A William Muir facsimile of Blake's There Is No Natural Religion.<ul><li>William Blake (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Quaritch,&nbsp;1886.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 23 plates, all hand-colored except for the final plate On Homer’s Poetry.</li><li>Numbered 40 of 50 copies.</li><li>Signed by Muir.</li><li>Printed wrappers, brown morocco backed folding case.</li></ul>

There Is No Natural Religion

An illustrated William Muir facsimile copy of Blake's The Book of Thel, signed by William Muir.<ul><li>William Blake (English).</li><li>London: William Muir, 1920.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 8 leaves with lithographic illustrations, colored by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>Numbered 21 of 50.</li><li>Bound in brown morocco backed folding case, original printed wrappers.</li></ul>

The Book of Thel

A collection of black and white and color facsimile engraved plates, pencil drawings and watercolors by William Blake.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>William Blake (English).</li><li>Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes.</li><li>New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Bound in the original cloth-backed gray wrappers, printed labels on front cover, in cloth box.</li></ul>

Illustrations of the Book of Job

One of 26 lettered, finely bound copies of The Trianon Press Facsimile of Blake's Jerusalem.<ul><li>William Blake (English).</li><li>Illuminated pages reproduced by Daniel Jacomet.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Trianon Press,&nbsp;1974.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Letter "R" of 26 lettered copies, of a total edition of 558 copies.</li><li>Bound in original marbled boards, brown morocco spine, in original matching slipcase.</li></ul>

Jerusalem

The first letterpress edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.<ul><li>William Blake (English).</li><li>Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.</li><li>London: W. Pickering and W. Newbery, 1839.</li><li>74 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in full green morocco gilt, with circular gilt vellum label of William Twopeny.</li></ul> The first letterpress edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, preceded only by the small number of copies of the illuminated first edition engraved and colored by Blake, with a laudatory preface by the Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), who edited and arranged the present volume for publication. Wilkinson worked from Charles Augustus Tulk's copy of the illuminated first edition (c. 1795-1807); Tulk had previously lent his copy to Coleridge. The work appears in two issues, with or without a poem entitled “The Little Vagabound” at page 71, which was supposedly canceled by the editor out of prudishness.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (first letterpress edition)

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> copy of the Life and Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Blake&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Blake</a>, with selections from his <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poems</a> and other writings.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Alexander Gilchrist (English).</li><li>Life of William Blake: A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author.&nbsp;</li><li>London: Macmillan, 1880.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes plates, portraits and facsimiles.</li><li>Printed by R. Clay.&nbsp;</li><li>xxi, [2], [1]-431; ix, [4], [1]-383 pages.</li><li>Second edition.</li><li>Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth.</li></ul> The Henry Buxton Forman copy, with his bookplate. The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist, 1863) and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings.

Life and Works of William Blake

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> and a subscribers' copy of The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair, with illustrations by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Blake&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Blake</a>.<ul><li>Robert Blair (Scottish).</li><li>Illustrated by William Blake (English).</li><li>London: T. Bensley, 1808.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title-page (marked 'Subscribers Copy' to lower edge) and 11 drawings by Blake, etched by Louis Schiavonetti.</li><li>Includes list of subscribers, a poem "To the Queen" by Blake, and advertisement referencing Henry Fuseli's favorable comments, complete.</li><li>Bound in the original boards, original printed paper label to front cover, entirely uncut as issued.</li></ul> One of about 590 copies published by subscription. In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the publisher Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for the poem. Disagreements between Blake and Comek about the artistic direction led to hiring Schiavonetti for the engraving. Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece and promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century.

The Grave, A Poem | First Edition Subscribers' Copy

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Lot Comprises: William Caxton Paul Needham, The printer & the pardoner: an unrecorded indulgence printed by William Caxton for the Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross, Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1986, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt, dust jacket William Caxton William Blades, The Life and Typography of William Caxton, (London, 1861‐1863), reprint New York, n.d., 2 vols., 4to., red cloth, plain edges William Caxton Norman E. Blake, William Caxton after Five Hundred Years, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, 1980, 4to., pamphlet, blue printed wrappers William Caxton William Caxton: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing into England, London, British Library, 1976, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers William Caxton Richard Deacon, William Caxton: The First English Editor, London, Muller, 1976, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket William Caxton Seymour de Ricci, A Census of Caxtons, (Oxford, Bibliographical Society, 1909), reprint Mansfield Center, Martino, 2002, 4to., publisher's gray cloth William Caxton E. Gordon Duff, William Caxton, (London, 1905), reprint New York, 1970, 4to., publisher's brown cloth William Caxton William Kuskin, ed., Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 4to., publisher's illustrated paper wrappers William Caxton Lotte Hellinga, William Caxton in Focus: The Beginning of Printing in England, London, British Library, 1982, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket William Caxton Lotte Hellinga, William Caxton and Early Printing in England, London, British Library, 2010, 4to., publisher's beige cloth, dust jacket William Caxton William Kuskin, Symbolic Caxton: literary culture and print capitalism, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's paper wrappers William Caxton George D. Painter, William Caxton: A Biography, New York, 1977, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket Wynkyn de Worde James Moran, Wynkyn de Worde, Father of Fleet Street, New Castle, DE & London, Oak Knoll Press / British Library, 2003, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket Sold as a group, not subject to return.

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