Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 777 “Young’s Night Thoughts, with engravings round each page from the designs of Blake, 2 numbers, boards, – 1797 & 98" 1799 February 18 plus 18 days [William] Richardson,19 Portraits, India Drawings, &c. A Catalogue of a Genuine and Valuable Collection of English and Foreign Portraits, India Drawings, &c. ... Which Will Be Sold by Auction (London, 1799) <Princeton> Seventh Day 94 “Five [prints]—Gin Lane, Beggar’s Opera, Shrimps, &c.” [£1.7.6] 101 “One—the Beggar’s Opera, by Blake—proof –“ [£1.13.6] 1800 May 5-9 Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster,20 The Catalogue of A most Valuable and truly Capital Collection of Modern Paintings, Prints, Plates, and Drawings, The Property of Mr. Macklin, And others concerned with him, Sold for the Purpose of facilitating the Adjustment of Partnership Accounts; and Comprising, in Painting, the Works of those Esteemed Masters of the British School ... A Choice Selection of Valuable Drawings by Bartolozzi, and others ... Engraved Plates by Bartolozzi, Sharp, Sherwin, &c. &c. Including Proof Prints Of their finest Works ... Which will be Sold by Auction ... (Without the least Reserve) (London, 1800) Second Day Loose Prints 1 "Morning and Evening Amusement" [two prints engraved by Blake after Watteau],165 ["Plain""Impressions"] 0 ["Impressions""In Colours"] [£1.12.0 to Bryden] 3 "Robin Hood", 79 plain impressions, and 22 in " colours", £1.7.0 Fourth Day 19 ”At His House, No. 31, the Corner of Villiers-Street, in the Strand”. 20 At Mr. Squibb's Great Rooms, Saville Row. 13 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 8 "Rosamond", 87 plain impressions and 64"in colours" [1800?] John Raphael Smith, A | CATALOGUE OF PRINTS | PUBLISHED BY | J.R. SMITH, | NO. 31 | KING-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. | = [London,1800?] <The only known copy belongs to C.A.Lennox-Boyd> 195 G. Morland, "Industrious Cottager", engraved by Blake, "square", in the "Dotted" manner, "8¼ x 10¼" inches, 4s 196 G. Morland, "The Idle Laundress", engraved by Blake, "square", in the "Dotted" manner, "8¼ x 10¼" inches, 4s 1801 March Thomas White, A Catalogue of Books, in Every Department of Literature ... Now on Sale (London, 1801) Folio 1,227 “Young’s Night Thoughts, a magnificent edition, with Engravings from Drawings by Blake, boards, 5l 5s – 1797” 1801 May 27-30 Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster,21 Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street. A Catalogue of Modern Paintings, Drawings, Engraved Copper-plates, with their Impressions; Plain and coloured Prints, framed and glazed, and other Effects Which will be Sold by Auction ... By Order of the Executors of Mr. Thomas Macklin, Deceased ... The Copper-plates ... [include] all their Proofs; coloured and plain Impressions; loose Proof and Valuable Prints, with others framed and glazed ... (London, 1801) Day 2 "Plates, with Their Respective Impressions, To be sold per Plate, and the Purchaser to take the Impressions, paying for the same conformably to the Prices affixed against each Subject": 61 "Morning and Evening Amusement", two plates [engraved by Blake after Watteau] ["Plain, at 1/3"] [£8.12.10] 21 No. 39, Fleet Street. 14 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 1803 John and Josiah Boydell, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Plates engraved by the most esteemed artists After the Finest Pictures and Drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, Engravers and Printsellers, No. 90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; preceded by An Account of Various Works, Sets of Prints, Galleries, &c. forming part of the same Stock (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's. 1803) <New York Public Library> 104 "The Beggars Opera [size in inches] 22 18 Blake [£]0 10 6" Original Works of Hogarth is offered at £21. 1804 R.H. Evans,22 Catalogue of a Useful, Curious, and Valuable Collection of Books, For the Year 1804 .... And various other fine and rare Articles which are now selling, at the prices marked in the Catalogue (London, 1804) 1,002 "Hayleys Ballads, 3 Numbers" 1805 November R.H. Cromek, PROSPECTUS | OF A NEW AND ELEGANT EDITION OF | BLAIR’S GRAVE, | ILLUSTRATED WITH | FIFTEEN PRINTS | FROM DESIGNS INVENTED AND TO BE ENGRAVED |BY | WILLIAM BLAKE | ... | The Price to SUBSCRIBERS will be TWO GUINEAS... | LONDON, Nov. 1805 <Princeton> 1805 November R.H. Cromek, PROSPECTUS | OF | A NEW AND ELEGANT EDITION | OF | BLAIR’S GRAVE, | ILLUSTRATED WITH | TWELVE VERY SPIRITED ENGRAVINGS | BY | LOUIS SCHIAVONETTI, | FROM DESIGNS INVENTED | BY | WILLIAM 22 "(Successor to Mr. [James] Edwards) No. 26, Pall Mall". Evans was an original publisher (with Blake) of William Hayley's Designs to a Series of Ballads in 4 parts (1802). 