hayley william blake (21 Ergebnisse)

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

1p., 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged. Franked on the other side, with broken seal in red wax and postmark: 'London Feby: the 3 1795 | Miss Poole | Chichester | Egremont'. Unsigned, and in Hayley's untidy hand. Reads: 'Tuesday | 5 oclock | I have not been able to call on the Sheffield Travellers today but having caught a Frank from my noble Friend of Petworth I will dispatch my Servant without losing another post | adio'. Hayley later introduced his friend Miss Harriet Poole ('the Lady of Lavant') to William Blake, who would join him on visits to her villa in Lavant.

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.

Totalling 5pp., 4to, with Seward's poem on the first 3pp., and Hayley's on the following 2pp. Disbound from a notebook. In good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper which has been cropped at the foot, resulting in the loss of two lines of text from Hayley's poem, and with the strip with the trimmed line from the foot of the first page of Seward's poem laid down at the head of the second page. The status of this item is unclear: there are indications (for example the subtitle 'Impromptu' of Hayley's piece) that it provides a text of Hayley's poem as circulated in manuscript before publication. The two poems are written in the same calligraphic hand (not, apparently, Hayley's), on two loose bifoliums of laid paper (both with the same fleur-de-lys watermark), placed one inside the other, so that the last three pages are blank. Seward's poem begins: 'Dim Sweeps the Show'r along the misty Vale, | And Grief's low accents murmur in the Gale. | O'er the damp vase Horatio Sighing leans, | And gazes absent on the faded Scenes;' The end of line eight - the phrase 'Roseat Ribbons join'd', has clearly been added later. Line sixteen ('Thro' the light magic of his playful dreams.'), having been trimmed from the foot of the first leaf, is on a strip of paper laid down at the head of the second page. Very like the version published in the Scots Magazine in February 1779, with occasional minor variations ('wont' in the manuscript version for 'us'd' in the printed version; 'light' for 'like'). Hayley's poem has 'W. H'.' at the end. Lines 18 and 19 (the second of the two indicated by the rhyme scheme) appear to have been trimmed away. Comparision with the version published as "To Miss Seward" (without the 'Impromptu' subtitle) in the Whitehall Evening Post of 16 June 1781 shows some variations. In the published version, line 15 is followed by: 'In that fair semblance, with such plaintive fire | She struck the chords of her pathetic lyre, | the weeping Goddess owns the best relief, | And fondly listens with subsiding grief:' In the manuscript, line 15 is followed by 'Proclaim'd herself the friend of Andre's youth: | [text trimmed away] | The weeping Goddess owns the blest relief, | [.]'.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardback, quarter linen, with paper covered boards. 27cm x 22cm. Pp. [6], [5]. Printed on one side of the leaf only. Frontis and two reproductions of etchings after William Blake. A facsimile reprint of William Blake's etched Broadside of 1800. One of approximately 100 copies printed. Loosely stitched, covers slightly grubby.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. William Blake (illustrator). A good second edition of William Hayley's important and influential biography on the Romantic poet William Cowper, complete with illustrations. The second edition of this work.In two volumes; a third volume was later published in 1804.Bookplate of George John Earl de la Warr to the front paste downs; George Sackville-West was the great-grandfather of Vita Sackville West, the prominent Bloomsbury writer who is known for her affair with Virginia Woolf. George was a courtier and Tory politican,Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate.Volume II illustrated with a frontispieceHalf-title present to each volume.Collated, complete.An extensive biography on the life and works of the English poet and hymnodist William Cowper.Cowper was the forerunner of the Romantic poetry movement of the nineteenth century. He wrote poems that focussed on everyday lives and scenes of the English countryside.Written by William Hayley, who was the friend of Cowper, and is best known for this biography.Engraved by William Blake, the noted poet and printmaker. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart, with some rubbing to the boards and spines. Light bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss of paper to the extremities. Faint surface cracks to the spines. Bookplate and ink inscription to the front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional light spot. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. William Blake and Others (illustrator). 1st Ed. Pp. (18), 416. 12 copper engravings including "Sketch of the Shipwreck after Romney" by William Blake. Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, all edges gilt. Extremities rubbed, front free end paper detached. A little sporadic foxing. Size: 28.0 x 21.0 Cm.

See his father's entry in the Oxford DNB. 2p, 12mo. Neatly written over 26 lines. With mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Signed 'E. G. Marsh'. Recipient not named ('My dear Sir'). He explains that, having happened on the previous day to be in the chair 'at the monthly meeting of our clerical society in Maidstone', he was present when the recipient's 'two letters to Dr. Maitland' were presented, and is requested to convey the meeting's gratitude, not only for the letters, but for his history of Rome, 'received by them on a former occasion'. Having brought the letters home, Marsh expects to be 'fully satisfied by your proofs of the position concerning the Cyprianic letters'. He hopes the recipient will renew his 'suspended (I will not say forgotten) habit of attending the meetings of the society'.

