Ballads (English): BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA; Catalogue of a Collection of English Ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, stout sm. 4to. £3. 38 Privately printed at the Aberdeen University Press, 1890 One hundred copies, of which No. 23 is presented to Bernard Quaritch with the best regards from the Author, Crawford; the third leaf has the inscription: LINDESIORUM PRINCIPIS COMITIS CRAWFORDIÆ ET AMICORUM. Titles, ded. preface and contents, 8 leaves; the Catalogue of English Ballads, pp. 1-530; Additional References, pp. 531-534; List of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers, pp. 535-546 ; Index, pp. 547-650; Appendices A and B, pp. 651-686; The Aberdeen University Press, the last leaf. The arrangement is by an Alphabet of the first word in the first line, thus: 4. Adieu my dear whom I adore | thou art the cause of all my grief. I The dispairing Youth's Grief | Crowned with Joy and Happiness, | By the Return of his Dear Love. | Forsaken Lovers thus complain, nay, and for Death will call; But when their Loves return again, amends is made for all. (These four lines in two cols. two and two.) To the tune of, Black and sullen hour. This may be printed, R.P. Blanford (W. T.) ZOOLOGY AND GEOLOGY OF ABYSSINIA, 1867-1868, 8vo. folding plate, geological view and 8 coloured plates of BIRDS (pub. at 21s), cloth, 7s bd 1870 Hitherto no Scientific work had been published on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia. The above will be welcome to Scientists and Sportsmen. Blavatsky (H. P.) Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. Nearly 1400 pp. cloth, 2 stout vols. 8vo. 36s New York, 1891 The work is divided into two volumes: one devoted to Science, one to Religion. To the scholar and the specialist, to the philologist, and the archaeologist, this work will be a most valuable acquisition, aiding them in their labours and giving to them the only clue to the labyrinth of confusion in which they are involved. To the general reader it will be especially attractive because of its fascinating style and pleasing arrangement, presenting a constant variety of racy anecdote, pithy thought, sound scholarship, and vivid description. Mme. Blavatsky possesses the happy gift of versatility in an eminent degree, and her style is varied to suit her theme with a graceful ease refreshing to the reader, who is led without weariness from page to page. The author has accomplished her task with ability, and has conferred upon all a precious boon, whose benefit the scientist as well as the religionist, the specialist as well as the general reader, will not be slow to recognize. "In regard to the Oriental societies, I am under deep obligations to H. P. Blavatsky, the learned author of Isis Unveiled,' published last year by Mr. Quaritch, of London, a work that should be in all Masonic libraries. This erudite lady is secretary of the Eastern Society of Theosophists, consisting of thrice three degrees.”—The Rosicrucian and Masonic Record, July, 1879. BEWICK'S SELECT FABLES of Esop and others, a faithful reprint of the extremely rare and expensive Newcastle Edition, published by T. Saint, in 1784, 1 vol. demy 8vo. with the ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS by THOMAS BEWICK, and an engraved Portrait of T. Bewick by Jas. Ramsay added, hf. bd. 5s (1879) BEWICK'S LIFE; DOBSON'S (AUSTIN) edition of the Memoir of THOMAS BEWICK, written by himself, much improved and enlarged, royal 8vo. forming the fifth volume of the Memorial Edition, with the engravings of the FISHES, cloth, uncut, £1. 1887 A new Subscription is opened for the complete work, printed by Messrs. R. WARD & SONS, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, of The Memorial Edition OF THE Works of Thomas Bewick, IN FIVE VOLUMES, ROYAL 8vo. cloth gilt, £4. 14s 6d; a very handsome book, £5. 5s. Vols. I., II. History of British Birds; Land Birds and Water Birds, with the woodcuts of the Supplements incorporated, 2 vols. with 318 woodcuts of Birds and 329 Tailpieces Vol. III. History of Quadrupeds, 1 vol. with 223 woodcuts of Quadrupeds Vol. IV. Esop's Fables, 1 vol. with 181 woodcuts of Fables and 136 Vol. V. Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself, with numerous In all five volumes, with 1341 woodcuts. As the original editions have become very scarce and very dear, this new MEMORIAL EDITION-the first in a collective form-will, at a comparatively moderate cost, give to the present generation a delightful opportunity of enjoying the artistic truth and vigour of Bewick's famous cuts in all their original beauty. BERNARD QUARITCH. Various Works of William Blak I.