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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9". xxviii, 302pp. plus plates. Rubbing and toning to covers of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing and two closed tears to edges and corners of jacket. Purple cloth over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Corners are gently bumped. Light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint foxing to front and rear endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The detailed entries offer much new information on states, media, hand coloring, color printing, paper, geniesis and iconography of the designs, and the provenances of individual impressions (many not previously recorded). The concluding sections of the catalogue cover plates designed by Blake, but never executed, book illustrations issued as separate prints or known only through separate impressions, and lost, conjectural, and misattributed plates.(Publisher).
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- Title William Blake, Printmaker
- Author Robert N. Essick
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- Edition First Edition
- Pages 154
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780691039541
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The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue
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Princeton University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear and fading on the boards. Foxing on the edges. Text and pictures are clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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William Blake, Printmaker
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, first edition, 1980. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. xxii, 283 pp, frontispiece and 236 ills, facs. From the blurb - "Focusing on the role printmaking played in William Blake's development as an artist and poet, Robert Essick fosters a new understanding of the illuminated books and the ways in which their graphic techniques give a visual presence to Blake's concepts. More than two hundred illustrations provide a representative visual survey of the full range of Blake's graphic productions. As a discussion of Blake's attitudes toward conventional print technology and of the revolutionary graphic processes he invented, this book also constitutes a virtual history of eighteenth-century English printmaking. The author provides a wealth of new information on Blake's apprenticeship in reproductive engraving, on his graphic styles and techniques in both his original and copy prints, on the dating of his most important intaglio plates, on his theories of…
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4to in cloth with dust jacket. NF/VG. Dust jacket shows light wear and very shallow chipping at corners and top of spine in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. Name on ffep. Text and plates are clean. Ships well-packed in a box. Heavy book - international orders will require an additional shipping charge.
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