Illustrations of the Book of Job in Twenty One Plates Invented and Engraved by William Blake by Blake William (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. No jacket. Folio. Limited facsimile reprint of the original 1826 edition. Covers in very bad shape, with spine fascia missing. Front cover detached, but present. As-Is.

Condition: Very good. - Folio, 15 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, rebound in three quarter red leather and pebbled boards titled in gilt on the spine and enhanced with textured paper red & black pastedowns and endpapers. The covers are slightly rubbed and scuffed. [24] leaves, illustrated with a facsimile of the original title page and 21 plates with tissue guards. The front and rear blank leaves are foxed. There is some slight offsetting along the inner edges of the leaves and some minor occasional soiling. Very good. Facsimile of the 1825/6 edition limited to 1000 copies. The 1902 publishers label is tipped onto the first blank leaf of the book.

Softcover. Condition: fair. Limited edition. 1/1000. Folio. Unpaginated. Original stiff wrappers with facsimile of original title label pasted on front cover. Scarce facsimile reprint of the 21 engraved plates featuring in the original 1826 edition of the Book of Job, illustrated by William Blake. This facsimile edition was limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. Most of the plates are still protected with their original tissue-guards. Some age-wear on wrappers with front cover detached (but present) with closed tears and chipping along edges. Spine partly missing. Endpapers foxed. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Wrappers in overall poor to fair, interior in very good condition.

Limited edition facsimile of 1000 copies; publisher's stiff wrappers with a cloth spine; facsimile label on the upper cover, but including the new publication information. Some wear; small corner of upper wrapper lacking; endpapers heavily foxed; the plates have some offsetting from the tissue guards (mostly present); overall, very good, and uncommon in decent condition. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Limited edition. Folio (15 x 10.5 inches), wood-grain cloth spine and black card covers with printed paper label, 21 facsimile reproductions of William Blakes engravings. Limited edition (1000 copies) facsimile reproduction of the 1825 original edition. Covers moderately worn, endpapers foxed, plates fine with 20 tissue guards present.

Facsimile issued in 1000 copies. Blake, William. Facsimile issued in 1000 copies. Originally Published by the Author, 3, Fountain Court, Strand and Mr. J. Linnell, 6, Cirencester Place, Fitzroy Square March, 1826. 1 vols. Folio. Original printed wrappers with facsimile of original label, top corner with triangular small loss. Very good Originally Published by the Author, 3, Fountain Court, Strand and Mr. J. Linnell, 6, Cirencester Place, Fitzroy Square March, 1826. 1 vols. Folio.

Facsimile Edition. Good facsimile copy with wear only to the spine bands and panel edges. Physical description; 21 leaves : all illustrations ; 44 cm. Subjects; Blake, William 1757-1827. Bible. Job ; Illustrations. Bible. Job. Bible. O.T. Job ; Illustrations. 1 Kg.

Facsimile Edition. Good facsimile copy with wear only to the spine bands and panel edges. Physical description; 21 leaves : all illustrations ; 44 cm. Subjects; Blake, William 1757-1827. Bible. Job ; Illustrations. Bible. Job. Bible. O.T. Job ; Illustrations. 1 Kg.

Edition : Limited Edition, Full publisher?s paper boards with pasted label. Rebacked in matching paper. Flat spine with label and title. Edges speckled red. , Blake?s Illustrations of the Book of Job is one of his most famous works, considered to be his masterpiece of engraving. It also was a rare commercial and critical success for Blake. Reproduced here in a lovely facsimile, our edition is a rare one of 1000 copies that were issued just at the turn of the 20th century. , Size : Folio (360x262mm), Illustrated with 21 plates and engraved title page depicting various scenes from the Book of Job in Blake?s inimitable style. Very good condition, plates generally clean.

