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. Nonesuch News 1935. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1935.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Single sheet (490mm x 230mm) folded twice. Printed black on cream with green note card attached to top left hand corner. Features forthcoming publications (eg: William Blake's Note-Book) as well as items still available from the publishers. No inscriptions. Clean and carefully stored.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Number 477 of 650 copies. xii, 163 pp. of text and unnumbered plates of photo-reproduction of the notebook at back. Small 4to. Bentley, Blake Books, 123 Blue cloth, t.e.g. Spine faded. Lister booklabel xii, 163 pp. of text and unnumbered plates of photo-reproduction of the notebook at back. Small 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.74 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1935. Limited Edition. 162 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on black spine label. Contains unpaginated black and white illustrations to rear. Copy no.38 from 650 copies for sale in England and America. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Front hinge slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Some wear to gilt on upper text block edge. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is slightly darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. A few liquid droplet marks. Spine label notably rubbed and worn.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In blue cloth with gilt spine titling on leather label, sm. 4to, 163pp+plates. #162 of a limited edition of 650 copies. (minor light fading/dulling to cloth). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$186.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1935 first edition, number 158 of a limited edition of 650 copies for sale in England and America. Size large octavo, 8.75" tall, 163 pages of text followed by a number of unnumbered pages containing the facsimiles of Blake's original manuscripts. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, top page edge gilt, grey paste-downs and end-papers. Condition very good, spine and inner part of front and rear covers quite faded, contents very clean.
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A first limited edition of William Blake's commonplace book, generally known as the Rossetti Manuscript, illustrated with facsimile's of Blake's handwriting and sketches. The first edition of this work.A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered four-hundred and twenty-eight. Published by The Nonesuch Press.In the original very scarce unclipped dustwrapper.A collection of the poems found in William Blake's commonplace book, which he used from c.1787/c.1793 to 1918.Blake's commonplace book was formerly owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, hence it's common name of the 'Rossetti manuscript'.Illustrated with one-hundred and nineteen plates, showing the original manuscript, containing Blake's original handwriting and his charming sketches.Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.Bookplate of Charles Ballantyne to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine, with just a touch of fading to the head of the spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Dustwrapper with minor edgewear and a few light marks. Tape repairs to the reverse of the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom