Blake william illustrator blair robert (3 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: R.H. Cromek, London, 1808
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Marbled boards. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. The 1808 1st edition, with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake (at the frontispiece), his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled board…s and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio, published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" (Bentley, 435B). William Blake (illustrator).
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Anbieter: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, USAJohn Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA
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First Edition. [N. P.]: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Folio, 95pp. Original black silk binding, with morocco labels, stamped in gilt, to top board and backstrip, black cloth-covered slipcase; illustrated throughout with color reproductions of watercolor drawings, as well as engravings. As new. § First edition, limited to 186 co…pies, out of print on publication. From the announcement: "These watercolor designs, which disappeared from the public eye from 1836-2001, came to light in a Glasgow bookshop, and were [later] offered as an entity to institutions and collectors at a price which, as it turned out, none could afford, or at least, was prepared to pay. Eventually, in the face of much protest, the portfolio and the 19 designs were offered for sale in 20 separate lots at Sotheby's, New York, in 2006. The drawings are now widely dispersed and it is most unlikely that they will ever again be seen together." The sale was roundly condemned at the time as an act of cultural crime. This book (and the facsimile portfolio in the de luxe issue) are now the only record we will ever have of the original series. Happily, the Blake Trust created a superb book, which is and will surely remain the single most valuable reference work on these remarkable Blake drawings.
Weitere BilderVerlag: T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, London, 1808
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Anbieter: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, USABiblioctopus
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First Edition. 1st edition, quarto, (xiv), 36, [4]. of Blake's illustrations for Blair's 1743 poem. Portrait frontispiece after Phillips, etched title page, 11 plates by Luigi Schiavonetti engraved after Blake's designs. One of about 590 copies published by subscription. Some foxing, particularly concentrated at the portrait and… etched title page, else very good in 20th century ¾ calf and marbled boards. In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the publisher Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for the poem. Disagreements between Blake and Comek about the artistic direction led to hiring Schiavonetti for the engraving. Bentley, Blake Books, 435B. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 465-476. Keynes 81. Ray 6. William Blake (illustrator).
