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Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works [1899?] John Pearson, Catalogue 500 (London [1899?]) <Grolier Club, N.Y.> 69 "Angels and Devils"278 with 42 Blake drawings, unpublished, "neatly mounted on Cartridge Paper. 4to. Calf. (Circa 1796) Quite Complete." Sold in Mr [W.H.] Crawford's sale in 1891 for £235. 1900 March 1 Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 197. Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands Part V (London, 1900) <Huntington Library> 3651 Songs of Innocence [J], frontispiece, title page, and 10 ll., £20 3659 Descriptive Catalogue [F], in green morocco, "from the Beckford Library", £10 1900 March 7-10 American Art Galleries, Catalogue of the Valuable Library and Art Collection of the late Carl Edelheim of Philadelphia to be sold at absolute [sic] public sale by order of the executors (N.Y., 1900) <Princeton> 1,089 Job, "original wrappers, in green levant morocco case" [$36] 1,890-91 Blair, The Grave (1808), quarto, boards, uncut [$20 each] 1,092 Chaucer, Prologue (1812), calf extra, bound by Riviere [$11] 1,093 Ibid but "Inserted plates and frontispiece by Blake", calf [$9] 1,094 Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories (1791), calf, g.e. [$4] 1,095 The Book of Ahania, coloured, "Royal 8vo, unbound" "Lambeth, 1795, rep." [presumably the Griggs facsimile (1892)] [$2.50] 278 The collection of 43 Blake prints with "Angels and Devils" was offered in Ellis & White Catalogue 41 (?1878) at £52.10.0. The same work is listed in undated and unnumbered Pearson catalogues<Grolier Club, N.Y.>: (1) Lot 21 (mentions "seven sections, entitled 'Novelties, To be imagined, Gravities, Many things, Considerations, Dreadfuls, and Beings"), £300; (2) lot 45, £275; (3) lot 65 (dated in MS "1905"), £250; (4) lot 34, £200; (5) lot 15, £200; and (6) lot 19, £200. 178 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 1,729 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, pl. 11 <Butlin #261 2, Small Book of Designs (B)> [$25]279 1900 June 21-23 Sotheby, Catalogue of the Valuable and Select Stock of Books of the late Mr. Francis Harvey, of 4, St. James Street, S.W. (London, 1900) <Toronto> 193 George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796), inscribed "J. Cosway, Esq. from the Author" [3s to Maggs] 219 Young, Night Thoughts (1797), red morocco, g.t., uncut, by Riviere, with the Explanation leaf [£101.10.0 to Sabin280] 220 "Satan's Triumph over Eve" <Butlin #201, Satan Exulting Over Eve">, watercolour, "varnished and framed as an oil painting" [£31.10.0 to Quaritch] 1900 July 3 Sotheby, Catalogue (London, 1900) 159 "Mrs Q", "cut to the outline of the figure", with 13 other prints [£19.19.0 to Feldwicke] 1900 July-August Henry Young &Sons,281 Part CCCXIII, A Catalogue of Rare and Interesting Books ... including ... an Original Drawing by WILLIAM BLAKE ... Catalogue 228 (Liverpool, 1900) <National Library of Wales> 68 "A Breach in a City--the Morning after the Battle" <Butlin #191>, "1784", "signed WILLIAM BLAKE", water colour 18½ x 13", "excellently preserved", "unframed", "in Mr. Bicknell's Sale [29 April-1 May] in 1863 [lot 388]" and later "in the possession of Mr. Aspland, of Dukinfield, near Manchester", £25 69 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "27 leaves ... CAREFULLY COLOURED BY HAND in exact imitation of the extraordinary 279 Butlin gives lots "(1729 or 1730) $25 or $41". 280 Now in the Huntington Library. 281 "12, South Castle Street, Liverpool".Blake's "A Breach in a City" is reproduced on the title page. 179 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works original drawings; half morocco, all the edges uncut", "[1860]",282 £2.2.0 1900 October Bernard Quaritch, [Rough List] No. 201283 Catalogue of Greek & Latin Classics Part II Followed by a Collection of Books and Prints Relating to Naval Affairs (London, 1900) <Michigan> 1077 “A.L.s. 1 p. 4to and address, [1] April, 1800, to Hayley”, quotes “I send you a proof ... art and science in this world”, [£]5 5 0 1900 November 19-20 Puttick & Simpson, Catalogue (London, 1900) <Bodley> 338 Europe [G], 17 designs coloured, "with two additional original water-colour drawings, by Blake added" [none of the 3 watercolours here is in Butlin]; Song of Los [C], 5 designs coloured, "with one additional original water-colour drawing added", Visions of the Daughters of Albion [H], 6 leaves, 11 pages, coloured, in one volume half bound [£225 to Quaritch] 339 The Book of Thel [R], 8 leaves, coloured, wrappers, uncut [£46 to Quaritch] 1900 December Bernard Quaritch, No. 203 A Catalogue of Choice and Valuable Books Comprising Works on The Fine Arts, Numismata Transactions of Learned Societies and Miscellaneous Recent Purchases (London, 1900) <Huntington Library> 193 The Song of Los (1795) [C], "Folio, title, 4 leaves of text, and 3 full-page illustrations coloured in Blake's own peculiar combination of oil and water colour" [i.e., colour-printed]; Europe [G] (1794), "title, 4 leaves of text, and 3 full-page illustrations coloured in Blake's own peculiar combination of oil and water colour"; and Visions of the Daughters of Albion [F] (1793), "frontispiece, title, and 4 leaves, coloured 282 The "original drawings" are not known to survive -- presumably it means coloured prints. The "[1860]"and price suggest that this is the undated Camden Hotten facsimile (1868) 283 The title page gives “No. 201”, but the running heads erroneously give “No. 202”. 