Plate by Blake William (21 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1991 Article, disbound from journal; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

paperback. Condition: Gut. Auflage: Reprint. 416 Seiten Buch ist durch Druckstellen etwas verlagert (längs durchgebogen), kleine Lagerspuren am Buch, Inhalt einwandfrei und ungelesen Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. BLAKE, WILLIAM (illustrator). 1st Edition. 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.

Condition: Good. Line engraving on wove paper. 29.5 x 42 cm (sheet). Good, time staining in the image.Ref: Essick and La Belle, 1977, pp. V-XVI.

London: The Trianon Press, 1955. Single proof plate (127 x 230mm, image measures 74 x 124mm), collotype and hand stenciling, a few light marks, trimmed. ? Single proof plate from the superb Trianon Press color facsimile of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake and his wife Catherine hand-printed and bound fewer than forty copies of the Songs of Innocence and the combined Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This facsimile was based on copy Z, the Rosenwald-LC copy.

London: Harrison and Co., 1784. Engraved by Blake after Collings. Full margins, folded as usual. A little soiled, but a good strong impression. ? One of five plates Blake engraved for The Wit?s Magazine. Bentley, BB, 513, Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XIV, pp 36-38.

Condition: Good. Engraving on thick woven paper. 15 3/4 inches x 21 inches. Some foxing.

First Edition. 1826. Folio, single sheet 16 1/4 x 11, image (inc. platemark) 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Light spotting, very good. ? First edition, from the printing of 65 sets with the word ?Proof? on French wove paper. Blake's rendition of Job 1: 14-16, in which Job is told of the destruction of his herds and the servants who tended them. Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625?641C.

First Edition. London: March 8, 1828 (i.e 1825 but published 1826). Single leaf, recently cleaned. ? First edition, one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word ?proof? removed.?Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625?641C.

First Edition. London: March 8, 1828 (i.e 1825 but published 1826). Single leaf, recently cleaned. ? First edition, one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word ?proof? removed.?Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625?641C.

First Edition. London: March 8, 1828 (i.e 1825 but published 1826). Single leaf, recently cleaned. ? First edition, one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word ?proof? removed.?Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625?641C.

Condition: Fine. London, William Blake [for John Linnell], 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' [in fact 1826]. An original engraving (printed surface 195 × 148 mm plus the credits, paper size 377 × 271 mm), matted with archival board and behind glass in a simple but apposite polished wooden frame (visible image size 237 × 187 mm, external dimensions 540 × 448 mm). Paper lightly cockled, with a tiny closed tear to the bottom margin of the sheet (well clear of the printed surface); essentially in fine condition. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints (published 1826) by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier sets of watercolours by Blake on the same subject (1806 and 1821). The engraved "Illustrations" are considered to be Blake's greatest masterpieces in the medium of engraving, and were also a rare commercial and critical success for Blake' (Wikipedia). Plate 13 quotes Job 38:1-2 and 28 ('Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind / Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge . Hath the Rain a Father & Who hath begotten the Drops of the Dew'), and Psalms 104:3 ('Who maketh the Clouds his Chariot & walketh on the Wings of the Wind'). The Blake authority, G.E. Bentley Jr ('Blake Books. Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing .', Clarendon Press, 1977) records that 'According to Linnell's "Job" accounts, 150 "Proof" sets on India paper (watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1825) and 65 on French paper (watermarked J WHATMAN 1825) were printed by Lahee in March 1826. Then the word "Proof" was removed from the plates (though it is still faintly visible on the copperplates and in some pulls), and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper'. The example we have for sale is one of the latter group, printed after the word 'Proof' was removed from the original copperplate.

First Edition. 1826. Folio, single sheet 16 1/4 x 11, image (inc. platemark) 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. ? First edition, from the printing of 65 sets with the word ?Proof? on French wove paper. A fine impression of one of the most affecting plates in this series, in which Job laments his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence (Job 3:3). Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake?s last completed prophetic book. ?It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake?s 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, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625?641C. Provenance: Sotheby?s May 4& 5, 1983.

Facsimile collotype with hand-stenciling, after the original plate #24 from the " The [First] Book of Urizen," printed in London by Trianon Press, 1958. 290 x 240 mm.One of the scarcest of the Trianon facsimiles. Bentley, BB, 40. "Blake's most ambitious production thitherto. seven copies and a few scattered pages have been located. intended to be the first of a series dealing with activities in the supernatural world which caused the creation of the natural world and the early history of mankind." (Damon, Blake Dictionary).

London: Printed for the Author; Sold by T. Bathurst, Payne and Son., 1783. Single sheet, a bit soiled, the volume and page numbers at the top rubbed away. ? Blake?s engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting 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, CBI, XII.

Facsimile collotype with hand-stenciling, after the original plate #5 from the " The [First] Book of Urizen," printed in London by Trianon Press, 1958. 295 x 235 mm.One of the scarcest of the Trianon facsimiles. Bentley, BB, 40. "Blake's most ambitious production thitherto. seven copies and a few scattered pages have been located. intended to be the first of a series dealing with activities in the supernatural world which caused the creation of the natural world and the early history of mankind." (Damon, Blake Dictionary).

Facsimile collotype with hand-stenciling, after the original plate #4 from the " The [First] Book of Urizen," printed in London by Trianon Press, 1958. 310 x 240 mm.One of the scarcest of the Trianon facsimiles. Bentley, BB, 40. "Blake's most ambitious production thitherto. seven copies and a few scattered pages have been located. intended to be the first of a series dealing with activities in the supernatural world which caused the creation of the natural world and the early history of mankind." (Damon, Blake Dictionary).

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. ? From the second 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D. "In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave, a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image, Deaths Door, in white-line, but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes, but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus, also of November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi (or Louis) Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." (The William Blake Archive).

London: for the author and sold by Longman, 1828. Single plate by William Blake, cleaned by Court Benson. Framed. ? From the first (and only) edition of this elusive Blake item. Includes Blake's figure of the constellation 'Cancer', which may be a caricature self-portrait of Blake himself. Keynes 248: 'extremely rare'. Bentley, Blake Books, 501.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. ? From the first 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.

Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. The Lion. Single plate, full margins, well printed, first state. ? See: Bentley, Blake Books, 465. Easson and Essick, William Blake Book Illustrator, VIII. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 403-407.