Rare books from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

Folio. London: Trianon Press, 1959. Folio, 11 plates, 7 pp. text, plus the extra materials. Full orange morocco, slipcase, some foxing internally and to the edges. § Copy II of 20 de luxe copies with a suite of progressive states of one plate, an original guide-sheet and stencil etc. Limited to 446 copies including 20 de luxe copies numbered I-XX, 200 regular copies numbered 1-200 for the United Kingdom, 200 regular copies numbered 201 – 400 for the United States and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the Lord Cunliffe, the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, and the publishers. One of the scarcer titles of the Press, especially in fine unfaded condition. Bentley, BB, 216. Reproduces the Cunliffe copy, copy C., now in Glasgow University Library. Bentley, Blake Books, 216. “It is a continuation, though in thought only, of The Book of Thel. That represented the soul in the state of innocence; this the soul in the state of experience... It is primarily a protest against the sexual customs of… Read More

8vo. London: Bohn, 1832. 8vo, [1-5], 6-102pp, with the errata slip at p. 17 and the . Original pink boards, brown paper backstrip, with original printed label on upper cover. Slight waterstaining around board edges, otherwise a fine copy with the bookplate and pencil notes of Michael Sadleir and another at the front. § First edition. 100 copies of the large-paper edition printed, so stated on the verso of the title-page [A1b] ‘Of this Pamphlet there are 100 Copies printed upon | LARGE PAPER—for the sake of “those whom it may con- | cern.”’ This note is also printed in the regular issue, the quantity of which is unknown. Jackson notes copies with an errata slip tipped-in at p.17, present in this copy. There is an additional slip at p.90 of the same size and style as the errata slip, which reads ‘Page 90. | A Copper-plate Engraving, in the line manner, of ARCHBISHOP | PARKER’S Salt Cellar—of one half the size of the original—may | be had of the Publisher, price 2s. 6d.’ in… Read More

London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman, Hurst [etc.], 1814-15. 4 vols., 8vo, ix, lii, i, 383; 503; 509, [3]; vii, 509, lxxvii pp., with 22 plates including one double-page, as called for, and numerous additional woodcuts, some in red, in the text of all four volumes. These woodcut facsimiles are by the Byfield family. Full red morocco, gilt dentelles. Bookplate of Ross Winans on the front pastedown of vol. one. Some occasional spotting or foxing especially in vol. 4, upper joint of vol. 4 beginning to split at head, generally a very good set complete as issued. § First edition of Dibdin’s great work. Loosely inserted at the front of vol. 1 is a manuscript note from Dibdin: “Subscription for copy of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana herewith sent £8.8. T.F. Dibdin Mar. 31.” 500 copies were printed according to the prospectus and most nineteenth-century sources, though A.N.L. Munby states that there were 550 copies; the prospectus states 50 copies on… Read More

Folio (12. Plauen i. V.: for Christian Stoll, [1907-1909]. Folio (12.5 x 18.75 ins.), [1] title page printed in red, 48 leaves of color lithographs printed to recto only. Quarter brown cloth portfolio, brown paper boards with title printed in black with some chips and rubbing to the edges, backstrip somewhat faded, title page is foxed and badly chipped along fore-edge and top-edge; the plates are bright and beautifully preserved; very good. Ink inscription inside upper board is covered with a bookplate from the library of A. B. Heinsbergen. § Plates in Series 1 are from designs made in the Atelier Haebler or by Fritz Herz; those in Series 2 are lithographed by C. G. Röder [Ltd.]. A remarkable set of lithographed plates exemplifying German Art Nouveau for textile design. Each plate has between one and eight brightly colored panels inspired by natural forms such as the curved lines of plants and flowers, many even hint at the later art deco style with bold and luxurious geometric designs. OCLC: 11188090.

London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol, Shakespeare Press, And Sold By Payne And Foss, Longman, Hurst And Co..., 1821. 3 vols., royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxv, [3 leaves], 462, lxxix, [1] errata; 2 p.l., 555; 2 p.l., 622, lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates (incl. portraits; 1 color, 2 sepia, & 5 double-page) & 63 smaller illus. in the text, some on India paper, mounted. Early half dark green morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered backstrips, a tall untrimmed set with usual occasional foxing or spotting. Bookplates of James Whatman and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition, regular paper issue. One of a very few books by Dibdin that went into a second edition. "The collation is very irregular by reason of the fact that all illustrations in the text, being printed on India paper pasted-in, are on separately inserted leaves ... This Voyage Pittoresque is lavishly illustrated, mainly with copperplates after drawings by G.R. Lewis and others. Dibdin says he spent over 7000 pounds on… Read More

8vo. Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 8vo, (6 x 9 inches), 114 pp. Full stiff vellum ruled in gilt, blue cloth box, by Claudia Cohen. As issued, new (sold out before publication). § Limited to 15 copies bound by Claudia Cohen in stiff vellum, with a slipcase box. These copies include proofs of the book’s illustrations printed on F.J. Head paper. Fragments & Glimpses is set in roman and italic Bembo, with initial letters adapted from the ones attributed to Griffo in Paulus de Middelburgh’s Paulina de recta Paschae (1512). The edition was printed on dampened Arches wove paper. The first half of this book is a biography of Griffo's life and work, assembled from quotations taken from over four dozen sources spanning the 15th to 20th centuries, structured both thematically (i.e. The Roman Types, The Greek Types, After Aldus) and chronologically.The second half contains translations of four 19th century texts at the heart of Griffo's rediscovery, after being lost to history and then mis-identified as… Read More

Strasbourg, 1513. 16.25 x 22.25 inches. Framed map, uncolored; chip to top margin repaired, missing 2.5 letters of the title supplied in neat manuscript, frame lightly scuffed, very good. Not examined out of frame. § This map appeared in Waldseemüller’s 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s influential Geographia, printed by Waldsemüller’s friend and collaborator Johann Schott. It is likely that Waldseemüller, along with the scholar Matthias Ringmann, started working on the project as early as 1505, but the death of their patron, René II, in 1508 resulted in the closure of their press at St. Dié. Additionally, Ringmann died in 1511. Schott and Waldseemüller finally finished the project in 1513, publishing it with Schott in Strasbourg.The 1513 edition marked an important shift in the history of cartography because it was the first printing of Ptolemy to incorporate tabulae novellae, or modern maps, in addition to the ancient, Ptolemaic version of geography. The 27 original Ptolemaic maps were… Read More

4to. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1784. 4to, recent full calf period style, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Half title present. § First edition. A collection of 5 plays by William Hayley, the friend of William Blake. Signed at top of title-page by Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an important participant in the political, legal, and cultural activities of Colonial and Revolutionary America. Hopkinson was an accomplished writer, musician, and artist, and his allegory on pre-Revolutionary events, "A Pretty Story" (1774) is considered the first work of American fiction.