The Poetical Works of William Blake. Including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Works and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Edited with an Introduction and Textual Notes by John Sampson. -
William Blake
1952 - Geoffrey Cumberlegé, London
The lovely oxford edition of William Blake’s poems with Songs of Innocence and experience, Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’, selections from ‘Jerusalem’ and many other works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson. Provenance: Gift inscription ‘To Easter – who understands Blake because we have to!’ dated 1958.
Thick octavo (binding size 19.5x13.4cm), pp. [4] lvi 4553 [7]. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf of London for Marshall Field of Chicago, in full tan morocco, spine in six compartments with gult borders and lettering, twin gilt filet borders to boards and edges, intricate gilt inner-dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Ref: 112581 Price: HK$ 6,000
Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson. Provenance: Gift inscription ‘To Easter – who understands Blake because we have to!’ dated 1958.
Thick octavo (binding size 19.5x13.4cm), pp. [4] lvi 4553 [7]. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf of London for Marshall Field of Chicago, in full tan morocco, spine in six compartments with gult borders and lettering, twin gilt filet borders to boards and edges, intricate gilt inner-dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Ref: 112581 Price: HK$ 6,000