Poetical Sketches
(1783 Joseph Johnson, London)
(1868 Basil Montagu Pickering, London)
(1926 Noel Douglas, London)
- Ltd Ed Facsimile 250
(1927 Scholartis Press, London)
- incl an essay by Jack Lindsay
(1927 Payson & Clarke)
All Religions Are One
(1788)
(1970 Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust - 662 copies)
There is No Natural Religion
(1788)
(1971 Trianon Press - 616 copies)
The Book of Thel
(1789)
(1928 Gollancz, London & Payson & Clarke, NY - 850)
(1928 Payson NY)
- Ltd Ed 1700
(1930 Book Club of California)
- 300 printed at Windsor Press
(1965 Trianon Press for William Blake Trust - 426 copies)
Songs of Innocence
(1789)
[An illuminated book with 23 poems & copperplate engraved plates
Only 23 copies are known to exist, and each copy is different]
(1893 Oxford)
(1954 Trianon Press - 800 copies)
(1910 Herbert & Daniel)
- Honor C Appleton
(1912 Dent)
- Charles & Mary Robinson
(1926 Benn)
(1927 Medici Society, London)
- Jacynth Parsons
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(1790-93)
(1868 London)
(1927 Dent)
(1960 Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, London)
- 240 numbered of 480
(1975 OUP)
- Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Vision of the Daughters of Albion
(1793)
(Facsimile)
(1932 Dent)
(1959 Trianon Press - 446 copies)
The Gates of Paradise : For Children
(1793)
(1868 Trianon Press - 700 copies)
America : A Prophecy
(1793)
(1963 Trianon Press - 526 copies)
Songs of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
The second part of Songs of Innocence
[Of this only 26 copies exist]
(1794)
(1839 Wm Pickering & W Newbery, London)
Offered in 1998 for £750
(1866 Basil Montagu Pickering, London)
- Edited by R H Shepherd
(c1899 D Nutt)
- Songs of Experience
(1900 Herbert & Daniel)
- Honor C Appleton
(1927 Benn)
- Songs of Experience
(1955 Trianon Press - 240 copies)
(1967 Hart-Davis)
Europe : A Prophecy
(1794)
[A hand-coloured copy of this sold at auction in 1971 for £24,000]
(1969 Trianon Press for William Blake Trust - 526 copies)
The First Book of Urizen
(1794)
(facsimile)
(1929 Dent)
(1965 Trianon Press - 526 copies)
The Book of Ahania
(1795)
(1973 Trianon Press for William Blake Trust - 808 copies)
The Book of Los
(1795)
(1976 Trianon Press - 538 copies)
Milton : A Poem
(1804)
(1967 Trianon Press - 380 copies)
Jerusalem
(1804-20)
(1951 Trianon Press - Facsimile. 516 copies)
(1974 Trianon Press - 558)
Illustrations of the Book of Job
(1825 London)
(1902 Dent)
- Ltd Ed 1000
(1937 Dent, London / Dutton, NY - 120)
Others
Twenty Seven Drawings (1925 Carl J Smalley, Kansas)
The Prophetic Writings (1926 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols
Poetry & Prose (1927 Nonesuch Press)
(1956 Nonesuch Press)
- edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Pencil Drawings (1927 Nonesuch Press)
- Ltd Ed 1550. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Poetical Sketches : intro by Eric Partridge with Essay by Jack Lindsay (1927 Scholartis Press)
The Land of Dreams : 21 Poems by William Blake (1928 Macmillan NY)
- Pamela Bianco
The Note-Book of William Blake : Called the Rossetti MS (1935 Nonesuch Press)
- 650
America A Prophecy (1947 United Book Guild, London)
Catalogue of Original Works by Blake, the Property of the late Graham Robertson
(1949 Christie, Manson & Woods, London)
A Cradle Song, The Divine Image, A Dream Night (1949 Valenti Angelo, NY)
- 125 signed by Publisher
Engravings (1950 Faber)
- intro by Geoffrey Keynes
Blake's Pencil Drawings : Second Series (1956 Nonesuch Press)
- Ltd Ed 1440
Vale or the Four Zoas : A Facsimile of the MS (1963 Clarendon Press)
America A Prophecy (1963 Trianon Press)
- 480
The Prophetic Writings (1964 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols
Tiriel (Facsimile)
(1967 Clarendon Press)
Auguries of Innocence (1968 Grossman, NY)
- Wood engravings Leonard Baskin
The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M D E Clayton-Stamm
(1969 Trianon for Heinemann)
- 2 vols
All Religions Are One (1970 Trianon, London)
- 636
