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Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of William Blake.. The Grolier Club,, 1921.
Price: US$66.38 + shipping
Description: From an edition limited to 250 copies. Hardback
Seller: Thomas Heneage Art Books, London, United Kingdom
KEYNES, Geoffrey.. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE.. New York Grolier Club, 1921.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES 1921, PRINTED ON SPECIAL PAPER BY THE CHISWICK PRESS. Thick large 4to, approximately 285 x 230 mm, 11 x 9 inches, 4 colour plates with tissue guards including the frontispiece "The Glad Day", 40 plates in monochrome and 12 reproductions in the text, mostly of title pages, title page printed in blue and black with small engraved vignette after Blake, pages: xvi, 516 including index and errata, plus last page with printer's device in red, original publisher's quarter blue morocco, gilt lettering to spine, contrasting blue buckram covers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Slight rubbing to spine, lower corners of upper cover slightly bumped, tiny abrasion to the bottom of lower cover, covers have slight handling marks, otherwise a very good copy. A heavy book which may require extra postage. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1102.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York, The Grolier Club of New York, 1921. Fort in-4, reliure de léditeur en demi maroquin bleu nuit, plats de percaline bleu outremer, XVI, 516 pages et hors texte. Édition originale tirée à 250 exemplaires sur un beau papier à la main et imprimée à Londres « at the Chiswick Press ». Outre une bibliographie extraordinairement documentée et dune précision exemplaire, le volume comporte 4 reproductions en couleur hors texte sous serpentes, 40 reproductions monochromes hors texte et 12 reproductions dans le texte, dont une très large part de matériel inédit. La page de titre est imprimée en noir et bleu et comporte au centre une petite vignette gravée daprès William Blake. Marque de la Chiswick Press imprimée en rouge au colophon. Abrasion du maroquin à la coiffe inférieure, mais bel exemplaire de cette étonnante bibliographie, épaisse comme un grimoire médiéval, véritable monument à la gloire conjointe de William Blake et de lart bibliographique.
Seller: Librairie Jean-Yves Lacroix, Gouloux, France
Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of William Blake. The Grolier Club of New York, New York, 1921.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: 516 pages. limited to 250 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. color frontis intact, very bright and clean. leather shows some rubbing and very slight wear at spine & corners blue cloth covers show slightly darker spots as if the moisture from the glue holding the cloth to the boards has slightly discolored the cloth. top edge of pages gilt. shipping will be extra for this large and heavy book, please inquire. ; Limited Edition; 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 150 copies printed on specially made paper at the Chiswick Press, London. 9 inches x 11 ¼ in. x 2 ¾ in. (thick); half-title with limitation statement on the reverse; color frontispiece (Glad Day), with tissue guard; title-page printed in blue and black with a Blake illustration; dedication page; preface; contents; list of illustrations. xvi, 516 pp. + printer's page with device in red. Index and errata. Illustrated with reproductions of Blake's pictorial works; four are in full color, forty reproductions in monochrome, and twelve other reproductions in the text. Dark blue morocco leather spine with gilt-lettered titling and design on the spine, dark blue cloth over boards, top-edge gilt, rough, deckled edges. The spine ends show some rubbing to the leather, small scratches to the lower spine leather, wear to cover corners, light, age-related tanning to the endpapers, a few dust spots present. Overall, a near fine copy. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down end-paper; he was associated with the Cleveland Museum of Art. Weight: 6 1/2 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2220.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Thick quarto, original quarter navy blue morocco & blue cloth (hardcover, leather), top edge gilt, 516 pp. Forty-four plates (four in color) and twelve illustrations. Very Good. This copy is the Dedication Copy, bearing an inscription on the front free endpaper from Keynes to the book's dedicatee, William Bateson: "W. Bateson from Geoffrey Keynes, February 1922." Also a printed slip tipped inside the front cover designates this copy as being assigned by The Grolier Club to the author for presentation to Bateson. An ALS from W. A. Raleigh, English essayist and biographer, written from Oxford, dated 19-v-06 and addressed to William Bateson is laid-in. In it Raleigh comments on Blake's works and beliefs: "His [Blake's] heresy on 'nature' is everywhere. I am sure he held it passionately and sincerely. and I think it more respectful to Blake to say so than to 'make allowances' for him. Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rembrandt &t. had sympathy with men as they are. Milton, Blake, &c. had not. Where's the harm? So I don't mean to give up all claim to Blake. The sects, and the aesthetes, and the hobby-mongers have been a plague of flies around him. But they must not be allowed to have him all to themselves." William Bateson (1861-1926) was a leading botanist and biologist whose research in the field of evolution focused on the discontinuity of variations in the process of heredity. "More than any other man Bateson was the founder of the experimental study of heredity and variation which was now providing a fresh orientation to the biological sciences -- a study for which he invented the term 'genetics." -- Dictionary of National Biography. In addition to his work in the field of biology, Bateson was an ardent and informed collector of art, especially Japanese woodblock prints, drawings of the old masters, and the etchings of William Blake. "The same keen sense of form which infused Bateson's science and writing found another outlet in his appreciation of art." -- DNB. Geoffrey Keyes, brother of the economist and the author of this work, is better known for his medical work where he made notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. Throughout his life, however, Keynes maintained an active interest in English literature and published several biographies and bibliographies. Most noted in this field was his passion for the works of William Bake in which he became a leading authority on Blake's literary and artistic work. Literature, Author Biography. KHS - X31
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.