1800–1899 | Sale Catalogues | G.E. Bentley: Blake Collection

1800 May 5-9

Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster , [20] The Catalogue of A most Valuable and truly Capital Collection of Modern Paintings, Prints, Plates, and Drawings, The Property of Mr. Macklin , And others concerned with him, Sold for the Purpose of facilitating the Adjustment of Partnership Accoun ts ; and Comprising, in Painting, the Works of those Esteemed Masters of the British School ... A Choice Selection of Valuable Drawings by Bart o lozzi, and others ... Engraved Plates by Bartolozzi, Sharp, Sherwin, &c. &c. Including Proof Prints Of their finest Works ... Which will be Sold by Auction ... (Without the least Reserve) (London, 1800)

Second Day

Loose Prints

1 "Morning and Evening Amusement" [two prints engraved by Blake after Watteau] , 165 [ " Plain "" Impressions " ] 0 [ " Impressions "" In Colours " ] [ £ 1.12.0 to Bryden]

3 "Robin Hood", 79 plain impressions, and 22 in "
colours", £ 1.7.0

Fourth Day

8 "Rosamond", 87 plain impressions and 64"in colours"

[1800?]

195 G. Morland, "Indust rious Cottager", engraved by Blake, "square", in the "Dotted" manner, "8 ¼ x 10¼" inches, 4s

196 G. Morland, "The Idle Laundress", engraved by Blake, "square", in the "Dotted" manner, "8 ¼ x 10¼" inches, 4s

1801 March

Thomas White , A Catalogue of Books, in Every Department of Literature ... Now on Sale (London, 1801)

Folio

1,227 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, a magnificent edition, with Engravings from Drawings by Blake, boards, 5l 5s – 1797”

1801 May 27-30

Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster , [21] Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street. A Catalogue of Modern Paintings, Drawings , Engraved Copper-plates, with their Impressions; Plain and coloured Prints, framed and glazed, and other Effects Which will be Sold by Auction ... By Order of the Executors of Mr. Thomas Macklin , Deceased ... The Copper-plates ... [ include all their Proofs; coloured and plain Impressions; loose Proof and Valuable Prints, with others framed and glazed ... ] (London, 1801)

Day 2

"Plates, with Their Respective Impressions , To be sold per Plate, and the Purchaser to take the Impressions, paying for the same conformably to the Prices affixed against each Subject":

61 "Morning and Evening Amusement", two plates [ engraved by Blake after Watteau] [" Plain, at 1/3 "] [ £ 8.12.10]

1803

John and Josiah Boydell, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Plates engraved by the most esteemed artists After the Finest Pictures and Drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, Engravers and Printsellers, No. 90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; preceded by An Account of Various Works, Sets of Prints, Galleries, &c. forming part of the same Stock (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's. 1803) <New York Public Library>

104 "The Beggars Opera [ size in inches Original Works of Hogarth ] 22 18 Blake [ £ ]0 10 6" is offered at £ 21.

1804

R.H. Evans , [22] Catalogue of a Useful, Curious, and Valuable Collection of Books, For the Year 1804 .... And various other fine and rare Articles which are now selling, at the prices marked in the Catalogue ( London , 1804)

1,002 "Hayleys Ballads, 3 Numbers"

1805 November

1805 November

1805

Richard Phillips , Useful and Valuable Books Recently Published or in Course of Publication by Richard Phillips , [24] p. 11

William Hayley, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802)

1806 July 28

Birmingham Gazette Birmingham Commercial Herald and , [25] PROSPECTUS OF A NEW and elegant Edition of BLAIR’s GRAVE, illustrated with twelve very sp i rited Engravings by L OUIS S CHIAVONETTI , from Designs invented by W ILLIAM B LAKE ... The Price to Subscribers will be two Guineas ...the Proprietor ... will shew the original Drawings and Specimens of the Style of Engraving.

1807 February 17-18

[Thomas] Dodd , [26] A Catalogue of a Collection of Prints, Comprising a Numerous Assemblage of Proofs & Etchings, After Westall, Smirke, Stodhart, and Others, Several Ditto by Old Masters; Drawings, By Morland, Town, &c. Books, Books of Prints, and Several Curious Miscellaneous Articles. Together with a valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, chiefly Silver, in high State of Preservation, many of them very rare and curious - - late the Property of Mr. James Parker , [27] Engraver, Deceased; Which will be Sold by Auction (London, 1807) <British Museum Department of Coins and Medals>

157 "Eighteen ditto [various], by Blake, Tomkins, Ryland , &c."

159 "Six Circles, by Blake , in colours" [28]

1807 November 2 and 38 following Days

Messrs King and Lochee, [29] Bibliotheca Reediana: A Catalogue of the Curious & Extensive Library of the late Isaac Reed, Esq. of Staple Inn. Deceased ... (London, 1807) <Bodley , British Library, Harvard >

Fifth Day

Poetry

65 7 7 "Blake's Poetical Sketches [F]" [6s 6d to Heber ]

Last Day

8936 B iographical Mirrour , No. 1, Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine , 3 No., [30] "Designs to a Series of Ballads by Hayley, engraved by Blake, 2 No. 1802 , &c. " [11s 6d]

1807 November 7

Manchester Gazette The Subjects proposed to be engraved , “ ” for Blair’s Grave , which lists 11 prints and omits “The Reunion of the Soul & the Body” and the frontispiece portrait of Blake by Thomas Phillips eventually published. [31]

1807

Boydell and Co. , A Catalogue of Prints, Books, and Works, After the Most Celebrated Masters, Ancient and Modern Engraved by the First Artists, and Published by Boydell and Co. 90 Cheapside (London, 1807)

103 "Beggar's Opera ...... 0 10 6" (Blake not identified as the engraver)

Hogarth's Original and Genuine Works , £ 21; "since the Plates have been in their Possession, they have never allowed any artist to profane them by a single Touch".

[1807]

Folio

15 "Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 3 vol. half bound , 16l 16s"
16 "Another copy, 3 vol. ʄplendidly bound in ruʄʄia , 24l 1762, &c."

60 "Vetuʄta Monumenta, 3 vol. half b ound Lond. 1747 &c."

Quarto

128 "Cumberland's Thoughts on Outline", " with plates, 24 boards , 14s 1796"

129 Another copy, handʄomely bound in calf , 1l 1s 1796"

133 "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, illustrated by 800 engravings by Holloway, tranʄlated by Dr. Hunter, 5 vol. original impreʄʄions, an early ʄubʄcribers copy, handʄomely bound in ruʄʄia, with gilt leaves, 28l"

134 "Lavater's E ʄʄays on Phyʄiognomy, with engravings by Holloway , vol. 1, fine impreʄʄions boards , 1l 11s 6d"

960 "Young's Night Thoughts, beautifully printed, with engravings round the letter preʄʄ, part I, all that was ever published , 15s -- 1797"

Quarto

2,454 "Darwin's Botanic Garden, plates, elegantly bound in ruʄʄia, with gilt leaves , 1l 16s -- 1791"

2,554 "Hunter's Journal of the Tranʄactions in New South Wales, plates, elegantly bound in ruʄʄia, gilt leaves, 2l 2s 1793"

2,639 "Lavater's Eʄʄays on Phyʄiognomy, 5 vol. first impreʄʄions of the plates, handʄomely bound in ruʄʄia, gilt leaves, 28l 1789"

2,840 "Stedman's Account of Surinam, 2 vol. plates, elegantly bound , 6l 6s -- 1796"

2,841 "Another copy, 2 vol. large paper, with coloured plates, boards , 8l 8s"

2,842 "Another copy, 2 vol. large paper, the plates plain, but fir impreʄʄions, elegantly bound in calf, with gilt leaves, ʄt 9l 9s"

3,061 "Cumberland's Thoughts on Outline Sculptures, plates, elegantly bound , 1l 1s 1796"

Octavo

4,806 "Gay's Fables, plates, boards , 5s 6d -- 1793"

4,807 "Gay's Fables, printed on royal paper, fine impre ʄʄsions of the plates, elegantly bound, 18s -- 1793"

4,809 "Gay's Fables, Stockdale's edit. 2 vol. plates, boards , 1l 1s"

4,810 "Another copy, 2 vol. superbly bound , 1l 1s 6d"

4,818 "Hayley's Life of Cowper, 4 vol. portrait, new and elegantly bound , 2l 6s"

4,937 "Hoole's Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 5 vol. large paper, boards , 2l 5s -- 1799"

4,938 "Another copy, 5 vol. newly and superbly bound , 3l 10s 1799"

4,939 "Hoole's Orlando Furioso, reduced into 24 books, by himself, 2 vol. new and neat , 13s -- 1791"

4,940 "Another copy, 2 vol. elegantly bound , 14s -- 1791"

5,639 "Shakʄspeare's Plays, from the text of George Steevens, by Alexander Chalmers, 9 vol. boards , 2l 18s 1805"

5,640 "Another copy, 9 vol. with fine engravings by Fuʄeli, boards, 4l 6s -- 1805"

5,641 "Another copy, 10 vol. printed on fine thick paper, with fine impreʄʄions of the plates, boards , 8l 8s -- 1805"

5,642 "Another copy, 10 vol. printed on fine super royal paper, firʄt impreʄʄions of the plates, boards , 9l 16s 1805"

5,732 "Scott's (John) Poetical Works, portrait and plates by Bartolozzi and others, elegantly bound , 10s 6d 1786"

5,733 "Another copy, elegantly bound, with gilt leaves , 12s 1786"

Duodecimo and Octodecimo

9,670 "Another copy, elegantly bound, with gilt leaves , 12s. 1790"

[1807]

Richard Phillips , Useful and Valuable Books Recently published, or in course of publication, by Richard Phillips (London, 1807) [33]

“Ballads, chiefly intended to illustrate certain facts in the History of Animals. By William Hayley, Esq. With Engravings, by Mr. Blake, 6s. in boards”. [34]

1808 March 31- April 14

Peter Coxe , [35] A Catalogue of the Whole and Well Selected Collection of Works of Art; Consisting of Proofs and Other Impressions, Plain and Coloured, and Framed and Glazed, from Engravings by the First Artists, After Favourite Subjects from the Most Esteemed Masters' Pencils; The Important Copy-Right of the Several Interesting Copper-Plates, Published and Unpublished; Beautifully Executed, and in Admirable Preservations; Including the Celebrated Work of the British Poets; A Splendid Edition of Macklin's Bible, Proof Impressions, Accompanied by the Letter Press; Various Proofs, Etchings, &c. from Ditto; All the genuine Drawings, by Loutherbourg, for the Vignettes of that Publication; Celebrated Views in Switzerland, Ireland, Wales, Cumberland, &c. Finely Coloured; A Few Paintings and Drawings, and Other Valuable Property; Which will be Sold by Auction, by Peter Coxe, By Order of the Administratrix of Mrs Macklin , Deceased (London, 1808)

Day 1

96 " Robin Hood and Clorinda" "in colours", with 7 others

169 "Idle Laundress, and Industrious Cottager" with 2 other prints

Day 2

18 "one pair, Elfrida's Vow, and Fall of Rosamond, proofs", with 4 others, 6s

Day 3

Engraved Copper-Plates, with Their Respective Impressions

Print Coloured

64 "Morning Amusement s " 18 1

"Evening Amusement s " [36] 19 1

96 "Idle Laundress" 1 4

97 "Industrious Cottager [37] 1 4

1808

W[illiam Nelson] Gardner , [38] A List of Books, for Sale ... At the Ready Money Prices affixed (London, 1808 ) <Bodley>

860 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, curious cuts by Blake, boards, 1l 5s 1797 ”

1809 May 15

William Blake , “Blake’s Chaucer, The Canterbury Pilgrims ” (London, 1809)

The engraving, 3’ 1” x 12” high, are “to be delivered in One Year, from September next”, “The Price to Subscribers—F OUR G UINEAS , Two to be paid at the time of Subscribing, the other Two on delivery of the Print. Subscr i ptions received at No. 128, Corner of BROAD STREET, G OLDEN - S QUARE ; [39] where the Picture is now Exhibiting ... The Price will be considerably raised to Non-subscribers. ”

1809

William Blake , “A Descriptive Catalogue of Blake’s Exhibition” (London, 1809)

“The Descriptive Catalogue, Price 1s. 6d. .... Every Purchaser of a Catalogue will be entitled, at the time of purchase, to view the Exhibition ... Admittance to the Exhibition Shilling; an Index to the catalogue gratis I .”

1809

William Blake , A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures ...For Public Inspection and for Sale by Private Contract (London, 1809) [40]

I “The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan...”

II “Its Companion, The Spiritual form of Pitt, guiding Behemoth ...” [41]

III “Sir Jeffery Chaucer and the nine and twenty Pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury” [42]

IV “The Bard, from Gray”

V “The Ancient Britons” [43]

VI “A Spirit vaulting from a cloud to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus”

VII “The Goats, an experiment Picture”

VIII “The spiritual Pre ceptor, an experiment picture”

IX “Satan calling up his Legions, from Milton’s Paradise Lost ...”

X “The Bramins.—A Drawing.”

XI “The body of Abel found by Adam and Eve ... A Drawing”

XII “The Soldiers casting Lots for Christ’s Garment.—A Drawing.”

XIII “Jacob’s Ladder.—A Drawing.”

XIV “The Angel hovering over the Body of Jesus in the Sepulchre.—A Drawing.”

XV “Ruth.—A Drawing.”

XVI “The Penance of Jane Shore in Saint Paul’s Church.—A Drawing.”

1809

W. Gardiner , A Catalogue of Books, in English, Greek, Latin, French

and Italian Literature, with a Few Articles in the Spanish, German,

Russian, and Dutch Languages for Sale ... at the Ready Money Prices

Affixed (London: Printed by J. Barker, 1809)

860 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, curious cuts, by Blake, boards, 1l 5s 1797”

[1810]

William Blake , “ Blake’s Chaucer: An Original Engraving ...” (London, [1810])

“Price Three Guineas”; “Subscriptions received at No. 28, Corner of Broad Street, Golden Square.”

1810

W. Gardiner , A Catalogue of a Small Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, Selected with the Greatest Care, and Containing Many Curious and Rare Articles, for Sale ... , at the Ready Money Prices affixed (London: Printed by J. Barker, 1810) <Bodley>

691 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, curious cuts, by Blake, boards, £1 5s -- -- 1796”

1213 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, with Engravings by Mr. Blake, fol. boards, £1 5s -- -- 1797 This is one of the most singular and eccen tric works that ever appeared.”

1810

W[illiam] Ford , A Catalogue (Part the First for 1810) of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Language sand Classes of Literature and Including also a Small but Select Collection of Oriental Manuscripts: Which Are Now Selling for Ready Money at the Prices Affixed (Manchester: Printed by C. Wheeler and Son, 1810) <Bodley>

“Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, with the singular designs round the marg ins by BLAKE, calf. cleg. ib …”

1810

W. Ford, Bookseller, Manchester , A Catalogue (Part the Second for 1810-11) of A Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature ... Which Are Now Selling, for Ready Money, at the Prices Affixed to Each Article ... ( Manchester, 1811) <Bodley>

431 “ Young’s Complaint, and the Consolation, or Night Thoughts with Blake’s singular designs round the text. Ib. [London] 1797 –- Blair’s G r ave, with engravings from the designs of Blake. LARGE PAPER. eleg. bd. b lue mor. &c. 8l 8s. ib. 1808.”

1811

W. Bent , The London Catalogue of Books, with their Sizes and Prices. Corrected to August MDCCCXI (London: Printed for W. Bent, 1811)

Blair's "Grave [1808], with Blake Designs, royal 4to -- 2 12 6"

Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline [1796], 15s

Hayley, Ballads on the Brute Creation Ballads Founded [ i.e., on Anecdotes r elating to Animals (1805)], 6s

Hayley, Romney [1809], "2 vol. [44] 4to", £2.2.0

1811

Lackington, Allen, & Co. , Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square. Lackington, Allen, & Co's General Catalogue , for the Year 1811 (London, 1811)

264 "Young's Night Thoughts, finely printed, with curious plates, designed and etched by Blake , first 4 Books, bds , 2l.10s. 1797"

6,589 "Young's Night Thoughts, (first four nights of) finely printed, with marginal plates, from designs by Blake, bds , 2l.10s."

1813 January 3

Mr [Robert] Saunders , [45] A Catalogue of the Remaining Stock of the Estate of the Late Mr. John Stockdale ; consisting chiefly of Copper Plate , together with the Copyrights to the Works, to which they belong. Including ... Lavater's Physiognomy by Dr Hunter, 537 coppers ... Which Will be Sold by Auction (London, 1813) <British Library>

188 "Five hundred and thirty-seven [ copperplates and Copyright ]-- Lavater's Physiognomy, by Hunter, 4 o , " [£210] [46]

1813 April 26-28

King & Lochee, Books , A Catalogue of the Valuable and Elegant Librar y , the property of Mrs. E. Iremonger , Of Upper Grosvenor-Street; including some of the Best Authors in History, and Belles Lettres; in the French, Italian, German, and English Languages; many of them enriched by valuable MS notes and observations; and the whole in the finest possible preservation (London, 1813) <British Library>

165 "Blake (Will.)--Songs of Innocence and Experience [D ? ], 8 vo elegantly bound-- 1789"

[1813?]

Ackermann prospectus (?1813) [47]

Blair, The Grave , "Elephant Quarto" , £2.12.6, "Quarto Atlas" , £3.13.6

1814 July 22-23

Christie , A Catalogue of the Whole of the Valuable Collection of Proofs & other fine Engravings and Copper Plates, the works of those very distinguished engravers, Messrs. Louis and Nicholas Schiavonetti, deceased (London, 1814)

31 "Young's Complaint with Blake's Designs, 96 loose designs by Blake, and Ottley's Life of Christ by Piroli"

231 "A proof set of L. Schiavonetti's Etchings for Blake's designs, [ Robert Blair 1808 ], the Grave [ ] &c."

249 "One, portrait of Blake [ after Thomas Phillips, engraved by Schiavonetti for Blair's G RAVE (1808) ] on India paper, proof"

250 "Two ditto unfinished"

1814 October 17-26

Messrs. Winstanley & Taylor , [48] A Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive, and Well Chosen Library of John Leigh Philips , Esq. deceased, Selected by him during a Series of many Years, with acknowledged Judgment and at liberal Expense, which will be Sold By Auction ... By Order of the Executors (Manchester, 1814) <Harvard>

911 "Hayley's Ballads [ 1805 plates by Blake, boards ], ", and 3 others [11s]

1,400 "Blake's Edition of Blair's Grave Boards , 1808" [ £ 1.18.0 to Brook]

1,408 "Flaxman's Homer's Iliad [ 1805 ] [49] Boards" [ £1 to Wilkinson]

1814 October 31-November 11

Messrs. Winstanley & Taylor , A Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Paintings & Drawings , Prints & Etchings, Cabinet of Insects, &c. (The Property of the late John Leigh Phillips , Esq) Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... By order of the Executors (Manchester, 1814) <Harvard>

8 November 1814

Fine Portraits, by Eminent Modern Masters

709 "Three" including "Wm. Blake, Engraver, by Schiavonetti. [50] India paper, proof" [15s to Ford]

Metzotinto Prints

741 "Four" including "Tornado, by Blake [51] ... Very fine" [2.3.0 to B Philips]

1814

W. Bent , The London Catalogue of Books, with their Sizes and Prices. Corrected to August MDCCCXIV (London: Printed for W. Bent, 1814)

The same Blake-related works as in 1811.

1815

R. Ackermann , Catalogue of Books for 1815, published by R. Ackermann (London, 1815) <Bodley>

"Blair's Grave, illustrated with 13 engravings by L. Schiavonetti, from drawings by W. Blake, with Biographical Accounts of Blair, Schiavonetti, and Cromeck, first edition, [52] with proof impressions of the plates, atlas 4to. boards, 3l.13s. 6d.

"N.B. A few copies only left of this edition.

"... second edition, elephant 4to. boards 2l. 12s. 6d."

1815

John and Arthur Arch , A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, New and Second Hand, on Sale, at the Prices Affixed, by John and Arthur Arch, No. 61, Cornhill, London, 1815 <Bodley>

Blair, The Grave

1815

Thomas Edwards , A Catalogue of a Very Valuable and Select Collection of Books in Most Languages, and Every Branch of Literature; Containing many Unique and Splendid Articles, collected from various Parts of Europe, generally in good Condition, and many in elegant Bindings ... Now on Sale (for Ready Money only) The Prices printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book (Halifax, 1815) <Bodley>

146 Flaxman, Iliad , "fine impressions, boards", £2.2.0

201 Stedman, Surinam ( 1796 ), elegantly bound, £4.4.0

218, 527 Blair, The Grave , designs by Blake (1808) £2.12.6

1815

Lackington, Allen, and Co , Finsbury Square. Lackington, Allen, and Co's General Catalogue of Books, for the Year 1815 (London 1815) <Huntington Library>

119, 8,613 "Young's Night Thoughts, finely printed, with curious plates, designed and etched by Blake bds , first 4 Books, . 2l. 2s. 1797"

[1816?]

“Mr. Ackermann Begs Leave to solicit the Attention …” (London, [1816?]) [53]

Blair’s Grave , (“First Edition, with proof Impressions of the plates. Atlas 4to. Boards, 3l. 13s. 6d. N.B. A few Copies only left of this Edition.”

1816

Thomas Edwards , Part II. Being the Appendix and Supplement to Thomas Edwards's Catalogue, Halifax; Containing all the rarest Articles from the Cabinet of an eminent Collector; Consisting of Early French Poetry, Mysteres, Books of Emblems, Early Printed Books, Missals on Vellum with Miniatures, and Other Fine Articles; Together With The Mathematics, Arts and Sciences Law and Medical Books: Now on Sale (for Ready Money only) The Prices printed in the Catalogue and marked in the first Leaf of every book. M.DCCC.XVI . (Halifax, 1816) <Bodley>

177 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), £5.10.0

1817

Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones , A General Catalogue of Books, Now on Sale, by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, Finsbury Square. Part II. (London, 1817) <British Library>

9,916 Blair, The Grave , royal 4to, russia, g.e., £2.12.6 (1808)

1817

Longman , Catalogue of Old Books (London, 1817)

4,902 Blair, The Grave , designs by Blake (1808), £1.10.0

1818 January 3

Robert Saunders , the Remaining Stock of the Estate of the Late Mr. John Stockdale ; consisting chiefly of Copper Plates, together with the Copyrights to the Works, to which they belong (London, 1818) <British Library>

"Five hundred and thirty-seven [copperplates]--Lavater's Physiognomy, by Hunter, 4 o , and Copyright " [ £210]

1818 March 30 + 15 days

Mr Saunders , A Catalogue of a Very Extensive and Valuable Miscellaneous Collection of Books from the North of England [Edwards of Halifax] (1818) <Harvard>

949-50 Blair, The Grave , £1.5.0 and £1.6.0

1818 May

James Eastburn & Co , A Catalogue of Books for 1818 on sale (N.Y., 1818) <New York Public Library>

Blair, The Grave , “with proof impressions of the plates”, $15

1818 June 1-6

Robert H. Evans , [54] A Catalogue of More Than Five Thousand Copper Plates, Engraved by the most esteemed British Artists, during the last and present Century, After the Finest Pictures and Drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, English, and Other Schools, Including Upwards of Four Hundred Portraits, Engraved in Mezzotinto, &c., by Smith, Faber, Watson, Green, Earlom, and other Artists, and Eighty-Two after the Paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds The Entire Original Works of Hogarth, as Published by Himself; The principal Works of that eminent Artist, William Woollett; The Works of Captain Baillie;--The celebrated Houghton Collection; The Liber Veritatis, in Three Hundred Plates, after Claude Le Lorraine; The Designs of Guercino, &c. by Bartolozzi, &c.; More than Three Hundred Views in Great Britain, with their Descriptive Letter-press, after Drawings by Sandby, &c. Engraved by Watts, Middiman, &c. &c. With numerous other English and Foreign Views. Boydell's Magnificent Edition of Shakspeare and Milton, In Twelve Large Volumes , with the Large and Small Plates, and Various Other Capital Works. The Copper Plates of the whole of these great Works, with their Impressions, as specified in the Catalogue, will be Sold without Reserve ... Comprising the Entire Stock of Messrs . John and Josiah Boydell, Deceased (London, 1818) <Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris>

302 " The Plates of the Shakspeare of the size of the Books [96] ", "with all the remaining sets of proofs and prints, and sundry odd prints, and sets of etchings, viz.

40 sets of proofs, sheets [ 3,840 prints ]

50 ditto, with the writing, fine impressions, sheets [ 4,800 prints ]

96 ditto, ditto good impressions, some of the impressions in each set, proofs; not exceeding 10 proofs in either set, sheets [ 9,126 prints ]

14 sets bound, and boards [ 1,344 prints ]

32 sets etchings, sheets. N.B. Of a very small number of the plates, not exceeding 10, no etchings were ever printed [ 3,072 prints ]

1855 sundry proofs

1809 sundry prints

2855 sundry etchings [ 44,501 prints in all ]

Likewise 4 copper plates ... [ including ] Romeo and Juliet, after Opie, by Blake, ... with about 500 sets of descriptions of the plates, and an advertisement

1818 October 1-2

169 "Seven [ of proofs 13 ] etchings from Blair's Grave, by Schiavonetti, "

[1818]

R. Ackermann, "Works of Art, Published by R. Ackermann” ([1818]) [56]

Blair, The Grave , “Printed on large Elephant Quarto. 1l. 12s. 6d. extra boards. – A few Copies on Quarto Atlas, 3l. 13s. 6d.”

1818

William Bent , The Modern London Catalogue of Books, with their sizes, prices, and publishers. Containing the books published in London and those altered in size or price, since t h e year 1800 to October 1818 (London: William Bent, 1818) <Bodley>

Blair's "Grave, with Blake's Designs, eleph. 4to -- 1 12 6 Murray "

Hayley, Brute Creation [i.e., Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1805) ] , 6s

1818

M. Carey and Son , Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in

Every Department of Ancient and Modern Literature, for Sale …

(Philadelphia, 1818) <New York Public Library>

*3 Blair, The Grave , “Elephant 4to. with proofs $15”

1819

Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones’s General Catalogue

o f Old Books ... For the Year 1819 (London, 1819) <Bodley, British

Library, Harvard>

183 Blair, The Grave ( 1808 ) , “gilt leaves”

1820 June 5-10, 12-13

Mr [R.H.] Evans, [57] A CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF THE LATE SAMUEL LYSONS ...WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. EVANS, AT HIS HOUSE, NO. 96, PALL-MALL, on Monday, June 5 th , and Seven following days (Sunday excepted.) 1820 <Bodley, British Library>

First Day

109 "Blake's Gates of Paradise, plates for children" [ For Children: The Gates of Paradise (B)] [1s 6d to (John) Harding]

1820 [July]

381 "Blake's (Wm.) Illustrations of Young's Night Thoughts, bds l . 1 .1 s . ........ 1797"

382 "----- Works; viz. Song of Los [A] ; Europe, a Prophecy [A] ; Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; [59] Urizen [B] ; Marriage of Heaven and Hell [E] ; America, a Prophecy [A] ; and the Book of Thel [B] , stitched , each 12s ........ 1780 [60]

" * * * The preceding articles are all written, printed, and embellished by the Author; and are all coloured equal to the original Drawings ."

405 "Flaxman's Designs for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 2 vols. boards , 3l.3s ........ 1850 [i.e., 1805]"

467 "Cumberland's Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, &. 24 plates , 20s.6d. ........ 1796"

544 "Ritson's Collection of English Songs, 2 first v. bds s . 5 . 1783"

Title page of the Edw. Evans catalogue of [July] 1820. Copy from the University of Minnesota (017.3 Evi5). Image from Google Books

1820

E. and A. Evans , Bookseller’s and Printseller’s Catalogue (London, 1820)

421 “ Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of Young’s Night Thoughts, 4to. Bds. 30s. – 1797”

566 “ Young’s Night Thoughts, with numerous fine plates by William Blake, fol. bds. 1l. 1s. -- -- 1797”

1821 February 13 and 12 following days

[R.H.] Evans , sale of Hayley’s Library (London, 1821)

1,636 “Hayley’s Ballads, with Blake’s Designs, 4 Numbers, 1802 [4s 6d to Smith]

1,637 Hayley, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802) , 3 Numbers (Rivington, 3s 6d )

1821 February 15

Mr Christie , A Catalogue of the I nteresting Assemblage of Pictures, D r awings, Prints, and Old Oriental China, The Property of William Hayley, Esq. Deceased; and brought from his late Residence at Felpham, Suss ex ... Framed and Glazed Drawings, Books of Prints; A Collection of Rare Portraits of British and Foreign Poets and Other Literary Characters ... Loose Engravings; An Enamelled Cistern, and fine Specimens of Old Japan, and Other Oriental China ... (London, 1821) <Christie's>

46 Hogarth, "Beggar's Opera", engraved by Blake

106 "A pastoral drawing in body colours; and the sun dial by Blake" < Butlin #374A > [ 9s to Peacock]

1821

Ackermann , Catalogue of New Books and Prints for the Year 1821 (London, 1821)

Blair's Grave , as in his 1815 catalogue .

1821

Colophon: " R. Sagden, Printer, Hall-End, Halifax | At No. 2. Old Market, Halifax."

3 "Young's Night Thoughts < Butlin #330 1-537 > , the Author's Original Copy, illustrated with drawings, very spirited designs by Mr. Blake, many of them in the Style of Michael Angelo, they occupied nearly two years of the time of this singular and eminent Artist, which renders this Work unique, as well as highly valuable, in 2 vols. Atlas Folio, each leaf surmounted with a border and sumptuously bound in red morocco, gilt leaves, 300l [ £ 300]

This Work is perhaps unequalled for the boldness of conception, and spirit of execution, exhibited in the masterly designs of Mr. Blake. The Bookbinder from inattention lost the blank leaf with [Young] the Author's signature. "

16 Young, Night Thoughts (R. Edwards), 1797, "Many fine plates by Blake, half bound in russia, gilt leaves", £ 2.2.0

217 "Fall of fair Rosamond, 6s ...... Stothard Blake"

314 Blair, The Grave , "with 12 Etchings after Blake's designs, by Schiavonetti, boards, 3l.3s." (Bensley, 1808)

1822 May

James Eastburn, A Catalogue of Books, ... Now on Sale, for Cash (N.Y., 1822 ) <Harvard>

17 Blair, The Grave , “with proof impressions of the plates, elephant, boards, $15”

1822

Ackermann’s List of Works (1822) [62]

Blair, The Grave

1822

William Bent , The London Catalogue of Books, with their sizes, prices, and publishers. Containing the Books published in London, and those altered in size, or price, since the year 1800 to October 1822 (London, 1822) <Bodley>

The Blakes are as in his 1818 catalogue.

1823 December 18-19

Mr Evans , Catalogue of the Library of the late J. Nollekens , Esq. R.A. ... also A Collection of Prints and Drawings ... (London, 1823) <Bodley>

268 "Blair's Grave, with plates by Blake -- 1808" [19s]

1824

R. Ackermann, Books, &c. Published by R. Ackermann (London, 1824) [63]

Blair, The Grave

1824

Rivingtons and Cochran , [64] A Catalogue of Books, in various languages, and in Every Department of Literature, now selling, at the Prices Affixed to Each Article ... (London, 1824) <Princeton>

71 Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens , 4 vols., £ 25

292 Blair, The Grave (1808), £ 2.2.0

134 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy , tr. Hunter, £ 18.18.0

11,535 Ariosto, tr. Hoole (1785) £ 1.11.6 and £ 2.5.0

11,794 "Blake's (William) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the two contrary states of the Human Soul [U], 54 plates, engraved in relievo on copper, and coloured to imitate drawings, by the author , 8vo. green morocco, extra, g.l. (bound by Charles Lewis ,) 8 l s . 8 . 1794" (under "English Miscellanies")

11,795 Blair, The Grave (1808), £ 1.16.0

11,916 Bryant, Ancient Mythology (1774), £ 4.14.6

12,817 [Hayley , Designs to a Series of three numbers ] "Ballads, with designs by William Blake, , 4to. sewed s , 3 . 6 d Chichester . , 1802"

13,134 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy , tr. Hunter, £ 21

13,139 Fuseli's and Lavater's Aphorisms frontispiece by Wm. , " Blake ", 1794, boards, 5s

14,092 Stedman, Surinam (1806), £ 1.11.6

15,505 Fuseli, Lectures (1801), boards, 12s

15,572 Hoare, Inquiry into the Arts (1806), boards, 3s

15,854 [65] Rees, Cyclopaedia , 85 parts, boards, £ 50; Large paper, £ 68; 45 vols. calf, £ 68; Large paper, £ 90

1825 February 18-19

Christie , catalogue of William Sharp (London, 1825) <British Museum Print Room>

16 "Blake's Illustrations of Blair's Grave ... Portraits of British Poets, No. 1" , £1.13.0

1825 July 22-25

Sotheby , [66] A Catalogue of the Small and Very Select Classical Library Of the late Henry Fuseli , Esq. R.A. ... to which is added A Very Fine Collection of Prints by Marc Antonio; also Fine Drawings by the Masters of the Italian School. Likewise the very beautiful Drawings of Entymology, By Mr. Abbot, Of Georgia (London, 1825) < British Library, British Museum Print Room , Royal Academy >

Day 1

53 Catullus, Poems in English verse, 2 vols. (1795) [11s to Bentham]

55 Ritson, Select Collection (1783) [8s to Balmanno]

123 Blair, The Grave , “rare, proofs”, 9s 6d

185 Fuseli, Lectures on Painting (1801) [5s]

187 Hayley, Life of George Romney (1809) [9s to Balmanno]

195 Stedman, Surinam (1796) [19s]

217 Hayley's Life of Cowper and "Supplement, 4 vols. 1802" [16s to Knowles]

Day 3

123 "Illustrations of Blair's Grave, after Blake Schiavonetti , by ; and one by Blake, rare, proofs 8" [9s 6d to Shirley]

Day 5

248 "The Canterbury Pilgrimage, after Stothard , by Schiavonetti, proof etching Blake , and the Canterbury Pilgrimage, after , by himself, rare " <Es s ick E1> [ £ 1.1.0 to Wainwright]

1825

Thomas Thorpe , [67] Part I.--1825. A Catalogue of an extensive collection of Rare and Curious Books ... Purchased since the Publication of Part III, for 1825; ... To be Sold at the Prices marked in the Catalogue (London, 1825)

1,134 Blake's Designs to a Series of Ballads by Hayley, Ballad the first, 3s 6d

1826 April 26

Saunders & Hodgson, Bibliotheca Splendidissima: A Catalogue of a Select Portion of The Library of Mrs. Bliss , [68] Deceased, Removed from her Residence at Kensington (London, 1826 ) <British Library>

10 "Blake's (W.) [ For Children: The plates, red morocco, gilt leaves ] Gates of Paradise [A], 16 " [8s]

11 "----- Songs of Innocence and Experience [P], 2 vols, coloured engravings, red morocco, gilt leaves " [ £ 1]

41 Blair's Grave (1808) [ £ 1.11.6]

370 Young, Night Thoughts (1797) [ £ 1.19.0]

371 "Young's (Edw.) Night Thoughts , with engravings from Blake's designs, coloured, calf extra, marble leaves 1797" [coloured copy D] [ £ 4.4.0]

1826 May 1-12

Messrs. Thomas Winstanley & Co. , [69] A Catalogue of the Very Valuable, Extensive and Genuine Collection of Books (Selected from the Stock in Trade) of Mr. Thomas Edwards , Bookseller of Halifax (Who Is Retiring from Business) ... Which Will Be Sold by Auction (Halifax: Printed by N. Whitley, for Thomas Edwards, Bookseller, 1826) [70] <Bodley , Harvard >

10 May

1,076 Young's Night Thoughts . The original < Butlin #330 1-537 > Editions original Drawings by Blake , and the Author's own copies, inlaid on imperial Folio paper, and each page surrounded and illustrated with , 2 vols. most superbly bound in red morocco, gilt leaves, &c. ib. 1742 [ £ 50 [71] ]

It w o uld be difficult , if not impossible, to convey tothose at a distance and who have not see n this magnificent Work, an adequate, or even a faint idea of the singular nature of these most extraordinary and sublime conceptions of our Artist; but those who have seen his truly original designs for Blair's Grave , may form some faint idea of the style and manner of his treating this equally eccentric and original Poem; to embody which, and give it a visible form and reality required the skill of a great Artist, and the poetic feeling of the original author combined. How far he has succeeded, the present beautiful and sublime Commentary upon his Author, bears ample and delightful evidence; and it may truly be averred, that a more extraordinary, original, and sublime production of art has seldom, if ever, been witnessed since the days of the celebrated Mich. Agnolo alone , whose grandeur and elevation of style it greatly resemble s , and this, , if he had left no other work of merit, would be sufficient to immortalize his name, and transmit it to posterity, as that of an Artist of the very highest order. This was the late Mr. Fuseli's opinion. This splendid and unique Work, upon which the Artist was employed for more than two years, has greatly to its in t erest and value.

1,222 Blair's Grave (1808) "illustrated by twelve Etchings from the designs of Blake ..." [to Lowe [72] ]

1,224 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), half bound, blue morocco [to Lowe]

1826 May 15-16

Messrs. Thomas Winstanley & Co , [73] Catalogue of ... Mr. Thomas Edwards , Who Is Retiring From Business ... (Halifax, 1826) <Bodley>

48 Four prints including "The Fall of Rosamond".

1827 May 28

Christie , A Catalogue of the Whole of the Remaining Finished and Unfinished Works of that distinguished Artist, Henry Fuseli , Esq., M.A. Deceased ... comprising About 100 Oil Paintings, Among which are a part of the Milton Gallery, formerly exhibited, and designs from Homer, Hesiod, Shakspeare, Dante ...Which (by Order of the Executor) Will Be Sold [i.e., R.A. ? ] (London, 1827) <Royal Academy>

38 "Study for a Head of Satan", print [74]

[1827]

R. ACKERMANN , BOOK AND PRINTSELLER, AND SUPERFINE WATER-COLOUR MANUFACTURER TO HIS MAJESTY [1827 [75] ]

"MEDITACIONES POETICAS, por J.J. DE MORA, con estampas. 1 l s . 11 . 6 d . half-bound"

1828 January

There are no lot numbers.

"Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, in 21 plates, invented and engraved by the celebrated Artist, fol. 2 l s . 12 . 6 d . 1826" (p. 2).

1832 March 29-April 6

Quarto

1189 "Blair's Grave, a Poem, plates by Blake, blue morocco, with silk linings, marble joints and gilt leaves , - 1808"

1828 March 22-29

Mr Evans , [76] Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Benjamin Heath Malkin, Esq. Ll.D. Head Master of Bury School ... (London, 1828) <British Library>

237 "Blake's Illustrations of Blair's Grave, 1808" [17s 6d]

428 [ Erasmus Darwin ], Botanic Garden (1791)

676 Hayley, Life of Romney (1809)

843 Malkin, Memoirs (1806)

885 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy , tr. Hunter (1789), fine [ £ 15.15.0]

923 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805) [ £ 3.7.0]

1,397 Stedman, Surinam (1806)

1828 May 15-24

Messrs. Stewart, Wheatley, & Adlard , [77] A Catalogue of the Splendid and Valuable Collection of Books, Manuscripts, and Missals, the property of Thomas Edwards , Esq. (Late of Halifax, Yorkshire .) Comprising ... Young's Night Thoughts, with Original Drawings by Blake (London, 1828) <Bodley (2 copies, one with an inserted note: "T.E's own copy TE on end paper") , British Library>

Last Day

940 SONGS OF INNOCENCE. Designed and Engraved by BLAKE [F] , bound by Lewis in venetian morocco extra, gilt leaves

The above Work is one of the early productions of this extraordinary Artist, and coloured by himself : the whole, with the subscriptions, are engraved on Wood . E XTREMELY RARE . The present Copy was from the Collection of the late James Boswell, Esq. " [ £ 2.13.0 to Clarke ]

989 Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens , fine impressions [ £ 28.17.6]

1,130 Young's (E .) Night Thoughts < Butlin #330 1-537 > . The original edition of 1742, and the inlaid Author's own Copies, upon imperial folio paper, which is again inlaid to a larger size . Each page is surrounded with original Drawings in Colours by Blake, bound in red morocco extra, gilt 2 vol. leaves, joints, &c. -- -- 1742

It is scarcely possible to present the collector with an adequate, or even faint idea of the singular nature of these most extraordinary and sublime conceptions of the artist. They are in the style and manner of his designs for " Blair's Grave." In point of composition and design, the present production is certainly superior, and is alone sufficient to immortalize the name of as an artist of the highest Blake order. [ withdrawn [78] ]

1828 January

There are no lot numbers.

"Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, in 21 plates, invented and engraved by the celebrated Artist, fol. 2 l s . 12 . 6 d . 1826" (p. 2).

1828 June 12

Mr. Christie , A Catalogue of the small but valuable Library of Books, chiefly relating to classical literature and the fine arts, Books of Prints, and Antiquities of John Flaxman , Esq. R.A. Dec . (London, 1828) <British Museum Print Room>

41 Rees, Cyclopaedia

46 Hayley, The Triumph of Music The Grave and (1808)

47 Hayley, Life of Romney Thoughts on Outline (1809), Cumberland, , Hayley, Essay on Sculpture

107 "Blakes Illustrations of the book of Job 1826"

116 "Gough's Sepulchral Monuments , bds 1 vol. . " 1796

160 "Stuart's Athens, half-bd. calf , vols. 2 and 3,1794"

1828 July 1

Mr. Christie , A Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Engravings, by Ancient and Modern Masters, including ... Various Carvings, and a fine Collection of Vocal Italian Music, bound and unbound; and various other interesting articles of virtue, the property of the late John Flaxman , Esq. R.A. Dec. (London, 1828) <Bodley, British Library , British Museum Print Room >

38 "A proof copy of Hesiod [1817], 37 plates, in sheets, by J. Flaxman, the quotations by Mr. Flaxman"

61 "A singularly grand drawing of the Last Judgment , by Blake" < Butlin #640 > [6s]

84 " THE DRAWINGS FROM HESIOD, BY MR. FLAXMAN , thirty-seven in number, handsomely bound in morocco, lettered, &c." [ £ 210]

85 " A COPY OF GRAY'S POEMS , illustrated by W. Blake, with his Portrait by Mr Flaxman" < # 335 > [ £ 8 to Clarke ]

170 "Three copper-plates belonging to a Letter published by Mr. Flaxman on the subject of a Grand National Monument, [79] and manuscript Letter"

1828 November 19

D. Speare , Catalogue of the Library of David Constable ... Which Will Be Sold by Auction, by D. Speare ... on Wednesday Nov 19 and Twenty

o ne following lawful Days (Edinburgh, 1828 )

1,370 Blair, The Grave

[1828]

R. Ackermann , “New Works Published by R. Ackermann” [1828] [80]

Blair, The Grave , £2.2.0

[1828]

R. Ackermann , Literary Advertising List [1828] [81] <Taylorian Library (Oxford) >

Mora, Meditationes Poeticas , described as in Ackermann's 1827 list

1829

John Bohn , A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of English Books, Offered at the Prices Annexed, by John Bohn, No. 17, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. -- To Which Is Appended, A Selection of Valuable Foreign Books, and a Specimen of an Intended Classical Catalogue (London, 1829) <Library of Congress>

643 "Blake's (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, folio, 21 beautiful plates, bds l . 3 . 3 s . 1826"

1829

The small plates to Boydell's Graphic Illustrations to the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare (?1813) and The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare (Boydell, 1802) are offered collectively, " modern impressions s " , at £ 6.6.0 and "very old impressions, in sheets" at £ 8.8.0 (p. 188) and individually (pp. 163-160), with the plate after Opie's "Trance of Juliet", "11 long by 9. Prints, 4 . Proofs, 7 s. d 6 . Blake" (pp. 65, 159). [ Blake's plate for The Beggar's Opera . is not listed separately under Hogarth ]

1829

Vincent Salvá [y Pérez] , A Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books, on Sale By Vincent Salvá [y Pèrez], 124 Regent Street, London. Part II. MDCCCXXIX [1829]

3,510 Mora, Meditaciones Poeticas , £1.11.6

1830 January 13-16

Mr. Sotheby and Son , Catalogue of a Select and Elegant Library, the Property of a Collector Robert Balmanno [ ] ... to which is added The Topographical Portions of the Library of a Gentleman (London, 1830) <British Library>

First Day

41 "Blake's Phantasies, Songs of Innocence and of Experience [BB] , on 55 plates, brown calf, elegant, very rare v.y. [ various years ]" [ £ 1 to Glynn]

242 Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline [1796] [ £ 1 to Hyde]

426 Hayley, Romney (1809) [2s 6d]

1830 May 4-12

Mr Sotheby and Son , Rare and Valuable Engravings, Pictures, Bronzes, &c. Catalogue of a Very Valuable Collection of Prints, Drawings, Pictures, &c. &c. The Property of a Collector Robert Balmanno [ ], Consisting of A most Select Collection of the Works of the Modern English School ever submitted for Public Sale, The Greatest Part Presentation Proofs on India Paper ... Works o f Stothard and Fuseli, Nearly complete , including a Valuable Collection of Drawings by Tho. Stothard, R.A. A Few Choice and Original Pictures, By Distinguished Artists of the Modern School, Particularly of Stothard, Fuseli ... (London, 1828)

Day 7

7 Blake's Job proofs, scarce , " " [2s]

1830 May 10-12

Christie , Catalogue of the First Part of the very valuable and extensive collection of Engravings in the Portfolios of Sir Thomas Lawrence [plus books of prints] <Bodley , British Museum Print Room >

118 Blake's Job , "I ndia paper proofs " [ £ 2.2.0 to Colnaghi]

1830 May 20-21

Mr. Christie , A Catalogue of the First Part of the Valuable Collection of Original Drawings , by Distinguished modern artists , the property of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, 1830) <British Museum Print Room and Yale>

Second Day

234 "The Five Wise and the Five Foolish Virgins, highly finished in colours" < Butlin # 481 , "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins > [ £ 8.15.0 to Money (for John Poynder) ]

235 "The Dream of Queen Catherine , from Shakspeare, same

manner " < #549, "The Vision of Queen Katharine" > [ £ 4.4.6 to Kennedy]

[1830?]

Edward Evans , [82] Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, the largest ever submitted to the Public; comprising nearly twenty thousand portraits of persons connected with the history and literature of this country, from the earliest period to the present time. With an enumeration of the circumstances connecting the most eminent persons with the various counties of Great Britain, preferments of the clergy, &c. Alphabetically Arranged with the names of the painter and engraver, and the size of each plate. Now on Sale at the reasonable price affixed to each print By Edward Evans (London, [?1830] [83] ) <Victoria University in the University of Toronto and Yale>

1,060 "Blake, Wm. the late celebr. artist, proof Grave , 3s. Schiavonetti" [for Blair's (1808)]

1,401 Brown, J., [84] by Blake, 1s. 6d.

5,111 Tom Hayley by Blake, [85] 1s

6,316 "Lavater [1787] , " very fine , fol. 3s.--W. Blake"

6,663 W. Lowry, 2s 6d [86]

6,810 "Malkin, Heath, [87] 8vo. proof W. Blake , 2s. --Cromek"

8 , 385 "Pitts, Edmund, 4to. priv. plate, 7s. [ after Sir James ] Earle -- Blake" [ 1793-96]

1830

Sotheby , C atalogue [88] (London, 1830)

41 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [BB] , "55 Plates, brown calf, elegant" [ £ 1 to Glynn]

<after 1830>

707 "BLAKE's (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 plates, an original copy, folio boards, £1 12s 1825"

708 "---- Ditto, folio half russia elegant, £2 2s Ibid."

709 "---- Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, fine and large copy, royal, 4to scarce, half bound elegant, £2 2s Lond. 1797"

710 "---- Ditto, large uncut copy , royal 4to,. £1 12s Ibid."

711 "---- Illustrations to Blair's Grave, portrait and 12 fine plates, 4to boards 18s"

712 "---- Ditto, 4to half russia, elegant, 25s 1808"

713 "---- Ditto, large paper, proof impres s ions, royal 4to neat, £1 15s Ibid."

714 "---- Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 11 pages, finely coloured by himself, excessively rare, 4to stitched, £4 4s 1793"

715 "---- America, a Prophecy, uncoloured , folio, £3 3s Lambeth, 1793"

716 "The card plate of Mr. Cumberland, 5s W. Blake inv. et. sc. Æt. 70, 1827"

717 "BLAKE's (Wm.) A series of Eight Designs, the subjects of which are not explained; highly coloured and extremely rare, 4to £5 5s"

718 "---- Another series, of a much smaller size, but coloured and finished with equal care, the subjects of which (23 in number) are also without explanation, 4to, £10 10s Ibid."

719 "---- Songs of Experience [H] : viz., Introduction [pl. 30]; the Human Abstract [pl. 47]; the Clod and the Pebble [pl. 32]; Earth's Answer [pl. 31]; Nurse's Song [pl. 38]; a Little Girl Lost [pl. 51]; the Tyger [pl. 42]; my Pretty Rose Tree; the Sun Flower; the Lily [pl. 43]; the Angel [pl. 41]; a Little boy Lost [pl. 50]; London [pl. 46]; the Chimney Sweeper [pl. 37]; a Poison Tree [pl. 49]; Holy Thursday [pl. 33]; the Fly [pl. 40]; coloured, 12mo stitched, £5 5s

[Pointing finger] The productions of this extraordinary Artist are excessively rare; the Poems, Songs of Experience, and America, were his own compositions, and the Designs were etched by a process known only to himself and Mrs. Blake, and which has never been made public; he printed and coloured them with his own hand, and the colouring of many is of the most brilliant description. A very good account of Blake and his Works is to be found in Cunningham's Live of the British Painters, published in the Family Library."

1831 August 3-11

Mr Wheatley, Library, Books of Prints, Music, Casts, Pictures . │ A CATALOGUE │ OF │ THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE │ LIBRARY │ OF │ THE LATE GEORGE EDWARD GRIFFITHS , ESQ. │ EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW The Property of a well known Amateur of the Fine Arts . │ TOGETHER WITH THE │ BOOKS OF PRINTS, LIBRARY OF MUSIC, │ COLLECTION OF │ CASTS AND PICTURES, │ , │ AMONG THE BOOKS WILL BE FOUND │ ... │ WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY │ M R WHEATLEY, │ (LATE STEWART, WHEATLEY AND CO.) On Wednesday, August │ AT HIS GREAT ROOM, 191, PICCADILLY, │ 3, 1831, and Eight following Days , │ (SUNDAY EXCEPTED) AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. │ May be Viewed, and Catalogues had, price One Shilling.

The " well known Amateur of the Fine Arts " is Thomas Griffiths Wainewright , the grandson of Ralph Griffiths (founder and editor of The Monthly Review ) and nephew of Ralph's son George Edward. In April 1831 Wainewright had absconded to France.

4 August 1831

395 "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [I], coloured by the author, scarce " [£2.3.0 to (John and Arthur) Arch]

424 Blair, Grave (1808) [£1.6.0 to Rich]

426 America Europe [ G ] , [ B ] , and Jerusalem Three of the [ B ] , " rarest of this singular Artist's Productions " [ £4.4.0 to Bohn]

11 August 1831

1,746 Young, Night Thoughts with the singular designs by (1797) " Richard Blake " [£1.13.0 to Williams ] [89]

1831

Robert Bent , The London Catalogue of Books ... since the year 1810 to February 1831 (London, 1831) <Bodley>

Blair's "Grave, with Blake's Designs, eleph. 4to. .... 2 12 6 Murray "

Hayley, Brute Creation [ i.e., Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1805)] , 6s

1832 January 26

Sotheby , A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings in Water Colours, Sketch Books, Prints, &c. of Richard Corbould , Esq., Deceased (London, 1832) <National Library of Australia>

59 "Blair's Grave, illustrated by Schiavonetti, 1808" [ £1.6.0, to Colnaghi]

1832 March 29-April 6

1832 December 12-13

Mr. Sotheby and Son , Catalogue of the Select and Choice Collection of Engravings, Water-Colour Dra w ings, Picture-Books, and Books of Prints and Other Effects, of the late William Ensom , Esq. (London, 1832) <British Library, British Museum Print Room>

First Day

86 W. Ensom, "Portrait of W. Blake, R.A. in pen and ink ... For this drawing Mr. Ensom obtained the Silver Medal from the Society of Arts, which, together with the vouchers of the society, will be given with the drawing." [£2.15.0 to Col(?)]

1833 January 21-31

Mr C.B. Tait , Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Clerk of Eldin ... (Edinburgh, 1833)

56 "Blake's Illustration of Blair's Grave, 12 plates, engraved by Schiavonetti "

1833 May 6-11, 13-14

Day 3

458 "... first part of Fuseli's Lectures"

485 "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, by Hunter; plates by Holloway, 5 vols., calf"

Day 6

Folio

865 "Fenning and Collier's System of Geography, 2 vols. plates and maps"

Day 7

Folio

968 "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain, bound in 3 vols. half-russia -- -- London , 1786 and 1796"

996 "Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 4 vols. (3 vols. half-russia, 1 in boards[)] -- Lond . 1762 and 1816"

1,009 "Boydell's Shakespeare, 9 vols. fine plates, half-russia, Lond 1803"

1,135 "Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Blake"

1833 July 16-28

Mr. Evans , Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice, and Curious Library of P.A. Hanrott , Esq. Part the First ... (London, 1833) <British Library>

Third Day

630 "Blair's Grave, with Etchings by Blake, proofs on India paper, russia , . . . . 1808" [£2.6.0 to Anh (?)]

642 "Blake's America [G], Europe [B], and Jerusalem [B], Prophecies, coloured plates . . . . 1793" (under folios) [£4 to French]

644 "Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job, PICKED PROOFS, ON INDIA PAPER . . . 1825" [£3.3.0 to Bohn]

Fifth Day

893 "Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience [P], with singular Designs , 2 vol. red morocco, gilt leaves, scarce , 1789" [£2.1.0 to Thorpe (for Clarke) ]

894 "Blake's [ For Children: The red ] Gates of Paradise [A] , morocco, gilt leaves " [£1.16.0 to Thorpe, "Clarke"]

1833

Thomas Thorpe , [92] Autographs of Illustrious Personages, English and Foreign; comprising an Extraordinary Assemblage of Letters, of greater extent and equal interest, yet wholly distinct from, the former catalogue; Among these are ... Letters of Celebrated Authors, Poets, and Painters ... constituting the most diversified and largest collection ever submitted for selection Now selling, at the very low prices affixed, by Thomas Thorpe (London, 1833) <Thomas Thorp [no relation] bookstore, Guildford, Surrey>

140 "William Blake, Artist, Autograph Dedication to his Visions to the Queen, in verse ...4 s " [93]

After 1833 [94]

384 "Blake (W.) Illustrations of Job, fol. slightly stained , 30s. 1826"

421 "Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of Young's Night Thoughts, 4to. bds . 30s. ---- 1797"

422 "---- an additional plate to Young by this eminent genius, hitherto unpublished, engraved by Perry, 4to. 1s."

423 "Illustrations to Blair's Grave, engraved by Schiavonetti, 4to. bds . 30s. ---- 1808"

1834 March 22, 24-27

Mr. Evans, Catalogue of the Fifth and Concluding Portion of the Valuable and Extensive Library of P.A. Hanrott , Esq. Which Will Be Sold by Auction (London, 1834) < British Library, Harvard, New York Public Library>

1,245 "Young's Night Thoughts, plates by Blake , -- 1797" [ £1.2.0 to Williams]

1,450 " A Collection of Drawings, in Colours, by the late William Robson, of heads … A Collection rivalling almost in whim and extravagance the works of Blake.”

1834 May 9-10

Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Christie, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures and Books [ ] , Reserved after the Death of that Celebrated and elegant Painter, George [ ] Romney ... By his Son, the Rev. John Romney , deceased, in pursuance of whose Will they are now sold ... Also, the Small collection of Modern Pictures of William Cowden, Esq [and Others] (London, 1834) <Christie's>

First Day

9 Prince Hoare, [ Inquiry into the ... State of the Arts ]

31 [Erasmus Darwin] "The Botanical Garden, calf 1791" [ quarto, 9s to Evans]

79 "Blake's Vision[s] of the Daughters of Albion [F]-- coloured " [11s to Evans]

83 "Blake's America [A]; and Blake's Urizen [B]-- coloured " [ £ 1.4.0 to Evans]

86+ "Blak e 2 vol" [? Europe Marriage (A) and? of Heaven and Hell (D) [95] ] [ folio, 18s to Tiffin [96] ]

1834 June 17-19

Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Christie , A Catalogue of the Beautiful Original Sketches, and some finished Pictures, with a large collection of Drawings and Studies in Colours and Indian Ink, of that Charming Artist, Thomas Stothard, Esq. R.A., Deceased (London, 1834)

At some time after 1880 an unknown hand wrote in Robert Blake’s sketchbook (now in the Huntington Library ): “This Sketch-book belonged to Robert Blake , brother of William Blake , the Artist & Poet, and was purchased some years since among the Collection of the late Thomas Stothard R.A. at one period a personal friend of the brother’s.” The only sale of Stothard’s effects known to me is this one of June 1834. Though more than 1,500 items are listed, this sketchbook is not specified among them. It is possible that it was included among the numerous lots labelled merely “Various”.

1834 December 8-24

Mr. Evans, Bibliotheca Heberiana: Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richa rd Heber , Esq. Part the Fourth, Removed from his House at Pimlico ... Sold by Auction ... December 8, and Fourteen following days (1834) <Princeton> B . A Catalogue of Heber’s Collection ... with Notices by J. Payne Collier, Esq., and Prices and Purchasers Names. (London: Edward Lumley [1834]) <Princeton>

First Day

99 "Blake's (W.) Poetical Sketches [F], red morocco , 1783" [2s]

1835 May 2

Wheatley , Catalogue of the Library of Joseph Earle [97] (1835)

833 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [X] [ £2.6.0 to W [98] ]

1835 May 6

Messrs. Christie & Manson , A Catalogue of the collection of Books on Art, Antique Bronzes, Terra Cottas and Coins, the property of George Cumberland , Esq.; Comprising the Works of Bartoli, Vasari, Winkelmann, and other Italian Works on Ar [i] t; a few Books of Prints and Engravings; Some Silver and Brass coins of Greek Cities; small bronzes of antique and early Italian work, A Few Fragments of Terra Cotta and Marbles; and a Cabinet of Tassie's casts from Gems ... (London, 1835) <Christie>

60 "Blake's America [F], Visions [B], Europe [ C ], and Song of Los [D], bound together, the plates coloured. Blair's Grave; and Blake's designs by Schiavonetti" [ £3.18.0 to Butts]

61 "Blake's Book of Job , Book of Thel [A], & c. coloured; and [ For Children: The ] Gates of Paradise" [C [99] ] [ £3.13.6 to W. Bohn]

1835 May 25 and Twenty following Days, Sundays excepted

(May 25-20, June 1-6, 8-13, 15-17)

Day 1

Octavo et infra

158 "Ariosto's Orlando, by Hoole, 2 vol.--1791"

Day 13

Octavo

4,061 "Novelist's Magazine, 23 vol . plates by Stothard , 1781, &c"

Day 16

Octavo

4,990 "Ritson's (J.) Collection of English Songs, 3 vol. 1783"

Day 21

Folio

6,789 "Young's Night Thoughts, with Blake's Designs, 1797"

1835

Edward Evans , Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits (London, 1835)

6,316 Portrait of Lavater (Anon.-Blake) <Essick 1>, "very fine", 3s

6,663 "Wilson Lowry" <Essick 1> , "proof", 2s 6d

8,385 "Edmund Pitts, Esq r. " <Essick 1 > , "priv. plate", 7s

1836 February 1-19

Mr. C.B. Tait , [101] Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Collections of Books, Pictures, Drawings, Prints, and Painters' Etchings, Ancient Bronzes and Terracottas, Etruscan Vases, Marble Busts, Antique Carvings and Chasings in Wood and Metal, Coins, Minerals, Gems and Precious Stones, Philosophical Instruments, Wines, Spirits, &c. &c. of the late Thomas Sivwright Esq. of Meggetland and Southouse, Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... on Monday, February 1, and Sixteen following lawful days, at One O'Clock (Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Constable, M.DCCC.XXXVI [1836]) <Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

147 Hayley, Essay on Sculpture ("1808")

312 Letter of February 1808 [C] with four letters of other men [£1.2.0 to Thorpe]

399 Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens (1762 [&c]) [ £37.16.0]

1,835 "Volume of Drawings [102] by Blake, Illustrative of Blair's Grave, entitled 'Black Spirits and White, Blue Sp irits and Grey'" [103] [£1.5.0]

1836 June 13-18

[R.H.] Evans , Catalogue of Curious Autograph Letters and Early Historical Documents Relating to England, with seals. Also rare and valuable books [of Upcott ] (London, 1836) <British Museum Print Room>

Second Day

312 "William Blake, a most interesting Letter of 4 pages describing the design of a picture of the Last Judgment, which he painted for Lady Egremont, [ 18 January ] 1808" from the papers of the Earl of Buchan [ £ 1.2.0 to Thorpe]

[1836]

Ackermann & Comp. a , “Catalogo de Libros Españoles Publicados por los SS. Ackermann y Comp. a en su Repositorio de Artes, 96, Strand, Londres” (London, [1836]) [104]

“Meditaciones Poéticas, por J.J. de Mora, con estampas”

1836

Opie, Romeo and Juliet s , IV, 5, "11 long by 9. Prints, 4 . Proofs 7 s d . 6 . Blake" .

The central indices (pp. 10-214), including the Blake matter, consist of sheets from the 1829 Moon, Boys, & Graves catalogue, q.v.

1836

Francis Macpherson , No. XIX. London, 1836.A Select Catalogue of Books, Forming Part of the Stock of Francis MacPherson, 4 Middle Row Holborn (London, 1836) P. 15

“Young’s Night Thoughts; with marginal Designs by Blake. Folio, boards, 1l. 11s. 6d. – 1797”

[After 1836 June] [105]

97 "Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of Young's Night Thoughts, 4to. boards , 30s. 1797"

98 "----- Ditto, red.mor., gilt leaves l . 2 . 2 s . 1797"

99 "----- an additional plate to Young, by this Eminent Genius, hitherto unpublished, engraved by Perry, 4to. 1s." [106]

100 "Illustrations to Blair's Grave, engraved by Schiavonetti, 4to. boards , 30s. 1808"

101 "----- Ditto, half bound neat , , 1 l. 14s. 1808"

102 "Illustrations of the Book of Job, 2 plates, 4to. stitched Lond , 30s. . 1826"

339 Fuseli, Lectures (1801), 12s.

1837 March 4

Christie & Manson , A Catalogue of Italian Pictures ... Collected ... by ... William Young Ottley (London, 1837)

52* "Blake: The happy family." [107]

1837 July 21-22

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Books of Prints, and Works Connected with Literature and the Fine Arts, the property of the late William Young Ottley , Esq (London, 1837) <British Museum Print Room>

First Day

306 "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion [A] , one hundred engravings from wood, printed by W. Blake 1804 " [ £3.10.0 to Bohn]

1837 August 4

Wheatley, Catalogue (London, 1837)

665 Descriptive Catalogue green morocco [F], " " [ 12s to Money]

1837 December 12

Fletcher & Wheatley , Catalogue (London, 1837)

363 For Children: The Gates of Paradise [B]

1837

Thomas Thorpe , [108] Catalogue of Royal, Noble, and Literary Autograph Letters , Containing a Portion of the Papers of His Royal Highness the Late Duke of York ... Also the Entire Literary Correspondence of Sir Egerton Brydges, of Lee Priory for Upwards of Half a Century: ... including an extensive Series from Hayley the Poet ... The whole comprising a vast mass of Historical and Literary Matter, no mere Signatures, but the greater portion Letters worthy of Publication; the whole of which are in fine state, and now on sale at the very low prices affixed to each article ( London, 1837) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

150 "Blake (W.) Long Autograph Letter to Ozias Humphrey, Esq. 15 s . - - - - [ February ] 1808 [ C ] A long letter from this extraordinary artist, describing his picture of the last judgment, which he states he had just completed for the Countess of Egremont. Very curious."

1838 April 23-26

Christie & Manson , A Catalogue of the Valuable and Very Interesting Collection of Pictures; Modern Drawings, and Books of Prints; Made During a Series of Years by James Vine , Esq., Deceased ... Which (by Order of the Executors) Will be Sold by Auction (London, 1838) <Christie>

Second Day

BOOKS OF PRINTS

296 " Blake's Book of Job, india proofs " [ £1.13.0 to Evans]

297 "Blake's Milton [D] and Thel [O], h.b ." [109] [£5. 1 2.6 to H. Bohn]

298 "------- Jerusalem [J], h.b. " [£2.17.0 to "D o "]

299 "------- Songs [V], h.b. " [£7.15.0 to "D o "]

1838 November 10

John Bryant , [110] "This day is published, Nos. I. II. and III. of A Catalogue of Books Suitable for the Library of the Antiquary, the Scholar, or the Man of Taste, Now on Sale", Athen æ um , No. 576 (10 Nov 1838), 816.

"YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS, with Blake's curious Designs, imp. 4to, large paper, half blue mor. 1 £ 1s. 1797."

1839 November 20-23

Day 1

Octavo et Infra

101 "Gay's Fables, plates Stockdale , 2 vol. , 1793 "

Quarto

251 "Hayley's Life of George Romney, plates, calf, marbled leaves Chichester , 1809"

Day 2

Folio

417 "Young's Night Thoughts, with engravings after Blake, 1797"

1839 December

34 "STEDMAN'S Narrative of a five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 80 plates s , 2 vols. 4to, 31 . 6 d neat, in russia . "

106 "STUART and Revett's Antiquities of Athens, vols. 1 and 2, first editions plates , 142 , £ 3.10s. uncut 1762-87

" Vol. contains the Elgin marbles, before their 2 removal by his Lordship ."

439 "ROMNEY, the painter, by Hayley, fine plates s , 4to. 16 . 1809"

514 "Blair's Grave, with Blake's Designs, etched by Schiavonetti, 12 plates s. bds , large 4to. 25 . 1813"

550 "CUNNINGHAM'S Gallery of Pictures, by the First Masters, Engraved on 72 plates s , by Eminent Artists, with Descriptions, 2 vols., roy 8vo. 42 . cloth"

747 "YOUNG's Night Thoughts, with Blake's Designs, fol. 35 s . hf-bd. 1797"

1839 December

John Russell Smith , A Catalogue of Useful and Valuable Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern, on sale at very reduced prices (London, 1839) [115]

337 "Hunter's Historical Journal of Transactions at Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, New South Wales, &c. 4to, many plates, neat , 5 s 1793 "

[After 1839] [116]

28 "B LAKE'S Illustrations to the Book of Job, 21 plates, large paper, India proofs, folio, boards, 2 l .15s. Lond. 1826"

29 "---- Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, fine impressions, royal 4to, half calf, very neat, fine copy, 2 l . 2s. Lond, 1797"

30 "Illustrations to Dante's Inferno, 7 plates, oblong folio, boards, 35s."

1840 February 5-11

Evans , C atalogue of the Valuable Library of the late James Weale Esq. ... (London, 1840) <Bodley>

First Day

90 "Blake. Descriptive Catalogue of Blake's Paintings in Water Colours [F], green morocco -- -- 1809 " , 8vo et infra [4s 6d to Bohn]

219 " Blair 's Grave , cuts by Blake -- 1813"

230 "Blake's Designs for Songs of Innocence [ and of Experience coloured ] [X], ", quarto [ £5.5.0 to Bohn]

270 "Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, proofs on India paper -- -- -- -- 1825"

Third Day

602 Malkin, A Father's Memoirs of His Child (1806) and another

610 " Milton [B]. Blake's Coloured Illustrations of Milton" [117]

1840

James Bohn , [118] Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in all Languages on Sale (London, 1840) <Princeton and Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

918 Blake's Job, £6.6.0

1840

W. White's [119] Catalogue of Standard Books, English and Foreign (London, 1840)

207 Job [£3.13.6]

1840 February 27-28

651 "Young's Night Thoughts, cuts by Blake , - 1797"

1841

Henry G. Bohn, [120] A Catalogue of Books (London, 1841) <Princeton, Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

172 "Blake's (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, folio, 21 beautiful pub. at plates ( 3 l s . 3 ), bds l . 1 10 s 1826"

173 "the same, royal folio, LARGE PAPER, INDIA PROOFS , ( pub. at l 6 6 s bds ) . 3 l s 3 1826"

174 "Book of Thel [A], 4to. coloured plates, hf. bd l . 1 5 s 1789"

175 "Illustrations of Blair's Grave, with the Poem splendidly printed by Bensley, folio, LARGE PAPER , fine portrait of Blake, and 12 beautiful engravings by Schiavonetti, neat, gilt edges , 1 l s 15 -- -- 1804"

176 "Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion, imperial 4to. consisting of engraved pages, with Designs, hf. bd. rare 100 , 5 l s 5 -- -- 1804"

177 " Songs of Innocence and of Experience [V], shewing the two contrary States of the Human Soul, imperial 4to. consisting of pages, 54 each decorated with a beautiful Design, artistically finished in colours, by Blake's own hand, hf. bd ." [No price ]

178 "Milton, a Poem in 12 Books [D], 50 engraved pages engraved pages , 1804-- The Book of Thel [O], 8 , 1789--2 vols. in 1, 4to. exquisitely finished in colours by Blake himself, hf bd . The two preceding lots (articles 177 and 178) finished in colours in the style of Drawings, by the Author himself, are probably unique." [ No price ]

1843 February 21

Sotheby, Catalogue of the Second Portion of the Extensive Singularly Curious and Valuable Library of Thomas Jolley , Esq. F.S.A. Containing The First Division of ... The Early English Poets ... ( London, 1843) <Huntington Library>

336 “Blake (William) Poetical Sketches [Q [121] ] Privately printed, 1783 * * * Contains King Edward the Third, a Drama.” [6d to the dealer Rodd]

1843 May 9

Christie, posthumous C atalogue of John Romney (London, 1843)

79 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [F] [11s to R.H. Evans]

1843 July 12-22

S. Leigh Sotheby , Catalogue of the First Portion of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Venerable Archdeacon Wrangham , F.R.S. comprising the Books Removed from Chester (London, 1843) <Bodley>

301 Blair, The Grave (1808), uncut

302 Bla ke 's Job very curious plates , "21 "

1843 November 29-December 9

S. Leigh Sotheby & Co , Catalogue of the Second Portion of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the late Venerable Archdeacon Wrangham , F.R.S. comprising the Books removed from Hunmanby (London, 1843) <Bodley>

Second Day

557 “Blake (W.) Designs to a series of Ballad written by W. Hayley, plates, 4 parts Chichester, 1802” [ Evans, 13s ]

1843

John Bohn, [122] Catalogue of English Books, In All Classes of Literature on Sale (London, 1843) <Harvard>

1,117 "B LAIR'S (Robert) The Grave a Poem; royal 4to, portrait of Blake and 12 beautiful Etchings from B LAKE'SDESIGNS , by Schiavonetti; half-bound morocco, gilt edges, 1 l s .15 . 1813"

1,120 "B LAKE'S (Wm.) Visions of the Daughters of Albion [ A [123] ] , with illustrations, tinted by the Author himself; folio, 1 l s .11 . d 6 . 1793 Not mentioned by Allan Cunningham"

1,121 "I LLUSTRATIONSOF THE BOOK OF J OB ; folio, 21 beautiful engravings, bds. 3 l s . 3 . 1825"

1,122 "the same; folio, BRILLIANT PROOFS ON I NDIAPAPER (pub. at 6 l s .6 .) bds. scarce, 5 l . 1825 ", with an admiring quotation from Allan Cunningham

1 , 123 "S ONGS OF I NNOCENCEAND OF E XPERIENCE [?V [124] ], engraved and coloured by the Author; 2 vols, in 1, 8vo, LARGE PAPER , morocco, gilt edges, 5 l s . 5 . 1789-94 " accompanied by admiring quotations from Cunningham and Lamb

[After 1843] [125]

90 B LAKE'S Illustrations to Blair's Grave, portrait and 12 fine plates, 4to. boards, uncut 1 l .11s.6. Lond. 1808"

91 "Another copy, elegantly bound in red morocco, extra, gilt leaves, 2 l . 12s. 6d. Ibid."

92 "---- Illustrations to Dante's Inferno, 7 plates, oblong folio, boards, 35s.

" * * * Engraved by him, but not published till some time after his death."

1,879 George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796), boards, 6s

3,474 "B LAKE'S Illustrations to the Book of Job, 21 plates, folio, stitched, 35s. Lond. 1826"

1844 July 10

Bent’s Monthly Literary Advertiser , 10 July 1844, p. 9

Blair, The Grave , price reduced from 12s 6d to 11s

1844 December 11

Bent's Monthly Literary Advertiser , 11 Dec 1844, p. 13

Blair, The Grave

[After 1844 ] [126]

717 "BLAKE'S Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 pls., PROOFS , fol. bds. 2 l s 12 6 d 1825"

718 "------ Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion [A], 100 plates, 4to. half calf neat, VERY RARE , 7 l s 7 1804"

719 "------ Visions of the Daughters of Albion [A], 11 pages [i.e., leaves], beautifully coloured by Blake himself, VERY RARE , 4 l s 4 1793"

720 "------ a Stereotype design for Pilgrim's Progress [i.e., 'The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour'], presented by Mrs. Blake to Mrs. Tatham , 1828, [127] rare , 10s 6d"

721 "------ a Small Etching by him, representing Sampson destroying the Lion, [128] rare , 10s 6d"

722 "------ the Death of the Good Man (Blair's Grave), 4to. scarce , 7s 6d"

723 "------ a very Curious Coloured Drawing, illustrating the revelations by this Artist, signed and dated 1809, [129] 4to. 2 l 12s 6d"

1845 May 13-15

Messrs. Christie & Manson , A Catalogue of The Library of Works on Art and elegant Literature, Prints and Books of Prints, of Sir Augustus W. Calcott , R .A., Deceased, Late Curator of the Royal Galleries . Also, the Mahogany Presses, which contained the Collection of Drawings; some Models of Boats, Frames, &c. which will be By Order of the Executors, Sold (London, 1845) <Victoria & Albert Museum>

507 "Blake's Book of Job, boards "

1845 July 30-August 1

R.H. Evans, Catalogue of the Choice and Valuable Library of the late Philip Hurd , Esq. Barrister at Law (London, 1845)

First Day

161 "Blake's Graphic Illustrations of Jerusalem [A] , 1804", quarto [ £ 4.16.0 to (W.) Evans]

162 "Blake's Illustrations of Milton, &c. COLOURED PLATES , 1834" [130] [i.e., Milton (B)] [ £ 6.17.6 to Bohn]

197 Flaxman, Hesiod (1817)

[1845?]

