Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes; Trianon Press and Its Publications

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (/ˈkeɪnz/ kaynz; 25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982,Cambridge) was an English biographer, surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile. He was the younger brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.^[2]


He maintained a passionate interest in English literature all his life and devoted a large amount of his time to literary scholarship and the science of bibliography. He was a leading authority on the literary and artistic work of William Blake and "was instrumental in establishing Blake as a central figure in the history of English art and literature."^[2] He also produced biographies and bibliographies of English writers such as Sir Thomas Browne, John Evelyn, Siegfried Sassoon, John Donne and Jane Austen. He was also a pioneer in the history of science, with studies of John Ray, William Harvey and Robert Hooke. His biography The Life of William Harvey was awarded the 1966 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1967 he delivered the Wilkins Lecture at the Royal Society. Keynes was President of the Bibliographical Society (1952–1954)^[3] and was awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 1982.

Works[edit]

• A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne (1914, 1932, 1958, 1973)
• A Bibliography of William Blake (The Grolier Club, New York, 1921)
• Jane Austen: a Bibliography (Nonesuch Press, 1929)
• Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 : 1830 (Nonesuch Press, 1930)
• The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Miscellany Tracts, Repertorium, Miscellaneous Writings (Faber & Gwyer 1931)
• The Works of Thomas Browne: Letters (Faber & Faber, 1931)
• The Faber Gallery Series: Blake. (Faber and Faber 1945)
• The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke (Faber & Faber, 1946)
• Poetry and Prose of William Blake (Nonesuch 1948)
• Portraiture of William Harvey London 1949. With a Catalogue and Reproductions of the Pictures. The Thomas Vicary Lecture 1948.
• The Personality of William Harvey Cambridge University Press: 1949
• William Blake's Engravings, edited with an introduction (Faber and Faber, (1950)
• William Blake, 1757–1827 (1949) 1946 ? Blake (1953)
• The Tempera Paintings of William Blake (1951)
• The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Containing the Voyages Made Into Divers Places with Many of His Writings Upon Surgery (1951)
• Samuel Butler's Note-Books, selections (1951) with Brian Hill
• Poems of Rupert Brooke (1954)
• A Bibliography of Rupert Brooke (1954) Hart-Davis, The Soho Bibliographies, No.4)
• Harvey Though John Aubrey's Eyes (1958)
• A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke (1960)
• Essays in Biography 1961 by J. M. Keynes, editor
• Dr. Timothie Bright 1550 — 1615. A Survey of his Life with a Bibliography of his Writings (1962)
• A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake Poet, Printer, Prophet (1964)
• An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet — Printer — Prophet (1964) with Lessing J. Rosenwald
• On Editing Blake (1964)
• Blake. The Masters 6 (1965)
• Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, Oxford University Press, 1966 (UK-Paperback, Revised). ISBN 0192810502
• William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Ed., Introduction & Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. London: Oxford University Press (1967)
• Henry James in Cambridge (1967)
• Sir Thomas Browne Selected Writings (1968)
• The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968)
• William Blake Engraver (1969)
• Drawings of William Blake: 92 Pencil Studies. Selection, Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1970 ISBN 0-486-22303-5
• William Blake's Water-Colours Illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray (1972)
• Deaths Duell by John Donne (1973)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1975)
• The Gates of Memory (1981) Keynes, Geoffrey and Davidson, Peter (Eds.)
• A Watch of Nightingales (Stourton Press, 1981)

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BLAKE, William. TRIANON PRESS. KEYNES, Geoffrey. William Blake's Laocoön, A Last Testament. With related works: On Homers' Poetry and On Virgil, The Ghost of Abel.

London, Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust.  1976

12 plates produced by collotype in Paris at the Trianon Press from original engravings, drawing and water-colours by William Blake. No.105 of 438 copies. 4to, original brown morocco backed linen covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy.

The frontispiece is described as "an enigmatic self portrait of William Blake" with a Menorah on his forehead, being the ancient symbol of the Tree of Life and of spiritual insight. The book examines the three late Blake works Laocoön, On Homers' Poetry and On Virgil andThe Ghost of Abelwhich make a clear statement of Blake's mature position,"on his conception of the artist and the imaginative arts in relation to the materialistic world, limited by the five senses of rational unimaginative man" (Foreword).
Laocoön took the form of a conventionally engraved plate whilst the other two were relief etchings made in the same way as those for his Illuminated books. This was the last of the Trianon Press/William Blake Trust series which had begun with the publication of a facsimile of Jerusalem in 1951. Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.

Julie Fawcus: Recollections of Trianon Press

Photo: Julie Fawcus at the Chateau in Burgundy, 1985. Photo by Rita Bottoms

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PLEASE NOTE these interviews are provided for research purposes only. All uses of these manuscripts are covered by copyright agreement between the interviewees and the Regents of the University of California. All the literary rights in these manuscripts, including the right to publish, are reserved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. No part of these manuscripts may be quoted for publication without the permission of the University Librarian of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This volume documents the history of the press, founded in Paris in 1947; the genesis of its extraordinary facsimile productions of William Blake's illuminated works, and its wide range of fine press volumes. Julie Fawcus, the widow of Trianon's founder, Arnold Fawcus, discusses the details of the collotype and pochoir techniques which were used by French artisans to produce the facsimiles.

