blake engravings (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 173 Plates and Hundreds of Engravings By William Blake and Others (illustrator). 1st Edition. Title, (8), Iv, (20),281 Pp.; Title, Pp. V-Xii, 238 Pp., Final Plate; Half Title, (4), Pp. 239-444; Title, Pp. V-Xii, 252 Pp.; Half Title ,(Iv), Pp. 253-437, (Viii, Index). Three Volumes Bound In Five, Complete. Original 35.7 Cm Height. Full Calf, Five Double Bands, Gilt Rules And Designs On Spines, Covers, And Gilt Designs On Turns, Watered Endpapers In Blue And Red. Silk Bookmarks Bound In. All Edges Gilt. First Printings Of Each Volume (Title Pages Dated 1789, 1792, 1798, But The First Volume, 1789, Bound With The 1798 Translator's Preface). All 173 Plates And Other Illustrations Present, Including William Blake Plate And Three Illustrations By Him, And With All Initial And Final Blanks [No Half-Titles In Vol I, Vol Ii Pt I, Or Vol Iii Pt I]. Binding Lightly Worn At Edges, Wear And Fraying At Corners, Gilt Bright, Covers Recently Refurbished, Endpapers Clean, No Names Or Stamps Or Marks, Some Foxing To Plate Margins. Additional Postage Required, International Postage At Insured Rates .

4to, (259mm.), [4],[8],(iii-)xii, 413; [8],424p. 3 portraits engraved by William Blake. A large tear across the title page sometime repaired and sone occasional slight spotting. Contemporary full tan calf, gilt 3-line rules frame with corner ornaments, rebacked in corner tips repaired, French-shell marbled paper endleaves; gilt crest of the Signet Library in the centre of the front and rear covers of both volumes, and their manuscript provenance note in the gutter of the title to each volume. An important and influential biography of the poet. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based and we may have to request additonal postage if the difference is too great to absorb. Overseas customers are advised to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and charges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. London. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. 1793. Hardcover, bound in full calf. 175 pages. A very fine binding with raised cords on the spine, maroon and black title labels, gilt edges and marbled endpapers. This volume contains 17 of Gay's Fables. Each is nicely illustrated with engravings. 17 engravings, including the title page. Of particular interest are 3 plates engraved by the young William Blake. Blake was in his mid-thirties when this book came out he had already written and illustrated his Songs of Innocence and was finishing up his Marriage of Heaven and Hell but these plates in Gay's fables are among the earliest examples of his professional work. The Blake engravings in this volume show; 1) A Dog and A Fox to illustrate the fable of that name. 2) Pan and Fortune, showing those two figures against a rural landscape and 3) The Ravens, The Sexton and the Earthworm, showing a funeral scene. Other plates in the volume by Wilson, Mazell, Skelton, and Grainger are whimsical and attractive. Pages are clean although faded in some places, and engravings have ghosted to the facing pages in a few places. Overall cntents are in very good condition. Slight wear to leather hinges, but other than that, binding too in very good condition. Gay's fables were first published in 1738, but remained a popular title throughout the century, in part because it lent itself so well to new sets of illustrations. He is best remembered for his Beggar's Opera, but like much like Alexander Pope, Gay was a respected wit and poet in his day, carrying the torch for theatre and literary arts during a time of religious backlash in England.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavos, 2 volumes. Volume 1: xi, [1], 235, [1], Volume 2: [4], 261, [3] pages. In Good Plus condition. Bound in patterned light brown cloth, rebacked with brown cloth. The majority of previous spine preserved, including back labels with gilt lettering. Some chipping and rubbing to boards. Includes 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready, including frontispieces, one for each tale told within, some plates offset onto the facing page, including the title page for volume two. Some foxing/spotting throughout. With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume one. shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote, because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are, they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart, before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book"; Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his Herries Chronicle series, set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s, and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain, Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men, and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one, a married policeman, with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors, he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. [wikipedia]. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.