VISIONARY HEAD OF RICHARD COEUR DE LION ORIGINAL DRAWING BY WILLIAM BLAKE FROM THE LINNELL COLLECTION

From the collection of J. Linnell, who obtained it directly from the Artist.

"Bluntish features, steady, daring gaze. The kind of man to look everything, from the Devil upwards, in the face."-Gilchrist.

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77. Original Drawing, The Visionary Head of Canute; turned slightly to the left, looking upwards; close cut beard and wearing crown. Annotated in Blake's handwriting. "Dark Hair & Eyes". In pencil. Size, 104 x 8 inches. Mounted. From the collection of J. Linnell, who obtained it directly from the Artist.

A striking and truly regal head.

78. Original Drawing, The Visionary Head of "King Edward the First, as he now exists in the other world, according to his appearance to Mr. Blake; he here has his skull enlarged like a crown." (This caption written on the drawing by Blake himself.) In pencil. Size, 9% x 74 inches. Mounted. From the collection of J. Linnell, who obtained it directly from the Artist.

An engraving of this appears in Gilchrist's Life of Blake, Vol. 1.

79. Original Drawing, The Visionary Head of "Wat Ty ler's daughter", bearing this caption in Blake's handwriting. In pencil. Size, 10% x 73% inches. Mounted. From the collection of J. Linnell, who obtained it direct from the Artist.

“A laughing plebeian, with great eyes.”—Gilchrist.

80. Original Drawing, The Visionary Head of Queen Boadicea, bearing the caption "Boadica" (sic) in Blake's handwriting. In pencil. Size, 7% x 6% inches. Mounted. From the collection of J. Linnell, who obtained it directly from the Artist.

See description of this drawing in Gilchrist's Life of Blake, No. 41.

81. BLANE (WILLIAM). Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting, etc. Together with an Account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire. To which is added, The Chace, A Poem, by William Somerville. Frontispiece and title vignette by Stothard, engraved on copper by Heath. 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, a hunting scene in blind tooling on front and back covers, gilt edges, by Rivière. London: John Stockdale, 1788

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82. BLOUET (PAUL, "Max O'Rell"). Original Manuscript (in French) of the most famous of all his Works, "John Bull et son ile." Comprising some 332 pages, 4to, bound in half red levant 1883

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83. BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI). Il Decameron. 12mo, handsomely bound in fine old French red morocco, richly gilt back, gilt edges, by [Padeloup]. Amsterdam, 1665

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84. The Decameron. Now first completely done into English Prose and Verse. By John Payne. Plates in two states. 2 vols. 8vo, half blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

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Francofurti ad Monum, 1593

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86. BORLASE (WILLIAM). Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, consisting of several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquity in Britain and the British Isles. Engraved map and numerous plates. Folio, full sprinkled calf, rebacked. London, 1769

87. BOSWELL (JAMES). Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Tour to the Hebrides. New Edition, with numerous Additions and Notes by John Wilson Croker. 5 vols. 8vo, polished calf, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, by Kaufmann. London: Murray, 1831

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88. BOUTS RIMES. Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, half green calf (tear in one leaf). Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1775

An entertaining volume, consisting of poetical contributions of a Society of friends. Acrostics, Enigmas, Bouts Rimes, etc.

89. BRATHWAITE (RICHARD). The Arcadian Princesse ; or, The Trivmph of Ivstice: Prescribing excellent rules of Physicke, for a sicke Ivstice. Digested into fowre Bookes, and Faithfully rendred to the originall Italian Copy. With the engraved frontispiece by Marshall and the preliminary leaf "Vpon the Frontispiece." 12mo, full blue morocco, fillet borders on back and sides, canary edges. London, 1635

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92. BROCKEDON (WILLIAM). Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps. Beautifully illustrated with 109 PROOF PLATES ON INDIA PAPER. 2 vols. in one, imp. 8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt edges. London, 1828

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93. BROME (ALEXANDER). Songs and other Poems. 12mo, full brown morocco, carmine edges.

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94. BROOKE (RUPERT). John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama. 12mo, original cloth. London, 1916.

96. BROUGH (ROBERT B.). Life of Sir John Falstaff. With a Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources. Illustrated with 20 full-page etchings by George Cruikshank. Royal 8vo, full polished calf, gilt, gilt top, uncut, with the original cloth covers bound in at the end. London, 1858

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97. BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT). Poems. 2 vols. 12mo, original cloth, uncut (binding worn).

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100.

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101. BROWNING (ROBERT). Bells and Pomegranates. Complete in the 8 parts. Bound in an 8vo volume, full tan polished calf, gilt back and inside borders, gilt edges.

London: Edward Moxon, 1841-46

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102. The Ring and the Book. 3 vols. 12mo, beautifully bound in full olive levant morocco, gilt backs, gilt borders on sides, with corner ornaments, inside corner ornaments and a triple fillet border, gilt edges on the rough, by "E. G. S., 1899." London, 1889

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103.

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104.

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105. BRYAN (MICHAEL). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. New edition, revised and enlarged. Edited by Robert Edmund Graves, B.A. of the British Museum. 2 vols. extended to 8 volumes, small 4to, new half levant morocco, ornamented gilt backs, gilt top, uncut. London, 1886

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107. BURNEY (FRANCES, Madame D'Arblay). Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 5 vols. small 8vo, full polished calf, gilt, gilt tops, uncut, by Rivière.

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108. BURNEY (FRANCES). Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. Illustrated with Frontis