BLAKE, WILLIAM.: Facsimile 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.

£285.00

London : Bernard Quaritch 1893 Large quarto, with xxi pages of letterpress introduction, 54 leaves of plates printed in sanguine, uncut in original calf backed cloth, spine lacking as often, endpaper and title page lightly foxing, tiny corner chips of first leaves of letterpress, else a very good clean copy internally, FIRST EDITION THUS, an attractive and well printed early facsimile.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: The Complete Writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

£300.00

London, Nonesuch Press, 1957. Size: 130 x 215 mm, pagination: xv, 936, [2], includes letters, notes and index of first lines, finely bound for Hatchards of Picadilly in contemporary full red morocco, sides with gilt fillet borders, spine gilt panelled between raised bands, the panels with gilt ornaments, inner gilt dentels and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A FINE COPY OF THE INDIA PAPER EDITION, no inscriptions. Designed by Francis Meynell and edited by Geoffrey Keynes the Nonesuch was the first and best one volume edition of Blake to be published and remains the standard text today.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: The Poetical Works of William Blake : lyrical and miscellaneous edited, with a prefatory memoir by William Michael Rossetti.

£385.00

London George Bell and sons, 1874. Small 8vo, pp cxxxiii, 231, engraved frontispiece portrait by Phillips, bound in original green cloth, decorated in gilt to upper board, spine with 'Aldine Edition' in gilt at head, brown endpapers, a little rubbed at spine ends, light crack to inner joint and contemporary book label to paste-down, but a very good clean bright copy, FIRST ROSSETTI EDITION, William Rossetti who had already had a hand in Gillchrist's 'Life' of the poet, was the most important and most reliable to Blake's early editors, including his invaluable prefatory memoir. A very nice copy of the first printing.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: Songs of Innocence.

£185.00

London : A. L. Humphreys 1911. 16mo [110 x 145 mm], pagination: viii. 63, [1], title page within decorative border, text with initial letters in red, with mounted sepia vignette photo-etchings in text from 18th Century sources, finely bound in contemporary dark red crushed morocco for Hatchards, upper board gilt lettered with double gilt fillet borders to both boards, spine gilt panelled between raised bands, a fine copy. Includes also the Songs of Experience.

CATULLUS. [WILLIAM BLAKE, ILLUSTRATOR].: The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, in English verse: with the Latin text revised, and classical notes. Prefixed are engravings of Catullus, and his friend Cornelius Nepos ; in two volumes.

£650.00

London : printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCCXCV [1795] 2 volumes in one, octavo, both errata leaves present, with a frontispiece plate to each volume engraved by William Blake after Xaverius Della Rosa. Bound in mid 19th century half calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, rubbed and slightly worn at spine ends, the top of the spine repaired at the joint, light foxing and light waterstain to first frontispiece, various notes and inscriptions on front paste-downs, bound without leaf A5 in the preface but with leaf A6 following present in both cancelled and uncancelled state, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, the first complete Catullus in English with parallel English and Latin text, translated by John Nott. The Blake plates are signed as follows: Plate 1: C:Val: Catullus / Xaverius Della Rosa, Veronæ, delin Blake sculpsit -- Plate 2: Cornel: Nepos / Xaverius Della Rosa, Veronæ, delin Blake sculpsit.

BLAKE, WILLIAM [ILLUSTRATOR].: Illustrations of the Book of Job : in twenty-one plates invented and engraved by William Blake.

£140.00

London, J M Dent, 1902. Folio, 21 leaves of facsimile illustrations, uncut in original cloth backed boards with printed paper onlay, short repaired split to spine cloth else fine, FIRTS EDIITON THUS, an excellent black and white facsimile, produced in an edition of 1000 copies.

BLAKE, WILLIAM [ILLUSTRATOR].: The Monthly Magazine Nos XX -XXV. July -Dec 1797.[ Vol IV].

