Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$42.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The prospectus announces "The life of William Blake", Blake's "Poetry and prose", Blake's "Pencil drawings", "The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine", "The New Testament", "The Temple", "The princess of Babylon", "The seasons", "A stitch in time", "The divine comedy", Vanbrugh's "Works", Pindar's "Pythian odes", and "The pilgrim's progress". Retrospectus of limited editions and a list of unlimited editions including blank books. Extract from Stanley Morison's "A review of recent typography" (1927). ¶ Description: Sewn plain paper doubled over wrappers. Quarto: 27 × 20 cm; pp. 23. With 4 headpieces by Percy Smith and the Nonesuch device 'Prospectus and retrospectus 1927' on front and back. Printed by R. & R. Clark in Caslon and Moreau-le-jeune open types on laid paper. ¶ Enclosed: Addendum slip (13 × 9 cm) with details of price of Herbert's "The temple" loosely laid in. ¶ Ref.: Dreyfus: P14 ¶ Condition: Covers slightly soiled and browned at the edges. Internally somewhat browned at the page corners. Apart from this, however, the pages are clean and well preserved. According to the age a good copy of a fragile and ephemeral production. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Blake, William; Keynes, Geoffrey (edited by). Pencil Drawings. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: owner's ink signature, dated London, 1935, on ffep; lightly foxed end papers, else textblock is very clean and tight; the tan cloth binding is slightly sunned and appears to have a small moisture stain at the top of the spine, but is otherwise lightly shelf worn and very sturdy; the tan paper sides are lightly scratched and character soiled; no dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Keynes, Geoffrey, editor. Pencil Drawings by William Blake. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$84.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original half cloth. #1098 of 1550 copies. Cloth and page edges mildly foxed. Tight and square. ; quarto
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Keynes, ed.. Pencil Drawings by William Blake. Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nonesuch Press, London, 1927, no dust jacket, linen backed boards, 82 plates, number 984 of 1550. Binding solid, slight damp stained spine and covers. Owners name, address on front end paper.
Seller: Jerry Cook, Olympia, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy no. 222 of 1550. xvi, 82 illus. (each with an explanatory text leaf), 1 leaf. Original 3/4-linen and boards, 4to, untrimmed. Brief gift inscription on flyleaf. Bookplate on pastedown. Else Near Fine. Bentley, Blake Books, 409. Dreyfuss, Nonesuch Press, 43.
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Keynes, Geoffrey. Pencil Drawings by William Blake. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. #893 of 1550cc. xvi, +82 plates. Bookplate on front pastedown, light rubbing, else very good in publisher's half cloth over boards.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Edited for Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrated. Folio, publisher's half linen and boards. First edition; No. 907 of 1550 copies. Light dust-soiling to boards.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Keynes, Geoffrey, ed.. Pencil Drawings by William Blake. Nonesuch, Great Britain, 1927.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 1,550 copies. Ex-library. Introduction and commentary by Keynes. Bound in publisher's original half natural canvas with cream paper boards. Beautifully illustrated with reproductions of the pencil drawings. Minimal wear to extremities. Text block is bright, but each illustrated page bears the library's stamp. 9 x 11 1/4 inches. Not paginated, roughly 200 pages.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$119.08 + shipping
Description: 4to. xvi, 82 plates each with accompanying title and description leaf. Original ½ holland, paper sides, uncut/unopened. Spine base soiled, relevant newspineaper cuttings loosely inserted.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
KEYNES, Geoffrey, ed. Pencil Drawings of William Blake. , 1927.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: (BLAKE, WILLIAM). KEYNES, Geoffrey, ed. Pencil Drawings of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. with 82 plates. A fine copy in orig. canvas-backed boards. Limited to 1,550 copies.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. First limited edition of 1550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press This being no. 1375. Cloth spine and tips over drab boards. Illustrated with 82 full page drawings by William Balke, each accopmanied by letter-press on the verso of opposing page. Minimal wear to top of backstrip, else a very good+ copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Limited edition, No. 138 of 1550 copies. Printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. Half linen binding with paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Light tanning to endpapers. Leading blanks unopened. Very clean text and plates throughout. Included with the book is a card inscribed by the author: 'For John Lawson, with best wishes for 1969 from Geoffrey and Margaret Keynes.' Lawson was a renowned bookseller and lifelong friend of Keynes. . Overall 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 x 29.5 cm).
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, #1214 of 1550 copies. Illustrated with 82 drawings printed in callotype. [4], xvi, [168] pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press on Fabriano paper. 1 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 42 Half natural canvas and cream paper over boards. Fine with part of vegetable parchment dj laid in Illustrated with 82 drawings printed in callotype. [4], xvi, [168] pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press on Fabriano paper. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
. Pencil Drawings By William Blake. Nonesuch Press, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Nonesuch Century, #43. Quarto. xvi, [192] pp. With eighty-two collotype plates reproducing BlakeÕs drawings. Plates and text printed on Arches paper at the Chiswick Press. Typeface is Caslon. Half canvas over beige paper-covered boards with title in black on spine. Minor soiling to binding. Edges untrimmed. Some light foxing to edges and some toning to endpapers. Pencil note on front flyleaf describes this as an Òadvance copy from binder.Ó A very good, overall clean presentation copy inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes for Stephen Gooden (dated 1927). One of 1,550 copies. ÒMost of the eighty-two drawings in this book have never been exhibited and were previously unknown even to BlakeÕs most studious admirersÓ (Nonesuch Century).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.