404. Lewis, Wilmarth S. and Philip Hofer
The Beggar's Opera by Hogarth and Blake

Illustrated by William Blake and William Hogarth.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965
First Edition. Folio.

Eleven plates of 21" x 26" engraved broadsides. Laid-in is the accompanying quarto book bound in paper wrappers. 15pp. (Bently p.382).

200/300     SOLD: $299.00

405. Young, Edward
Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts

Illustrated by William Blake..
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927
Limited Edition. Folio.

No. 244 of 500. Thirty pages, five reproduced in colour and twenty-five in monotone, from the original water-colours in the library of William Augustus White, with and introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes.
Four additional proof plates
Edward Young (1683-1765), English Poet and Dramatist.
Blue four-fold wrapper with tie.

100/200     SOLD: $138.00

406. Blake, William
Vala or the Four Zoas

Illustrated by William Blake.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963
Folio. 220+144pp.

[A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript of the Poem, and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G.E. Bentley, Jr.] Buckram covers with gilt text to spine and front cover. Owner inscription. Interpretation of Blake's 1797 work: [The Four Zoas Vala or The torments of Love & Jealousy in The Death and Judgement Albion of the (Ancient) Eternal Man A Dream of Nine Nights.] With 144 pages of facsimile.

100/200     SOLD: $57.50

407. Blake, William
Vala or the Four Zoas

Illustrated by William Blake.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963
Folio. 220+144pp.

Illustrated dustjacket. [A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript of the Poem, and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G.E. Bentley, Jr.] Buckram covers with gilt text to spine and front cover. Interpretation of Blake's 1797 work: [The Four Zoas Vala or The torments of Love & Jealousy in The Death and Judgement Albion of the (Ancient) Eternal Man A Dream of Nine Nights.] With 144 pages of facsimile.

100/200     SOLD: $144.90

408. Blake, William
Vala or the Four Zoas

Illustrated by William Blake.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963
Folio. 220+144pp.

[A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript of the Poem, and a Study of its Growth and Significance by G.E. Bentley, Jr.] Buckram covers with gilt text to spine and front cover. Interpretation of Blake's 1797 work: [The Four Zoas Vala or The torments of Love & Jealousy in The Death and Judgement Albion of the (Ancient) Eternal Man A Dream of Nine Nights.] With 144 pages of facsimile.

100/200     SOLD: $97.75

409. Blake, William
Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante

Illustrated by William Blake.
London: The National Art-Collections Fund, 1922
Folio. 107 leaves

Limited edition of 250 sets. 103 plates encased in one-quarter paper over cloth boards case. Commissioned by painter John Linnell in 1824, this series was one of the biggest undertaken by Blake and near his death in 1827.

150/300     SOLD: $149.50

410. Grant, Rose, Tolley & Erdman (eds.)
William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts

Illustrated by William Blake.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980
Thick Folio. Two Volume Set 362+.

Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dustjacket. With 537 watercolor drawings and 43 engravings reproduced in two volumes including over 80 color plates. Painted in 1795-97 at the age of 37, this is Blake's most extensive undertaking. In illustration and illumination of Young's "The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts", a religious meditative poem of almost 10,000 lines of blank verse, first published in 1745. The line, "Procrastination is the thief of time" is from this poem.

300/600     SOLD: $396.75

411. Milton, John
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Illustrated by William Blake.
Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1981
Limited. Small folio. 24 pp.

No. 93 of 350 copies. Quarter bound in vellum and buckram with pictorial cover. Green marbled endpapers, handmade paper with deckled edges, teg. Encased in dark green paper-covered slipcover.

200/400     SOLD: $92.00

412. Blake, William
Paradise Lost

Illustrated by William Blake.
New York: Studio Publications, 1947
Folio. 10 leaves

Ten sur blanc leaves in brown illustrated paper covers of the Paradise Lost prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

25/50     SOLD: $11.50

413. Alighieri, Dante
The Inferno

Illustrated by William Blake.
New York: Cheshire House, 1931
Limited Edition. Folio. 210 pp.

No. 625 of 1200. Embossed leather covers with gilt lettering to five-banded spine. Deckled pages, teg. Translation by The Rev. Henry Francis Cary. Seven illustrations by Blake.

100/200     SOLD: $63.25