-Original Works, Engraved and coloured by Blake. BLAKE (William) THE BOOK OF THEL, 8 leaves, 1789-VISIONS OF DAUGHTER OF ALBION, II leaves, 1793-2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, text illustrations entirely engraved and beautifully coloured by the hand of the A himself, large and fine copies, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering Two of the rarest and loveliest of Blake's extraordinary compositions, and also amer most important of his titles to a high place in imaginative poetry. This volume fetched, 1881, at Chris £85, and was priced by the dealer who bought it £105. "The designs to the Visions of the Daughters of Albion are magnificent in energy and portest ness. The title-page is of great beauty; the words are written over rainbow and cloud, from the a of which emerges an old man in fire, other figures floating round." "The Book of Thel is a mystical allegory, full of tender beauty and enigmatical meaning.-It is equal in delightfulness to E lyrical poetry; and being the most tender and simple of the class to which it belongs, may prov most generally acceptable."-Gilchrist's Life of Blake. The Visions deals, as Mr. Gilchrist says, with "formidable moral questions"—that is, the exis of love and lust, the relations of man and woman, and the hollow mockeries of social decorum. II.-Engraved Works-Uncoloured. YOUNG (Edward) The Complaint and the Consolation, or NIGHT THOUGH atlas 4to. with 42 large illustrations by William Blake, a beautiful co green morocco extra, gilt top, uncut, £10. IOS THE GRAVE, a Poem by Robert Blair, royal 4to. the portrait and 12 plates, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £5. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB, folio, frontispiece and 21 ↑ the same, folio, FRENCH PROOF, red mor. extra, £12. 12s Only an extremely limited number for sale. BLAKE. ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANTE, Seven plates, designed and engra W. BLAKE, Author of "Illustrations of the Book of Job," etc. etc. i folio, INDIA PROOFS, £10. IOS PLATE I. and like a corse fell to the ground. HELL; Canto v. line 137. ? PLATE V. He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him. HELL; Canto xxv. L PLATE II. seiz'd on his arm, PLATE VI. Then two I mark'd, that sat HELL; Canto xxii. line 70. Propp'd 'gainst each other, PLATE III. HELL; Canto xxix. PLATE VII. And mangled bore away the sinewy part. 'Wherefore dost thou bruise me?" weep exclaim'd. HELL; Canto xxxii. la CARY'S DANTE. s of William Blake-continued. III.-Printed Works. E. Poetical Sketches, by W. B., 8vo. iv and 70 pp. sd. 5s London, 1783 · Poetical volume of the utmost rarity, composed between the ages of 11-20, and privately printed elp of friends. Gilchrist says, 'so rare, that after some years' vain attempt I am forced to the idea of myself owning the book. I have had to use a copy borrowed from one of Blake's friends, there is (of course), none where, at any rate, there should be one-in the British -"—Life of Blake, p. 23. To many of us a still more interesting acquisition is WILLIAM BLAKE'S first work, the Sketches, published in 1783. The whole impression,' says his biographer, 'was presented to sell to friends or publish, as he should think best. Unfortunately it never got published, and rposes except that of preservation might as well have continued in MS.' Hitherto it has eluded ; now, at last, a copy of the 'Poetical Sketches' has found its way into the national collection." July 22nd, 1891. (W.) Catalogue of his Pictures painted in Water Colours and Drawings, 8vo. green morocco, g. e. very scarce, £10. IOs IV.-Facsimiles. 1809 E. THE BOOK OF AHANIA, 5 pp. the title and tail-piece are designs in colours, royal 8vo. 15s Lambeth, Printed by W. Blake, 1795 (facsimile, 1892) Only 50 copies re-printed from the only known copy. "There are passages of much force and beauty, but they emerge from surrounding obscurity like Ening out of a cloud : 'And ere a man hath power to say-Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up.' The first half of the poem is occupied with the dire warfare between Urizen and his rebellious xon." "Ahania's lamentation . . . fills the concluding portion of the poem."—Gilchrist, Vol. I, pp. 131-2. ON'S COMUS, ILLUSTRATIONS to, 8 unpublished Drawings by WILLIAM BLAKE, £I. 1890 Reproduced by Mr. Griggs. The original Drawings are now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Mass., U.S.A. under the direction of MR. EDWIN J. ELLIS, a facsimile edition, in colours, by GRIGGS of KE'S SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, 2 parts in I vol. 4to. 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 Only 10 copies left. Mr. William Muir's Facsimiles of the Works of Wm. Blake. Only 50 copies of each Book have been produced. 1893 Mr. MUIR does not print with type. He works by methods as like those of Blake himself as the faithfully following Blake's own results will permit. Almost all the labour is hand work, and it has all that charm which belongs to hand work alone. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, 1789, small 8vo. with margin to quarto size, all chastely coloured from the very early copy, given by Blake to Flaxman “Tinted with admirable tact and taste by hand.Contains the names of the copyists employed. a well-deserved tribute to their care and skill."