Blake william young edward (19 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 100 pages. 6.14x0.21x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Folios, two volumes. In Very Good plus condition with Very Good minus dust jackets and Good minus slip case. Cream spines with black titling. Slip case with light plus bumping and shelf wear at edges and corners; rear horizontal joints with more significant wear including splitting. Light plus rubbing and shelf wear to surfaces of slip case boards. Dust jackets with light bumping and shelf wear to head and tail of spines and edges of jackets, including minor tears; light sunning to spines; and light marking to dust jackets, primarily near spine and edges. Dust jackets with prices clipped. Bindings with light bumping to heads and tails of spines. CONTENTS: Vol. I (xvi, 99 pages plus over 263 unpaginated full-page plates). -- Vol. II (viii, plates 264-537). [Oversized set. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.] Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1389749. Special Collections. Color And B&W Illustration (illustrator).…

Folio. (415 x 325 mm). pp. (ii), viii, 95. Leaf with 'Explanation of the Engravings' recto and verso, printed title, advertisement (pp. iii - viii) and 43 leaves with engravings by William Blake surrounding the text; 21 of the leaves retain the publisher's imprints. Scarlet morocco-backed contemporary moiré cloth boards, gilt titles to front cover and spine. First edition of Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Night Thoughts is a key work in the Blake canon, executed at a crucial point in his career. Sometime in 1795 or 1796 Blake was comissioned by the publisher Richard Edwards to undertake the illustration of each page of Young's bestseller 'Night Thoughts'. It was intended to publish the whole poem of nine nights in installments accompanied by engravings based on Blake's drawings, but Edwards went out of business after the first volume consisting of 4 Nights and the project was never completed. 'Blake has undertaken to make designs to encircle the letter press of each page of Young's Night Thoughts, Edwards the Bookseller, of Bond Street employed him and has had the letter press of each page laid down on a large half sheet of paper. There are about 900 pages - Blake asked 100 guineas for the whole. Edwards said he could not afford to give more than 20 guineas for which Blake agreed. Fuseli understands that Edwards proposes to select about 200 from the whole to have that number engraved (by Blake) as decorations for a new edition.' (Blake Records).…

No binding. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Large Quarto (16 3/16" x 12 3/8", 410mm x 315mm): 54 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, advertisement) iv-viii, [2] (Night the first, on life, death and mortality, blank) 1-16 17-18 (Night the second on time, death and friendship, blank) 19-42 43-44 (Night the third, Narcissa, blank) 45-63 64-66 (blank, The Christian triumph, blank) 67-95 [3] (blank, 2pp. explanation of the engravings). With 4 engraved subtitle-pages and 39 engravings bordering the text. Disbound. Presented in a custom chemise within a portfolio of quarter mottled calf over grey card (16 7/8" x 13 ¼", 428mm x 336mm). On the spine, "Young's / night / thoughts / Blake" gilt to a black morocco lettering piece. Date gilt to the heel. Pinholes and facsimile repairs along the left margin throughout. Occasional pale foxing, soiling to the extremities, and cockling. Repaired horizontal tear from the fore-margin to leaf 10. Repaired tear to the lower fore-corner of leaf 35. Horizontal tear extending from fore-edge of leaf 49. Dampstain to the upper edge of pp. 51 Watermark of J. Whatman to leaf 35 and 48. Leaf of "Explanation of the engravings" inlaid. In 1797, the bookseller Richard Edwards published the first installment of his new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts. A poem in nine parts, the work had already seen many iterations since its initial release between 1742 and 1745. Edwards promoted his unique edition with a titillating prospectus, describing it as "part the first of a splendid edition of this favourite work, elegantly printed, and illustrated with forty very spirited engravings from original drawings by BLAKE." Described as "the most grandiose engraving project of Blake's lifetime" (Bentley & Nurmi, p. 4), the impression was instantly scarce. William Blake (1757-1827) spent nearly two years illustrating the complete Night Thoughts; creating a watercolor design in the margins of every page, amounting to 537 illustrations in total. This was the largest commercial endeavor for which Blake was ever employed. Edwards began the project by having the pages from the first and second editions of the poem glued into windows cut into large leaves of Whatman wove paper. These text pages were positioned slightly off-center to create a lower margin greater than the upper and an outer margin greater than the inner (Bentley notes that the paper was "only marginally larger than the copperplate, and even in untrimmed copies, parts of the platemarks may not appear"). Blake was paid the paltry sum of twenty guineas for his watercolors, presumably because he expected to receive a great deal more for engraving them. Of 537, only 43 were engraved for the first run of the Edwards edition, which spanned four "Nights" of the poem. Despite much anticipation, the project was a complete commercial failure, and no further volumes were released. The flop of the project may have been one of the reasons why Blake decided, in 1800, to move from London to the village of Felpham on the Sussex coast and place himself under the patronage of William Hayley. Today, the vast majority of Blake's Night Thoughts illustrations remain unpublished. The cost of the project, which involved the separate printing of the text and the plates, was evidently too great, and the illustrations were perhaps too lewd for contemporary tastes (Pilkington notes that the work's only impression on the public was to startle the pious with unexpectedly "naked groups"). Additionally, Young's words and Blake's pictures were often in tension with one another. The generality of Young's diction gave Blake considerable freedom in illustrating it, and Blake's ideological supplementals become apparent even with a cursory glance. When Young wrote Night Thoughts in the middle of the XVIIIc, he considered that he was offering "plain truths" with which his readers would agree that reason is man's dominant faculty and rigid moral laws provide punishment for sin. When Blake illustrated the poem fifty years later, it was precise.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition thus, Folio Society 2005 2 volumes, facsimile limited edition, No. 235 of 1000 copies, colour illustrations throughout, original quarter morocco by Smith Settle of Otley, upper covers decorated designed by David Eccles based on William Blake's original drawings, silver-gilt decorated spines, together with commentary volume in original buckram, contained together in original clam-shell box, folio, Folio Society, 2005. HEavy set and additonal postage charges may apply.…

Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title panel to the upper cover, housed together in a dark blue cloth solander box with matching silver lettered leather title label to the spine. High quality colour reproductions of Blake's illustrations throughout the folio volumes. Some light shelf wear to the case, else a lovely example.…

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 57/58, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaf is quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. The leaf is from from "Narcissa," the third night of Young's poem, and the illustration shows a party of drinkers under a looming figure clutching a spear. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3.…

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 27/28, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 39/40, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 85/86, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 93/94, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 55/56, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 89/90, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 75/76, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 69/70, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 87/88 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 23/24 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights'and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 15/16 with 2 full-page engravings by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …