Wicksteed joseph blake william (2 Ergebnisse)

dj. First Edition. London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, [1954]. Small 4to, xvi, 264 pp. 28 plates. Original orange cloth somewhat shelf worn, with gilt lettering to backstrip, toning to backstrip, internally toned with slight pencil marking, lacking dust jacket, . § First edition, 1500 copies printed. This commentary was intended to go with the full-scale color facsimile and the black-and-white Rinder facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 2961.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. ** Raymond Lister Copy ** Folio, 5 fascicles in grey wrappers, contained in original blue and gold spangled folding box as issued. Folding box with short split in linen at head and foot of opening hinge, box with a couple of other piffling scuffs, else a very fine copy of a large and vulnerable item. Includes 100 superb hand-coloured plates. The first of the superb Trianon Press Blake Facsimiles : 'The final result bears the closest possible resemblance to Blake's original plates'. Edition Limited to 516 numbered copies : superbly printed on a pure rag paper especially manufactured to match the original paper used by Blake. The earliest, and one of the most important and most admired of the Trianon Press Facsimiles, it was taken from the only complete copy of Jerusalem to have been hand-printed and hand-coloured by William Blake himself. ** The Raymond Lister Copy : with the discreet and very attractive little book label of Pamela & Raymond Lister in the Cambridge calligraphic style of Reynolds Stone / Will Carter / David Kindersley. Raymond Lister, a President of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, was an important scholar of Blake and his followers. Lister was closely involved in work with Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Arnold Fawcus of the Trianon Press and the Blake Trust. Lister's own Samuel Palmer : A Vision Recaptured was produced by the Trianon Press, as were the unaccompanied plates intended for his Samuel Palmer Catalogue Raisonné. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…