robert blair william blake illustrator (3 Ergebnisse)

Marbled boards. Zustand: Very Good. William Blake (illustrator). 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 boards 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). 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.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto (pages 275 x 340mm): [xvi], 36, [4, prospectus]; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake, engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly, no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson, motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase. A blank verse poem, The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805, William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs.In a second prospectus, also from November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century" (William Blake Archive). Near Fine.