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New York:: Dodd, Mead and Company,, [1906].. New Edition.. publisher's red cloth in dust jacket.. Old in ownership signature; clean, tight and sound in a jacket with a few small chips.. 8vo,. Numerous reproductions from Blake's pictures, many hitherto unpublished. . Edited with an Introduction by W. Graham Robertson.
The Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus". With selections from his poems and other writings ... illustrated from Blake's own Works, in facsimile by W J Linton and in photolithography... and with a few of Blake's original plates. by BLAKE, William. Gilchrist, Alexander - 1863.
by BLAKE, William. Gilchrist, Alexander
The Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus". With selections from his poems and other writings ... illustrated from Blake's own Works, in facsimile by W J Linton and in photolithography... and with a few of Blake's original plates.
by BLAKE, William. Gilchrist, Alexander
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London.: Macmillan and Co., 1863.. Full nineteenth century calf by Root with his signature gilt, boards and spine with decorative tooling in gilt, neatly re-backed with original backstrips laid down, the original publisher's decorated cloth front covers bound in, t.e.g.. 2 vols. 8vo. (160 x 235 mm).. The many illustrations include reproductions of the Book of Job (22 plates). The 16 plates Songs of Innocence of Experience and 3 from Thornton's Virgil are taken from the original plates and woodblocks. A fine extra-illustrated example of the first edition of the first important life of Blake. After Gilchrist died in 1861 the final section of the work was written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from notes left by Gilchrist. The additional 54 plates include some of Blake's commercial prints (26 prints), portraits mainly of writers and artists, and a small number of topographical plates including an etching titled in pencil 'Blake's Cottage at Feltham by Gilchrist'. The 26 plates by Blake are: Portrait of Democritus from Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy. Fertilisation of Egypt from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden. A Family of New South Wales from J. Hunter's Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, 1793. May Day in London from The Wit's Magazine. May 1784. 4 plates from Charles Allen's A New and Improved History of England. 1797. 14 plates from C G Salzmann's Elements of Morality. 4 plates from W. Hayley's The Triumph of Temper.
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- Format/Binding Full nineteenth century calf by Root with his signature gilt, boards and spine with decorative tooling in gilt, neatly re-backed
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- Date Published 1863.
- Pages pp. xvi, 390; viii, 268.
- Size 2 vols. 8vo. (160 x 235 mm).
- Size 2 vols. 8vo. (160 x 235 mm).
The Life of William Blake.
by [BLAKE, William] GILCHRIST, Alexander. ROBERTSON, W. Graham (ed.)
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LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS : A NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, ILLUSTRATED FROM BLAKE'S OWN WORKS, WITH ADDITIONAL LETTERS AND A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR : IN TWO VOLUMES [2 VOLUMES]
by Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828-1861 [author]; Blake, William, 1757-1827 [author and subject]; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 [editor of selections]
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1880. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G; Hardcover; Spine, black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print and illustration, rebound with original illustrated cloth affixed to new cloth boards, spines lightly toned with creases or chipping evident from original binding, mild bumps to fore corners, else mild rubbing, shelfwear; Text blocks have deckle edges, some tanning or foxing to plates from tissue protectors, uncut pages, occasional light foxing; "Life and works of William Blake"-- cover title; CONTENTS: Vol. 1 Life of William Blake (xxi, 431 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates) - Vol. 2. Selections / edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ix, 383 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates). Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight…
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Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blakes own Works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a few of Blakes Original Plates.
by Gilchrist, Alexander; William Blake
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London: Macmillan, 1863. First edition. 24 cm; 2 volumes. [i-v], vi-xv, [1]-389; [i-v], vi-vii, [1-3] 4-268 pages, and 66 plates including the "Job" engravings and 16 plates from electrotypes of the copperplates of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Text illustrations. Folding plate of Canterbury pilgrims in volume 2. Bound in roughly contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, with gilt-tooled compartments on spine, with original gilt-stamped morocco covers laid down on front pastedowns in both volumes. Binding somewhat worn at joints and edges, but this is a sound copy, internally without blemish. Reference: Bentley, Blake Books, 1234A. Bentley said it better than we can: "Never has an important literary reputation been posthumously established so effectively, instantaneously, and forcefully.... Gilchrist's title, 'Pictor Ignotus,' had not been mere showmanship. Blake had been unknown, and Gilchrist made him sensationally well-known. From 1863 on, Blake took an unchallenged…
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Life of William Blake [Edmund J. Sullivan's Copy, Prize Award]
by Gilchrist, Alexander (William Blake)
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London: Macmillan, 1880. First edition thus. First edition thus. Two Volumes. Quartos. Superbly bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate and bold gilt stamped designs on front covers and spine. Edmund J. Sullivan's Copy, famed British book illustrator, bookbinder, and leader in the book arts world in the mid to late 19th Century. The book was presented to Sullivan by the Deparment of Science and Art of the Committe of Council on Education and specifically from the Hastings School of Art as a prize(s) with the award affixed to the front pastedown. The following further appears in print with those in pen marked by quotations: "Hastings School of Art" Prize"s" Awarded to "Edmund J. Sullivan" who obtined a Class Excellent in the 3rd Grade Examination in Art, suject "Drawing from the Antique," "Drawing in Stage 5, and in the Works Examinatiion," 1888. Another Award stamp appears in volume two, different stamp but sm awards. Sullivan was 19 years old when he received this award, just before…
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