Thomas Kerslake 's Catalogue of Books, Containing A Considerable Portion of the Library of the late Robert Southey , Esq., Poet Laureate ... also, a portion of the Library of H.R.H. the late Duke of Sussex Now offered to the Public at the [and others] NET C ASH P RICES affixed ... (Bristol, [ 1845? ] ) <Cornell>

3,288 "Blake:--A Descriptive catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, in Water Colours, by W. Blake, being the [ Method calf of ] Ancient Fresco Painting Restored [T], 1809, sm. 8vo. ,neat, 'Robert Southey also autograph , 1810,' address of Blake , [131] 3 s "

1846 April 2-3

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Valuable Books and Fine Books of Prints, the Property of the Late Thomas Thane , Esq. together with the Copyright, Copper Plates, and Remaining Stock of Thane's British Autographs and of other Works (London, 1846) <Bodley>

112 Blair, The Grave "with twelve plates from the original designs of Wm. Blake " (1808)

1846 June 8-11

S. Leigh Sotheby , Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late William Holgate , Esq. of the General Post Office (London, 1846) <Bodley>

47 " Beloe (Wm.) P oems and Translations, 1788-- Borrow, Romantic B allads, from the Danish, 1826- -[Henry Card] Brother-in-Law, a Com[edy] Lee Priory Press , 1817--Boyd, Plays, 1793--Blake, Poetical Sketches [K?] together vol. , 5 " [ 7s. to Rodd]

1846 June 15-19

Messrs. Evans , Catalogue of the late William Upcott , consisting of ... a most extensive collection of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, and Drawings, for the history and topography of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. Which will be sold by auction, (under the Direction of the Court of Chancery) (London, 1846) <British Library>

First Day

65 "Blake (W.) Songs of Experience [H], plates coloured " octavo [ £1.14.0 to Evans]

276 "Blair (W.) The Grave, with illustrations by Blake, unbound 1808" [8s to Bohn]

277 "Blake (W.) America [H], a Prophecy, 1793--Europe [D], a Prophecy, 1794, coloured * * * Inserted are some original drawings by this singular artist" < Butlin #260 , 23 colour prints in the Large (A) and Small Book of Designs (A) and "Glad Day" ( 1A ) > , f olio [ £7.2.6 to Evans]

527 Hayley, Cowper (1804) [5s 6d]

528 Hayley, Life of Romney , unbound, extra illustrated with letters inlaid [£1.19.0]

Day 4

1,134 "Young (E.) Night Thoughts, with illustrations by Blake, unbound 1797 " [19s. to Evans]

After 1846 June 20 [132]

1,152 "BLAKE'S (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 Plates, an original copy l , folio, bds. 1 15s. 1825"

1,153 "---- Ditto, PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER , folio, olive morocco extra, edges gilt , 3 l Lond 3s . 1825"

1,154 "---- Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts , fine and large copy, royal 4to . half calf, neat, scarce, l 2 2s Lond. 1797"

1,155 "---- S ONGS OF E XPERIENCE [H]:viz., introduction [pl. 30]; the Human Abstract [pl. 47]; the Clod and the Pebble [pl. 32]; Earth's Answer [pl. 31]; Nurse's Song [pl. 38]; a Little Girl Lost [pl. 51]; the Tyger [pl. 42]; My Pretty Rose Tree; the Sun Flower; the Lilly [pl. 43]; the poison tree [p. 49]; Holy Thursday [pl. 33]; the Fly [pl. 40]; [133] coloured stitched , 12mo. , 5 l 5s --" [i.e., n.d.] [134]

1,156 "A MERICA [ H ] , a Prophecy, uncoloured l , folio, 3 3s Lambeth 1793"

1,157 "A series of Eight Designs, [135] the subjects of which are not explained; so highly coloured as to be mistaken for Drawings, 4to. 5 l 5s --" [i.e., n.d.]

1,158 "---- Another series, of a much smaller size, but coloured and finished with equal care, the subjects of which (23 in number) [136] are also without explanation, 4to. 10- l 10s --" [i.e., n.d.]

1,159 "---- The card plate of Mr. Cumberland, 5s. W. Blake inv. et sc, Æt . 70, 1827

" * * * The productions of this extraordinary Artist are excessively rare; the Poems, Songs of Experience, and America, were his own compositions, and the Designs were etched by a process known only to himself and Mrs. Blake, and which has never been made public; he printed and coloured them himself, and the colouring of many is of the most brilliant description. A very good account of Blake and his Works is to be found in Cunningham's Live of the British Painters, published in the Family Library."

[After 1846] [137]

2097 "BLAKE'S Visions of the Daughters of Albion [A], 11 Pages, finely coloured by himself l , EXCESSIVELY SCARCE , 4to. stitched, 4 4s. 1793"

1847

Henry G. Bohn , Henry G. Bohn's Catalogue of Books . Vol. I containing Natural History, Books of Prints, Science, Language, Bibliography, Oriental & Northern Literature , Old English Historians, Early Voyages, &c. Games, Etc. (London, 1847) <Princeton>

"BLAKE'S (Wm) Milton [D], a Poem in 12 Books, 50 engraved pages Book of Thel , 1804 -- [O], 8 engraved pages exquisitely finished in colour by Blake , 1789--2 vols. in 1, 4to. himself, hf. bd . £10.10s

"This curious and interesting volume was finished in colours, in the style of Drawings, expressly for his principal patron, Mr. Vine of the Isle of Wight, and is believed to be unique in this state"

"---- America, a Prophecy, folio, 18 curiously engraved plates, hf. bd. very rare , 3.3s. 1793"

Job , proofs, £2.12.6

Blair, The Grave , £1.1.0, 1.4.0, 18s

Dante (1839) £1.16.0

Flaxman, Iliad , with plates by Blake, 2.10.0

Flaxman, Hesiod, £1.5.0

1848 February 5, October 21

[Charles Welford] , "Charles Lamb's Library in New York", Literary World , III (5 Feb 1848), 10-11. <British Library> B . Catalogue of Charles Lamb's Library for Sale by Bartlett & Welford, Booksellers and Importers, 7 Astor House, New York [ 21 Oct 1848]. [138] <Harvard, Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

[54] " Tracts , Miscellaneous, 1 thick volume, 12mo, Descriptive Ca talogue of Pictures and Poetical and Historical Inventions, by William Blake [S] . 1809, Lord Rochester's Poems, Lady Winchelsea's Poems, C. Lamb's Confessions of a Drunkard, with Corre c tions, &c., Southey ' s Wat Tyler, & c. " [ $4.50 to Campbell]

1848

Henry G. Bohn’s Catalogue of Books. Vol. I. ... (London, 1848) Pp. 74, 259 <Bodley>

The catalogue (without lot numbers ) includes

Milton The [D] in 12 books, 50 prints, bound with Book of The l [O], 8 prints, £10.10.0

America [C], “folio, 18 curiously engraved plates, hf. bd.”, £3.3.0

Job , £2.12.6

Blair’s Grave (1808), £1.1.0 and £1.4.0, and 18s, and Dante (“1839”), £1.16.0

[After 1848] [139]

707 "BLAKE's (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 plates, an original copy, folio boards, £1 12s 1825"

708 "---- Ditto, folio half russia elegant, £2 2s Ibid."

709 "---- Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, fine and large copy, royal, 4to scarce, half bound elegant, £2 2s Lond. 1797"

710 "---- Ditto, large uncut copy , royal 4to, £1 12s Ibid."

711 "---- Illustrations to Blair's Grave, portrait and 12 fine plates, 4to boards 18s"

712 "---- Ditto, 4to half russia, elegant, 25s 1808"

713 "---- Ditto, large paper, proof impressions, royal 4to neat, £1 15s Ibid."

714 "---- Visions of the Daughters of Albion [A], 11 pages, finely coloured by himself, excessively scarce, 4to stitched, £4 4s 1793" [140]

715 "---- America [H], a Prophecy, uncoloured , folio, £3 3s Lambeth, 1793"

716 "The card plate of Mr. Cumberland, 5s W. Blake inv. et. sc. Æt. 70, 1827"

717 "BLAKE's (Wm.) A series of Eight Designs, [141] the subjects of which are not explained; highly coloured and extremely rare, 4to £5 5s"

718 "---- Another series, of a much smaller size, [142] but coloured and finished with equal care, the subjects of which (23 in number) are also without explanation, 4to, £10 10s Ibid."

719 "---- Songs of Experience [H]: viz., Introduction [pl. 30]; the Human Abstract [pl. 47]; the Clod and the Pebble [pl. 32]; Earth's Answer [pl. 31]; Nurse's Song [pl. 38]; a Little Girl Lost [pl. 51]; the Tyger [pl. 42]; my Pretty Rose Tree; the Sun Flower; the Lily [pl. 43]; the Angel [pl. 41]; a Little boy Lost [pl. 50]; London [pl. 46]; the Chimney Sweeper [pl. 37]; a Poison Tree [pl. 49]; Holy Thursday [pl. 33]; the Fly [pl. 40]; coloured, 12mo stitched, £5 5s

 The productions of this extraordinary Artist are excessively rare; the Poems, Songs of Experience, and America, were his own composition, and the Designs were etched by a process known only to himself and Mrs. Blake, and which has never been made public; he printed and coloured them with his own hand, and the colouring of many is of the most brilliant description. A very good account of Blake and his Works is to be found in Cunningham's Live of the British Painters, published in the Family Library."

1000 "FLAXMAN'S compositions from the days and works of Hesiod, beautiful outlines engraved by Blake, oblong folio boards, £1 1s. Lond. 1817"

2214 "BLAKE (W.) THE SONG OF LOS [A]: a poem, composed and illustrated by this extraordinary artist, on 8 leaves, a very highly coloured set : of extreme rarity; 4to uncut, £5 5s Lambeth, 1795"

2214* "---- THE BOOK OF THIEL [D]: a poem, composed and illustrated by this artist, on 8 leaves, coloured , 4to uncut, extremely rare, £3 3s 1789"

[n.d.] [143]

38 "Blake's (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 plates, folio stitched, 1 l . 11s. 6d. Lond. 1826"

39 "---- Illustrations to Blair's Grave, engraved by Schiavonetti, fine impressions, 4to. 1 l s . 11 . 6 d . Lond. 1808"

40 "Another copy, elegantly bound in red morocco, extra, gilt leaves, 2 l . 12s. 6d. Lond. 1808"

1849 October 9-November 7

Messrs. English & Son, Catalogue of the Costly and Highly Interesting Effects of John Hugh Smyth Pigott , Esq. Comprising The Very Select and Valuable Library of Several Thousand Volumes ... The Live and Dead Stock, &c. &c. (1849) <Frick Collection>

Day 7 (16 October) [144]

Quarto

258 "The Grave, illustrated by Blake, extra morocco"

259 "Jerusalem [D], the Emanation of the Giant Albion, illustrated by Blake" , quarto

260 "Marriage of Heaven and Hell [I], by Blake"

261 "The Book of Thei [C], by Blake"

312 Letter of Feb 1808 [C] (with letters of William Dibd i n [1817] and William Roscoe [1807] )

Day 13 (21 October) Folio

912 "Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job"

Day 17 (30 October) Autographs

35 "Wm. Dibdin, 1817, Wm. Roscoe, 1807, Wm. Blake to the Earl of Buchan, [ Feb ] 1808 "

1850 February 22-28

Christie and Manson , Catalogue of the Valuable and Very Interesting Collection of Pictures, Drawings, by Ancient English Masters, Engravings and Books, Of that well-known Amateur Francis Duroveray, Esq. Deceased; ... a series of beautiful Compositions by Stothard and Smirke, illustrative of Shakspeare, &c ... The Engravings Comprise Fine Proofs of the beautiful Works published by Mr. Durov e ray, and of Bartolozzi. Also, the Small Library of Books ... (London, 18 50 ) <British Museum Print Room, Christie>

69 Fuseli, Lectures (1801)

72 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy , 41 numbers ( 1788-89)

180 "19" proofs for "Blair's Grave, by Schiavonetti" [6s to Evans]

1850 March 1-2

Christie and Manson , Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters, Of that well-known collector Francis Duroveray , Esq., Deceased (London, 1850) <Christie>

96 An illustration to Blair's "Grave"

228 "Blake" [not the poet] A Dead Hare, Birds, and Vegetables

1852 January 20-22

Sotheby, Catalogue of Very Valuable and Choice Books and Books of Prints (London, 1852) <British Library>

First Day

45 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [T 2 ], "Fifty-four designs" [ altered in MS to "Fifty two "] coloured , octavo, "1798" [ £ 4.14.0 to Evans]

185 The Grave , imperial 4to (1808) [15s to Kerslake]

186 Urizen [G] , 27 coloured plates [ £ 8.15.0 to Milnes]

1852 March 26-27

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson , Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Engravings & Drawings, from the portfolio of an Amateur, [145] comprising ... works of that able but eccentric artist, William Blake, with many of his best drawings ... Together with the Collection formed by the late Thomas Moule, Esq. (London, 1852) <British Library>

First Day

Works of William Blake

50 "Blake (W.), Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the two contrary states of the Human Soul [E] , exhibited in a series of fifty four designs, finished in colours in the very peculiar style of this very able but eccentric artist , with the printed Poem, [146] very rare in the autograph of the artist , 3 vols. 8vo. 1789 * * * On the first leaf of the 'Songs of Innocence ' are two original Poems, of much humour and ability, written in a playful style on the word 'pipe,' ." [£12.12.0 to A rt h ington(?)]

51 "The Book of Thel [ L ], with six coloured designs, rare 4to 1789" [£2.15.0 to F.T.P. (Francis Turner Palgrave)]

52 "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [F], with coloured designs, rare 4to" [£5.5.0 to RMM ( Richard Monckton Milnes ) ]

53 "Milton [ A or B], a Poem in two Books, with forty-five coloured designs, rare 4to. 1804" [£9 to Toovey]
54 "America [ F ], a Prophecy, Visions of the Daughters of Albion [ B ], Europe, a Prophecy [ D ], the Song of Los [ D ], with singular illustrations exemplifying the peculiar genius of this gifted artist, the whole in colours except the first very rare , in one volume folio, 1793" [£11 to M [147] ]

55 "The Ghost of Abel [A], a Revelation in the Visions of Jehovah, a s seen by William Blake, uncoloured, rare 4 to ” [ £ 2 to RMM]

56 [Hayley , Designs to a ] "Series of Ballads, the Elephant, Eagle, Lion and Dog, and Little Tom the Sailor, illustrated with designs 4to" [£2.7.0 to Toovey]

57 "Jerusalem the Emancipation [ i.e., Emanation ] of the Giant Albion [ I ] consisting of one Hundred very effective and spirited Designs, printed in a red ground, very rare folio. 1805" [£10.15.0 to RMM]

58 "Young (Ed.) Night Thoughts, with illustrative Designs, an original copy folio. 1777 [ sic ]" [£1.11.0 to Toovey]

59 "Another Copy 1797" [£2.1.0 to RMM]

60 "Illustrations of the book of Job, consider e d to be one of the noblest works of the artist's genius, choice India proofs folio. 1825" [£2.14.0]

61 "Blair's Grave, illustrated with 12 Etchings and a Portrait, by Schiavonetti, from Blake's Designs, an original copy 4to. 1808" [£5]

"Original drawings, in Colours, by William Blake."

147 "Illustrations of Milton's Hymn of the Nativity, with the poem in MS., six very beautiful and highly finished drawings " < Butlin # 542 1-6 > [£6.12.6 to Bohn]

148 "The Covenant , very fine " <# 437 > [£2.7.0 to "do"]

149 "The Blasphemer, sketched with great power and effect " <# 446 > [£1.19.0 to Dilke ]

150 "Illustration of the 85th Psalm, 10th v." <# 463, "Mercy and Truth Are Met Together, Righteousness and Peace have Kissed Each Other "> [£1.10.0 to Dilke]

151 "The Crucifixion" <# 494, "Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves "> [£1 to "do"]

152 "Conversion of St. Paul" <# 506, "The Conversion of Saul "> [19s, Fine (i.e., Colnaghi) ]

153 "The Transfigur a tion" <# 484 > [£1 to Dilke ]

154 " ' And the Angel which I saw lifted up his hand to Heaven , ' very fine " <# 518 > [£2.6.0 to Bohn ]

155 "Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre, fine " <# 504 > [£3.11.0 to Palgrave ]

156 "Joseph and Jezebel" <# 439, "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife "> [£1.2.0 to Bohn ]

157 "'She shall be called Woman'" <# 435, "The Creation of Eve: 'And She Shall Be Called Woman' "> [£2 to RMM]

158 "The Humility of the Saviour" <# 474, "Christ in the Carpenter's Shop: The Humility of the Saviour "> [£2.3.0 to RMM]

159 "Raising of Lazarus" <# 487 > [£1.18.0 to RMM]

160 "The Resurrection" <# 502 > [£1.2.0 to Evans ]

161 "Paul Preaching" <# 507, "St Paul Preaching in Athens" > [£2.2.0 to Bohn ]

162 "'Judas betrays Him'" <# 162 > [£1.1 8 .0 to Bohn ]

163 "'The Devil is come down,' A fine characteristic example of the vigour and talent of the artist " <# 520, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun: 'The Devil is come Down'" > [£1.15.0 to Bohn ]

164 "'But Martha was cumbered with much serving'" <# 489, "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary: 'But Martha Was Cumbered About Much Serving' "> [£1.10.0 to Dilke ]

165 " The Wise and Foolish Virgins, admirably designed, and very fine " <# 478, "The Parab l e of the Wise and Foolish Virgins "> [£2.3.0 to Bohn ]

166 "Queen Catherine's Vision, an elaborate and most beautifully finished drawing, the fantastic grouping of the flying figures being of the most admirable execution, and alto ge ther a chef d'oeuvre of this extraordinary artist " <# 548, "The Vision of Queen Katharine "> [£9 to W. Dilke]

167 "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims <Essick 3L> , engraved by Blake from his original picture in fresco" [12s to RMM [148] ]

1852 May 11-12

Messrs. Christie & Manson, Catalogue of the Very Choice and Valuable Collection of Drawings, and Etchings ... formed by The late Henry Reveley , Esq, ... comprising ... The Works of Hogarth, From the Collection of the Right Hon. [Raphael drawings, Rubens prints, &c] W. Wyndham ; [149] Also, the Stafford Gallery, proofs, and some scarce works of Blake (London, 1 8 52) <British Museum Print Room and Christie>

345 " [ Visions of P ] The DAUGHTERS OF ALBION [C] , by Blake. a inted in colours by his own process -- rare " [ £4.4.0 to H. Bohn]

1852 June 21-26

Christie and Manson , Catalogue of a very ch o ice and valuable collection of Engravings of the English School; the property of The late Thomas Haviland Burke , Esq. Comprising ... [also drawings and paintings ] (London, 1852) <British Library>

First Day

"Blake, Wm."

215 "Blair's Grave, engraved by Schiavonetti, with the painter's portrait 13"

216 Subjects from Shakespeare, &c.; etched by himself; a Drawing of one of his Visions, &c. 15"

755 "Plates to the 'Ladies' Magazine,' or Beauties of British Poetry [150] --many of them from proofs; engraved by Heath, Collyer, Blake, Gregnion [ sic ],Walker, Angus, Taylor, &c. 285"

1852 June 26

Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson , Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Water-Colour Drawings The Property of Charles Ford , Esq. of Bath, Comprising ...Fine Characteristic Drawings by William Blake, Together with A Few Paintings &c. The Property of an Amateur [151] (London, 1852)

11 "W. Blake. The Transfiguration < Butlin #484(?) [152] > , coloured ; and Time with the hour glass" [1s 6d to Hickson]

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOUR BY BLAKE

155 "'He cast him into the bottomless pit-- very powerful and characteristic " <# 524, "He Cast Him into the Bottomless Pit, and Shut Him Up "> [ £ 1.5.0 to Fuller]

156 "Touching the Garment -- many figures [10s to Butts]

157 "'Thou was perfect until iniquity was found in thee' <# 469, "Satan in His Original Glory: 'Thou Was Perfect Till Iniquity Was Found in Thee' "> -- very fine " [10s to "do"]

158 "Sampson bursting bonds" <# 453, "Samson Breaking His Bonds "> [10s to "do"]

159 "The burning bush" < # 441, "Moses at the Burning Bush "> [11s to "do"]

160 "The Man of God and Jereboam" <# 460, "Jerob oam and the Man of God "> [6s to "do"]

161 "'Her sins are forgiven'" < #486?, "The Woman Taken in Adultery" > [6s to "do"]

162 "Scene from the Apocalyptic Vision <# 519, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun ">-- of grand conception and highly characteristic " [ £1.2.0 to Fuller]

163 "'T he Number of the beast is 666" <# 522 >-- of the same characteristic merit ” [ £ 1.1.0 to "do"]

164 "'And power was given to him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations' <# 521, "The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea: 'And Power Was Given Him Over all Kindreds, and Tongues, and Nations' "> -- equally characteristic " [ £ 1.1.0 to "do"]

165 "Woman taken in Adultery" <# 486 > [5s to Butts]

166 "Witch of Endor" <# 74 > [7s to "do"]

167 "The Baptism of Christ <# 415 > -- finely conceived " [5s to "do"]

168 "Creation of Light" <# 433 > [6s to "do"]

169 "Baptism <# 485, "Christ Baptising "> -- very fine " [8s to "do "]

170 "War" <# 195 > [ £1.3.0 to Fuller]

171 "Moses Striking the Rock" <# 445 > [4s 6d to Butts]

172 "The Seven Golden Candlesticks" <# 514 > [5s to "do"]

173 "Adam and Eve in Paradise" <# 531, "Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve "> [5s to "do"]

174 "'But hope rekindled only to illume" <# 638, "The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death: 'But Hope Rekindled, Only to Illume the Shades of Death, and Light Her to the Tomb "> [19s to "do"]

175 "St. Paul shaking off the viper" <# 510, "St. Paul and the Viper "> [5s to Butts]

176 "The Assumption <# 513, "The Assumption of the Virgin "> -- an elaborate and exquisitely finished work in the finest manner of this extraordinary artist and genius " [ £4.2.0 to Fuller]

“ The six following Designs, by Blake, are illustrations of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' "

177 "'So judged he man'" <# 5 36 10, "The Judgment of Adam and Eve: 'So Judged He Man' "> [ £ 1.7.0 to Fuller]

178 "'Father! thy word is past'" <?# 536 3, "Christ Offers to Redeem Man "> [17s to Butts]

179 "'Ah! gentle pair'" <?# 536 6, "Raphael Warns Adam and Eve "> [10s to Butts]

180 "'Awake! arise! or be forever fallen'" <# 536 1, "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels "> [ £1.11.0 to Fuller]

181 "'But to the cross he nails the enemies'" <?# 536 11, "Michael Foretells the Crucifixion "> [10s to Butts]

182 "'Oh, Father! what extends thy hand, she cry'd, against thy only Son'" <# 536 2, "Satan, Sin and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell "> [ £ 1.11.0 to Fuller ]

182x [In MS, no title] [11s to Butts]

1852 July 5-8

Sotheby, Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Choice and Fine B ooks: including Some Rare Old English Poetry, and other interesting works, from the Library of an Eminent Collector, [153] omitted in the Previous Sale (London, 1852) <Bodley, British Library>

249 Young, Night Thoughts (1797) [ £1.5.0 to Toovey]

250 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), half green morocco, t.e.g. [£1.9.0 to Toovey]

251 "Blake (W.) A MERICA , a Prophecy [ R ], with Eighteen singular Designs, printed in tints by the artist himself, rare ib. 1793 " [ £ 2.7.0 to Holmes [154] ]

252 "Blake (W.) T HE B OOK OF A HANIA [A], with Three Illustrations, etched and coloured by himself, rare , and one other Etching by him [155] . . . Lambeth , 1795", quarto [£1.3.0 to Milnes]

253 "BLAKE (W.) Illustrations of Milton's 'Comus.' < Butlin #528 1-8 > The E IGHT ORIGINAL D ESIGNS , drawn and coloured by himself, in his peculiar and unique style" [to Butts [156] ]

[1852?] [157]

Begins with lot 2201.

2,362 "The Canterbury Pilgrims; oblong sheet, fine impressions and very scarce , £2 2 s . W. Blake."

1852

G. Willis, Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles ... (London, 1852)

361 Hayley, Life of Romney beautifully engraved by (1809), " Caroline Watson, Blake, &c. ", 8s 6d.

385 Gray, Fables beautiful engravings by (Stockdale, 1793), " Blake, Grainger, Mazell, &c ", ₤1.4.0

401 Hayley, Life of Cowper fine portraits by Blake from (1803), " a drawing by Romney and Lawrence ", [158] 8s 6d

1852

G. Willis, Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles ... (London, 1852)

21 Ariosto, Orlando Furioso , tr. Hoole, 5 vols. ("1773" [159] ), plates by Heath, Blake, &c. ", 10s 6d

256 Flaxman's Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), " engravings by Piroli, Moses, Blake &c ", ₤2.2.0

275 Hayley, Triumphs of Temper with proof impressions (1803), " of the fine etchings by B LAKE ", 5s

455 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy with more than ( 1789-98), " 80 beautiful engravings by Holloway, Blake, Bartolozzi, Sharp, &c .", ₤8.8.0

577 Hayley, Life of Romney beautiful engravings by (1809), with " Blake, Caroline Watson, and others ", 8s 6d

705 "PLAYS and Poems, O RIGINAL E DITIONS , a collection of Twenty separately published Plays and Poems, by Wordsworth, Monk Lewis, Geo. Colman &c. with plates by Blake &c. 10 s 1802, &c." [160]

797 Shakespeare, Plays with , ed. Chalmers (1805), " LARGE PAPER , PROOF IMPRESSIONS of the beautiful engravings by Blake, Bartolozzi, from F USELI'S designs , 10 vols.", ₤3.3.0

1853 March 7-23

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson , Catalogue of the Principal Part of the Library of Dawson Turner Esq ... Removed from Yarmouth (London, 1853) <Bodley [161] >

449 "The Grave; a Poem, with 23 [162] etchings by Schiavonetti, from the original designs of W. Blake, fine impressions, with Memoir; an autograph letter [ 9 June 1818? ] by W. Blake, and the beautiful portrait of him by Schiavonetti, after Phillips inserted imp. 4to . 1808" [163] [ £1.10.0 to Willis [164] ]

481 "Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 plates 1825" [ £ 2 to Palgrave]

1,284 Flaxman, "Compositions for the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, engraved by Piroli, Neagle etc. 2 vol.; an autograph letter from Flaxman inserted ... 1805" [ £ 2 to Willis]

1,286 Flaxman, "Compositions from the Works of Hesiod, fine outline plates, with autograph letter from J. Flaxman inserted ... 1817" [ £ 2.2.0 to Colnaghi]

1,802 Malkin (Dr. B. Heath) Memoirs of his Child, frontispiece by W. Blake -- autograph letter from the author inserted, very rare 1806" [ £ 2.6.0 to J.R. Smith]

1853 June 29

Messrs. Foster and Son, Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, Drawings and Works of Art, The Property of Thomas Butts , Esq. Removing from his Residence, Grafton Street; including ... A Collection of Pictures and Drawings, by the late William Blake, Distinguished for originality of Design, and facility of Pencil, Amongst which are subjects from Sacred History, Illustrations from Milton, &c., and forming a curious and, perhaps, matchless Assemblage of the Works of this highly gifted Artist (London, 1853) <British Museum Print Room >

"Drawings & Pictures by the late Wm. Blake, Whose genius and talents are familiar to the Public by his Illustrations to the Poem of 'The Grave,' 'Young's Night Thoughts,' &c." (pp. 6-8)

70 "Apotheosis of Nelson" < Butlin #649, "The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan "> [ £1.2.0 to Robinson]

71 "Christ and the Little Children" <# 419, "Christ Blessing the Little Children "> [ £ 1.10.0 to W . Sti rling]

72 " Nativity" < #401 > [£ 2 , bought in by H. Thomas ]

73 " Baptism of Christ" <# 415 > [£ 3.12.0 to "Streetly, Strang Street", i.e., J .C. Strange of Streatley, Berkshire]

74 "Saviour" <# 670, "Christ Blessing "> [ £ 4.7.0 to "do"]

75 "Virgin and Child [ in Egypt ] " <# 669 > [ £ 5.10.0 to Stirling ]

76 "Eve Naming the Bir ds" <# 668 > [with l ot 77 , 10s to ditto ]

77 "Adam Naming the Beasts" < #667 >

78 "Jacob and His Twelve Sons" <# 383 > [ £ 8. 5 .0 to S l o c ock]

79 "Infant Jesus and the Lamb, Virgin and St John" <# 409 , "Our Lady with the Infant Jesus Riding on a Lamb with St John" > [£ 9.11.0 to Stirling ]

80 "Raising of Jairus Daughter" <# 427, "The Entombment" > [ £1.5.0 with l ot 81 to Stirling ]

81 " [ Christ's ] Entry into Jerusalem" < #422 >

82 "The Holy Father , Christ, &c" <# 429, "Christ the Mediator" > [9s to J.C. Strange]

83 "Three -- Christ and the Seven Virgins < #430 >, Raising Jairus' Daughter < #418 >, and Satan traversing the Realms of Space < #291 , "Satan Exulting Over Eve", colou r > [ £1. 1 2.6 to ditto ]

84 " Three -- Pharoah's Daughte r and Moses <# 386 >, Chris t Before Pilate <# 425A >, and Samuel" < #389 > [ no price ] [ bought in by Thomas]

85 "Restoring S ight t o the Blind <# 420, "Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus" > [with l ots 86-87 for 11s Strange]

86 "Job and h is three Daughters" < #394 >

87 "The Last Supper" < #424 >

88 "The Last Judgment; an elaborate work " <# 639, " A Vi sion of the Last Judgment" > [ £6.16.6 to Stirling]

89 "The Fall of Man <# 641 >; a capital drawing " [ £6.6.0 to do ]

90 "Angels Guarding a Body ; ditto " <# 500, "Christ in the Sepulcher, Guarded by Angels" > [ £3.17.6 to Strange]

91 "Death on the Pale Horse < #517 >; spirite d " [ £1.17.6 to Colnaghi]

92 "Casting Lots for the Garments " <# 495, "The Soldiers Casting Lots for Christ's Garment" > [14s to Milnes]

93 " P ROCESSION OF C ANTERBURY P ILGRIMS <# 653 > with explanations by the artist " [ Descriptive Catalogue (O) ] [ £10.10.0 to Stirling ] [165]

94 "Infant Jesus on the Cross" <# 411, "The Christ Child Asleep on the Cross" > [with l ot 95 , £1 to Stirling]

95 "The Serpent Tempting Eve" <# 379, "E ve Tempted by the Serpent ">

96 "The Church and Chr ist" <# 432 > [with l ot 97 for 10s to Golding]

97 "Flight into Egypt" < #404 >

98 "Milton's Comus, 8 <# 528 1-8 >, with the artist's de s criptions" [166] [ £6.6.0 to Strange]

99 "Ditto l'Allegro and Il Penseroso, 12, ditto ” < #543 > [ £7.7.0 to Milnes]

100 "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" <# 531, "Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve "> [11s to Bohn]

101 "Famine" < #196 > [16s to Strange]

102 "Sacrifice of Isaac <# 109, "Abraham and Isaac "> and 7 drawings" <# 84 , Seven Shake spearean Subjects > [ £1.3.0 to Bohn]

103 "Satan in his former Glory" <# 469, "Satan in His Original G lory: 'Thou Wast Perfect Till Iniquity Was Found in Thee "> [ bought in by Thomas]

104 "The Burning Bush" <# 441, "Moses at the Burning Bush" > [7s to Bohn]

105 "Samson and De lilah" <# 453, "Samson Breaking His Bonds" > [12s to Strange]

106 "The Man of God and Jeroboam" <# 460, "Jeroboam and the Man of God "> [7s to Bohn]

107 "St Paul and the Viper" < #510 > [12s to Bohn]

108 "Moses Striking t he Rock" <# 445 > [15s to do ]

109 "The Seven [ Golden ] Candlesticks" < #514 > [ £1.1 1 .0 to do ]

110 "Baptism" <# 485, "Christ Baptising" > [ £1.15.0 to do ]

111 "The Creation " < #433 , "The Creation of Light > [18s to "Ellarton[?] [167] 129 Mount St" ]

112 "Saul and Sa muel" < #458 , "The Ghost of Samuel Appearing to Saul "> [7s to "HB" (H. Bohn) ]

113 "The Baptism of Christ" <# 475 > [19s to Strange]

114 "The Woman Taken in Adultery" < #486 > [ 11s to do ]

115 "Jesus and Martha" <# 488, "Mary Magdalene Wa shing Christ's Feet" > [11s to HB ]

116 "The Ten Comm andments" < #448 , "God Writing upon the Tables of the Covenant "> [ £1.10.0 to do ]

117 "The Burial of Moses " < #449 , "The Devil Rebuked: The Burial of Moses" > [ £1.6.0 to Strange]

118 "The Saviour and Satan" <# 476, "The Third Temptation "> [ £ 1.17.0 to HB]

119 "Pestilence" <# 442, "Pestilence: The Death of the First- Born" > [ £1. 1 1.0 to Strange]

120 "The Fiery Serpent s " < #447 , "Moses Erecting the Brazen Serpent" > [ £1.12.0 to HB]

121 "'He rode upon the Cherubim'" <# 462, "David Delivered Out of Many Waters: 'He Rode upon the Cherubim "> [ £ 1.2.0 to Money]

122 "The King of Babylon" <# 467, "The King of Babylon in Hell: 'Hell from Beneath is Moved for Thee' "> [ £ 1, "73", i.e., Strange]

123 "David and Goliath" <# 457, "Goliath Cursing David "> [17s to HB]

124 " Two -- The Cruci fi xion < #497 , "The Crufixion: 'Behold Thy Mother'" > and Christ in the Sepulcher" <# 498, "The Entombment" > [ £1.10.0, bought in by Thomas]

125 "The W[h] irlwind from the Revelation" <# 468, "Ezekiel's Wheels "> [ £ 1.2.0 to HB]

126 "Moses and Pharoah's Daughter" < #440 , "The Finding of Moses" > [18s, bought in by Thomas ]

126* "The King of the Jews" <# 493, "Christ Crowned wi th Thorns: 'The King of the Jews'" > [15s, bought in by Thomas]

127 "Holy Family" <# 471, "The Holy Family: 'Christ in the Lap of Truth' "> [ £ 1.1.0 to "Bohn H G"]

128 "Infant Jesus Praying" <# 473, "The Infant Jesus Saying His Prayers: 'And the Grace of God was Upon Him' "> [ £ 2.16.0 to H.B.]

129 "Simeon and the Infant Jesus" <# 470, "The Presentation in the Temple: 'Simeon Was Not to See Death Before He Had Seen the Christ "> [14s to ditto]

130 "Felix and Drusilla" <# 508, "St Paul Before Felix and Drusilla" > [12s to Strange]

131 "The Plague" <# 193, "Pestilence" > [ £1.4.0 to do ]

132 "Raising the Widow's Son" <# 483, "Christ Raising t he Son of the Widow of Nain "> [17s, bought in by Thomas]

133 "The Waters of Babylon" <# 466, "By the Waters of Babylon "> [ £ 1.1.0 to H.G. Bohn]

134 "The Angel at the Tomb" <# 501, "The Angel Rolling the Stone Away from the Sepulchre "> [ £ 2.6.0 to Strange]

135 "One from Hervey's Medit ations" <# 770, "Epitome of James Hervey's M editations Among the Tombs "> [ £2.10.0 to Money]

136 " Judgment of Pa ris" <# 675 > [17 s 6 d, bought in by Thomas]

137 "Queen Catherine's Dream" <# 247, "The Vision of Queen Katharine" > [ £2.17.6 to HGB]

138 "The Crucifixion" < #496 , " Christ Nailed to the Cross: The Third Hour "> [13s to do ]

139 "Nine from Milton" <# 536 3-9, 11-12, Illustrations to Paradise Lost : "Christ Offers to Redeem Man", Sa tan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve", "Adam and Eve Asleep", "Raphael Warns Adam and Eve", "The Rout of the Rebel Angels", "The Temptation and Fall of Eve", "Michael Foretel ling the Crucifixion", "The Expulsion of Ada m and Eve from the Garden of Eden" > [ £17.6.6 to Strange]

140 "Two -- Miracles of Loaves and Fishes <# 416 >, and The Circumcision" < #403 > [16s. to C. Martin]

141 " Three -- Christ and his Disciples <# 423 >, St Mark < #397 > , and St John" <# 399 > [6s, bought in by Thomas]

142 " Three -- Beheading of St John [ the Baptist ] < #477 > , Holy Family <# 671, "The Holy Family : 'Christ in the Lap of Truth' ">, in colours ; and Christ and a Heavenly Choir" < #490, "The Hymn of Christ and the Apostles" > [ £ 1.2.6, bought in by do ]

143 "Blair's Grave, illustrated ; Young's Night Thoughts, ditto; The Canterbury Pilgrims an engra v ing, and port-folio" [ £ 2.2.0 to Wood]

144 "Two Theatrical P ortraits , Cooke and Kemble" < #691 > [8s , no buyer]

1853 October 16

Messrs. English & Son , Catalogue of the Costly and Highly Interesting Effects of John Hugh Smyth Pigott , Esq., Comprising The Very Select and Valuable Library of Several Thousand Volumes ... The Live and Dead Stock, &c. &c., Sold by Auction (1853)

253 Jerusalem [D], quarto [not sold]

260 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [I], quarto [not sold]

261 "The Book of Thei" [C], quarto [not sold]

1853 December 19-24

Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, [168] Catalogue of the Remaining Portion of the Valuable Library of the Late John Hugh Smyth Pigott , Esq., of Brockley Hall, Somerset ... (London, 1853) <Bodley, Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

Day 1

Quarto

300 "BLAKE (Wm) . THE BOOK OF THIEL [C], with coloured vignettes in his own singular style , RARE 1789" [ £ 3.2.0 to Kerslake]

301 "BLAKE (Wm.) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [I], 27 pages printed in various colours, with vignettes in colours and gold, presenting a very singular appearance , R ARE (1800)" [ £4.16.0 to Kerslake]

352 "BLAKE ( William) JERUSALEM. The Emanation of the Giant Albion [D], plates * * * The scarcest and one of the most extended works (100 sheets) of this singular artist." [ £4.16.0 to Bohn]

353 "BLAKE (W.) ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. 21 PLATES on India paper , LARGE PAPER PROOFS, imp. size, 1825"

After 1853 December

Thomas Kerslake 's Catalogue of Books Bristol (Bristol) <Bodley> [169]

The Book of Thel [C] " printed from plates engraved in relief, with illustrations in colours half calf , 4to 4 l s 4 "

Marriage of Heaven and Hell Compositions, with [I] , "26 inscriptions, printed by himself in colour from plates engraved in relief , 4to ... cloth, 6 l s . 6 "

733 Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience , coloured, plus , coloured [i.e., Songs (F)], in one octavo half calf volume

These remarkable works are entirely printed from blocks of metal, several for each subject for different colours, [170] engraved in relief as wood-cuts are done. They were composed, engraved, and printed entirely by his own hand, assisted by his wife. This copy was prepared by him expressly for an intimate friend, [171] and has many touches and tints added, and the effect heightened &c. by him.

Inside the cover is a long and very interesting letter from him to the late owner . [172]

1854 March 8

Messrs. Foster and Son , [173] Ancient and Modern Pictures, Part by direction of the Executors: Catalogue of A Collection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish & English Pictures, ... including ... A Few Drawings by the late Mr. W. Blake (London, 1854) <Victoria & Albert Museum >

13 "Four -- The Nativity < Butlin #401 >; Christ and the Seven Virgins <# 430 >, &c [ £1.1.0, bought in]

14 "Three -- Satan in his former glory <# 469, "Satan in His Original Glory: 'Thou Wast Perfect Till Iniquity Was Found in Thee" > ; The Crucifixion < #497 , "The Crufixion: 'Behold Thy Mother'" > ; Christ in the Sepulchre " < #498 , "The Entombment" > [10s , bought in by Thomas ]

15 "Two -- Moses and Pharoah's Daughter < #440 , "The Finding of Moses" > ; The King of the Jews" < #493 , "Christ Crowned with Thorns: 'The King of the Jews'" > [18s, bought in]

16 "Two -- Raising the Widow's Son < #483 , "Christ Raising t he Son of the Widow of Nain "> ; The Judgment of Pa ris" <# 675 > [10s , bought in by Thomas ]

17 "Five -- Christ and his Disciples < #423 > ; St. Mark < #397 > , and St. John <# 399 > ; two Theatrical Portraits Cook and Kemble" < #691 > [11s to Dean]

18 "Three -- Beheading of St. John <# 477, "The Beheading of John the Baptist "> ; Holy Family <# 671, "The Holy Family: 'Christ in the Lap of Truth'" > , in colours ; Christ and a Heavenly Choir" <# 490, "The Hymn of Christ and the Apostles" > [4s , bought in ]

1854 March

Bernard Quaritch , [174] No. 76 Bernard Quaritch's Catalogue of Rare, Valuable & Curious Books, Works of Art, Etc. (London, 1854) <Biblioteca La Solana>

6 Blair, The Grave hf. (1808), " b d ", £1.1.0

1854 May 24

Puttick & Simpson, C atalogue (London, 1854)

95 "Blake (William) AMERICA, A Poem [B], wholly engraved, with illustrative vignettes, frontispiece Folio Lambeth, printed by William Blake in the year 1793. One of the most curious and scarce of the works of this gifted arti s t ” [ £ 5]

1854 June 7-30

Southgate and Barret , Ancient and Modern Pictures, Part by direction of the Executors. Catalogue of the very extensive, highly important Stock of Engravings, Water-Colour Drawings, and Books of Prints, of Mr. [ Joseph ] Hogarth of the Haymarket (London, 1854) <British Library>

Day 1

237 "Children at the Grave of their Parent" < Butlin #137 , "Burial scene >, "The Death of Abel" < #665, and 4 others > [11s to H. Palser]

Day 2

643 "Twelve elaborate subjects, designed to illustrate a Work, the subject unknown" < #198 1-12, Tiriel > [ £ 3 to Morley]

Day 3

1,095 " Historical Subjects . . . 13"

Day 4

1,521 "The Departure of L ot <# 49, "Moses and the Table of Stone" >, and Moses on the Mount" < #841 > [18s to Harrison]

Day 5

1,922 "The Almighty ac cusing Eve" <# 292, "Satan Exulting Over Eve" , colour print >, in colours " [18s to Palser]

Day 6

2,363 "The Last Judgment < # 645 ? > , in colours"

Day 7

2,784 "The Plague, in colours " < #185 , [175] "Pestilence" , colour print > [£1 to Olwen]

Day 8

3,270 "Fall of the Damned < #84 4 >, The Agony in the Garden < #843 > , and 1 other, in colours " [£1.3.0 to Palser]

Day 9

3705 "Subject from the Apocalypse, in colours "

Day 10

4,180 "Dream of Death < #853 > , Worshippers of the Sun < #85 9 , Three Bowed Figures Worshipping the Sun" > , The Genius of Morning < #73 , Study for "Glad Day" > , &c [176] " [4 in all] [11s or 6s to H. Palser]

Day 11

4,624 "Destroying Angel <# 186, "War Unchained by an Angel ..." >, The Plague < #184 , "Pestilence ">, Witch of Endor <# 74 >, &c. [177] " ["8" in all] [13s to Cowieson ]

Day 12

5,068 "Fuseli ... The Worship of the Dog-Star, a sketch Blake , with the Drawing made from it by " < #173 , "The Fertilization of Egypt" > [5s to Edsall]

5,082 "Frontispiece to Blair's Grave <# 614 "Sketch for Alternative Title-Page ">, the first idea Urizen , and various other Designs for his Book, &c" <#56, "Non Angli sed Angeli" > , "a Young Woman Reclining on a Couch, Writing in a Book" < #147 > , "Macbeth and the Ghost of Banquo" < #154 > , sketch for pl. 22 < #231 > , Landscape < #374 > , "The Fall of Fair Rosamund" < #607 > , and [12] various other Designs for his Books, etc." < #614 > , "The Soul Hovering over the Body Reluctantly Parting with Life" for Blair's Grave < #625 > , sketches for "The Bard" < #656 > , sketch for "The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi" < #822 > , "22" [ in all] [ 16s to Edsall]

Day 13

5,509 "Archimedes" < #307 , " Newton", colour print >, in colours" [8s to H. Palser]

Day 17

7,112 "Our Saviour app earing to His Disciples < #327 , "Christ Appearing to the Apos t les After the Resurrection" colour print >, in colours " [8s to M. Sharp]

Day 18

7,553 "Nebuchadnezzar <# 304 , colour print >, in colours ” [£2.7.0 to Graves or £10.10.0 to Proctor [178] ]

1854 October

Bernard Quaritch , No. 85 Bernard Quaritch's catalogue of Valuable Works of Art, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Numismata, Etc. Comprising Fine Galleries, the Engraved Works of Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyke, etc., the Illuminated Works of Kahn, [179] Shaw, Gruner, & Owen Jones; Oriental Drawings, the Architecture of Rome, Genoa, and Sicily; Bible Prints, Old Woodcut Books, also a Collection of Useful Books in General Literature, etc. (London, 1854) <Biblioteca La Solana>

29 Blair, The Grave ("1808" [180] ), "with Memoir ... hf. bd. ... The above is an original copy", 18s.

30 Job proof impressions on India paper, hf. bd (1825), " ", £1.16.0

1854 December 15

Bernard Quaritch , Catalogue No. 74 (London, 1854) <Harvard>

86 Job , £1.16.0

Blair, Grave (1808), £2.12.6

1854 December

Bernard Quaritch , No. 90 Bernard Quaritch's Catalogue of Old Books (London, 1854) <Biblioteca La Solana>

Blair, The Grave (1808) [as in October 1854]

1854 December

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1854) [181]

The Book of The l [D] [ £ 3.2.0]

Jerusalem [D] [ £ 4.16.0]

Marriage of Heaven and Hell [I] [ £ 4.16.0]

1854

John Pearson , Catalogue No 42 ( London , 1854)

First Book of Urizen [C] < Butlin #277 > , £55

1855 April 23-24

Sotheby , Catalogue of A Collector's drawings (London, 1855) <British Library>

71 Adam and Eve lying down, angels soaring over them <? Butlin #839, "Adam and Eve after the Fall", pencil > pencil sketch

72 Naked female and various sketches on both sides [6s to Hamilton]

1855 July 25

George Willis , New Series, No. 100. July 25, 1855 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1855) <Bodley>

62 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, fine original impressions of these celebrated and highly imaginative compositions, with fine portrait by Schiavonetti, [182] imp. 4to. half morocco, uncut, scarce s , ₤1.18 1797"

1855 September 25

George Willis , New Series, No. 102. September 25, 1855 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1855) <Bodley>

3 "ÆSOP'S Fables, with Life, S TOCKDALE'SFINE EDITION, printed with large type, and illustrated with beautiful 112 engravings from designs by calf gilt, fine original copy S TOTHARD , B LAKE , &c. 2 vols. imp. 8vo. , ₤1.10 s 1793"

73 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations to Blair's Grave, with the Poem, 12 fine engravings by Schiovanetti, from Drawings by this remarkable artist, with portrait morocco gilt leaves and borders of , P ROOFS , imp. 4to. gold, and silk linings, by C. Smith , [183] ₤2.2 s-- worth this sum for the binding alone 1808 An original Proof Copy, with list of Subscribers."

366 "GAY'S Fables, with Life, Stockdale's splendid edition, with 70 fine engravings from designs by and B LAKE others calf gilt , 2 vols. imp. 8vo. , ₤1.8 s 1793"

1855 November 25

George Willis , New Series, No. 104. November 25, 1855 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1855) <Bodley>

6 "ÆSOPS F ABLES , with Life, S TOCKDALE'S FINE EDITION , printed with large type, and illustrated with beautiful 112 engravings from designs by new, uncut S TOTHARD , B LAKE , &c. 2 vols. imp. 8vo. , ₤1.8 s 1793"

85 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations to B LAIR'S G RAVE , with the Poem, 12 fine engravings, with portrait by Schiavonetti cloth , roy. 4to. , 18 s 1813"

"'The most original, and in truth the only new and original version of the scr i pture idea of Angels which I have met with, is that of William Blake, a poet painter, somewhat mad as we are told, if indeed madness were not rather "the telescope of truth," a sort of poetical clairvoyance Mrs. Jameson's , bringing the unearthly to him more than to others.' -- Sacred and Legendary Art [1850 ff.]'"

1855

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1855) [184]

America [B] [£2.7.0]

Book of Ahania [B b ] [pl. 2 a-b , 4] [185]

Songs of Innocence and of Experience [P] , “2 vols, 8vo”, “mor.” [£12.5.0]

1856 January 25

Willis & Sotheran , New Series, No. 106. January 25, 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

310 Darwin, Botanic Garden fine engravings by Fuseli, Blake, , " &c s 5 .6 d , 1799"

412 "FLAXMAN'S Classical Illustrations to Homer's Iliad, 4o large and fine outline engravings, by Piroli and Blake, ... bds . 15 s 1805"

1856 February 25

Willis & Sotheran , New Series, No. 107. Fe b ruary 25, 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (1856) <Bodley>

239 "DARWIN'S (Dr.) Works, BEST EDITIONS , with fine engravings by Blake, &c. from designs by Fuseli ... 6 vols. 4to in 4, half calf, neat and uniform, s 18 1794-1800"

1856 March 25

Willis & Sotheran N ew Series , No. 108 March 25, 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

310 G. Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline fine (1796), "24 outlines by Cruikshank and Blake ... bds. [i.e., Cumberland] ", 3s 6d

1856 April 25

Willis & Sotheran , New Series, No. 109. April 25, 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

99 "BLAKE'S (W.) Sublime Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, with the Poem, fine original impressions of these remarkable engravings, imp. 4to. hf bound, uncut, scarce s , ₤1.8 1797"

285 Flaxman's Classical Compositions from Homer, Æschylus, and Hesiod, " nearly beautiful outline engravings by 150 Piroli, Moses, Blake, and Howard fol. in one, , 4 vols. handsomely bound in morocco extra, gilt leaves, s ₤4.15 1831, &c."

297 "GAY'S (J.) Fables, S TOCKDALE'S F INE E DITION , printed with large type, on thick vellum paper, with 70 beautiful engravings by Blake, Stothard, Audinet, Wilson, &c. 2 vols. royal 8vo. in one, calf neat s , ₤1.5 1793"

1856 April 28-May 18

Christie , Catalogue of the Works of Art and the Library of Samuel Rogers (London, 1856) <British Library>

1,153 Robert Blair, The Grave (1808), "with a duplicate Plate -- large paper, bds"

1,214 Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline , "presentation copy"

1,245 Hesiod (1817), "presentation copy"

1856 May 25

Willis & Sotheran , New Series, No. 110. May 25 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

109 "BLAKE'S (W.) Sublime Illustrations to Blair's Grave, the fine series of 12 large engravings, by Schiavonetti, original subscription set on large paper, folio in a portfolio, hf. morocco , 14 s 1808"

367 Flaxman, Homer, Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), "74 large oval fine spiritual outline engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c s ... ₤1.18 "

368 Flaxman, Hesiod outlines engraved under (1817), "38 ... Flaxman's immediate inspection by W. B LAKE ", 18s

1856 June 25

Willis & Sotheran, NS, CXI A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

Lots 1-520 are from the library of Samuel Rogers [186]

232 Hayley, Essay on Sculpture beautiful engravings by (1800), " W. B LAKE ", 8s 6d

1856 August 25

Willis & Sotheran, NS, No. CXIII A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

102 "BLAKE'S (W.) Sublime Illustrations to the Book of Job, 21 fine plates, designed and engraved by this wonderful artist, original impressions ... bds scarce ₤2.2 s 1825"

218 Darwin, Botanic Garden beautiful engravings by Blake, &c ; the Economy of Vegetation, and the Loves of the Plants, " ", 2 vols., " thick paper " (1799), 8s

281 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey and , " engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c " [price and date illegible]

508 Ritson's Collection of English Songs and Ballads (1783), " vignettes by S TOTHARD , B LAKE , and H EATH ", ₤1.5.0

1856 September 25

Willis & Sotheran, NS, No. CXIV A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... (1856) <Bodley>

183 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), " engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c " , ₤1.16.0

437 Stedman, Surinam (1796), ₤1.10.0

1856 November 25

Willis & Sotheran, NS, No. CXVI A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... in Perfect Library Condition, on Sale at Very Low Prices ... ( 1856) <Bodley>

104 "BLAKE'S (W.) Sublime Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts" (1797), " bds uncut ", ₤1.10.0

454 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (" 1781-1801" [187] ), 5 vols., ₤8.8.0

633 Rees. Cyclopedia (1819), 45 vols., ₤7.10.0

675 Shakespeare, Dramatic Works , ed. Johnson, Steevens, and Read, 21 vols., " WITH UPWARDS OF 400 EXTRA ENGRAVINGS ", ₤9.18.0

1856 December 25

Willis & Sotheran , New Series, No. CXVII. December 25, 1856 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (1856) <Bodley>

148 "BLAKE'S (W.) Sublime Illustrations to Blair's Grave, with the Poem, LARGE PAPER, WITH I NDIA P ROOFS of the fine 12 etchings by Schiavonetti, and portrait after Phillips, russia, gilt leaves, by C. Smith, fine original copy, impl. 4to. scarce, s ₤1.8 1808"

275 Catullus, Latin and English verse, tr. Nott (1795) 7s 6d

637 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (" 1789-1801"), 4 vols., " UNCUT ", ₤7.10.0

1857 February 25

Willis and Sotheran , New Series, No. CXIX. February 25, 1857 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (1857) <Bodley>

104 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations of the Book of Job, CHOICE PROOFS of the remarkable engravings, 21 folio ... very scarce s , ₤2.12 (pub. ₤6.6 s ) 1825"

364 "GAY'S Fables, S TOCKDALE'S F INE EDITION, printed in large type, with 70 beautiful engravings by Blake, Stothard, Wilson, Audinet, &c . 2 vols. impl. 8vo. in 1, calf [price illeg] 1793"

1857 March 25

Willis and Sotheran , New Series, No. CXX. March 25, 1857 Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (1857) <Bodley>

91 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, with the Poem, fine original impressions of these remarkable engravings , 1 vol. 4to. half. calf gilt, scarce s , ₤1.16 1797"

92 "BLAKE'S Illustrations of the Book of Job, the complete set of the 21 sublime illustrations drawn and engraved by W. Blake , roy. 4to. sewed s , ₤1.16 1826

93 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations to Blair's Grave, with the Poem, portrait and large engravings, by Schiavonetti, fine 12 impressions hf. morocco , impl. 4to. , ₤1.5 s 1808"

332 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), "74 large and fine spirited outline engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle &c. ... bds s . ₤1.12 "

1857

Evans & Sons , Catalogue (London, 1857)

658 Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims <Essick E8>, ₤ 2.2.0

1857

648 The Canterbury Pilgrims; oblong sheet, fine impression and very scarce , £2 2s. W. Blake .

1857

Henry Sotheran , Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1857) <New York Public Library>

585 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations to B LAIR'S GRAVE, with the Poem, 12 fine engravings from the sublime compositions by Blake, with portrait by Schiavonetti , roy. 4to, cloth s , 18 1813"

1545 "DARWIN'S (Dr.) Botanic Garden... beautiful engravings by Blake, c. from Fuseli's Designs, thick paper 2 vols. 8vo. calf gilt, fine copy , 8 s 1799"

2023 "FLAXMAN'S Comp o sitions from H ESIOD , 38 fine large outlines, engraved under Flaxman's immediate inspection by W B LAKE ... bds. s 18 ... 1817"

After 1857 December [188]

Thomas Kerslake, Valuable Books and Manuscripts Literary Curiosities

733 Songs of Innocence Songs of , coloured, plus Experience Songs , coloured [ (E)], in one octavo half calf volume; "These remarkable works are entirely printed from blocks of metal, several for each subject for different colours, [189] engraved in relief as wood-cuts are done. They were composed, engraved and printed entirely by his own hand, assisted by his wife. This copy was prepared by him expressly for an intimate friend, and has many touc hes and tints added, and the effects heigh t ened &c. by him."

A "long and very interesting letter" to George Cumberland [perhaps the one of 1 September 1800] is inserted in the Songs .

1857

Evans & Sons , Catalogue (London, 1857)

648 Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims [ £2.2.0]

[1858?]

John Pearson , Catalogue No. 6 (London [?1858 ] ) <Grolier Club, N.Y .>

33 Letter of 31 March 1826 to Linnell, £3.3.0

34 Letter to Hayley, 13 December 1803, partly quoted, £5.5.0

35 Five letters from Flaxman to Hayley, 1800-1808, all referring to Blake, £3.3.0

[After 1858] [190]

There is no separate title page, and the lots are set out in double columns per page.

276 "BLAKE'S (Wm.) Illustrated edition of Young's Night Thoughts; folio, full bound in morocco , £2 2s Lond. 1797"

276* "------ Ditto, half bound calf uncut , £2 2s Ibid."

277 "Blake's Illustrations of Blair's Grave, with the poem, portrait of the artist, and fine plates by Schiavonetti, 4to, bds. uncut, 18s. Lond. 1808"

278 "------ Ditto, 4to half bound 25s Ibid"

279 "------ Ditto, large paper, proof impressions , with portrait of the artist, on India paper, royal 4to, half bound morocco elegant, £1 15s Ibid"

1859 March 25

Christie & Manson , Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Modern Engravings [and drawings] ( L ondon, 1859) <Christie>

119* "Design for the frontispiece to Blair's Grave <? Butlin #611 or 612, "An Angel with a Trumpet ">, and various other drawings and prints, by W. Blake 18" [£2.8.0 to Noseda]
120 "Time <?# 866, "A Life Study: Time ">, and three others" [£1.11.6 to Evans]

121 "Scene from the Revelation" [£1.2.5 to Evans]

1859 May 15

Bernard Quaritch , The Museum , No. 147 (London, 1859) <Harvard>

Songs of Innocence and of Experience The World Turned [G], bound in half red morocco, uncut, with Upside Down , £10.10.0

1859 June 16-20

Puttick and Simpson , Catalogue of the Manuscript Library of the late Dawson Turner , Esq. ... comprising the matchless collection of upwards of forty thousand Autograph Letters (London, 1859) <Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.>

676 " A UTOGRAPHS : S ECOND S ERIES ; 6 vols. russia extra, with joints, gilt edges (the binding of some volumes broken) Containing, amongst many others, autographs of ... Blake, Wm., A.L . S . [ 9 June ] 18 18 £24"

1859

Willis and Sotheran, A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... on Sale at Remarkably Low Prices (1859) <New York Public Library and Princeton>

46 "Æsop's Fables, with Life, S TOCKDALE'S Fine Edition, printed in large type with 112 beautiful engravings by Blake, [191] Stothard, Landseer, &c hf. calf, neat, . 2 vols. impl. 8vo, scarce s , ₤1.1 , 1793"

744 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations to Blair's Grave, with the Poem, 12 fine engraving from the sublime compositions by Blake ... cloth , 18 s. hf. morocco -- another copy, , ₤1.10 s . 1813"

924 "B OYDELL'S SHAKESPEARE GALLERY,100 very large and beautiful plates " (1803), 2 vols., ₤7.10.0

2,022 G. Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796), 9s 6d

2,023 G. Cumberland, Outlines from the Ancients large and fine outline engravings ... by (1829) "with 81 W. B LAKE , &c. I NDIA P ROOFS , L ARGE P APER ", 18s.

2,867 "FLAXMAN'S Classical Compositions for H OMER , Æ SCHYLUS , and H ESIOD , nearly beautiful outline 150 engravings by Piroli, Moses, Blake, and Howard ", 4 vols. in 2, "1805 &c", ₤4.10.0

2,868 "FLAXMAN'S Compositions from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey [1805], 74 ... engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c ", ₤1.16.0

2,870 "FLAXMAN'S Classical Compositions from the Iliad of Homer [1805], 39 fine engravings by Blake and Piroli ", 15s

3,100 Gay, Fables with (1793) " 70 elegant engravings by W. Blake, &c ", 18s

1860 February 24

Bernard Quaritch , Museum No. 156 (London, 1860) <Harvard>

5,400 Songs of Innocence and of Experience The World [G and N ], quarto, 40 plates, bound in half red morocco, uncut, with several volumes including Turned Upside Down , £8.10.0

1860 February 29-March 9

Sotheby , Catalogue of the "Large Collection of Engravings & Drawings" of Walter E. Tiffin , "An Old- Established Printseller, Relinquishing General Business" (London, 1860)

Day 9

1,826 "Joseph 's Brethren Bowing Before Him" < Butlin #155 >, "Joseph Ordering Simeon to Be Bound" <# 156 >, and "Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren" <# 157 > [ £10.5.0 to Palser (for J.H. Chance)]

1860 October 8 ff.

J. Sabin & Co., Bibliotheca Dramatica. Catalogue of the Theatrical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late William E [ vans ] Burton , the Distinguished Comedian, Comprising an Immense Assemblage of Books Relating to the Stage ... To Be Sold at Auction ... On Monday, October 8, 1860, and following days (N.Y., 1860).

2,717 Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works , 3 vols. (1798), in half calf; “This copy belonged to the celebrated artist who is so well known as the artist of Blair’s Grave, and other works”; “it is full and running over with marginal notes, all” “written with all the spirit of a good hater”. Blake’s note on the title page is quoted, as are passages about him by Charles Lamb and Mrs Jameson

1860

Bernard Quaritch , [192] A Catalogue of Books in All Classes of Literature, many of them Rare, Valuable and Curious (London, 1860) <Astor Library [New York Public Library]>

5 , 400 Songs of Innocence and of Experience most remarkable [G and N] ( 1789-94), "coloured by the Author, 2 vols. in 1, 4to 40 engravings, half red morocco, uncut ... Bound up with the volume is a scarce work, 'The World turned upside down,' in 28 plates, from the designs of G. Salviati, engraved by F.C. Lewis, 1822", £8.10.0

1861 January 25

Willis and Sotheran, No. CLXVI, A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices ... (London, 1861) <Michigan>

81 "BLAKE'S Illustrations to Blair's Grave, with the Poem, and Life ... from the sublime compositions of Blake (1813), 15s; "Another copy, PROOFS, LARGE PAPER ", ₤1.5.0

1861 February 25

Willis and Sotheran, No. CLXVII, A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices ... (London, 1861) <Michigan>

79 "BLAKES (W.) Illustrations to B LAIR'S G RAVE , with the Poem, ... from the sublime compositions by Blake " (1808), 18s

1861 March 25

Willis and Sotheran, No. CLXVIII, A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices ... (London, 1861) <Michigan>

4 "ÆSOP'S Fables, with Life, S TOCKDALE'S FI NE E DITION ... with beautiful engraving by Blake, Landseer, &c., large 112 copy " (1793), [193] ₤1.11.0

1861 March 25

Willis and Sotheran, No. CLXVIII, A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices ... (London, 1861) <Michigan>

4 "ÆSOP'S Fables, with Life, S TOCKDALE'S FI NE E DITION ... with beautiful engraving by Blake, Landseer, &c., large 112 copy " (1793), [194] ₤1.11.0

1861 November 25

Willis and Sotheran , A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices ... (London, 1861) <Michigan>

308 Flaxman's Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), with "74 ... spirited engravings, by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c ", ₤1.10.0

1862 April 9

Christie , Catalogue of the Whole of the Remaining Original Models, by John Flaxman ... also Books, Engravings, Bronzes (London, 1862) <Christie>

142 Blake, The Grave (1808)

153 Hayley, Essay on Sculpture

1862 April 10-11

Christie, Manson & Woods , Catalogue of the whole of the celebrated Drawings and Remaining Works of the great sculptor, John Flaxman , R.A., comprising upwards of Six Hundred Drawings (London, 1862)

450 "A sketch-book, with slight pencil sketches of family groups and portraits, the latter including Fuseli ... Blake ...", 33 pp.

1862 April 29

Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson , Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Engravings, Drawings and Pictures, chiefly from the cabinet of An Amateur; [195] comprising ... Original Drawings and Sketches by W. Blake (London, 1862) <British Library>

"Original Drawings and Sketches, By W. Blake."

158 "The Contest between Michael and Satan < Butlin # 103, "Warring Angels: Michael Contending with Satan" > , &c. in indian ink , &c. 7 [drawings]" [7s to Rowbotham]

159 "Satan, Sin, and Death < #101 > ; Spirit rising from the Tomb < # 616, for Blair's Grave > , &c. 8 < drawings, # 362, "Sketch f or the Headpiece to 'The Eagle'"; #530, "Satan, Sin and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell"; #539, "Sketch for 'The Descent of Peace'; #678A, "Sketches for Rees's Cyclopaedia", and three others > " [7s to Smith]

160 "The Spirit of Nelson guiding Behemoth < # 650, "Sketch for 'The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan'" > ; Studies for Ugolino < # 207 > , &c. very fine 5 [drawings]" [9s to do]

161 "The original reduced Drawing of the Canterbury Pilgrimage < # 654 > , from which he engraved his plate" [ ₤ 1.2.0 to Toovey]

162 "A Female Figure in the Clouds < # 92, "A Crowned Woman Amid Clouds with a Demon Starting Away" > , &c. in pencil, very fine 8 [drawings]" [7s to Smith]

163 "Original Sketch for the title to Blair's Grave < # 609 > , The Soul Hovering over the Body < # 62 8 > , Death's Door < # 227, "Five Sketches for 'America' and Other Works", with 4 others > , &c. 7 [drawings]" [11s to Rowbotham]

164 "Job and his Friends " , two different designs, &c < #163, 'The Complaint of Job" and #164, "The Complaint of Job: 'What Is Man that Thou Shouldest Try Him Every Moment? ’ "; #165, "The Death of Ezekiel's Wife"; and #166, "The Death of Ezekiel's Wife" > in indian ink 4 [drawings]" [ ₤ 1.9.0 to Palgrave]

165 "Lady Macbeth and Duncan < # 249 > , Angels conducting the

Souls of the Just to Paradise < # 852 > , &c. in indian ink 4 drawings ]" [13s to Palser]

166 "Subject from Isaiah < # 145, "The King of Babylon in Hell" > , The Spirit of a Just Man appearing to his Family < # 135 > &c. 4 < drawings, including # 159, "Two Sketches for 'Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren'" > [10s to Fisher]

167 "Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law < # 111 > , &c. 4

[drawings]" [11s to Palser]

168 "Laocoon < # 680 > , an elaborate design, partly coloured " [8s to (George A.) Smith]

169 "Robinson Cruso e discovering the foot mark < # 140 > , The Good Farmer giving away his Corn < # 124 > , &c. in indian ink 5 [ drawings] " [5s to Rowbotham]

170 "A Pestilence < #190 > , and other designs < #113, "The Elders of Israel Receiving the Ten Commandments"; #119A, "Goliath Cursing David", plus 3 others > , in indian ink 6 [drawings]" [14s to Toovey]

171 "Queen Emma walking over the red hot Ploughshares < # 59, "The Ordeal of Queen Emma > and Jane Shore doing Penance < # 69, "The Penance of Jane Shore in St Paul's Church" > , b oth highly finished in colours " > [ ₤ 1.7.0 to do]

172 "The Black Prince introducing John of France to his Father < # 65 > , Sacrifice of Manoah < #116 > , and others < #51, "The Landing of Brutus in England"; #52, "A Landing in Britain"; #57, "St Augustine Converting King Ethelbert of Kent"; #60, "The Death of Earl Goodwin"; #62, "The Making of Magna Charta"; #64, "The Keys of Calais"; #120A, "The Good Farmer"; #197A, "Searching Among the Dead on a Battlefield" > , in colours and indian ink 9 [drawings ]" [19s to Col. Weston]

173 "The Soul hov'ring over the Body < # 627 > , The Last Trumpet

< # 617 >, "A Soul at the Door of Paradise" < #131 > ; "Death of a Voluptuary" < #626 > ; and 2 others, in pen and indian ink 6 [drawings]" [18s to Palgrave]

174 "Ugolino < #208, "Ugolino: 'Does Thy God, O Priest, Take Such Vengeance as This?" > , Abraham and Isaac < #108 > , Michael Angelo Contending with Satan < # 104, "Warring Angels: Michael Contending with Satan" ; # 93 , "A Woodland Encounter"; #102 , "Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos"; #107, "Adam and Eve"; #139, "The Bed of Death" > , &c. 8 [drawings]" [9s to Col. Weston]

175 "The Witch of Endor raising the Spirit of Samuel < ? # 74 > , in colours " [ ₤ 1.10.0 to Toovey]

176 "Job Sacrificing for his Friends < # 552, "Job's Sacrifice", plus #553, "Every Man Also Gave Him a Piece of Money, Alternative Comp o sition ” ;and #556, "Job and His Daughters > , three different designs, in colours " [15s to Col. Weston]

177 "A Subject from early English History < # 66, "Edward III Presenting the Black Prince to the Barons" > , highly finished

in colours ; and two others " [ ₤ 1.6.0 to Rowbotham]

178 "Portrait of Hayley, the sculptor < # 345, "Thomas Alphonso Hayley" > , Portrait of Romney < # 349 > , Sketch of a Shipwreck < # 350, "'The Shipwreck'; After Romney > , in indian ink , &c 8 [drawings]" [13s to Ford]

179 "Designs for the Last Judgment < #643, plus 2 of #644, #646, #647 > 3 [drawings]" [15s to Palser]

180 "The Eagle and Child " < # 363, "'The Eagle' Frontispiece, Finished Drawing ], in indian ink; in colours British Captives exposed for sale in Rome < # 55, "Non Angli sed Angeli" > , " [ ₤ 1.0.0 to do]

181 "Four of Blake's imaginary Heads of eminent Persons he

d eclared he called up in Vision < # 764 > , a Lion attacking a Man and Woman < # 365 > , &c. 5 [drawings]" [9s to Milnes M.]

182 "An Allegorical Subject -- a Man holding a child, with a chained demon issuing from a fiery abyss < # 324, "The Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child" , colour print > , highly finished in colours " [ ₤ 1.16.0 to Toovey]

183 "An Allegorical Drawing, in indian ink -- a Winged Figure

grasping thunderbolts" < # 778, "A Destroying Deity: A Winged Figure Grasping Thunderbolts" > [ ₤ 1.3.0 to Col. Weston]

184 "A Design, apparently intended in illustration of a tale [ not in Butlin ], highly finished in indian ink " [ ₤ 2.12.0 to Toovey]

185 "A Man and Female Figure < # 91, "Age Teaching Youth" > , and another poetical design < # 287, "Lucifer and the Pope in Hell: 'The Lord Hath Broken the Staff of the Wicked", colour-print > <Essick 1B> , both in colours " [15s to Harvey]

186 "The Resurrection < # 326, "Christ Appearing to the Apostles After the Resurrection" , colour print > , highly finished in colours " [ ₤ 2.10.0 to Palser]

187 "A S ERIES OF TWENTY-EIGHT D ESIGNS FOR THE P ILGRIM'S P ROGRESS < # 829 1-28 > , nineteen of them highly finished in colours " [ ₤ 13.10.0 to Milnes]

188 " A Vision of the Lazar House " < # 322, "The House of Death", colour print > , a large design, highly finished in colours " [ ₤ 1.11.0 to Palser]

189 "Elijah about to ascend in his Chariot < # 296, "God Judging Adam", colour-print > , a large design in colours " [ ₤ 1.14.0 to Col. Weston]

190 "The Transformation of Nebuchadnezzar < # 302, "Nebuchadnezzar " , colour-print > , a large drawing in colours, highly finished " [ ₤ 4.0.0 to Palgrave]

191 "Subjects from his published works, highly finished in

colours Jerusalem 5 ” < designs, # 273, "'Europe', title-page: fragment of touched proof" , plus perhaps pl. 25, 32, 41, 47 > [8s to Col. Weston]

192 "Others 5 < designs, # 882 ? > " [6s to Rowbotham]

193 "Others 5 < designs, # 882 ? > " [2s to do]

194 "Others, highly characteristic 3 [designs ]" [8s to Smith]

195 "Songs of Innocence and Experience [i] 43 [ ₤ 4.6.0 to Toovey]

196 "Another set [d] , wanting three plates 40 [designs]" [ ₤ 1.6.0 to do]

197 "Plates for a small work, some duplicates There is No Natural Religion 50 [designs]" [ (B) ] [16s to Milnes]

198 "Original Sketches and Studies, for many of his published designs, c. 12 < designs, # 882 > " [2s to Rowbotham]

199 "Others 10 < designs, # 882 > " [2s 6d to do]

200 "Others 15 < designs, perhaps including "Jacob and the Angel, Study for 'Night Thoughts', page 145", #332 ; Sketch for the Headpiece of “Little Tom the Sailor” , #359; Sketch for the Frontispiece to “The Eagle”, #361 > [2s to Harvey]

201 "Others 18 < designs, perhaps including "Death Shaking the Dart--Milton", #106 > " [3s to do]

202 "Others 20 < designs, # 882 > " [3s to Rowbotham]

1862 May 21

Messrs. Foster and Son , Catalogue (London, 1862)

Property of Francis Harvey

11 "The House of Death" < Butlin #321, colour print > [ £ 3.5.0, bought in]

1862 May 25

Willis and Sotheran , A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices No. CLXXXII (1862) <Michigan>

332 Flaxman's compositions for The Iliad Odyssey , the , and Aeschylus, "104 engravings by Piroli, Moses, and Blake", "1805 &c.)", ₤3.10.0

1862 June 25

Willis and Sotheran , [196] No. CLXXXIII A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices (1862) <Michigan>

R ARE V OLUME OF B LAKE'S D ESIGNS

116 "BLAKE'S (W.) A MERICA [S] a P ROPHECY , 18 engravings, engravings 1793--E UROPE a P ROPHECY [N], 15 , [197] 1794-- F IRST B OOK OF U RIZEN [K], 27 engravings engravings , 1794--V ISIONS OF THE D AUGHTERS OF A LBION [S] 11 , 1793--T HE B OOK OF T HEL [S], 7 engravings , 1792, [198] -- in all most 78 remarkable Designs, drawn and engraved by Blake himself, in a peculiar style like engraved drawings , 5 vols. 4to. in one, half calf s , ₤21.10 1792-94"

"A VOLUME OF EXTREME RARITY , from the L IBRARY of J OHN F LAXMAN , the S CULPTOR , with his A UTOGRAPH

The wonderful and sublime powers of the imagination of the gifted and extraordinary painter, William Blake, are most wonderfully displayed in these various works. The entire texts are engraved and interspersed with hundreds of figures of Angels, Dæmons, and other supernatural subjects, in which his genius peculiarly revelled, and in the depiction of which he is unrivalled."

117 "BLAKE'S (W.) [For Children:] T HE G ATES OF P ARADISE [F], 19 remarkably singular and spirited plates, drawn and engraved by Blake himself , sqr stn.[?] 8vo, hf. bd s , RARE . ₤3.10 --(from Flaxman's Library) Published by the Author , 1793"

118 "BLAKE'S (W.) Little Tom the Sailor, 2 very characteristic engravings, the entire poem likewise composed [199] and engraved by Blake . RARE . ₤1.1 s 1800"

1862 October 25

Willis and Sotheran , A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices No. CLXVI (1862) <Michigan>

442 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy bound ( 1789-98), 5 vols., " in russia, gilt, with borders of gold ... The Duke of Norfolk's early subscription copy, testified by H OLLOWAY'S signed receipt for his subscription ... A UTOGRAPH I NSCRIPTION by Lavater inserted", ₤7.10.0

1862 November 25

Willis and Sotheran , A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices No. CLXXVI (1862) <Michigan>

308 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey (1805) and (1805), "74 ... engravings by Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c .", ₤1.10.0

1862 December 19-20

Puttick & Simpson , Catalogue of letters (London, 1862) <British Library>

First Day [200]

28 Blake, William, artist, description of a picture of the last Judgment, autograph signed, Feb 1808, 4 pp., quarto, addressed to O. Humphry "and presented by him to the Earl of Buchan" [ £1. 1 1.0 to Anderdon]

1862 December 25

Willis and Sotheran , [201] A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... on Sale, at Remarkably Low Prices (1862), p. 5.

91 “ RARE VOLUME OF BLAKE’S DESIGNS ” [described as in l ot 116 of their catalogue of 25 June 1862]

92 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations of Blair's Grave [1813], 12 fine engravings from the sublime compositions by Blake ", 15s.

1862

Willis and Sotheran, A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes of Ancient and Modern Books, English and Foreign, in All Classes of Literature and the Fine Arts, including Rare and Curious Books, Manuscripts, etc. in good library condition, many in neat and elegant bindings, now on sale at the very reasonable prices affixed (1862) < Michigan, Princeton, Toronto>

1,369 Blair, The Grave boards, uncut (1813), " ", ₤1.10.0

1,371 Blair, The Grave bds [n.d. given], " ., 16 s calf, gilt leaves, fine copy "; "Another copy [1813], , ₤1.1 s "

1,372 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations of the Book of Job, the complete series of 21 [should be 22 with the title page] plates engraved by this remarkable artist himself, royal 4o, bds scarce ., , ₤2.2 s "

1,373 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, with the Poem, original impressions of these remarkable engravings , impl. 4to. hf. morocco , ₤1.10.0 1797"

3,533 George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796), "24 outline engravings, by W. B LAKE ", 9s 6d

3,534 George Cumberland, Outlines from the Ancients engravings ... by (1829), " W. B LAKE ", 10s 6d; "Another copy", 18s; "Another copy, LARGE PAPER I NDIA P ROOFS ", ₤1.1.0

4,987 John Flaxman, Homer, Æschylus and Hesiod, ₤5.10.0

4,990 John Flaxman, Hesiod engraved under Flaxman's (1817), " inspection by W. Blake ", ₤2.12.6

4,991 John Flaxman, The Iliad Odyssey (1805), (1805), engraved by " Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c ", ₤1.14.0

1862

Willis and Sotheran , A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... at Remarkably Low Prices No. CLXXIX (1862) <Michigan>
91 [ America, Europe, First Book of Urizen, Visions of the Daughters of Albion , and Book of Thel , as in the 25 June 18 62 catalogue]

92 "BLAKE'S (W.) Illustrations of Blair's Grave [1813], 12 fine engravings from the sublime compositions by Blake ", 15s.

1862

1,369 Blair, The Grave boards, uncut (1813), " ", ₤1.10.0

1,371 Blair, The Grave bds [n.d. given], " ., 16 s calf, gilt leaves, fine copy "; "Another copy [1813], , ₤1.1 s "

1,373 "BLAKE'S Sublime Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, with the Poem, original impressions of these remarkable engravings , impl. 4to. hf. morocco , ₤1.10.0 1797"

3,533 George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796), "24 outline engravings, by W. B LAKE ", 9s 6d

3,534 George Cumberland, Outlines from the Ancients engravings ... by (1829), " W. B LAKE ", 10s 6d; "Another copy", 18s; "Another copy, LARGE PAPER I NDIA P ROOFS ", ₤1.1.0

4,987 John Flaxman, Homer, Æschylus and Hesiod, ₤5.10.0

4,990 John Flaxman, Hesiod engraved under Flaxman's (1817), " inspection by W. Blake ", ₤2.12.6

4,991 John Flaxman, The Iliad Odyssey (1805), (1805), engraved by " Piroli, Blake, Neagle, &c ", ₤1.14.0

1863 April 25

Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of Elhanan Bicknell , Esq. (London, 1863) <British Library>

346 Blake and Fuseli, "Two studies of the same figure" <? Butlin #172, "Sketch for Engraving of Michaelangelo After Fuseli on a Drawing by F useli" for Fuseli, Lectures on Painting (1801 )>

1863 April 29-May 1

Christie, Manson & Woods , Catalogue of the Splendid Collection of Water-Colour Drawings, Formed by that distinguished Patron of Art, Elhanan Bicknell , Esq., deceased (London, 1863)

Day 3

346 "W. Blake and H. Fuseli, R A., Two studies of the same figure" < Butlin #173, "The Fertilization of Egypt, After Fuseli "> [ ₤ 1.10.0 to Holloway for the British Museum] Drawings in Indian Ink, by W. Blake

377 "An aged man kneeling, with two other figures" <# 193 3, "Har, Heva and Mnetha" for Tiriel > [9s to Noseda]

378 "The same blessing a blind man; two females behind him" <# 198 4, "Har Blessing Tiriel While Mnetha Comfo r ts Him "> [ 10s to Jupp]

379 "The same sleeping, with two other figures" <# 198 11, "Hela Contemplating Tiriel Dead in a Vineyard "> [13s to d o ]

380 "Figures kneeling near some columns" <# 198 9, "The Death of Tiriel's Sons "> [5s to ( Joseph ) Hogarth]

381 "An aged man with a female in the water; another female reclining on the bank" <# 198 2, "Har and Heva Bathing, Mnetha Looking On "> [9s to S.B(icknell)]

382 "The same, with a female watching a blind man" <# 198 6, "The Blind Tiriel Departing from Har and Heva "> [ ₤ 1.1.0 to ( James ) Leathart]

383 "The same, with a female playing on harps [ sic ]" <# 198 5, "Har and Heva Playing Harps "> [12s to S.B.]

384 "The blind man walking with a female" <# 198 10, "Tiriel Led by Hela "> [15s to Leathart]

385 "The aged man surrounded by kneeling females, cursing a king; and other figures" <# 198 8, "Tiriel Denouncing His Sons and Daughters "> [ ₤ 1.13.0 to Jupp]

386 "The aged man on another's shoulders, addressing a king; and other figures" <# 197 7, "Tiriel, Upheld on the Shoulders of Ijim, Addresses His Children "> [16s to Hodgson]

387 "The same, supporting a female, and addressing a king; and other figures" <# 198 1, "Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons "> [ ₤ 2.4.0 to Leathart]

388 "The Plague" <# 189, "A Breach in a City, the Morning After a Battle "> [ ₤ 2 to (Samuel) Redgrave]

389A "Arctic Regions" [18s to ASB] [202]

1863 July 3-4

Puttick and Simpson , Catalogue (London, 1863)

“Blakiana, The Life of William Blake in MS., extracted from Allan Cunningham, with curious plates, drawings, and scraps” [203] [ ₤15.15.0 ]

1863 November 6

Christie , Catalogue of the late George Blamire (London, 1863)

21 "Blake (W.) [ For the Sexes: large paper ] The Gates of Paradise [G] -- 1793" [8vo] [ ₤ 5.5.0 [204] to Quaritch]

213 "B LAKE'S (W.) J ERUSALEM , T HE E MANATION OF THE G IANT A LBION [E]. With MS. Life and Portrait of the Author and his wife, by F. Tatham -- coloured plates, green mor. with silver clasps, 1804 " [quarto] [ ₤ 50.8.0 [205] to Daniels]

1863 November 7 and 9

Christie , Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Ancient & Modern Pictures, Including Many of High Class, the Property of George Blamire , Esq. Deceased, Barrister-at-Law, Late of Adam Street, Adelphia, and Carlisle (London, 1863) <Christie> Second Day

38 "The Virgin and Child" < Butlin #674, "The Virgin and Child ('The Black Madonna')" > [ ₤ 1.10.0 to Daniell]

120 Two "Drawings-- in colours Europe " < Butlin #299, "Naomi Entreating Ruth and Orpah to Return to the Land of Moab", colour print, and #271, pl. 1: The Ancient of Days, colour print > [ ₤ 5.7.6 to Halsted]

138 “The Horse” < #366 , tempera on copper > [ £ 4.14.6 to H.G. Bohn]

1864 April 28-30

Christie , Catalogue of William Mulready , deceased (London, 1864) <Christie>

86 "A volume containing 49 heads, in pencil, from visions which appeared to him ... at the other end of the book are 16 landscapes, by Varley" < Butlin #692, "The [Smaller] Blake- Varley Sketchbook ” > [ ₤ 5.5.0 to Kempton]

[1864?] [206]

[Francis Harvey] , [F. Harvey's Catalogue of Books] [207] (London, [ 1864 ?] ) <Anderdon Collection, British Museum Print Room>

[1] "Witch of Endor" < Butlin #144 >, after Fuseli, ₤1.10.0

[2] 16 sketches in ink and pencil including "Hector and Andromache" < #180 > , "Plague" < # 192 , "Pestilence" > , "Spirit of Nelson" < #650 > inscribed in Blake's hand on the back "The Spirit of Nelson guiding Leviathan, in whose folds are entangled the Nations of the Earth", ₤3.3.0

[3] Engraved head of Ugolino [208]

[4] Engraved title pa ge, "Lord, have Mercy on us" [ Europe pl. 10], 9 ½ x 6 ½ ", 10s

[5] " Joseph of Arimathea among t he Rocks of Albion " [ H ], ₤1.4.0

[6] Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims (1810), ₤3.3.0

[7] Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims (1810) proof, ₤6.6.0

[8] Ghost of Abel On Homer [B], [B], engraving of an angel sewing and time sweeping ["The Man Sweeping"], engraved plate of "There is no natural religion" [pl. a2], ₤6.6.0

[9] Dante prints, " ARTIST'S PROOFS ", " ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED ", ₤4.4.0

[10] Blair's Grave, ₤4.4.0

[11] Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1803), ₤1.5.0

[12] Gay, Fables (1793), ₤2.5.0]

[13] [Pickering Manuscrip t], 22 pp., ₤15.15.0. "This manuscript had been offered previously to several gentlemen for 25 guineas. F.H. has acquired it, with other objects relating to Blake, and offers it at the price affixed. It is accompanied with the following letter from Mr. Tatham [ BR (2)57 fn]. The MS. was le nt to Mr Gilchrist, who has reprinted a portion of it ..."

[14] "Head of Christ in Glory" < # 670 , "Christ Blessing" > , oil, 30" x 24", ₤15.15.0

[15] "Birth of Christ" <# 401, "The N ativity" > , oil on copper, 15" x 10 ½ ", ₤6.6.0

[16] "Christ appearing to apostles after the Resurrection" < # 325 , colour print > , 22" x 17", ₤15.15.0

[17] "Daughters of Job" < #394 > , tempera, no price

[18] "Paul before Felix and Dru silla" <# 508 >, 15" x 14", from Captain Butts, ₤3.3.0

[19] "Samson Bursting B onds" <# 453 >, 15" x 14", from Captain Butts, ₤ 2.10.0

[20] "Baptism of Christ" < #415 [209] >, 12" x 13", from Captain Butts, ₤6.6.0

[21] Job proofs, ₤6.6.0

[22] Job [no price]

[23] "Joseph of Arimathe a Among the Rocks of Albion" [H], £1.4.0

1864

Bernard Quaritch, A Catalogue of Books ... (1864) <Harvard>

6,521 “ BLAKIANA .” MS life of Blake “extracted from Cunningham’s Lives ... ILLUSTRATED with numerous specimens of his works ... including portions of his ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience;’ ‘ Book of Ahania;’ ‘Europe, a Prophecy;’ ‘Book s of Thel and Urizen;’ ‘[For the Sexes: The] Gates of Paradise;’ ‘The Elements [? For the Sexes pl. 4- 7 (“Water”, “Earth”, “Air”, “Fire”)];’‘Canterbury Pilgrimage,’ the large and scarce print, etc. in all 114 plates, some duplicates in different states and tinted by the artist; also 14 portraits of th e artist; his friends, and contemporaries, including A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS HAYLEY, AN ORIGINAL DRAWING, BY W. BLAKE; a Manuscript Index to the Songs of Innocence, believed to be in the autograph of the artist: list of Original Drawings and Sketches sold by auction in 1862 [210] with the prices realised, etc. in 1 vol. impl. 4to hf. bound, crimson morocco ... ₤21.”

6,522 The Book of The l Visions [J], motto, title, and 6 designs; of the Daughters of Albion [G], 11 designs “in one volume, roy. 4to. olive morocco, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, ₤15.15s.”, ”The cuts in both pieces coloured in the artist’s peculiar style”

6,523 Dante 7 prints

9,032 “BLAKE (William) [ For the Sexes: ] THE GATES OF PARADISE [G], impl. 4to. LARGE PAPER , hf. morocco, gilt top, uncut, ₤6.15s. Consisting of twenty engraved leaves, the first being the title with an etching h eaded ‘for the Sexes,’ ... The second is the frontispiece ...”, “2 leaves containing an epilogue ... ‘To the Accuser ...’”

1865 December 11-14

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of the Very Valuable Library (In the Choicest Condition, by the most Eminent Binders , ) of the Late Rev. Samuel Prince , M.A. Removed from the Study, Bonsall, Derbyshire, Comprising ... Blake's Engravings and Original Drawings; Blake's Poems, in the autograph of the Artist-Poet ... (London, 1865) <Christie>

83 "P OEMS (several very beautiful) A UTOGRAPH M ANUSCRIPT OF THE A RTIST P OET " [the Pickering (Ballads) Manuscript] [ £ 7.5.0 to Pickering]

Folio

269 "E NGRAVINGOF C HAUCER'S C ANTERBURY P ILGRIMS <Essick 9> , fine impression , very rare ... 1810" [ £3.5.0 to Timmins]

270 "G HOST OF A BEL [B], with designs On Homer EXCESSIVELY RARE ... 1822" [apparently with (B), No Natural Religion pl. a2, and "The Man Sweeping"] [ £3.18.0 to Toovey]

271 "I LLUSTRATIONS OF THE B OOK OF J OB CHOICE PROOFS 1826" [£6 to J.C. Smith]

272 " D ESIGNS TO ILLUSTRATE D ANTE ARTIST'S CHOICE UNLETTERED PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER , only 25 copies taken off , EXTREMELY RARE ” [£14.14.0 to Bain]

273 "N EWTON " < Butlin #307 , colour print > , " a fine fresco drawing in colours, signed by the artist " [£5.10.0 to Halstead]

274 " B APTISM OF C HRIST " < #475 > , " drawing in watercolours, with artist's initials " [£5.5.0 to Bright]

275 " T HE R ESURRECTION " < #325 , [211] "Christ Appearing to the Apostles", colour print > , " drawing in watercolours, with artist's initials " [£4.10.0 to Halstead]

276 " T HE D REAM " < #247 , "The Vision of Queen Katharine" > , " a finished drawing i n watercolours , a fine specimen of the artist's peculiar style, with his initials " [£4 to "Do" ]

277 "O BERON " < #246 , "Oberon and Titania "> , " a finished drawing in watercolours " [ £1. 4 .0 to Willis]

278 " M OSES AND THE B URNING B USH " < #441 > , " drawing in watercolours, signed by the artist with his initials " [£4.4.0 Halstead]

279 "Ugolino, UNLETTERED ARTIST'S PROOF , [212] very rare " [£1.2.0 to Bain]

280 "Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion " [H] <Essick 1> , brilliant impression , very scarce " [£1.2.0 to Timmins]

281 " F LIGHT INTO E GYPT < #404 > and C HRIST BLESSING C HILDREN < #419 >, a pair of VERY BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL DESIGNS in tempera (on canvas) by this celebrated artist, in gilt frames " [£12.5.0 to Hayes]

1865

"W. BLAKE. ('Pictor Ignotus')" (p. 126)

155 "He cast him into the bottomless Pit." <Butlin #524>

162 "A Woman Clothed with the Sun." <#519>

163 "Number of the Beast is 666." <#522>

164 "And power was given over him, etc." <#521>

170 "War." <#195>

176 "The Assumption." 1806 <#513>

177 "So judged He Man" <#536 10>

180 "Awake! Arise!" <#536 1>

182 "O Father, what intends thy Hand?" <536 2>

The catalogue also includes many paintings by Constable, 6 by Fuseli, 27 by Stothard plus "50 Stothard Drawings and Sketches", and many by Turner plus 129 Turner drawings.

1866 March 14-15

[Joseph] Hogarth, Catalogue of the Remaining Stock of Engravings and Drawings of the well-known Printseller, Mr. Hogarth (London, 1866) <Victoria & Albert Museum >

424 "Drawings by Blake, [214] Stothard, and Flaxman, 6" [ £ 2.5.0]

1866 May 17-18

Sotheby , Catalogue chiefly of Robert Arthington of Leeds (London, 1866) <British Library>

First Day

17 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [E], 54 pages coloured in two volumes "with an unpublished leaf consisting of six stanzas of four lines each in the autograph of the poet" and with a letter [26 Oct 1861] from Gilchrist about it, 3 vols. [ £ 13.15.0 to Pickering]

18 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [H], 17 pages, "partly coloured" [ £ 1.0.0 to Pickering]

21 Descriptive Catalogue [R] [ £ 1.9.0 to James]

22 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [ C ] , 11 engraved plates, coloured, quarto [ £ 6.6.0 to Pickering]

23 Europe [F], 17 engraved pages coloured [ £ 6.10.0 to Pickering]

24 "Collection of upwards of 60 engraved pages" < Butlin #274 , The Book of The l Jerusalem (a) , including “Beauty”, #570, perhaps for pl. 81 >, with unfinished proofs, odd leaves, etc., large folio in rough calf [ £ 11.0.0 to Pickering]

25 Dante engravings

1866 May 19

Sotheby , Catalogue of Robert Arthington of Leeds, Engravings (London, 1866) <British Library>

20 Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims [2 C [215] ] c oloured by himself plus Stothar d's version [ £ 1.9.0 to Willis]

1868 January 28

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of the late eminent sculptor John Flaxman , Esq. R.A., Topographical and Other Works from the collection of An Eminent Amateur, and the Library of the late Rev. H.B. Mason, M.A. (London, 1868) <British L ibrary>

80 Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1803)

1868 April 22-24

Christie , Catalogue of H.A.J. Munroe (London, 1868)

Third / Day

489 "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" < Butlin #519 > [ £ 2.15.0 to Kibble]

496 "The Number of the Beast is 666" < #522 > [ £ 2.15.0 to Kibble ]

497 "The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea: 'And Power Was Given to Him Over all Kindreds, and Tongues, and Nations ’ " < #521 > [ £ 2.8.0 to Kibble]

499 "He Cast Him Into the Bottomless Pit, and Shut Him Up" < #524 > [ £ 2.10.0 to Kibble]

500 "O Father! what intends thy hand, she cri'd, against thy only son?" < #536 2, "Satan, Sin and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell" > [ £ 3.12.0 to Cuff]

501 ""Awake! arise, or be for ever fallen" < #536 1, "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels" > [ £ 3.10.0 to Colnaghi]

502 "The Judgment of Adam and Eve: 'So Judged He Man ’ " < #536 10 > [ £ 10 to Kibble]

503 "The Assumption of the Virgin" < #513 > [ £ 10.10.0 to Col n aghi]

504 "War" < #195 > [ £ 7.10.0 to Colnaghi]

1868 August 17

Gemmell, Tucket & Co ., [216] Catalogue of the Magnificent Library containing Many of the Finest Works Ever Offered in Victoria To be Sold by Auction ... Under Instructions from The Hon. John Pascoe Fawkner, M.L.C. (Melbourne, 1868)

202A "Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Blake, original edition"

1868

J.W. Bouton , [217] Catalogue of m agnificent Private Library , The Property of a Gentleman of New York Who Has Taken Up His Residence Abroad ( N.Y., 1868) <Huntington Library >

94 " S ONGS OF I NNOCENCE [ U], The excessively Rare p. O RIGINAL E DITION (1789), 36 [218] 8 vo., printed on one side only, with a duplicate impression of 'The Echoing Green,' coloured by the Author In . Also, one of the celebrated reverse etchings in broadside, entitled, 'Little Tom the Sailor.' Printed for and sold by the Widow Spicer, for the benefit of her orphans, October 5, 1800. 'A d escriptive Catalogue of Pictures , Poetical and Historical Inventions, painted by William Blake in Water Colors,' etc. etc. [I], 12mo, 66 pp.--' The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims , selected from his Canterbury Tales, intended to illustrate a particular design of Mr. William Blake, which is engraved by himself, etc.' one vol., post vo., half green morocco 8 . $100 00. London etc. , 17 89-1812, A RARE AND VALUABLE VOLUME , from the B almanno collection . " Long quotation from Gilchrist.

96 " I LLUSTRATIONS TO B LAIR'S ' G RAVE .' The series of engravings and Portrait of Blake 12 , by S CHIAVONETTI . B RILLIANT P ROOF I MPRESSIONS ON I NDIA P APER . Together plates, folio, sheets. 13 $20 00. L ARGE P APER : few printed. London , 1813"

1870 November 18-21

Chapman , Catalogue (Edinburgh, 1870)\

Second Day

Property of David Octavius Hill

236 “The Third Temptation” < Butlin #476 >

1871 March

Bernard Quaritch, No. 270 Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts, the Galleries, Books of Costume, Old V ie ws, Engravings, Portraits, Ornaments, Old Woodcut Books .... (London, March 1871) <Huntington Library >

35 "BLAKE'S Songs of Innocence, high 4to. a Series of 20 Poems, engraved on copper, and surrounded with eccentric designs, hf. bd . £ 2.16 s.a. [219] (?1830)" [220]

1871 June 19 ff

Sotheby , C atalogue of the sale of Joseph Lilly (London, 1871)

527 Blair, The Grave (1813), uncut [ £ 1.1.0]

1871 December 6 and following 9 days

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Celebrated Library of Baron Seymour Kirkup (London, 1871) <Bodley>

513 Blair, The Grave (1813) with Blake's designs [221]

514 Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus" (1863)

1872 February 29-March 5

Puttick & Simpson , sale of William Penn and his Descendants, and Miscellaneous works (London, 1872) <Bodley>

Fifth Day

1,121 Songs of Innocence singularly curious illustrations, [G], "31 coloured by W. Blake himself, rare very , FINE COPY, scarce ", quarto

1872 August 2

Sotheby , A Choice Collection of Engravings From the Portfolio of a Gentleman ... Including some Original Drawings (London, 1872)

156 Paradise Lost designs < Butlin # 529 1-12 > [ £100 to Ellis & Green]

157 Comus designs < #527 1-8 > [ £20.10.0 to Ellis & Green]

158 On the Morning of Christ's Nativity < #538 1-6 > [ £53 to Halsted]

1873 April

Bernard Quaritch , No. 289 [title as in March 1871] (London, April, 1873) <Huntington Library >

14,716 "BLAKE'S Songs of Innocence, high 4to. a Series of plates of very quaint execution, hf. bd. 20 £ 2.2 s s.a. . (? 1830)" [See Quaritch, March 1871]

14 , 815 Flaxman, "Classical Comp o sitions, viz. HOMER, HESIOD and AESCHYLUS, 4 vols., folio, 178 beautiful outline plates by Piroli, Moses, and Blake , genuine old impressions ... red extra, gilt borders round the sides, gilt edges by MOROCCO Clarke , £ 10. 1805-31

14 , 816 "FLAXMAN (J.) I LLUSTRATIONS of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; of Hesiod's Works and Days, and Theogony, and of the Tragedies of Æ schylus, 4 vols. in 2, oblong folio, 146 beautiful compositions engraved in outline s , £3.16 1805-31

1874 May 18-23, 27-June 6

Sotheby , Catalogue of the collection of Sir William Tite (London, 1874) <British Library>

292 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [M], coloured, morocco extra, blind tooled, octavo [£61 to Pearson]

293 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [I], 6 leaves coloured, half morocco, g.e., small folio [£30 to Pearson]

1874 November 10-12

Chapman , Catalogue (Edinburgh, 1874)

Third Day

Property of Joseph A. Paton

1,189 “By the Waters of Babylon ” < Butlin #466 >

1875 June 8-9

Sotheby , C atalogue (London, 1875) <British Library>

20 Songs of Innocence [C], coloured, bound in green morocco, extra, g.e. , by F. Bedford [ £27.10.0 to Bain]

1875

J.W. Bouton, Original Drawings in Watercolor and India Ink by the Celebrated William Blake (N.Y., 1875) <Massachusetts Historical Society>

[The watercolours are for the facsimile by John Camden Hotten.]

1876 April 26

Christie, Manson & Woods , Catalogue of the Remaining Works of John Flaxman , R.A. [222] (London, 1876) <Christie>

2 "Adam & Eve in Paradise", watercolour < Butlin #835 > , 1 ink drawing, 1 coloured engraving [223] [ £11 to Ellis]

3 Blair, The Grave (1808)

4 Songs of Innocence [D], "coloured by Blake for Flaxman", 1789 [ £30 to Pearson [224] ]

5 Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1789 ["ret d "] [225]

6 Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1789 ["d o "]

10 Flaxman's Hesiod (1817)

1876 May 8-11

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1876)

Fourth Day

Property of Lt. Col. Francis Cunningham

650 "Moses Receiving the Law" < Butlin #1 1 1 > [£2 to Thompson]

651 “The Conversion of Saul” < #50 6 > [£8.8.0 to Noseda]

1877 March 24

Christie , C atalogue (London, 1877)

178 "A Breach in a City, the Morning After a Battle" < Butlin #189 > with another [£2.10.0 to Noseda]

1877 June 30

Vendor unknown (1877)

101 The Book of Thel (C) [226]

1877

Bernard Quaritch, A General Catalogue of Books, Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices The Supplement: 1875-1877 (London, 1877) <Huntington Library >

9,426 Songs of Experience [G], small octavo, 1 5 plates, printed in col o ur on one side only, bound in half calf, including "Introduction" [pl. 30], "Earth's Answer" [pl. 31], "The Clod and the Pebble" [pl. 32], "Nurse's Song" [pl. 38],"The Chimney Sweeper" [pl. 37], "The Tyger" [pl. 42], "Holy Thursday" [pl. 33], " A Little Boy Lost" [pl. 50 ],"London" [pl. 46 ], "The Fly" [pl. 40 ], " A Poison Tree" [pl. 49 ],"The Angel" [pl. 41 ], "My Pretty Rose Tree" plus "Ah Sunflower" and "The Lily" [pl. 43 ], "The Human Abstract" [pl. 47 ], and " A Little Girl Lost" [pl. 51 ], £25

9,741 Songs of Experience [N], small 8vo, 25 coloured plates on thick paper, including the title page [pl. 29 , printed on one side only, red morocco, extra, gilt edges , including "Introduction" [pl. 30], "Earth's Answer" [pl. 31], "The Clod and the Pebble" [pl. 32], "The Chimney Sweeper" [pl. 37], " A Poison Tree" [pl. 49], "Infant Sorrow" [pl. 48], "The Tyger" [pl. 42], " The Fly " [pl. 40], "The Sick Rose" [pl. 39], "The Human Abstract" [pl. 47], "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found" [pl. 34- 36], "The Garden of Love" [pl. 44], "The Angel" [pl. 41], "My Pretty Rose Tree" plus "Ah Sunflower "and "The Lily" [pl. 43 ], "Holy Thursday" [pl. 33], "Nurse's Song" [pl. 38], " The Schoolboy " [pl. 53], £48

16 volumes with Blake illustrations, [227] including Campe's Elementary Dialogues for Youth Fables , translated (1792), 12mo, 16 plates; Baldwin's (1805); Virgil, £2.10.0; Mrs Trimmer's Scripture Lessons ( 1816-1817), 2 vols., 24mo, 64 plates (p. 749)

Young's Night Thoughts (1797), £1.16.0 (p. 788)

Dante plates, £10.10.0 (p. 1164)

1877

Henry Sotheran and Co., A Catalogue of Choice Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1877)

There are no catalogue numbers.

Hayley, Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), 12s 6d and 1803-6, 9s

Gay, Fables (Stockdale, 1793), ₤2.10.6

Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (1810), ₤8.10.0

Stedman, Surinam (1813), ₤1.1.0

1878 January 9-11

Puttick and Simpson , C atalogue (London, 1878) <British Library>

Property of Sir Alexander Spearman

325 Robert Blake's sketchbook < Butlin #R1 >, chiefly in red chalk, with a note saying it was formerly Thomas Stothard's; in a portfolio

1878 January 29-30

Sotheby, C atalogue(London 1878) <British Library>

Property o f A.G. Dew-Smith

15 Swedenborg, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom , Blake's annotated copy, with a note by Rossetti saying that it was formerly Tatham's, exhibited in the recent [British Fine Arts Club] Blake exhibition [ £ 6 to Ellis]

196 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [N], coloured, red morocco extra, g.e. by "Rivier" [£30 to Quaritch]

197 “Blake (W.) Designs to a Series of Ballads written by W. Hayley, with the Ballads annexed, fine impression of the plates, green morocco extra, g.e. Chichester, 1802” [ £9 to Jones ]

247 America [B], "presentation copy with the author's autograph inscription", extra morocco, ornamented with various leathers and gold tooling, g.e., by F. Bedford, 2 leaves said to be wanting but the prospectus announces 18 leaves [implying that there are 18 here], unbound, sold for £18 in [Sotheby, 18 May-6 June] 1874 [£16.5.0 to Pearson]

Second Day

362 “A Colossal Figure of a Man borne through the Air, attended by many others, above, in the distance, are female figures, some with musical instruments. A fine drawing in pencil” < Butlin #864 > [ £2.10.0 to Richardson]

1878 March 15

Sotheby , C atalogue (London, 1878)

Property of Barron Grahame , F.S.A., of Porphie, Scotland

22 "The Witch of Endor: Saul and the Ghost of Samuel" < Butlin #74 > with 5 others <#186, sketch for "War Unchained by an Angel, Fire, Pestilen ce, and Famine Following"; #569, sketch for Jerusalem pl. 51; #574, "Theotormon" ;#880, Two Sketches> [ £2.11.0 to Chalmers]

23 "Pestilence, Probably the Great Plague of London" < #184 > , "God Appearing to Adam and Eve" < #837 > [£5.7.6 to Chalmers]

1878 May 20-22

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Autograph Letters, forming The Hayley Correspondence, comprising Thirty-Four Charact er istic Letters in the Autograph of William Blake [and thousands of other Hayley manuscripts] (London, 1878) <Bodley>

First Day

The Blake letters [228] to Hayley are

1 6 May 1800 [£3.3.0 to Naylor]

2 1 April 1800 [ £1.5.0 to Naylor]

3 16 September 1800 [£2.17.0 to Webster]

4 19 September 1803 [£2.12.0 to Naylor]

5 17 October 1803 [£4.4.0 to Webster]

6 Undated [25 April 1805] [£3.5.0 to Naylor]

7 12 March 1804 [£2.15.0 to Waller]

8 13 December 1803 [£2.7.0 to Naylor]

9 14 January 1804 [£2.15.0 to Naylor]

10 27 January 1804 [£5 to Naylor]

11 23 February 1804 [£4.4.0 to Quaritch]

12 16 March 1804 [£3.3.0 to Naylor]

13 21 March 1804 [£3.5.0 to Naylor]

14 31 March 1804 and 2 April 1804[£4 to Waller]

15 7 April 1804 [£2.19.0 to Naylor]

16 27 April 1804[£2.10.0 to Waller]

17 4 May 1804[£4 to Quaritch]

18 27 May 1804[£5.10.0 to Quaritch]

19 22 June 1804 [£4.4.0 to Weston]

20 22 June 1804

21 16 July 1804[£3.1.0 to Naylor]

22 7 August 1804[£3.10.0 to Naylor]

23 23 October 1804 [£6.14.0 to Quaritch]

24 28 September 1804 [£2.13.0 to Waller]

25 17 May 1805 [£5.5.0 to Quaritch]

26 4 December 1804 [£4 to Naylor]

27 18 December 1804 [£5.10.0 to Quaritch]

28 28 December 1804 [£7.10.0 to Naylor]

29 19 January 1805 [£3.16.0 to Naylor]

30 22 January 1805 [£4.8.0 to Quaritch]

31 4 June 1805 [ £ 3.15.0 to Quaritch]

32 26 October 1803 and 9 August 1804 [£3 to Quaritch]

33 26 November 1800 [£3.14.0 to Quaritch]

34 The charge of sedition against Blake and Rose's defence of him [12s to Quaritch]

1878 October 14 ff

Geo. A. Leavitt & Co , C atalogue of A Prominent American Playwright [ Augustin Daly ] (1878) <Huntington Library >

102 10 characteristic watercolours, [229] " including some that have been published ", 9 x 12", mounted on cardboard [$33]

[1878?]

Ellis & White , Catalogue 41 (London, [1878?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

69 43 Blake drawings, [230] "with original verses under each Drawing, moun t ed on drab paper, and bound in 1 volume, lettered 'Angels and Devils,' according to Blake's own instructions to the binder, which are preserved in the volume. 4to, calf, 52 l s . 10 . " The work is divided into 7 sections, [231] the first of which is headed "Novelties":

Vnless we sometimes rose o'er Common Things

We ne'er shall see the majesty of mind.

The second is called "Vanities":

Man's heart eats all things

And is hungry still.

The Third is entitled "Considerations":

O spirit who givest every pure desire

Delighting in the humblest heart to dwell,

Visit my soul.

1879 March

Bernard Quaritch , No. 322. Catalogue of English Literature ( London, 1879)

12,893 11 letters from Blake to Hayley, 26 Nov 1800-4 June 1805, ₤52.10.0

12,894 “ A PROJECTED WORK : Original Designs(considerably different from the published engraving):

‘Piping down the valleys wild,

Piping songs of pleasant glee,

On a cloud I saw a child,

And he laughing said to me:’--

5 verses of 4 lines each, on 1 leaf [ Songs pl. 4]

The Shephe rd, a frontispiece 1 ” [ Songs pl. 2]

An ideal Hell 1 “

--the three Drawings < Butlin # 215- 217 > in Blake’s usual rich style of colouring, executed circa 1820, ₤10

From the Collection of a friend of Blake’s.”

1879 May 30-31

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1879)

Property of William Smith [232]

Letter of February 1808

[1879?]

Ellis & White , Catalogue 43 (London, [1879?] [233] )

106 America [L], 18 designs, folio, edges uncut, sewed, printed in dark green ink, £21

1879

Bernard Quaritch , Catalogue of Works in European Philology and the Minor European Languages (1879), l ot 12,893, for £52.10.0

12,893 L etters of 26 November 1800, 26 October 1803, 4, 20 May, 9 August, 23 October, 18 December 1804, 22 January, 17 May, 4 June 1805 , £52.10.0

1880 March 10-13

Day 1

Folio

274 "B LAKE (W.) I LLUSTRATIONSOF THE B OOKOF J OB , fine impressions, half russia, uncut 1825"

Day 2

Octavo et Infra

389 "FABLES, Gay (J.) Fables, 2 vol. 70 plates by Blake, Stothard, &c. Stockdale , 1793--Æsop's Fables, 2 vol. 112 plates by Blake Stothard, Landseer, &c. ib [sic], 1793, uniform in tree-calf extra, g.e. vol. 4 "

Folio

618 "G OUGH (Rich.) S EPULCHRAL M ONUMENTSOF G REAT B RITAIN , vol I in 2 parts, and parts II and III of Vol. 2, numerous plates bound in 2 vol. calf, 1786-96 ..."

Day 3

Quarto

826 "L AVATER (J.C.) E SSAYS ON P HYSIOGNOMY , 3 vol. in 5, numerous beautiful engravings executed by or under the inspection of T. Holloway, russia extra, uncut, backs broken , 1800"

827 L AVATER (J.C.) E SSAYS ON P HYSIOGNOMY , translated by Hunter, and illustrated by engravings by Holloway, Blake, Bartolozzi, and others, 5 vol. remar kab ly fine, clean copy, russia, m.e. 1810"

Day 4

Quarto

1,169 "Rees (Dr. Abraham), Cyclopedia old russia ... 39 vol. and 6 vol. of Plates, together 45 vol. , 1819"

Folio

1,272 "Y OUNG (E.) N IGHT Thoughts, illustrations by half russia W. B LAKE , 1797"

1880 April 1-5

Christie , Catalogue of the Valuable Library of George [A.] Smith , Esq. Deceased, Late of Paddockhurst, Crawley, comprising County Histories and Topography, Archaeological Works, Biography, Voyages and Travels, Works Relating to the Fine Arts, Books of Prints, Architectural Works, and General Literature (London, 1880) <Christie> [234]

Day 1

75 Scott (J.) Poems, plates after Stothard, by Blake 1782 [7d to Stubbs]

76 Blake. A Father's Memoir of his Child, by B. H . Malkin, portrait by Blake and 3 plates, calf 1806. Contains a sketch of Blake's early Life, with several of his Poems and Prose writings [14s to Robson]

77 Blake. Hayley, Triumphs of Temper, 6 plates, by Blake, after designs by Maria Flaxman, Large Paper, uncut Chichester, 1802 [ ₤ 2.2.0 to Robson]

164 America [R] , 18 designs printed in blue, green morocco, gilt edges [ £ 31.10.0 to Quaritch]

165 The Book of Thel Visions of the [J] 8 pp., bound with Daughters of Albion [G], 11 pp., coloured, blue morocco extra, gilt edges "by HERING" [ £ 85 to Sotheran]

166 Dante [ £ 8.8.0 to Quaritch]

167 Blair, The Grave (1808) [ £ 3.12.0 to Pickering]

168 Blake (William) Cunningham's Life of Blake, in MS., illustrated with portraits and 103 of Blake's own engravings, many of the greatest rarity, also portrait of T. Hayley, Son of the Poet (a drawing in sepia by Blake <Butlin #345>), and a MS. Index to the Songs of Innocence and Experience in Blake's autograph [t he "Order" of the Songs BB ( pp. 337- 341)]; in a vol. half-bound morocco; a Volume of the greatest interest to Admirers of this Singular Artist [ £ 66 to Quaritch]

169 Blake. Cumberland (G) Inventions [ Thoughts on Outline ], 24 plates, of which eight are etched by W. Blake 1795 [ £ 1.8.0 to Pearson]

170 Blake. Hayley (W.) Life of W. Cowper, plates by Blake, 3 vol. calf 1803 [7s to Stubbs]

221 Job Night Thoughts and together [ £ 20 to Pickering]

914 Romney (G.) Life, by W. Hayley, fine plates by Blake, Caroline Watson, etc. clf. gilt edges 1809 [ £ 1.16.0 to Gregs]

1880 July 16

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, C atalogue of the Collection of Drawings & Engravings of George [ A. ] Smith (London, 1880) <Christie>

9 8 "Lazar House" < Butlin #321, " The House of Death" , colour print > [ £ 4.4.0 to Harvey]

99 Subject unknown < #879 > [12s to Baker with l ot 100 ]

100 Jerusalem [ pl. 51 ], Vala, Hyle and Skofield < #578 > , coloured [12s to Baker]

101 "Lucifer showing the Pope his destiny in hell" < #287, "Lucifer and the Pope in Hell" , colour print > [ £ 2.10.0 to Pearson]

102 "Age Teaching Youth" < # 91 > [14s to Pearson]

103 "Samson Breaking [ His ] Bonds" < #453 > [ £ 2.10.0 to Rimell]

104 "Drawing of Jupiter for Rees [ Cyclopaedia ] < #678A > [ £ 3 to FAC (Fine Arts Club) ]

105 Two studies of the nude in pencil < #593, "Nude Male Figures" and # 594, "Anatomical Sketches" > [ £ 1.1.0 to Rimell with l ot 106]

106 F igure compositions < # 875 >

107 "Transformation of thieves in Dante" < #821, "The Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi" > [5s to Rimell]

108 "Caliban" < #847 > [6s to Parsons]

109 2 sketches in pencil < #359, headpiece of "Little Tom the Sailor" and #583, "Urizen Scattering His Thunderbolts" > [6s to Parsons]

110 "2 sketches, Sir Christopher Wren < #309, "Wren" > and another < #221, "A Naked Man, touching a Ram as He Recedes" > [11s to Philpot]

111 5 sketches < #239, "An Ar med Man Spurning a Woman" ; < #539, "The Descent of Peace" ; #606, "Two Legs" ; #619, "A Figure A scending in a Glory of Clouds" ; #771, "An Ascending S piral of Figures" > [9s to Parsons]

112 Laoco ö n < #680 > , partly coloured [ £ 1.12.0 to Parsons]

113 "Satan, Sin and Death " < #530, “ Satan, Sin and Death : Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell" > [18s to Colnaghi]

114 "Frieze of f igures" < #865 > , coloured [ £ 1.10.0 to Colnaghi]

115 Two pencil sketches, 1 for Hayley's [ Designs to a Series of Ballads ] < #362, headpiece to " The Eagle " and #820, "An Angel Taking a Huge Stride in the Air Among Stars" > [6s to Colnaghi]

116 Two pencil sketches < #597, "Allegorical Subject with a River God" and another > [ 10s to Colnaghi ]

117 " Pencil sketch of Death" < #854 > [ £ 1.12.0 to FAC (Fine Arts Club) ]

118 "3 pencil sketches including Eve Tempted < #589, "Eve Tempted by the Serpent" > and Death of a Wicked M an" < #624, Sketch for Blair's Grave , "The Death of the Strong W icked Man" , and another > [12s to Parsons]

119 "Indian ink sketch like Soul exploring ” < #635, "Death Pursuing the Soul Through the Avenues of Life" > [ £ 1.15.0 to Dowdeswell]

120 "Pencil sketch of Newton" < #308 > [ £ 1. 1 5.0 to Colnaghi]

121 “ 2 pencil s ketches in Pencil-- probably for his Prophetic books" < #560, s ketch for Milton Jerusalem pl. 41/45 and #563, sketch for pl. 14 > [3s to Parsons]

122 "Two ditto" < #207, "Ugolino in Prison", and #575, "Theotormon Woven" [3s to Parsons]

123 Two hand-finished stamped prints from Visions of the Daughters of Albion , coloured [ Visions of the Daughters of Albion pl. 7 [pl. 10] <# 261 7 > and pl. i [pl. 1] <# 263 >] [10s to Col nag hi]

1880

Bernard Quaritch, A General Catalogue of Books, Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices (London, 1880 [235] ) <Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

3,407 Songs of Experience [N], "sm. 8vo. 25 coloured plates on thick paper , impressed on one side only, red morocco extra, gilt edges £ 42 " by the "distraught genius", lists the contents, "26 subjec ts on 25 leaves"

3 , 408 16 volumes with plates designed or engraved by Blake including Salzmann, Elements of Morality [3 vols.] (1792) , Campe, Elementary Dialogues for Youth Roman History , tr., 12mo, 16 plates (1791), Allen, [no date given], Enfield, Speaker Gymnastics (1799), Salzmann, for Youth Triumphs of Temper (1800), Hayley, (1803), Baldwin, Fables Pastorals (1805), Virgil, (1821), Trimmer, Scripture Lessons Shakespeare's Tales ( 1816-17), Lamb, (1822) [236] £ 25

12,893 Letters to Hayley of 26 November 1800 [26 October, 4, 28 May, 8 August, 23 October, 18 December 1804, 22 January, 17 May], 4 June 1805 [237] £ 52.10.0

12,894 "A Projected Work" [as in Quaritch catalogue of 15 March 1879]

12,895 [The same works as in 3,408 with the addition of Chaucer, Prologue (1812), 17 vols.] £ 30

[1880?]

