william blake sir geoffrey keynes (21 Ergebnisse)

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.

Zustand: Good. 2Rev Ed. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Very Good. William Blake (illustrator). This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (poetry, illustration).

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Spine faded.; 1972 paperback reprint of an edition first published in the Oxford Standard Authors series in 1966, first published as an Oxford University Press paperback in 1969. xvi, 944 pages. Page dimensions: 203 x 134mm.

Pictorial wrappers, light wear and corners bumped. Provenance: Ulf Cederlöf (1948-2021), chief curator of prints and drawings at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. New York, Dover, 1970. Large 8vo. xiv + [184] pp. With 92 illustrations in black & white.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 8vo, xxviii, 235 pp, with 25 black and white plates and one text illustration. The third edition, revised and amplified. Near fine in original black cloth and dust-jacket. § Third edition. Bentley, BBS, refers to this edition but does not include it (see p.96n.).

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. William Blake (illustrator). First edition. A smart and bright first edition copy of this selection of essays on the poet William Blake written by scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes. This volume gathers a selection of essays by Geoffrey Keynes that view William Blake's works from a variety of perspectives. The essays cover Blake's earliest works and his later poems and designs.Sir Geoffrey Keynes was a British surgeon and author who was a scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey.Richly illustrated throughout and in the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is generally excellent with some very minor edge wear. Fine. book.

Signed limited edition, number 475 of 525 copies only, all signed by Geoffrey Keynes on the limitation leaf; an unsigned trade edition was also published by the Orion Press. Tall quarto. Original red quarter morocco, marbled sides, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. In the original matching marbled slipcase. Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout after William Blake. A fine copy. The book was designed by Arnold Fawcus, comprising a selection of plates from Blake's illuminated books, all printed in 6- and 8-colour offset on paper specially manufactured to match the tint of the paper used by Blake. Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) was an academic, biographer, and the younger brother of John Maynard Keynes. He was a world authority on Blake, and was instrumental in the production of the Trianon facsimiles, writing the accompanying bibliographical texts and contributing material from his own collection. From the library, though unmarked as such, of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), who served as chairman of the National Trust from 1945 to 1965, alongside serving as trustee of the Tate and National Galleries, the British Museum, and the National Library of Scotland.

First edition, number 11 of 380 copies thus, this copy inscribed on the limitation leaf by the publisher Arnold Fawcus, "For Raymond: Geoffrey's most recent and exciting contribution to Blake scholarship, warmest regards, Arnold", from a total edition of 438 copies. This Trianon production constitutes a finely illustrated disquisition by Keynes on Blake's artistic and philosophical obsession with the classical Laocoon sculpture. Quarto. Monochrome collotype plates. Original brown quarter morocco, grey cloth sides, titles gilt to spine. Fine.