Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A solid copy in a somewhat worn jacket; 0 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Keynes (ed.). Blake's Pencil Drawings: Second Series. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second series. Limited edition, number 908 of 1440 copies. Contents very good with no inscriptions. Page edges slightly tanned. In near complete dust jacket, chipped with small loss at edges.
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
Keynes, Geoffrey. Blake's Pencil Drawings: Second Series. Nonesuch Press, England, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good hardcover copy in the original rust colored cloth boards, bevelled edges, gilt title on the spine. No wear to the covers. No dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. (Small erasure on front endpaper). Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Beautifully printed and produced book. Limited edition of 1440 numbered copies. 56 drawings illustrated. 12" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; Dust jacket with a couple of very small chips, light rubbing and wear.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Blake, William ( Keynes, Geoffrey Editor ). Blake's Pencil Drawings. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$86.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy, in jacket with just the slightest traces of wear to extremities. No chips or tears. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage.
Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
William Blake. Pencil Drawings. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blakes's Pencil Drawings 1956 Second Series. Limited Edition of 1440 copies. This is number 636. With presentation on pastedown otherwise a clean and tight copy. Page ends uncut. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 9.25 x 11.75 inches (23.5 x 29.5 cm). Attractive and a remarkable smart copy.
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$97.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket: Attractive black card jacket with gold star pattern. Paper title label to spine. Slight wear and chipping to edges. Wear and slight loss to head of spine. Light rubbing to covers. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Minus. Book: Second series. Limited edition, number 492 of 1440 copies. Russet cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Page edges untrimmed. Creasing and light foxing to front free endpaper, otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 9.25 x 11.75 inches (23.5 x 29.5 cm).
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
BLAKE William.; NONESUCH PRESS. Blake's Pencil Drawings. Second Series. , 1956.
Price: US$103.75 + shipping
Description: Illustrations, limited edition of 1440 copies, 4to., red cloth lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, decorative dust jacket, printed and made in Holland, Nonesuch Press. Dust jacket rubbed along the edges with some loss to the head of the spine, front free end paper badly creased, otherwise a good copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 56 high-quality full-page plates. One of 1440 numbered copies printed on Dutch laid paper. Large 4to, publisher's cloth. Fine in a NF dj.
Seller: Cole & Contreras / Sylvan Cole Gallery, Sitges, BCN, Spain
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dust jacket: Attractive black card jacket with gold star pattern. Paper title label to spine. Slight chipping to edges. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Second series. Limited edition, number 164 of 1440 copies. Russet cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Page edges untrimmed. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise in first class condition throughout. Signed by Geoffrey Keynes in his customary brown ink to front free endpaper. Also dedicated by Keynes to the limitation page: 'Geoffrey Keynes for John Lawson.' Lawson was a renowned bookseller and lifelong friend of Keynes. A rare signed example and in excellent condition. . Overall book condition is Near Fine. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 9.25 x 11.75 inches (23 x 29.5 cm).
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Blake, William. Blake's Pencil Drawings Second Series. Nonesuch Press, [London], 1956.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Number 728 of 1440 copies printed on Dutch mould-made paper. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrated with 56 plates plus text. xi [227] pp. Printed in Holland. 1 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 126 Terra cotta buckram over bevelled boards. Fine copy in fine black paper dust jacket with gilt dots and stars Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrated with 56 plates plus text. xi [227] pp. Printed in Holland. 1 vols. 4to Number 728 of 1440 copies printed on Dutch mould-made paper.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (290 x 222 mm); xi [227] pages; 56 collotype illustrations, plus text. Printed on Dutch pannekoek mould-made paper and bound in Holland by J. Brandt & Zoon with terra-cotta buckram over beveled boards with gilt title on spine; black paper jacket with gilt stars and dots, title on white label on spine, edges untrimmed. This is copy no. 33 (in ink on limitation page) of 1440 copies printed. [Dreyfus 126]. This is the sequel to The Nonesuch Press' first book of Blake's Pencil Drawings, published in 1927. The Max Reinhardt / Nonesuch list 1956 remarked: 'During the twenty-nine years that have elapsed a number of exciting drawings have come to light, several of which are now in the Editor's possession, such as the fine study for the great colour-print of 'Newton' now in the Tate Gallery, and Blake's magnificent version of the Laocoon theme, in which he adapts the groups by Praxiteles to his own mythology.' [John Dreyfus. A History of The Nonesuch Press. London: 1981] The NONESUCH PRESS was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett who was a bookseller in Soho's Gerrard Street, in the basement of which the press began. It was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books, but had them printed by commercial printers, in order to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience at lower prices. Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press, which emphasized the primacy of the hand press printed book.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. pp. xi + plates. 56 b/w illus. cloth. dw. (some wear to edges). Edition limited to 1440 copies, of which this copy is number 318.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada