Verlag: Wentworth Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1372578498 ISBN 13: 9781372578496
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Fine.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016008147 ISBN 13: 9781016008143
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015788114 ISBN 13: 9781015788114
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: LEGARE STREET PR Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016868243 ISBN 13: 9781016868242
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016003110 ISBN 13: 9781016003117
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015782582 ISBN 13: 9781015782587
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016862911 ISBN 13: 9781016862912
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: London Bernard Quaritch, 1893
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
First edition, first impression, deluxe 'large paper' issue, one of 150 copies thus; 3 vols, large 8vo (29 x 20.5 cm); frontispiece to each vol., with tissue guards, errata slip facing p.xvi of first vol., profusely illustrated in black and white, some foxing, heavier to preliminary and terminal leaves; publisher's half tan morocco, cloth sides, decoration after Blake and titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, some rubbing to corners and extremities, else very good. The scarce 'large paper edition' (Wade), in half tan morocco binding. An edition of 500 copies issued in light green cloth was also printed in 1893. Despite Blake's reputation having been established by the 1890s, a full collected edition of his works had still not been published. Yeats and Ellis took up the task and produced this work of 'great originality'. Not only did they issue Blake's work at length, but they also undertook the 'explanation of "The Symbolic System" [which] occupied 185 pages, and the "Interpretation and Paraphrased Commentary" another 300. And here, directed at a comparatively wide audience, were not only transcripts of the Prophetic Books but facsimiles of them as well.' (Bentley). Wade 218.
Verlag: London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893, 1893
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First editions thus, one of 500 trade copies; 150 large paper copies were also issued. Yeats "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric verse" (ODNB). Yeats later identified the nature of the collaboration, explaining that the book was "mainly Ellis's, the thinking is as much mine as his" (Wade, p. 224). Ellis greatly expanded Yeats's original biographical writing and was solely responsible for "the 'literary period', the account of the minor poems, & the account of Blake's art theories", while "the greater part of the 'symbolic system' was Yeats's writing". Richard Ellman suggests a certain level of self-interest for Yeats in the project: "He was pleased to find that Blake's ideas harmonized with those of the Theosophists and the Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn, for he now had the authority of a great poet for using occult material. Blake, in short, bore an astonishing resemblance to Yeats, extending even to his initials. Here was a lofty justifying precedent" (Ellman, p. 177). This is an important work, making the Prophetic Books available in the later 19th century, and helping to rescue Blake from a reputation of mere eccentricity. The bookplate of the music critic and scholar, J. A. Fuller Maitland (1856-1936) is present in each copy. Wade 218 (variant dark green coated endpapers). Richard Ellman, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, 1948. Three vols, large octavo. Original green pictorial cloth after Blake, spines lettered and with elaborate decoration in gilt, dark green coated endpapers, top edges gilt. Errata slip loosely inserted in vol 1. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each volume with tissue guards, numerous plates throughout, the "Prophetic Books" reproduced in facsimile, and two folding tables. Bookplates to pastedowns with some adhesive residue, later ownership signature of one G. A. Pilgrim dated 1942 to each title page. Extremities worn and bumped, spines slightly toned, minor splitting to vol. I front joint, crease to vol. I rear cover, vol. II front hinge split, occasional light foxing: a very good set.