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Verlag: Macmillan and Co., London and Cambridge, 1862
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. William Blake (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this important biography of poet William Blake, in the publisher's original decorative binding and complete in two volumes. The first volume comprises a biographical account of Blake, and the second compiles his poetry, prose, artwork and illustrated manuscript.William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter and artist who spent his lifetime in relative obscurity but since his death has been acclaimed and held as one of the most important figures in both British poetry and art. This work marked a turning point for Blake's reputation, as the Pre-Raphaelites became important in promoting his legacy.Written by Alexander Gilchrist (1828-1861), best known for this work and his biography of William Etty. Gilchrist spent years compiling material for this work and interviewing friends of the subject; however, he suddenly died and left it incomplete, and so his widow Anne finished it, aided by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti.Complete in two volumes.Bound in the publisher's decorative cloth, with gilt detail to the covers.Illustrated with ten plates to volume I including the frontispiece; lacking the plate opposite page 230. With a folding frontispiece to volume II, as well as thirty-seven facsimile plates.A fascinating first edition of this culturally significant biography. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart. The front board is detached but present with the backstrip lifting to volume I. Some wear to the head and tail of the spine as a result of bumping, as well as to extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound; both hinges is starting to volume I. Pages are a little spotted in places. Good Only. book.
Verlag: Macmillan and Co, London and Cambridge, 1863
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 2 vols.: xiv, [2], 389; 268 p. + plates. 23 cm. Vol. I has engraved frontipsiece portrait of Blake after John Linnell, 11 other full-page plates and 59 in-text illustrations and decorations. Vol. II has fold-out frontispiece, 21 photolithographs of the Book of Job illustrations, 16 plates printed from the electrotypes of the copper plates of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, 7 other illustrations or decorations. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Respined with original spines laid on. Corners and bottom edges worn. Some rubbing to boards. Hinges repaired internally. Small label on front pastedown and ink notation on front free endpaper. Repair to edge of p. 1 in vol. I. Foxing mainly to first and last pages. Title continues: "With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings. Vols I & II. Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in Facsimile by W. J. Linton, and in Photolithography; With a Few of Blake's Original Plates." Volume I contains the first major biography of Blake while volume II includes examples of Blake's writing and engravings. Substantial contributions to the text by Dante Gabriel and Michael William Rossetti after Gilchrist died in 1861. Facsimiles by William James Linton, wood-engraver, artist, and writer. A cornerstone of any Blake collection.
Verlag: Palala Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1341241017ISBN 13: 9781341241017
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. 358 S. 39058884/1 Gewicht in Gramm: 676 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 15.6 cm x 2.06 cm x 23.39 cm.
Verlag: Macmillan and Co, London, 1863
Anbieter: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-389, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [4], 4-268 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns in volume two, volume one with later white endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated from Blake's own works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a few of Blake's original plates. Volume one illustrated by a frontispiece of Blake with eleven plates, six of which are in color, and around 47 in-text engravings; volume two illustrated with the fold-out plate of Canterbury Tales as its frontispiece, a few in-text illustrations, 21 colored plates, and 16 black and white plates at the rear of the volume. Several gatherings of volume two unopened, with a few gatherings in volume one unopened. With an armorial bookplate in volume two. Oxford DNB, Robert N. Essick, "Blake, William (1757-1827)"; H.H. Gilchrist, Gilchrist, Alexander (1828-1861)". Alexander Gilchrist was Blake's biographer and an art critic. His widow Anne would go on to finish his comprehensive biography of Blake, with the assistance of the Rossetti brothers, (Gilchrist's friends and fellow writers). According to the Oxford DNB, Gilchrist's biography of Blake is:"[a]rguably the most important book ever published on Blake, Gilchrist's biography sets Blake within his intellectual and social milieu, but presents him as a secular saint ." William Blake would go on to become a seminal figure in English poetry and artistry, with his signature style of incorporating other-worldly experiences with poetic verses. Blake was a master of syncretism, writing poetry and verse that combined Greek, English, and Hebrew mythology. His reputation and art would go on to influence the intellectual revolution and sexual revolution of the 1960s. A beautiful set, replete with Blake's engravings and poetry, which bring the artist's story to life. A Very Good set with minor wear to the extremities: leaves are largely clean with minor spotting and a few faint creases to some corners in volume one.
Verlag: Macmillan, London, 1863
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). First. Several full page black & white plates and text illustrations, 1 folding. 2 volumes. 8vo, 1/2 brown leather over marbled boards; marbled end-papers. London: Macmillan, 1863. First edition. Edited by D. G. and William Rossetti, with some illustrations printed from Blake's original plates and a substantial number of poems published for the first time. Bentley & Nurmi 1234A.
Verlag: Macmillan, London, 1863
Anbieter: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition. 24 cm; 2 volumes. [i-v], vi-xv, [1]-389; [i-v], vi-vii, [1-3] 4-268 pages, and 66 plates including the "Job" engravings and 16 plates from electrotypes of the copperplates of "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Text illustrations. Folding plate of Canterbury pilgrims in volume 2. Bound in roughly contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, with gilt-tooled compartments on spine, with original gilt-stamped morocco covers laid down on front pastedowns in both volumes. Binding somewhat worn at joints and edges, but this is a sound copy, internally without blemish. Reference: Bentley, Blake Books, 1234A. Bentley said it better than we can: "Never has an important literary reputation been posthumously established so effectively, instantaneously, and forcefully. Gilchrist's title, 'Pictor Ignotus,' had not been mere showmanship. Blake had been unknown, and Gilchrist made him sensationally well-known. From 1863 on, Blake took an unchallenged place in literary and artistic history as one of the great figures of the Romantic Movement. Gilchrist's biography is still, in many respects, the best biography of Blake" (pp. 12-13).
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., London., 1863
Anbieter: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2 vols. 8vo. (160 x 235 mm). pp. xvi, 390; viii, 268. The many illustrations include reproductions of the Book of Job (22 plates). The 16 plates Songs of Innocence of Experience and 3 from Thornton's Virgil are taken from the original plates and woodblocks. Full nineteenth century calf Root with his signature gilt, baords and spine with decorative tooling in gilt, neatly re-backed with original backstrips laid down, the original publisher's decorated cloth front covers bound in, t.e.g. A fine extra-illustrated example of the first edition of the first important life of Blake. After Gilchrist died in 1861 the final section of the work was written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from notes left by Gilchrist. The additional 54 plates include some of Blake's commercial prints (26 prints), portraits mainly of writers and artists, and a small number of topographical plates including an etching titled in pencil 'Blake's Cottage at Feltham by Gilchrist'. The 26 plates by Blake are: Portrait of Democritus from Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy. Fertilisation of Egypt from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden. A Family of New South Wales from J. Hunter's Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, 1793. May Day in London from The Wit's Magazine. May 1784. 4 plates from Charles Allen's A New and Improved History of England. 1797. 14 plates from C G Salzmann's Elements of Morality. 4 plates from W. Hayley's The Triumph of Temper.