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Published by WILDWOOD HOUSE, LONDON 1973
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Seller: Antique Books Den, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.Antique Books Den
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good. WONERFUL BOOK FOR THE ART LOVER AND LOVER OF HISTORY. THE GRAVE WAS WRITTEN BY ROBERT BLAIR IN 1808 AND REFLECTS ON LIFE AND DEATH. BLAKES ARTWORK IS TERRIFIC. LARGE FOLIO SIZE BOOK, LIGHT COVER WITH ARTWORK FRONT. FIRST TWO PAGES LOOSE BUT VERY GOOD SHAPE, ARTWORK AND POEM PRESENTED VERY NICELY. A P…RIZE POSSESSION. Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 - 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave, which in a later printing was illustrated by William Blake. "The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Philip Doddridge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister. Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stated that it was composed whilst Blair was still a student, although "probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement."The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES. WILLIAM BLAKE (illustrator).
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Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York 1903
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Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller12mo, publisher's red cloth with printed paper label on spine; t.e.g. A New Edition. Some foxing; text block over-opened at a few places; spine label tanned; tight and sound. This Issue is founded on the Edition published by R. H. Cromek in the year 1808.
Published by George Routledge and Sons, London
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Hardcover. None. NS. Blair's long and morbid poem is enlivened by 11 phorogravure illustrationa by Blake, plus a frontis portrait of the artist by T Philips RA, This copy not dated, probably early 1900s. 94 pages, 10 of the 11 illustrations are protected by tissue guards, as is the frontis. Blue hard covers with light green edgi…ng at front have gilt front/spine titles, large gilt front decoration. The top front corner is damp damaged and discoloured with the board softened, several small spots on front board, wear to spine edges back top, front lower, spine extremities, surface wear, few spots back board, damp damage top corner front pastedown, tiny area missing top corner FFEP which is slightly browned, ditto RFEP, text block and illustrations otherwies VG. No inscriptions. William Blake (illustrator).
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hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. x,243pp. Black cloth, red leather title label on spine. D.w. 35.7x25.7cm. d.w.foxing, somewhat worn and partly torn at rear cover. Upper and bottom edges of cloth boards foxing. Edges sl.foxing and sl.spotted. A bookshop label pasted on front e.p. Pages… sl.foxing. A small stain on margin of p.68. [s06515-213974].
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More imagesROBERT BLAIR'S THE GRAVE ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM BLAKE
Blair, Robert [Text]; Blake, William [Illustrations]; Essick, Robert N. [Commentary]; Paley, Morton D. [Commentary]
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Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Folio, 243 pages with additional plates. In Good condition with Good minus dust jacket. Black jacket with green tilting to spine. Jacket with light plus bumping to edges and corners, head and tail of spine; light rubbing and shelf wear to surfaces of jacket. Moderate staining to lower fore edge cor…ner of front wrap of jacket. Binding with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Some bleaching resulting in small rust-colored stain at tail of spine. Light plus soiling to cloth of binding generally. Top edge of text block dusty. Text block with light plus age toning. [Oversized book. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.] Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1389761. Special Collections.
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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. A study in facsimile by Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley. First edition thus. Corners bumped, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 243 pages. Illustrated by William Blake (illustrator).
Published by Scolar Press 1982 1982
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Folio, black bloth board with gilt lettering to spine, grey eps, x + 243pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to upper page edges, light fading to top board edges) in d/w VG+ (moderate rubbing).
Language: English
Published by London, T. Bensley, 1808. 1808
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., folio, 13-7/8" x 11-3/8", Frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title-page and 11 drawings by Blake, etched by Louis Schiavonetti, includes list of subscribers, a poem "To the Queen" by Blake, and advertisement referencing Henry Fuseli's favorable comments…, complete, bound in early 1/2 tan calf, contemporary spine laid down, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, with a slip of paper (probably cut from an earlier binding of this copy) mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper and inscribed in ink "Mr. Cromek (the publisher) begs Mr. Bromley's acceptance of this Book. July 20. 1808". Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, an unusually clean copy, free of the typical foxing and offsetting, overall a VERY GOOD copy. From the collection of Douglas Cleverdon (1903 - 1987) who was an English radio producer and bookseller - with his bookplate to the front pastedown. 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. This exact copy appeared in Maggs Catalogue 1286 (London, March 2000) as item #39 Blair, The Grave (1808), and priced at $5,775.
