming loose. This copy, though sprung, has not yet suffered loose leaves. Bentley, Blake Books, 401: includes 36 Visionary Drawings by Blake. 1080. The Larger Blake-Varley Sketchbook. London: Christie, Manson and Woods, 1989. Slim 4to, 60 pp., illustrated. Fine. $15. Auction catalogue. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 306.

William hayley
1069. Bishop, Morchard. Blakes Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley. London: Gollancz, 1951. 8vo, 372 pp. With 22 illustrations. Original green cloth. $30. First edition, a scarce book. Bentley, Blake Books, 1210: this excellent work.

John linnell
1070. Linnell, David. Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co. The Life of John Linnell. Sussex, England: The Book Guild Ltd., 1994. 4to, xi; 413 pp. 24 tipped-in color plates and 126

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Blakes Followers
general Works on the folloWers
1081. Binyon, Laurence. The Followers of William Blake, Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond and their Circle. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1925. 4to, x, 29 pp. With a frontispiece and 79 plates, 7 in color. Original half leather. Fine. $450. Edition Deluxe, limited to 100 copies signed by Binyon. The John LehmannPeter Scupham copy with bookplates, and the prospectus for the work loosely inserted. Bentley, Blake Books, 1201A. 1082. [another copy] Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. $100. First trade edition. 1083. [another edition] New York and London: Benjamin Blom, 1968. 8vo, x, 29 pp. Frontispiece and 79 plates. Original yellow cloth. Erratum tipped-in, page vii. Very good. $60. Reissue, with no plates in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 1201B. 1084. Exhibition Catalogue. The Followers of William Blake: An Exhibition at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, November 1, 1972 through January 31, 1973. [San Marino, CA], 1972. 12mo, 32 pp. Illustrated. Red printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine. $10. Bentley, Blake Books, 710. 1085. Exhibition Catalogue. The Visionary Company Blakes Contemporaries and Followers. [New Haven, CT]: Yale Center for British Art, 1997. Calendar 8vo, 19 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Self-wrappers, new. $10. Scarce ephemeral catalogue of a remarkable exhibition. 1086. The English Vision: Etchings and Engravings by William Blake Introduction by Graham Sutherland. 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 backstrip edge. Good. $25. Not in Bentley. 1087. Prints by the Blake Followers. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1982. 8vo, 36 pp., illustrations. Original printed wrappers. 128

The Portfolio, 1872, Examples of Modern Etching, 1875, and Hamertons Etching and Etchers, 1880.

edWard calvert
1088. Lister, Raymond. Edward Calvert. London: Bell, 1962. 8vo, xii, 116 pp. With 59 illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. Signs of water damage to bottom edge of both book and jacket. A good copy. $20. First edition of this important study which obviously includes numerous references to William Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2136.

1093. The Morning of Life. [in] Etchings for the ArtUnion of London by the Etching Club. [London], 1872. Folio, with 20 original prints in fine condition (Palmer is number 13). Original red cloth lettered in gilt, binding worn. $1250. Second state of two. A fine impression in perfect condition. Lister 10.vii. 1094. Palmer, A.H. Samuel Palmer a Memoir. Also a Catalogue of his Works and an Account of the Milton Series of Drawings, by L.R. Valpy. London: Fine Arts Society, 1882. Small folio, pictorial title-page, ii, 105, 1 (list of Palmers etchings) pp. With 14 (of 15) plates and nine woodcuts printed from the original blocks. Original quarter roan and cloth boards lettered in gilt, rather worn. The frontispiece original etching is lacking. $500. First edition, a rare and important book here sadly lacking the original frontispiece etching Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep. Valuable nonetheless for the original woodcuts, the illustrations, and the fine photographic portrait print of Palmer. Bentley, Blake Books, 2354 (for the Blake reference). 1095. An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil. With Illustrations by the Author. Edited by A.H. Palmer. London: Seeley and Co., 1883. Small folio, xv, 102 pp. Titlepage printed in red. With 14 plates including 5 etchings. Original green gilt lettered cloth with gilt device, somewhat worn but internally fine. $1500. First edition. The book was unfinished when Palmer died, so it was completed by his other son A.H. Palmer. Of the 5 original etchings in the book, only one was completely etched and finished by Samuel Palmer, Opening the Fold or Early Morning: Lister 13.vii. 1096. The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher. Written and edited by A.H. Palmer. London: Seeley and Co., 1892. 4to, xiii, 2, 422 pp. including a frontispiece portrait, an original etching, and 22 illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, very worn with backstrip partly chipped away and upper cover detaching. The original print (and the other illustrations) are in fine condition. $875. First edition of the standard work on the artist, with an original etching, second state of three, entitled The Willow executed in 1850 for his admission to the Etching Club. A Catalogue of the exhibited works and the etch-

ings of Samuel Palmer at pp. [405]422 served as the only catalogue raisonn until Listers recent work, Samuel Palmer and his Etchings. A scarce book complete with the etching. Lister 1.ii. Bentley, Blake Books, 2353. 1097. [another edition] A New Edition with an Introductory Essay by Raymond Lister and a Preface by Kathleen Raine. London: Eric and Joan Stevens, 1972. 8vo, xix; 422 pp. 23 illustrations including frontispiece. Red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Mild edgewear to cloth and jacket. $75. Very good. Useful reissue of the original updated by Lister and Raine. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 599. 1098. Samuel Palmers Sketch-book 1824. An Introduction and Commentary by Martin Butlin with a Preface by Geoffrey Keynes. Paris: Trianon Press, 1962. 2 vols., oblong 8vo, text volume (2), 48, (2, colophon) pp., facsimile volume to match. Original beige cloth. $750. Limited to 586 copies. The superb facsimile of Palmers pencil sketches, now quite scarce.

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Original Material

1089. The Early Ploughman. 1868. Single sheet, matted. In fine condition. $1250. Fourth state of nine. A fine impression in perfect condition. Lister 9.iv. The published state, as it appeared in Hamertons Etching and Etchers, 1868. The plate was subsequently rebitten even though A.H. Palmer disagreed with his fathers decision to add new work. 1090. Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. Etching and Etchers. London: Macmillan, 1868. Thick 8vo, xxvi, 354 pp. With a title vignette and 31 (of 35) original prints, including one by Palmer. Original quarter roan and cloth boards stamped in gilt, very worn but internally fine. $1250. First of three editions, this copy with the Palmer etching The Early Ploughman but lacking the Callot, Daubigny, Jongkind, and Rembrandt prints. A scarce book, here incomplete but the Palmer is present along with prints by lesser known artists. Lister 9.v. 1091. [another edition] London: Macmillan, 1880. Thick small folio, xxxiii, [3], 360 pp. With a title vignette and 46 (of 48) original prints, including one by Palmer. Original quarter roan and cloth boards stamped in gilt, backstrip worn but internally fine. $1250. Third of three editions, this copy with the Palmer etching The Herdsmans Cottage, or, Sunset but lacking the Whistler and Haden prints. A scarce book, here sadly incomplete but the Palmer is present along with prints and copies of prints, mostly by lesser known artists. Lister 3.ii. 1092. The Herdsmans Cottage or Sunset. 1850 (i.e. 1872). Single sheet, matted. In fine condition. $1250. Second state of two. A fine impression in perfect condition. Lister 3.ii. The published state as it appeared in

Palmer Bio/bibliographical Material

1099. Cecil, David. Visionary and Dreamer. Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. 4to, 177 pp., and 115 black-and-white plates. Full cloth with printed dust-jacket. Some closed tears along edges. Light signs of use. A very good copy. $50. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts, 1966. Bollingen Series XXXV:15. 1100. Grigson, Geoffrey. Samuel Palmer, The Visionary Years. London: Paul Kegan, 1947. 8vo, xi; 206 pp. and 68 plates, including full-color frontispiece. Green cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip. Soiled dust-jacket with some closed $50. tears along edges. Very good. First edition of Grigsons significant study. Bentley, Blake Books, 1754 (Blake chapter). 1101. Hardie, Martin. Samuel Palmer: Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors Club on Wednesday, November 16th, 1927. London: Print Collectors Club, 1928. Small 4to, 67 pp. 9 drawings and 13 etchings. Quarter black cloth with original white paper-covered boards, black lettering to the upper panel. Boards chipped along edges. Water damage to rear board extending 51/2 inches (14 cm.) $45. from backstrip. Internally very good. 129

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William Blake Catalogue First edition of this brief but well-illustrated introduction to Palmers prints. Limited edition, number 220 of 500, 300 of which for presentation to members of the Print Collectors Club. 1102. Lister, Raymond. The Writings of Samuel Palmer. [Paris]: Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1973. 4to, 4 pp. (numbered 25356). Offprint in blue stapled wrappers. Inscribed to Roger R. Easson with all good wishes Raymond Lister 4/5/73 Staples beginning to rust. Very good. $25. 1103. Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer, a Biography. London: Faber and Faber, 1974. 8vo, 299 pp. 29 black-andwhite plates. Orange full-cloth. Illustrated dust-jacket, clipped but with a price sticker of 6.25 GBP. Very good. $45. First edition of this important study which obviously includes numerous references to William Blake. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 553 issue A. 1104. Lister, Raymond, ed. The Letters of Samuel Palmer. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. 2 vols., 8vo. Volume I: 18141859, xvi, 565 pp. Volume II: 18601881, pp. 5671123. Full cloth with illustrated dust-jacket for both volumes. Chipping and edgewear, especially to Volume I. Very good. $50. First edition of this essential collection of Palmers writing. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 599. 1105. Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer and The Ancients. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press; Cambridge:Fitzwilliam Museum, 1984. 4to, xvi; 100 pp. and [76] pp. of black-and-white plates in rear. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip, illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $30. Another useful Lister contribution, here in the clothbound edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 302. 1106. [another copy] Printed wrappers with price stickers on back cover. Very good. $15. 1107. Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer: His Life and Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 4to, xx, 272 pp. with 102 numbered black-and-white plates and frontispiece. Red cloth with gilt to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy. $50. Listers last word on the subject, the result of a lifetime of study and collecting. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, 130 page 553 issue B (a revised version of the biography of 1974, above). 1108. Malins, Edward. Samuel Palmers Italian Honeymoon. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo, xiii, 130 pp. and 20 plates and one map. Green cloth in printed orange dust-jacket. Edgewear to jacket. Very good. $30. First edition. Freitag 7277. 1109. Melville, Robert. Samuel Palmer, 18051881. [London]: Faber and Faber Ltd., [1956]. Large 4to, 24 pp. with 10 tipped-in color plates. Stiff wrappers with illustrated dust-jacket (clipped). Some chipping to edges. Very good. $25. First UK edition. 1110. Peacock, Carlos. Samuel Palmer: Shoreham and After. London: John Baker, 1968. 4to, 144 pp. 11 color plates and 24 monochrome plates, and additional illustrations in text. $35. Original blue cloth, yellow dust-jacket, as issued. First edition of this study of Palmers later years. 1111. Sellars, James. Samuel Palmer. London: Academy Editions, 1974. 4to, 159 pp. With 28 color illustrations (some double-page) and 123 black-and-white reproductions. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Dust-jacket with light edgewear. Very good. $45. First edition. A lavishly illustrated study, with a checklist at the end of Palmers original art work (not including prints), divided into two sections: located pieces and unlocated pieces. 1112. Exhibition Catalogue. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings and Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake. London: The Board of Education, 1926. 4to, 87 pp. and 32 pp. of plates. Frontispiece. Green printed wrappers, some sun-fading and signs of water damage. Backstrip chipping with a 2inch (5 cm.) piece loose from bottom. Good. $45. Very scarce catalogue with good reproductions of works by Palmer and Calvert and a few Blake pieces, including the unique white-line etching of Deaths Door, and the letter from Richmond to Palmer about Blakes death (which was recently given to The Huntington Library). Bentley, Blake Books, 626.

Blakes Followers 1113. Exhibition Catalogue. Samuel Palmer and his Circle: The Shoreham Period. Great Britain: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1957. Small 8vo, 36 pp. 4 tipped-in plates. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Very light soiling. A very good copy. $20. In addition to 62 works by Palmer, pieces by Blake, Calvert, Finch, Linnell, Richmond, Sherman, and Walter were also included in what must have been an amazing exhibition.

