LITERATURE 10 “The Dog Her Order Understood, Or Seem’d To Understand, It Was His Glory To Make Good Affection’s Kind Command” 08(BLAKE, William) HAYLEY, William. Ballads, founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints, Designed and Engraved by William Blake. London, 1805. Octavo, early 20th-century full blue morocco gilt. $6000 Expanded second edition—the only obtainable edition—of this poetry collection, with five engravings by William Blake, handsomely bound by Bedford. “These Ballads were originally intended to have been issued separately in fifteen quarto parts with numerous illustrations by Blake, and for the benefit of the artist. Four parts were issued in 1802, but the series did not meet with success and was discontinued. Later it was arranged to issue them in the present, again for Blake’s benefit” (Keynes). This 1805 edition is an expanded version, with additional poems, of the extremely rare 1802 first edition (which last appeared at auction 70 years ago). Blake reengraved the first three plates and added two more to illustrated the additional poems. The first three plates are in first state. Easson & Essick, 41-44. Bookplates. Fine condition. With Plates By William Blake For Mary Wollstonecraft—The Rosenbach Copy 09(BLAKE, William) WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. Original Stories from Real Life. London, 1791. 12mo, early 20th-century full tan polished calf gilt. $7500 First Blake-illustrated edition, with six plates designed and engraved by William Blake, handsomely bound in full calf-gilt by Bedford. The Rosenbach copy, with the bookplate of the Rosenbach Foundation Museum (properly stamped “Released 1973.”). First published in 1788, Original Stories was Wollstonecraft’s third published work. This 1791 edition is the first with Blake’s plates. Commissioned by his friend, the publisher Joseph Johnson, ten of Blake’s sketches for the work survive, five of which were engraved for the book. No drawing survives for one of the plates (“Trying to trace the sound…”). All plates are first state. Bookplates, including that of the Rosenbach Foundation Museum, properly inkstamped “Released 1973.” The Rosenbach Foundation Museum grew out of the immense personal collection assembled by renowned bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach and his brother Philip. Text and plates clean. Front joint skillfully repaired; rear joint cracked, cords holding firm, calf-gilt binding quite handsome. A lovely copy, with distinguished provenance.
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