15 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works BLAKE; |The Price to SUBSCRIBERS will be TWO GUINEAS ... | LONDON, Nov. 1805 <British Library Manuscripts>23 1805 Richard Phillips, Useful and Valuable Books Recently Published or in Course of Publication by Richard Phillips,24 p. 11 William Hayley, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802) 1806 July 28 Birmingham Gazette and Birmingham Commercial Herald,25 PROSPECTUS OF A NEW and elegant Edition of BLAIR’s GRAVE, illustrated with twelve very spirited Engravings by LOUIS SCHIAVONETTI, from Designs invented by WILLIAM BLAKE ...The Price to Subscribers will be two Guineas ...the Proprietor ... will shew the original Drawings and Specimens of the Style of Engraving. 1807 February 17-18 [Thomas] Dodd,26 A Catalogue of a Collection of Prints, Comprising a Numerous Assemblage of Proofs & Etchings, After Westall, Smirke, Stodhart, and Others, Several Ditto by Old Masters; Drawings, By Morland, Town, &c. Books, Books of Prints, and Several Curious Miscellaneous Articles. Together with a valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, chiefly Silver, in high State of Preservation, many of them very rare and curious-- late the Property of Mr. James Parker,27 Engraver, Deceased; Which will be Sold by Auction (London, 1807) <British Museum Department of Coins and Medals> 157 "Eighteen ditto [various], by Blake, Tomkins, Ryland, &c." 23 Most of the second prospectus, with TWELVE VERY SPIRITED ENGRAVINGS, is printed from standing type of the first prospectus, with FIFTEEN PRINTS. 24 Appended to Anon. [“An English Gentleman”], Sketch of the Present State of France (London: Richard Phillips, 1805). 25 Cromek’s advertisement is essentially identical in each journal. 26 "At his Spacious Room, No. 101, St. Martin's Lane". Thomas Dodd wrote a brief biography of Blake (BR (2), 75 & footnote, 551). 27 James Parker (1750-1805), engraver, was Blake's fellow apprentice with Basire and later (1784) his partner ina short-lived print-shop. 16 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works 159 "Six Circles, by Blake, in colours"28 1807 November 2 and 38 following Days Messrs King and Lochee,29 Bibliotheca Reediana: A Catalogue of the Curious & Extensive Library of the late Isaac Reed, Esq. of Staple Inn. Deceased ...(London, 1807) <Bodley, British Library, Harvard> Fifth Day Poetry 6577 "Blake's Poetical Sketches [F]" [6s 6d to Heber] Last Day 8936 Biographical Mirrour, No. 1, Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine, 3 No.,30 "Designs to a Series of Ballads by Hayley, engraved by Blake, 2 No. 1802, &c." [11s 6d] 1807 November 7 Manchester Gazette, “The Subjects proposed to be engraved” for Blair’s Grave, which lists 11 prints and omits “The Reunion of the Soul & the Body” and the frontispiece portrait of Blake by Thomas Phillips eventually published.31 1807 28 These are almost certainly Blake's circular engravings after Stothard of "Robin Hood & Clorinda" and "The Fall of Rosamond" Published ... Decr 17. 1784 by Parker & Blake, No 27 Broad St Golden Square" -- see Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 139-144 and Fig 62-63. 29 "At their Great Room, No. 38, King-Street, Covent-Garden". 30 The very rare Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine, Vol. I (1793), had a print by Blake. 31 There were announcements of the publication of Blair’s Grave in Universal Magazine (July 1806);The Artist (1 Aug 1807), p. 6; Monthly Literary Advertiser (10 Sept 1807);Monthly Literary Recreations (Sept 1807); Literary Annual Register (Oct 1807);Monthly Literary Recreations (Oct 1807); Cowdray’s Gazette and Public Advertiser (Manchester, 7 Nov 1807);Literary Panorama (Nov 1807);Star and West-Riding Advertiser (Wakefield, 27 May 1808); Monthly Magazine (1 June 1808);Leeds Mercury (4 June 1808); Gazette and Public Advertiser (Bristol, 9 June 1808); Gazette (Bristol, 30 June 1808);Athenaeum Magazine (June 1808); Monthly Literary Advertiser (9 July 1808); Edinburgh Review (Jan 1809). 17 Sale Catalogues of Blake's Works Boydell and Co., A Catalogue of Prints, Books, and Works, After the Most Celebrated Masters, Ancient and Modern Engraved by the First Artists, and Published by Boydell and Co. 90 Cheapside (London, 1807) 103 "Beggar's Opera ...... 0 10 6" (Blake not identified as the engraver) Hogarth's Original and Genuine Works, £21; "since the Plates have been in their Possession, they have never allowed any artist to profane them by a single Touch". [1807] Cuthell32 & Martin, A | CATALOGUE | OF | BOOKS, | FOR THE YEAR | 1807, | IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES, | AND | CLASSES OF LITERATURE; | ON SALE, FOR READY MONEY, By CUTHELL & MARTIN, | MIDDLE ROW, HOLBORN. | - | LIBRARIES PURCHASED. | - | [Gothic:] London: | PRINTED BY E. BLACKADER, TOOK'S COURT, | CHANCERY LANE. | - | Price Two Shillings <Bodley> Folio 15 "Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 3 vol. half bound, 16l 16s" 16 "Another copy, 3 vol. ʄplendidly bound in ruʄʄia, 24l 1762, &c." 60 "Vetuʄta Monumenta, 3 vol. half bound Lond. 1747 &c." Quarto 128 "Cumberland's Thoughts on Outline", "with 24 plates, boards, 14s 1796" 129 Another copy, handʄomely bound in calf, 1l 1s 1796" 133 "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, illustrated by 800 engravings by Holloway, tranʄlated by Dr.