1 p, 4to. Bifolium. Sixteen lines, neatly written. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'W. Hayley Esqre.' He begins by thanking him for 'the kind memorial' (a volume of music?); the gift expresses Hayley's 'sense of common civility' and acquaints Boaden 'with a composer of great merit'. 'I tried the effect of his divine art yesterday, Sunday, and could not but wish to hear it from the organ at Chichester'. The rest of the letter concerns 'the subject of Randolph, and the copy of his works honour'd by the hand-writing of Pope'. Boaden has 'compared the signature with various specimens at Mr. Malone's', and Hayley 'may confidently rely upon the fact'. Randolph 'bore the same christian name as his father, a circumstance, which Dr. Johnson, I think, has left sub sil[entio]:' The volume 'may add something to the expected commentary upon Milton'.

1p., 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and worn. Addressed on second leaf to 'Wm. Hayley Esqr | Eartham, which also carries calculations, presumably in Hayley's hand. Guy gives a breakdown of '[t]he whole sum subscribed for Collins's Monument', £94 13s 8d, giving the amount spent 'for advertising &c.', 'conveying it to Chichester' and 'Mr West's Bill'. 'When these sums have been paid the balance in Mr. Flaxman's hands will only be 83£ - Now as I trust you was not made aware of the true statement, I have omitted to fulfil your wish till I have the pleasure of hearing again'.There are several references in Hayley's 1823 'Memoirs' to 'his kind medical friend, William Guy of Chichester', as well as to the memorial to Cowper. Guy attended Hayley in his final illness.

First Edition. London: Richard C. Jackson, 1917. 4to, (2, half-title), frontispiece (Blake portrait), (16). Very good with slight wear to board covers and corners. The dedicatee's copy, signed Mackenzie Bell 29th July 1920. § A facsimile produced for the "William Blake Society of Arts and Letters" in a limited edition of 100 copies (plus 10 proofs), by Richard C. Jackson, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Blake's birth. The facsimile claims to be the first edition of "Little Tom" in moveable type, and reproduces Blake's two main designs in different colours - Little Tom on the boat in blue, and with his mother in a rather pallid yellow. The title is in red and black. The book is printed on "Queen of Scots" hand-made paper, and sewn into quarter cream buckram bound gray paper covered boards, with a decorated and printed label in buckram mounted to the cover. Jackson was the founder of the Blake Society of Arts and Letters in 1901, and still President in 1917. The edition has a dedication page to Mackenzie Bell (a poet and past Vice-President of the Society) and this was apparently his own copy, being signed by him on the front end paper. Bentley, BB, 470 E . Bentley refers to Jackson as being "mendacious", but gives no reason. Jackson does however defame and possibly libel Gilchrist in the colophon at the end of this facsimile so this is perhaps symptomatic. However the facsimile is certainly an impressive and attractive one. Signed.

First Edition. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Large 8vo (22.7 x 14.2 cm.), xii, 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt titled backstrip, marbled edges, minor rubbing to backstrip and corners, faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves, otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy, unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations by Maria Flaxman. Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley, Blake Books, 471A. Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIII.

First Edition. Chichester: W. Mason, 1809. Large 4to, (8), 416, (7) pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates, including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards, with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout, just traces of ageing on the first few pages. § First edition, large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue, the large-paper copies are on heavier paper and the impressions are stronger. The 1-page advertisement at the end for "Epistles to Romney" is not found in the small-paper copies. Blake's plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Bentley, BB 469, Essick, CBI, XLIX: large-paper issue has an "1807" watermark without a maker's name; the small paper is watermarked "Rye Mill / 1807.".

First Edition. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Roy. 8vo (9.5 x 5.75 ins.), xii, 165 pp. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Later half green morocco, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy, unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations. Bentley, BB, 471A. Essick, CBI, XLIII. DNB notes of Hayley: "Possibly his greatest achievement, however, was his didactic poem Triumphs of Temper (1781), which 'was to reform the entire feminine mind of England by the advice' (Bishop, 53). This allegorical work aspired, in rhyming couplets, to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant nature. Its advice was heeded by some: Emma Hamilton thanked Hayley 'for the lessons she had learnt from the poem' (P. Jaffe, Drawings by George Romney, 1978, 44) and asked Romney to inform Hayley that his poem 'made me Lady H. . for Sir W. minds more temper than beauty' (ibid.). Triumphs of Temper ran into fourteen editions and proved to be the most durable of all his publications.".