William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray (1972 Trianon Press - 100)
(1972 O'Hara, Chicago)
The Poems of William Blake (1973 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge)
London (nd. 1976 Taurus Press, London)
- 150 signed by Paul Peter Piech
The Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake (1977 Trianon)
- 500
William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts : Complete Edition
(1980 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols. Slipcase
The Letters with Related Documents (1980 Clarendon Press. 3rd Ed)
- edited by Geoffrey Keynes
The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (1981 Yale UP)
- 2 vols. Edited by Martin Butlin
COLLECTED EDITIONS
The Poems (1874 B M Pickering, London)
- Edited by E H Shepherd
Works by William Blake (1876 PP for Circulation)
The Poems, with Specimens of Prose Writings (1885 Scott)
The Poems (1887 Pickering & Chatto. New Ed)
Works (Ed E J Ellis & W B Yeats)
(1893 Lawrence & Bullen)
- 3 vols. 200 Large paper
Poetical Works (Ed John Sampson)
(1905 OUP)
- 2 vols
Poems (1911 Blackie)
- Edited by Alice Meynell
The Writings of William Blake (1920 Nonesuch Press)
- 1500. 3 vols. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Offered for £315 in 1998
The Poems (1921 Florence Press, London)
- edited by John Sampson
Writings (Ed G Keynes)
(1925-1939 Nonesuch Press)
- 3 vols. 1500
Offered for £400 in 1998
The Complete Writings of William Blake : Edited by Geoffrey Keynes (1966 OUP)
The Poems (1973 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge)
William Blake's Writings (1978 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols. edited by G E Bentley Jnr
The Complete Poetry of William Blake : Edited by David V Erdman (1988 NY)
The Complete Illuminated Books (2000 Thames & Hudson £39.95)
- Edited by David Bindman
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY BLAKE
Robert BLAIR : The Grave - A Poem (1808 T Bensley for R H Cromek)
- 1st Blake edition
(1813 T Bensley for R Ackermann)
- Blake
(1847 A L Dick, NY)
- with illus from designs by Wm Blake
(1982 Scolar Press)
- William Blake
Jacob BRYANT : A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology (1774-5 T Payne)
- 3 vols
Erasmus DARWIN : The Botanic Garden (1789 & 1791 J Johnson)
- 2 vols
Richard GOUGH : Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain (1786-96 J Nichols,
T Payne and GG & J Robinson)
- 2 vols
William HAYLEY : The Life, and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq
(1803-4 J Seagrave for J Johnson)
- 3 vols
John Caspar LAVATER : Aphorisms on Man (1788 J Johnson)
Essays on Physiognomy (1788-98 John Murray)
- 3 vols. Blake's illus in Vol 1
Capt J G STEDMAN : Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Slaves of
Surinam in Guinana in the Wild (1792-3 Johnson, London)
Publius VIRGIL : The Pastorals of Virgil (1821 J McGowan for Rivington & Others. 3rd Ed)
[Blake's illus did not appear in 1st & 2nd Eds]
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT : Affections and Form the Mind to Truth & Goodness (1788 J Johnson)
(1791 J Johnson. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1999 for £1200
Original Stories for Children (1791 J Johnson, London)
Edward YOUNG : The Complaint, and the Consolation, or Night Thoughts (1797 R Noble for R Edwards)
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Little Thumb and the Ogre (1788 R Dutton)
- William Blake
Charles GARDNER : William Blake the Man (1919 Dent)
John MIlton : On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1923 CUP)
The Illustrations for Thornton's Virgil (1937 Nonesuch Press)
- 1000
Thomas GRAY : Designs for Gray's Poems (1972 Trianon Press)
- 100
Blake's Illustrations of Dante (1978 Trianon Press)
- 376
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity : Milton's Hymn with illus by Blake
(1981 Whittington Press)
- 350
Pictures
" A Vision of the Cycle of the Life of Man" (Arlington Court, Nr Barnstaple)
READING
1863-1900
Alexander Gilchrist : The Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus" (1863 Macmillan)
- 2 vols.
