Orlando Furioso the single plate

by Blake by William Blake

$200 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

London: Printed for the Author; Sold by T. Bathurst, Payne and Son..., 1783. Single sheet, a bit soiled, the volume and page numbers at the top rubbed away. § Blake’s engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: “In a letter... to William Hayley, Blake states that he is ‘absorbed’ in the study of several poets including Ariosto”. Bentley, Blake Books, 417A.

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