William Blake, Alexander Gilchrist
Life and Works of William Blake
Macmillan
1880
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A finely bound copy of the Life and Works of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings.
- Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
- Alexander Gilchrist (English).
- Life of William Blake: A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author.
- London: Macmillan, 1880.
- Octavo.
- Includes plates, portraits and facsimiles.
- Printed by R. Clay.
- xxi, [2], [1]-431; ix, [4], [1]-383 pages.
- Second edition.
- Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth.
The Henry Buxton Forman copy, with his bookplate.
The original prints - three from electrotypes of woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus preferable to the prints in the first edition of Gilchrist, 1863) and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. One of the highspots of Victorian decorated bindings.
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Very GoodMinor signs of age and handling.
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