Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    158 159 160 rd 162 Christ Trampling down Satan, the original copper-plate and engraving from it (Bults sale, 19038, lot 20) ** A pencil drawing with the above title is mentioned in Gilchrist’s list and may be a study for this engraving. With an A. L.s. of W. M. Rossetti, 14 pp. 8vo, 23 Decr. /3, to Mr. Shaw, relating to the above engraving 10% re, BOOKS, Etc. BLAKE (WILLIAM) SonGs oF INNOCENCE, 21 plates (only) on 12 Ul. printed wn green on both sides (except wm three cases), without pagination, plates lightly and delicately coloured with water-colour, size 621m. by 44 m., original marbled boards, leather back, with an embroidered canvas slip-on cover by Mrs. Regynald Frampton, VERY RARE The Author & Printer W. Blake, 1789 No watermark JS 0/~]™ ** Copy H in Mr. Keynes’ lst. It comprises the following plates (listed in the order in which they are bound) :— Frontispiece, Title Page, Introduction, The Shepherd, The Little Black Boy (2 plates), The Voice of the Ancient Bard, The Divine Image, A Dream, The Eechoing Green (2 plates), On Another’s Sorrow, Infant Joy, The Lamb, Spring (2 plates), The Blossom, Nurse’s Song, The Chimney Sweeper, A Cradle Song (2 plates). 2 35] -|— BuakeE (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 21 plates, boards, A FINE COPY folio. Invented & Engraved by William Blake, 1825 Watermark J. Whatman, 1825 9 6|~ | - LirtLte TomM THE SAILOR, printed in black, on a single sheet, 193m. by Tin. (plate of Little Tom; text; plate of the widow; wmprint); THE ILLUSTRATIONS COLOURED with water-colour and opaque pigment, VERY RARE, and one of the few examples of Blake's “ woodcutting on pewter” laid down and guarded SS] =] Printed for & sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkestone for the benefit of her Orphans, October 5, 1800 2 Two Plates from Songs of Experience; Introduction, printed mm blue; and Harth’s Answer, printed in green; both coloured—The Last Leaf of the First Book of Urizen (a giant bowed down, a nude female figure at his feet), broadly coloured with water-colour, framed and glazed; from the Crewe sale (3) Varley (John) A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy, No. 1 (no more published), plates by J. Linnel, after J. Varley, cluding the two “ Ghost of a Flea from Pane s Vision,” original wrappers (repaired), uncut » y's _isheto.. 1628 f
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