—Athenæum. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, 1794, uniform with the above, all richly coloured from a choice copy in the British Museum, sd., £6. 6s "The Songs of Experience' is as nearly as possible right as a facsimile; the rendering of own colour, with touches of gold here and there, as in 'The Fly,' is just and pure. The Siek is only inferior (we might almost say not inferior) to the original. The same may be said for 'The Gurl Found,' 'The Tyger,' ' A Little Boy Lost,'' A Little Girl Lost,' and 'The School Boy.' Works of William Blake-continued. THE BOOK OF THEL, sd., £2. 12s; morocco extra, £3. 'This is even finer and more delicate in colouring and touch than The Visions of the Drag of Albion. Of course every copy thus produced may-indeed must-differ from the others could well be better than that before us."-Athenæum, August 23rd, 1884. THE VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, sd., £3. 3s; or, moro £3. IOS "We can hardly expect to see finer transcripts of the plates in any published form draughtsman of very choice skill could furnish a better copy of the whole work than that before reproduction of the outlines is simply perfect; the colours are repeated with vigour and delu. lack only some of the purity of Blake's own handiwork. The process of colouring such copes. is the only one which promises fortunate results."—Athenæum, August 16th, 1884. THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, 4to. coloured, from the Beckfor uniform with the above " 'We have received the reprint in facsimile of Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and H. Quaritch generously lent to Mr. Muir to copy his beautiful original bought at the Hamilton s facsimiles are admirable. No other copies can rival that before us, of which a very limited examples have been prepared. An appendix contains facsimiles of a manuscript index in Bla hand, giving, for the guidance, doubtless, of his wife, the paging of the Songs,' and a design a Divine Image,' both of them additions of great interest."-Athenæum, August 28th, 1886. MILTON, Octavo, with margin to quarto size, £10.; or, morocco extra, £11 (This book contains some of Blake's finest plates. Its reproduction has required t very tedious work.) "Has been made from the very choice example in the British Museum, and, having com the copy sent to us with its original, we are glad to bear witness to its remarkable excellence fidelity. Among the choicest and most faithful pages are the famous and noble concluinz 'To go forth to the great harvest of the Nations,' and the group of sleepers on plate 38, over eagle hovers. Both happily reproduce that peculiar colouration which is an element of Bla design. The beautiful little figures in the margins of the pages retain all or nearly all the Blake."-Athenæum, June 26th, 1886. THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION, preface and 21 tinted plates, 18mo. margin to quarto size, uniform with the above, £1. Is "A very curious and important tract-this reproduction comprises the sub-divis Religions are One.' It has been reproduced with equal success.”—Athenæum, June 26th, 1886. THE ACT OF CREATION, single plate, folio, beautifully drawn and richly col AMERICA, a Prophecy, by William Blake, 1793, sd. £4. 4s As good as it can be. Includes several of Blake's finest designs."-Athenæum, April 9th, 15 LITTLE TOM THE SAILOR. Broadsheet, on old hand-made paper, proofs, EUROPE, a Prophecy, by William Blake, 1794, folio, frontispiece and 16 co plates, sewed, £5. 5s; or, morocco extra, £5. IOS THE GATES OF PARADISE, by Wm. Blake, Lambeth, 1793, facsimi Edmonton, by Mary Hughes and Wm. Muir, 4to. 4 prel. ll. of engraved title and 18 plates, sd. £3. 3s THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by Wm. Blake, 1794, 8vo. with mar quarto size, 28 pp. all elaborately engraved and wonderfully coloured in E strongest style, £6. 6s This book, "like thunders of autumn, when the cloud blazes over the harvests-dimly d an account of Creation as it presented itself to the imagination of Wm. Blake." Though Blake calls it the "first" book, he composed no second. THE SONG OF Los, 1795, folio, very heavily and richly coloured in Blake's characteristic style, and with his peculiar vehicles, from the British Mu Copy, £5.5s "The exact extent of hand-work in Blake's poems and poetic books is still a problem marvellous designs in the fine copy of The Song of Los' in the British Museum greatly exer criticism of D. G. Rossetti; they could not, he admitted, be absolutely the work of Blake's han! was unable to detect the auxiliary process employed by the artist. When Mr. Muir undertak Song of Los,' we trust that he and his able fellow-labourers will consult the British Museum exam -Saturday Review, August 29th, 1885. |