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Published by R.Ackermann, London 1813
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Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United KingdomBooks That Expand The Mind
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Portfolio of 13 loose plates, no text, as issued. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake,…portrait frontispiece lightly browned, light spotting throughout affecting one or two plates, within original blind-stamped cloth portfolio, spine a little rubbed and scuffed at ends, lacking ties, [Bentley 435E], folio, R. Ackermann, 1813 [?1870]. Overall a very good example of this rare edition. *** "When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackerman's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Camden Hotten) reissued the books [.] no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century" A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon. 1813 1st Edition , (1870?) With Provenance THE GRAVE, A POEM By Robert Blair Author Bio: Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 - 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave. The poem is now best known for the illustrations created by William Blake following a commission from Robert Cromek. Blake's designs were engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, and published in 1808. Illustrated By: William Blake Illustrator Bio: William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. On 4 August 1772, Blake was apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, at the sum of £52.10, for a term of seven years. At the end of the term, aged 21, he became a professional engraver. Provenance: Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 - 5 August 2002) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public. Lenkiewicz is regarded by some as a great painter who is 'finally being recognised as such after all these years of neglect by the art establishment, particularly by London, who would never have him. Binding: Hardcover, folio (fo 12 × 19 in 305 × 483 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 13 Language: English Published By: R.Ackermann, London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Good - Portfolio of 13 loose plates, no text, as issued. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, portrait frontispiece lightly browned, light spotting throughout affecting one or two plates, within original blind-stamped cloth portfolio, spine a little rubbed and scuffed at ends, lacking ties, [Bentley 435E], folio, R. Ackermann, 1813 [?1870]. Overall a very good example of this rare edition. *** "When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackerman's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Camden Hotten) reissued the books [.] no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century" A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon. SKU: BTETM0002436 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 50, W: 35 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request. William Blake (illustrator).
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Published by R. Ackermann, London 1813
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Seller: Books & Bidders, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Books & Bidders
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Leather. Condition: Very Good. Original half brown morocco over pebbled boards, five raised bands, gilt title and decorated compartments, marbled endpapers, (14" x 11 1/2"). Dedication to the Queen by Blake, List of Subscribers (from 1808 issue), Advertisement signed Cromak, Remarks signed Fuseli, Biographical sketch of Robert B…lair, Biographical sketch of Lewis Schiavonetti, Biographical sketch of Robert Hartley Cromek, Text of poem (37 pages), Of the Designs; Engraved Blake portrait, engraved titlepage of 1808, plus 11 full-page plates engraved by Schiavonetti after William Blake at rear. Some general exterior wear, bumped corners, and rubbing; typical light foxing, heaviest on Blake portrait and engraved title page, else internally clean. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Baird Stichill. Size: Folio. William Blake (illustrator).
Published by James Miller, Publisher no date., New York
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Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerxiii, 38 pp. Frontispiece; added engraved title page; and illustrations from Designed by William Blake. Folio, publisher's rust cloth lettered and stamped in gold, black and blind. Slight dust-soiling and very slight use to cloth.
More imagesPublished by R.H. Cromek, London 1808
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Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA
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Marbled boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The 1808 1st edition, with William Blake's 11 celestial plates and L. Schiavonetti's engraved portrait of Blake (at the frontispiece), his etched title page and his additional engravings suffused with Blake's drawings. Solid and VG in its contemporary-to-the-period marbled boa…rds and more recent professional re-backing along the spine. Folio, published by R.H. Cromek of London. "These designs by Blake are considered his best-known work and his most forcible and poetic thinking on the subject of death" (Bentley, 435B). William Blake (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by T. Bensley London 1813
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Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.Antique Emporium
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 4to hardcover volume in reddish paper boards. No spine and boards off. One early english bookplate else no other marks. First 3 pages with the engraved title are loose. Text pages quite clean and unfoxed. Plates have scattered foxing. There are 13 engraved plates counting the t…itle and portrait in the front.
More imagesPublished by R. Ackermann. London. 1813 (Circa 1870?). 1870
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Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, , United KingdomPaul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PORTFOLIO OF 13 PLATES. No text, as issued. (Paper size 14.9 x 11.3 inches. The portfolio is 15.5 x 12 inches). Portrait of Blake, by T. Phillips, RA; Engraved title page (dated 1808) and 11 plates, all stating Ackermann as publisher, dated 1813 and engraved by Louis Schiavonetti, after Blake's d…esigns. The pages have a little bumping to the edges but well away form the engraved area. Plates a little dusty and toned but the impressions are good. The original portfolio is brown Morocco grained cloth with elaborate blind tooled designs to both boards. Gilt lettering to the front board. Only one small piece of one silk tie remaining. Yellow coated endpapers. 3 small clippings from bookseller catalogues, each listing copies of the Blair/Blake book, tipped in to the front pastedown endpaper. Some minor rubbing and bumping to the cloth but the gilt is still very bright and the cloth clean. Overall a very good example of this rare edition. ----- 'When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackermann's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Cameron Hotton) reissued the books. There are no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century.' [A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon]. ---- 'My theory on that is that Camden Hotten, who produced the 1870 issues, not only got the copperplates from Ackermann (with the Spanish inscriptions for de Mora) but also some remainders of the impressions and letterpress and bound these up in a slightly different fashion. He removed the Spanish on the coppers and had an engraver restore the 1813 English inscriptions, then printed for both the portfolio and the 1870 issue of the text with the engravings.'--(Essick).