Fawcus's commentary includes chapters on Arnold Fawcus as "buccaneer publisher," and recollections of collaborations with Robert Graves, Marcel Duchamp, Aldous Huxley, and Ben Shahn. For students and researchers feasting their eyes on a Blake volume produced by Trianon, and who might wonder who these exquisite books came to be, Fawcus gives an insider's view of the struggles and enormous technical difficulties involved in their creation.

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The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the Collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin. by Blake, William. (Trianon Press) and .

Trianon Press Publications

There is No Natural Religion The Book of Thel America: A Prophesy White Lady of the Brandberg Le Dur Desir de Dures Sur Marcel Duchamp Through the Troposcope Ecclesiastes Laocoon: A Last Testament

Trianon Press Publications A checklist of the published works of the Press follows, works of such resplendent artistry that, according to a reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement: "Nothing like these books is ever likely to appear again, and they will, in the future, be the treasures of libraries." ABBREVIATIONS: WBT: William Blake Trust. RPSA: Abbe Henri Breuil, Rock Paintings of Southern Africa. TP: Trianon Press. OUP: Oxford University Press. 1946 Le Dur Desir de Durer, Paul Eluard, illus. Marc Chagall. Limited edition, Arnold/ Bordas . 1947 Les Baigneuses, Paul Cezanne, text by Jean Cassou. Limited edition, 'Editart,' TP and Grey Falcon Press. 1949 Fresques, Fra Angelico, text by Stanislas Fumet. Limited edition, TP. Prisons, Piranesi and Aldous Huxley, preface by Jean Adhemar. Limited edition, TP and Grey Falcon Press. Trade edition, TP, distributed by Faber. 1950 Miserere, Georges Rouault, intro. by Anthony Blunt. TP, distributed by Faber. 1951 Jerusalem, William Blake, Stirling copy. TP for WBT. 1952 Miserere, illus. for Museum of Modern Art edition, preface by Monroe Wheeler. 1953 Jerusalem, William Blake, Rinder copy (monochrome). TP for WBT. William Blake's Jerusalem, a commentary, Joseph Wicksteed. TP for WBT.  1954 Songs of Innocence, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1955 Abram Brown, Richard Phibbs, illus. Philippe Jullian. TP. Adam's rib, Robert Graves, illus. James Metcalf. TP. Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake. TP for WBT. The Infant with the Globe, Alareon, trans. Robert Graves. TP. The White Lady of the Brandberg, Henri Breuil. RPSA. 1957 Illustrations to the Bible, William Blake. TP for WBT. Philipp Cave, Henri Breuil. RPSA. 1958 The Book of Urizen, William Blake. TP for WBT. The Fitzwilliam Museum, introduction and notes by Carl Winter. TP. 1959 Sur Marcel Duchamp, Robert Lebel. Limited edition, TP. Also English, French, American and German trade editions, 1959. The Tsisab Ravine and other Brandberg Sites, Henri Breuil. RPSA. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1960 Anibib and Omandumba, Henri Breuil. RPSA. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1961 Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autun, Denis Grivot and George Zarnecki. English, French, American and German trade editions. 1962 Samuel Palmer's Sketchbook,1824. TP for WBT. 1963 America, a Prophecy, William Blake. TP for WBT. Miserere, reissue in slightly different format, in conjunction with L'etoile filante. English and American editions. 1964 The Story of the Wise Men, Regine Pernoud and Denis Grivot. English, French, American and German editions. William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet, Geoffrey Keynes. Commemorative catalogue for the Blake Trust exhibition. English, American and German editions. 1965 The Book of Thel, William Blake. WBT. The Haggadah for Passover, illus. Ben Shahn. American and English trade editions . The White Lady of the Brandberg, reissue. Through the Troposcope, Peter Kendall Bushe. Limited edition, TP. 1966 The Haggadah for Passover, illus. Ben Shahn. Limited edition, TP. 1967 Ecclesiastes, illus. Ben Shahn. Limited edition, TP. Milton, a Poem, William Blake. TP for WBT. Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake, text by Geoffrey Keynes. English and American trade editions. Southern Rhodesia, Henri Breuil. RPSA. 1968 The Gates of Paradise, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1969 Europe, a Prophecy, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1970 All religions are One, William Blake. TP for WBT. Songs of Innocence and Experience, reissue as OUP paperback. 1971 Ecclesiastes, American and English trade editions. There is No Natural Religion, William Blake. TP for WBT. Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, William Blake. Text by Geoffrey Keynes. Commemorative exhibition catalogue for the Tate Gallery. 1972 William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. TP for WBT. Hard-cover English and American trade editions of the Tate Gallery catalogue above. 1973 The Book of Ahania, William Blake. TP for WBT. Jerusalem, William Blake, Cunliffe copy (one chapter in colour). TP for WBT. 1975 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake, text by Geoffrey Keynes. Trade edition published by OUP. The Song of Los, William Blake. TP for WBT. The Sphinx and White Ghost Shelters, Henri Breuil. RPSA. 1976 William Blake's Laocoon, a last testament, Geoffrey Keynes. TP for WBT. 1977 Songs of Innocence and Experience, reissue as OUP paperback. The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake, Geoffrey Keynes. TP for WBT. 1978 Samuel Palmer, a Vision Recaptured, Geoffrey Keynes, Arnold Fawcus, Raymond Lister, Graham Reynolds. TP. Commemorative handbook for the Palmer exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, winter 1978-9. 1979 Illustrations of Dante, William Blake. TP for WBT. 1981 Constable with his Friends in 1805, Graham Reynolds. Limited edition, TP.