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"That all may know the truth; and that the truth may make us free!"
The Watchman. Numbers I-X [all issued]
Bristol: Published by the Author, 1 March - 13 May 1796. First edition. "That all may know the... Read More
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William Blake, Mystic. A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I & II. With Illustrations by William Blake and...
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers, 1911. First edition.
Price: $200
With 12 Plates by Blake
Fables … with a Life of the Author.
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...
Price: $1,750
FIRST STUDY OF BLAKE BY A WOMAN
William Blake. A Study of His Life and Art Work.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. First edition. FIRST STUDY OF BLAKE BY A WOMAN.
Price: $75
All Religions are One.
London: Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1970. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies.
Price: $750
Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes.
New York: The Beechhurst Press, [1955]. One of 2500 copies. Facsimile of the "Rinder" copy. Printed in France.
Price: $125
Muir Facsimile
There is No Natural Religion.
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...
Price: $2,750
Muir Facsimile
Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
[Edmonton: 1885]. No. 39 of 50 copies, on Hodgkinson wove paper. Muir Facsimile.
Price: $7,500
Superb Set of the Yeats & Ellis Edition of Blake
The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Edited with Lithographs of the Illustrated “Prophetic Books, ” and a....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, 1893. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition (One of 150) bound in leather but the regular edition, as here, is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher’s binding. Superb Set of the Yeats & Ellis Edition of...
Price: $4,000
Sonnets, Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots, During a Tour.
Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1789. Second edition, "corrected, with additions" The second edition of Bowles' sonnet sequence, which was a major source of inspiration for a young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and helped revive the sonnet form in English. The first edition, published as Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, in 1789, is exceedingly...
Price: $2,750
My Leigh Hunt Library. The Holograph Letters.
Iowa City: University of Iowa [Printed at the Torch Press], [1938]. First edition.
Price: $200
Portrait of William Cullen Bryant engraved by Illman & Sons November 15, 1851, Signed.
Inscribed below portrait: "for Mr. J.L. Eraham jr. Sustained and soothed Byron unfalterng trust approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. November 18th 1864. W.C. Bryant." The last lines of his most famous poem Thanotopsis.
Price: $600
ALS. To Hon. William Marcy, Albany.
New York: December 24, 1838. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, a lawyer, a journalist, and an editor of the Washington Post. His most famous poem (from his youth) is "Thanatopsis" but he is perhaps better known for his journalistic enterprises, in which he was one of...
Price: $250
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Don Juan [Cantos I & II].
London: Thomas Davison, 1819. First edition. A finely bound first edition in 4to format of the first two cantos of Byron's Don Juan, a work that eventually spanned to 16 cantos in 6 volumes.
Price: $750
Waltz. An Apostrophic Hymn. By Horace Hornem, Esq.
London: Printed by S. Gosnell … for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. First edition. This poem was for Byron something of an experiment, which is why he adopted a pseudonym. After a rather lukewarm reception, Byron disowned the poem entirely. A small cache of uncut copies was discovered at some...
Price: $12,500
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth.
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818. First edition, second issue (see Wise for list of ponts). In the author's estimation, the most successful canto of his masterpiece.
Price: $750
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem.
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue.
Price: $400
Souvenir of Geneva
The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems.
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, (presumed) first state with recto of E8 (p. 61) blank and with both Murray’s list of Byron’s poems and the imprint on p. 62. Souvenir of Geneva. “There are seven pillars of Gothic mold” Byron's very free interpretation of the imprisonment of sixteenth century Genevan.....
Price: $1,250
[Works] The Complete Poetical Works.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1905). Cambridge Edition.
Price: $150
LARGE PAPER
Hours of Idleness.
Newark: S. & J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, Large Paper (second issue), with half-title. LARGE PAPER. Byron's first regularly published book, following the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions. This copy has the second issue points as follows: leaf D3 (i.e., pp 21-22) is not a cancel;...
Price: $800
Letter to **** ******, on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’ strictures on the life and writings of Pope.
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, second issue, with 6 pp addenda at back; 2500 copies of the entire edition printed. The recipient of the letter was its publisher, John Murray.
Price: $300
Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, from the Year 1808 to the End of 1814 ... Taken from Authentic...
London: Printed for Charles Knight, 1824. First edition. Dallas was a miscellaneous writer of modest talent who became friendly with Byron partly on the strength of his sister's marriage to Byron's uncle, George Anson Byron. Byron gave Dallas some letters he had written to his mother during his eastern travels...
Price: $300
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life.
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1833. Third edition.
Price: $900
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‘every book and pamphlet which Byron is known to have written’
Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions Proof Copies & Manuscripts of Books by Lord Byron Exhibited at the Fourth Exhibition Held...
[London]: Printed [by the Curwen Press] for the First Edition Club, 1925. First Edition, no. 479 of 500 copies printed. ‘every book and pamphlet which Byron is known to have written’. Elegantly produced catalogue of the major Byron exhibition mounted by the First Edition Club in 1925. Though not the...
Price: $150