Search Results: William Blake from Great Expectations Rare Books

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. Hardcover, green linen spine over marbled paper covered boards, which have a printed title-label on upper cover. Unpaginated. A slim volume containing 11 letters, printed in facsimile and reproduced in actual size in collotype. Letters are tipped in. Introductory note by Geoffrey Keynes. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Ex-library copy from the Hill Library, St. Paul, with their perforated stamp at lower edge of title-page, no other markings. Minor wear to marbled boards, with slight abrasion to paper on upper front cover. Printed paper label, interior pages and all letters in fine condition. A clean, square, unmarked copy, with no previous ownership marks, but for stamp. Very good. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Londion: The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 1927. Cloth Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. First limited edition of 1550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press This being no. 1375. Cloth spine and tips over drab boards. Illustrated with 82 full page drawings by William Balke, each accopmanied by letter-press on the verso of opposing page. Minimal wear to top of backstrip, else a very good+ copy.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover, buff colored cloth in original dust-jacket. With a commentary provided by John Middleton Murry. Reproduced in facsimile from an original copy of the work printed and illuminated by the author in 1793 now in the British Museum. Eleven color plates, with text, printed on rectos only. First edition thus, facsimile edition. Top of dust-jacket flap price clipped, albeit original printed Dent price sticker affixed to lower corner of flap. Spine of dust-jacket darkened and front cover of jacket shows several old ring stains. The third full color facsimile in the Dent series, reprinting Blake's works. A fine copy in good dust-jacket..

London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. Hardcover, publishers blue cloth lettered in gold on spine and with triple blind rules framing front and rear covers. 304 pages. Bound without publisher's adverts at rear. Illustrated with 5 hand-colored plates and 2 b&w plates from Blake's designs in facsimile [complete as called for]. Later issue title with "Zamiel" instead of "going to & fro..." First edition. From the personal library of Louis Comfort Tiffany, with his armorial book-plate on front paste-down. Evidence of round label removed from lower spine; wear to head and heel of back-strip and tips; and front inner hinge broken, though holding. A scarce title with all illustrations present and a nice association copy to American Art Nouveau artist and designer L.C. Tiffany. Contents are clean and unmarked, some wear to cloth covers and hinge broken and tender, but attached. A near very good copy of a desirable and important critical monograph about Blake, the… Read More

Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large trade paperback, white card covers. 55 pages of text and a portfolio of plates appended at rear, printed on rectos only, containing approximately 95 examples. Volume I: A catalogue of the commercial engravings. First edition. The first volume in the series devoted to Blake's graphic designs, published by the American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University. No previous ownership marks. minor spots to white card covers. Single crease to spine from light use. Corners square, interior clean, no underlining, marking or writing internally. Overall a very good or better copy. .

New York: St Martins Press, 1991. Hardcover, black cloth lettered in gold on spine in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 263 pages. Select Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and half-tones. First American edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket in Brodart covers. Mild wear to jacket at folds and spine ends, else a very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.