The Book of Ahania. by Blake, William - 1973

[London:: The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust,, 1973]. Fine facsimile edition; No. 418 of 750 copies.. publisher's quarter morocco and marbled boards in publisher's marbled slipcase.. A fine copy in a near fine, very slightly sunned slipcase.. Folio,. Facsimile in color.. Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes.

Paris: Trianon Press, 1973. Facsimile Edition. Quarter Leather. Near Fine. Quarto. Gilt lettered quarter navy morocco over marbled paper boards. Housed in matching marbled cardboard slipcase. Edition limited to 808 copies of which this is #465. A facsimile of the original edition. includes the original prospectus. Nice copy.

London: Trianon Press, 1973. Total edition of 808, this is copy 438. Color facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter blue morocco and marbled paper boards, as new in original slipcase. Blake, William. Total edition of 808, this is copy 438. Color facsimile. 1 vols. 4to.

Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Fine. Quarto: 6 colour facsimile leaves : 5 pp. of commentary : quarter black morocco : slipcase. 367 of 750 copies bound in quarter leather morocco with hand-marbled paper sides. Bentley, Blake Books, A15. "Blake suppressed the "Book of Ahania" and recast her tale in "The Four Zoas". She is Urizen's ‘Shadowy Feminine Semblance' ". (Damon, Blake Dictionary). Erdman understands her as Blake's personification of nature as both Eve and the Garden, recalling that pleasant time before the Fall i.e. before private ownership gave rise to man's exploitation of man. (Blake. Prophet Against Empire, p.233).

London: The Trianon Press, 1973. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [22](last colophon), comprising coloured frontispiece and facsimile title page, 4 tinted facsimile text pages (the last of which includes a coloured tailpiece illustration), one black & white plate and 8 pages of editorial matter, including Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes; wide demy 4to; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the leather faintly scuffed; uncut; within matching marbled papered slipcase with morocco fore-corner tips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing (mainly of endpapers); published by the Trianon Press (France), for The William Blake Trust, London, 1973. One of 750 numbered copies thus bound (of a total edition of 808), printed on Arches pure rag paper. *Blake completed only one copy of The Book of Ahania, which continues the story of the Book of Urizen, and he never included it in any list of his productions. The paper for this… Read More

London: Trianon Press, 1973. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Fine in matching marbled slipcase, slipcase with wear at opening only. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards.

Clairvaus, Jura, and Paris, France: Trianon Press, 1973. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. Very good. black quarter morocco leather with hand-marbled papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, in matching hand-marbled slipcase, No. A of 26 copies reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the Publishers Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Paris: Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile edition. Quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled paper covered boards. Copy letter W of 26 copies reserved for The William Blake Trust. Fine in fine slipcase with very slight wear.

London: Trianon Press, 1973. Copy #1 of 32 special copies. Color facsimile accompanied with a set of paltes showing progressive stages of the collotype and hand stencil process, together with a guide sheet and stencil (Only in Roman numeral copies) and unique to COPY ONE the etched copper plate for the title-page tipped in at back and etched in "Copy 1". 1 vols. 4to (11 x 9 inches ; 22.5 x28 cm.). Bound in publisher's full black morocco , as new in original slipcase. Blake, William. Copy #1 of 32 special copies. Color facsimile accompanied with a set of paltes showing progressive stages of the collotype and hand stencil process, together with a guide sheet and stencil (Only in Roman numeral copies) and unique to COPY ONE the etched copper plate for the title-page tipped in at back and etched in "Copy 1". 1 vols. 4to (11 x 9 inches ; 22.5 x28 cm.). COPY NUMBER ONE, WITH COPPER PLATE.