Published by London: Scolar Press (1982) 1982
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First edition thus, folio, x, 243, (1) pp. 11 plates in the facsimile of the 1811 edition plus 31 further illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with some light marks, a near fine copy.
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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerLondon: Bensley for Ackermann, 1813 [i.e. 1870]. 4to, plates only, without the Frontispiece, Death's Door and The Soul's Reunion with the Body, i.e. etched title, and 9 plates. As issued in the original pebbled brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt, occasional foxing or oxidization, an adequate copy. Includes 22 newspaper clipp…ings from the 10s, 20s, 30s and 40s, all related to Blake, a brochure for Cambridge University Press's An Island in the Moon facsimile, a brochure for Scolar Press's The Grave facsimile, and a few other articles. § Third quarto edition, printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870. Bentley, Blake Books, 435e.
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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. [N. P.]: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Folio, 95pp. Original black silk binding, with morocco labels, stamped in gilt, to top board and backstrip, black cloth-covered slipcase; illustrated throughout with color reproductions of watercolor drawings, as well as engravings. As new. § First edition, limited to 186 co…pies, out of print on publication. From the announcement: "These watercolor designs, which disappeared from the public eye from 1836-2001, came to light in a Glasgow bookshop, and were [later] offered as an entity to institutions and collectors at a price which, as it turned out, none could afford, or at least, was prepared to pay. Eventually, in the face of much protest, the portfolio and the 19 designs were offered for sale in 20 separate lots at Sotheby's, New York, in 2006. The drawings are now widely dispersed and it is most unlikely that they will ever again be seen together." The sale was roundly condemned at the time as an act of cultural crime. This book (and the facsimile portfolio in the de luxe issue) are now the only record we will ever have of the original series. Happily, the Blake Trust created a superb book, which is and will surely remain the single most valuable reference work on these remarkable Blake drawings.
More imagesPublished by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, London 1808
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Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Biblioctopus
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. 1st edition, quarto, (xiv), 36, [4]. of Blake's illustrations for Blair's 1743 poem. Portrait frontispiece after Phillips, etched title page, 11 plates by Luigi Schiavonetti engraved after Blake's designs. One of about 590 copies published by subscription. Some foxing, particularly concentrated at the portrait and… etched title page, else very good in 20th century ¾ calf and marbled boards. 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. Bentley, Blake Books, 435B. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 465-476. Keynes 81. Ray 6. William Blake (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, London 1808
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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB
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Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto (pages 275 x 340mm): [xvi], 36, [4, prospectus]; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake, engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black an…d a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly, no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson, motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase. A blank verse poem, The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805, William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs.In a second prospectus, also from November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century" (William Blake Archive). Near Fine.
More imagesPublished by John Camden Hotten after T. Bensley for R. Ackermann 1813, 1870, London 1813
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society
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Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Uncut text pages measuring 11 x 13 11/16 in. Though dated 1813 on the title page this (like most "1813" editions) is the 1870 John Camden Hotten edition with the double-swell title page line (see image). Worming through foot of gutter not affecting text; wear to fore-edge; corners bumped; fox…ing throughout, especially heavy to " "Death of the Strong Wicked Man." Quarter morocco over paper covered boards. See image and do not hesitate to request scans. ; Folio ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. William Blake (illustrator).
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Grave: A Poem by Robert Blair. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings Executed by l.Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake. The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he… wrote to Dr. Dodderidge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister, Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stating that it was composed whilst he was still a student, although "probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement". The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. Part of the poem's continued prominence in scholarship involves a later printing of poems by Robert Hartley Cromek which included illustrations completed by the Romantic poet and illustrator William Blake. He completed forty illustrations for the poem, twenty of which were printed in Cromek's edition. Blake's original watercolours for the prints were believed lost, until they were rediscovered in 2003. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Schiavonetti, L.; Blake, William (illustrator).
