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Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae, containing figures of Roman Antiquities discovered in various parts...
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Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae, containing figures of Roman Antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

by Lysons, Samuel (1763-1819).

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London: printed by T. Bensley for Cadell & Davies, etc., [1801-]1813-1815. 3 parts in one volume, huge folio, 23 x 17 1/4 inches 3 additional color-printed and hand-finished engraved vol. titles, engraved dedication, 7 engraved part titles, 6 of which color-printed and finished by hand, 4 engraved leaves of lists of plates color-printed and with hand-finished vignettes, 111 engraved plates, of which 99 finely hand-colored or partially hand-colored, 12 either plain or printed in monochrome colour, 37 double-page or folding; 10 pp. of letterpress text at the end. Contemporary russia, rebacked, gilt supralibros unidentified, board corners and edges worn in places. The Lysons family copy, later the Jeudwine copy with his bookplate. § Lysons’s own copy, inscribed by his brother after his death to his son, with two autograph letters; a magnificent copy of “Lysons’s splendid work”. (Lowndes). "Only 200 copies of the whole Work have been printed off, and most of the Plates cancelled; not with the… Read More
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The Pastorals of Virgil...

The Pastorals of Virgil...

by Blake, William. Thornton, Robert John.

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London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep, backstrips lettered in gilt, slight wear to joints, vol. 1 invisibly repaired. A very fine set internally perfect. Enclosed in a modern protective box. § Presentation copy inscribed by Thornton to his daughter. A very fine copy of a scarce work in any condition as it was issued for use in schools; the impressions of the woodcuts in this copy are the richest I have ever seen. Blake contributed 17 woodcuts to this volume (as well as 10 other plates, of which he engraved six) which were not well received; nor were they well treated by the publisher who cut down the blocks and printed them poorly. Only a few proofs before they were trimmed are now extant. These blocks have remained amongst the most influential… Read More
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Engravings by... A Selection of Engravings on Wood and Metal representative of his work to the...
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Engravings by... A Selection of Engravings on Wood and Metal representative of his work to the end of the year 1927 with a complete Chronological List of Engravings and a Preface by the Artist.

by Gill, Eric.

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4to. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. 4to, (xii), 49, (5) pp. With an extra suite of the engravings on Japon, wood-engraved self-portrait and 103 plates, a few printed in red or red and black, additional plates loose as issued in pocket at end. Original de luxe binding of quarter vellum. A very good copy. Bookplate of R.L. Langdon-Down. § Limited to 80 de luxe copies signed by Gill with the extra suite on Japon of all the plates printed from the original blocks, from a total edition of 490. The de luxe copy of a scarce title - the first collection of Gill's work, including his magnificent illustrations for several Golden Cockerel Press books as well as designs for the St. Dominic's Press and many other ephemeral pieces, all printed from the original blocks. Evan Gill 17.
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Illustrations of the Book of Job.

Illustrations of the Book of Job.

by Blake, William.

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e. London: March 8, 1825 [i.e. London: John Linnell, 1874]. Large folio, title-page and 21 plates printed on India paper. Mounted on large sheets as issued, enclosed in a blue morocco box (slightly worn) lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Robert Pirie. § A very good set of the posthumous edition printed from the original plates (with the word “proof” removed) for Linnell by Holdgate Brothers. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of biblical quotations, is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense” (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). “The modest size of the central panels… Read More
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Illustrations of the Book of Job.

Illustrations of the Book of Job.

by Blake, William.

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London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, engraved title and 21 plates on India paper mounted on handmade paper. Each plate separately matted, a brilliant set, with the original printed label preserved. § First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed). This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books.“Blake’s twenty-two engraved Illustrations of the Book of Job are the culmination of his long pictorial engagement with that biblical subject. His first efforts were a small group of wash drawings of the mid-1780s showing Job in his misery with his wife and three friends…This may have stimulated Blake’s chief patron, Thomas Butts, to… Read More
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Illustrations to Dante’s Inferno.
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Illustrations to Dante’s Inferno.

by Blake, William.

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7 plates. [London: for John Linnell, 1838]. 7 plates, oblong folio, printed on laid paper only (not on India), lightly cleaned, in fine condition. § First printing (subsequent to a few proofs possibly pulled by Blake himself) preceding the 1838 printing on laid india on wove paper. Essick states (Blake Quarterly, vol. 24, issue 3): “The next impressions to be pulled after Blake’s own working proofs are probably those printed directly on laid paper (not to be confused with India paper laid on wove) showing clear wire and chain lines, the latter approximately 3.7 cm. apart. Such a set was sold from the Doheny Memorial Library at Christie’s New York, 21 February 1989, lot 1713, plate 2 illustrated in the auction catalogue [this set]. Part of a watermark, or countermark, “A & D,” is present in plate 3. The heavy foxing of most impressions in this set [now cleaned] cannot mask the fact that these are superb impressions that justify a record price. All major engraved lines are dark, rich, and… Read More
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Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea. Or, A Complete English Dispensatory, In Four Parts…...

Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea. Or, A Complete English Dispensatory, In Four Parts… The Ninth Edition, much enlarged and corrected.

by [Blake’s copy] Quincy, John.

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Thick 8vo. London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733. Thick 8vo, xvi, 700, lx (index) pages. Original calf, final two leaves creased, lacking rear free end-paper. § William Blake’s copy, signed on the title-page “William Blake his Book” in brown ink. The signature corresponds almost exactly with the example reproduced by Bentley in Blake Books Supplement, facing p. 314. A hand, perhaps Blake, has also noted the price at the front on the free end-paper. Although only a couple of pages bear markings in ink (underlining, not writing), some twenty leaves are folded down to emphatically mark those pages, and numerous other leaves are less obviously dog-eared. Whether or not these markings were made by Blake is unknown, but a relationship between the state of his health and the passages marked, however conjectural, might be illuminating. Books owned by Blake are extremely rare. Bentley lists 43 in Blake Books and four in the supplement, of which 24 are untraced and known only by repute, and of the… Read More
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The Power of Movement in Plants.

The Power of Movement in Plants.

by Darwin, Charles. Assisted by Francis Darwin.

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8vo. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated copy. § § First edition, first issue, inscribed in Charles Darwin’s hand, “Elizabeth Darwin, From her Father.” Presentation copies from Darwin, in his own hand, are exceptionally rare (most presentation copies were inscribed “from the author” by the publisher); a copy inscribed to a family member by Darwin himself is extraordinarily so. Elizabeth Darwin, known as Bessy, was Charles and Emma Darwin’s youngest daughter and perhaps the most enigmatic of all their ten children. She is remembered as a quiet soul who lived in the family home until the death of her mother, and then in a cottage on her own near her three brothers until her death in 1926. The book which Darwin… Read More
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The Pastorals of Virgil...
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The Pastorals of Virgil...

by Blake, William. Thornton, Robert John.

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London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214 pp; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Retrospective early 19th century full calf, red labels, by Court Benson. § A very good copy of a scarce work in any condition as it was issued for use in schools. Blake contributed 17 woodcuts to this volume (as well as 10 other plates, of which he engraved six) which were not well received; nor were they well treated by the publisher who cut down the blocks and printed them poorly. Only a few proofs before they were trimmed are now extant. These blocks have remained amongst the most influential woodcuts in the history of British art and their influence can be seen from Calvert and Palmer all the way up to the present day. The blocks were saved by Linnell and were printed not long after Blake's death as separate impressions (perhaps… Read More
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New: Translated out of the Original Tongues,...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and With the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.

by [Bible in English].

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Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. Royal folio, 573 unnumbered leaves. A2, 1, B-13D2, *a-*e2, *f1. English binding of contemporary full blue-green morocco, covers with elaborate gilt border, backstrip richly gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped in gilt "HOLY BIBLE" and at the foot "BASKERVILLE", gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Inevitable slight signs of wear on such a huge book but in all a very good unrestored copy, internally flawless. § First edition, of Baskerville's masterwork in a magnificent contemporary English binding. Third issue of the subscribers' list as usual. "John Baskerville was a monumental figure in the history of English bookbinding and printing, with contemporary accounts of his work ethic revealing a man deeply engaged in virtually every aspect of book production. Yet for most of his life and indeed for many decades afterwards he was decried as a mere amateur. Still other sources show an individual with highly idiosyncratic and… Read More
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Remember Me!  A New Years Gift or Christmas Present, 1825.
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Remember Me! A New Years Gift or Christmas Present, 1825.

by Blake, William.