Chichester: J. Seagrave, 1803-04. 3 vols., 4to, (10, table of contents), [iii]-xiii, [1]-413; (8), [1]-424; (2), [1-iii], iv-xxxi, 416, (4), (6), [1]-122, (24) pp. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text, one designed and engraved by Blake, the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Original polished brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Backstrips of each volume with two black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Hinges and joints of vol. III just starting. Some spotting and foxing along edges of text blocks and within the text itself, sometimes within the image. Minor rubbing and wear at extremities. Armorial bookplate of the Corbollis family on front pastedown of each volume. Excellent, original copies in fantastic overall condition. § Second edition, final state of the "Weatherhouse" plate designed by Blake. Hayley's position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley, however "the plates for vols i-ii are much more clearly and darkly printed in the second edition (so indicated on the title pages) than the first. Perhaps many of the lines were cut more deeply when the plates were converted in their second states, but more careful inking and printing could account for the considerable tonal differences. One hesitates to blame Mrs. Blake for the poor impressions of the first states, but that may indeed be the case" (Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, 86). Bentley, Blake Books, 468 A. Easson & Essick I, VII.

First Edition. Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave; for J. Johnson. 1803-1806. 4 vols. (including Supplementary Pages) in three, 4to, pp. [i-iii]-xii, not including (8) -- 'Contents,' bound after title-page, [1]-413; (8), [1]-422; (4), xxxi, [1]-416; (4), [1]-122, (24), with five plates and an engraving in the text by William Blake, second state of those in Vols. I and II (no second state for those in Vol. III), top cover of Vol. II with worm track, frontispiece to Vol. II slightly foxed, occasional browning in Vol. III and a worm track in the upper margin of the first few leaves, bound without half-titles, contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders to front and back covers, flat spines (not green) gilt in compartments with red lettering pieces in the second and fifth, a bit rubbed and worn, joints tender, the upper cover of Vol. III nearly detached; original blue silk bookmarks in all three vols., ownership inscription in each vol. of Charlotte Beatty, that in the third vol. dated 1805. Good. § First edition, and second state of the "Weatherhouse" plate, the only illustration in the book designed and engraved by Blake, of which only a few examples are known in the first state. This plate, here present in a very good impression with the imprint quite clear, is almost always in the second state; three or four copies are known in the first state. The other 5 plates are engraved by Blake after designs by others. Hayley's position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper reads: "These three volumes were obtained from the family of the Rev. Wm Bull of Newport Pagnell, Friend of Cowper and Newton [see DNB]. Charlotte Beatty was the original owner of the books and she was a friend of this circle, and also well-known in that area, where alms houses were named in her honour." Keynes, Grolier, 124; Bentley 468A; Essick XLIV (note that the entry in Easson and Essick (IV) is totally superseded by Essick's new research in the Commercial Book Illustrations).

London: 1791. Single sheet, 175 x 261 sheet, 134 x 177 (image) mm, being a good impression of the plate extracted from the book; recently cleaned. § A famous image with familiar Blake themes including the raging horse, a maiden laid out on a rock, a terrified figure tearing her hair, etc. Essick, Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIX.

First Edition. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp., with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Overall a clean and very pleasing copy in contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip and red label. Bookplate of Benjamin Dickinson, ink signature of J.W. Dickinson dated Oct. 9th 1824, later bookplate of Walter Hirst. § First edition, with plates 1-3 in the first state. An important book in the Blake canon, being his second version of the Ballads after the extremely rare 1802 edition (see above for the frontispiece). "For this 1805 volume, Hayley added twelve ballads to the four first published in 1802. Blake engraved new plates of his designs for three of the 1802 ballads (plates 1-3) and both designed and engraved new illustrations for two of the additional ballads (plates 4-5). Blake and Phillips were to "go equal shares . . . in the expense and the profits" (Blake's letter to Hayley of 22 January 1805, Erdman page 763). Robert Southey's mocking review of Hayley's poems and Blake's illustration to "The Dog" (Plate 1) appeared in the Annual Review for 1805." Bentley, BB, 465. Easson and Essick, WBBI, Vol. I, VIII. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 403-407.

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.

Chichester: J. Seagrave, 1803-04. 3 vols., 4to, (2), xii, (8), 413; (4), 424; (6), xxxi, 416 pages. With 5 plates and an engraving in the text, one designed and engraved by Blake, the others engraved by Blake after other artists. Old diaper calf rebacked, new labels, a good set. § Second edition, final state of the "Weatherhouse" plate designed by Blake. Hayley's position as the most respectable and considerable literary figure who had known Cowper made him the inevitable choice to write the definitive work. Blake was living with his wife at Felpham and she helped him make and print the engravings for their old friend and patron Hayley. Bentley, Blake Books, 468 A. Easson & Essick I, VII. Bound in at the end is another book entitled: Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. London: 1803, published by Vernor and Hood and with an engraved title and 12 plates by Storer and Greig. This added text has nothing to do with Blake and only relates to William Cowper.