GILCHRIST’S IMPORTANT LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE
(BLAKE, William) GILCHRIST, Alexander. Life of William Blake. London, 1880. Two volumes.
Preferred second edition of this important early biography, profusely illustrated with photolithographic plates after Blake, frontispiece portrait and folding frontispiece of the Canterbury pilgrims. With three prints taken from original woodblocks and 16 impressions from Blake’s original electrotype plates. In beautiful elaborate publisher's gilt binding. $2500.
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“BE ENCOURAGED, ALL YE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM… TREMBLE ALL YE OPPRESSORS OF THE WORLD!”
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) PRICE, Richard. Discourse on the Love of Our Country. London, 1790.
Third edition, the scarce first expanded edition of Price's controversial work, issued only one year after the first edition, documenting progress in human rights from England's Glorious Revolution to the American and French Revolutions, sparking Burke's refutation in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and Wollstonecraft's endorsement in Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). $1800.
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“THE GRANDEUR OF THIS DOOMED, ASTONISHING PLACE”
GARN, Andrew. Bethlehem Steel. New York, 1999.
First edition, first issue, of a tribute to America’s industrial heritage and the Bethlehem plant whose workers produced steel for the Chrysler Building and the Golden Gate Bridge, signed by photographer Garn on the half title, with over 50 black-and-white duotone plates. $300.
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