£350.00

[London, 1797]. 6 issues in one volume comprising volume 4, no title page but drop titles to the issues, pp 502, plates. bound in contemporary half calf, red label, worn, upper board detached, internally sound, FIRST EDITION. Facing page 289 is Blake's plate: 'The Late Mr Wright of Derby'. The December issue includes Coleridge's satirical 'Sonnets' , and in other issues Lamb and Lloyd contributed poetry. A rare Blake plate.

BLAKE, WILLIAM [ILLUSTRATOR].: Illustrations of the Book of Job : invented and engraved by William Blake; Reproduced in reduced facsimile from impressions in the British Museum.

£65.00

London ; Glasgow : Gowans & Gray 1912 Square duodecimo, comprising 48 pages with 21photographic plates, original pictorial stiff wrappers, lightly browned to the spine else fine, FIRTS EDITION THUS, a charming small format reproduction in black-and-white

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: Songs of Innocence and Experience with Other Poems.

£125.00

London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866. Small 8vo, pp xii, 108, wood-engraved device on title page, wood-engraved tail pieces, bound in original drab cloth, paper label now well worn, a bit shaken but a good copy, FIRST EDITION THUS, as edited by Richard Herne Shepherd; this is the earliest practicably obtainable edition, the previous 1839 printing, also by Pickering, being now extremely rare.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: The Poems of William Blake comprising Songs of Innocence and Experience, together with Poetical Sketches and some Copyright Poems not in any other edition.

£75.00

London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1874. Small octavo, pagination: xx, 166, uncut in original blind stamped drab cloth, lightly rubbed and faded, but a very good sound clean copy, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION THUS; to some extent this printing was an attempt on the part of the editor, R H Shepherd to revive some commercial recompense from his earlier Blake collections, collected here with a few minor unpublished poems; His own 'To Florence' poem of introduction from 1869 is also reprinted. The editing, scholarly as it was, did not, however, supplant Rossetti's Aldine edition in lasting popularity or importance. A pleasing copy. Bentley 292.

BLAKE, WILLIAM.: Songs of Innocence and Experience

£65.00

London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1868. Small 8vo, pp xiv, 112, wood-engraved device on title page, half title preceded by 2 pages of adverts at the front, original cloth, uncut, paper label, this damaged and illegible, inner joint cracked and repaired, short split to upper joint, internally sound and tight, SECOND PICKERING EDITION, first published in 1866 as edited by Shepherd, and with the addition of two poems.

BLAKE, WILLIAM. GERALDINE MORRIS [ILLUSTRATOR].: Songs of Innocence by William Blake with illustrations by Geraldine Morris.

£95.00

London, John Lane, 1902. Square duodecimo, pagination: [1], [2, adverts] with a black and white frontispiece and 7 plates by Geraldine Morris, original sage green linen cloth, gilt, a fine copy stamped 'review copy', FIRTS EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. Issued in the Flowers of Parnassus series, this charming pocket edition features the Arts and Crafts illustrations of Geraldine Morris, perhaps of the Birmingham School of illustrators.

SALZMANN, REV C.G. [Illustrated William Blake].: Elements of Morality for the Use of Children...translated from the German...Vol III.

£100.00

London, J Crowder for J Johnson, 1792. Volume 3 only [of 3], pages [4], 200, [1], [3, adverts], with 18 engraved plates numbered 33 to 50, bound in contemporary unlettered sheep numbered '3' to spine, a little worn and cracked at joints but sound, a clean copy internally, THIRD EDITION. First published in 1791 without plates, this third printing is a re-issue of the second with the addition of plates and an 'advertisement' by Mary Wollstonecraft. The plates are unsigned but some are ascribed to Blake, including 7 in this volume 3 [33, 36,37,39,41,47, 50 - see Bentley, Blake Books 492].

WILSON, MONA.: The Life of William Blake.

£50.00

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927. Quarto, pagination: xv, [1], 397, [1], frontispiece and 23 plates, uncut in vellum backed marbled boards, spine slightly darkened else fine. FIRST EDITION. No. 1099 of 1480 copies.