[This was completed by his wife]
(1907 JL, Bodley Head)
Alfred T Story : William Blake : His Life, Character & Genius
(1893 Swan Sonnenschein)
- 280 Large Paper
1901-1925
I Langridge : William Blake - A Study of His Life & Art Work (1904)
(Ed)
A G B Russell : Blake's Letters (1906 Methuen)
Arthur Symons : William Blake (1907 Constable)
E L Cary : The Art of William Blake (1907 Moffat Yard, NY)
Edwin J Ellis : The Real Blake - A Portrait Biography (1907 Chatto & Windus)
Archibald G B Russell : The Engravings of William Blake (1912 Grant Richards)
- 500
Geoffrey Keynes : A Bibliography of Blake (1921 Grolier Club, NY)
(1931 OUP)
S Foster Damon : Blake - His Philosophy and Symbols (1924 Boston)
1926-1950
Mona Wilson : The Life of William Blake (1927 Nonesuch Press)
- 1480
(1948 Hart-Davis)
Thomas Wright of Olney : The Life of William Blake (1929 Thomas Wright)
- 2 vols
Denis Saurat : Blake and Modern Thought (1929)
J Bronowski : William Blake and the Age of Revolution (1944 & 1965)
Geoffrey Keynes : Blake Studies (1949)
1951-1965
Keynes & Edwin Wolf : Blake's Illuminated Books - A Census (1953 Grolier Club, NY)
D V Erdman : Blake - Prophet Against Empire (1954)
George Wingfield Digby : Symbol and Image in William Blake (1957 Clarendon Press)
Harold Bloom : Blake's Apocalypse (1963)
Geoffrey Keynes : A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake
(1964 Trianon Press)
- 525 copies
Jean H Hagstrum : William Blake - Poet and Painter - An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse
(1964 Chicago UP)
G E Bentley Jnr & Martin K Nurmi : A Blake Bibliography (1964 Minnesota UP)
(Ed)
Geoffrey Keynes : The Letters of William Blake
1966-1990
Ruthven Todd : William Blake the Artist (1971 London)
R R Easson & R N Essick : William Blake, Book Illustrator
(1972 American Blake Foundation)
- 100
D Foster Damon : A Blake Dictionary :-The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
(1973 Brown UP)
Geoffrey Keynes : The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake
(1977 Trianon Press)
- 500 copies
G E Bentley Jnr : Blake Books - Annotated Catalogues of Blake's Writings (1977 OUP)
Jack Lindsay : William Blake (1978)
N D Paley : William Blake (1978 Phaidon)
(Ed)
Martin Butlin : The Paintings & Drawings of William Blake (1981 London)
AFTER 1991
James King : William Blake - His Life (1991 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25)
Joseph Viscomi : Blake and the Idea of the Book (1993 Princeton UP £35)
G E Bentley : Blake Books Supplement (1995 OUP £85)
Peter Ackroyd : Blake (1995 Sinclair Stevenson £20)
G E Bentley Jnr : The Stranger from Paradise - A Biography of William Blake
(2001 Yale UP £25)