1813 1st Edition , (1870?) With Provenance
THE GRAVE, A POEM
By Robert Blair
Author Bio: Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave. The poem is now best known for the illustrations created by William Blake following a commission from Robert Cromek. Blake's designs were engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, and published in 1808.
Illustrated By: William Blake
Illustrator Bio: William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. On 4 August 1772, Blake was apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, at the sum of £52.10, for a term of seven years. At the end of the term, aged 21, he became a professional engraver.
Provenance: Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – 5 August 2002) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public. Lenkiewicz is regarded by some as a great painter who is 'finally being recognised as such after all these years of neglect by the art establishment, particularly by London, who would never have him.
Binding: Hardcover, folio (fo 12 × 19 in 305 × 483 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: pp. 13
Language: English
Published By: R.Ackermann, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Portfolio of 13 loose plates, no text, as issued. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, portrait frontispiece lightly browned, light spotting throughout affecting one or two plates, within original blind-stamped cloth portfolio, spine a little rubbed and scuffed at ends, lacking ties, [Bentley 435E], folio, R. Ackermann, 1813 [?1870]. Overall a very good example of this rare edition.
*** "When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackerman's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Camden Hotten) reissued the books [...] no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century" A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 50, W: 35 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002436
1813 1st Edition , (1870?) With Provenance
THE GRAVE, A POEM
By Robert Blair
Author Bio: Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave. The poem is now best known for the illustrations created by William Blake following a commission from Robert Cromek. Blake's designs were engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, and published in 1808.
Illustrated By: William Blake
Illustrator Bio: William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. On 4 August 1772, Blake was apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, at the sum of £52.10, for a term of seven years. At the end of the term, aged 21, he became a professional engraver.
Provenance: Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – 5 August 2002) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public. Lenkiewicz is regarded by some as a great painter who is 'finally being recognised as such after all these years of neglect by the art establishment, particularly by London, who would never have him.
Binding: Hardcover, folio (fo 12 × 19 in 305 × 483 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: pp. 13
Language: English
Published By: R.Ackermann, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Portfolio of 13 loose plates, no text, as issued. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, portrait frontispiece lightly browned, light spotting throughout affecting one or two plates, within original blind-stamped cloth portfolio, spine a little rubbed and scuffed at ends, lacking ties, [Bentley 435E], folio, R. Ackermann, 1813 [?1870]. Overall a very good example of this rare edition.
*** "When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackerman's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Camden Hotten) reissued the books [...] no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century" A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 50, W: 35 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002436
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