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Alpha Edition, 2020. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Dog-eared pages. Stamp or mark on the inside cover page. No dust jacket. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

Isha Books , . Hardback. New.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1906. First Chatto and Windus Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy copy in quarter leather over cloth covered boards. Paper label to the spine. Spine bands worn with some loss. Panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Scattered foxing - though text remains predominantly clear. Physical description: 551 pages. Subjects: Blake, William 1757-1827 Poems. 19th century poetry. 20th century poetry. English poetry.

London: Chatto & Windus,, 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo,.. bound in brown buckram, gilt spine, 2 v. pp., 551; 492: frontispiece in both vols., top edges gilt, light foxing to prelims of both vols., CONTENTS; v. 1. Preliminary. Poetical sketches. Songs of innocence. Songs of experience. Ideas of good and evil. The gates of paradise, etc. The prophetic books -- v. 2. Vala. Jerusalem. edited and annotated by Edwin J. Ellis..

2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1906. 2 vols., 8vo, [1] (publisher's announcement), xxxiv, including title page and tissue-guarded portrait of Blake, re-engraved after Linnell's original portrait as previously engraved by Jeens for Gilchrist's "Life", 551; [x, including title and tissue-guarded frontispiece from "The Grave"], 492 pp. Large- paper copy in brown buckram, top edges gilt and paper labels to spines, spare labels bound in at end. Very good clean copies, with just light fading to spines, a small chip to edge of label on vol. 1, and limited spotting to the end two or three pages of each volume. § First edition, large-paper copy. The portrait frontispiece to vol. 1 is a reworking by an anonymous engraver of the Linnell portrait on ivory engraved by Jeens found in both editions of Gilchrist’s “Life”. See Keynes, Complete Portraiture, #27. Bentley, BB, 301.

3 vols. London: Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols., large 8vo., profusely illustrated. In original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers in bright condition, although spines now a little dulled with rubbing to edges and spine ends. All volumes very clean internally, with traces of dustiness to the uncut page edges. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance” (Bentley 369, who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven). The book is also treasured by devotees of gilt-stamped bindings, of which this is a striking example.

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1893. . First edition, first impression, deluxe 'large paper' issue, one of 150 copies thus; 3 vols, large 8vo (29 x 20.5 cm); frontispiece to each vol., with tissue guards, errata slip facing p.xvi of first vol., profusely illustrated in black and white, some foxing, heavier to preliminary and terminal leaves; publisher's half tan morocco, cloth sides, decoration after Blake and titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, some rubbing to corners and extremities, else very good. The scarce 'large paper edition' (Wade), in half tan morocco binding. An edition of 500 copies issued in light green cloth was also printed in 1893.Despite Blake's reputation having been established by the 1890s, a full collected edition of his works had still not been published. Yeats and Ellis took up the task and produced this work of 'great originality'. Not only did they issue Blake's work at length, but they also undertook the 'explanation of "The Symbolic System" [which]… Read More