BLAKE, William (1757-1827) — YOUNG, Edward (1683-1765). The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts . London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797.
BLAKE, William (1757-1827) — YOUNG, Edward (1683-1765). The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts . London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797. 4° (424 x 327mm, with deckle edges). 43 engravings by and after Blake, comprising 4 engraved part titles and 39 etched and engraved pictorial borders, printed on wove paper watermarked “J Whatman 1794”; but the title printed on laid paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys. (Without the leaf "Explanation of Engravings", some plates just trimmed but less so than often, small loss in the margin of p.13 reaching into the image, an early repair on the verso of the third title, light soiling and yellowing in some margins, occasional faint offsetting.) Full green morocco by Ramage of London, signed, the spine and sides gilt with borders of nested fillets, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (front hinge split but holding, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Herschel V. Jones (label) — Jacob Zeitlin (pencilled note dated 24 April 1934) — Estelle Doheny (label, her sale, Christie’s New York, 21-22 February 1989, lot 1707. THE DOHENY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY BLAKE . It is Blake’s most ambitious series of illustrations for the work of another poet. He intended to illustrate all nine ‘Nights’ in Young’s work, and completed hundreds of preparatory designs from 1794. But this volume of the first four parts is the only one published. Perhaps Blake’s illustrations were too potent for contemporary tastes, and the book too costly to produce. The present copy has the title printed on laid paper — an aspect not discussed by Bentley. Bentley 515; Keynes 200; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book, 3.
BLAKE, William (1757-1827) — YOUNG, Edward (1683-1765). The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts . London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797.
BLAKE, William (1757-1827) — YOUNG, Edward (1683-1765). The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts . London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797. 4° (424 x 327mm, with deckle edges). 43 engravings by and after Blake, comprising 4 engraved part titles and 39 etched and engraved pictorial borders, printed on wove paper watermarked “J Whatman 1794”; but the title printed on laid paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys. (Without the leaf "Explanation of Engravings", some plates just trimmed but less so than often, small loss in the margin of p.13 reaching into the image, an early repair on the verso of the third title, light soiling and yellowing in some margins, occasional faint offsetting.) Full green morocco by Ramage of London, signed, the spine and sides gilt with borders of nested fillets, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (front hinge split but holding, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Herschel V. Jones (label) — Jacob Zeitlin (pencilled note dated 24 April 1934) — Estelle Doheny (label, her sale, Christie’s New York, 21-22 February 1989, lot 1707. THE DOHENY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY BLAKE . It is Blake’s most ambitious series of illustrations for the work of another poet. He intended to illustrate all nine ‘Nights’ in Young’s work, and completed hundreds of preparatory designs from 1794. But this volume of the first four parts is the only one published. Perhaps Blake’s illustrations were too potent for contemporary tastes, and the book too costly to produce. The present copy has the title printed on laid paper — an aspect not discussed by Bentley. Bentley 515; Keynes 200; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book, 3.
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