Arundel Society's Engravings, continued :— 129 ST. THOMAS, from a fresco by FRA 158 1860 1861 140 THREE HEADS, from Pinturricchio's 144 THE CONVERSION OF SAUL, from 145 ST. SIXTUS GIVING MONEY TO ST. WORKS. 1881 1860 155 Frescoes of Pinturicchio. Roy. 160 1858 Notices of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Nelli, Pinturicchio, and Sanzio;-5 works in 1 vol. hf. morocco, 10s 1856-60 1 0 2 12 161 AUMÜLLER, Les petits Maîtres Allemands: I. Bart. and H. S. Beham. II. J. C. Bink, A. Claas-together 2 parts, 8vo. sd. Munich, 1881-93 162 BARTOLOZZI. TUER (A. W.) BARTOLOZZI and his WORKS, a biographical and descriptive account of his Life and Career, together with a List of upwards of 2000 of the Engraver's Works, 2 vols. 4to., 13 plates from the original coppers engraved by Bartolozzi, vellum [1881] 163 BARTSCH, LE PEINTRE GRAVEUR, 21 vols. in 18, 8vo. LARGE PAPER, the original issue, with all the plates, hf. bd. vellum, gilt tops, uncut Vienne, 1803-21 18 0 164 BARTSCH, le Peintre graveur, nouvelle édition, 21 vols. 8vo. plates, also the Extra Series in 4to. sd. Leipzig, 1854, and Vienne, 1821 3 10 The usual mixed issue. Entirely unmixed original copies in stock for £7. 10s and above. 165 BLAKE (William) Book of Thel, 4to. consisting of 7 engraved pages, DESIGNED AND COLOURED BY BLAKE, UNCUT, in paper cover, preserved in a morocco case, by Rivière 1789 25 00 "A strange mystical allegory, full of tender beauty and enigmatical meaning. The designs are of the utmost sweetness; simple, expressive, grand; the colour slight, but pure and tender."-Gilchrist, Vol. I, page 76. THE COPY POSSESSES EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST FROM THE FACT THAT IT WAS STOTHARD'S; doubtless presented to him by Blake, as the two Artists were on terms of warm friendship in 1789. In fact Gilchrist states (vol. I, p. 77) "I may mention. in corroboration of a previous assertion of Stothard's obligations as a designer to Blake, that the copy of Thel formerly Stothard's bears evidence of familiar use on his part, in broken edges and the marks of a painter's oily fingers." The broken edges and the oily finger marks still remain in evidence, and the following old pencil note is on the cover, "Stothard's copy. Bought of Hamilton, 1855." The Gaisford copy, with cut edges, realized £29. 166 BLAKE. Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures; poetical and historical inventions painted by William Blake, in water colours . . . and Drawings, sm. 8vo. green morocco extra, from the Beckford library 1809 167 BLAKE. Illustrations of the BOOK of JOB, in 21 plates, invented and engraved by WILLIAM BLAKE, folio, PROOFS, sd. 10 10 0 168 169 Wrapper dated March, 1826 the same, folio, INDIA PROOFs, bds. 1826 10 10 0 12 12 0 (1827) 10 00 6 00 170 BLAKE'S DANTE, Divina Commedia, SEVEN PLATES (all published); Scenes 171 from Hell, atlas folio, India proofs before all letters Mr. William Muir's Facsimiles of the Works of Wm. Blake: Only 50 copies of each Book have been produced. Mr. MUIR does not print with type. He works by methods as like those of Blake himself as the need of faithfully following Blake's own results will permit. Almost all the labour is hand work, and the result has all that charm which belongs to hand work alone. 172 THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE, 1789, small 8vo. with margin to quarto size, all chastely coloured from the very early copy given by Blake to Flaxman 173 THE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, 1794, uniform with the above, all richly coloured from a choice copy in the British Museum, sewed The Songs of Innocence and of Experience form perhaps the most beautiful book that has ever been produced in England. 174 THE BOOK OF THEL, sd. "This is even finer and more delicate in colouring and touch than 'The Visions of the Daughters of Albion.' Of course every copy thus produced may-indeed mustdiffer from the others. Nothing could be better than that before us."-Athenæum, August 23rd, 1884. 175 THE VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, sd. "We can hardly expect to see finer transcripts of the plates in any published form. Only a draughtsman of very choice skill could furnish a better copy of the whole work than that before us. The reproduction of the outlines is simply perfect; the colours are repeated with vigour and delicacy, and lack only some of the purity of Blake's own handiwork. The process of colouring such copies by hand is the only one which promises fortunate results."—Athenæum, August 16th, 1884. 176 THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, 4to. coloured, from the Beckford copy 177 MILTON, sd. £8; or morocco extra 1885 (This book contains some of Blake's finest plates. Its reproduction has required two years' very tedious work.) "Has been made from the very choice example in the British Museum, and, having compared the copy sent to us with its original, we are glad to bear witness to its remarkable excellence and rare fidelity. Among the choicest and most faithful pages are the famous and noble concluding design, 'To go forth to the great harvest of the Nations,' and the group of sleepers on plate 38, over whom the eagle hovers. Both happily reproduce that peculiar colouration which is an element of Blake's poetic design. The beautiful little figures in the margins of the pages retain all or nearly all the spirit of Blake.”—Athenæum, June 26th, 1886. 000 550 110 220 000 10 0 0 Mr. William Muir's Facsimiles of the Works of Wm. Blake, £ continued: 178 THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION, preface and 21 tinted plates 1886 "A very curious and important tract-this reproduction comprises the subdivision, All Religions are One.' It has been reproduced with equal success.”Athenæum, June 26th, 1886. 179 THE ACT OF CREATION, single plate 180 AMERICA, a Prophecy, 1793 "As good as it can be. Includes several of Blake's finest designs."-Athenæum, April 9th, 1887. 181 LITTLE TOM THE SAILOR, broadsheet 182 EUROPE, a Prophecy, 1794, 17 coloured plates 183 THE GATES OF PARADISE, 1793 184 THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, 1794 This book, "like thunders of autumn, when the cloud blazes over the harvests' dimly discloses an account of Creation as it presented itself to the imagination of Wm. Blake. 185 ON HOMER'S POETRY, 1 leaf 186 THE SONG OF LOS, 1795, 8 coloured plates (pub. at £5. 5s) 187 "The exact extent of hand-work in Blake's poems and poetic books is still a problem. The marvellous designs in the fine copy of The Song of Los' in the British Museum greatly exercised the criticism of D. G. Rossetti; they could not, he admitted, be absolutely the work of Blake's hand; yet he was unable to detect the auxiliary process employed by the artist. When Mr. Muir undertakes The Song of Los,' we trust that he and his able fellow-labourers will consult the British Museum example."-Saturday Review, August 29th, 1885. This book completes the series. S. d. 000 1 1 44 0 05 5 5 0 3 3 0 66 026 3 30 a complete set of the above 15 works, sold together, bound into 8 vols. six in 4to. two in folio, olive morocco, gilt tops [1884]-90 40 00 Fifty copies only were produced. 188 BLAKE. WORKS, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, edited, with Lithographs of the Illustrated "Prophetic Books" and a Memoir, by EDWIN JOHN ELLIS and WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, 3 vols. large 8vo., with portraits and 290 Facsimiles of Blake's privately-printed and coloured works, cloth, with gold design on sides 189 1893 the same, large paper, 3 vols. 4to., half bound morocco, gilt tops 1893 "Messrs. Ellis and Yeats, in a most comprehensive work in three volumes, including additional biographical particulars and copious illustrations, which comprise the previously unpublished 'Vala,' have striven to present Blake's mysticism as a coherent system of thought."--Dr. Richard Garnett. "It cannot be said that Messrs. Ellis and Yeats have entirely overcome the difficulties of reproduction; yet, perhaps, for those unable to obtain access to the copies tinted by the artist, or even to the uncoloured plates in the original edition, nothing so well displays the wilder and more weird aspects of his genius as the reprints in their third volume, especially those from Jerusalem."-Dr. Richard Garnett. 