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Verlag: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1893
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1893. No Edition Remarks. 259 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.
Anbieter: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, USA
London: Kegan Paul, 1893. Small 8vo, xxi, 259 pp. Frontispiece. 8vo, glazed maroon cloth with gilt-stamp on upper board and gilt lettering on spine. Fine laid paper lettered in red, fore-edge untrimmed. A bit dusty but internally a good copy § First and only 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 image only. Bentley, Blake Books, 325.
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., London., 1863
Anbieter: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2 vols. 8vo. (160 x 235 mm). pp. xvi, 390; viii, 268. The many illustrations include reproductions of the Book of Job (22 plates). The 16 plates Songs of Innocence of Experience and 3 from Thornton's Virgil are taken from the original plates and woodblocks. Full nineteenth century calf Root with his signature gilt, baords and spine with decorative tooling in gilt, neatly re-backed with original backstrips laid down, the original publisher's decorated cloth front covers bound in, t.e.g. A fine extra-illustrated example of the first edition of the first important life of Blake. After Gilchrist died in 1861 the final section of the work was written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from notes left by Gilchrist. The additional 54 plates include some of Blake's commercial prints (26 prints), portraits mainly of writers and artists, and a small number of topographical plates including an etching titled in pencil 'Blake's Cottage at Feltham by Gilchrist'. The 26 plates by Blake are: Portrait of Democritus from Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy. Fertilisation of Egypt from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden. A Family of New South Wales from J. Hunter's Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, 1793. May Day in London from The Wit's Magazine. May 1784. 4 plates from Charles Allen's A New and Improved History of England. 1797. 14 plates from C G Salzmann's Elements of Morality. 4 plates from W. Hayley's The Triumph of Temper.
Verlag: Macmillan and Co, London, 1880
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G; Hardcover; Spine, black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print and illustration, rebound with original illustrated cloth affixed to new cloth boards, spines lightly toned with creases or chipping evident from original binding, mild bumps to fore corners, else mild rubbing, shelfwear; Text blocks have deckle edges, some tanning or foxing to plates from tissue protectors, uncut pages, occasional light foxing; "Life and works of William Blake"-- cover title; CONTENTS: Vol. 1 Life of William Blake (xxi, 431 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates) - Vol. 2. Selections / edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ix, 383 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates). Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restriction(s). Contact seller if you have any questions. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, in wraparound bookcase next to 15's. 1354576. FP New Rockville Stock.