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Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material

The Eassons had a number of general books on the history of England during the period of Blakes life, books by or about people of the period, etc. They are included here as a record of the contents of their library. Some 500 or so cheaper titles are also listed at a substantial discount in the Romanticism section at the end of the catalogue. The Eassons also collected the works of Paul Peter Piech, a personal friend of theirs and a devotee of Blake; several of his pieces are offered at the end of this section. Cooke, Arnold. Three Songs of Innocence for Soprano, Clarinet in A, and Piano. Words by William Blake, Music by Arnold Cooke. London: Oxford University Press, 1960. 4to, 17 pp. Musical score. Black-and-white printed wrappers. Very good. Oxford Solo Songs. Cowell, Henry. Daybreak for Voice and Piano. Words by William Blake. New York: Peer International Corporation, 1950. 4to, 3 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. Crosse, Gordon. Changes. A Nocturnal Cycle, for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra. Vocal Score. London: Oxford University Press, [1967]. 4to. 90 pp. Black wrappers with yellow and white printing to front and back. Mild edgewear. Pages clean and bright. Very good. Two solos are poems by William Blake. Davis, Katherine K. The Lamb. Two-Part Treble Chorus and Piano. Words by William Blake. New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1969. 8vo, 5 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Musical score. Very good. Duke, Vernon. Four Songs with Piano Accompaniment for Medium Voice. Poems by William Blake. New York: Broude Brothers, 1955. 4to, 8 pp. Musical score. Printed salmoncolored wrappers. Very good. Fairchild, Bertram H., Jr. Such Holy Song. Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979. 8vo, 133 pp. Black paper wrappers. Title and author typed on sticker affixed to front. Facsimile of doctoral dissertation submitted to University of Tulsa, 1975. Fairchild, B.H. Such Holy Song. Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1980. 8vo, 114 pp. Blue cloth in blue illustrated dust-jacket. Some wear. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 469. Fitch, Donald. Blake Set to Music. A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems and Prose of William Blake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Large 8vo, xxix, 281 pp. Blue cloth. Silver gilt lettering to front and backstrip. Very good. A very useful bibliography of the numerous musical interpretations of Blakes work. Aside

from Blake himself singing his own poems, the earliest musical compositions date from the early 1870s. Gamble, Jane. Music and the Poetry of William Blake: Settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten. Unpublished typed manuscript by Blake scholar Jane Gamble. Includes marginal notes in pen with handwritten bibliography. Rough Draft written in pencil on front page. Very good. Goehr, Alexander. Five Poems and an Epigram of William Blake. London: Schott and Co. Ltd., 1965. 8vo, 28 pp. Orange printed wrappers. Musical score. Very good. Goldman, Richard Frank. Two Poems of William Blake. To a Lovely Myrtle Bound. The Shepherd. For Medium Voice and Piano (EG). New York: Mercury Music Corporation, 1952. 4to, 5 pp. Musical score. Printed green wrappers. Very good. Gray, Alan. Part Songs by Modern Composers. No. 51. How Sweet I Roamed. Words by Blake, Music by Alan Gray. London: Laudy and Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, 7 pp. Black-and-white printed wrappers. Musical score. William Blakes How Sweet I Roamed. Bosworth and Co., Ltd stamped to front. Very good. Gray, Alan. Part Songs by Modern Composers. No. 52. My Silks and Fine Array. Words by Blake, Music by Alan Gray. London: Laudy and Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, 7 pp. Black-and-white printed wrappers. Musical score. William Blakes My Silks and Fine Array. Bosworth and Co., Ltd stamped to front. Very good. Gray, Alan. Part Songs by Modern Composers. No. 53. Love and Harmony. Words by Blake, Music by Alan Gray. London: Laudy and Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, 7 pp. Black-and-white printed wrappers. Musical score. William Blakes Love and Harmony. Bosworth and Co., Ltd stamped to front. Very good. Hill, Alfred. Piping Down the Valleys Wild. Trio for Womens Voices. Words by William Blake. Music by Alfred Hill. Melbourne: Allan and Co. Prop. Ltd., 1936. 8vo, 6 pp. Musical score. Very good. Allans Part Songs No. 324. Hindemith, Paul. Nine English Songs The Wild Flowers Song (William Blake) High: e = g; Medium: d = f. New York: B. Schotts Soene, 1968. 4to, 4 pp. Printed wrappers.

Blake poem on verso of front wrapper with musical score to follow. Very good. Howells, Herbert. Piping Down the Valleys Wild. Two Part Song. Poem by William Blake. Music by Herbert Howells. USA: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc., 1960. 8vo, 6 pp. Musical score. Very good. Kagen, Sergius. Memory, Hither Come ( William Blake). For Medium Voice and Piano (DF#). New York: Mercury Music Corporation, 1952. 4to, 5 pp. Musical score. Printed red wrappers. Very good. Kemp, Walter. Five Poems of William Blake. Ontario, Canada: BMI Canada Limited, 1967. 8vo, 23 pp. Blackand-white printed wrappers. Musical score. Very good. Kirk, Theron. Four William Blake Songs. Park Ridge, IL: Pallma Music Co., 1974. 8vo, 11 pp. Musical score. Light blue printed wrappers. Complimentary stamped to upper right corner. Very good. Artist Choir Series. Krenek, Ernst. Two Settings of Poems by William Blake For Mixed Chorus (SATB) a capella. New York: Rongwen Music, Inc., 1977. Small 4to, 12 pp. Printed wrappers with Examination Copy stamped to front cover. Only contains I Heard an Angel. Very good. Krenek, Ernst. Two Settings of Poems by William Blake For Mixed Chorus (SATB) a capella. New York: Rongwen Music, Inc., 1977. Small 4to, 7 pp. Printed wrappers with Examination Copy stamped to front cover. Only contains I Askd a Thief. Very good. MacNutt, Walter. Two Songs of William Blake from Songs of Innocence. Voice and Piano. 1. The Lamb; 2. Spring by Walter MacNutt. Toronto, Canada: BMI Canada Limited, 1959. 4to, 7 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. Morawetz, Oskar. Piping Down the Valleys Wild. Words by William Blake. Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson Limited, 1953. 4to, 7 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. Neufeld, Ken. Three Songs of Innocence. Words by William Blake. Music by Ken Neufeld. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Aberdeen Music, Inc., 1979. 8vo, 28 pp. Musical score. Light blue and gray printed wrappers. Very good.

blake set to music

1114. 49 items: $750 the lot Arnold, Malcolm. Five William Blake Songs, op. 66. For Contralto and String Orchestra. London: Halston and Co. Ltd., 1966. 4to, 29 pp. Musical score. Printed blue wrappers. Copyright 1966 by British and Continental Music Agencies Ltd. Very good. Bezanson, Philip. Songs of Innocence. New York: American Composers Alliance, [n.d.]. Folio, 67 pp. Facsimile musical score. Yellow wrappers with title affixed to front. Pages lightly browned. Very good. American Composers edition. Composers Facsimile edition. Binkerd, Gordon. Infant Joy Poem by William Blake. USA: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc., 1971. 8vo, 12 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers with Blake poem in verse on verso of front wrapper. Very good. Britten, Benjamin. Songs and Proverbs of William Blake for Baritone and Piano. London: Faber Music Limited, [1977]. 4to, 38 pp. Illustrated wrappers with reproduction of a William Blake engraving on front wrapper. Small spots to bottom edge of front wrapper. Light pencil-numbered notations to music. Very good. First published in 1965, this printing is 1977. Brown, Christopher. Four Madrigals for Unaccompanied Mixed Voices. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. 8vo, 48 pp. Red printed wrappers. Musical score. William Blakes Sound the Flute on pp. 3148. Very good. Chapple, Brian. Five Blake Songs for High Voice and Piano. London: Chester Music, 1979. 4to, 27 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. 132

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William Blake Catalogue Pooler, Frank. Contemporary Choral Music. Three Songs from William Blake. New York: Walton Music Corporation, 1970. 8vo, 10 pp. Printed wrappers. Musical score. Very good. Powell, Laurence. To Summer. For Chorus of Mixed Voices Unaccompanied. Poem by Blake. Music by Laurence Powell. Melbourne: Allan and Co. Prop. Ltd., 1930. 8vo, 11 pp. Musical score. Very good. Allans Part Songs No. 434. Read, Gardner. Piping Down the Valleys Wild, Medium or Low Voice [D to E]. Words by William Blake. New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1950. 4to, 7 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. Skolnik, Walter. Piping Down the Valleys Wild. Words by William Blake. Music by Walter Skolnik. Philadelphia, PA: Elkan-Vogel, Co., 1969. 8vo, 11 pp. Musical score. Printed wrappers. Very good. Elkan-Vogel Choral Series 1284. Stupp, Mark A. The Lamb by Mark A. Stupp. Poem by William Blake. Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, 1970. 4to, 5 pp. Musical score. Black, red, and white printed wrappers. Very good. Sacred Solo Series. Starer, Robert. Never Seek to Tell Thy Love. For Mens Chorus (T.T.B.B.) a capella. New York: Southern Music Publishing Company, 1962. 8vo, 11 pp. Printed wrappers. Musical score. Very good. Thompson, Virgil. Five Songs from William Blake. New York: Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., 1953. 4to, 31 pp. Musical score. Illustrated tan wrappers. Very good. Walton, William. A Song for the Lord Mayors Table. A Song Cycle Devised by Christopher Hassall. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 4to, 32 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Blakes Holy Thursday on verso of title-page with musical score for this poem on pp. 1418. Very good. Weissman, Dick. Songs of Innocence. Music and Illustrations by Ellen Raskin. Guitar Arrangement by Dick Weissman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1966. Oblong 8vo, 48 pp. Color woodcut illustrations throughout. Blue cloth boards with blue illustrated dustjacket. Minor edgewear. Kay Long and Roger Easson in ink to front free endpaper. Very good. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 167: the designs make no attempt to follow Blakes style or subject (Raskin). 134 Werle, Frederick. The Shepherd for treble voices. William Blake (Songs of Innocence, 1789). New York: ABI/Alexander Broude, Inc, 1979. 8vo bi-fold. Musical score inside with blue and white cover, advertisements on rear. Minor edgewear. Very good. Williams, Patrick. The Lamb Unison Song. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1951. 8vo, 2 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. Williams, Patrick. Night Unison Song for Schools. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1959. 8vo, 4 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. Williams, Patrick. The Piper Unison Song. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1938. 8vo, 4 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. No. 13 School Song Series. Williams, Patrick. The Shepherd. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1950. 8vo, 3 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. Williams, Patrick. Spring. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1957. 8vo, 2 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. Williams, Patrick. The Tiger. Words by William Blake. Music by Patrick Williams. London: Bosworth and Co., 1962. 8vo, 4 pp. (one folded leaf ). Loose sheet music. Musical score. Very good. For the Wellington College Small Choir. Wood, Joseph. The Lamb, Mixed Chorus. Poem by William Blake. New York: Circle Blue Print, Co., 1956. Folio, bifold, musical score composed by Joseph Wood. Pages browned. Very good. Wood, Joseph. The Tiger, Mixed Chorus. Poem by William Blake. New York: Circle Blue Print, Co., 1956. Folio, bifold, musical score composed by Joseph Wood. Pages browned. Very good.

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1115. American Blake Foundation. [Collection of ephemera, including transparencies, prints, proofs etc. for the Genesis Manuscript, America, Milton, and a group of miscellaneous black and white prints, transparencies and color separations etc.]. [Memphis: ABF, 197478]. Two large envelopes containing the material; in good condition though a few plates worn at the edges from handling. $300. An interesting group of materials relating to ABF publications including the suite of separations for the Genesis manuscript which was actually printed in proof and of which two copies are known to exist. America and Milton were issued, respectively, in 1974 and 1978. 1116. Bewick, Thomas. [Introduction by Edmund Blunden]. Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Written by himself, 18221828 (with numerous wood engravings by T. Bewick). With an introduction by Edmund Blunden. London: Centaur Press, 1961. 8vo, 274 pp. Illustrated. Dark blue cloth in orange-and-white dust-jacket. Tears to jacket especially along folds and edges. Top edge dyed blue. Very good. $30. First edition. Bewick (17531828) was an almost exact contemporary of Blake (17571827) but there is no record that they met or even knew each other. Bewick would have been aware of Blake since he helped Cromek distribute The Grave in his part of England, but beyond that Bentley, etc., note no connection. Blake only once attempted woodengraving, Bewicks forte, and in such a different style that no influence can be discerned. See Bentley, Blake Records (2nd ed.), p. 262. 1117. [Blake, William]. The Tigers Eye. Woodstock, VT: The Elm Street Press, [n.d.]. 8vo, 108 pp. Illustrations from Blakes engravings on pp. 7275. Illustrated wrappers, with chipping to backstrip and creasing to front and back. Pages with some browning to edges. Internally very good. $30. 1118. Blake, William, Housekeeper (not the poet). The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or A Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the easie carrying of it on [fly-title]. [London, 1670]. 8vo, 292, (1) pp. with 4 engraved plates at the front. Original black morocco with simple gilt-decorated panels of ornaments on the covers, a fine copy. $1750. First edition. A famous example of a publication for charity. Several copies were bound for presentation in an

elaborate fashion, with individual presentation gilt stamps on the covers (see Mirjam Foot, The Charity School Binder, The Book Collector, Spring, 1983). William Blake (not the poet) was the founder and keeper of the Ladies Charity School, a boarding house school for homeless or destitute children which was entirely dependant on charitable contributions. Here Blake thanks his patrons and appeals to other ladies for charity. The second part of the text, Silver Drops, or Serious Things, is a treatise by Blake on charity. Wing B-3152. Description in part from the Brick Row Book Shop copy in a presentation binding. 1119. Boldereff, Frances M. A Blakean Translation of Joyces Circe. Woodward, PA: Classic Non-Fiction Library, 1965. 8vo, 178 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Lightly worn. Very good. $15. First edition. Ulysses is treated in its entirety as an allegory based on Joyces use of Blakean symbolism (jacket blurb). 1120. Brostrom, Torben, ed. Denmarkings: Danish Literature Today. Copenhagen: A/S J. Jorgensen og Co., 1982. Folio, 20 pp. Illustrated Danish newspaper highlighting the literary world of Danish writers. Includes marginal poetry, photos, essays, and news. Very good. $5. No obvious connection to Blake beyond being in Eassons Blake collection. 1121. Buryn, Ed. The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imaginations. San Francisco: Harper Collins, [1995]. 8vosized shrink-wrapped box of 56 Creative Process cards with symbol windows; 22 Triumph cards; 1 Eternity Card; Interpretive key-phrases card; Instruction book, including the Four-Fold Vision and Creative Process spreads. New. $25. An unopened set of Blake Tarot cards. 1122. Carlson, Thomas C. The Twin Parables of Melvilles Israel Potter. Memphis, TN: Memphis State University, [n.d.]. 4 leaf offprint from The American Transcendental Quarterly (pp [85]92), stapled at top left corner with inscription To Roger and Kay / Tom Carlson. Very good. $10. 1123. Cruikshank, Robert. A.L.s. to Mr. Cumberland. No place (but London?): no date (ca. 1820?). 2 pp., small 4to, written in brown ink on one side and addressed on the other with a watercolor drawing by Cruikshank. $1500. A tantalizing letter addressed only to Mr. Cumberland. 135