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Small 8vo. London: I. Poole, [1824]. Small 8vo, xxiv, 372pp. With an engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings including one by Blake, 8 hand-colored botanical plates, 8 plates of engraved music, a calendar with an engraved title-page and 6 plates, and 12 blank leaves titled "Album 1825" recorded by Keynes but not noted in other copies we have had. Publisher’s original full brown calf, central panels on both covers blind-stamped within a richly gilt border, backstrip with four raised bands, gilt-decorated, lettered REMEMBER ME, slightly scuffed and small black splotch (ink?) on lower cover, occasional small spots on plates as usual, a very good copy of a de luxe issue binding on the first of three editions of the book. § First edition, first issue of the book (no state variance in the plate), with a very early pencil inscription from one woman to another (illegible) repeated on the next leaf. One of the rarest of all of the plates designed and engraved by Blake. There was a reissue dated… Read More
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Autograph document signed, being a receipt made out by Butts and signed by Blake for Blake's...

Autograph document signed, being a receipt made out by Butts and signed by Blake for Blake's greatest paintings.

by Blake, William.

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[London]: 1805. Document Signed, one page, oblong small octavo, July 5, 1805. “Received of Mr. Butts five Pounds seven Shillings on further account.” Paper browned, small abrasions on back from having been mounted in a book. § A receipt signed by Blake documenting payment from one of his most important patrons for four of his greatest masterpieces -- the great color prints of 1795, The Good and Evil Angels, The House of Death, Elohim Creating Adam, and God Judging Adam. See Windle: catalogue 26, item #9 (1995). The year 1805 was a hard one for Blake. His works were filled with visions of death and, when several of his patrons drifted away, his financial situation darkened, bringing him to a self-described state of “despair.” “But there was one patron who never seemed to doubt his genius and... Thomas Butts... took over the role of Blake’s principal employer; for the next five years he gave him regular payments that allowed him to maintain a steady if modest income” [Peter Ackroyd,… Read More
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Illustrations of the Book of Job.
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Illustrations of the Book of Job.

by Blake, William.

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London: [plates dated] 1825 (and plate 1 dated 1828) [but published 1826]. Folio, 380 x 272 mm., engraved title and 21 engravings on thick white wove paper by William Blake, plates 5, 14, 18 and 20 with visible watermarks J WHATMAN / 1825' or 'J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1825'; sheet size: 376 x 268 mm (no. 20 slightly shorter but with deckle edge at foot). Mid-nineteenth century Russian calf-backed glazed green and black flexible marbled paper boards, a little scuffed along the edges. Printed white label to rear pastedown of bookseller Vasilii Ivanovich Klochkov (1861 - 1915) (see below); bookplate of Henri Focillon (1881 - 1943) to front pastedown( see also below). § First edition, limited to 100 sets on wove paper with the word ‘Proof’ (partially) removed (see below): 150 sets on India paper and 65 on “French” paper were also issued at the same time, the latter two having the word “Proof” on every plate except the title. A very interesting set as on all the plates except the… Read More
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Relacion del Viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocar el...
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2 vols. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1802. 2 vols., 8vo text [16], CLXVIII (i.e. 168), 185 pages; folded letterpress table between pp. 168-169, and errata leaf (p. 185) at end: and the accompanying Atlas, small folio, [4] pages (letterpress title-page and "Explicacion" table of contents, 17 fine engraved plates comprising 9 maps (4 folding) and 8 illustrations (2 folding) of scenes of the Pacific Northwest and its native inhabitants. Original speckled calf, excellent copies but for blue ownership stamps on title-page of the atlas. § The Spanish in Nootka.A work of great rarity, one of the scarcest of Pacific voyages and an important account of this expedition, the last great Spanish exploration of the Northwest coast of America. The atlas volume contains a series of plates of Nootka of great ethnographic importance including two remarkable large folding aquatints, atmospheric depictions of Nootka and its people, one of them the famous quite riotous scene of the festival given by the powerful chief… Read More
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean… Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence...
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean… Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

by Broughton, William Robert.

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4to. London: Cadell & Davies, 1804. 4to, xx, 394pp., [2pp. adverts], 9 engraved plates and maps, 7 folding, plate list on p.394. One folding plate backed with modern paper. Some browning and foxing but not offensive, generally a very good complete copy in contemporary calf rebacked, lettered in gilt, a very good copy with the bookplate of Abel Smith of Woodhall Park. § One of the centrepieces of a Pacific voyage collectionFirst edition of this famous Pacific rarity and one of the centrepieces of a Pacific voyage collection: Broughton’s account of his lengthy Pacific voyage is filled with descriptions of the Northwest Coast, Hawaii and New South Wales. It is a difficult book to find: the Kroepelien collection, for example, had only the German and French versions of the work while Lada-Mocarski describes it as ‘Extremely rare… the information contained in it is of prime importance’.In 1795 Broughton was despatched in Bligh’s old ship Providence to rendezvous with Vancouver on the Northwest… Read More
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