Morton D Paley Michael Phillips (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing. Spine ends have small tears. Wraps have light foxing. Wraps are lightly sunned along the edges. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Text is unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. First Printing. ~24pp. Wraps are lightly sunned along the edges. Wraps have light foxing. Spine edge of wraps have small light creases. Spine ends are lightly bumped and lightly rubbed. Tip are bumped and lightly rubbed. Top edge of text block has some rippling. Wraps have light scratches. Text is unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Printing. ~19pp. Stapled wraps.Wraps have light sunning along the edges. Spine edge of wraps have small light creases. Wraps have very light foxing. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Text is unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 23pp. Spine edge of wraps have small light creases. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Text is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. xv, 390 pp, preface, list of 82 b&w illustrations, abbreviations, I. Blake's Early Poetry by Michael Phillips; II. Blade's 'Gothicised Imagination' and the History of England by David Bindman; III. The Altering Eye: Blake's Vision in the Tiriel Designs by Robert N. Essick; IV. Justifying One's Valuation of Blake by F. R. Leavis; V. Blake's Frame of Language by Josephine Miles; VI. Blake's Songs of Sprong by Michael J. Tolley; VII. Christ's Body by Jean H. Hagstrum; VIII. The Chapel of Gold by G. Wilson Knight; IX. Reading the Illuminations of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell by David V. Erdman with Tom Dargan and Marlene Deverell-Van Meter; X. Blake's Figures of Despair: Man in his Spectre's Power by Janet Warner; XI. the Title-page of the Book of Urizen by Morris Eaves; XII. Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth: Some Cross-currents and Parallels, 1789-1805 by John Beer; XIII. William Blake, The Prince of the Hebrews, and The Woman Clothed with the Sun by Morton D. Paley; XIV. Blake, the Varleys, and the Graphic Telescope by Martin Butlin; XV. References to Blake in Samuel Palmer's Letters by Raymond Lister; XVI. William Blake in the Wilderness: A Closer Look at his Reputation, 1827-1863 by Suzanne R. Hoover; XVII. Geoffrey Keynes's Work on Blake: Fons et Origo, and a Checklist of Writings on Blake by Geoffrey Keynes, 1910-1972 by G. E. Bentley, Jr.; index. First Edition, 1973. Ex Library with original cloth color where tape has been removed, and stamps along top edge. date due plate and barcode ffep, pocket on rfep. Spine faded with light wear to top and bottom edge of same. Interior white and bright. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Size: 4to. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1973. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> These essays, gathered as a Festschrift in honour of one of the great scholars of our time, view Blake's works from a variety of perspectives. The breadth of subject-matter is considerable, ranging from Blake's earliest to his latest poems and designs, and including considera-tions of his iconography, his intellectual milieu, his poetic diction, his religious conceptions, and his critical reputation, as well as detailed interpretations of particular works. Each essay is a dis-tinctively new contribution to the study of its subject. The book is profusely illustrated. There is also an annotated checklist of Sir Geoffrey Keynes's writings on Blake. (MP).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. 4to, xvi, 390 pp, with 82 black and white illustrations. Near fine in original cloth and dust-jacket. ß First edition. Contents: I. Blake's Early Poetry by Michael Phillips; II. Blade's 'Gothicised Imagination' and the History of England by David Bindman; III. The Altering Eye: Blake's Vision in the Tiriel Designs by Robert N. Essick; IV. Justifying One's Valuation of Blake by F. R. Leavis; V. Blake's Frame of Language by Josephine Miles; VI. Blake's Songs of Sprong by Michael J. Tolley; VII. Christ's Body by Jean H. Hagstrum; VIII. The Chapel of Gold by G. Wilson Knight; IX. Reading the Illuminations of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell by David V. Erdman with Tom Dargan and Marlene Deverell- Van Meter; X. Blake's Figures of Despair: Man in his Spectre's Power by Janet Warner; XI. the Title-page of the Book of Urizen by Morris Eaves; XII. Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth: Some Cross-currents and Parallels, 1789-1805 by John Beer; XIII. William Blake, The Prince of the Hebrews, and The Woman Clothed with the Sun by Morton D. Paley; XIV. Blake, the Varleys, and the Graphic Telescope by Martin Butlin; XV. References to Blake in Samuel Palmer's Letters by Raymond Lister; XVI. William Blake in the Wilderness: A Closer Look at his Reputation, 1827-1863 by Suzanne R. Hoover; XVII. Geoffrey Keynes's Work on Blake: Fons et Origo, and a Checklist of Writings on Blake by Geoffrey Keynes, 1910-1972 by G. E. Bentley, Jr. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement 598.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontis Portrait Of Sir Geoffrey Keynes; 82 B&w Illustrations, (illustrator). 1st Edition. Dust jacket: Light rubbing. Slight wear and creasing to top edge. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Green buckram binding. Foxing to page edges, otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Signed by Geoffrey Keynes to the lower margin of the frontis in his customary brown ink. Also signed by co-author Michael Phillips to title page. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 7.75 x 10 inches (19.5 x 25.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xiv, 390. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. William Blake (illustrator). First edition. A smart and bright first edition copy of this selection of essays on the poet William Blake written by scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes. This volume gathers a selection of essays by Geoffrey Keynes that view William Blake's works from a variety of perspectives. The essays cover Blake's earliest works and his later poems and designs.Sir Geoffrey Keynes was a British surgeon and author who was a scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey.Richly illustrated throughout and in the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is generally excellent with some very minor edge wear. Fine. book.

First U.K. Edition. Large octavo. 25cm. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xv]; [1]; 390pp. Strong and tight, light scuffing and bumping to spine ends and corners; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown; in a strong, bright dustjacket with some light creasing to edges and a little scuffing and wear at the spine ends. A very good copy indeed. A critical, and somewhat celebratory, literary analysis of Keynes on Blake, with some of his most celebrated writings. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, with his bookplate.