William Blake Catalogue The letter reads (in part): If convenient please to send me the dust. have you any command please to write a few lines. will you request Mr. B to send me some wood I have sent to him but have only one block back. Boldly signed R Ck. On the verso is written Mr. Cumberland beside a charming watercolor of an exceptionally portly gentleman in a hat and an exceptionally skinny figure doffing his hat (perhaps the artist importuning his patron). A search of Blake Records failed to locate a single reference to Robert Cruikshank but, of course, hundreds to George Cumberland. The more likely possibility is John Cumberland, the publisher whose Cumberlands Minor Theatre was illustrated by Cruikshank. 1124. Double Crown Club. 24th Dinner at Kettners Jan 30th 1930. [London, 1930]. 8vo, [8] pp. printed on one side only, in color. Original plain wrappers. Fine. $300. The wonderful invitation to a dinner talk by Geoffrey Keynes on The Book Production Methods of William Blake, designed and illustrated in imitation of Blakes designs by T[om] P[oulton] and Keynes, and printed by the Chiswick Press. Provided by Ed Maggsthe only example I have ever seen. Mr. Maggs thinks TP is Tom Poulton, an English artist and illustrator who was also a prolific erotic artist (recently published by Taschen). 1125. Dowden, George. Renew Jerusalem. New York: Smyrna Press, 1969. 8vo, [48] pp. Blake illustration to front wrapper. Very good. $10 1126. Duffy, Maureen. All Heaven in a Rage. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1973. 8vo, 207 pp. Quarter cloth with red paper boards. Illustrated dust-jacket. Mild edgewear. Very good. $15. First American edition. Ms Duffy was a legend in London in the 1950s and 1960s as an out lesbian whose novel The Microcosm was set in the famous Gateways Club. What this all has to do with Blake is unclear but the title is from Blake and the last owner was Easson. 1127. Eldridge, Aethelred and Alexandra. Golgonooza. News from Golgonooza. Vol. Ivol. XI [and associated ephemera]. Millfield, Ohio, etc.: [ca. 19731976]. Approximately 40 items including the newsletter issues, 81/2 11 inches (21.6 27.9 cm.), small 8vo, folded broadsides, etc., some stapled, with numerous other offprints, mimeos, etc. $750. Eldridges material is by its nature rare in the marketplace. In this collection, in addition to the Newsletters, there are 4 autograph letters from Alexandra seeking referrals to publishers, Blake support, etc., from Roger and Kay Easson who founded the American Blake Foundation. Also found here are The Golgonooza Organ, a poster; Sleepers in the world unite inscribed by Alexandra; a newspaper account of the building of the scriptorium in 1976; the Golgonooza Loose Leaf magazine, a stapled promotional piece with two letters from Alexandra asking for guidance inserted; two advertisements; 9 single sheets 53/4 9 inches (14.6 22.8 cm.) with text and illustrations by Aethelred; 2 copies of Dear seated reader; a 9 pp. stapled pamphlet; half a dozen other ephemeral items; and two envelopes addressed by Alexandra to the Eassons containing printed items. Eldridge, who apparently is still in Ohio, has an entry in Wikipedia which reads: thelred Eldridge (born James Edward Leonard Eldridge on April 21, 1930 in Monroe, Michigan) is currently an Associate

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material Professor at the Ohio University School of Art where he has been educating since 1957. He teaches classes which are very well attended by many different disciplines of students and are presented in a very stream-of-consciousness-style. He was a college football player at University of Michigan and an officer of the US Navy prior to teaching. He is most well known for his black and white art accompanied by esoteric writings inspired by William Blake. His artwork can be seen all around the world and specifically in the Athens, OH area. He is the founder of the Church of William Blake. See Bentley, Blake Books, A1946. 1128. Goldstein, Laurence, Editor. Antipodes. Brown University, Providence, RI: Hellcoal Press, 1969. 4to, 20 pp. Bright yellow printed wrappers. Signed on title-page by Goldstein. Very good. $15. Volume 1, Number 8. Collection of poetry. 1129. Goldstein, Laurence, Editor. Los. Brown University, Providence, RI: Hellcoal Press, 1968. 4to, 20 pp. Illustrated throughout in bright yellow illustrated stapled wrappers. Very good. $15. Volume 2, Number 1. Collection of art and poetry. 1130. Hargett, Gil and Timothy Harrison. Fifteen Sayings and One Poem. Normal, IL: Gil Hargett and Timothy Harrison, 1973. 8vo, [24] pp. Illustrated with original artwork and calligraphy on brown paper. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Gil to Roger and Kay Easson. Near fine. $5. First printing, limited edition. 1131. Hawley, Henry. Neo-Classicism Style and Motif. With an Essay by Reny G. Saisselin. Cleveland: Museum of Art, 1964. Small 4to, vi, 168 pp. With 193 illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket, some underlining in pencil at front. $35. An interesting exhibition, including one drawing by Blake. 1132. Hepworth, Brian. Robert Lowth. Boston: Twayne Publishers, a Division of G.K. Hall and Co., 1978. 8vo, 215 pp. Frontispiece. Full red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very good. $15. First printing. Twaynes English Authors Series: 224. Robert Lowth, FRS (27 November 1710 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar. Lowths theories about Hebrew poetry may have influenced Blakes prosody. 1133. Hirschman, Jack. William Blake. Topanga: The Love Press, 1967. 8vo, [12] pp. loosely inserted inside blue card illustrated wrappers. Inscribed and signed by author of inside front wrapper. Some sun fading to edges. Very good. $35. Birthday edition of 300. Cover by George Herms (important California assemblage artist, and publisher of LOVE Press). 1134. Jay, Paul. Being in the Text: Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 8vo, 189 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. $10. First paperback edition. No specific reference to Blake. 1135. Jones, Inigo and William Stukeley. The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain. Restored, By Inigo Jones, Esq To which are added, The Chorea Gigantum, or, Stone-Heng Restored to the Danes, By Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webbs Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored, In Answer to Dr. Charletons Reflections;. Before the whole are prefixed, Certain Memoirs relating to the Life of Inigo Jones [bound with] Abury, a Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described London: Printed for D. Browne Junior, etc., 1725; and London: for the authors, 1743. Folio, [ivii], 172 pp. Frontis, 12 pl, 3 illus in pagination; [ix], 148 pp. Frontis, 1 plate; [ivii], 1228 pp. 11 illustrations within the pagination. [114, index to all 3 works] pp. (with) Stukeley: [ivi, t-p(2), dedication to Henry, Earl of Pembroke(4)], ivi (preface), 1102, ivi pp. Frontispiece (giant foldout of view of Abury), 39 plates (2 of which are narrow, horizontal foldouts), and 2 illustrations within the pagination. Contemporary green straight-grain morocco, backstrip richly gilt, covers panelled with gilt, gilt edges, a luxury binding of the period in fine condition. Bookplate of the Ragley Hall library. $6750. A beautiful large-paper and luxuriously bound copy of the (second and) best edition of the first title, supplemented by the addition of the first edition of Stukeleys famous study of Avebury (volume II, the first volume concerning Stonehenge is not present). There is a slight William Blake association for this book since the plate facing p. 14 is often cited as a reference for the final page of Blakes Jerusalem and scholars have concluded that Blake may have owned

item 1124. Menu for Double Crown Club dinner featuring a talk by Geoffrey Keynes. Designed and illustrated by Tom Poulton.

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William Blake Catalogue a copy or at least been familiar with this edition. Blakes representations of cromlechs and the serpent temple on the final plate of Jerusalem may have been influenced by Stukeleys publications. This copy is bound without the title-page following the general title and the 2-page preface, according to Fowler ( pp. 13132). 1136. Keynes, Geoffrey. William Pickering, Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his Publications. London: The Galahad Press, 1969. 8vo, 125 pp. 37 illustrations of title-pages. Full cloth with some edgewear. Boards lightly bowed. Printed dust-jacket with a few closed tears. Very good. $75. First limited edition, number 20 of 100 signed by Geoffrey Keynes. 1137. Kitagawa, Joseph M. and Charles H. Long, eds. Myths and Symbols. Studies in Honor of Mircea Eliade. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. 8vo, [8], 438 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Eliade. Dust-jack$40. et, light wear, sunning at backstrip. Desire Hirsts copy; nothing on Blake. 1138. Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. 4to, xix; 471 pp. 220 illustrations. Blue cloth, printed dust-jacket. Very good. $275. First edition. A standard work of reference usually acknowledged in glowing terms: This book is perhaps the best study of the relationship between the related arts of painting, writing, and theatre ever produced. The author was the Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University at the time (Dragon Books). 1139. Mitchell, Adrian. Tyger. A Celebration Based on the Life and Work of William Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Small 8vo, 87 pp. Orange wrappers, slightly curled at edges. Ink annotations. Good. $10. A play performed by the National Theatre at the New Theatre in 1971. Bentley, Blake Books, A2232 on page 985. 1140. Mitchell, Adrian. Programme. Tyger. A Celebration Based on the Life and Work of William Blake. London: National Theatre at the New Theatre, Tuesday, July 20, 1971. Slim 8vo, 24 pp. Essay on Blake and Slavery. 2 pp., with three views of the life mask of William Blake and reproductions of the first and last plates from Illustrations of the Book of Job. Orange wrappers. Very good. $10. Programme for the National Theatre at the New Theatre. 1141. Nairne, A. The Book of Job. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935. 8vo, 81 pp. 4 illustrations. Red cloth. Gilt to backstrip. Some bumping to corners. Very good. $15. First edition. Briefly mentions Blake and reproduces 4 plates. 1142. Nelson, R.F. Blakes Progress. Introduced by Terry Carr. Toronto, New York, London: Laser Books, 1975. Small 8vo, 190 pp. and one leaf advertisements. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. sold. First edition of this science fiction novel based on the life of Mrs. Blake. Laser Books number 13, series edited by Roger Elwood. An enjoyable and surprisingly well-researched novel. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 585. 1143. Officina Bodoni. Baskin, Leonard. To Colour Thought. New Haven: The Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library, 1967. 8vo, 27, (4) pp. Color frontispiece and nine plates. Quarter brown leather over gray boards, backstrip gilt-lettered, gilt top. Backstrip slightly faded, otherwise as issued. $225. First edition. Number 150 of 300 copies. A lecture given by Leonard Baskin at Yale on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on May 9, 1966. Illustrated with plates from books in the Yale collection, showing the development of illustration, including a beautiful color frontispiece of Blakes rarely seen image The Book of My Remembrance. Mardersteig Bib., 150. 1144. [Plays] Lamb, Charles. [A nonce collection of ten plays bound together, supposedly once owned by Charles Lamb] Venice Preserved; The Woodmans Hut; The Grecian Daughter; Love in a Village; Guy Mannering; The Castle Spectre; The Rivals; Where shall I Dine; Love Laughs at Locksmiths; [and] Blue Devils. London: Oxberrys Edition, v.ds [all ca. 1820]. Small 8vo, old boards, cloth backstrip with small paper manuscript label. Bookplate at front (see below). $200. Interesting collection of plays, in a volume with a printed bookplate reading: Relics of Charles Lamb Purchased at Edward Moxons Sale by Francis Jackson Esq. [etc.]. Purportedly Francis Jackson, a well-known 19th-century collector, purchased numerous relics such as books, furni-

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material ture, etc., from the estate of Charles Lamb sold by Moxon. A rigorous examination of a large number of items acquired by Harvard in the 20th century after the sale of Jacksons grandsons estate gives no reason to believe that any of the books with this label had in fact ever belonged to Lamb. Equally tenuous is the grandsons bare-faced assertion that his grandfather knew William Blake and sat at his feet. Bentley notes that Jackson would have been seventeen when Blake died and we have only Jacksons word for the association of his father with Blakes disciples. See Bentley: Richard C. Jackson Collector of Treasures and Wishes in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Winter 2002/2003, pp. 92 et seq. 1145. Raine, Kathleen. The Land Unknown. New York: George Braziller, 1975. 8vo, 207 pp. Red paper over boards, gilt lettering to backstrip. Printed gold dust-jacket. Kay Parkhurst Easson [former owner] in ink to front free endpaper. Very good. $20. Stated first printing. 1146. Raine, Kathleen and George Mills Harper. Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings. Bollingen Series LXXXVIII. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1969]. 8vo, xiii [1], 544 pp., 24 plates. Dust-jacket, some wear and short tears to edges and rubbed at joints. $50. First edition of this important text. 1147. Schiavonetti, N[iccolo]. AMS regarding the death of his brother Luigi. Brompton, June 19, 1810. Oblong 12mo, beautifully written in copperplate script on one side of the page, bordered in black. $575. A sad but interesting association item, being the thanks (in the third person) sent by Schiavonetti to Benjamin West for condolences on the death of his brother Luigi, the engraver of Blakes The Grave illustrations and perhaps the most renowned commercial engraver of his day. West was of course the famous American artist, founder (with Reynolds) and second president of the Royal Academy. The Schiavonettis would have been well known to him; the note reads: Mr. N. Schiavonetti respectfully returns thanks to Benjamin West Esq. for the last mark of respect paid to the remains of his lamented brother. Luigi died on June 7, 1810, leaving unfinished his work on Stothards Canterbury Pilgrims, which was completed by Niccolo to compete with Blakes monumental engraving on the same subject. 1148. Simon, Robin and Christopher Woodward, eds. A Rakes Progress: From Hogarth to Hockney. London: Sir John Soanes Museum, 1997. 4to, 40 pp. 24 color and blackand-white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. $10. This volume was published to accompany an exhibition at Sir John Soanes Museum, 26 March 31 August, 1997. 1149. Smith, Patti. Wool Gathering. New York and Madras: Hanuman Books, 1992. Small 12mo, 80, [1] pp. Photograph frontispiece and one interior photograph. Plain green wrappers with red and blue dust-jacket. Lettered in gilt to front of jacket. Light wear to corners and edges. Very good, quite scarce in decent condition. $25. First edition. Nine short essays by the musician, poet, and William Blake fan. 1150. Stevens, John. The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches. Being two additional volumes to Sir W. Dugdales Monasticon Anglicanum London: Tho. Taylor [etc.], 17221723. 3 vols. in 2, folio, (14), 538, (2, index) pp.; 19 plates, some folding: (4), 279; 31 plates, some folding: [appendix] 388, (4, index) pp. Old calf somewhat battered but sound. Roger Eassons copy. $675. First edition of Stevens supplement to Dugdales Monasticon Anglicanum. DNB notes of Stevens: His abridgement in English of Dugdales Monasticon Anglicanum (1718) was followed by a two-volume supplement (17221723), containing some 500 additional monastic charters in English translation. It improved on Dugdale by covering the mendicant orders and including biographical accounts of monastic writers, and for the first time it treated pre- and post-Reformation monastic history as a continuum. Stevens did not attempt the task of historical interpretation (partly to avoid the charge of Catholic bias), and his presentation of the documents in English translation rather than in the original Latin did not please the academic purists (such as Thomas Hearne), but these criticisms are outweighed by the scale of his single-handed achievement as a collector of scattered material who opened up the monastic past to a non-professional readership. 1151. Stone, Roy. The Destruction of Vancouver. Vancouver, Canada: Pulp Press, 1973. 8vo, [27] pp. Stapled printed wraps. Light browning to pages. Anarchy bulletin loosely

