Search Results: Books from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

March 22, 1991. Broadside, 8 x 12 1/2”, printed in blue with linocut in purple, Holland Ingres paper; very good. Signed by the author. § An edition of 120 copies, this being number 46.

Los Angeles, CA: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers, 1971. 8vo, 48pp. Illustrated, including a Blake image (item 5: A Standing Archer). Printed wrappers with some water damage to spine. Good. §

Small 8vo. Berlin: Insel Verlag, 1976. Small 8vo, 115pp. Pages 9-62 with full page, full-color plates. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. § Early but not first printing (9-13 thousand). Bentley, BB, C191: “persuasive facsimile... German translation..., and Hoffmann’s ‘Nachwort’.”

Slim oblong 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim oblong 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. §

London and Quarry Hill: Shaw Society and Irving Fiske, 1951, 1979. Small 8vo, 18pp. Stapled wrappers. Some browning. Very good. § Exact photographic facsimile of the original edition published in 1951 at Shaw’s behest. The cover has been enlarged and a portrait of Blake added. The brief biography of Irving Fiske is new. Bentley, BBS, p. 472 E.

Oblong 4to. Santa Barbara, CA: The Regents University of California, 1976. Oblong 4to, 103pp. 132 illustrations, 5 in color. Yellow illustrated wrappers. Slight evidence of water damage along spine. Very good. §

Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. [New York]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Slim 8vo single-sided color illustration announcing the release of Nancy Willard’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Very good. §

Oblong 12mo. Hancock, VT: Top Drawer Enterprises, 1980. Oblong 12mo, 4 double-sided folding panels with 11 reproductions of Blake images. The Sixfold Postcard/Poster/Periodical/Book. Stained on 2 panels. Good. §

New York: Oxford University Press, [No Date]. 8vo, Brown illustrated four-fold. Blackwell’s Antiquarian Dept. stamped in black on rear. Very good. §

4to. New York: Academy Edition, 1975. 4to, paperback, 9 pp. text and 81 pp. illustrations, including 4 in color. § Bentley, Blake Books, A517 and see Supplement p. 18n: “Of the scholarly and reproductive qualities [of Keay’s book] it is most charitable to be silent.”

8vo. Boston: David R. Godine, 2000. 8vo, unpaginated. Illustrated in full color throughout. Original wrappers. Fine. § Reprint. Walter de la Mare's retelling of this tale originally from the brothers Grimm. Kevin Hawkes is an author/illustrator of over 50 acclaimed picture and chapter books including the New York Times best seller Library Lion, Have a Look Says Book, Chicken Cheeks, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, and Weslandia.

Small 8vo. New York: Arco, 1968. Small 8vo, 160 pp. Original white cloth, pictorial upper cover. § First edition, often reprinted. Bentley, Blake Books, 1663 B: “An elementary straightforward work.”

London: 1968. Small 8vo, 160 pp. Original grey cloth. § First edition, often reprinted. Bentley, Blake Books, 1663: “An elementary straightforward work.”

4to. New York: Academy Edition, 1975. 4to, 9 pp. text and 81 pp. illustrations, including 4 in color. Illustrated wrappers, faintly toned, very good. § Bentley, Blake Books, A517 and see Supplement p. 18n: “Of the scholarly and reproductive qualities [of Keay’s book] it is most charitable to be silent.”

8vo. London: The Tate Gallery, 1957. 8vo, 71pp. plus 40 pp. of plates at rear. Color frontispiece. Yellow wrappers with much scuffing and some water damage causing wrinkling to top edge of the first few leaves. Some loss to front wrapper as a result, very good inside. § Introduction by Anthony Blunt. Foreword by John Rothenstein.

8vo. London: Tate Gallery, 1947. 8vo, 40pp. plus 42 monochrome plates at rear. Errata pasted to title page. Pictorial wraps. Water damaged with some plates stuck together. Fair. § Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, organized by the British Council, also to be shown in Paris, Antwerp and Zurich.

4to. San Marino, California: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1972. 4to, trifold with reproduction of an engraving from Blake’s The Book of Job (plate 21). Very good. §

Folio. Copenhagen: A/S J. Jorgensen og Co., 1982. Folio, 20pp. Illustrated Danish newspaper highlighting the literary world of Danish writers. Includes marginal poetry, photos, essays and news. Very good. § No obvious connection to Blake beyond being in Easson’s Blake collection.

8vo. San Francisco, CA: John Howell Books, 1982. 8vo, 128pp. Illustrated. Item 83 on page 31: Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper with 6 engravings by William Blake. Printed wrappers. Very good to near fine. §

Large 4to. Gloucestershire, UK: The Whittington Press, 1981. Large 4to, bi-fold with tipped-in color plate of The Old Dragon (loose). Light soiling. Very good. § Announcement of the May 1981 limited edition publication Milton’s Hymn On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity with Illustrations by William Blake by Whittington Press in association with Angscot Productions.