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Price: US$20.08 + shipping
Description: Single fold leaflet, 4 pp., , with a collotype insert of one of the fifty-eight plates in the Nonesuch Blake, the outer pages browned, and with the stamp of F. W. Preece & Sons, Booksellers, Adelaide on first and last page; 26.7 cm. x 18.8 cm.; The Nonesuch Press, London, n.d.[1925]. See McKitterick 24, note, version a, promising an edition of 1,250 sets.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Keynes, Geoffrey. The Writings of William Blake (Volume 1). The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with no DJ. Bound with marbled paper and a vellum spine, gold lettering on the spine. Deckled edges, with some pencil marks on the inside of the front cover and the top right corner of the front free end paper. No number line. Assumed copyright date is 1924 or 1925. 364 pages. This is ONLY Volume 1. This edition is part of the limited printings on Vidalon handmade paper (1500 copies). This copy is number 1469. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping with be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes. Writings of William Blake Volume I. London The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No. 1084 of 1500. Volume I only. Rebound in modern green buckram. Library markings. Staining to top page end. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925. Pamphlet. .Printed Wrappers as issued 4pp.+ Illustration. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Blake, William. THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE, Volume 3. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 3 only of a three volume set. Limited edition to 1500 copies. 430 pages in very good condition; outer edges and endpapers yellowed. With 20 plates. Quarter bound with white vellum over marbled boards. Gilt titles on the spine; spine darkened and soiled. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. Printed by Cheswick Press. GOOD+ Size: 7 1/2 x 11
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$149.79 + shipping
Description: THIS VOL ONLY, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (one of1500) imperial octavo, marbled boards, gilt lettering to cream spine, deckled/roughcut page edges, vii + 430pp, plates xxxix-lviii- all present, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/surface loss to spine & boards/extrems, minor to moderate tanning/soiling & fading to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, page edges v roughly cut in places- text block unaffected)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$149.79 + shipping
Description: THIS VOL ONLY, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#1157/1500) imperial octavo, marbled boards, gilt lettering to cream spine, deckled/roughcut page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 364pp, 28 black & white plates- all present, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/surface loss to spine & boards/extrems, minor to moderate tanning/soiling & fading to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, light tanning & foxing to frontispiece, tissue guard heavily tanned & partially detached)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. Nonesuh, London, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Volumes 1 and 2 only (of 3 total). Short 4to, 1/2 vellum (vellum spines are discolored and scuffed, but the interior is fine), marbled boards, untrimmed edges. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Very good.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$237.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925(Writings) & 1927(Life). PP xviii, 364, [1]; vii, 397; vii, 430 (Writings vols 1-3); xv, 397 (Life). B&W illustrations - frontispiece plus 58 plates in the 3 volumes of Writings and 24 plates in the Life. Limited editions - The volumes of Writings are limited to 1500 copies and the Life to 1480 copies. Uniform binding - quarter cream vellum over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt titles to spines. Good to very good condition. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Top edges dusty. Some foxing and browning to endpapers, page edges browned, occasional scattered foxing to text. Spine a little foxed and worn/stained, some wear to boards (especially corners) and colours on boards a bit faded; edges a little worn. Damp staining to bottom of spine and end matter of The Life. Armorial bookplate the front pastedown of The Life. PLEASE NOTE: heavy books so extra postage will be needed for non-UK orders.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
BLAKE, WILLIAM. The Writings of William Blake. Nonesuch, London, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition Number 375 OF 1500. Three volumes, full vellum, lettered in gilt. Moderate soiling to the vellum. From a limited edition of 1500 copies, this one being number 375. Very good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: No. 584 of a limited edition of 1500 copies produced by Francis Meynell on Vidalon Handmade Paper; Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; 58 other plates, 1 double-page; 26 text tillustrations; Edited with a preface by Geoffrey Keynes; Hardbacks: quarter vellum decorated in gilt on marbled boards, large quartos; Vellum a little dirtied, corners rubbed, tissue-guard to frontispiece defective, a near fine set.