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William Blake Catalogue inserted along with a postcard announcing that Wm. Blake is alive in Vancouver and writes under the alias Roy Stone Very good. $5. Pulp Content No. 1. 1/4/73. 1152. Swedenborg, Emanuel. The Wisdom of Angels Concerning the Divine Providence. Translated from the Latin Originally Published in Amsterdam, Anno 1764. London: Hindmarsh, 1790. 8vo, 600 pp. Original sheets sewn but not bound, enclosed in a new cloth box. A fine untrimmed copy complete with half-title. $375. First edition in English. A key Swedenborgian text, this edition was read by Blake whose copy (once owned by Keynes) is now in the Cambridge University Library. Bentley, Blake Books, 743. 1153. [Theater] The University of Chicago Magazine. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1970. 4to, 44 pp. Illustrated, including an image on page 29 from William Blakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell as performed at Rockefeller Chapel by The Cain Company of the University of Chicago. Red printed wrappers. Very good. $10. 1154. Todd, Ruthven. Ten Poems. [Edinburgh: University Press], 1940. Slim small 8vo, [16] pp. Original pink wrappers, white printed label on upper cover, a very fine copy. $375. First edition, limited to 150 copies signed by the author. Presentation copy inscribed by Todd to Dunstan Thompson: For Dunstan with love from Ruthven 21.5.1944. Todd was a Scottish artist, poet, and novelist, and an authority on the works of William Blake. Dunstan Thompson was an American poet who edited the literary magazine Vice Versa, published two books of poetry Poems (1943) and Lament for the Sleepwalker (1947) and a novel The Dove with the Bough of Olive (1942). He served in the US Army and settled in England after the war; a travel book, The Phoenix in the Desert, came out in 1951 after which he disappeared. He died in 1974 and two posthumous collections of his verse were published in England. A very rare little booklet in commerce. 1155. Todd, Ruthven. The Planet in My Hand. Twelve Poems. [London: Chiswick Press], 1944. Slim small 8vo, v, 17, (1, colophon) pp. Original pale blue printed wrappers. $375. Limited to 50 copies printed for the author and Mavis de Vere Cole. Inscribed by the author to the American poet Dunstan Thompson: Dunstan with love and 140 Ruthven 4 xi 1944 in Todds habitual sanguine ink. Mavis de Vere Cole, a scullery maid and Soho waitress who was briefly married to the notorious prankster Horace de Vere Cole (see DNB) later was the second wife of Sir Mortimer Wheeler and an intimate friend of the even more notorious Augustus John, who fathered her son in his waning years. Described as unashamedly libidinous, de Vere Cole divorced Wheeler in 1942 and shot Lord Vivian in 1954. She died in 1970. 1156. Tyson, Gerald P. Joseph Johnson: A Liberal Publisher. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1979. 8vo, 276 pp. 8 illustrations and illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth stamped in gilt to front cover and backstrip. Lightly soiled covers. Very good. $30. First edition. A biography of the English publisher and frequent employer of Blake, Joseph Johnson (17381809). 1157. Walpole, Horace. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third. Now First Published from the Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant. London: Richard Bentley, 1845. 4 vols., 8vo, with a frontispiece to each volume (foxed). Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped and lettered in gilt, joint to volume IV split at head but sound, a very good set. $125. First edition of this work published posthumously following the death of both the King and Walpole. A general history of the period in England covering Blakes life. 1158. Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpoles Correspondence. Edited by W.S. Lewis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1937 on. 19 vols., roy. 8vo, original blue buckram, lettered in gilt, with illustrations throughout. $275. A good set of volumes 119 (of 48) of this fully annotated and indexed edition, covering all the letters from 17621795 and the three volumes of Horace Mann correspondence. Wilmarth (Lefty) Lewis devoted his life to collecting Horace Walpole and editing his correspondence. He left his residence and its contents to Yale where it is maintained to this day. 1159. [Wilkinson, J.J. Garth] Improvisations from the Spirit. London: White, 1857. 12mo, viii, 408 pp. Full contemporary polished blue calf, gilt-panelled backstrip, marbled edges, a very nice copy with an early manuscript note at the front. $695. First edition of this very scarce collection of poems inspired by William Blake (see Gilchrist 1, 382 and Keynes

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material p. 65). There is a Note (pp. [397]408), containing numerous references to Swedenborg and the New Church, signed and dated: J.J.G.W. St. Johns Wood. June 3, 1857. Garth Wilkinson was responsible for the first typographic edition of Blakes Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1839) to which he wrote the preface (also anonymously). DNB notes: Wilkinson was attracted by the writings of William Blake, and in 1839 he edited his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, with considerable alterations. A volume of his own poems, entitled Improvisations from the Spirit, which appeared in 1857, showed many traces of Blakes influence. Early in life Wilkinson was also introduced, by his maternal uncle George Blakiston Robinson, to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and he became a member of the committee of the Swedenborg Society and of the subcommittee for promoting the issue of a uniform edition of Swedenborgs works. From 1839 he devoted most of his literary energies to the translation and elucidation of Swedenborgs writings. 1160. Willard, Nancy. A Visit to William Blakes Inn. Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travellers. Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provense. New York: HBJ, 1980. Thin 4to, 45 pp. Illus. in color throughout. Original cloth, dust-jacket. $15. Childrens book by a Blake aficionadabut of direct Blake interest for a good deal of accurate information on Blake. Caldecott Prize winner. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 679. 1161. Wilson, Colin. The Glass Cage: An Unconventional Tale of Mystery. New York: Random House, 1966. 8vo, 209 pp. Quarter cloth with blue boards. Illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. $20. First US Printing. A murder mystery involving a Blake scholar. Plenty of sex and violence too, typical Colin Wilson (if not of most Blake scholars).

easson slide sets

1162. These sets of slides were used by Easson for lecturing on Blake. They still seem to be in good condition and functional. For sale as a collection (listed as packaged and labeled by Easson, not examined out of the packaging). The lot: $750. Book of Ahania America I O Bunyan Dante Engravings Europe L K Fall of Man Gates of Paradise D F G L Genesis The Grave Gray Jerusalem B Trianon Pl 1100 Job Marriage of Heaven and Hell I H Milton A B Night Thoughts Religion All Religions are One No Natural Religion, ser. A and B Song of Los, Brit. Mus. E A Songs B (Exp. Only) E (Huntington) I (Huntington) N R Y Urizen C G Others Nat. Gallery of Victoria Blake Series Fuseli Hogarth(3 pouches) Romantics Slide Packs Romantic Landscape Britain Constable Turner Claude Salisbury (strip) Westminster Abbey Wrens St. Pauls

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Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material American Blake Foundation. $275. Postcard With Love to Humanity image of a skull printed in red, written and sent to the Eassons. Postcard Peace is just understanding people [and] helping them image of two people clasping hands, printed in blue, written and sent to the Eassons. Folding card Peace in 79 image of dove printed in blue, written and sent to the Eassons. 9 proof sheets on glossy paper with images of Blake titles. Single proof sheet on brown paper The shadow daughter of Orthona. Single proof sheet on card Sparks of Fire: Blake. 1179. Meena Alexander. Women In Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. Barnes and Noble Books, 1989. ISBN 038920885X, pbk. 1180. Steven E. Alfrod. Irony and the Logic of the Romantic Imagination. Peter Lang, 1984. ISBN 0820401102, pbk. 1181. Paul Kent Alkon. Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline. Northwestern University Press, 1967. No ISBN, cloth. 1182. Robert J. Allen, ed. Addison and Steele: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996. No ISBN, pbk. 1183. Hermione de Almeida. Romantic Medicine and John Keats. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0195063074, cloth and dj. 1184. Patricia Anderson. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 17901860. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0198182767, pbk. 1185. Anon. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes. Trans. J. Gerald Markley. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1954. No ISBN, pbk. 1186. Philippe Aries. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Trans. Robert Baldick. Vintage Books, 1962. ISBN 0394702867, pbk. 1187. Margaret Armstrong. Trelawny: A Mans Life. Macmillan Company, 1940. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1188. Nancy Armstrong. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0195061608, pbk. 1189. Stanley Ayling. Edmund Burke: His Life and Opinions. St. Martins Press, 1988. ISBN 0312026862, cloth and dj. 1190. Paula Backscheider. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801845122, pbk. 1191. Paul Baines and Edward Burns, eds. Five Romantic Plays, 17681821. Horace Walpoles The Mysterious Mother, Robert Southeys Wat Tyler, Joanna Baillies De Monfort, Elizabeth Inchbald Lovers Vows, Lord Byrons 143

the paul peter piech collection

The Eassons were friends and admirers of this interesting American artist, who lived and worked much of his life in England (in advertising). Piech was noted for his private press productions of works by William Blake as well as pro-peace material and religious pamphlets and broadsides, usually printed in very small numbers. There are several letters from him to the Eassons and some original artwork, linocuts, inscriptions, etc. 1163. America. Introductions by Hugo Manning and Roger R. Easson. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, 1977. 4to, 40 pp., being the original artwork pasted up for reproduction. Edges creased, otherwise good. $350. A good example of how Piech makes his art. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 58. 1164. America. A Prophecy. Poem by William Blake. Illustrated by Paul Peter Piech. England: Taurus Press, [1977]. 4to, 37 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth with gilt lettering. $150. Very good. Limited edition, number 61 of 100. Signed by Piech. Inscribed on title-page in bold ink to Kay and Roger Easson by Paul Peter Piech, dated September 1977. Includes a postcard from Piech and a letter also signed by Piech to Kay and Roger loosely inserted. The dedication copy, in effect: the publication was produced with support from the Eassons American Blake Foundation and the inscription mentions their splendid interest and aid. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 58. 1165. America. A Prophecy. Poem by William Blake. Illustrated by Paul Peter Piech. England: Taurus Press, [1977]. 4to, 37 pp. Illustrated. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Very good. $100. Limited edition, number 18 of 100. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 58. 1166. The Divine Image by William Blake. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1970]. Slim sm. 8vo, 8 pp. including selfwrappers. $45. Limited to 300 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 246A. 1167. The Fly by William Blake. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1968]. Slim sm. 8vo, 5 pp. Original orange wrappers. $25.

Limited to 200 copies. He was born in 1920 and died in 1976. Bentley, Blake Books, 255. 1168. The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1968?]. Slim sm. 8vo, 7 pp. Original black wrappers with white label. $25. Limited to 200 copies. Not in Bentley, Blake Books or Blake Books Supplement. 1169. Tyger! Tyger! Calligraphy by David Howells. Illustrated by Edward Bawden and Paul Peter Piech. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [19691974?]. Oblong 4to, [8] leaves. Calligraphy print. Illustrated. Yellow cloth with title set inside paper label affixed to front cover. Very good. $250. Limited edition, number 7 of 65, dated to ?1969 by Bentley, but to 1974 in Bertram Rota, cat. 257 of May 1991, item 540 ($110). One of Piechs most successful (and amazing) renderings of Blake, with a foldout double-page illustration. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 167. 1170. Auguries of Innocence by William Blake. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1970?]. Slim sm. 8vo, 19 pp. Original black wrappers with white label, with text sewed inside in blue wrappers. $50. Limited to 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 225A. 1171. Holy Thursday by William Blake. From Songs of Innocence [and] From Songs of Experience. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1972?]. Oblong 8vo, 15 pp. Original brown cloth with printed label. $50. Limited to 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, A260 on page 954. 1172. Proverbs of Hell by William Blake. Bushey Heath: Taurus Press, [1974]. Tall 8vo, 23 pp. Original white printed wrappers. $45. Limited to 125 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, A260 on page 954. 1173. [A group of 8 posters] [N.p.], 19731976. 8 posters, various sizes, in very good condition, printed in several colors and with illustrations, calligraphic text, etc. $375. Limited to between 25 and 50 copies each, these powerful broadsides or posters are among Piechs strongest work. 1174. [Ephemera as listed] [V.p.: v.d.] 6 items and several articles and offprints about Piech, and two original woodblocks and two linocuts created to print a logo for the

romanticism
This section contains 18th- and 19th-century texts and studies from the Eassons collections. Many of these titles directly reference Blake and his circle and followers but are listed here as inexpensive reading texts for students and scholars. The books are as listed by Easson: authors first and last names, then chronologically within author. Please note: many books have underlinings, annotations, etc., in ink or in pencil as the Eassons often read their books closely. Sets of books listed separately by volume will count as one book if the entire set is purchased. The ISBN number is provided if available. Paperbacks (marked pbk) are $5 each, hardcovers are $10. Special discounts for multiple purchases 20% off for 3 to 5 titles; 40% off for 6 to 9 titles; 50% off for 10 or more titles. 1175. M.H. Abrams, ed. English Romantic Poets. Modern Essays in Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1960. No ISBN, pbk. 1176. M.H. Abrams, ed. English Romantic Poets. Modern Essays in Criticism. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 1975. ISBN 0195019466, pbk. 1177. M.H. Abrams. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1971. 1178. M.H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN 0195014715, pbk.

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William Blake Catalogue The Two Foscari. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0192833162, pbk. 1192. Francis Barrett. The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy. Two books bound as one. Citadel Press, 1975. ISBN 0806504625, pbk. 1193. Christine Battersby. Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. Indiana University Press, 1989. ISBN 0253205786, pbk. 1194. Jonathan Bate. Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0198128487, cloth and dj. 1195. Jonathan Bate. Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0451061164, pbk. 1196. Walter Jackson Bate. The Achievement of Samuel Johnson. Oxford University Press, 1961. No ISBN, pbk 1197. Walter Jackson Bate. From Classic To Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England. Harper and Row, 1961. No ISBN, pbk. 1198. Walter Jackson Bate. John Keats. Oxford University Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1199. Walter Jackson Bate. Coleridge. Macmillan Company, 1968. No ISBN, cloth. 1200. Walter Jackson Bate. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1970. ISBN 039300590, pbk. 1201. Walter Jackson Bate. Samuel Johnson. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. ISBN 0151792607, cloth and dj. 1202. Martin C. Battestin, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tom Jones: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall, 1968. No ISBN, pbk. 1203. Martin C. Battestin and Ruthe R. Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1993. ISBN 0415097150, pbk. 1204. George L. Barnett. Eighteenth Century British Novelists on the Novel. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. No ISBN, pbk. 144 1205. Roland Bartel, ed. Johnsons London: Selected Source Materials for College Research Papers. D.C. Heath and Company, 1956. No ISBN, pbk. 1206. J. Robert Barth, ed. Coleridge, Keats and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adams Dream: Essays in Honor of Walter Jackson Bate. University of Missouri Press, 1990. ISBN 0826207138, cloth and dj. 1207. John Bayley. The Romantic Survival: A Study in Poetic Evolution. Constable, 1964. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1208. Frederick L. Beaty. Light from Heaven: Love in British Romantic Literature. Northern Illinois University Press, 1971. ISBN 0875800289, cloth and dj. 1209. John Beer. Wordsworth and the Human Heart. Columbia University Press, 1978. ISBN 0231046464, cloth and dj. 1210. John Beer, ed. Questioning Romanticism. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN 0801850533, pbk. 1211. Henry A. Beers. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century. Dover Publications, Inc., 1968; first published 1899. No ISBN, pbk. 1212. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1973. ISBN 0393007022, pbk. 1213. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko: An Authoritative Text Historical Backgrounds Criticisms. Ed. Joanna Lipking. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0393970140, pbk. 1214. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works. Ed. Janet Todd. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 014043338-4, pbk. 1215. Stephen C. Behrendt, ed. History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature. Wayne State University Press, 1990. ISBN 0814320104, pbk. 1216. Stephen C. Behrendt, ed. Romanticism, Radicalism and the Press. Wayne State University Press, 1997. ISBN 0814325688, pbk. 1217. Andres Bennett. Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing. Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521445655, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1218. Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson, eds. The Mary Shelley Reader. Containing Frankenstein, Mathilda, Tales and Stories, Essays and Reviews and Letters. Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0195062590, pbk. 1219. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, eds. Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World [An anthology of criticism]. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN 0801851769, pbk. 1220. Marius Bewley, ed. The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology with Commentaries. Modern Library, 1970. No ISBN, cloth. 1221. Alan Bewell. Romanticism and Colonial Disease. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 0801862256, cloth and dj. 1222. Joseph Warren Beach. English Literature of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries: 1798 to the First World War. Collier Books, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1223. Don H. Bialostosky. Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworths Narrative Experiments. University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0226045765, pbk. 1224. Don H. Bialostosky and Lawrence D. Needham, eds. Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature. Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN 0253311802, cloth and dj. 1225. David Bindman. Hogarth. Thames and Hudson, 1994. ISBN 050020182X, pbk. 1226. Joel Black. The Aesthetics of Murder. A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 080184181X, pbk. 1227. William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. A Facsimile of the First edition of 17651769, Volume 1, On the Rights of Persons (1765). University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN 0226055388, pbk. 1228. William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. A Facsimile of the First edition of 17651769, Volume 2, On the Rights of Things (1766). University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN 0226055418, pbk. 1229. William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. A Facsimile of the First edition of 17651769, Volume 3, Of Private Wrongs (1768). University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN 0226055435, pbk. 1230. William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. A Facsimile of the First edition of 17651769, Volume 4, Of Public Wrongs (1769). University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN 0226055450, pbk. 1231. G. Kim Blank, ed. The New Shelley: Later TwentiethCentury Views. St. Martins Press, 1991. ISBN 0312053444, cloth and dj. 1232. Rufus A. Blanshard, ed. Discussions of Alexander Pope. D.C. Heath and Company, 1960. No ISBN, pbk. 1233. Harold Bloom, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1970. ISBN 0393099547, pbk. 1234. Harold Bloom. The Ringers in the Tower: Studies Romantic Tradition. University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN 0226060489, cloth and dj. 1235. Harold Bloom. Figures of Capable Imagination. The Seabury Press, 1976. ISBN 0816492778, cloth and dj. 1236. Donald F. Bond. The Age of Dryden: Goldentree Bibliographies in Language and Literature. AppletonCentury-Crofts, 1970. No ISBN, pbk. 1237. George Bornstein. Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. University of Chicago Press, 1976. ISBN 0226066436, cloth and dj. 1238. James Boswell. Life of Johnson. Oxford University Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1239. James Boswell. Boswells London Journal 17621763. Ed. Frederick A. Pottle. The New American Library, 1956. No ISBN, pbk. 1240. C.M. Bowra. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1241. Richard E. Brantley. Locke, Wesley and the Method of English Romanticism. University of Florida Press, 1983. ISBN 0813007836, cloth and dj. 145

William Blake Catalogue 1242. Fernand Braudel. The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th18th Century. Volume I. Trans. Sian Reynolds. Harper and Row, 1981. ISBN 0060148454, pbk. 1243. Emile Brehier. The Eighteenth Century: The History of Philosophy. Volume 5. Trans. Wade Baskin. University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN 0226072274, pbk. 1244. Louis I. Bredvold, ed. Lord Byron: Don Juan and Other Satirical Poems. Odyssey Press, 1935. No ISBN, cloth. 1245. Louis I. Bredvold. The Natural History of Sensibility. Wayne State University Press, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1246. Louis I. Bredvold. The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 16601798. Collier Books, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1247. John Brewer. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 16881783. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN 0394577760, cloth and dj. 1248. Asa Briggs. Iron Bridge To Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution. Thames and Hudson, 1979. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1249. Asa Briggs. A Social History of England. Viking Press, 1983. ISBN 0670655499X, cloth and dj. 1250. Leslie Brisman. Miltons Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs. Cornell University Press, 1973. ISBN 0801406668, cloth and dj. 1251. David Bromwich, ed. Romantic Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 0521286727, pbk. 1252. David Bromwich. The Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost. Harvard University Press, 1989. ISBN 0674127757, cloth and dj. 1253. Marshall Brown. Preromanticism. Stanford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0804715610, cloth and dj. 1254. Bertrand Harris Bronson. Facets of The Enlightenment: Studies in English Literature and Its Contexts. University of California Press, 1968. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 146 1255. William E. Buckler, ed. Minor Classics of NineteenthCentury Fiction. Volume I. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1256. Fanny Burney. Evelina or The History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1257. Fanny Burney. Evelina: Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed. Kristina Straub. Bedford Books, 1997. ISBN 0321097298, pbk. 1258. Catherine B. Burroughs. Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. ISBN 081223393X, cloth and dj. 1259. Frederick Burwick. Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory and the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. ISBN 027100732, cloth and dj. 1260. Douglas Bush. Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1969. ISBN 0393001865, pbk. 1261. James Butler and Karen Green, eds. Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 17971800 by William Wordsworth. Cornell University Press, 1992. ISBN 0801425727, cloth and dj. 1262. Marilyn Butler. Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 17601830. Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN 0195203844, cloth and dj. 1263. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron. Byron: The Oxford Authors. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192813498, pbk. 1264. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron. Lord Byron: The Manor Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0192840401, pbk. 1265. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron. Byrons Poetry. Ed. Frank D. McConnell. [A Norton Critical Edition: Authoritative Texts, Letters and Journals, Criticism, Images of Byron.] W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1978. ISBN 039309152X, pbk.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1266. Colin Campbell. The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. Basil Blackwell, 1990. ISBN 0631169415, pbk. 1267. Paul A. Cantor. Creature and Creator: Myth-making and English Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0521313627, pbk. 1268. Brian G. Caraher. Wordsworths Slumber and the Problematics of Reading. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. ISBN 0271007206, cloth and dj. 1269. Julie A. Carlson. In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women. Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521444284, cloth and dj. 1270. John Carroll, ed. Samuel Richardson: A Collection of Critical Essays. [Twentieth Century Views.] PrenticeHall, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1271. Cathy Caruth. Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801840805, cloth and dj. 1272. Larry S. Champion, ed. Quick Springs of Sense: Studies in Eighteenth Century. University of Georgia Press, 1974. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1273. James K. Chandler. Wordsworths Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics. University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN0226100812, pbk. 1274. R.W. Chapman, ed. Boswell Life of Johnson, Revised, J. D. Fleeman. Oxford University Press, 1970. No ISBN, pbk. 1275. Cynthia Chase. Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN 0801831369, cloth and dj. 1276. Cynthia Chase, ed. Romanticism [A Critical Reader]. Longman, 1993. ISBN 0582047994, pbk. 1277. Jerome Christensen. Lord Byrons Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN 0801843553, cloth and dj. 1278. Jerome Christensen. Romanticism at the End of History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN 0801863198, cloth and dj. 1279. Rupert Christiansen. Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age 17801830. G.P. Putnams Sons, 1988. ISBN 0399133100, cloth and dj. 1280. William St. Clair. The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801842336, pbk. 1281. Laura Claridge. Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire. Cornell University Press, 1992. ISBN 0801480167, pbk. 1282. Timothy Clark. Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in Shelley. Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0198129815, cloth and dj. 1283. James L. Clifford, ed. Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1959. No ISBN, pbk. 1284. James L. Clifford, ed. Man Versus Society in 18th Century Britain: Six Points of View. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1968. ISBN 0393006085, pbk. 1285. Kathleen Coburn, ed. Coleridge: A Collection of Critical Essays. [Twentieth Century Views.] PrenticeHall, 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1286. Murray Cohen. Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England 16401785. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. ISBN 081819245, cloth and dj. 1287. Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto. Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms. Locust Hill Press, 1992. ISBN 0933951426, cloth. 1288. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. Ed. Paul H. Fry. Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. ISBN 0312112238, pbk. 1289. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Annotated Ancient Mariner. Ed. Martin Gardner. Illustrations by Gustave Dore. Prometheus Books, 2003. ISBN 1591021251, cloth and pbk. 1290. S. Collins. Authorship in the Days of Johnson. Agustus M. Kelley Publishers, 19271973. ISBN 067800823X, cloth. 147

William Blake Catalogue 1291. Christopher Collins. The Poetics of the Minds Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination. University of Pennsylvania, 1991. ISBN 0812213602, pbk. 1292. David Collins. Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0801848482, cloth and dj. 1293. Frederic S. Colwell. Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source. McGill-Queens University Press, 1989. ISBN 0773507116, cloth and dj. 1294. B.F. Cook. The Elgin Marbles. British Museum Press, 1993. ISBN 071412026X, pbk. 1295. Michael G. Cooke. The Romantic Will. Yale University Press, 1976. ISBN 0300019610, cloth and dj. 1296. Stephen Copley and John Whale, eds. Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches To Texts and Contexts 1780 1832. Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0415052017, pbk. 1297. Phyllis Croskurth. Byron: The Flawed Angel. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. ISBN 0395693799, cloth and dj. 1298. Stuart Curran. Annus Mirabilis: The Maturing of an Epic Vision. Huntington Library, 1975. ISBN 0873280644, cloth and dj. 1299. Stuart Curran. Poetic Form and British Romanticism. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0195040198, cloth and dj. 1300. Stuart Curran, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0521333555, cloth and dj. 1301. Laura Dabundo. Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 17801850s. Garland Reference Library of the Social Sciences, 1992. ISBN 0824069978, cloth and dj. 1302. Martin A. Danahay. Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. State University of New York, 1993. ISBN 0791415120, pbk. 1303. Robert Darnton. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Harvard University Press, 1968. ISBN 0674569512, pbk. 148 1304. Jack Davis, ed. Discussions of William Wordsworth. D.C. Heath and Company, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1305. Aidan Day. Romanticism. Routledge, 1996. ISBN 0145083788, pbk. 1306. Peter de Bolla. The Discourse of the Sublime: History, Aesthetic and the Subject. Basil Blackwell, 1989. ISBN 0631161732, cloth and dj. 1307. Daniel Defoe. Jonathan Wild. Foreword by J.H. Plumb. New American Library, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1308. Daniel Defoe. Jonathan Wild. Ed. David Knokes. Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN 0140431519, pbk. 1309. Daniel Defoe. Journal of the Plague Year. Foreword by J.H. Plumb. New American Library, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1310. Daniel Defoe. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Introduction by Mark Schorer. Modern Library, 1967. No ISBN, cloth. 1311. Daniel Defoe. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Ed. Edward Kelly. An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. A Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1973. ISBN 039309412X, pbk. 1312. Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism. Ed. Michael Shingel. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1975. ISBN 0393092313, pbk. 1313. Daniel Defoe. Roxana. Ed. Jane Jack. Oxford University Press, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1314. Daniel Defoe. Tom Jones. Introduction by George Sherburn. Modern Library, 1950. No ISBN, pbk. 1315. Paul de Man. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN 0195013468, cloth and dj. 1316. Paul de Man. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. Columbia University Press, 1984. ISBN 0231055269, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1317. Paul de Man. The Resistance to Theory. [Theory and History of Literature, Volume 33.] University of Minnesota Press, 1986. ISBN 0816612943, pbk. 1318. Paul de Man. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers. Ed. E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark, and Andrzej Warminski. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN 0801844606, cloth and dj. 1319. Robert Demaria, Jr., ed. British Literature 1640 1789: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0631195270, pbk. 1320. Michael V. DePorte. Nightmares and Hobbyhorses: Swift, Sterne, and Augustan Ideas of Madness. Huntington Library, 1974. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1321. Jean Detre. A Most Extraordinary Pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Doubleday and Company, 1975. ISBN 0385073348, cloth and dj. 1322. Bonamy Dobre and J.S. Robinson, eds. British Writers and Their Work: Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Lawrence Stern and Tobias Smollett. University of Nebraska Press, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1323. Doherty. Byron. Arco, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1324. Arnold Dolmetsch. Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. University of Washington Press, 1969. ISBN 0295785780, pbk. 1325. Denis Donoghue. The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination. University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0520031342, cloth and dj. 1326. Alan S. Downer and Arthur C. Kirsch, eds. Restoration: The Laurel Masterpieces of World Literature. Dell Publishers, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1327. James Downey and Ben Jones, eds. Fearful Joy: Papers from the Thomas Gray Bicentenary Conference at Carleton University. McGill Queens University Press, 1974. ISBN 0773501320, cloth and dj. 1328. Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak, ed. The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from The Renaissance to Romanticism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. ISBN 0822932466, cloth. 1329. John Dunn. Locke. Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 0192875604, pbk. 1330. Geoffrey Durrant. William Wordsworth. Cambridge University Press, 1969. ISBN 0521095840, pbk. 1331. Anthony Easthope. Wordsworth Now and Then: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. Open University Press, 1993. ISBN 0335094600, pbk. 1332. Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0801493528, pbk. 1333. Maria Edgeworth. Castle Rackrent. Ed. George Watson. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192815393, pbk. 1334. Susan Eilenberg. Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0195068564, cloth and dj. 1335. Benita Eisler. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. Vintage Books, 1999. ISBN 0679740856, pbk. 1336. W. Paul Elledge and Richard L. Hoffman, eds. Romantic and Victorian: Studies in Memory of William H. Marshall. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971. ISBN 0838677428, cloth and dj. 1337. W. Paul Elledge. Byron and the Dynamics of Metaphor. Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1338. Julie Ellison. Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender and the Ethics of Understanding. Cornell University Press, 1990. ISBN 080148071X, pbk. 1339. B. Ifor Evans. Tradition and Romanticism. Studies in English Poetry from Chaucer to W.B. Yeats. Archon Books, 1964. No ISBN, cloth. 1340. Mary A. Favret. Romantic Correspondence, Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521410967, cloth and dj. 1341. Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley, eds. Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. University of New England Press, 1995. ISBN 0874517249, pbk. 149

William Blake Catalogue 1342. Michael Ferber. European Romantic Poetry. Pearson Longman, 2005. ISBN 0321131444, pbk. 1343. Frances Ferguson. Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation. Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0415905494, pbk. 1344. Henry Fielding. Jonathan Wild. Ed. David Nokes. Penguin Books, 1982. ISBN 0140431519, pbk. 1345. Henry Fielding. Joseph Andrews and Shamela. Ed. Martin C. Battestin. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. No ISBN, pbk. 1346. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones. New American Library, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1347. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones. Ed. Sheridan Baker. An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. A Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.,1973. ISBN 0393043592, pbk. 1348. Herman Fischer. Romantic Verse Narrative: The History of A Genre. Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0521309646, cloth. 1349. Avrom Fleishman. The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971. ISBN 0801811880, pbk. 1350. Eleanor Flexner. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography. Penguin Books, 1973. ISBN 014003773X, pbk. 1351. Richard Harter Fogle. Romantic Poets and Prose Writers: Goldentree Bibliographies in Language and Literature. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1352. Richard Harter Fogle. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley: A Comparative Study. University of North Carolina Press, 1949. No ISBN, pbk. 1353. Boris Ford, ed. From Dryden to Johnson: The Penguin Guide to English Literature. Volume 4. Penguin Books, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1354. Boris Ford. The Romantic Age in Britain: The Cambridge Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0521428866, pbk. 150 1355. Milton P. Foster, ed. A Casebook on Gulliver Among the Houyhnhnms. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1356. Tim Fulford. Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, DeQuincey and Hazlitt. St. Martins Press, 1999. ISBN 0312220391, cloth and dj. 1357. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 17801830. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0521591430, cloth and dj. 1358. Paul Fussell. The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke. Oxford University Press, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1359. Paul Fussell, ed. English Augustan Poetry. Doubleday and Company, 1972. No ISBN, pbk. 1360. William H. Galperin. Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN 0812281403, cloth and dj. 1361. William H. Galperin. The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 080184505X, cloth and dj. 1362. Frederick Garber. Self, Text and Romantic Irony: The Example of Byron. Princeton University Press, 1988. ISBN 0691067309, cloth and dj. 1363. Marilyn Gaull. English Romanticism: The Human Context. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1988. ISBN 03939555478, pbk. 1364. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi. Shelleys Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 019507384, pbk. 1365. Royal A. Gettmann, ed. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: A Handbook. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. No ISBN, pbk. 1366. Denise Gigante. Taste: A Literary History. Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300106521, cloth and dj. 1367. Stephen Gill. William Wordsworth: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0198128282, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1368. Mark Girouard. The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. Yale University Press, 1981. ISBN 0300027397, cloth and dj. 1369. Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0198183518, pbk. 1370. Robert F. Gleckner. Byron and the Ruins of Paradise. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967. No ISBN, cloth. 1371. Robert F. Gleckner and Gerald E. Enscoe, eds. Romanticism Points of View. Second edition. Prentice Hall, 1970. ISBN 0137829876, cloth and dj. 1372. William Godwin. Caleb Williams. Introduction by George Sherburn. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1373. William Godwin. Caleb Williams. Introduction by David McCracken. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1977. ISBN 0393008614, pbk. 1374. Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield and Other Writings. Ed. Frederick W. Hilles. Modern Library, 1955. No ISBN, cloth. 1375. Steven Goldsmith. Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation. Cornell University Press, 1993. ISBN 0801499992, pbk. 1376. Dena Goodman. Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing. Cornell University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801422019, cloth and dj. 1377. Donald Greene. The Age of Exuberance: Backgrounds to Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Random House, 1970. No ISBN, pbk. 1378. Donald Greene, ed. Samuel Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays [Twentieth Century Views.] Prentice Hall, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1379. Grierson, Herbert J.C. The Background of English Literature Classical and Romantic. Barnes and Noble, 1963. Reprints the 1925 ed. No ISBN, pbk. 1380. Hagstrum. The Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake. University of Tennessee Press, 1985. ISBN 0870494821, cloth and dj. 1381. Jean H. Hagstrum. Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare. University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0226312879, cloth and dj. 1382. Jean H. Hagstrum. Eros and Vision: The Restoration to Romanticism. Northeastern University Press, 1989. ISBN 0810108283, pbk. 1383. Harlan W. Hamilton. Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq., 17421823. The Kent State University Press, 1969. No ISBN, cloth. 1384. Paul Hamilton. Coleridges Poetics. Stanford University Press, 1983. ISBN 0804712185, cloth and dj. 1385. Anthony John Harding. The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism. University of Missouri Press, 1995. ISBN 0826210074, cloth and dj. 1386. Geoffrey Galt Harpham. On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature. Princeton University Press, 1982. ISBN 0691065225, cloth and dj. 1387. Geoffrey H. Hartman. Wordsworths Poetry 1787 1814. Yale University Press, 1971. ISBN 0300001088, cloth and dj. 1388. Geoffrey H. Hartman. Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars. Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 0674576365, cloth and dj. 1389. Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow. Albions Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Pantheon Books, 1975. ISBN 0394730852, pbk. 1390. Donald E. Hayden. After Conflict Quiet: A Study of Wordsworths Poetry in Relation to His Life and Letters. Exposition Press, 1951. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1391. Alethea Hayter. Opium and the Romantic Imagination: Addiction and Creativity in DeQuincy, Coleridge, Baudelaire and Others. Thorsons Publishing Group, 1988. ISBN 1852740140, pbk. 1392. James A. W. Heffernan. The Re-creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable and Turner. University Press of New England. 1984. ISBN 087451321X, cloth and dj. 151

William Blake Catalogue 1393. Neil Hertz. The End of the Line. Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime. Columbia University Press, 1985. ISBN 0231057091, pbk. 1394. Frederick W. Hilles, ed. The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Yale University Press, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1395. Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom, eds. From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays presented to Frederick A. Pottle. Oxford University Press, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1396. Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Idea of Poverty: England In the Early Industrial Age. Vintage Books. 1983. ISBN 0294726073, pbk. 1397. Diane Long Hoeveler. Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. ISBN 0271007044, cloth and dj. 1398. Gerhart Hoffmeister, ed. European Romanticism: Literary Cross-Currents, Modes, and Models. Wayne State University Press, 1990. ISBN 0814321097, cloth and dj. 1399. James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Intro. Andre Gide. Cresset Press, 1964. Second edition. No ISBN, cloth. 1400. James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Ed. John Wain. Penguin Books, 1983. ISBN 0140431985, pbk. 1401. Jerrold E. Hogle. Shelleys Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0195054865, cloth and dj. 1402. Richard Holmes. Coleridge: Early Visions, 17721804. Pantheon Books, 1989. ISBN 0375705406, pbk. 1403. Richard Holmes. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 18041834. Pantheon Books, 1998. ISBN 0375708383, pbk. 1404. Richard Holmes. Shelley: The Pursuit. E.P. Dutton, 1975. ISBN 0525202870, cloth and dj. 1405. Margaret Homans. Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Womens Writing. University of Chicago Press, 1989. ISBN 0226351068, pbk. 152 1406. Graham Hough. The Romantic Poets. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1407. Carolyn Washburn Houtchens and Lawrence Huston Houtchens, eds. The Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism. Revised edition. Modern Language Association, 1966. No ISBN, cloth. 1408. Howard E. Hugo, ed. The Portable Romantic Reader. Viking Press, 1973. ISBN 0670605395, pbk. 1409. David Hume. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays. Ed. Richard Popkin. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980. ISBN 091514445X, pbk. 1410. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. Ernest C. Mossner. Penguin Books, 1984. ISBN 0140432442, pbk. 1411. R. Humphreys. The Augustan World: Society, Thought and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England. Harper and Row, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1412. J. Paul Hunter. Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. ISBN 0801816726, cloth and dj. 1413. J. Paul Hunter. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1990. ISBN 0393308618, pbk. 1414. Elizabeth Inchbald. A Simple Story. Ed. J.M.S. Tompkins. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 019281849X, pbk. 1415. Fred Inglis. Keats. Arco, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1416. Michael Irwin. Henry Fielding: The Tentative Realist. Oxford University Press, 1967. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1417. Gerald N. Izenberg. Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 17871802. Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0691069263, cloth and dj. 1418. Ian Jack. English Literature, 18151832: Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1963. No ISBN, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1419. Keats and the Mirror of Art. Oxford University Press, 1967. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1420. H.J. Jackson, ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Oxford Authors. Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN 01928913838, pbk. 1421. Mary V. Jackson. Engines of Instruction, Mischief and Magic: Childrens Literature in England from its Beginnings to 1839. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. ISBN 0803275706, pbk. 1422. Carol Jacobs. Uncontainable Romanticism, Shelley, Bronte, Kleist. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801837863, cloth and dj. 1423. Carol Jacobs. Telling Time: Levi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN 0801844770, cloth and dj. 1424. Paul Jay. Being In the Text: Self Representations from Wordsworth in Roland Barthes. Cornell University Press, 1984. ISBN 0801415993, pbk. 1425. Derek Jerrett. England in the Age of Hogarth. Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN 0300036094, pbk. 1426. Robin Jarvis. Wordsworth, Milton and the Theory of Poetic Relations. St. Martins Press, 1991. ISBN 031204741X, cloth and dj. 1427. Kenneth B. Johnson, Gilbert Chaitin, Karen Hanson and Herbert Marks, eds. Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and History. Indiana University Press, 1990. ISBN 025320562X, pbk. 1428. Kenneth B. Johnson. The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 1998. ISBN 0393046230, cloth and dj. 1429. Edgar Johnson. Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown. Volume 1 of 2. Macmillan Company, 1970. No ISBN, cloth in slipcase. 1430. Kenneth R. Johnson and Gene W. Ruoff, eds. The Age of William Wordsworth: Critical Essays on the Romantic Tradition. Rutgers University Press, 1987. ISBN 0813512441, pbk. 1431. Samuel Johnson. Lives of the English Poets. In Two Volumes. Vol. I, Cowley to Prior. Everymans Library, 1964. No ISBN, cloth. 1432. Samuel Johnson. Lives of the English Poets. In Two Volumes. Vol. II, Congreve to Gray. Everymans Library, 1964. No ISBN, cloth. 1433. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia. AHM Publishing Corporation, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1434. Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose. Ed. Bertrand H. Bronson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1435. Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose. Ed. Bertrand H. Bronson. Third edition. Rinehart Press, 1971. ISBN 03082785X, pbk. 1436. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Journey to the Western Island and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Ed. Allan Wendt. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1437. Howard Mumford Jones. Revolution and Romanticism. Harvard University Press, 1974. ISBN 0674767100, cloth and dj. 1438. David Kaufmann. The Business of Common Life: Novels and Classical Economics between Revolution and Reform. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN 0801849306, cloth and dj. 1439. William Keach. Shelleys Style. Metheun, 1984. ISBN 041630320X, cloth and dj. 1440. Patrick J. Keane. Coleridges Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe. University of Missouri Press, 1994. ISBN 0826209424, cloth and dj. 1441. John Keats. John Keats: Complete Poems. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Harvard University Press, 1978. ISBN0674154312, pbk. 1442. John Keats. The Letters. Ed. Robert Gittings. Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0192810812, pbk. 1443. John Keats. Selected Poems and Letters. Ed. Douglas Bush. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. No ISBN, pbk. 153

William Blake Catalogue 1444. John Keats. John Keats: Selected Poems. Ed. John Barnard. Penguin Books, 1988. ISBN 0140585982, pbk. 1445. John Keats. John Keats. Ed. Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0192819313, pbk. 1446. John Keats. A Thematic Reader. Eds. Joseph Sendry and Richard Giannone. Scot Foresman and Company, 1971. No ISBN, pbk. 1447. W.J. Keith. Regions of the Imagination: The Development of British Rural Fiction. University of Toronto Press, 1988. ISBN 0802026540, cloth and dj. 1448. Gary Kelly. English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 17891830. Longman, 1989. ISBN 0582492602, pbk. 1449. Linda Kelly. The Young Romantics Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Vigny, Dumas, Musset and George Sand and their Friendships, Feuds and Loves in the French Romantic Revolution. Random House, 1976. ISBN 0394487052, cloth and dj. 1450. Frank Kermode. Romantic Image. Vintage Books, 1957. No ISBN, pbk. 1451. Edward Kessler. Coleridges Metaphors of Being. Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN 069106394X, cloth and dj. 1452. Robert Kiely. The Romantic Novel in England. Harvard University Press, 1972. ISBN 0674779355, cloth and dj. 1453. Mark Kipperman. Beyond Enchantment: German Idealism and English Romantic Poetry. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. ISBN 0812280245, cloth and dj. 1454. Jon P. Klancher. The Making of English Reading Audiences, 17901832. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ISBN 0299107809, cloth and dj. 1455. Anthony D. Knerr. Shelleys Adonais: A Critical Edition. Columbia University Press, 1984. ISBN 0231054661, cloth and dj. 1456. Karl Kroeber. Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth. University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. ISBN 0299067106, cloth and dj. With signed letter from Kroeber to RRE. 154 1457. Karl Kroeber. Romantic Narrative Art. University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1458. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff, eds. Romantic Poetry Recent Revisionary Criticism. Rutgers University Press, 1993. ISBN 081352010X, pbk. 1459. Joseph Wood Krutch. Samuel Johnson. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1460. Greg Kucich. Keats, Shelley and Romantic Spenserianism. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. ISBN 0271007060, cloth and dj. 1461. Marie-Paule Laden. Self Imitation in the EighteenthCentury Novel. Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN 0691067058, cloth and dj. 1462. Jonathan Lamb. The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0198182643, cloth and dj. 1463. Robert Langbaum. The Mysteries of Identity: A Theme of Modern Literature. Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN 0195021894, cloth and dj. 1464. Edward Larrissy, ed. Romanticism and Postmodernism. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0521642728, cloth and dj. 1465. Zachary Leader. Revision and Romantic Authorship. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0198186347, pbk. 1466. Molly Lefebure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Bondage of Opium. Stein and Day, 1974. ISBN 0812817117, cloth and dj. 1467. Margaret Leighton. Shelleys Mary: A Life of Mary Godwin Shelley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. ISBN 0374367795, cloth and dj. 1468. George J. Leonard. Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage. University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 0226472523, cloth. 1469. Susan M. Levin. Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism. Rutgers University Press, 1987. ISBN 0813511461, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1470. Samuel R. Levin. Metaphoric Worlds: A Conceptions of a Romantic Nature. Yale University Press, 1988. ISBN 0300041721, cloth and dj. 1471. Marjorie Levinson. The Romantic Fragment Poem: A Critique of a Form. University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 0807816841, cloth and dj. 1472. Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, Jerome McGann, Paul Hamilton. Rethinking Historicism: Critical Readings in Romantic History. Basil Blackwell, 1989. ISBN 0631165916, cloth and dj. 1473. Marjorie Levinson. Keats Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style. Basil Blackwell, 1990. ISBN 0631145117, pbk. 1474. Marjorie Levinson. Wordsworths Great Period Poems: Four Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0521308291, cloth. 1475. Linda M. Lewis. The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake and Shelley. University of Missouri Press, 1992. ISBN 0826208053, cloth and dj. 1476. Mathew G. Lewis. The Monk: Original Text Variant Readings. And Note on the Text by Louis F. Peck. Grove Press, 1952. No ISBN, pbk. 1477. Grevel Lindop. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. J.M. Dent and Sons, 1981. ISBN 0460043587, cloth and dj. 1478. Lawrence Lipking, ed. High Romantic Argument: Essays for M.H. Abrams. Cornell University Press, 1981. ISBN 0801413079, cloth and dj. 1479. Lawrence Lipking. The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers. University of Chicago Press, 1981. ISBN 0226484513, pbk. 1480. Alan Liu. Wordsworth: The Sense of History. Stanford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0804718938, pbk. 1481. John Locke. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Ed. Peter H. Nidditch. Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0198245955, pbk. 1482. John Locke. Two Treatises of Government: Cambridge texts in the History of Political Thought. Ed. Peter Laslett. Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0521357306, pbk. 1483. Peter Melville Logan. Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th Century British Prose. University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 0520207750, pbk. 1484. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat, eds. Reimagining Textuality. Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. ISBN 0299173844, pbk. 1485. Lisa Low and John Harding, eds. Milton, the Metaphysicals and Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521444144, cloth and dj. 1486. Mary Lowe-Evans. Frankenstein: Mary Shelleys Wedding Guest. Twayne Publishers, 1993. ISBN 0805785973, pbk. 1487. John Livingston Lowes. The Road To Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. No ISBN, cloth. 1488. E.L. McAdam, Jr. and George Milne, eds. Johnsons Dictionary: A Modern Selection. The Modern Library, 1965. No ISBN, cloth. 1489. Iain McCalman, ed. An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture 17761832. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0198122977, cloth and dj. 1490. Thomas McFarland. Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Modalities of Fragmentation. Princeton University Press, 1981. ISBN 0691013737, cloth and dj. 1491. Thomas McFarland. Originality and Imagination. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. ISBN 0801825172, cloth and dj. 1492. Jerome McGann. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN 0226558509, pbk.

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William Blake Catalogue 1493. Jerome J. McGann. Towards a Literature of Knowledge. University of Chicago Press, 1989. ISBN 0226558398, cloth and dj. 1494. Jerome McGann. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0691015449, pbk. 1495. James Holt McGavran, Jr. Romanticism and Childrens Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. University of Georgia Press, 1991. ISBN 0820312894, cloth and dj. 1496. Michael McKeon. The Origins of the English Novel, 16001740. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. ISBN 0801837464, pbk. 1497. Alan Duglad McKillop. The Early Masters of English Fiction. University Press of Kansas, 1956. No ISBN, pbk. 1498. Frank McLynn. Crime and Punishment In Eighteenth Century England. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192852337, pbk. 1499. Gerald McNiece. Shelley and the Revolutionary Idea. Harvard University Press, 1969. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1500. Maynard Mack. Alexander Pope: A Life. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1985. ISBN 0393305295, pbk. 1501. Michael S. Macovski. Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 019506965X, cloth and dj. 1502. Saree Makdisi. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0521586046, pbk. 1503. Paul Magnuson. Reading Public Romanticism. Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 069105794X, cloth and dj. 1504. Emerson R. Marks. Coleridge on the Language of Verse. Princeton University Press, 1981. ISBN 063206, cloth and dj. 1505. Philip W. Martin and Robin Jarvis. Reviewing Romanticism. St. Martins Press, 1992. ISBN 0312068018, cloth and dj. 156 1506. Leslie A. Marchand. Byron: A Portrait. University of Chicago Press, 1970. ISBN 0226504360, pbk. 1507. Charles Robert Maturin. Melmoth the Wanderer. University of Nebraska Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1508. Martin Meisel. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN 0691065535, cloth and dj. 1509. Anne K. Mellor, ed. Romanticism and Feminism. Indiana University Press, 1988. ISBN 0253204623, pbk. 1510. Anne K. Mellor. Romanticism and Gender. Routledge, 1993. ISBN 0415906644, pbk. 1511. Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. British Literature, 17801830. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0155002600, cloth and dj. 1512. Josephine Miles. Poetry and Change: Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, and the Equilibrium of the Present. University of California Press, 1974. ISBN 0520025547, pbk. 1513. Karl Miller. Doubles: Studies in Literary History. Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0192820478, pbk. 1514. Cecil A. Moore. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Modern Library,1933. No ISBN, cloth. 1515. John Morrow, ed. Coleridges Writings On Politics and Society. Volume 1. Princeton University Press, 1991. ISBN 0691015031, pbk. 1516. Timothy Morton, ed. Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Palgrave, 2004. ISBN 0312293046, pbk. 1517. Andrew Motion. Keats. Faber and Faber, 1997. ISBN 057117227X, cloth and dj. 1518. John R. Nabholtz. My Reader: My Fellow Labourer: A Study of English Romantic Prose. University of Missouri Press, 1986. ISBN 0826204910, cloth and dj. 1519. Melvin New, ed. Approaches to Teaching Sternes Tristram Shandy. The Modern Language Association, 1989. ISBN 0873525167, pbk.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1520. Lucy Newlyn. Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0198112777, cloth and dj. 1521. Lucy Newlyn. Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 019812855X, cloth and dj. 1522. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, Chris Koenig-Woodyard. Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American and Canadian Literature, 17671867. Pearson Education, Inc., 2006. ISBN 0321217128, pbk. 1523. Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1959. No ISBN, pbk. 1524. Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Newton Demands the Muse: Newtons Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets. Princeton University Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1525. Alan OConnor. Raymond Williams: Writing, Culture, Politics. Basil Blackwell, 1989. ISBN 0631165894, pbk. 1526. Michael ONeill. Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. ISBN 031203248X, cloth and dj. 1527. Richard J. Onorato. The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in The Prelude. Princeton University Press, 1971. ISBN 0691060495, cloth and dj. 1528. Judith W. Page. Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women. University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 0520084934, cloth and dj. 1529. Judith Pascoe. Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry and Spectatorship. Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN 0801433045, cloth and dj. 1530. Ronald Paulson and Arnold Stein, eds. ELH Essays for Earl R. Wasserman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. ISBN 080181815X, cloth. 1531. Ronald Paulson. Representations of Revolution, 1789 1820. Yale University Press, 1983. ISBN 0300039301, pbk. 1532. Morse Peckham. Romanticism and Ideology. Wesleyan University Press, 1995. ISBN 0819562858, pbk. 1533. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner, eds. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN 0822320916, pbk. 1534. Thomas Pfau and Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, eds. Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in Romanticism. Special Issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 1996. pbk. 1535. Liza Picard. Dr. Johnsons London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education. St. Martins Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312291531, pbk. 1536. David B. Pirie. The Romantic Period. The Penguin History of Literature. Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN 0140177558, pbk. 1537. Ralph Pite. The Circle of Our Vision. Dantes Presence in English Romantic Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0198112947, cloth and dj. 1538. Alexander Pope. Poetry and Prose. Ed. Aubrey Williams. Houghton Mifflin, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1539. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. The Twickenham Edition of the poems of Alexander Pope, Volume II. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson. Methuen and Co., 1966. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1540. Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich. Romanticism in National Context. Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0521339138, pbk. 1541. John Cowper Powys. William Blake. Village Press, 1974. No ISBN, pbk. 1542. Mario Praz. The Romantic Agony. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 1970. ISBN 0192810618, pbk. 1543. John Preston. The Created Self: The Readers Role in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Heinemann, 1970. ISBN 043518721X, cloth and dj. 1544. Stephen Prickett. Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1966. ISBN 0521445434, cloth and dj. 157

William Blake Catalogue 1545. Paul Michael Privateer. Romantic Voices: Identity and Ideology in British Poetry, 17891850. University of Georgia Press, 1991. ISBN 0820312517, cloth and dj. 1546. John Purkis. A Preface to Wordsworth. Revised edition. Longman, 1990. ISBN 058235482X, pbk. 1547. Peter Quennell, ed. Byron: A Self-PortraitLetters and Diaries 17981824. Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0192827545, pbk. 1548. Ricardo J. Quinones. The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother In Cain and Abel Literature. Princeton University Press, 1991. ISBN 0691068836, cloth and dj. 1549. Ricardo Quintana. Swift: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1550. Ann Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho. Ed Bonamy Dobree. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192815024, pbk. 1551. Tilottama Rajan. Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism. Cornell University Press, 1980. Cornell University Press, 1980. ISBN 0801493692, pbk. 1552. Tilottama Rajan. The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice. Cornell University Press, 1990. ISBN 0801497493, pbk. 1553. Ernest Raymond. Two Gentlemen of Rome: The Story of Keats and Shelley. Non-Fiction Book Club, 1952. No ISBN, cloth. 1554. Arden Reed, ed. Romanticism and Language. Cornell University Press, 1984. ISBN 0801498910, pbk. 1555. David H. Reiman, Michael C. Jaye and Betty T. Bennett, eds. The Evidence of the Imagination: Studies of Interactions between Life and Art in English Romantic Literature. New York University Press, 1978. ISBN 0814773729, cloth and dj. 1556. David H. Reiman. The Romantic Texts and Contexts. University of Missouri Press, 1987. ISBN 0826206402, cloth and dj. 1557. W.L. Renwick. English Literature, 17891815: Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1963. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1558. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. The Emergence of Romanticism. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0195096460, pbk. 1559. A. Richards. Coleridge on Imagination. Indiana University Press, 1969. No ISBN, pbk. 1560. Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh, eds. Romanticism, Race and Imperial Culture 17801834. Indiana University Press, 1996. ISBN 0253332125, cloth and dj. 1561. Samuel Richardson. Clarissa. Abridged by George Sherburn. Houghton Mifflin, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1562. Samuel Richardson. Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady. Ed. Angus Ross. [Complete and unabridged.] Penguin Books, 1985. ISBN 0140432159, pbk. 1563. Samuel Richardson. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1958. No ISBN, pbk. 1564. David G. Riede. Oracles and Hierophants: Constructions of Romantic Authority. Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN 080142626x, cloth and dj. 1565. Hugh Roberts. Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. ISBN 0271016418, pbk. 1566. Mark Roberts. The Tradition of Romantic Morality. Harper and Row Publishers, 1973. ISBN 064959260, cloth and dj. 1567. Jeffrey C. Robinson. Radical Literary Education: A Classroom Experiment with Wordsworths Ode. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ISBN 0299110448, pbk. 1568. Jeffrey C. Robinson. The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. ISBN 0806121815, cloth and dj. 1569. Jeffrey C. Robinson. The Current of Romantic Passion. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. ISBN 0299129640, cloth.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1570. Jeffrey C. Robinson. The Current of Romantic Passion. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. ISBN 0299129640, pbk. 1571. Neville Rogers. Keats, Shelley and Rome: An Illustrated Miscellany. Keats Shelley Memorial Association, 1970. ISBN 0653070504, cloth and dj. 1572. Angus Ross and David Woolley, eds. Jonathan Swift: Oxford Authors. Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 0192813374, pbk. 1573. Marion B. Ross. The Contours of Masculine Desire. Romanticism and the Rise of Womens Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1989. Pbk. 1574. William G. Rowland, Jr. Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States. University of Nebraska Press, 1966. ISBN 0803239181, cloth. 1575. Gene W. Ruoff. Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Making of the Major Lyrics 18021804. Rutgers University Press, 1989. ISBN 0813513995, pbk. 1576. Gene W. Ruoff, ed. The Romantics and Us: Essays on Literature and Culture. Rutgers University Press, 1990. ISBN 0813514991, pbk. 1577. Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseaus Political Writings. Ed. Alan Ritter and Julia Conaway Bondanella, Trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella. New Translations, Interpretive Notes, Backgrounds, Commentaries. A Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0393956512, pbk. 1578. Robert M. Ryan. The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature 17891824. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0521570085, cloth and dj. 1579. Charles J. Rzepka. The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. Harvard University Press, 1986. ISBN 0674800850, cloth and dj. 1580. Peter M. Sacks. The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. ISBN 0801832543, cloth and dj. 1581. Barbara A. Schapiro. The Romantic Mother: Narcissistic Patterns in Romantic Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. ISBN 0801828961, cloth and dj. 1582. Elizabeth Schneider, ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1583. Robert Scholes, ed. Approaches to the Novel: Materials for a Poetics. Chandler Publishing Company, 1966. No ISBN, pbk. 1584. Charles Schug. The Romantic Genesis of the Modern Novel. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. ISBN 0822933977, cloth. 1585. Joshua Scodel. The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Johnson to Wordsworth. Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801424828, cloth and dj. 1586. Richarde B. Schwartz, ed. Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth Century Studies. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. ISBN 0809315610, cloth and dj. 1587. Christina Scull. The Soane Hogarths. Trefoil Publications, Ltd., 1991. No ISBN, pbk. 1588. E. S. Shaffer. Kubla Khan and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 17801880. Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN 052120478X, cloth and dj. 1589. Mary Shelley. Collected Tales and Stories. Ed. Charles E. Robinson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. ISBN 0801840627, pbk. 1590. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, the 1818 Text. Ed. James Rieger. University of Chicago Press, 1974. ISBN 0226752275, pbk. 1591. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, the 1818 Text. Edited with Variant Readings, An Introduction and Notes by James Rieger. Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., 1974. ISBN 0672610205, pbk. A second copy. 1592. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text. Ed. D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. Broadview Literary Texts, 1994. ISBN 1551110385, pbk. 159