Folio. (380 x 272 mm). [22 leaves]. Engraved title and 21 engravings on thick white wove paper by William Blake, plates 5, 14, 18 and 20 with visible watermarks J WHATMAN / 1825' or 'J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1825'; sheet size: 376 x 268 mm (no. 20 slightly shorter but with deckle edge at foot). Later (but nineteenth century) Russian calf-backed green and black flexible marbled paper boards. [PROVENANCE: Printed white label to rear pastedown of bookseller Vasilii Ivanovich Klochkov (1861 - 1915) (see below); bookplate of Henri Focillon (1881 - 1943) to front pastedown( see also below)]. Henri Focillon's copy - with particularly fine impressions - of the first edition of Blake's last major series of engravings. The first edition of Blake's final engraved series was issued in 3 versions: 100 copies on Whatman paper (as for the present copy), 65 copies on French paper and 150 copies on laid India; the copies on French paper and laid India paper were issued with the word 'proof' at lower right within the plate. The engravings for the Book of Job were commissioned formally by John Linnell in an agreement of March 25, 1823. Despite a publication date of March 8, 1825 (the plates bear this date), they probably did not appear until early 1826 (the title label states 'March, 1826') and were sold sporadically by Linnell and his heirs (he died in 1882) over the course of the next century. Indeed, the family sold 68 sets of India proof copies at Christie's in 1918. Always fascinated by the Book of Job, Blake's engravings were based on a series of watercolours executed between 1805 and 1806 for his patron Thomas Butts concerning a debate between Satan and God concerning Job's piety. The plates are noteworthy as being the last complete series of engravings completed before Blake's death in 1827. The first edition was issued in 3 versions: 150 copies on laid India with the word 'Proof', 65 copies on French paper with 'Proof', and 100 on Whatman paper with the word 'Proof? erased as here. 'It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the Illustrations are Blake's most lucid; and they are the Supreme example of his reading the Bible in its Spiritual Sense.' (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, pg. 217). 'This [Illustrations for the Book of Job] was the last work he completed, upon the merits of which he received the highest congratulations from the following Royal Academicians: Sir Thomas Lawrence . and many other artists of eminence.' (John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times, 1828, reported in Blake Records, pg. 617). 'Are there any greater illustrations to be found? They are Blake's most ambitious, most unchallengeable, series. His inspiration was never richer, and his execution never more consistently maintained.' (Osbert Burdett, William Blake, 1926). Henri Focillon (1881 - 1943) was a highly esteemed French art historian, and poet and lecturer, who became director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1913 where he served until 1924. He succeeded Emile Mâle at the Sorbonne, becoming Professor of Aesthetics in 1938 before his election as Professor to the Collège de France in 1938. His regular travels to the United States - he began to teach at Yale in 1932 - saw him marooned there at the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 and with the fall of France he remained there in exile. He spent the early years of the war travelling the US assessing support for France and was a supporter of de Gaulle and the Free French. Focillon, who wrote the first catalogue of the engraved work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, died in New Haven in 1943. As an expert and connoisseur in the field - among many others - of engraving, it seems fitting that he owned this superb example of the final engraved work completed by William Blake. It must also be noted that prior to entering the collection of Focillon, this copy of the 'Illustrations of the Book of Job' had been in Russia. The discreet printed label to the rear pastedown adjacent to the spine is that of the pre-eminent St. Petersburg bookseller Vasilii Ivanovich Klochkov (1861 - 1915) whose bookshop was at Liteinyi Prospect 55. Although it now seems difficult, if not impossible, to trace a link between Klochkov and Focillon, it is worth noting that Focillon's son-in-law, Jurgis Baltrusaitis (1903 - 1988), was the son of a Lithuanian father (a Symbolist poet of the same name) and a Russian mother (a descendant of icon painters at the Imperial court) who became an art historian after studying with Focillon. Transmission from Baltrusaitis or his parents to Focillon seems the likeliest route although other emigrés may have been the conduit and Focillon's father Victor-Louis was himself a printmaker and a profound influence on his son's thought regarding prints. All such conjectures are speculative, however, it is clear, both from Klochkov's label and the Russian binding, that this copy of 'Illustrations of the Book of Job', with its particularly fine impressions, found itself in Russia prior to the revolution before travelling to France and entering Focillon's collection. The full list of the plates with titles is as follows: Title-page. (1) Job and his Family. (2) Satan before the Throne of God. (3) The Destruction of Job's Sons. (4) The Messengers tell Job of his Misfortunes. (5) Satan going forth from the Presence of the Lord. (6) Satan smiting Job with Boils. (7) Job's Comforters. (8) Job's Despair. (9) The Vision of Eliphaz. (10) Job rebuked by his Friends. (11) Job's Evil Dreams. (12) The Wrath of Elihu. (13) The Lord answering Job out of the Whirlwind. (14) The Creation. (15) Behemoth and Leviathan. (16) The Fall of Satan. (17) The Vision of God. (18) Job's Sacrifice. (19) Job accepting Charity. (20) Job and his Daughters. (21) Job and his Wife restored to Prosperity. [Binyon 105 - 126; Bentley 421; Ray 313].