The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All Religions are one. N. p., n. d. 40. 10 pi. Engraved throughout. £84 Linnell (March 1918, n. 203) wanting title (now Huntington), the only copy known. The Ghost of Abel, a Revelation in the Visions of Jehovah, seen by William Blake, 1822. Fol. 3 pi. Engraved through¬ out. £43 Crewe (March 1903, n. 8) sewed (now W. A. White). Blake’s Illustrations of Dante [1824-1827]. Fol. 7 pi. Blake had prepared 100 drawings, but only lived to engrave 7 pi. $130 Hollingsworth (Apr. 1910, n. 157) half-mor.; £23 Arthur (July 1914, n. 262). Ninety-eight of the drawings £7665 Binned (March 1918, n. 148), bought for various British public collections. Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake. London, W. Blake, 1825. Fol. Title and 21 pi. Some copies have a printed label dated 1826. Published in three states (ordinary, proofs and India proofs). £24.5.0 Sotheby’s, 22 June 1891, n. 73; £21 Sotheby’s, 2 Dec. 1912, n 914, half-mor. with orig. label, India proofs; $165 H. V. Tones (Dec. 1918, n. 189) orig. cloth, India proofs. A set of engraver’s proofs is in the W. A. White coll. The 21 original coloured drawings £5600 Crewe (March 1903, n. 17) now Pierpont Morgan Library; another set of 21 drawing’s for lob £3990 Linnell (March 1918, n. 149). The more important books by other authors illustrated by or after Blake are described under Brair, Burger, Hayrey, Mar¬ kin, Virgir, Worrstonecraet, and Edw. Young. BLAND (Edward) and others The Discovery of New Brittaine. London, T. Harper for J. Stephenson, 1651. 40. 24 pp. Front, and map of Virginia. £245 Lord Polwarth (Febr. 1909, n. 6) unbound; returned as wanting Dedication leaf and resold £ 200 Sotheby’s, 9 Dec. 1909, n. 89. BLOME (Richard). 16. .-1705 The Gentleman’s Recreation. London, S. Roy croft, 1686.
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