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William Blake Catalogue 1593. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Johanna M. Smith. Bedford Books of St. Martins Press, 1992. ISBN 0312044690, pbk. 1594. Mary Shelley. The Last Man. Ed. Hugh Luke, Jr. Intro. By Anne K. Mellor. University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ISBN 0803292171, pbk. 1595. Mary Shelley. The Last Man. Ed. Anne McWhir. Broadview Literary Texts, 1996. ISBN 1551110768, pbk. 1596. Mary Shelley. The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Vol I. Ed. Betty T. Bennett. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 08018222750, cloth and dj. 1597. Mary Shelley. The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Vol II. Ed. Betty T. Bennett. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801826454, cloth and dj. 1598. Mary Shelley. The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Vol III. Ed. Betty T. Bennett. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801826462, cloth and dj. 1599. Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson. Oxford University Press, 1927. No ISBN, cloth. 1600. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson. A New Edition, Corrected by G.M. Matthews. Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN 0192810693, pbk. 1601. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelleys Poetry and Prose: Authoritative Texts Criticism. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1977. ISBN 039304436X, pbk. 1602. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected Poetry. Ed. Neville Rogers. Oxford University Press. 1968. No ISBN, pbk. 1603. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. Alasdair D.F. Macrae. Routledge, 1991. ISBN 041501607X, pbk. 1604. Frances Sherwood. Vindication: A Novel [of the life of Mary Shelley]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. ISBN 0374283907, cloth and dj. 160 1605. Michael Sidel. Satiric Inheritance, Rabelais to Sterne. Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN 0691064083, cloth and dj. 1606. Clifford Siskin. The Historicity of Romantic Discourse. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN0195044703, cloth and dj. 1607. Mark Trevor Smith. All Nature is but Art: The Coincidence of Opposites in English Romantic Literature. Locust Hill Press, 1993. ISBN 0933951442, cloth. 1608. Tom Sorell. Descartes. Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 019287635x, pbk. 1609. Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Ed. Lewis M. Knapp. Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0192816640, pbk. 1610. Tobias Smollett. Roderick Random. New American Library, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1611. Robert Lance Snyder. Thomas De Quincey Bicentenary Studies. University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. ISBN 0806118490, cloth and dj. 1612. James Soderholm. Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend. University Press of Kentucky, 1996. ISBN 0813110391, cloth and dj. 1613. Muriel Spark. Mary Shelley: A Biography. New American Library, 1988. ISBN 0452009510, pbk. 1614. Robert D. Spector, ed. Essays on the Eighteenth Century Novel. Indiana University Press, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1615. Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press, 1973. ISBN 069106220X, cloth and dj. 1616. Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN 0691000891, pbk. 1617. Herbert W. Starr, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Grays Elegy: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall, 1968. No ISBN, pbk. 1618. Carolyn Steedman. Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 17801930. Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN 0674839781, cloth and dj.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1619. Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza. New American Library, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1620. Laurence Sterne. Tristam Shandy: An Authoritative Text, The Author on the Novel, Criticism. Ed. Howard Anderson. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1980. ISBN 0393950344, pbk. 1621. Laurence Sterne. Tristam Shandy. Ed. Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192815660, pbk. 1622. Emily W. Sunstein. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN 0801842182, pbk. 1623. Emily W. Sunstein. A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Harper and Row, Publishers, 1975. ISBN 0060142014, cloth and dj. 1624. Donald Sutherland. On, Romanticism. New York University Press, 1972. ISBN 0814777538, cloth and dj. 1625. Donald Sutherland. The Life of Walter Scott. Blackwell Publisher, 1995. ISBN 1557862311, cloth and dj. 1626. Jonathan Swift. Gullivers Travels: An Authoritative Text. The Correspondence of Swift, Popes Verses on Gullivers Travels, Critical Essays. Second edition, Ed. Robert A. Greenberg. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1970. ISBN 0393099415, pbk. 1627. Jonathan Swift. The Poems. Ed. Padraic Colum. Collier-Macmillan, Ltd., 1967. No ISBN, pbk. 1628. William B. Thesing. The London Muse: Victorian Poetic Responses to the City. University of Georgia Press, 1982. ISBN 0820306193, cloth and dj. 1629. E.P. Thompson. England in a Revolutionary Age. The New Press, 1997. ISBN 1565845102, pbk. 1630. Clarence D. Thorpe, Carlos Baker, and Bennett Weaver, eds. The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium of Reappraisal. Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. ISBN 080930113X, pbk. 1631. Thomas R. Thornburg. Swift and the Ciceronian Tradition. Ball State Monograph Number 28, 1980. No ISBN, pbk. 1632. Peter Thorslev, Jr. Romantic Contraries: Freedom versus Destiny. Yale University Press, 1984. ISBN 0300030479, cloth and dj. 1633. Claire Tomalin. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. ISBN 0297767542, cloth and dj. 1634. Claire Tomalin. Shelley and His World. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 0140171525, pbk. 1635. John Traugott, ed. Discussions of Jonathan Swift. D.C. Heath and Company, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1636. John Traugott, ed. Laurence Stern: A Collection of Critical Essays. [Twentieth Century Views]. Prentice Hall, 1968. No ISBN, pbk. 1637. Leonard M. Trawick. The Backgrounds of Romanticism: English Philosophical Prose of the Eighteenth Century. Indiana University Press, 1967. No ISBN, cloth. 1638. Martin Tropp. Mary Shelleys Monster: The Story of Frankenstein. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. ISBN 0395240662, cloth and dj. 1639. Katie Trumpener. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN 0691044805, pbk. 1640. Herbert F. Tucker, ed. A Companion To Victorian Literature and Culture. Blackwell Publishing, 1999. ISBM 0631218769, pbk. 1641. James Turner. The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry 16301660. Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 0674689305, cloth. 1642. James B. Twitchell. Romantic Horizons: Aspects of the Sublime in English Poetry and Painting 17701850. University of Missouri Press, 1983. ISBN 0826204112, cloth and dj. 1643. William A. Ulmer. Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN 0691068291, cloth and dj. 1644. Peter Vassallo. Byron: The Italian Literary Influence. St. Martins Press, 1984. ISBN 0312111258, cloth and dj. 161

William Blake Catalogue 1645. William Veeder. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny. University of Chicago Press, 1986. ISBN 0226852253, cloth and dj. 1646. Helen Vendler. The Odes of John Keats. Harvard University Press, 1983. ISBN 0674630769, pbk. 1647. John Wain. Samuel Johnson: A Biography. Viking Press, 1974. ISBN 0670616710, cloth and dj. 1648. Carol Kyros Walker. Walking North With Keats. Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN 0300048246, cloth and dj. 1649. Anne D. Wallace. Walking, Literature and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0198183283, pbk. 1650. William A. Walling. Mary Shelley. Twayne Publishers, 1972. No ISBN, cloth. 1651. Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto. Ed. W.S. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 1964. No ISBN, pbk. 1652. Izaac Walton. The Complete Angler. Intro. John Thompson. Collier Books, 1962. No ISBN, pbk. 1653. Izaac Walton. The Complete Angler. Intro. Margaret Bottrall. Everymans Library, 1965. No ISBN, cloth. 1654. Orrin N.C. Wang. Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN 080185220X, cloth and dj. 1655. Earl R. Wasserman. The Firmer Tone: Keats Major Poems. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. No ISBN, cloth. 1656. Earl R. Wasserman. Shelley: A Critical Reading. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. ISBN 0801812127, cloth. 1657. J.R. Watson. English Poetry of the Romantic Period 17891830. Longman, 1985. ISBN 0582242580, pbk. 1658. Nicola J. Watson. Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 17901825. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0198112971, cloth and dj. 1659. Cedric Watts. A Preface to Keats. Longman House, 1991. ISBN05823536X, pbk. 1660. Thomas Weiskel. The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. ISBN 0801817706, cloth and dj. 1661. Thomas Weiskel. The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. pbk. 1662. Alexander Welsh. The Hero of the Waverly Novels with New Essays on Scott. Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0691015333, pbk. 1663. Andrew Welsh. Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics. Princeton University Press, 1978. ISBN 0691063451, cloth and dj. 1664. Paul West. Lord Byrons Doctor: A Novel. Doubleday, 1989. ISBN 0385261292, cloth. 1665. Paul West. Byron and the Spoilers Art. Lumen Books, 1992. ISBN 0930829131, pbk. 1666. Paul West, ed. Byron: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall, 1963. No ISBN, pbk. 1667. Kathleen M. Wheeler. Romanticism, Pragmatism and Deconstruction. Blackwell, 1993. ISBN0631189645, pbk. 1668. George A. White. Literature and Revolution. TriQuarterly, Number 23/24 Winter/Spring 1972. No ISBN, pbk. Later published as George A. White. Literature and Revolution. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 1669. Gilbert White. The Natural History of Selborne. Ed. R. M. Lockley. Everyman Library, 1966. No ISBN, cloth. 1670. Anne Williams. Prophetic Strain: The Greater Lyric in the Eighteenth Century. University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0226899179, pbk. 1671. Bernard Williams. Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0140138404, pbk.

Miscellaneous Easson Blakeana and Other Material 1672. John Williams. Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics. Manchester University Press, 1989. ISBN 0719031680, cloth and dj. 1673. Nigel Williams. The Breaking and Remaking of the Portland Vase. Trustees of the British Museum, 1989. ISBN 0714112917, pbk. 1674. Raymond Williams. The Long Revolution: An Analysis of the Democratic Industrial, and Cultural Changes Transforming our Society. Columbia University Press, 1961. No ISBN, pbk. 1675. Raymond Williams. The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. Ed. Tony Pinkney. Verso, 1989. ISBN 0860919552, pbk. 1676. Raymond Williams. Marxism and Literature. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0198760612, pbk. 1677. Eleanor Wilner. Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. ISBN 080181670X, cloth and dj. 1678. W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Metheun and Co., Inc., 1954. No ISBN, cloth and dj. 1679. W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare. Hill and Wang, 1960. No ISBN, pbk. 1680. Susan J. Wolfson. The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry. Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0801419093, cloth and dj. 1681. Susan J. Wolfson. Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism. Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0804726574, cloth and dj. 1682. Susan J. Wolfson and Peter Manning, eds. Lord Byron: Selected Poems. Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN 0140423818, pbk. 1683. Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Ed. Charles W. Hagelman. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1967. ISBN 0393003736, pbk. 1684. Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. Ed. Carol H. Poston. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1975. ISBN 0393092135, pbk. 1685. Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]. Original Stories. With five Illustrations by William Blake; with an introduction by E.V. Lucas. Folcroft Library Editions, 1972. No ISBN, cloth. 1686. John Windle. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. A Bibliography of the First and Early Editions. Second edition revised and enlarged. Oak Knoll, 2000. ISBN 1584560150, cloth. 1687. Gillen DArcy Wood. The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 17601860. Palgrave, 2001. ISBN 0312226543, cloth and dj. 1688. Carl Woodring. Politics In English Romantic Poetry. Harvard University Press, 1970. ISBN 0674688821, cloth and dj. 1689. Carl Woodring. Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth Century Britain. Harvard University Press, 1989. ISBN 0674604652, cloth and dj. 1690. Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth. Selected and Edited by Alan G. Hill. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192813188, pbk. 1691. Dorothy Wordsworth. Journal. The Alfoxden Journal 1998, The Glasmere Journals 18001803. Ed. Mary Moorman. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0192811037, pbk. 1692. Dorothy Wordsworth. The Glasmere Journals. Ed. Pamela Woof. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0192831305, pbk. 1693. Jonathan Wordsworth, Michael C. Jaye, and Robert Woof. William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism. Rutgers University Press, 1987. ISBN 0813512743, pbk. 1694. William Wordsworth. The Letters of William Wordsworth. Selected and Edited by Alan G. Hill. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0192813722, pbk.

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William Blake Catalogue 1695. William Wordsworth. Wordsworth Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson, revised, Ernest de Selincourt. Oxford University Press, 1965. No ISBN, pbk. 1696. William Wordsworth. Wordsworth Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson, revised, Ernest de Selincourt. Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN 0192810529, pbk. 1697. William Wordsworth. The Prelude: Selected Poems and Sonnets. Revised and Enlarged. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 [10th printing]. No ISBN, pbk. 1698. William Wordsworth. The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850. Authoritative Texts, Contexts and Reception, Recent Critical Essays. Eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H.Abrams and Stephen Gill. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1979. ISBN 039309071X, pbk. 1699. William Wordsworth. The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850). Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN 0140433694, pbk. 1700. William Wordsworth. Selected Poems and Prefaces. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. ISBN 0395051707, pbk. 1701. William Wordsworth. Selected Prose. Ed. John O. Hayden. Third edition. Penguin Books, 1988. ISBN 0140432922, pbk. 1702. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 1798. Ed. W. B. J. Owen. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0199110069, pbk. 1703. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The text of the 1798 edition with the additional 1800 poems and the prefaces. Eds. R. L. Brett and A. R. Jones. Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0415063884, pbk. 1704. Duncan Wu. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Blackwell, 1995. ISBN 0631195047, pbk. 1705. Duncan Wu. A Companion to Romanticism. Blackwell, 1998. ISBN 0631218777, pbk. 1706. Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism. Routledge, 1993. ISBN 0415077419, cloth.