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Number 1039 of an edition of 1500 copies. Original quarter vellum, marbled boards. Corner covers slightly worn; spine darkened and lightly soiled.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Blake, William. THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$401.53 + shipping
Description: Edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes, totalling over 1200 pages, with frontispiece portrait volume I, plus 58 plates (one double page), text illustrations, notes, index of first lines; impl. 8vo; qr. parchment, spines lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spines slightly soiled, with gilt dulled and extremities lightly bruised, fore-corners of boards lightly worn, the upper board of Volume I slightly soiled; uncut, partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. One of 1,500 numbered copies on Vidalon hand-made paper. McKitterick 24; Bentley 370A. *This collection includes for the first time all the variant readings, with Milton here printed in full for the first time, and the uncompleted Vala, Or the Four Zoas 'presented in a text prepared from the original manuscript' [McKitterick].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Blake, William. Copy No. 124 of 1500 sets. Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville, 1823, and 59 collotype plates. xvii, 364, (1); vii, 397 ;vii, 429 pp. 3 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 24 Quarter parchment and marbled boards. Spine with minor soiling, some toning to endsheets. Very good Frontispiece photgravure by Emery Walker from the life mask by Deoville, 1823, and 59 collotype plates. xvii, 364, (1); vii, 397 ;vii, 429 pp. 3 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KEYNES. Writings of William Blake 3 vols. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
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Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$612.92 + shipping
Description: 4 vols. Limited to 1575 copies. 60 collotype plates. 4to. original Vellum spine with marbled boards. spine faded.
Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Rubbing to edges of boards, some bruising to spine ends. Title on volume one is heavily rubbed. One volume biography and three volume set of Blake's writings. All bound with vellum spines over marbled boards. Limited edition.
Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$727.36 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes. Limited edition of 1500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper, No. 1093. Frontispiece and 58 plates in collotype of Blake's design. 364 pp., 397 pp., 430 pp. Quarto. Bound in marbled paper boards with parchment spine. Uncut. Some slight wear along the edges, otherwise a complete set in a very fine condition.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Editor-Geoffrey Keynes. The Writings of William Blake: in Three Volumes. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 volume set. Suitable for a gift. Nonesuch Press, 1925. 58 plates. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Parchment backs & marbled paper boards. Contents very good. Bumped corners. Ships daily.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Four volumes. Quarto, original half vellum, marbled boards, uncut and attractive. Limited Nonesuch Press edition of Blake's Writings, number 440 of 1575 copies (Life of William Blake is 1293 of 1480) printed on Vidalon handmade paper, the first complete edition of the poet's writings.This is the first attempted collection of Blake's prose and the first edition to contain all of his poetry and prose. It includes many previously unpublished and important letters and fragments and draws on the poet's annotations and manuscripts to present corrected texts of numerous poems. Keynes arranges Blake's writings chronologically, so the reader can clearly see how his mythic system evolved. Contains over 80 plates reproducing Blake's paintings and engravings. The Nonesuch Press was founded in 1923 with the intent to make books "for those among collectors who also use books for reading" (Ransom, 169). Bentley 2981. Interiors are near fine, ownership inscription in volume one on the half-title dated June 21st, 1927. A small bit of rubbing and soiling to the spines with it being a little more moderate on The Life of Blake volume. A near-fine set overall.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$949.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4 vols. First Edition thus, on laid paper, with [first work] portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) free endpapers lightly browned; original Nonesuch binding of marbled boards, vellum backs lettered and numbered in gilt, uncut, bright, clean crisp set.
Seller: R. Smith Books, Embrun, ON, Canada
Price: US$1013.78 + shipping
Description: Together 4 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with [first work] portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 58 fine plates in collotype, [second work] portrait frontispiece and 23 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; original Nonesuch binding of marbled boards, vellum backs lettered and numbered in gilt, uncut, backstrips lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean crisp set. THIS SET WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF ROGER SENHOUSE AND BEARS HIS NEAT HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE WITH DATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 779) AND 1480 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 1445) RESPECTIVELY.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake.. London: The Nonesuch Press., 1925.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 3 volume set, 11 inches tall. A rather spectacular full calf executed shortly after the date of publication replacing the rather drab quarter vellum, which is bound in. With gilt raised bands, labels, fine and ornate gilt tooling to the panels and triple gilt fillets framing a 'Cambridge Panel' on the boards. Gilt top edges, the remainder deckled. Minor rubbing and marking. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Though neglected in his life time he has become probably the most influential English romantic poets. Blake's poetry, painting and printmaking exert a powerful influence to the present day.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom