William Blake Edward Young (40 results)

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Condition: good. A former college library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Gently read paperback. No spine crease. Light wear. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean, unmarked. (Shelf: H2) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. SOFT COVER IN NEAR FINE CONDITION.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Not issued. Softcover. Clean and tight. No markings. Some cover wear. Fast shipping from NYC.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 100 pages. 6.14x0.21x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

In-4, 31 cm, 95pp., illustr. 43 dessins de William Blake, bon etat, Ats10.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Folios, two volumes. In Very Good plus condition with Very Good minus dust jackets and Good minus slip case. Cream spines with black titling. Slip case with light plus bumping and shelf wear at edges and corners; rear horizontal joints with more significant wear including splitting. Light plus rubbing and shelf wear to surfaces of slip case boards. Dust jackets with light bumping and shelf wear to head and tail of spines and edges of jackets, including minor tears; light sunning to spines; and light marking to dust jackets, primarily near spine and edges. Dust jackets with prices clipped. Bindings with light bumping to heads and tails of spines. CONTENTS: Vol. I (xvi, 99 pages plus over 263 unpaginated full-page plates). -- Vol. II (viii, plates 264-537). [Oversized set. 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. 1389749. Special Collections. Color And B&W Illustration (illustrator).…

Quarter-Leather. Condition: Like New. Facsimile with 537 illustrations by William Blake from the original watercolours in The British Museum. 1,000 numbered copies produced by The Folio Society. The two large volumes are hand-bound in Nigerian goatskin leather with cloth sides printed and blocked with William Blake designs redrawn by David Eccles. Printed on Modigliani Neve paper, specially selected to match the original Whatman paper stock. Accompanied by a specially commissioned commentary volume by renowned Blake scholar Robin Hamlyn. Book Size: 17" x 13", 548 pages. Presented in a buckram covered solander box. SHIPPING CHARGES: Domestic USA shipping is as quoted (almost free); International shipping requires extra (anywhere from $250-$300). William Blake (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fine. Number 369 of 1000 copies. Two volumes bound in quarter Nigerian goatskin leather over cloth with silver embossed titles on spines; boards decorated with William Blake designs redrawn by David Eccles. Internally clean and bright, the images are printed on Modigliani Neve paper, specially selected to match the original Whatman paper stock. Each folio comprising a letterpress page framed by a pen-and-watercolor drawing. Includes companion commentary volume. Housed in publisherâs blue-grey clamshell box. A lovely set.…

Folio. (415 x 325 mm). pp. (ii), viii, 95. Leaf with 'Explanation of the Engravings' recto and verso, printed title, advertisement (pp. iii - viii) and 43 leaves with engravings by William Blake surrounding the text; 21 of the leaves retain the publisher's imprints. Scarlet morocco-backed contemporary moiré cloth boards, gilt titles to front cover and spine. First edition of Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Night Thoughts is a key work in the Blake canon, executed at a crucial point in his career. Sometime in 1795 or 1796 Blake was comissioned by the publisher Richard Edwards to undertake the illustration of each page of Young's bestseller 'Night Thoughts'. It was intended to publish the whole poem of nine nights in installments accompanied by engravings based on Blake's drawings, but Edwards went out of business after the first volume consisting of 4 Nights and the project was never completed. 'Blake has undertaken to make designs to encircle the letter press of each page of Young's Night Thoughts, Edwards the Bookseller, of Bond Street employed him and has had the letter press of each page laid down on a large half sheet of paper. There are about 900 pages - Blake asked 100 guineas for the whole. Edwards said he could not afford to give more than 20 guineas for which Blake agreed. Fuseli understands that Edwards proposes to select about 200 from the whole to have that number engraved (by Blake) as decorations for a new edition.' (Blake Records).…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. LIMITED EDITION. A FINE AND CLEAN TWO VOLUME SET IN A FINE CLAM SHELL BOX. Limited to 2000 copies by The Folio Society. A complete facsimile of all 537 watercolors. WILLIAM BLAKE (illustrator).

No binding. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Large Quarto (16 3/16" x 12 3/8", 410mm x 315mm): 54 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, advertisement) iv-viii, [2] (Night the first, on life, death and mortality, blank) 1-16 17-18 (Night the second on time, death and friendship, blank) 19-42 43-44 (Night the third, Narcissa, blank) 45-63 64-66 (blank, The Christian triumph, blank) 67-95 [3] (blank, 2pp. explanation of the engravings). With 4 engraved subtitle-pages and 39 engravings bordering the text. Disbound. Presented in a custom chemise within a portfolio of quarter mottled calf over grey card (16 7/8" x 13 ¼", 428mm x 336mm). On the spine, "Young's / night / thoughts / Blake" gilt to a black morocco lettering piece. Date gilt to the heel. Pinholes and facsimile repairs along the left margin throughout. Occasional pale foxing, soiling to the extremities, and cockling. Repaired horizontal tear from the fore-margin to leaf 10. Repaired tear to the lower fore-corner of leaf 35. Horizontal tear extending from fore-edge of leaf 49. Dampstain to the upper edge of pp. 51 Watermark of J. Whatman to leaf 35 and 48. Leaf of "Explanation of the engravings" inlaid. In 1797, the bookseller Richard Edwards published the first installment of his new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts. A poem in nine parts, the work had already seen many iterations since its initial release between 1742 and 1745. Edwards promoted his unique edition with a titillating prospectus, describing it as "part the first of a splendid edition of this favourite work, elegantly printed, and illustrated with forty very spirited engravings from original drawings by BLAKE." Described as "the most grandiose engraving project of Blake's lifetime" (Bentley & Nurmi, p. 4), the impression was instantly scarce. William Blake (1757-1827) spent nearly two years illustrating the complete Night Thoughts; creating a watercolor design in the margins of every page, amounting to 537 illustrations in total. This was the largest commercial endeavor for which Blake was ever employed. Edwards began the project by having the pages from the first and second editions of the poem glued into windows cut into large leaves of Whatman wove paper. These text pages were positioned slightly off-center to create a lower margin greater than the upper and an outer margin greater than the inner (Bentley notes that the paper was "only marginally larger than the copperplate, and even in untrimmed copies, parts of the platemarks may not appear"). Blake was paid the paltry sum of twenty guineas for his watercolors, presumably because he expected to receive a great deal more for engraving them. Of 537, only 43 were engraved for the first run of the Edwards edition, which spanned four "Nights" of the poem. Despite much anticipation, the project was a complete commercial failure, and no further volumes were released. The flop of the project may have been one of the reasons why Blake decided, in 1800, to move from London to the village of Felpham on the Sussex coast and place himself under the patronage of William Hayley. Today, the vast majority of Blake's Night Thoughts illustrations remain unpublished. The cost of the project, which involved the separate printing of the text and the plates, was evidently too great, and the illustrations were perhaps too lewd for contemporary tastes (Pilkington notes that the work's only impression on the public was to startle the pious with unexpectedly "naked groups"). Additionally, Young's words and Blake's pictures were often in tension with one another. The generality of Young's diction gave Blake considerable freedom in illustrating it, and Blake's ideological supplementals become apparent even with a cursory glance. When Young wrote Night Thoughts in the middle of the XVIIIc, he considered that he was offering "plain truths" with which his readers would agree that reason is man's dominant faculty and rigid moral laws provide punishment for sin. When Blake illustrated the poem fifty years later, it was precisely these ideas which he opposed. Where Young had hoped to restrain imaginative energy with Reason's chain, Blake's work celebrates the liberation of Imagination a central dogma in the personal mythology that he constructed in response to the Age of Revolution. A beloved figure in Children's Literature, Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) was also a passionate art collector. For Sendak, the two pursuits were inseparable. "I'm not a collector who collects just for collecting," he said in 1984, "things have to refer back or give me some turn-on in my work." Sendak considered William Blake a cornerstone of his thinking, particularly regarding both the beauty and seriousness of childhood. The present example was lot number 110 of Christie's 12 June 2025 sale of Sendak's collection. Bentley & Nurmi, pp. 4; Pilkington, pp. 48.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3 volumes consisting of a facsimilie from the original edition in the British Museum bound in quarter Nigerian goatskin and matching leather labels with pictorial cloth boards complete with the Commentary by Robin Hamlyn bound in matching blue cloth, all in excellent condition with clean, unmarked text, housed in a very good solander box which has a few small marks, number 692 from a limited edition of 1000, a very heavy set that will require an additional postage fee for some international destinations, please contact for details Size: Folio. Blake, William (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition thus, Folio Society 2005 2 volumes, facsimile limited edition, No. 235 of 1000 copies, colour illustrations throughout, original quarter morocco by Smith Settle of Otley, upper covers decorated designed by David Eccles based on William Blake's original drawings, silver-gilt decorated spines, together with commentary volume in original buckram, contained together in original clam-shell box, folio, Folio Society, 2005. HEavy set and additonal postage charges may apply.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Facsimile Edition. Massive work, three volume set in clamshell box. The main work is in two volumes which measure 42.5 x 34 cm. Also included is the 362pp "Commentary" volume by Robin Hamlyn in a smaller format 25 x 16 cm. Extensively illustrated with 537 watercolor illustrations by William Blake. Facsimile edition limited to 1020 copies of which this is copy 37. Bound into 1/4 Niigerian Goatskin leather with cloth sides printed and blocked with designs by David Eccles based on William Blake's original drawings. Leather labels on box and Night Thoughts volumes. Beautiful editon, in similar condition. First and so far only time the entire work had been published in full-color facsimile. Only flaws I notice are a few bumps to the clamshell. Massive set, shipping outside of the US will require substantial additional charges.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio newly bound in half brown calf gilt over marbled boards. New endpapers with ribbon marker. viii, 95 pp With all 43 text framed engraved plates and 4 Chapter heading plates. One plate on page 63 not bound evenly. It was originally missing and was replaced with a true original plate from noted Blake dealer. There is spotting on a number of pages and mild underlining on a few pages but overall this is a very nice copy of an uncommon book. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. William Blake (illustrator). Book.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1911 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 100 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 100.…

First Thus. Three Volumes; 1 octavo 23cm, 2 folio 43cm. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is #668. Housed in a tailor made blue cloth clamshell case. Bound in dark blue half morocco over decorated cloth boards titled and embellished in silver gilt. Tall and clean, strong and very handsome, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, lavishly produced in full color facsimile; in a very good, strong example of the mammoth clamshell case with some bumping and soiling along the lower edges, and some dustyness in places. A very good set indeed.…

First Edition. First Edition. Folio, 16 1/4 x 13 inches. Bound in contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco with triple gilt fillet and wide Greek key border in blind, spine in compartments tooled in blind with five raised bands in gilt. Blake's inimitable illustrative interpretations of Edward Youngís philosophical and poetic meditation on death, immortality, and the soulís journey. In his preliminary work for "Night Thoughts," William Blake created 537 large watercolors, and 43 of these were engraved and included in the published work. Blake brought a visionary, symbolic dimension to the work, infusing the illustrations with dramatic, often apocalyptic imagery that expanded rather than merely echoed the text. His art introduced themes of cosmic struggle and spiritual awakening, aligning Youngís moral reflections with Blakeís own mythic universe. Four engraved part-titles and 39 full-page illustrations by William Blake after his own designs around letterpress text. This copy, without letterpress 'Explanation' leaf as often is the case. Some very light offsetting from plates as usual, some plates slightly shaved at edges, covers slightly rubbed and scuffed, particularly spine ends and corners, a couple of small gouges to lower cover, endpapers with prior fold marks. Internally near fine.…

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Elephantine folio, 44 by 34 cm. viii, [2], 95, [2] pp. 43 of the pages have Blake's expansive, charismatic illustrations surrounding the text. Four of these are section heads, the balance, being border ornamentation, but even the latter are far more than merely decorative. The distinctive Blake artwork fires the imagination regardless. In fact, the text, which is framed with ruled lines, seems to cover some of the illustration. Last two pages are the Explanation of the Engravings, which are often not present. The full navy blue morocco is fairly heavily rubbed along the edges, a bit less so, by the joints. Some scattered soiling within, but the pages are generally quite clean. There are a few closed tears, not of great length, and one repaired close tear which was somewhat longer. The Explanation of Engravings leaf has two repaired tears. Notwithstanding these flaws, this is an attractive, appealing copy.…

Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title panel to the upper cover, housed together in a dark blue cloth solander box with matching silver lettered leather title label to the spine. High quality colour reproductions of Blake's illustrations throughout the folio volumes. Some light shelf wear to the case, else a lovely example.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1911. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 100, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 100 100.…

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 57/58, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaf is quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. The leaf is from from "Narcissa," the third night of Young's poem, and the illustration shows a party of drinkers under a looming figure clutching a spear. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3.…

First Edition. London: R. Noble, 1797. Large 4to, pp. 27/28, with a full-page engraving by Blake surrounding the letterpress text. A loose sheet, fore-edges untrimmed (some still with deckle), minimal trimming to top and bottom edges. Only five leaves in the book have engravings recto and verso. § First edition, perfect for display or for teaching as the leaves are quite sturdy and can be carefully handled or matted for framing. Blake, virtually in a frenzy, completed 537 watercolor designs when he was commissioned to illustrate Young's masterpiece. The publisher only issued the first four 'Nights' and had Blake engrave (and partially etch) 43 plates to test the market. The response must have been poor since no further engravings were requested of Blake. Ironically, today the poet Young, once compared with Shakespeare and Milton, is forgotten save for this edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 1790-1914, 3. …