6 "On the day of his death,' quotes Gilchrist, the biographer of William Blake,' he composed and uttered songs to his Maker, so sweetly to the ear of his Catherine that, when she stood to hear him, he, looking upon her most affectionately, said: "My beloved! they are not mine. No! they are not mine!" It is interesting to find in the splendid Works of William Blake,' by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats (just published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch), that Blake often extemporized music to his songs in the freedom of social life: We would give much now for a single note of these melodies. It is said that musicians were present who actually took down the airs, but valuable as the merest scraps of such records would be to-day, they must be considered as hopelessly lost. One result remains at least. The reader of Blake's mystic poems is able to believe that, when he finds music spoken of, it is not alluded to for mere literary effect. Blake was really what too many poets are called by mere courtesy and conventionality-a bard. He himself claimed the title. The talent never left him. It was his last source of happiness on his death-bed.' Time must tell whether the records of Blake's extemporized music are 'hopelessly lost.' There is no need to despair. What would one give for a few phrases of song from the wonderful man who wrote, in a barren age of English poetry, The Songs of Innocence and Experience'?"-JOSEPH BENNETT, in an article "Music of the Day." Daily Telegraph, February 4th, 1893. 190 GILCHRIST (A.) Life of William Blake, with Selections from his Poems and other Writings, new and enlarged edition with additional letters, 2 vols. 8vo. numerous facsimiles by W. J. Linton and in photo-lithography, also with a few of Blake's original plates, cloth 1880 191 SWINBURNE (A. C.) WILLIAM BLAKE, a critical Essay, 8vo., coloured and plain facsimile illustrations from Blake's designs, cloth 1868 3 3 192 BLANC (C.) Grammaire des Arts du Dessin: Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture, thick royal 8vo. with numerous woodcuts; half bound Paris, 1867 193 BÖCKLER (G. A.) Architectura Curiosa Nova, das ist Bau und WasserKunst, 4 parts in 1 vol. folio, FIRST EDITION, 231 plates of Fountains, Grottoes, and Garden Decorations, Palaces, Country Houses, etc. brilliant impressions, in original calf Nurnberg, 1664 This copy contains 25 additional views of Gardens and Fountains. 194 BÖCKLER (G. A.) Schauplatz der mechanischen Künsten von Mühl- und Wasserwercken, folio, 2 engraved titles and 154 fine copperplates of Machinery, old calf Noribergae, 1662 050 700 500 To understand the mechanical aids to labour in the 17th century this work is indispensable. 195 BOTTICELLI. ILLUSTRATIONS TO DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA. Zeichnungen von Sandro Botticelli zu Dante's göttlicher Komödie, nach den Originalen im K. Kupferstichkabinet zu Berlin, herausgegeben von Friedrich LIPPMANN. 84 facsimile plates, atlas folio. Descriptive Text, in German, 1 vol. sm. folio, accompanied by 20 facsimile plates of Botticelli's designs to the Florence edition of 1481. SUPPLEMENT: Die acht Handzeichnungen des Sandro Botticelli zu Dante's göttlicher Komödie im Vatikan, herausg. von Dr. Josef STRZYGOWSKI. 8 plates, atlas folio. Text, small folio. In all, 112 plates, with text, forming the work complete; in portfolios and wrappers, as issued Berlin, 1885-87 12 0 0 Collation of the 92 plates: Inferno, 28 (titelblatt, and nos. 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15 to 34, and 34a); Purgatorio, 33; Paradiso, 32 (31 and 32 being on one sheet). 196 BÖTTIGER (Dr. John) La Collection des Tapisseries de l'état Suédois, in Swedish with French Translation, 4 vols. folio, 224 photogravures and 78 minor illustrations, unbound, £28, or in red morocco extra, gilt tops, uncut Stockholm, 1898 34 0 0 The work has been strictly limited to 200 copies. The Author is the Conservateur des Collections artistiques to the King of Sweden and Norway. In this work he has given a history of the origin and growth of the wonderful Royal Swedish collection of Tapestry since it was first formed at the beginning of the 16th century. In addition the author gives an able account of the technical development of the manufacture in Sweden, and the various ceremonial and utilitarian purposes to which tapestry was put. "Les riches illustrations dont le livre est orné forment, en outre, pour le travail actuellement poursuivi en divers endroits à l'effet de classer des collections analogues, autant de matériaux de premier ordre, et il semble bien que ce soit encore, avec le catalogue de la collection impériale de Vienne, le seul inventaire descriptif de ce genre qui ait été jusqu'ici publié dans le monde entier. Aussi à cet égard copie est-elle donnée de toutes les tapisseries et les signatures qui y figurent sont reproduites dans le texte." 