180 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works in water colours", "The three works in 1 volume, folio, bound in contemporary half morocco", £315.0.0 194 The Book of Thel [R] (1789), "4to., 1 leaf, entitled Thel's Motto, title and six leaves coloured by William Blake in water colours, in the original paper wrapper, uncut", £63 1901 January 15 Christie, Catalogue (London, 1901) 110 "Mrs Q" [£14.14.0] 1901 February 19 Sotheby, Catalogue (London, 1901) 36 "Mrs Q" [£9.9.0] 1901 May 2 Sotheby, Catalogue (London, 1901) 335 "Mrs Q" [£39 to Daniell] 1901 July 4-6 Sotheby, Catalogue (London, 1901) First Day 65 “The Last Judgment” <Butlin #644> [£3 to Ward (for Sir Sydney Cockerell)] 1901 November 4 Sotheby, Wilkins & Hodge, Catalogue of a Small but Valuable Collection: Choice Books and Autographs Forming a Portion of the Library of the Late Mr. F.S. Ellis, including Wm. Blake's Songs of Innocence and [of] Experience ... (London, 1901) <Bodley> 5 Songs of Innocence and of Experience [Y], 54 leaves, printed in light brown on one side only with ornaments round the designs, brilliantly coloured, numbered continuously, gilt, in sunken folio, mounted, in brown morocco box cases, Calvert copy, received from Blake [£700 to A. Jackson284] 1901 November 20-22 Hodgson, Catalogue (London, 1901) <Bodley> 284 The Quaritch file says "Jackson v Q". 181 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 596 Poetical Sketches [Q], title neatly mended, advertisement in facsimile, levant morocco extra, g.e., Zaehnsdorf [£12.10.0 to Quaritch] 1901 November 27 Christie, Catalogue (London, 1901) <Christie> Property of B.L. Dighton 3 "The Idle Laundress" and "The Industrious Cottager" 67 "Mrs Q" 124 "Mrs Q" "Mrs Q" and "Windsor Castle" [£94.10.0 to Sabin] 1901 December 10 Sotheby, Catalogue of Bindings by the Guild of Women-Binders (London, 1901) 1 "Blair (R.) The Grave, a Poem, LARGE PAPER, portrait and 12 plates by William Blake, hand-coloured proofs, mediæval morocco, joints, vellum linings, gilt edges, the sides embossed with two of Blake's designs, symbolising Life and Death, with emblematic borders (Miss Moore) imp. 4to 1808 * * * Coloured impressions of these plates were never issued, and Miss Cardew was commissioned to color this set. The experiment is thought to be highly successful." 1902 April 21-May 2 Sotheby, Catalogue of the Library of Henry White (London, 1902) <Bodley, Pierpont Morgan Library> Second Day 270 "COLLECTIONOF ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGSAND SKETCHES, comprising Proof Sheets and Unpublished Trial Plates, Titles and Engravings285 of the following" <#274> [a] The Book of Thel, "title" and "first leaf, headed, 'Thel I" [The Book of Thel (a) pl. 2-3] [b] Urizen "Chap. II [Urizen (I), pl. 3], printed in colours" 285 See The Book of Thel (a) in BB, in an order somewhat different from this one. 182 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works [c] "'Fire,' 'pubd. by Wm. Blake, 17 May, 1793,' on large folio leaf" [For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise [J], pl. 7] [d-g] "The Human Abstract", "The Garden of Love", "The Chimney Sweeper," "A Divine Image" [Songs (N), pl. 47, 44, 37, b], each "one leaf plain" [h] "three leaves of 'Urizen [i.e., Europe],' beginning 'Ethint[h]us Queen of Waters,' printed on both sides in tints, each with different design" [Europe (b), pl. (11, 17), (9, 17), (16-17)] [i] "'Europe,' an original sketch on one side, of a huge coiled serpent, 'Lambeth, printed by Willm. Blake, 1794 [Europe (b), pl. 2],' the other side with text in red, beginning 'The four Zoa's clouded rage'" [Jerusalem pl. 74] [j] "a leaf of 17 lines with design in blue, headed' Silent as despairing love'" [America pl. 4, lacking the last 4 lines which were masked in printing] [k] "three leaves, two headed 'Preludium [Europe (b) pl. (4- 5), (4, 9)],' printed on both sides in tints, each with different designs" [l] "'Jerusalem, Chap. II [Jerusalem pl. 28],' fine proof, one leaf plain, printed on one side only" [m] "one leaf in red, beginning 'And the Clouds and Fires Pale roll'd round,' printed on one side only" [Europe (b) pl. 15] [n] "one leaf plain, beginning' Then Eos [Los] heaved his thundering Bellows [Jerusalem pl. 56],' printed on one side only" [o] "two leaves plain, from 'Urizen [Book of Los (B) pl.