THE GATES OF PARADISE. For Children. For the Sexes. (The Trianon Press)

Blake (William)

Description:

4 volumes:
1. Introductory volume by Geoffrey Keynes, with Blake’s preliminary sketches.
51 pages, 8vo (210 x 135 mm), numerous sketches.
2. For Children, 12mo, 20 sketches.
3. For the Sexes, 12mo, 32 sketches.
The three each bound in full brown morocco gilt.
4. Collotypes without the Plate Mark, extra material including an original negative and a copper plate mounted inside the back cover, 12mo, bound in brown cloth.
The four volumes contained in fitted brown cloth slip case.

The publication of this facsimile edition of William Blake’s THE GATES OF PARADISE was made possible by the generosity of Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald and Sir Geoffrey Keynes, who lent original material form their collections; and of Mr. Paul Mellon, the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, the British Museum, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, who allowed original material in their collections to be photographed for reproduction.

 

Colophon:

The edition in three volumes consists of 726 copies printed on Archives Vergé pure rag paper.

700 copies numbered 1 to 700, of which the first fifty have additional material and are in a special binding.

26 copies numbered A to Z, reserved for those who have made the publication of the book possible, the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the Publishers.

The plates were reproduced by collotype in the workshops of Trianon Press (France), Paris. The letterpress was set in Monotype Bembo and printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon. The binding was by Engel, Malakoff, and the slip case by Adine, Paris.

The book was produced and published, under the supervision of Mr. Arnold Fawcus, by the Trianon Press, Château de Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura, France, and is distributed throughout the world by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 11 Grafton Street, London W.I.

The Trianon Press, 1968

No. 3

Details:

  • Publisher: The Trianon Press
  • Date of Publication: 1968
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Lot No: 78
  • Hammer Price: $600
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  • Estimate: $700/900
  • Reserve: $600

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