§William Bell Scott. A Descriptive Catalogue of Engravings, Brought Together with a View to Illustrate the Art of Engraving on Copper and Wood from the Florentine Niello Workers in the XVth Century to that of William Blake ([London:] Privately Printed, [1880?]) 4 o , 68 pp. <The copy in Bodley has Scott's manuscript notes>

1881 February 2-5

Christie , C atalogue (London, 1881) <British Library>

First Day

Property of John Giles , cousin of Samuel Palmer

184 Europe with a duplicate of the [a], 8 engraved leaves, " frontispiece, coloured "

185 [ For the Sexes The Gates of Paradise :] [C], 21 pl. (1793)

186 Job

187 Dante

Third Day

440 "Teach these souls to fly " [ Butlin # 261 5, Urizen pl. 2 ] [to (Dr Richard) S isley]

483 Chaucer, "Canterbury Pilgrims" <Essick E5> "and the engraved steel plate" [ £35 to Colnaghi]

1881 February 28

Henry Sotheran, No. CC. New Series. February 28, 1881. A Catalogue of Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California (Berkeley, 1882>

227 Gay, Fables (1793), ₤2.10.0

266 Hayley, Romney (1809), 16s

1881 March 31

Henry Sotheran , No. CCI. New Series. March 31, 1881 A Catalogue of Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

3 Æsop and Gay's Fables new Calf extra, very (1793), 4 vols., " fine uniform set s , ₤7.7 "

52 Hayley, Triumphs of Temper very , 12th edition (1803), " scarce ", ₤1.4.0

215 Gay, Fables , 2 vols in 1, ₤2.5.0

735 Walton and Cotton, Complete Angler with , ed. John Major (1835), " 15 copper plates and wood en 76 g ravings, from drawings by P. Chantrey, W. Blake, Esq., [238] J. Linnell, A. Cooper, etc. ", 16s

1881 April 30

Henry Sotheran & Co . , No. CCII. New Series. April 30, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <Bodley>

291 Flaxman, Iliad Odyssey and ( 1795-1805), ₤3.10.0

1881 May 27

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCII. New Series. May 27, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

508 Hayley, Romney (1809), Large Paper, ₤2.10.0

On p. 32 is an advertisement of Works by William Blake ... Reproduced in Facsimile ... O NE V OLUME , half bound in morocco, uncut, ₤5.5s", containing Songs of Innocence and of Experience The Book of Thel , "55 leaves", , "8 leaves", Visions of the Daughters of Albion America , "11 leaves", , "18 leaves", Europe First Book of Urizen , "17 leaves", , "26 leaves", and Song of Los , "8 leaves" [239]

1881 June 28

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCII. New Series. June 28, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

106 Young, Night Thoughts engravings by W. Blake (1797), "43 after his own marvellous and sublime Designs bds. uncut ... LARGE PAPER , , VERY SCARCE ", ₤7.10.0

237 Flaxman, "Homer, Æschylus, and Hesiod" ( 1805-31), ₤5.5.0

1881 July 25

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCIV. New Series. July 25, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

251 Gay, Fables (Stockdale, 1793), ₤2.10.0

495 Ritson, ed., Collection of English Songs (1793), ₤1.1.0

1881 August 25

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCVI. New Series. August 25, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

334 Gay, Fables (Stockdale, 1793), ₤2.15.0

455 Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy ( 1789-98), ₤8.10.0

734 Stedman, Surinam (1806), ₤2.10.0

1881 September 30

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCVII. New Series. September 30, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

85 Blair, The Grave (1808), ₤2.5.0

612 Stedman, Surinam (1806), ₤1.10.0

1881 October 28

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCVIII. New Series. October 28, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

122 Blair, The Grave ["1818" [i.e., 1808?], "A subscriber's copy", ₤3.3.0

384 Gay, Fables (1793), " BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS ", ₤2.8.0

527 Hogarth, Works , restored by James Heath (Baldwin, 1822), 119 pl., ₤16.16.0

742 "BLAKE, T HE B OOK OF T HEL [J], 8 engraved pages engraved , 1789-- V ISIONS of the D AUGHTERS of A LBION [G], 11 pages exquisitely finished in , 1793--2 vols. 4to. in one, colours by very fine copy, olive morocco B LAKE HIMSELF , extra, gilt edges, by Hering, EXTREMELY RARE , ₤105. 1789- 93"

1881 November 30

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCVIII. New Series. November 30, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

527 Hogarth, Works , restored by James Heath (Baldwin, 1822), 119 pl., ₤16.16.0

742 "BLAKE, T HE B OOKOF T HEL [J], 8 engraved pages engraved , 1789-- V ISIONS of the D AUGHTERS of A LBION [G], 11 pages exquisitely finished in , 1793--2 vols. 4to. in one, colours by very fine copy, olive morocco B LAKEHIMSELF , extra, gilt edges, by Hering, EXTREMELY RARE , ₤105. 1789- 93"

1881 December 28

Henry Sotheran & Co. , No. CCX. New Series. December 28, 1881 A Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books ... (London, 1881) <University of California>

729 Scott, John, Poetical Works (1782), 16s

1881

William Patterson , Catalogue Of an extensive Selection of Books in various classes of Literature , from the Stock of William Pat t erson , 67 Princes Street, Edinburgh. To which is added that of a Valuable Collection of Musical Works (Edinburgh, 1881) <Huntington Library >

No l ot number s :

"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, coloured drawings letterpress, and ornamentation, done on copper , early impressions , sm. 4to, boards, uncut, 30s N.D ." [240]

1881

Henry Sotheran & Co ., A Catalogue of Second-Hand Books on the Fine Arts, Embracing Picture Galleries and Other Books of Prints, Sceneries, Portraits, Illustrated Works, Drawings, Treatises on Painting and Engraving, Histories of Art, Lives of Painters, Architecture, Engineering, Etc. (London, 1881) <University of California>

82 "BLAKE, T HE B OOK OF T HEL [ G ], 8 engraved pages engraved , 1789-- V ISION [s] of the D AUGHTERS of A LBION [ J ], 11 pages very fine copy, olive morocco , 1793--2 vols. 4to in One EXQUISTELY FINISHED IN C OLOURS BY B LAKE HIMSELF , extra, gilt edges, by Hering, EXTREMELY RARE , ₤ 105 1789-93" Long quotation from Swinburne.

83 "BLAKE'S (William), I LLUSTRATIONS to B LAIR'S GRAVE, with the Poem, 12 fine engravings, with port. by Schiavonetti boards, uncut , impl. 4to. , ₤ 3.3 s 1818" [i.e., 1813?]

326 Flaxman, Homer, Æschylus, and Hesiod ( 1805-31), 4 vols., ₤5.5.0

461 Hogarth, Original Works (1795), " A REMARKABLY FINE, EARLY COPY; WITH W. B LAKE'S GRAND PLATE ", ₤31.10.0

823 Hayley, Romney (1809), ₤3.10.0

1882 March 20

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of Engravings and Etchings, the Property of the late Rt. Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield ... comprising among other rarities A Series of the Works of William Blake ... which will be sold by auction (by order of the executors) (London, 1882) <British Library>

56 Songs of Innocence Songs [ (A) ], 29 leaves, coloured, large paper, uncut; also Songs of Experience , 21 leaves, coloured [ £ 85 to Dowdeswell]

57 Europe also leaves 1, 3 and 3 [A], 12 leaves (wanting title and frontispiece [pl. 2, 1]), " ", coloured by Blake, large paper, uncut [ £ 8.5.0 to Bain]

58 Visions of the Daughters of Albion hite [F], 10 leaves, coloured, large paper, uncut [ £ 34 to "Ellis & W ( ) "]

59 The Book of Thel [F], 8 leaves, coloured, large paper, uncut [ £ 20, ibid]

60 The Book of Urizen [B], 28 leaves, coloured, large paper, uncut [ £ 59, ibid]

61 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [D], 27 leaves, coloured, large paper, uncut [ £ 50 to Bain]

62 Young's Night Thoughts [1797] [ £ 7.10.0 to Ellis & W]

63 Hogarth, Beggar's Opera print, fine impression [11s to ibid ]

1882 March 20

Christie , C atalogue (London, 1882)

[Property of A.H. Palmer , Son of Samuel Palmer]

108 "The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth" < Butlin #651 > [ £ 100, bought in]

109 "Satan Calling Up His Legions, An Experiment Picture" < #661 > [ £ 13.13.0 to Dowdeswell]

110 "The Spiritual Form of Nelson " < #652 , "The Spiritual Form of Napoleon" > [ £ 30.9.0 to Dowdeswell]

1882 June 30 + 11 days

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of The First Portion of The Beckford Library , removed from Hamilton Palace (London, 1882) <Princeton>

Fourth Day

950 Blair's Grave in two states (very choice) half (1808), plates " purple morocco , uncut, top edge gilt" [ £ 12.5.0]

951 Songs of Innocence and of Experience green morocco super extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis [U], coloured, " " [ £ 146]

952 Milton blue morocco [C], coloured, " extra, leather joints, g.e. by J. Mackenzie " [ £ 230 to Quaritch ]

953 [ For Children: The Gates of Paradise ] [A], title page, frontispiece, 16 pl., " in the first state, before the imprint on title and plates, fine copy in red morocco, g.e ." [ £ 16 to Bain ]

954 "Another copy" [C] < Butlin #201A > , " plates with imprints, half calf " [ £ 12.12.0]

955 Europe half calf [H], 18 pl., " " [ £ 12.5.0 to Ellis & White ]

956 Job half morocco, g.e. by C. Lewis , brilliant proofs, " " [ £ 14]

957 Descriptive Catalogue green morocco [F], " , g.e. " [ £ 9 to Quaritch ]

1882 July 5-7

T.G. Wharton, and Co., Auctioneers , 16, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. The Valuable Contents of the Residence of Dante G. Rossetti (Deceased) (London, 1882) <Bodley>

Third Day

483 " An original M.S. and Sketch-book of William Blake < Butlin #201 1-116 > , the celebrated book which furnished a great number of new poems, &c. &c. This is the book so frequently mentioned in Gilchrist's life Blake, in an article [Anon., "Literary Gossip"] printed in the Athenaeum of 17th June 1882, &c. &c." [ £ 110]

1882 July 30

Bernard Quaritch, Rough List 58 , Hamilton Palace Books (London, 1882) <Bodley>

202 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [U] , coloured, "green morocco, super extra", gilt edges, C. Lewis, £ 170

203 Milton [C], quarto, coloured, "blue morocco extra, leather joints", gilt edges by J. Mackenzie, "0 0 0"

204 Job , proofs on india paper, half morocco, gilt edges by C. Lewis, "0 0 0"

205 Descriptive Catalogue [F] , green morocco, gilt edges, £10

1882 November 15

Bernard Quaritch , General Catalogue 346 (London, 1882)

"The Resurrection of the Dead" < Butlin #79 > , "A Pastoral Figure and other Sketches" < #81 > , "The Awards of Athena" < #96 > , "A Girl Holding a Goblet" < #97 > , "Warring Angels: Michael Contending with Satan" < #103 > , "Studies of Profiles and a Leg" < #150 > , "Head of a Bearded Man in Profile, possibly from the Antique" < #177 > , "For Children The Gates of Hell " < #205 > , "Frolic" < #211 > , Songs of Innocence frontispiece < #215 > , "Introduction" to Innocence The Book of " < #216 > , "An Ideal Hell" < #217 > , sketches for Thel America < #218 > , "A Youth Seated on the Ground, perhaps for " < #228 > , sketch for "The Waking of Leonora" < #339 > , Thomas Alphonso Hayley < #345 > , "The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham" < #369 > , "A Garden Path, Eartham" < #370 > , "Landscape with a Spire" < #371 > , "Woody Landscape" < #372 > , "An Arbour" < #373 > , "Satan Between Two Angels" < #592 > , "The Devil Outside a Church" < #598 > , Two sketches for "The Devil Outside a Church" < #599 > , sketch perhaps for "Christ Descending into the Grave" for Blair's Grave Cyclopaedia < #622 > , "The Last Judgment" < #643 > ,drawings for Rees's < #678 > , "A Vision: the Inspiration of the Poet" < #756 > , "A Visionary Head" < #759 > , "Two Studies of a Baby's Head" < #788 > , "Study of a Baby's Head" < #789 > , "The Three Tabernacles" < #792 > , "The Churchyard" < #793 > , "Death" < #794 > , "Mirth" < #795 > , "Hope" < #796 > , "Paolo and Francesca" < #816 > , sketch for "The Angel Crossing the Styx" < #819 > , "A Devil Holding a Sword" < #824 > , sketch probably for "Bunyan's Dream" < #830 > , sketch for "Ch ristian Directed by Mr. Worldly -Wiseman" < #831 > , sketch for "Vanity Fair" < #832 > , sketch for "The Pilgrimage of Christiana" < #834 > , Robert Blake, "An Invocation" < #R10 > , Catherine Blake, head "taken from something she saw in the Fire" < #C2 > , and 4 others, £ 36

12,894 “A Projected Work” [as in Quaritch (1878)], £ 10

[1882 November]

Ellis & White , Catalogue 50 (London, [1882]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

80 The Book of Thel [F], 8 pl., coloured, "rough edges, laid in a folio volume of white paper, bound in half red morocco, vellum corners", Beaconsfield copy, £ 42

81 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [F], 12 pl., coloured, rough edges, laid in a folio volume of white paper, bound in half red morocco, vellum covers, Beaconsfield copy, very highly finished, duplicates of pl. [ 2-3] on one leaf, £ 63

82 The Book of Urizen [B], 28 pl., coloured, rough edges, laid in a folio volume of white paper, bound in half red morocco, v ellum corners, perfect condition, Beaconsfield copy, £ 75

83 Europe [H], 17 leaves, [241] half calf, “printed in a single dark tint” [ £ 45]

1883 February 26-27

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods , Catalogue of the whole of the celebrated Drawings and the Remaining Works of the great Sculptor, John Flaxman , R.A., The Property of the Denman Family (London, 1883) <Library of Congress>

First Day

209 Psyche Repents by Cumberland [engraved by Blake for Cumberland's Thoughts on Outline Essay on Sculpture (1796) ] and the Death of Demosthenes by T. Hayley [engraved by Blake for Hayley's (1800)]

210 "Figure s by W. Blake " < Butlin #100, "Procession of Monks, Met by Three Women" ; #804, sketch for "The Sea of Time and Space" > and a horseman, by T. Stothard < #451, “Jephthah Met by His Daughter” > [ £ 1.13.0 to Money]

244 Songs of Innocence Songs [ from (O)] , 29 plates, uncut

245 Songs of Experience Songs [from (O)], 27 plates, finished in colours for Flaxman, with a letter of Ruskin

253 Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline

287 Letter of [12] September 1800

288 Letter of 19 October 1801

289 Letter of 18 March 1827 [to Flaxman' s sister-in- law Maria Denman], Blake's receipt to Flaxman of [14 Dec] 1799, and a "Short Note to Flaxman" [? Autumn 1800 ]

290 Letter of 14 September 1800

339 "46 Engravings by Blake, including the Ticket for the Naval Monument, 1800, [242] and Mr Cumberland's Card [1827]"

1883 August 10

Bernard Quaritch , No. 350 Catalogue of Some More Works on the Fine Arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Miniatures, and Fine Specimens of Bookbinding Chiefly Obtained from Private Sources (London, 1883) <Bodley>

13,842 Blake Drawings, “the Butts collection”, 26 paintings, 3 vols. (2 folio, 1 royal octavo), “red morocco extra, with flaps like portfolios”, ₤1,200

It consists of

Comus , 8 designs “mounted to the size of 11 in. by 8½ in” < Butlin #528 >

Paradise Lost , 9 designs “mounted to the size of 28 in. by 20 in.” < #536 3-9, 11-12 >

Biblical designs, “mounted to the size of 22 in. by 17½ in.”, viz. “Famine” < #196 >, “Plague” < #193 >, “Pestilence” < #442 >, “Moses and the Bronze Serpent” < #447 > , “Golia[t]h and David meeting” < #457 > , “The King of Babylon moving to Hell” < #467 > , “The Whirlwind, Ezekiel’s Vision” < #468 > , “The Woman caught in Adultery” < #486 > , “Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac” < #109 > with, around the margins, 7 heads [Shakespearean subjects] < #84 >

13,843 40 sketches from “the Tatham collection”, “in pencil or chalk (two or three of them washed in colours) with MS. inscriptions by Frederic[k] Tatham; mounted on 23 leaves of cardboard, and enclosed in a portfolio, hf. red morocco”, "A Pastoral Figure" < #81 > , "The Awards of Athena" < #96 > , "A Girl Holding a Goblet" < #97 > , "Warring Angels: Michael Contending with Satan" <# 103 >, "Studies of Profiles and a Leg" < #150 > , "Head of a Bearded Man in Profile, possibly from the Antique" < #177 > , "For Children The Gates of HELL" < #205 > , "Frolic" < #211 > , "An Ideal Hell" < #217 > , sketches for The Book of Thel America < #218 > , "A Youth Seated on the Ground, perhaps for " < #228 > , "The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham" < #369 > , "A Garden Path, Eartham" < #370 > , "Landscape with a Spire" < #371 > , "A Woody Landscape" < #372 > , "An Arbour" < #373 > , Sketch for "The Waking of Leonora" < #393 > , "Satan Between Two Angels" < #592 > , "The Devil Outside a Church" < #598 > , Two sketches for "The Devil Outside a Church" < #599 > , sketch perhaps for "Christ Descending into the Grave" for Blair's Grave Cyclopaedia < #622 > , "The Last J udgment" < #643 > , drawings for Rees's < #678 > , "A Vision: the Inspiration of the Poet" < #756 > , "A Visionary Head" < #759 > , "Two Studies of a Baby's Head" < #788 > , "Study of a Baby's Head" < #789 > , "The Three Tabernacles" < #792 > , "The Churchyard" < #793 > , Death" < #794 > , "Mirth" <# 795 >, "Hope" < #796 > , "Paolo and Francesca" < #816 > , sketch for "The Angel Crossing the Styx" < #819 > , "A Devil Holding a Sword" < #824 > , sketch probably for "Bunyan's Dream" < #830 > , sketch for "Christian Directed by Mr. Worldly-Wiseman" < #831 > , sketch for "Vanity Fair" < #832 > , sketch for "The Pilgrimage of Christiana" < #834 > , Robert Blake, "An Invocation" < #R10 > , Catherine Blake, head "taken from something she saw in the Fire" < #C2 > , and 4 Wedgwood proofs, £ 36

1 3,844 “Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion” [L], (1773), “this is one of the Gothick Artists ...”, 10” x 5 ½”, ₤4

13,845 The Book of The l Visions of the Daughters of Albion [J] and [G] bound together, coloured, “olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering”, ₤85, “fetched, 1881, [a]t Christie’s ₤85 and was priced by the dealer who bought it at ₤105”

13,846 “Canterbury Pilgrims”, ₤7.10.0

13,847 45 engravings “from the Flaxman collection”, “including some early pieces of 1800 [perhaps Hayley's “Little Tom” (1800) or his E SSAY ON S CULPTURE Cowper (1800)], the Portraits of Mr and Mrs William Cowper” [presumably Blake’s engravings for Hayley’s (1803), frontispiece of Cowper after Romney in Vol. I or the frontispiece after Lawrence in Vol. II, plus “M rs COWPER | Mother of the Poet” in Vol. I, at p. 4] [243] ₤3.16.0

1883 October

Bernard Quaritch , Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts ... On Sale ( London, 1883) <Harvard>

10,249 Three drawings for Songs Innocence : “Introduction” to , "The Shepherd”, frontispiece to Innocence , and “An ideal Hell” < Butlin #217 > , “From the Collection of a friend of Blake’s”, £10 [244]

10,250 Songs [U] from the Beckford Collection, £170

10,251 America [R], £36

10,252 The manuscript of Cunningham’s Life of Blake with 103 engravings, with a manuscript index to the Songs Songs [see “The Order” of the ], £80

10,253 Young’s Night Thoughts (1797), £12

10,254 Blair, The Grave (1808), £5.5.0

10,255 Dante proofs with “2 portraits of Dante and MS. descriptions added”, [245] £10.10.0

10,256 Job (1825), ₤16.16.0

10,257 Works (1876), £4.4.0

10,258 “A Collection of [11] Books illustrated with Blake’s plates”, ₤28

10,259 Gilchrist (1880) £1.15.0.

12,295 Descriptive Catalogue [F], “green morocco extra, from Beckford’s Library, ₤10.10s.”

13,842 Drawings from the Butts collection, Comus, Paradise Lost , the Bible, ₤1,200

13,843 Tatham collection, 40 drawings on 23 leaves, ₤36

13,844 “Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion ” [L], ₤4

13,845 The Book of The l Visions of the Daughters of [J] bound with Albion [G], ₤85

13,846 “Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims” (1810), 37 x 22”,₤7.10.0

13,847 45 engravings “from the Flaxman collection”, ₤3.16.0

13,848 Gilchrist (1880) £1.15.0

1883 November 27-30

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , The Hamilton Palace Libraries, Catalogue of The Fourth and Concluding Portion of The Beckford Library , removed from Hamilton Palace (London, 1883) <Princeton>

In the Supplement is

764 The Book of Thel The Book of Urizen [ A ], [ F ], and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [A] bound together [ £ 121 to Quaritch]

[1883?]

Ellis & White , Catalogue 52 (London, [1883?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

67 Blake's Notebook , 114 pp., small quarto, with poetry and 100 or more drawings in pencil and ink < Butlin #201 1-116 > , and an inscription by Dante Gabriel Rossetti partly quoted. "The whole volume is well worth editing in its entirety". At the end of it are 32 leaves "on which D.G. Rossetti has copied out various portions of the contents." It is "Accompanied by Rossetti's copy of Gilchrist's life of Blake, which contains in the margins numerous pencil annotations in his autograph." ₤ 250

1884 January

Bernard Quaritch , Rough List 67 (London, 1884) <Bodley>

The list deals with Beckford and others.

8 0 The Book of Thel The Book of Urizen [A], 8 leaves , [F] , 27 pages , "1800", "coloured Texts, half calf ” , "1 vol. 4to", ₤ 150

1884 February 19

Sotheby , C atalogue of Francis Barlow Robinson (London, 1884) <British Library>

423 Young's Night Thoughts (1797), coloured [D] [ ₤ 22 to Bennett]

1884 March 21-26

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Library of the late Eminent Bookbinder Mr Francis Bedford (London, 1884) <Bodley>

First Day

120 Jerusalem [ G ], 100 plates, olive morocco extra, g.e., imperial quarto [ ₤ 5.12.6 to Quaritch]

1884 April 21 plus 10 days

Puttick & Simpson , C atalogue of the Earl of Gosford (London, 1884) <Bodley>

437 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), calf [ ₤ 8 to Pickering]

438 Hayley, Designs [1802], "green morocco extra g.e. by J. Wright" [ ₤ 12 to Bain]

439 Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1805)

440 Job , india proofs, Gosford, g.e., bound by C. Lewis

441 Dante, india proof , "1839"

1884 December 5-6

Christie , Catalogue of William Russell (London, 1884)

Heads of the Poets

109 "Shakespeare" < Butlin #343 10 > [ ₤ 13.2.6]

110 "Milton" < #343 11 > [ ₤ 3.13.6]

111 "Chaucer" < #343 5 > [ ₤ 5.5.0]

112 "Spenser" < #343 0 > [ ₤ 5.5.0]

113 "Dryden" < #343 12 > [ ₤ 4.14.6]

114 "Otway" < #343 13 > [ ₤ 6.6.0]

115 "Pope" < #343 14 > [ ₤ 3.3.0]

116 "Cowper" < #343 17 > [ ₤ 6.6.0]

117 "Blair" < #343 16, "Klopstock" > [ ₤ 5.5.0]

118 "Thomas Alphonso Hayley" < #343 18 > [ ₤ 6.16.6]

119 "Sidney" < #343 7, "Ercilla" > [ ₤ 7.7.0]

120 "Voltaire" < #343 15 > [ ₤ 8.8.0]

121 "Camoens" < #343 6 > [ ₤ 7.17.6]

122 "Tasso" < #343 8 > [ ₤ 8.8.0]

123 "Dante" < #343 4 > [ ₤ 8.8.0]

124 "Euripides, or another of the Greek Tragedians" < #343 2, "Demosthenes" > [ ₤ 9.9.0]

125 "Lucan" < #343 3, "Cicero" > [ ₤ 6.16.0]

126 Homer < #343 1 > [ ₤ 8.8.0]

1884 December 10-12

Christie , Catalogue including William Russell (London, 1884)

111 "Oberon and Titania on a Lily" < Butlin #245 > [ ₤ 1.18.0 to Benson]

[1884?]

John Pearson , Catalogue No. 58 (London [1884?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

100 Ghost of Abel On Homer [D], [D], The Gates of Paradise Monthly Magazine pl. [14, "Does thy God"], portrait of Wright of Derby [engraved by Blake for the (1797)], ₤ 12.12.0 "During the last twenty years we have been endeavouring to discover and unearth every scrap of Blake's work, yet we have never seen nor heard of any copies of the above occurring for sale."

363 Gilchrist (1863) inlaid to royal quarto, extra-illustrated with 145 prints and drawings of Blake, including "original illustrations from ' [ For the Sexes ] The Gates of Paradise,' [pl. 14-15] 'Jerusalem,' [pl. 5, 53] 'Europe,' [pl. 10] [ Hayley ] 'Triumphs of Temper,' Hayley's 'Ballads,' 4to Edition, 'Blair's Grave,' [ Salzmann ] 'Elements of Morality,' &c., many in proof states, also 70 fine portraits and plates mentioned in the work, Vol. 1 forms 2 large 4to vols., and vol. 2 1 vol 8vo, uniformly bound in half brown morocco extra gilt leaves ₤ 52. 1 0s". "The above Unique and Valuable Work has been illustrated purely as a labour of love, and has occupied 10 years in getting together the unique contents."

1885 January 19-20

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alfred Aspland, Esq. Of St. Helen’s Field, Dukinfield, Cheshire; Comprising Choice Books of Prints; Works Illustrated by Bewick, Blake, H.K. Browne, and Other Artists ... (London, 1885)

First Day

2 “B LAKE . Thornton (R.J.) Pastorals of Virgil. 2 vol. numerous engravings by W. B LAKE , Bewick and others; calf extra, g.e. RARE ” [£2.16.0, to Johnson J]

46 “B LAKE . [Salzmann] Gymnastics for Youth, front. and several finely engraved copper plates by W. Blake , half crimson morocco“ 1800 [13s to Ridmer(?)]

74 “B LAKE . Hayley (W.) Ballads, ... fine impressions, half calf “ (1803) [£1.11.0 to Ellis]

102 “B LAKE . Salzmann (C.G). Elements of Morality for the use of Children, vol. I and II, with copperplates engraved by 32 W. Blake, from the designs of Chodowiecki, in the original sheep 1792” [£2.1.0 to Cur ... (illeg)]

107 “B LAKE . Hayley (W.) Triumphs of Temper . .. calf 1803” [10s to Ellis]

309 “B LAKE . (W). S ONGS OF E XPERIENCE [ Songs inlaid on folio size cardboards, with (K)], 24 plates (numbered 30-53) guards, half morocco, g.e. The Author and Printer, W. Blake , 1794” [£7.10.0 to Suarez]

573 “B LAKE .” Young, Night Thoughts of , “ ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS the fine designs by surrounding the letterpress, W. Blake, half morocco ”, uncut (1797) [£7.15.0 to Ridler(?)]

574 Blair, The Grave russia gilt, g.e. (1808), “ ” [£2.18.0 to Juarvis(?)]

575 “Facsimile of a Portion of a Work entitled ‘The Ghost of Abel: a Revelation in the Visions of Jehovah, seen by William Blake,’ [D] 2 leaves (1822) [246] —‘On Homer’s Poetry,’ [D] 1 leaf For the Sexes —A small engraving ‘Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?’ (1793) [ : The Gates of Paradise Monthly Magazine pl. 14], and a portrait of Mr. Wright of Derby [ (Oct 1797)]; in a volume, with leaves [sic] half crimson morocco [£1.16.0 to Pearson J]

1885 January 27

Sotheby , Catalogue of Alfred Aspland (London, 1885) <Huntington Library >

10 "The Right Honourable Earl Spencer", "proof" [8s to Fawcett]

62 "A Breach in a City" < Butlin # 191 > [ £ 4.4.0 to Pincott ]

63 "Death on a Pale Horse" < # 517 > [ £ 5.10.0 to Colnaghi ]

64 Study for The Last Judgment < # 644 > [ £ 1 to (Dr Edward) Rigall ]

65 "Tree of Life" < # 636, "The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgment" > [ 10s to Ogden ]

66 "Laocoon" < # 679, "Copy of the Laoco ö n, for Ree s 's Cyclopaedia > [ £ 2.2.0 to Ogden of Oxford ]

67 "Egyptian Taskmaster" < # 696, " The Egyptian Taskmaster Killed by Moses", and "Saul, King of Israel" > and "Saul" [2s to Ogden of Oxford ]

68 "Corin n a" < # 708, "Two Heads of Corinna the Theban" > [3s 6d to Ogden of Oxford ]

69 "Socrates" < # 714 and #715, "Classic Head of a Young Faun" > [2s to Ogden of Oxford ]

70 " King " < #723, "Canute, Counterproof" > and " Satan " < # 693 > [3s to Ogden of Oxford ]

71 " King John " < #732, counterproof > and "John Varley " < # 689 > [9s to Ogden ]

72 "Achilles" < # 707 > and "Lois" < #753, "The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in His Dreams" > [10s to Ogden of Oxford ]

73 " A Female H ead" < # 709 > and < #763, "Two Types of Insanity" > [7s to Ogden of Oxford ]

74 "Adam and Eve After the Fall" < # 839 > [1s , bought in ]

75 "Fall of Rebel Angels" < # 845 > [ £ 6 to Gray ]

76 Moloch study for Nativity < # 541, study for "The Flight of Moloch" > [2s to Ogden of Oxford ]

77 Paradise Lost < # 529 1, "Satan Calling Up His Legions" > [ £ 6 to Pincott]

78 < # 529 2, "Satan, Sin and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell > [ £ 5.5.0 to Pincott]

79 < # 529 3, "Christ Offers to Redeem Man" > [ £ 4 to Pincott]

80 < # 529 5, "Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve" > [ £ 10 to Gray]

81 < # 529 4, "Satan Spying on Adam and Eve and Raphael's Descent into Paradise" > [ £ 5 to Pincott]

82 < # 529 7, "The Rout of the Rebel Angels" > [ £ 5 to Pincott]

83 < # 529 6, "Raphael Warns Adam and Eve" > [ £ 10 to Gray]

84 < # 529 8, "The Creation of Eve" > [ £ 7 to Pincott]

85 < # 529 9, "The Temptation and Fall of E ve" > [ £ 6 to Pincott]

86 < # 529 10, "The Judgment of Adam and Eve: 'So Judged He Man'" > [ £ 7 to Pincott]

87 < # 529 11, "Michael Foretells the Crucifixion " > [ £ 6 to Pincott]

88 < # 529 12, "The Expulsion" > [ £ 7 to Pincott]

89 "Head of a Man" < # 710, "Pindar 'As He Stood a Conqueror in the Olympic Games'" and #747, "Head of a Youth, Possibly Henry VIII" > [1s to Coll ]

90 "Circle of the Lustful" < # 817 > [9s to Ogden ]

91 "Death of the Firstborn" < # 443, "Studies for 'Pestilence: The Death of the First-Born'" > [1s to Ogden ]

92 "Flight into Egypt" < # 404 > [ £ 10 to Gray ]

93 "Christ B lessing [the Little] C hildren" < # 419 > [ £ 16 to Gray ]

94 Comus < # 527 1, "Comus with His Revellers" > [ £ 4.10.0 to Colnaghi]

95 < # 527 2, "Comus, Disguised as a Rustic, Addresses the Lady in the Wood" > [ £ 4.8.0 to Colnaghi]

96 < # 527 3, "The Brothers Seen by Comus Plucking Grapes" > [ £ 4.8.0 to Colnaghi]

97 < # 527 4, "The Brothers Meet the Attendant Spirit in the Wood" > [ £ 5 to Colnaghi]

98 < # 527 5, "The M a gic Banquet with the Lady Spell-Bound" > [ £ 5.17.6 to (Dr Edward) Rigall]

99 < # 527 6, "The Brothers Driving Out Comus" > [ £ 3.3.0 to Colnaghi]

100 < # 527 7, "Sabrina Disenchanting the Lady" > [ £ 4 to Colnaghi]

101 < # 527 8, "The Lady Restored to Her Parents" > [ £ 5.5.0 to Colnaghi]

10 2 "Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death" < # 183 > [11s to Palser ]

103 "Youth Proposing" < # 182, "A Pastoral Wooing: Jacob and Laban" > [ £ 1.1.0 to Ogden ]

104 "Woman milking" < # 142, "Pastoral Scene" > [ 14s to Ogden ]

1885 March 2

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of Some Highly Important Letters in the Autography of Lord Byron, Written to His Intimate Friend ... To Which Are Added Interesting Letters the Collection of The Rev. Canon Hodgson , Comprising Cowper the Poet; Blake; Flaxman; An Important Series addressed to Wm Hayl e y (London, 1885) <Huntington Library >

17 Letter of 27 Novembe r 1805, with Cromek's letter to Hayley, n.d., "Enclosing Blake's letter; his work has too much mind and too little of the hand in it to be generally understood; mentions Lady Hamilton, &c." [ £ 1.13.0 to Barker]

18 Letter of 11 December 1805 [ £3 to Barker]

61 Flaxman to Hayley, 21 July 1801 with "a postscript to Wm. Blake"

62 Flaxman to Hayley, 7 October 1801, with a postscript to Blake

1885 April 20-24

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Engravings & Etchings, formed by W.B. Scott , Esq. ... also a Number of Beautiful Drawings by William Blake (London, 1881) <British Library>

Second Day

160 6 engravings for Mary Wollstonecraft [ Original Stories from Real Life ] [15s]

161 8 engravings to "English and Ancient History" [Allen, A New and Improved History of E ngland A New , 4 prints, and Allen , and Improved Roman History , 4 prints]

162 8 engravings to Virgil [ Pastorals , ed. Thornton, 6 copperplate engravings, 21 woodcuts]

163 6 engravings to [Hayley] Triumphs of Temper

164 51 engravings to [Salzmann] Elements of Morality

165 Europe America title page [pl. 2] with, on the reverse, a proof plate for [ Jerusalem pl. 1] [11s to Fawcett]

166 [ For the Sexes The : ] Gates of Paradise [H] , 12 plates [ £ 10.2.6 to Bain]

167 "Pages from "Marriage of Heaven and Hell [pl. 3-4] , America [i.e., Jerusalem Jerusalem pl. 37] , and [pl. 100] , 3 [leaves] [ £ 1.5.0 to Fawcett]

168 17 plates "to illustrate different works" including portraits of Wilson Lowry [after Linnell (1825)] <Es sick 2> and "Henry Melken" [247] [14s to Edward Daniell]

169 Etchings by W.B. Scott after Blake

Drawings

170 " Head of the Tax Gatherer killed by Wat Tyler Visionary Head" < Butlin # 742 > [5s to Fawcett]

171 "Laoco ö n and his Sons" < # 680, "Copy of the Laoco ö n" > , pen and wash [ £ 2 to Pincott]

172 "Death's Door, frontispiece to The Grave Grave < # 630, "A Young Man Entering Death's Door", probably for Blair's > , india ink, fine [ £ 11.15.0 to (B.F.) Stevens]

173 "Lazar House" < # 321, "The House of Death", colour print > , "a grand drawing in colour, highly finished" [ £ 12.15.0 to Thibaudeau (for the British Library) ]

174 Figures in pen and ink < not in Butlin > [ £ 1.5.0 to Thibaudeau]

17 5 "Studies of Figures in red chalk" < not in Butlin > [ £ 3 .5.0 to Thibaudeau]

17 6 "Ulysses persuading Philoctetes to Leave his retreat and assist to finish the siege of Troy " < # 676, "Philoctetes and Neoptolemus at Lemnos" > [ £ 14 to Colnaghi]

177 "Man sinking in Water" from Urizen [pl. 12, print] < # 261 10 > [ £ 6.6.0 to Fawcett]

178 "Man measuring the earth with compasses" from Urizen Europe [ i.e., pl. 1 watercolour by Muir ] [ £10 to Thibaudeau]

179 Three "drawings in a frame in colours" for Songs of Innocence < not in Butlin > [ £ 25 to Bain]

180 Pen sketch for "The Fly" "slightly washed with colour" < not in Butlin > [ £ 3.5.0 to Pincott]

181 "Nebuchadnezzar" < # 305, colour-print > ,in sepia [ £ 2 . 2 .0 to Pearson]

182 "Count Ugolino", "man seated on the ground, with hands and feet chained" [ Urizen pl. 22 ] [ £ 1.6.0 to Pincott]

183 "Count Ugolino and Sons in Prison < #805 > highly finished with water colour" [ £ 10 to Pearson]

184 "Samson Bursting Bonds" < #453 > , very fine in colour [ £ 6 to Pearson]

185 "Subject from Milton, [248] pen and ink sketch" < # 259, "The House of Death" > [ £ 1.1.0 to Pincott]

186 "Man chained talking to a woman and a youth" from Jerusalem Urizen [ pl. 21 ] [ £ 4.4.0 to Colnaghi]

18 6* "Lot and his Daughters" < # 381 > [ £ 6 to Gray]

1885 May

Bernard Quaritch, William Blake's Original Drawings Finished in Colours; Choice Early Copies of his Engraved Works; Books Illustrated by Blake; and Mr. William Muir's Admirable Facsimiles of Blake's Works, Offered for Sale (London, 1885)

A four-page flyer listed with quotations from Gilchrist but without l ot numbers:

[1] " WILLIAM BLAKE'S DRAWINGS, THE BUTTS COLLECTION. Original Drawings, finished in colours, to illust r ate [a] Milton's Paradise Lost, [ b ] Milton's Comus, and [c] the Bible; m ounted on cardboard and bound in 2 vols. folio [ Paradise Lost and the B ible ] and I vol. roy. 8vo. [ Comus red ] ... morocco extra, with flaps like portfolios , UNIQUE , £1200 (1805 [ -10? ] )."

[1a] 8 Comus < Butlin #528 1-8, the Butts set > , "Mounted to the size of 11 in. by 8½ in (?1805-10)"

[1b] 9 Paradise Lost < #536 3-9, 11-12, the Large Butts Set > , "Mounted to the size of 28 in. by 20 in. 1808"

[1c] 9 Biblical designs, "Mounted to the size of 22 in. by 17½ in. (?1805-10) "; the biblical designs consist of

1 "Famine" < # 196 >

2 "Plague" < ? # 321, "The House of Death" >

3 "Pestilence, Death of the First-born of Egypt" < # 442 >

4 "Moses and the Brazen Serpent" < # 447 >

5 "Goliath and David meeting" < # 119A, "Goliath Cursing David" >

6 "The King of Babylon moving to Hell" < # 467 >

7 "The Whirlwind, Ezekiel's Vision" < # 468, "Ezekiel's Wheels ” >

8 "The Woman caught in adultery" < # 486 >

9 "Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac " < # 109 "Abraham and Isaac" > . On the margins round No. 9 there are pasted six [249] small oval pictures containing heads from Shakespeare: Lear and Cordelia < # 84 4, "Cordelia and the Sleeping Lear" > , the same < not in Butlin > , Prospero and Miranda < # 84 7 > , Macbeth and his wife < # 84 6, "Macbeth and Lady Macbeth" > , Othello and Desdemona < # 84 3 > , Falstaff and Prince Hal (or Sir Toby and Viola) < # 84 2, "Falstaff and Prince Hal" > , King Lear? " < # 84 5, "Lear Grasping His Sword" > , Juliet < # 84 1, "Juliet Asleep" > .

[2] "Pencil-Drawings and Sketches for Pictures, THE TATHAM COLLECTION , 40 sketches in pencil or chalk ( two or three of them washed in colour ), with MS. inscriptions by Frederick Tatham; mounted on leaves of cardboard, and 23 enclosed in a portfolio, hf. red morocco about , £36. 1790- 1810". "They passed from Mrs. Blake's possession into the hands of the artist, Fred. Tatham, with whom she lived in the closing years of her life. The last drawing in the portfolio, not included in the above number of 40, is a curious coloured picture by Mrs. Blake of A Face in the Fire < # C2, Head "Taken from Something She Saw in the fire" > . At the end two leave s containing four proofs of Blake's engravings of Wedgwood's Pottery are added."

[3] "Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion [ L ] <Essick 2E> ; engraved from an old Italian Drawing: This is one of the Gothic Artists who built the Cathedrals, after Michael Angelo", 10" x 5½", " fine impression, very rare , £4. 1773"

[4] The Book of The l Visions of the [J], 8 leaves, bound with Daughters of Albion beautifully coloured by the hand of the [G], 11 leaves, "2 vols. in I, sm. folio ... Artist, himself , large and fine copies, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering Sotheran , £85. 1789-93". "This volume fetched, 1881 [ 1-5 April 1880, l ot 165] at Christies, £85, and was priced by the dealer who bought it [ ] £105."

[5] Songs of Innocence and of Experience green morocco super extra, [U], coloured, and gilt by the Author, " g ilt edges, by C. Lewis, extremely rare, from the Bedford Library, Hamilton Palace , £170. (1789-94)" " COLLATION : Pages 1-54, title included. This copy has the complete sets of both works"

[6] America designs printed in [R], "18 blue, half bound green morocco, gilt edges Lambeth , VERY RARE , 36. , 1793"

[7] " CUNNINGHAM'S LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE , in MS., illustrated with portraits, and 103 of Blake's own engravings, MANY OF THE GREATEST RARITY , also portrait of T. Hayley, Son of the Poet (a drawing in sepia is by Blake), and a MS. Index to the Songs of Innocence and Experience in Blake's authograph; in a vol. half bound morocco ... £80."

[8] Young, Night Thoughts (1797), a beautiful copy in dark morocco extra, gilt top, uncut, by Holloway , £12."

[9] Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims plate, 37 x 22", a good impression, October 10, No. 28, Corner of Broad Street, Golden Square, 1810, £7.10.0

[10] Blair, The Grave (1808), atlas quarto, L.P., bds, £5.5.0

[11] Dan t e, 7 plates, india proofs, " portrait of Blake and 2 portrait s of Dante and MS. descriptions added, hf. bd. morocco , £10.10s"

[ 12] "45 Engravings, including some early pieces of 1800, the Portraits of Mr. and Mrs . [ sic Flaxman collection ] William Cowper, etc. from the , £3.16."

The same works were offered in Quaritch's flyer of November 1886.

[13] "A collection of books illust r ated with Blake's Plates, or with designs engraved by him", [250] 17 vols., calf or boards, £28, consisting of

[a] Salzmann's Elements of Morality (1792), 3 vols.

[b] Campe, Elementary Dialogues for Youth , tr., 12mo, 16 plates (1791)

[c] Allen, Roman History

[d] Enfield, Speaker

[e] Hayley, Triumphs of Temper , L.P., (1803)

[f] Baldwin, E., Fables, ancient and modern , 73 plates printed on the text, calf (1805), 2 vols.

[g] Chaucer, Prologue and Characters , 12mo (1812)

[h] Virgil, Pastorals (1821), 2 vols.

[i] Mrs Trimmer, Scripture Lessons (1816-17), 2 vols.

[j] C. Lamb, Shakespeare's Tales (1822), 2 vols.

[k] Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth (1800)

1885 July 27-August 1

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of the Extensive Collection of Autograph Letters And Literary Documents of the Late Mr. F. Naylor ... (London, 1885) <British Library>

First Day

97 Letter [251] of 21 March 1804 [ £3.7.0 to "do" (Waller)]

98 Letter of 16 July 1804 [ £3.9.0 to Bennett]

99 Letter of 4 December 1804 [ £3.12.0 to Molini]

100 Letter of 28 December 1804 [ £3.5.0 to Barker]

101 Letter of 19 January 1805 [£3.5.0 to Thibaudeau]

1,030 Letter s of [16 March] 1804, "3 pp. 4to." to Hayley and " n.d. " [April 1826] [£4.16.0 to Pearson]

1,031 Letter of [7 Aug] 1804, "2½ pp. 4to", partly quoted [different excerpts from those in the sale of 20 May 1878] [£3.18.0 to Molini]

1885 November 16 + 11 days

Mr [F.S.] Ellis , Catalogue of The Very Choice Collection of Rare Books, Illuminated , and other Manuscripts, Books of Prints, and some Autograph Letters, formed by Mr Ellis , of 29 New Bond Street (London, 1885) <Bodley, British Library, Huntington Library >

Third Day

608 Blake's Notebook < Butlin #201], 114 pp.; at the end are 34 leaves with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's transcription of the contents . "It is in the old half-calf binding in which it was no doubt placed by Rossetti ... worn covers" ; with it are the two volumes of Gilchrist "which contains in the margins numerous pencil annotations in his autograph" [ £85 to (G.I.) Ellis & (J.P.) S ( c rutton) ]

609 Job (1825)

610 Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1803)

611 Ibid

612 Hayley, Ballads (1805)

1885 November

Bernard Quaritch , Rough List, No. 73. A Rough List of Valuable and Rare Books, Including Choice portions of Libraries lately dispersed; and many very Cheap Works of every class of Literature (London, November 1885) < Huntington Library >

WILLIAM BLAKE'S Works, from the Tatham Collection:

50 "Five Pencil Sketches by W. Blake < Butlin #239, 539, 606, 619, 771 > , vouched by Fred. Tatham, quarto (?1820) [ £]2.2.0"

51 "B OOK OF T HEL [A], 8 leaves leaves, excessively rare, unknown to Lowndes, , 1789--F IRST B OOK OF U RIZEN [F], 26 Lambeth pages , 1794--M ARRIAGE OF H EAVEN AND H ELL [A], 27 , 1800, Coloured Texts, with beautiful Designs by W. Blake, half calf , EXTREMELY RARE --in 1 vol. 4to. from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace [£]150.0.0"

52 "S ONGS OF I NNOCENCE AND E XPERIENCE [DD], 12mo. calf gilt The Author and Printer, W. Blake , 1789-94 [£]31.10.0

"C OLLATION ; Songs of Innocence, 1789: Plate 1 (frontispiece [pl. 2]), plate 2 (title [pl. 3]), plates numbered [252] 3-28 (no 29 [253] ) and plate 30--Songs of Experience, 1794, the plates numbered on 31-53.

"On comparing this copy [254] with that from Hamilton Palace [U] (priced £170), it appears to want the general title [pl. 1] and the plate 'The Sick Rose. [pl. 39]' [255] Plain copies are scarcer than those issued in a coloured state."

53 "N INE separate Plates of the above, PROOFS before the numbers, printed in tints , small 4to. vouched by Fred. Tatham (?1820) [£]5.0.0

"Introduction [pl. 30], London [pl. 46], the Gardner's Love ["The Garden of Love", pl. 44], the Fly [pl. 40], the Little Vagabond [pl. 45], Spring [pl. 22], Infant Sorrow [pl. 48], two states; Experience an Angel carried on the head of a girl [pl. 28, frontispiece]." [256]

54 "I LLUSTRATIONS of the Book of JOB", 1825, " hf. bd ." £13.13.0

55 ”E ARLY Proof Impressions of 'Job,' plates [numbered] 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21--in all 13 plates (of 21), excessively rare 1825", £10.0.0 [257]

56 Blair, The Grave hf. bd. russia (1813), " ", £2.10.0

57 Jerusalem hf. morocco ... , "imp[eria]l. 4to. ( Pearson's reprint )", £2.10.0

1885 December

Bernard Quaritch , No. 74 . A Rough List of Valuable and Rare Books, including The choicest portion of the stock of Mr. Fred. S. Ellis, Bookseller, of Bond Street, retired from business on account of ill-health; and many very cheap works of every class of Literature (London, 1885) <Huntington Library >

170 Job calf neat (1825), " ", £12.

[1885?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 59 (London [1885?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

No l ot number:

"Samson Bursting Bonds" < Butlin #453, "Samson Breaking His Bonds" > , ₤ 12.12.0.

[1885?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 60 (London [1885?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

132 Poetical Sketches [U], " calf super extra, gilt leaves by F. Bedford, ₤ 7 10s", the "last three sheets beautifully facsimiled."

1886 November

Bernard Quaritch, William Blake's Original Drawings Finished in Colours; Choice Early Copies of his Engraved Works; Books Illustrated by Blake; and Mr. William Muir's Admirable Facsimiles of Blake's Works (London, 1886)

A 4-page list essentially the same as that of May 1885, with the addition of " Nine Separate Plates of the above [ i.e., S ONGS printed in tints ], proof before the numbers, , small 4to. vouched by Fred. Tatham , £5. (?1820) Introduction, London, the Gardner's [ i.e., Garden of] Love, the Fly, the Little Vagabone [Vagabond], Spring, Infant Sorrow, two States; an Angel carried on the head of a girl [pl. 30, 46, 40, 45, 22, 48 a-b ] , £ 5. "

1886 December 15-16

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1886) <Bodley>

1,559 Europe uncut, of excessive rarity [H], "FIRST EDITION, ... As it is not paged this lot will be sold with all faults" [ £4.15.0 to J. Pearson]

[1886?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 62 (London [1886?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

"Blake Drawings from the Palgrave Collection"

62 [A] "A Soul at the Door of Paradise" < Butlin #131 > , india ink, verso "The Old Man at Death's Door, preparatory for the Grave", 11 ½ x 8 ½ ", in Gilchrist [1880], II, 256, # 13-14 , ₤ 4.4.0

[B] "The Last Trumpet" < # 617 > , india, 10 x 9 ½ ", Gilchrist, II, 257, #6 , ₤ 3.10.0

[C] "Job and his Friends" < #163 > , india, 18 ½ x 13", verso has full length figures, Gilchrist, II, 247, #6, ₤ 5.5.0

[ D ] "Battle Scene" < not in Butlin > , india, Palgrave marked it as Blake's "but it is more in the style of Flaxman ", verso pencil of the same subject, ₤ 1.15.0

[E ] King and his courtiers < not in Butlin > , india, style of Stothard, female figures on the verso, ₤ 1.15.0

70 America [D], "sewed and UNCUT ", printed in blue ink; "It was presented by Blake to his friend, Crabb Robinson, who gave it to the gentleman from whom we purchased it", ₤ 52

1886

Bernard Quaritch , General Catalogue (London, 1886)

29,489 America The Book o [ R], printed in blue, with f Thel [J], bound in half morocco , gilt edges, £ 42

1887 May

Bernard Quaritch , William Blake Original Drawings (London, 1887)

Includes Edward Baldwin [i.e., William Godwin], Fables Ancient and Modern , 2 vols. (London: Thomas Hodgkins, 1805) with plates [implausibly] attributed to Blake.

"Enoch Walked with God" < Butlin #146 > , £ 10

13,842 [As in August 1883]

1887 June 1

Christie, C atalogue (London, 1887) <Christie>

158 The Book of Thel [a] [ £34 to Henry White]

255 Jerusalem [E] , printed in colours, with Tatham's life, portraits of William and Catherine Blake [ £166 to Quaritch]

256 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), coloured [E]

258 Collection of 56 Original Sketches, Designs and Proofs, including < Butlin #601, "The Devil Outside a Church" and # 570 , "Beauty ” , possibly for Jerusalem The pl. 81 > , Book of The l Europe , [pl. 2] < #274 > , Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence , [Hayley,] "Little Tom", "Zephyrus and Callisto", "in a folio guardbook" [ £34 to Henry White]

259 Watercolour of St Paul Shaking the Viper from his Wrist < #510, "St. Paul and the Viper" > [£12.15.0 to Ellis]

260 Crowned Female in clouds < #92, "A Crowned Woman Amid Clouds with a Demon Starting Away" > [£4 to Ellis]

261 Man rescuing a child from an eagle < # 363, "finished drawing" for Hayley, Ballads (1805) > [ £ 5.5.0 to Ellis]

262 “ Subject from Revelation ” < #520, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun: 'The Devil is Come Down'" > , 16½ x 20¾” [£14 to Pearson]

1887 July 19

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1877)

Property of Joseph Mayer

188 “Genesis: The Seven Days of the Created World” [ £ 2.7.0 to Pearson]

189 An extra-illustrated set of Nollekens [ no date or edition identified ] expanded to 9 volumes [258] with 450 portraits and 200 letters including Blake’s l etters of 12, 31 March, 27 April, 28 September 1804[ £ 10.5.0 to Robson]

[Butlin, “Hayley’s First Idea for Cowper’s Monument”] [11s to Barker]

1887 July 21-25

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1887)

Property of Joseph Mayer

730 M anuscript of “Thomas Dodd, Memorials of Engravers that have practised the Art in Great Britain from the Year 1550 to 1800" with “Letters or Signature by Bewick, Blake ... in 50 [quarto] portfolios” [259]

[1887?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 64 (London [1887?])

"Spring" < not in Butlin > , a female figure holding the bough of a tree, oval, 6 3/4 x 5", "From the Bates Collection ", £ 1.15s"

1887

Bernard Quaritch, A General Catalogue of Books offered to the public at the affixed Prices , Vol. II (London, 1887)

10 , 249 Songs of Innocence f rontispiece and title page, "An Ideal Hell" < Butlin # 215-217 > , £10

10,250 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [U]

10,251 America [R], printed in green, £36

10 ,252 Thomas Alphonso Hayley < #345 > , £80

10 ,258 Edward Baldwin [i.e., William Godwin], Fables Ancient and Modern , 2 vols. (London: Thomas Hodgkins, 1805) with plates [implausibly] attributed to Blake

13 ,842 "Famine" < #196 >

13 ,843 Sketch for "The Waking of Leonora" < #339 >

13,844 "Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion" [ L ] <Essick 2E> , 10 x 5 ½ " [the size of the plate-mark] , “fine impression”, £ 4

13 ,845 The Book of Thel [E], £85

13,846 Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims, £ 7.10.0

1887

Bernard Quaritch , A General Catalogue of Books Vol. V (London, 1887) <Huntington Library >

29,489 America printed in a bluish tint, original [R] (1793), " impression, hf. morocco, gilt edges ", £42

1888 March 19

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1888)

183 Poetical Sketches [I] [£16 to Pearson]

1888 August

Bernard Quaritch, No. 91 Choice Portions Selected from Various Old Libraries, including that of the Earl of Hardwicke, formed during the last century by Lord C h ancellor Hardwicke, removed from Wimpole Hall, Herts, of the late Right Hon. A.J.B. Beresford-Hope, LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.L, F.S.A., F.S.S., Etc, removed from Arklow House; The late Edward Breese, Esq. F.S.A., of Morva Lodge, Portmadoc, Wales; also many Books of general interest from other sources, transferred to 15 Piccadilly (London, 1888) <Huntington Library >

255 "A Large Water-colour Drawing representing the Incantation-scene in 'Macbeth,' in a gilt frame inches by , 14 12 About 1800", £3.12.0; "A hideous picture of three hideous women engaged in a hideous operation. Its genuineness is guaranteed by Mr. Muir the Blake-amateur and facsimilist, whose signature, as having catalogued the drawing, is written on the back of the frame." < Not in Butlin >

256 "The HOSTS OF H EAVENAND H ELL mustering for battle" < not in Butlin > , " painted covered with on paper by William Blake; glass and protected by a frame ... About 1800", £4.4.0; "One of the most characteristic drawings of the artist. The conception is grand and strange. Above the sun, the champions of Heaven advance in golden light, some of the foremost figures looming mistily across the sun's disk; while from below the earth and the moon, the dark warriors of hell, crowd upwards to attack the new planet, clothed in lurid raiment of deep blue or black or other sombre tints, touched with gleams of red."

Blair, The Grave , including a set only on laid india paper

258 Young, Night Thoughts with (1797), " 42 [ not 43 large ] illustrations hf. morocco, uncut ", " ", £5.0.0

259 "the same", " in dark morocco extra, gilt top, uncut, by Holloway ", [260] £6.10.0

260 Blair, The Grave hf. bd. russia (" 1808-13"), " ", £2.0.0

261 "A set of the plates, royal folio, the portrait and plates on 12 INDIA PAPER , a little stained in one corner of the margins, bds., uncut " (" 1808-13"), £4.0.0

262 Job bds. rare (1826), " INDIA PROOFS , " £18.18.0

1888 December 3-4

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of an important and very interesting collection of Autograph Letters And Historical Documents, the Property of Various Private Collectors, comprising Autograph Letters, &c. Of T. Bewick, William Blake ..., a very interesting series of autograph letters and portraits relating to Wesleyism, Interesting Letters by Lord Strafford, And a Valuable Autograph Manuscript of E.A. Poe (London, 1888) <British Library>

13 "B LAKE (William) ... b. 1787 ... A.L. s [autograph letter, signed] 1 p. 8vo, 'I have sent all the sketches of this subject that I ever have produced. The others of the Presentation [261] I have studied, but not yet put on paper. You shall have that in a shorter time than I have taken about this, as I have nearly got rid of engraving, and feel myself perfectly happy. I am full of business thank God, and you and Mr. Flaxman.'" [£3 to Moreton] [262]

[1888?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 67 (London [1888?])

64 America [D], "sewn and UNCUT ", £45

1890 February 17-18

Sotheby, Catalogue (London, 1890) < British Library>

First Day

301 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Book of Thel [ G ], 27 plates in colour, bound with [N] , 8 coloured plates , w ith Visions of the Daughters of Albion [P], 1 1 coloured pla t es [ £ 121 to Robson]

1890 March 7

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1890)

From the Collection of William Bell Scott

192 "Inventions of G. Cumberland, 24 plates engraved by himself and W. Blake, [263] in a vol. with Cumberland's book-plate designed and engraved by Blake ... 1793-95" [15s to Garrett]

1890 April 15

Christie , C atalogue (London, 1890)

96 "Figures by William Blake" < Butlin #198 7, "Tiriel, Upheld on the Shoulders of Ijim, Addresses His Children ” > [ £2.4.0 to Parson s (for the Victoria & Albert Museum) ]

1890 April 23-May 1

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a Portion of the Important Library of Thomas Gaisford , Esq. [264] ... Important Series [including an] of Works Illustrated by W. Blake ... (London, 1890) [ Bodley, British Library , Biblioteca La Solana ]

First Day

184 Poetical Sketches blue morocco extra, gold tooling, [ N ] , " uncut, top edge gilt, by F. Bedford vo 8 1783 * * * Excessively rare, only 2 or 3 copies known" [ £48 to Quaritch]

185 The Book of Thel engraved leaves with beautifully [C] , "8 coloured designs, red morocco extra, gilt edges to , EXTREMELY RARE 4 1789 * * * Earl of Beaconsfield's copy sold [ Sotheby 20 March 1882 ] for £ 23 " [ £ 29 to Quaritch]

186 Songs of Innocence unnumbered pages with [H] , "31 beautiful designs coloured by the artist, green morocco, gilt edges by J. Smith, extremely rare small 4 to 1789" [ £41 to Quaritch]

187 Songs of Innocence and of Experience numbered leaves, with beautiful designs coloured by the [M] ,"2 vol. in 1, 54 artist, red morocco, gilt edges to , EXTREMELY RARE 4 1789 * * * Earl of Beaconsfield's copy sold for £ 85" [£87 to Robson]

188 Visions of the Daughters of Albion leaves, engraved [I] , "6 throughout with beautiful coloured designs by Blake, half green morocco, uncut folio . 1793 * * * Extremely rare. Earl of Beaconsfield's copy sold for £34 " [ £26 to Ellis]

189 America beautiful designs, presentation copy from [B], " 18 the author to C.H. Tatham, Oct. , with his autograph 7, 1799 inscription, citron morocco super extra, ornamented with gold tooling and variegated leather by F. Bedford , EXTREMELY RARE folio . Lambeth , 1793 " [ £61 to Quaritch]

190 Europe beautiful designs, finely coloured by the [E] , "17 artist, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, excessively rare folio. Lambeth 194" [ £59 to Robson]

191 First Book of Urizen [C] , "26 leaves with beautiful designs coloured by the artist, including the ORIGINAL COLOURED DRAWING of the Preludi u m added < p l. 2 , Butlin #277 > , brown morocco extra , gilt edges, by F. Bedford roy. , EXCESSIVELY RARE 4 to. ib. 1794 * * * Earl of Beaconsfield's copy sold for £59" [ £ 6 6 to Nugent]

192 Young, Night Thoughts the beautiful designs (1797) [ G ], " exquisitely coloured by Blake, with the rare Explanation of the Engravings ( generally wanting at end, half red morocco, ) uncut, top edge gilt, by Riviere, very scarce, royal folio "

[ £40.10.0 to Quaritch]

193 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell numbered leaves [N] , " 27 with exquisite designs, coloured by Blake, uncut 4 to. n.d. (1800)" [catalogued as genuine but annotated in MS in the B ritish Library copy "(reprint")] [£2.10.0 to Quaritch ]

194 Job , bound by F. Bedford [£19.10.0 to Galway]

196 Gay, Fables (1793)

1890 May 5-6

Sotheby, C atalogue ( London, 1890) <Bodley>

First Day

Property of H.V. Morten

22 "A.L.s. [265] 1 p. 8vo. 'Sending all the sketches he has ever produced, has studied "The Presentation," but not yet put it on paper, is full of business, and feels perfectly happy, thanks to his correspondents and Mr. Flaxman.' -- Two Portraits (3 [ items ])" [ £ 2.2.0 to Ellis]

1890 May

Bernard Quaritch , A Catalogue of Works of Bibliography and Literary History, followed by a portion of the Library of Thomas Gaisford , Esq. of Offington, Worthing ... Rough List 104 * * * The constant dispersion of Libraries which has taken place for the last five years has induced me to buy more than I have been a b le to sell. With the view of abolishing the balance, I offer many of the books of the present list at or under cost [?] [?]. Immediate application is required to secure bargains. The unsold portion will, after a reasonable delay, be exported to foreign markets . (London, 1890) < Huntington Library >

455 Poetical Sketches blue morocco [ N] , bound by Bedford in “ ” [No price]

"A facsimile reprint is in contemplation. [266] Subscribers names received at £ 2.2 s ."

456 The Book of Thel [C], £31.10.0

457 Songs of Innocence [H], "A genuine early copy of its own date [ sic ], differing considerably from the reimpressions made after 1794 when the Songs of Experience were issued in combination with it", 31 “pages” £52.10.0

458 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [M], "8vo. ... 1789- 94" [267] [ No price ] "This copy, not bought by me, was one of those issued about 1800. I possess the following which is infinitely superior."

459 Songs of Innocence and of Experience green morocco, by Chas. Lewis; [ U ] , "2 vols. in 1, 8vo. from the Hamilton Palace Library[ £ ]170 A MATCHLESS COPY , coloured and illuminated in the most careful and exquisi t e manner for William Beckford--the only man in England who would be likely to have repaid Blake adequately for his pains" [268]

460 America beautiful designs [ B ] , with “18 ” [ £ ]68

460* "another copy [ D [269] ], large and fine, hf. green morocco, uncut 1793" £ 42

461 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [N], "So wo nderfully fine and fresh that it was supposed by most of the people at the sale to be a modern facsimile. It is, however, the genuine Blake issue .... " [270] [ No price ]

1890 August 7-15

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1890) <Bodley>

2,225 C. Lamb, Prince Dorus (1818) with Blake plates [not elsewhere attributed to Blake]

Day 8

3,173 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [S], 54 leaves, coloured, bound in calf, gilt, octavo [ £ 48 to Maggs]

[1890?]

Ellis & Elvey , Catalogue 69 (London [1890?])<Grolier Club, N.Y.>

88 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [I], 11 pl., coloured, "interleaved in a folio volume of white paper, bound in half morocco", £ 42

1890

Bernard Quaritch, A Hand-List of a Peerless Collection of Books and Manuscripts exhibited to the Bibliophiles of America (1890)

156 8 designs for Comus bound in red morocco < Butlin # 528 1-8 > , 8vo (1805-10), " " , plus 9 Paradise Lost bound in red morocco designs < # 536 1-12 > , large folio, " " (1808), plus 9 Bible designs < # 109, 119A, 196, 321, 442, 447, 467-468, 486 > , " bound in red morocco " (1805-10), all for Butts, £ 1,000 or $5,000

157 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [E], 27 plates, coloured " by Blake's own hand ", " " far superior to the copy from which Mr. Muir made his reproduction £63 or $315

158 Jerusalem coloured and gilt by [E] , Large Paper, 100 pages, " Blake himself ", bound in green morocco, "portraits added" plus a manuscript life by Tatham , £300 or $1,500

1891 February

Bernard Quaritch , No . 109 A Catalogue of Works on The Fine Arts ... [ Rough List ] (London, 1891) <Huntington Library >

90 Book of Thel Visions of the [J] , 8 leaves, bound with Daughters of Albion [G] , 11 leaves bound in olive morocco extra, g.e., by Hering, small folio, coloured, £ 85 "This volume fetched, [ 1-5 April 1880, l ot 165] 1881, at Christies's, £ 85, and was priced by the dealer who bought it at £ 105"

91 Book of Thel [C], 8 leaves, coloured, red morocco extra, g.e., EXTREMELY RARE , £31.10.0

92 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [U], coloured, green morocco super extra, g.e., by C. Lewis, Hamilton Palace copy, collated pp. 1-54, £170

93 America designs printed in blue, half bound green [R], " morocco ", g.e., £36

94 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [E], 27 leaves, quarto, unnumbered, coloured, " hf. bd. uncut ", £63

95 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [N], 27 unnumbered leaves, " very carefully coloured, cloth , " a "re- issue ... So wonderfully fine and fresh that it was supposed not to be a facsimile", £5.5.0

96 Milton calf neat [B], large 8vo, 45 leaves, coloured, " ", £180

"Mr. Muir who has handled all three copies, and reproduced the Museum example, gives his decided preference to mine as superior to both the others"

97 Jerusalem printed in colours, and heightened [E], 100 plates " in gold and colours ", with a MS life of Blake by Tatham on 12 leaves, plus original portraits, of Blake at 26 and 69, and of his wife, by Geo . Richmond, Large Paper, green morocco extra, with clasps, £350

98 Jerusalem, Pearson's reprint "( ) ...limited to 250 copies

99 "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims ... good impression " £ 5

100 Blair's Grave (1808), "impl. folio, Large Paper , ... I NDIA P ROOFS ", £ 5.5.0

101 Dante, " India proofs, portrait of Blake and portraits of 2 Dante and MS. descriptions [271] added, hf. bd, morocco (?1824)", £ 10.10.0

102 "Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion"[L] <Essick 2E> , £3

103 Job autotype reproductions ... Boston, U.S. " 1875", £ 1.16.0

104 Descriptive Catalogue green morocco, g.e. from the [F] , " Hamilont Palace library [ sic ] " , £10.10.0

106 "A C OLLECTIONOF B OOKSILLUSTRATED WITH B LAKE'SPLATES, OR WITH DESIGNS ENGRAVED BY HIM " [ as in May 1885 ], "17 vols.", £ 25.0.0 [See Quaritch (1877)]

"Blake's Works, Muir's Facsimiles"

" The quarto series "

107 Visions of the Daughters of Albion £ 5.5.0

108 " THE ACT OF CREATION " [ Europe pl. 1] £ 1.1.0

109 Songs of Innocence out of print , " "

110 Songs of Experience (1 7 95) £ 7.7.0

111 Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1885) £ 3.3.0

112 There is No Natural Religion (1886), £ 1.1.0

113 Milton (1886), £ 10.10.0

114 The Book of Thel , £ 4.l4.0

115 First Book of Urizen (1888) , £ 6.6.0

116 Gates of Paradise (1889) £ 3.3.0

" The folio series "

117 America America (1887) £ 4.4.0 "It is almost impossible to obtain an original even at great cost" [though l ot 93 above is ]

118 "Little Tom the Sailor" "on old hand-made paper, proofs " (1888) £ 1.1.6

119 " THE STORY [ i.e. , Song ] OF LOS " (1890) , "Only 25 copies will be produced" £ 6.6.0

120 "Illustrations to Milton's Comus ... Griggs's Facsimile , 1890", £ 2.2.0

1891 March 12 + 11 days

Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge , The Lakelands Library: Catalogue of the Rare & Valuable Books, Manuscripts & Engravings, of the late W.H. Crawford , Esq, Lakelands, Co. Cork (London, 1891) <British Library>

Day 2

347 Blair, The Grave (1813) [Rimell, £ 1.2.0]

349 "Angels and Devils" [see Ellis & White (1878?) , l ot 69 ] £ 35

350 Songs of Innocence [V] , "coloured by the Artist, wants title [ pl. 3 ], half bound, sold with all faults" [ £ 8 to Tregaskis]

1891 May 12-14

Christie , Catalogue of Crawford J. Pocock (London, 1891) <Christie>

442 11 engravings by and after Blake [8s to Keppell]

568 An illustration (1792) <n ot in Butlin > [ £ 1.12.0 to Pearson]

585 "Death on the Pale Horse < #517 > [ £ 12.12.0 to Mrs Crawford Pocock]

567 8 Comus drawings < #527 1-8 > [ £ 47.5.0, bought in]

586 An illustration <n ot in Butlin > [11s to Pearson]

1891 June 30

Puttick & Simpson , An Extensive Collection of Attractive Old Engraved Copper-Plates (including a few steels) and a Quantity of Old Wooden Blocks Collected with a view to Republication by the late Mr. H.G. Bohn , the Publisher, and Others (London, 1891) <Harvard>

12 "Blake's (William) The Festival of Flora. London, for N. Hailes , Piccadilly, 1819. 8vo. 8 Copper-plates. With set of Impressions" [272]

1891 October 25

Bernard Quaritch , No. 117 A Rough List of Recent Purchases and Announcements of New Publications (London, 1891) <Huntington Library >

36 Job engraved title and (1825), " 24 [273] plates, calf neat I NDIA P ROOFS , ", "In an oilcloth case", £24.0.0

1891

Bernard Quaritch , No. 61 . Bernard Quaritch's Miscellaneous Catalogue of Rare Old Books and Valuable Modern Works, at reduced prices (London, 1891 [the first page is headed "No. 6 2 ^ 1 ^ December, 1890"] <Huntington Library >

There are no l ot numbers

Milton leaves engraved, illustrated, and (1804) [C], "45 coloured by the hand of William Blake; calf neat ", "The best impression .... Mr. Muir, who has handled all three copies, and reproduced the Museum example, gives his decided preference to mine as superior to both the others", £180

"Blake's Works, Muir's Facsimiles", including "THE STORY [i.e., Song ] OF LOS", "25 copies", and a review of his Europe The Athenaeum in , 31 March 1888

1892 February 5

Sotheby , Catalogue of the library of J. Warwick (London, 1892)<Princeton>

945 34 portraits and book illustrations of Blake [5s]

946 Blair, The Grave , 15 prints, some open letter proofs [17s]

947 "Mrs Q" [ £ 6.6.0]

1892 February 17

Christie , Catalogue of the collection of C. Trefusis (London, 1892) <Princeton>

141 "Morning and Evening Amusement" [ £ 3.5.0]

142 "Morning and Evening Amusement" [ £ 3.3.0]

1892 end of March

Bernard Quaritch, No. 122 A Rough List of Recent Purchases and Announcements of New Publications (London, 1892) <Huntington Library >

There are no l ot numbers .

Milton [C] [description as in Quaritch catalogue No. 61, 1891]

"Blake's Works, Muir's Facsimiles"

1892 April 13

Christie , Catalogue of the collection of W.F. Tiffin (London, 1892) <Princeton>

110 Study of Still Life by Blake <n ot in Butlin, perhaps not by the poet > [ £ 9]

1892 May 9-12

Sotheby , Catalogue of the Edwin Henry Lawrence Library (London, 1892) <Bodley>

First Day

60 Songs of Innocence [F], 27 designs, coloured, olive morocco extra, gilt, gauffred edges by C. Lewis, small quarto [ £ 52 to Pearson , returned ]

1892 May 13-19

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1892) <Bodley>

May 18

T he property of Mons. L.F. le Beaumonte of Geneva

1,192 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [C], 7 plates, coloured, old tree marbled calf extra, a large copy, many edges uncut [ £ 52 to Bain]

1892 June 25

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1892)

Property of Charles Dew of Salisbury

1002 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), coloured [P]

1892 July 14

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of Engravings, Modern Etchings & Drawings, the property of the late William Bell Scott , Esq (London, 1892) <Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.>

134 A monster < Butlin # 850 > [9s to Ogden ]

135 "The Dead Bad-Doers" drawing < # 232 > [ £1.13.0 to Ellis]

136 Young man kneeling between two crouching figures < # 863 > [ £ 1.10.0 to Quaritch ]

137 The Journey of Life < # 573, possibly for Jerusalem pl. 97 > [19s to Quaritch ]

138 A devil with young horns < # 496 > [ £ 1 to Pearson ]

176 "The Spirit ' s F arewell to the B ody " < # 261 3, Marriage of Heaven and Hell pl. 14, colour print > [ £ 3.15.0 to Sydney Morse ]

177 God measuring the universe < # 270, Europe pl. 1 > [ £ 5.15.0 to Ross]

178 A space of sea with a rainbow < # 690, "The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters" > , and on the back a human-limbed elephant dandling a similar elephant on its foot < # 690 verso, " Caricature of John Varley as an Elephant" > [ £ 5.15.0 to Sydney Morse]

179 Blind Tiriel departing from Har and Heva < # 198 6 > [ £ 8 to Quaritch ]

180 "Nunc Dimittis ” < # 470, "The Presentation in the Temple: 'Simeon was Not to See Death Before He Had Seen the Christ" > , signed WB inv [ £ 16.5.0 to Quaritch ]

181 Mary Magdalen washing the feet of Jesus < # 488 > [ £ 22.10.0 to Quaritch ]

Paintings

235 Spirit of a Flea < # 750 > , signed "W. Blake, Fresco", and on the back a description by John Varley [ £ 10.5.0 to Quaritch ]

236 Job and his three daughters < #384 > [ £ 12.5.0 to Quaritch]

237 The Nativity < # 401 > [ £ 40 to Sydney Morse ]

238 St Matthew < # 396 > [ £ 27 to Quaritch ]

1892 August

Bernard Quaritch , Rough List 127 [274] (London, 1892) <Bodley>

912 Spirit of a Flea" < Butlin #750 > , tempera, £ 18

913 "The Presentation in the Temple" < #470 >, watercolour, £ 25

914 "Mary Magdalen washing the feet of Christ" < #488 > , £ 28

915 "Job and His Daughters" < #394 > , tempera, £25

916 "St Matthew" < #396 > , tempera, £ 36

917 "The Blind Tiriel Departing from Har and Hera [ sic ]" < # 198 6 > , sketch in indian ink (7 ½ " x 10 3/4"), " gilt frame " , £ 16.16.0

918 Young man kneeling between two crouching figures < #863 > , pencil, £ 2.12.0

919 Journey of Life < #573 > , pencil, £ 1.10.0

1893 February 7

Christie , Catalogue of Mrs Steele (London, 1893) <Princeton>

39 "Little Tom the Sailor" [ £ 5.5.0]

70 "Mrs Q" [ £ 13]

141 "The Idle Laundress" plus another [ £ 4.4.0]

186 "Illustrations by W. Blake--Pewter types 13" [ £ 1.4.0] [275]

1893 March 13-17

Sotheby, C atalogue (London, 1893)

Fifth Day

1,798 Marriage of Heaven and Hell [N], coloured plates, half Ro x burghe binding [ £ 1.17.0 to Quaritch [276] ]

1,811 Book of Thel [E] , 7 leaves, coloured [£14.10.0 to Robson]

1893 April 10-11

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge , Catalogue of Important Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, Being a Portion of a Private Collection; The Collection of T.G. Arthur , Esq. of Glasgow , And other Properties ...The Property of Alexander Main, Esq. Interesting Letters of W. Blake ... (London, 1893) <British Library>

Second Day

“ The Collection of T.G. Arthur ”

187 Letter of 2 July 1800, extensively quoted [ £ 5 to Pearson]

188 Letter of 12 April 1827, extensively quoted, with prices for his works, with "Mr. Cumberland's card" <Essick 1K >, [ £ 5.5.0 to "do"]

1893 April 24-29

Sotheby , C atalogue of the J.B. Ditchfield Library & Others (London, 1893) <Bodley>

Ditchfield Library

781 Young's Night Thoughts (Glasgow, 1796) with the "autograph and Note of W. Blake the artist"

1,086 Songs of Innocence [F], coloured, lacking "The Ecchoing Green", "Holy Thursday" and "The Nurse's Song" [pl. 11, 22, 23], morocco extra, gilt, gauffred edges by C. Lewis, "1783", returned from the E.H. Lawrence sale [Sotheby, 9 May 1892], now sold not subject to return, with all faults [ £ 18 to Pearson]

1893 June

Bernard Quaritch , No. 62 , Bernard Quaritch's Miscellaneous Catalogue of Rare Old Books and Valuable Modern Works, at Reduced Prices (London, 1893) <Huntington Library >

There are no l ot numbers .

" Various Works of William Blake"

"A S UPERBEARLY SCRIPTURAL DRAWING: A Patriarch with white flowing beard in the centre, receiving five angelic figures, four lovely women on his right, two naked youths, one with a pandean pipe, looking on", 24 x 18", "All the figures executed in Blake's boldest style in colours", £10

"N UNC D IMITTIS ", "Simeon prophesying over the infant Christ" ... < Butlin #470: "The Presentation in the Temple: 'Simeon was not to see Death before he had seen the Christ'" > , "water-colour drawing", 13½ x 12½", " mounted in gold and framed ", £25

"St Matthew", < #396 > , tempera, 15 x 10", " mounted in gold and framed" , £36

"THE BLIND TIRIEL Departing from Har and Heva" < #198 6 > , "sketch in indian ink (7½ in. by 10¾), gilt frame ", £16.16.0

"A Y OUNG M AN kneeling between two crouching figures" < #863 > , "pencil drawing, signed W.B. (7 in. by 13)", £2.2.0

Songs of Innocence and of Experience coloured, and gilt by the Author, green morocco super [U] "(1789-94)", " extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, extremely rare, from the Beckford Library, Hamilton Palace ... Pages 1-54, title included ", £170

Marriage of Heaven and Hell n.d. [E], " (1800)", "4to. 27 unnumbered leaves, ... coloured by Blake, hf. bd. uncut ", £63

"T HE B OOK OF THEL [J], 8 leaves leaves , 1789--V ISIONSOF THE D AUGHTER [s] OF A LBION [G], 11 , 1793--2 vols. in 1, sm. folio ... coloured by the hand of the Artist himself, ... olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering ", £85 "This volume fetched, [1 April] 1881, at Christie's, £85, and was priced by the dealer who bought it £105"

Milton leaves ... coloured by the hand of [C], "large 8vo. 45 William Blake; calf neat ", [description as in Quaritch catalogue 61, 1891], £160

"Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion" [D?] (1773), "10 in. by 5½ in.", quotes inscription, £2.2.0

Young, Night Thoughts with (1797) " 42 large illustrations green morocco [as in Quaritch catalogue (Aug 1888)] ... extra, gilt top, uncut ", £12

Blair, The Grave hf. calf , "1808-13", "royal 4to ... ", £2.16.0

"the same, folio, LARGE PAPER, proofs, green morocco by Bedford ", £6.6.0

Job bds. (1825), "I NDIA P ROOFS , ", £15.15.0

"another copy, India Proofs, very early impressions; calf neat, in a case ", £20

"the same, French Paper ... bds ", £12.12.0

"the same ... on India Paper ", £8.8.0

Dante engravings, "I NDIA P ROOFS ", £10.10.0

"Catalogue of his Pictures" [ Descriptive Catalogue green morocco, g.e. (L)] (1809), " ", £10.10.0

"A Collection of Books illustrated with Blake's Plates, or with designs engraved by him", "17 vols. calf or bds ", £15,

consisting of

[1] Salzmann, Elements of Morality hf. calf" (1792), "

[2] Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth (1800)

[3] Campe, Elementary Dialogues for Youth plates , "translated, 12mo. 16 " (1791) [277]

[4] Allen, Roman History [no date given]

[5] Enfield, The Speaker (1799)

[6] Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1803), Large Paper

[7] E. Baldwin [William Godwin], Fables, Ancient and Modern (1805), "2 vols. 12mo. 73 plates printed on the text "

[8] Chaucer, "Prologue and Characters from the Canterbury Tales" (1812)

[9] Virgil, Pastorals , ed. R.J. Thornton (1821)

[10] Mrs [Sarah] Trimmer, "Scripture Lessons, illustrated by a Series of (64) Prints" (1816-17), 2 vols., 24mo.

[11] "S HAKESPEARE'S Tales, by C. Lamb, 2 vols. 12mo,. 20 plates "

"Mr. William Muir's Facsimiles of the Works of Wm. Blake"

1893 July 27-August 2

Sotheby , C atalogue (London, 1893) <Bodley>

Third Day

997 Young Burying Narcissa" < Butlin # 137, "Burial Scene" > , engraved in the Century Magazine and in Gilchrist (1880), Vol. II [ £ 6 to Robson]

998 "By the Waters of Babylon" < # 842 > [ £ 4 to Tregaskis]

Fourth Day

The Property of a Lady

1,100 Songs of Innocence [Q], 28 coloured plates, calf, g.e., plus two coloured drawings by Blake < Butlin #785, ”Timon” > , and a Blake letter to John Linnell [April 1826?, "I am still far from recovered"] , pen and ink signed portrait by John Linnell and "a drawing of the portrait by Schiavonetti" [ £ 49.10. 0 to Heath]

1893 October

Bernard Quaritch , No. 136 A Rough List of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts chiefly relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Libraries of the late W. Bateman, Esq., and T. Bateman, Esq., of Youlgrave, Co. Derby; from the famous Auchinleck Collection of the Boswell family, rich in rare works on Scotland; from the Library of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, and Thirlstane House, Glouc., comprising Manuscripts; and from various private sources (London, 1893) <Huntington Library >

153 Job proofs on French paper, calf extra, gilt edges (1825), " ", £10.10.0

1893 November

Bernard Quaritch , A Miscellaneous Catalogue of Valuable, Rare, and Curious Books, Books of Prints, Works of Natural History, Science and Art, etc. (London, 1893) <Huntington Library >

There are no l ot numbers .

"A Patriarch with white flowing beard in the centre, receiving five angelic figures, four lovely women on his right side, two naked youths, one with a pandean pipe, looking on < Butlin #470: "The Presentation in the Temple: 'Simeon was not to see Death before he had seen the Christ'" > , ... 24 inches by 18 ... All the figures executed in Blake's boldest style in colours", £10

" The Blind Tiriel gilt frame", Departing [f]rom Har and Heva < #187 6 > , sketch in Indian ink (7½ in. by 10¾). £16.16.0

" A Young Man Kneeling between two crouching figures < #863 > , pencil drawing, signed W.B. (7 in. by 13)", £2.2.0

Songs of Innocence and of Experience coloured, and gilt by the Author, green morocco super [U] (1789-94), " extra. gilt edges, by C. Lewis ... from the Beckford Library, Hamilton Palace ", "Pages 1-54, title included", £170.0.0

Marriage of Heaven and Hell n.d. [E], (" (1800)"), "4to. 27 unnumbered leaves ... coloured by Blake, hf. bd. uncut ", £63

The Book of Thel leaves [J] (1789), "8 ", Visions of the Daughters of Albion [G] (1793), "11 leaves beautifully coloured by the hand of the artist , ... 2 vols. in 1. sm. folio ... himself, ... olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering ", £85

" Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion" [?D] ("1773"), uncoloured, "10 in. by 5 ½ in.", £2.2.0

Young, Night Thoughts in green morocco extra, gilt (1797), " top. uncut ", £12.0.0

Blair, The Grave , £2.16.0

Job , £15.15.0

"another copy, calf neat "

"another copy ... hf. bd. green morocco, uncut ", £11.0.0

"the same, French Paper", £12.12.0

"the same"

Dante, "I NDIA P ROOFS ", £10.10.0

1893 November

Bernard Quaritch , Catalogue 62 (London, 1892)

197 "The Blind Tiriel Departing from Har and Heva" < Butlin #198 6 > , £ 16.16.0

"Enoch Walked with God" < #146 > , £ 10

1893 November

Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue (London, 1893)

"The Blind Tiriel Departing from Har and Heva" < Butlin #198 6 >

[1893?]

Ellis & Elvey, Catalogue 75 (London [1893?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

34 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [Y], square octavo, 54 leaves printed on one side only, coloured, gilt, "each plate is within a sunken mount of folio size", in two half morocco boxes, the plates numbered continuously by Blake with a brush in red, printing colour light brown, ornamental border round each plate. "This ... copy has been treasured in the Calvert family since Calvert received it from the hands of William Blake himself ", £ 150

1893

James Tregaskis , Caxton Head Catalogue ( London, 1893) [278]

"God Judging Adam" < Butlin #258 > , £ 8.8.0

“The Death Chamber” < #565, possible sketch for Jerusalem pl. 25 > , £ 3.12.6

"Satan Calling Up His Legions" < #590 > , £ 2.18.0

"James Barry" < #687 > , £ 3.18.0

1894 February 12

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1894) <Princeton>

15 "The Idle Laundress" plus another [ £ 8.15.0]

1894 June

Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 11 (London, 1894)

"The Blind Tiriel Departing from Har and Heva" < Butlin #198 6 , Tiriel no. 5> , £ 16.16.0

"The Presentation in the Temple" < #470 >

1894 July 11-17

Sotheby , C atalogue of the Howell Wills Library (London, 1894) <Bodley>

92 Songs of Experience [N], "25 plates" coloured, in red morocco extra, g.e.

196 Job

1894 November 27

Christie , C atalogue of the collection of W. Ballard (London, 1894) <Princeton>

115 The Idle Laundress and the Cottager [ £ 1.12.0]

[1894?]

Ellis & Elvey , Catalogue 79 (London, [1894?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

41 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [I], 11 pl., coloured, "interleaved in a folio volume of white paper, bound in half morocco", £ 35

1894

Ellis & Elvey , General Catalogue of Rare Books & MSS . On Sale ( London, 1894) <Victoria University in the University of Toronto>

1,327 Beautiful drawing in Indian ink "representing an Angelic female figure thrusting aside clouds of darkness, 5 ⅛ x 4 ½ ", mounted and framed in black and gilt, "probably executed as a frontispiece, was apparently never engraved ", £ 8.8.0

1,452 Blair's Grave (1808), 4 o , £ 5.5.0

1,453 Visions of the Daughters of Albion consisting of 11 plates, beautifully [I], folio, "THE O RIGINAL I SSUE , coloured by the author, a very choice set, interleaved in a folio volume of white paper, hf. mor. " £42

1,903 Visions of the Daughters of Albion consisting of 11 plates, beautifully [I], folio, "T HE O RIGINAL I SSUE , coloured by the author, a very choice set, interleaved in a folio volume of white paper, hf. mor. " £42

1,903* Job , india proofs, loose, £ 18.18.0

1,904 [279] Blair's Grave (1808), 4 o , £ 5.5.0

[1894?]

John Pearson, Catalogue 79 ( London [ 1894 ?] )

154 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), coloured [ E ] , uncut, half morocco, with the leaf of explanations , £68

1895 January

Bernard Quaritch , No. 147 A Rough List of Choice and Valuable Books, Including Selections from the Libraries of Sir Edward H. Bunbury, Bart.; Lord Metcalfe; Lord Ebury, P.C., removed from Moor Park, Rickmansworth; and others ... Offered at the Net Prices Affixed (London, 1895) [280] <Bibliotheca La Solana>

"Various Works of William Blake"

[1] "A Superb early Scriptural Drawing: A Patriarch with white flowing beard in the centre, receiving five angelic figures" "in Blake's boldest style in colours", [281] 24 x 18", £ 10

[2] "The Blind Tiriel, departing from Har and Hera [ sic ]" < Butlin # 198 6 > , indian ink, gilt frame, 7½ x 1 0 3/4", £ 10.10.0

[3] "A young Man kneeling between two crouching figures " < # 863 > , pencil, signed "W.B.", 7 x 13", £ 2.2.0

[4] Songs of Innocence and of Experience engraved, [U]," coloured, and gilt by the Author, green morocco super extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis ", Beckford (Hamilton Palace), 54 plates, including title, £ 170

[5] Marriage of Heaven and Hell unnumbered [E], 4to, "27 leaves coloured by Blake, hf. bd. uncut ", " ", "n.d. (1800)", £ 63

[6] The Book of Thel Visions of the Daughters [J], 8 leaves, plus of Albion entirely [G], 11 leaves, 2 vols., in one, "sm. folio", " engraved and beautifully by the hand of the Artist himself, large and fine copies, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering , £ 85"

[7] Young, Night Thoughts (1797), in green morocco extra, gilt top, uncut, £ 12

[8] Blair, The Grave sic ("1808-13" [ ]), half calf, royal 4to, £ 1.16.0

[9] Ibid ("1808-13"), Large Paper, proofs, green morocco by Bedford, £ 6.6.0

[10] Job , india proofs, £ 15.15.0

[11] Another copy, "very early impressions", calf neat , in a case, £ 20

[12] Another copy, "Large Paper, India proofs", hf. bd, green morocco, uncut, £ 21

[13] Another copy, prints on India paper, £ 8.8.0

[14] Dante, 7 plates, india proofs, £ 10.10.0

[15] "Catalogue of his Pictures painted in Water Colours and D rawings (1809) " [ Descriptive Catalogue green ( L )], 8vo. morocco, g.e. very scarce , £ 10.10.0

[16] Salzmann, Elements of Morality , 3 vols., 12mo (1792) , plus Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth Elementary Dialogues for Youth (1800) , plus Campe, , tr., 12mo, 16 pl. (1791) , plus Allen, Roman History [ n.d. given] , plus Enfield, Speaker Triumphs of Temper (1799), plus Hayley, , LP (1803), plus Baldwin, Fables Prologue (1805), plus Chaucer, (1812), plus Virgil, Pastorals Scripture (1821), plus Mrs Trimmer, Lessons, illustrated (1816-17), plus C. Lamb, Shakespeare's Tales £ 15

Facsimiles

[17] Book of Ahania (1892), "Only 50 copies re-printed", £ 1.1.0

[18] Comus drawings "Reproduced by Mr. Griggs”

[19] Songs of Innocence and Experience , " Issued under the direction of Mr. Edwin J. Ellis, 54 pp., "coloured by hand under the direction of Mr. Edwin J. Ellis, after the famous Hamilton Palace copy; with an Introduction by Mr. Ellis, uniform in size with Muir's series, price to subscribers £ 6.6s" (1893), "only 10 copies left"

Muir Facsimiles: "Only 50 copies of each Book has been produced"

[20] Songs of Innocence , "coloured from the copy Blake gave to
Flaxman, vellum", £ 6.6.0

[21] Songs of Experience , copied from the British Museum copy, "vellum", £ 6.6.0

[22] The Book of Thel , £ 2.12.0

[23] Visions of the Daughters of Albion

[24] Marriage of Heaven and Hell , coloured from the Beckford copy (1885), £ 3.3.0

[25] Milton , "octavo, with margin to quarto size, £ 10.10.0, or blue morocco, £ 11.11.0

[26] There is No Natural Religion , preface and 21 tinted plates (1886), £ 1.1.0

[27] "Act of Creation" [ Europe pl. 1], coloured, £ 1.1.0

[28] America (1887), £ 4.4.0

[29] "Little Tom" "on old hand-made paper, proofs", £ 1.1.0

[30] Europe (1888), "frontispiece and 16 coloured plates, sewed", £ 5.5.0

[31] Gates of Paradise (1888), facsimiled by Mary Hughes and Wm Muir, "4 prell. 11. of text, engraved title and 18 plates", £ 3.3.0

[32] Urizen , coloured, "in Blake's strongest style", £ 6.6.0

[33] Song of Los , coloured from the British Museum copy, £ 5.5.0

[34] "a complete set of the above, 14 works, sold together for £ 40"

"Enoch Walked with God" < Butlin #146 > , £ 10

1895 February 27

Sotheby , Catalogue of the late Herbert New (London, 1895) <Bodley>

218 Songs of Innocence and of Experience plates (various), , "40 uncoloured, with the exception of the last, which is coloured and inlaid , facsimile of the rare original", half morocco, uncut, t.e.g. [ £ 1.11.0 to Robson] [Presumably the whole is a "facsimile"]

1895 March 13

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1895) < Bodley >

16 "The Dance" < Butlin #161, "Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing" > [ £ 3.10.0 to Leggatt]

1895 March 14

Christie , Catalogue of Mrs F.M. Bayley (London, 1895) <Princeton>

26 "Mrs Q" [ £ 2.15.0]

1895 May 11

Sotheby , C atalogue of miscellaneous prints and drawings (London, 1895) <British Library>

20 "Female crouching at the knees of a Man < Butlin # 283, Book of Ahania pl. 1, colour print > , a drawing in water-colours , framed" [ £ 2.6.0 to "Ward R"]

Late Henry Cunliffe

96 "A Group of Five F igures (one on horseback " < # 682, "Illustration to Robert Bage's 'Hermsprong'" > [ £ 6.10.0 to Sabin]

97 "Pestilence" < # 190 > [ £ 2.18.0 to Maggs]

98 Angels with women , plus two other drawings < # 113, "The Elders of Israel Receiving the Ten Commandments" ; #119A, and "Goliath Cursing David", plus an uniden ti fied drawing > [14s to Toovey]

99 6 Greek Warriors , [282] and "The Child of Nature " (Borckhardt- Blake) <Essick 1 > , "fine impression" [ engraving by Blake after Borckhardt ] [£1.12.0 to Keppel]

100 Chaucer Pilgrims drawing < # 654 > [ £ 2.19.0, bought in by Mrs Cunliffe ]

101 Jane Shore < #101, "The Penance of Jane Shore in St. Paul's Church" > , watercolour [ £ 1.1.0 to Joseph Grego]

102 Queen Emma < #59, "The Ordeal of Queen Emma" > [ £ 5 to Robson]

103 The Witch of Endor < #144 > [ £ 6.10.0 to Keppel]

104 " Good and Evil Spirits < #324, "The Good and Evil Angels Strug[g]ling for Possession of a Child" , colour print > , watercolour" [ £ 8.8.0 to Sabin]

105 Man Getting out of Boat < # 98, Sketch for Thomas Commins's Elegy Set to Music >

106 Proof of portrait of John Linnell

107 "The Woman Taken in Adultery" [283]

155 "The Almighty appearing to Moses" < #258, "God Judging Adam" > [ £ 9 to Sydney Morse]

1895 July 1-4

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1895) <Bodley>

2 July

F olio

501 Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience [G], title and 30 plates on 17 leaves, coloured, octavo, stitched paper covers, uncut, lacks second plate of "Infant Joy" [there is no second plate of "Infant Joy" (pl. 25)] but has "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found" (3 plates [pl. 34-36]) from as well as "The School Boy" [pl. 53] and "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" [pl. 54] [ £ 20 to Quaritch]

502 The Book of Thel [P] , 8 leaves, coloured, quarto, sewn [ £ 14 to Ellis]

503 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [D], 11 plates on 6 leaves, coloured, folio, sewn

504 Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1876)

4 July

1,129 Descriptive Catalogue [L], uncut, in the original paper wrapper, morocco extra by Zaehnsdorf, Blake's address on the title page and MS corre c tion on p. 64 [ £ 3.3.0 to Q uaritch]

1895 July 8

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1895)

Property of Mrs Crawford Pocock

127 “ Death on a Pale Horse ” < Butlin #527 > [ £ 17.6.6 to Keppell]

1895 July

Bernard Quaritch , No. 152 A Rough List of Choice and Valuable Books, including selections from the libraries of The Right Hon. the Earl of Orford, the late M. Hippolyte Destailleus, the famous Architect and Bibliophile; the late J. Gray, Esq., of Esher, Surrey; and other Old Libraries recently dispersed (London, 1895) <Huntington Library >

359 Hogarth, The Beggar's Opera, "'When my hero in Court appears' ... Hogarth-Blake fine bright impression " (1790), " ", 7s

1895 November 4-7

Sotheby , C atalogue of the library of the late Thomas Boddington and Others [London, 1895] <Bodley and British Library>

First Day

Thomas Boddington

94 For the Sexes : The Gates of Paradise [D], 21 plates, large paper, 19 numbered plates, 17-19 The Keys [ £ 21 to Quaritch]

95 17 woodcuts [from Virgil, Pastorals ]

96 Descriptive Catalogue [E], morocco [ £ 5.5.0 to W. Browne]

176 Blair, The Grave (1808), imp quarto

[1895?]

Ellis & Elvey , Catalogue 81 (London [ 1895?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

50 The Book of T hel [P], 8 pl., coloured, rough edges, olive morocco super extra, £ 31.10.0

51 "The Tyger" [ Songs pl. 42], coloured, 1 leaf, £ 1.1.0

[1895?]

Ellis & Elvey , Catalogue 82 (London, [1895?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

50-51 as in Catalogue 81

1896 February 27

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1896) <Princeton>

J.G. Fordham Collection

"Mrs Q" (Huet Villiers-W. Blake) and its companion "Windsor Castle" (I.B.-G. Maile) [ £ 40.19.0]

1896 March 16

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1896) <Princeton>

84 "Mrs Q" [ £ 16.5.6]

167 "Industrious Cottagers" and another [ £ 4.4.0]

1896 March 27

Puttick & Simpson , A Collection of Mezzotint Portraits and Fancy Subjects Sale Prices of 1896 (London, 1896) < , Vol. I (London: Henry Grant, 1898) , 171 >

136 "Blake (William, 1757-1827). Lambeth a coloured engraving printed by William Blake, 1796, and presented by his widow to F. Tatham Sculptor" [284] [Pollard, £7]

1896 March

Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 157 (London, 1 8 96)

36 The Book of Thel [J], 8 leaves , bound with Visions of the Daughters of Albion [G], 11 leaves, both watercoloured, large, bound by Hering in olive morocco, extra, gilt edges, £85

37 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [E], 27 numbered leaves, watercoloured, half bound, uncut, £ 60

38 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), £ 12

39 Blair, The Grave (1808), £ 2.10.0

40 Blair, The Grave , Large Paper , £ 4.4.0

41 Dante, £ 10

42-44 Job at £ 9.90.0 to £ 15.15.0

45 11 Calvert plates and Virgil plates, £ 5

46 Calvert engravings, four plates "by or after Blake, including a reproduction of two leaves of his 'Songs of Innocence '", all mounted in a scrap book, half bound, £ 1.10.0

68 Blake pencil drawing < Butlin #871, "Head of a Woman in Classic Style" > "quite in the style of Albert Durer", given by Blake to Flaxman and by Flaxman "to Mrs Ley for her album", and from Mrs Ley's daughter to Quaritch, £ 5

70 Descriptive Catalogue [F], green morocco, Beckford copy, £ 10.10.0

1896 June 1

Christie , Catalogue of the collection of Cosway (London, 1896) <Princeton>

32 "Venus Dissuades Adonis" [16s]

1896 June 5

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1896) <Princeton>

70 "Mrs Q" [ £ 6]

T he Property of Morton K. Peto

172 Dante [ £ 6 to Mason ]

273 Drawing of "Satan Exulting" < Butlin # 292, colour print > [ £ 31 to Sabin]

274 Chaucer print [ £ 8.5.0 to Sabin]

275 Job [ £ 8.8.0 to Ellis]

276 Blair, The Grave [ £ 4 to Kerslake]

1896 June 18-24

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1896) <Bodley>

Third Day

588 Poetical Sketches [I], fine copy, brown morocco extra, uncut, top edge gilt, by Bedford [ £ 40 to Conway]

1896 June

Bernard Quaritch , No. 160 A Catalogue of Choice and Valuable Books, including selections from Several Private Libraries , including those of The Right Honorable Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England; of Adrian Hope, Esq., of Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, W.; of John Tudor Frere, Esq., of Roydon Hall, Norfolk (London, 1896) <Huntington Library >

343 Blair, The Grave half green morocco extra, gilt top (1808), "S UBSCRIBER'S COPY ", "At the end is bound up the Prospectus of Stothard's Canterbury Pilgrims", " , UNCUT ", £5.5.0

1896 December 18

Puttick & Simpson , A Collection of Engravings Sale Prices of 1896 (London, 1896) < , Vol. I (London: Henry Grant, 1898)>

123 "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, by and after Blake, fine [Ward, £5.10.0]

1896 December 22

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1896) <Princeton>

118 "The Idle Laundress" and the Cottagers [ £ 3.1.0]

1896 December 22-23

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, A Collection of Autograph Letters Sale Prices of 1896 ... (London, 1896) < , Vol. I (London: Henry Grant, 1898)>

170 Blake letter to Dawson Turner [9 June 1818], long quotation [Booth, £2.16.0]

1897 February 5-7

Sotheby , C atalogue (London, 1897) <Bodley>

Third Day

498 Poetical Sketches Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns [L], first edition (1783), plus Wordsworth's (1816), Remarks on Prof. R ossetti's 'Spirito Antipapale ' (1832), "and othe rs, in 1 vol", half calf [ £ 33 to Dobell]

1897 February 22-26

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1897) <Bodley , British Library >

Third Day

752 Songs of Innocence [A], [285] frontispiece, title page, "29 plates (upon 17 leaves)", coloured, "stitched into an A ccount B ook C over by Blake". "This was the copy given by Blake to his Doctor " [ £ 42 to B.F. Stevens]

806 The Book of Thel [ H ], 8 leaves, "coloured by the Artist himself, remarkably fine and clean copy, UNCUT , sewed" [ £ 18. 5 .0 to Gerrard]

807 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [Q], 11 leaves, "coloured by the Artist himself, remarkably fine and clean copy, UNCUT , sewed" [ £ 20.5.0 to Gerrard]

808 "Little Tom", "two coloured engravings by Blake in beautifully clean state, framed and glazed" [ £ 12.10.0 to Tregaskis]

809 "A Collection of Thirty Drawings [286] comprising Pencil Drawings for Urizen (2), 4 large sketches in pen and ink and sepia of Scriptural Subjects, unfinished sketches for various works, in pencil, pen and ink and sepia, also specimen plates from the Book of Urizen [ pl. 25? pl. 10? ] , Visions of the Daughters of Albion [ ] , Jerusalem [ pl. 28? ] , &c. inlaid on cardboards in two large boxes " [ £ 61 to Quaritch]

831 George Cumberland, Outlines from the Antients (1829), Large Paper, india paper proofs, blue morocco by Riviere [14s to Maggs]

1897 March 9

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1897) <Princeton>

114 "Mrs Q" [ £ 30]

1897 March

Bernard Quaritch , No. 168 A Catalogue of Choice and Valuable Books, comprehending selections from The Libraries of the late Charles Roach Smith, the late Joseph Clarke, Esq., F.S.A., and Other Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1897) <Huntington Library >

151 Dante engravings "( circa 1824"), £10.10.0

1897 April 16

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1897)

138 "M rs Q", "with full margins" [ £ 7.17.0 to Agnew]

1897 April 29

Christie, Manson & Woods . Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Engraved Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Property of the Late George Richmond, R.A., and Engravings after his Works; and Drawings by James Barry, R.A., William Blake, T. Gainsborough, R.A., S. Palmer and Others (London, 1897) <Princeton>

120 "Head of William Blake" by George Richmond.

147 22 "Slight Sketches" < Butlin # 77, "Seraphim and Other Drawings" ; #178 , "Charon, Copy from the Antique" ; #200, sketches for "Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana" ; #220, "Two Figures in a Decorative Border" ; #368, "Landscape near Felpham" ; #465, Preliminary sketch for "Christ Girding Himself with Strength"; #516, preliminary sketch for "The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns Before the Divine Throne"; #587, "Composition Sketch"; #588, "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"; #798, "The Crucifixion"; #826, "Composition Sketch, Possibly a Subject from Dante"; #R6, Robert Blake, "The Preaching of Warning"; # R 7, Robert Blake, "Two Drawings of Frightened Figures, Probably for 'The Approach of Doom'"; #R8, Robert Blake, "Six Drawings of Figures with Outstretched Arms"; #R9 , Robert Blake, "A Figure Bowing Before a Seated Old Man with His Arms Outstretched in Benediction" > [ £ 2.10.0 to "Dr. Cicely" ( i.e., Richard Sisley ) ]

148 "Allegorical Figures" by Blake < not in Butlin > and one by Cristall [ £ 3.16.0]

160 17 Virgil woodcuts [ £ 11.11.0]

1897 April

Bernard Quaritch , No. 169 A Catalogue of Books chiefly relating to the History of European States to which are added some Recent Purchases (London, 1897) <Huntington Library >

837 Blair, The Grave hf. morocco (1808), " ", £5.0.0

838 "the same, Large Paper" " with portrait of Blake on India paper, and 12 plates in proof-state, hf. calf ", £5.10.0

1897 August 3

Robson & Co , Catalogue 63 (London, 1897)

82 "Noah and the Rainbow, 'The Covenant'" < Butlin #437 > , £ 50

83 "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun: 'The Devil i s Come Down'" < #520 > , £ 52.10.0

84 "The Ordeal of Queen Emma" < #59 > , £ 65

85 "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" < #439 >

1897

Augerstein and Chambers , Catalogue (London, 1897)

"M rs Q" <Essick 1 > , 950 francs

1898 February 16

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1898)

246 "M rs Q" <Essick 2 > [ £ 45.3.0 to J. Vokins]

1898 March 21-26

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1898) <Bodley>

108 Poetical Sketches [Q], advertisement leaf in "excellent facsimile", dark green morocco super extra, g.e. by Zaehnsdorf [ £ 6.17.6 to C. Brown]

1898 March

Bernard Quaritch , No. 178: A Catalogue of Choice and Valuable Books including Transactions of Learned Societies and Selections from Several Private Libraries (London, 1898) <Huntington Library >

Without l ot numbers .

Various Works of William Blake

The Book of Thel Visions of [J], 8 leaves (1789) bound with the Daughters of Albion beautifully coloured by the hand of the Artist himself [G], 11 leaves, "2 vols. in 1, sm. folio ... ... olive morocco extra, gilt edges by Hering" , £85

Young, Night Thoughts with (1797), " 42 large illustrations ... green morocco extra, gilt top, uncut ", £10.10.0"

Blair, The Grave half blue morocco extra, gilt ("1808-13"), " edges ", £5.0.0

Job bds (1825), "I NDIA P ROOFS , ", £15.15.0

"the same ... F RENCH P ROOF , red mor. extra " , £12.12.0

"the same ... the 21 prints on India Paper [not 22] ", £8.8.0

Dante engravings ("?1826"), £10.10.0

"Catalogue of his Pictures painted in Water Colours and Drawings" [ A Descriptive Catalogue green (F)], (1809), " morocco, g.e ", £10.10.0

1898 April 18

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1898)

138 "Mrs Q" <Essick 3 > "with full margins" [₤7.17.0 to Agnew's]

1898 December 12

Christie , Catalogue (London, 1898)

61 "The Wise and Foolish Virgins" < Butlin # 478? > [ £ 23.2.0 to Dunthorne]

62 "Joseph's Brethren Bowing Before Him" < #155 > [ £ 10.10.0 to Dunthorne]

63 "Joseph Ordering Simeon to Be Bound" < #156 > [ £ 11.11.0 to Dunthorne]

64 "Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren" < #157 > [ £ 9.9.0 to Dunthorne]

65 Three [falling] figures < #256 > [ £ 6.6.0 to Dunthorne]

1899 June 30

Puttick & Simpson, C atalogue (London, 1899)

Arthur Crichton, The Festival of Flora , Second Edition (London: N. Hailes, 1818 [i.e., 1819, the date of the engraved title page]), with 8 plates [implausibly] attributed to Blake

1899 July 28

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge , Catalogue of Valuable Collections of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, The Properties of Various Collectors (London, 1899) <British Library>

262 Letter of 11 December 1805, with Hayley letter to Lady Portarlington "introducing Blake and his wife; also a proof portrait of Blake" [ £ 5.5.0 to Thomas]

1899 July

Bernard Quaritch , No. 190: A Catalogue of Superbly Illuminated and Decorated Mediaval Manuscripts Rare and Valuable Books relating to the Fine Arts Sports and General Literature (London, 1899) <Huntington Library >

165 Book of Thel engraved pages [C] (1789), "7 ... in paper cover, preserved in a morocco case, COLOURED BY B LAKE, UNCUT , by Rivi è re ", " IT WAS S TOTHARD'S ", £25

166 Descriptive Catalogue green morocco extra, [F] (1809), " from the Beckford Library ", £10.10.0

167 Job Wrapper dated March, (" 1826"), "P ROOFS ", £10.10.0

168 "the same ... I NDIA P ROOFS , bds " (1826), £12.12.0

169 "the same" (1826), " re-issue, bds" , £6.10.0

170 Dante engravings ("1827"), " India proofs before all letters ", £10.0.0

171 "the same" (no date given), " Linnell's re-issue "

"Mr. William Muir's Facsimiles of the Works of Wm. Blake"

1899 October 30-November 2

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1899) <British Library>

Property of a Gentleman

96 Includes Muir facsimiles and "A document bearing Blake's signature" [unidentified], 1 vol. morocco, gilt top [ £ 6.1.6 to Quaritch]

1899 November 20-225

Sotheby , Catalogue (London, 1899)<British Library>

First Day

116 Songs of Innocence [J], frontispiece, title page, plus 10 leaves containing "Introduction", "Shepherd", "Little Black Boy", "The Voice of the Ancient Bard", "Divine Image", "A Dream", "The Ecchoing Green", "On Another's Sorrow", "Infant Joy", "The Lamb", "Spring", "The Blossom", "Nurse's Song", "The Chimney Sweeper", "A Cradle Song" [pl. 2-5, 9-10,54, 18,26, 6-7, 27, 25, 8, 22-23, 11, 24, 12, 16-17], coloured by the artist, in half calf [ £ 13.15.0 to Quaritch]

[1899?]

John Pearson , Catalogue 500 (London [1899?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.>

69 "Angels and Devils" [287] with 42 Blake drawings, unpublished, "neatly mounted on Cartridge Paper. 4to. Calf. (Circa 1796) Quite Complete." Sold in Mr [W.H.] Cra w ford's sale in 1891 for £ 235 .