Blake from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco, slipcase, new. § Edition de luxe, one of 50 copies, this copy unnumbered, with additional proof sheets, progressive plates, original stencil, etc. "The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of man. The full… Read more about this item

1971. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase a trifle worn. § Limited to 590 copies, this copy no. 89. Bentley, Blake Books, 202.

1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original quarter green morocco, marbled boards, without slipcase. § Limited to 662 copies including 36 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXVI, 600 regular copies numbered 1-600 and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the trustees of the William Blake Trust and the Publishers.… Read more about this item

1977. London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued. § Limited to 150 sets (this copy unnumbered), this superb reprinting of Blake's only woodcuts from… Read more about this item

1923. Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, Éditeur, 1923. 12mo, 65 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine, opened copy in the original glassine. § First edition of André Gide's translation of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. On 1550 copies, the present copy is No. 8 of only 23 on Japon, the tirage de tête.

2005. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 2 volumes large folio, 548 pages full-colour facsimile & accompanying 362 pages commentary; as new in blue cloth, dust-jackets. In a blue cloth box, worn. A complete facsimile of all 537 watercolors from the original edition in the British Museum. As new. § William Blake was commissioned in 1795 to illustrate… Read more about this item

1827. N.p.: n.d. 8vo, 141pp. original printed blue wrappers with the Blake plate pasted in at the front. The image and plate mark as per Essick (3.1 x 7.8 cm., and 3.3 x 8.1 cm. respectively). Printed in black on wove India paper measuring 5 x 10 cm. § Enigmatic version of the famous "Cumberland card",… Read more about this item

1949. Seattle: Silver Quoin Press, 1949. Sm. slim 4to, [12]pp. Original blue paper wrappers, as new. § No limitation stated, doubtless printed in a tiny edition. Unrecorded by Bentley, not noted in the Blake Archive. These were the first four poems in Blake's first book "Poetical Sketches.".

1840. c. 1840. Proof on india paper mounted on wove paper (image 247 x 342 mm, wove sheet 360 x 485 mm), engraved signature "Aubert pere" [sic]. Considerable foxing to the wove paper, some foxing and spotting to the engraving. § Proof print of an unfinished engraving of what surely must be the scene from Book… Read more about this item

1974. Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1974. 4to, 21 pp. and 18 facsimile plates in black and white. Near fine in illustrated red wrappers, and an additional loose set of the 18 facsimilies and the Check-List of Secondary Materials in English which accompanies Easson's Editorial Comments and Bentley's Introduction. Original orange cloth, as new. §… Read more about this item

1976. Normal, IL: The American Blake Foundation, 1976. 4to, 23 loose leafs of text plus 38 loose plates and 3 folded and uncut leafs each with 8 illustrations, double-sided. All loosely inserted in a blue cloth folder in a slipcase. Very good to near fine. § Copy #33 of 149 copies thus; a few were… Read more about this item

2016. San Francisco: 2016. 8.5 x 11 ins. Calligraphic print in several colors, numbered 4/25, signed and dated. § Thomas Ingmire (San Francisco) was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement, his work can be found in public… Read more about this item

1969. London:: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969. 8vo, 164 pp. With a color frontispiece and 23 plates of which 6 are in color. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket slightly worn. § First edition in English. Bentley, Blake Books, 3004 B. (with a scathingly sarcastic note).

1951. London: Trianon Press, [1951]. 4to, (6), ix text, and 100 color plates. Original blue cloth, prospectus loosely inserted, folding box, very good. § Limited to 516 copies, this is #419. The first of the magnificent series of facsimiles by the Trianon Press of Blake's illuminated books, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books, 78. Butlin… Read more about this item

1974. London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase, fine. § Limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 289. Jerusalem is the longest of Blake's prophetic books and tells of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of man, or the Western… Read more about this item

1795. London: Johnson, 1795-94. 2 vols. in one, 4to, xx, 218, 124; (2), viii, 200, (2, directions to the binder, lacking the errata and ads) pp. With a frontispiece to each volume, ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Retrospective marbled boards, calf backstrip, red morocco label, by Courtland Benson. § Best edition.… Read more about this item

1923. Liverpool: Henry Young and Sons, 1923. Small 4to, (7) pages of text, 54 illuminated leaves guarded with tissues. Original russet calf, raised bands, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top. First few (text) leaves foxed as usual, color plates in perfect condition. § Limited to 51 copies, this is copy #14 colored by Samuel Hurd from… Read more about this item

1994. London: Designed and Printed by Linda Anne Landers at Spoon Print Press. Small slim 8vo, 12 ff. with color prints etc. throughout. Sewn into stiff wrappers, titled in blue, with 4 additional woodcuts in gold on the upper cover. As new. § New version of the 1994 edition, this version limited to 4 copies,this is… Read more about this item

1928. London and Toronto: Dent, (and New York: Dutton,) 1928. Small thick 4to, 301 pp., with 4 color plates, 55 monochrome plates, and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, original printed dust-jacket, backstrip browned, otherwise a fine copy. § First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. Only the… Read more about this item

1966. London & New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 21pp. Stapled printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. A very good copy. §.