Blake not William (5 results)
Published by Dial Press (1941), New York, NY 1941
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerCloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. New York, NY: Dial Press. G/G. (1941). . Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 741 pp., rubbed, edges frayed, cover edges rubbed, page toning, bookplate . Not Illustrated (illustrator).
- Signed
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerN.p.: n.d. Single sheet, 8 x 5 ins, b/w engraving of a ship sinking, signed Blake sc. . ß A print by the wrong Blake as Bentley described the various other Blakes who were artists or engravers roughly within Blake s lifetime. The ship sank in 1803; curiously a similar image but reversed and unsigned was found in Google images. S…igned.
More imagesPublished by The Scolar Press, London 1976
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
US$ 227.85
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. A smart limited edition facsimile of one of the earliest books ever printed in England by William Caxton. A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is numbered 359.A faithful facsimile of William Caxton's c1483 edition of 'The Game of Chess', one of the first titles to ever be printed in English….'The Game of Chess' is an allegorical morality book on chess and society in the Middle Ages.Caxton's translation is based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis.Illustrated with in-text woodcuts. This work was also one of the earliest books to be issued with woodcuts.Bookplate of T. & M. James to the front paste down. In the original publisher's hessian binding. Externally, smart. Light discolouration to the spine and to the head of the rear board. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland, Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed, Including Notices .
Anonymous [but John Watkins and Frederick Shoberl] William Blake
Published by Printed for Henry Colburn, London 1816
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+ condition. First Edition. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1816. Good+ condition. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and corners. Cover rubbed. Internally Very Good. Pages are clean and unmarked but for light scattered foxing. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. 1816. Firs…t Edition. This is one of the earliest books with biographical references to William Blake. According to G. E. Bentley in BLAKE BOOKS, there are discussions of William Blake (e.g. "an eccentric and very ingenious artist") under William Hayley, W. Blake, and William Blake, the bibliography from the last of which is reprinted in Watt (no. 533). Although the BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY was published anonymously, Bentley reports that Watkins compiled A-K and from there on by Shoberl [citing B. Corney "a persuasive witness" in NOTES & QUERIES XI (1855), 34]. Full title: "A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland, Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed, Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England, Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the First Eminence in the World of Letters." BLAKE BOOKS 2929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii, 449pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by The Nonesuch Press 1925-1927, London 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 545.45
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of the Nonesuch Press's brilliant limited edition collection of the writings of seminal literary figure William Blake, illustrated throughout, present alongside Mona Wilson's life of Blake. Present here are the three volumes of Geoffrey Keynes's 'The Writings of Wi…lliam Blake', and the single volume first edition of Mona Wilson's 'The Writings of William Blake'.Limited edition, first edition works, with Writings limited to 1575 copies, of which this is numbered 334, printed on Vidalon handmade paper, and with the Life limited to 1480 copies, of which this is 1364.Edited byBritish surgeon and author Geoffrey Keynes and Arranged chronologically, the Writings offer an impressive collection of the works of William Blake, including his Songs of Innocence and Experience, and the Marriage of Heaven and Hell.Blake was a Romantic poet and painter, a seminal figure in the history of early Romantic poetry.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-eight plates.Volume II illustrated with ten plates.Volume III illustrated with twenty plates.Collated, complete.Mona Wilson's life of Blake is illustrated with twenty-four plates. Collated, complete.Bookplate of Albertine Louise Winner to front pastedown of Life. Dame Winner was a British physician and medical administrator who served in the Department of Health as its first female deputy chief medical officer. In later life, she formed the first modern hospice at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London. In the publisher's original paper vellum backed marbled paper boards. Boards bright. Paper vellum lightly age toned, with handling marks, with bump and small hole to front joint of volume II. Bookplate to Life front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