197 BRAND (C.) CRIS DE VIENNE, folio, 40 beautifully coloured plates, engraved after L. Brand by F. A. Brand, Mansfield Feigle, A. Merk, Conti, Schütz and Moesmer, in hf. red morocco portfolio Vienna, 1775 A very important collection, the costumes throughout are most artistic. A full series uncoloured is scarce, in this coloured state it hardly ever occurs for sale. British Museum: 198 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF ANTIQUITIES. Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 961 fine photographs of Statues, Bas-reliefs, Vases, etc., etc., by Stephen Thompson, mounted, and bound in 15 vols., royal folio, half red morocco, gilt edges Very few sets were thus gathered and bound. PRE-HISTORIC and ETHNOGRAPHICAL SERIES, 157 plates, 2 vols. ASSYRIAN SERIES, 248 plates, 4 vols. GRECIAN SERIES, 207 plates, 3 vols. ETRUSCAN and ROMAN SERIES, 97 plates, 2 vols. ANTIQUITIES of BRITAIN and Foreign Mediæval Art, 46 plates, 1 vol. SEALS of CORPORATIONS, SOVEREIGNS, etc., 91 plates, 1 vo'. This fine series was published, unbound, at £120. 10s. 17 10 0 1872 50 0 0 British Museum, continued :— 199 Reproductions of Prints, Part I. (Early Italian.) 30 plates. out of print 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 £ s. d. Folio, 7 10 0 0 0 1884 3 0 0 1889 Part II. (Early Italian.) 30 plates. Folio, out of print 1895 16 plates, folio Part VI. (Specimens of line-engraving by Masters of Germany and the Low Countries, 1530-1620.) 15 plates, folio 1896 208 REPRODUCTIONS of PRINTS in the British Museum. New Series, Part VII. Specimens of Line-Engraving by Masters of the Netherlands Schools under the influence of Rubens and Vandyck (about 1620-1670). Imperial folio, with 12 fine plates 1898 269 CATALOGUE of DRAWINGS by British Artists, and Artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain, preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Vol. I, A-C, royal 8vo. cloth 7432NNN 2 00 0 00 00 1898 0 12 0 210 CATALOGUE of the BRONZES (Greek, Roman, and Etruscan) in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, with collotype plates, 8vo. Just published: 1899 211 AN INDEX to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. From the invention of printing to the year MD. With Notes of those in the Bodleian Library. By Robert Proctor. Complete four parts: (1) Books printed in Germany; (2) Italy; (3) France, Netherlands, England, Spain; (4) The Tables. Subscription price for the complete work, 4 parts, sm. folio, sewed, £2. 108; or in roxburghe binding, £3. Single parts, 16s each. The work is limited to 350 sets. A bibliographical work of the highest importance. There is of course no detailed description of each of the 3200 articles indexed, but they are all assigned to their proper place and dates, and classified in such a way and on such a scale as has never been done before except in small sections, by the late Henry Bradshaw and his disciples. 212 BOYDELL. COLLECTION OF PRINTS from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, by the Artists of Gt. Britain, 2 vols. atlas folio, Hannah Boydell's copy, with 100 plates by BARTOLOZZI, SHARPE, and others, from paintings by REYNOLDS, ÕPIE, SMIRKE, FUSELI, ROMNEY, etc., BEAUTIFUL OLD IMPRESSIONS, half morocco BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB, Exhibition Catalogues: 213 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES: a collection of 33, as detailed below. 4to., nineteen bound in one vol. hf. morocco; the rest as published 1868-96 CONTENTS (those priced are sold separately): 1 10 0 1803 20 0 0 Marc Antonio Raimondi, 1868, 38 6d; Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, 1870; The bound vol. includes Catalogue of the Museum of Medieval Art collected by 4 0 0 |