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Blake's First Commercial Plates
Item 31510The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in...
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 Item Details for The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is prefixed and Essay on Elocution Add to Wish List
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Item 51873William Blake's Relief Inventions.
Price: $150
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 Item Details for William Blake's Relief Inventions Add to Wish List
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With 12 Plates by Blake
Item 259455Fables … with a Life of the Author.
Price: $1,750
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 Item Details for Fables … with a Life of the Author Add to Wish List
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With 12 Plates by Blake
Item 259579Fables … with a Life of the Author.
Price: $1,250
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 Item Details for Fables … with a Life of the Author Add to Wish List
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With 5 Plates Drawn and Engraved by Blake
Item 306614Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake.
Price: $4,500
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 Item Details for Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake Add to Wish List
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A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life
Item 220643A Father's Memoirs of His Child.
Price: $1,500
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 Item Details for A Father's Memoirs of His Child Add to Wish List
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Item 59019The Life of William Blake.
Price: $250
London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. No. 694 of 1480 copies. Read More Item Details for The Life of William Blake Add to Wish List
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Item 225197The Book of Ahania.
Price: $250
London: Trianon Press, 1973. Blake, William. Total edition of 808, this is copy 438. Read More Item Details for The Book of Ahania Add to Wish List
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COPY NUMBER ONE, WITH COPPER PLATE
Item 263500The Book of Ahania.
Price: $2,000
London: Trianon Press, 1973. Blake, William. Copy #1 of 32 special copies. COPY NUMBER ONE, WITH COPPER PLATE. Read More Item Details for The Book of Ahania Add to Wish List
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Item 237391Illustrations of the Book of Job. Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes.
Price: $1,750
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 Item Details for Illustrations of the Book of Job. Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes Add to Wish List
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The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's Jerusalem, One of 26 Copies
Item 28867Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book.
Price: $1,600
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 Item Details for Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book Add to Wish List
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Item 258476Collection of 41 Proofs: John Leech 3 engravings 1 other, 2 hand-coloured Engravings; Ernest Griset 13 engravings on India paper;...
Price: $750
vp: vd. Read More Item Details for Collection of 41 Proofs: John Leech 3 engravings 1 other, 2 hand-coloured Engravings; Ernest Griset 13 engravings on India paper; Fred Barnard, 17 Engravings on India paper; Dalziel 3 engravings on India paper (Cindarella). Maclise, 1 Engraving on India paper; George Cruikshank (Henry Furness, engraver) Engraving on India paper with annotations in pencil Add to Wish List
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Item 241063Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
Price: $350
London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More Item Details for Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America Add to Wish List
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Brangwyn’s Venice, with Signed Print
Item 265809The Pageant of Venice.
Price: $225
London: John Lane, 1922. Brangwyn, Frank. One of 75 copies. Brangwyn’s Venice, with Signed Print. Read More Item Details for The Pageant of Venice Add to Wish List
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Item 18175Phiz and Dickens.
Price: $300
London: James Nisbet, 1913. No. 96 of 175 copies, signed by the author. An affectionate yet candid memoir by the son of the famous illustrator. Read More Item Details for Phiz and Dickens Add to Wish List
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Item 61350Godfrey Malvern.
Price: $100
London: Ward & Lock, 158, Fleet Street, nd (ca. 1850). Browne, Hablot. First edition was 1843. Read More Item Details for Godfrey Malvern Add to Wish List
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Item 266756“A Tour to Foreign Parts”: Engraving, with etching, signed and titled in the plate, lower left.
Price: $500
London: Bretherton, March 11, 1778. Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), second son of baronet Sir William Bunbury, and younger brother of Sir Charles Bunbury, a notorious figure of the turf, began drawing caricatures at Westminster School, and during his brief stay at Cambridge. Following the Grand Tour he achieved initial fame..... Read More Item Details for “A Tour to Foreign Parts”: Engraving, with etching, signed and titled in the plate, lower left Add to Wish List
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Item 231152The Lay of the Bustle.
Price: $500
[London]: Printed by F. Reeve, 1852. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Lay of the Bustle Add to Wish List
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First edition with the Hogarth illustrations
Item 245345Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions.
Price: $450
London: Printed by T.W. for D. Browne, 1726. Hogarth. First edition with the Hogarth illustrations. First edition with the Hogarth illustrations. The first and second part of Hudibras were first printed in 1663; the third part first appeared in 1678. The three parts were not issued together until 1684. Hogarth..... Read More Item Details for Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions Add to Wish List
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Item 224309Hudibras, in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To which are...
Price: $300
London: Printed for D. Midwinter, 1694. Third Collected Edition. The first and second part of Hudibras were first printed in 1663; the third part first appeared in 1678. The three parts were not issued together until 1684, then again in 1689. Read More Item Details for Hudibras, in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To which are added Annotations Add to Wish List
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Item 227488Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life.
Price: $900
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1833. Third edition. Read More Item Details for Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life Add to Wish List
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Item 257924The Poetical Works of ….
Price: $750
London: Edward Moxon, 1837. Turner, J.M.W. Large paper copy on thick paper. Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of … Add to Wish List
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Item 24583The Spirit of English Wit; or Post-Chaise Companion: being an Entertaining Budget of Laughable Anecdotes, Smart Repartees, Prize Bulls…Including several...
Price: $300
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1812. Second edition. Read More Item Details for The Spirit of English Wit; or Post-Chaise Companion: being an Entertaining Budget of Laughable Anecdotes, Smart Repartees, Prize Bulls…Including several Original Jeu d'Esprits Add to Wish List
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Item 12571Gathering the Nets, brush and sepia wash, inscribed on backing with “397” and collector’s stamp verso.
Price: $850
[c. 1800]. Carr, Sir John. Carr was a notorious writer, poet and illustrator, best known for his series of aquatint plate travel books depicting British and Continental views. He was Knighted in 1805 and satrized by Walter Scott and others. Byron begged to be omitted from his Descriptive Travels in..... Read More Item Details for Gathering the Nets, brush and sepia wash, inscribed on backing with “397” and collector’s stamp verso Add to Wish List
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