Fine illustrated books including first editions of well known children's books both American and British, color plates books and photobooks.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Genthe, Arnold. Second edition, enlarged. Inscribed to Photo-engraver and Collector Edward Epstean. An... Read More about Old Chinatown ... with Text by Will Irwin
Price: $1,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. A Novel Switch in Photography. A Washington political novel developed from an oral accompaniment to an exhibition of photographs taken by the narrator. Real-life subjects include Pres. Cleveland and Pres. McKinley, etc. Read More about A Capital Courtship
Price: $150
London: Blacker of 54, Dean St., Soho, 1855. Third edition, "Rewritten & revised by the author", later issue with three inserted pages of reviews. Best edition of an important and much sought-after volume, an expanded version of two smaller editions, the first published in 1842; the plates are remarkable, and..... Read More about Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. … with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies
Price: $3,000
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Blaine, Mahlon. First edition. Inscribed to His Psychiatriat, with Drawing. With orginal pen and ink drawing of man on horseback by Blaine and inscription on verso of the flyleaf: "For Archie Crandell from Mahlon Blaine 41" Dr. Archie Crandell was a psychiatrist..... Read More about Black Majesty. The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti
Price: $750
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. A New Edition, Corrected. (Fourth Edition, first was 1774, plates dated 1780). This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Blake's First Commercial Plates. Read More about The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to...
Price: $750
Los Angeles: Printed by William & Victoria Dailey. The Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1978. First edition, 365 copies have been set in Bulmer & printed on Rives paper by Patrick Reagh, Number 124. Read More about William Blake's Relief Inventions
Price: $150
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue with the long 's' throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source..... Read More about Fables … with a Life of the Author
Price: $1,750
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, later issue with short "s" throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. The Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source material. Ray considers this one of the best..... Read More about Fables … with a Life of the Author
Price: $1,250
London: Macmillan, 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY. The original prints - three from the woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus..... Read More about Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings
Price: $2,500
Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. First edition. With 5 Plates Drawn and Engraved by Blake. "These Ballads were originally intended to have been issued separately in fifteen quarto parts with numerous illustrations by Blake, and for the benefit of the artist. Four parts were issued in 1802, but..... Read More about Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints Designed and Engraved by William...
Price: $4,500
London: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake, with whom he shared an interest in radical politics, and on the..... Read More about A Father's Memoirs of His Child
Price: $1,500
London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. No. 694 of 1480 copies. Read More about The Life of William Blake
Price: $250
London: Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1970. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Read More about All Religions are One
Price: $750
London: The Trianon Press, 1963. No. 168 of 480 copies. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's America. Read More about America, A Prophecy. with a Bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes
Price: $500
London: Trianon Press, 1973. Blake, William. Total edition of 808, this is copy 438. Read More about The Book of Ahania
Price: $250
London: Trianon Press, 1973. Blake, William. Copy #1 of 32 special copies. COPY NUMBER ONE, WITH COPPER PLATE. Read More about The Book of Ahania
Price: $2,000
London: Wm. Muir, 1920. No. 21 of 50 [i.e., 32] copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Read More about The Book of Thel
Price: $3,000
[London: 1885]. No. 38 of 50 copies. Muir Facsimile. Read More about The Book of Thel
Price: $3,750
London: Wm. Muir, 1920. No. 16 of 50 [i.e., 32] copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Read More about The Book of Thel
Price: $3,000
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Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch, 1884-5. Each title one of 50 copies. Four Muir Facsimiles, in Special Binding. The Muir facsimiles were produced in editions of 50 copies; a few copies would have been bound up by Quaritch, the distributor, in white vellum, as here. The wrappers are not..... Read More about The Book of Thel [bound with:] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [and:] Visions of the Daughters of...
Price: $12,500
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Illustrations of the Book of Job, being all the water-color designs, pencil drawings and engravings, beautifully reproduced in facsimile. Read More about Illustrations of the Book of Job. Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes
Price: $1,750
London: Trianon Press, 1974. Blake, William. Limited edition, Letter R of 26 lettered copies, of a total edition of 558 copies. The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's Jerusalem, One of 26 Copies. The illuminated pages were brilliantly reproduced by Daniel Jacomet; the text was composed by hand in 16 point..... Read More about Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book
Price: $1,600
London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1954. No. 198 of 1600 numbered copies. The Trianon Press Songs of Innocence. Read More about Songs of Innocence
Price: $400
London: Quaritch, 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One, and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface," dated 1886, indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum [copy A] and from..... Read More about There is No Natural Religion
Price: $2,750
Edmonton: 1885. No. 49 of 50 copies, signed by Muir on upper wrapper. Blake's Daughters of Albion. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Price: $3,500
