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MP3 Audio CD. Auguries of Innocence, an excerpt (in Short Poetry Collection 184 ) To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its regions A dog starvd at his Masters Gate Predicts the ruin of the State A Horse misusd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fibre from the Brain does tear A Skylark wounded in the wing A Cherubim does cease to sing The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight Does the Rising Sun affright Every Wolfs & Lions howl Raises from Hell a Human Soul The wild deer, wandring here & there Keeps the Human Soul from Care The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife And yet forgives the Butchers knife The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that wont Believe The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Auguries of Innocence, an excerpt (in Short Poetry Collection 184 ) To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its regions A dog starvd at his Masters Gate Predicts the ruin of the State A Horse misusd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fibre from the Brain does tear A Skylark wounded in the wing A Cherubim does cease to sing The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight Does the Rising Sun affright Every Wolfs & Lions howl Raises from Hell a Human Soul The wild deer, wandring here & there Keeps the Human Soul from Care The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife And yet forgives the Butchers knife The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that wont Believe The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the… Read More

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. Book. Illus. by Leonard Baskin. As New. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Facsimile Of The Gehenna Press Edition With Wood Engravings By Leonard Baskin In Original Box .

1968: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Trivial dust soiling to the slipcase. Excellent condition; Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. Near-fine copy with slightest toning to the boards. 8vo. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Original boards; slipcase.

NY:: Grossman Publishers,. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. A facsimile of the Gehenna Press edition. First printing thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else near fine in a very good (some light age toning) slipcase. .

Burford, Oxfordshire: The Cygnet Press, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine. Brown wrappers printed in black over white card, tall slender 8vo., 18, (1) pages. One of 375 numbered copies printed by Simon Rendall on mould-made paper. Minor soft creasing along the spine, but fine copy in archival mylar.

New York: Grossman Publishers. 1968. Hardcover in paper slipcase. 8vo (9.5" x 6"), light-green paper over boards. Unpaginated, 6 wood engravings. Bookplate on front pastedown. CONDITION: Near-fine, lightly sunned spine and slight rubbing; dj near-fine, sunned and light spotting at edges. First printing thus. Facsimile of the Gehenna Press edition.

The Cygnet Press, Burford., 1975. First edition thus. Octavo. 18 pages. One of 375 numbered copies. Wrappers with flaps. Printed on mould-made paper. Fine.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, facsimile of the Gehenna Press edition. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Fine in papercovered boards in fine matching papercovered slipcase. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

Burford: The Cygnet Press, 1975. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None. A very neat limited edition of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. Limited edition. This edition, printed on Bell and Union Pearl type on mould-made paper, by Simon Rendall, at the Cygnet Press, Burford, Oxfordshire, is limited to 375 copies. This is number 205. The Auguries of Innocence, a poem containing a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption. Written by William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Seen as a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. With the rearrangement by Dr John Sampson and a comment by Geoffrey Keynes. In the original card wrap around covers. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed

Small slim 8vo. New York: Grolier Club, 2019. Small slim 8vo, 8pp. Original printed wrappers as issued, new. § Limited to 10 copies for sale. Printed by Jerry Kelly on the Kelly-Winterton Press, handset in Trump’s Delphin type and printed on handmade Kelmscott paper with watermarks. This keepsake was issued by John Windle for a Grolier Club poetry reading. 50 copies were printed in all—40 went to the Club members who attended, and ten copies are available for purchase. It is beyond question the most beautiful typographic rendering of any of Blake’s poetry.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt and brown boards. Fine in fine matching brown board slipcase. Unpaginated [five leaves]. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 87 of 100 on Rives French mold-made paper with a wood engraving printed from the block, signed and numbered Leonard Baskin, also signed on the colophon by Baskin. As new copy.

Northampton, MA: The Print Club of Philadelphia, The Gehenna Press, 1959. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. No. 200 of 250 limitation, signed and numbered in pencil by Leonard Baskin. This was Baskin's first venture into publishing, and his jagged and stark illustrations amplify the fire and brimstone of Blake's both naive and worldweary verse that lilts at the same time it pierces and challenges. Printed on an Italian hand-made paper, this is indeed a very handsome brochure, and this copy is pristine internally, with the faint remnants of tape top and bottom on both the front and rear of the wraps the only minor blight to the special production.

N.P.: Printed for the Print Club of Philadelphia, 1959. Fabriano paper wrappers, leather and grey paper portfolio, with additional set of engravings. Gehenna Press. 8vo. Fabriano paper wrappers, leather and grey paper portfolio, with additional set of engravings. (15) pages. Wood Engravings by Leonard Baskin. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of 40 copies signed by Baskin and bound thus and include an additional suite of prints printed on Japanese vellum, each also signed, and printed at his Gehenna Press. (Brook no.20). Fine in slightly worn and slanted portfolio box, with an inscription by Leonard Baskin in pencil on the front fly-leaf: "For the Lubells on the odd occasion of my first visit to Tulsa. 1985." Exquisitely printed with striking title page done in red and black.