An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England

by William. Hoare Blake, Prince

$2,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. 8vo, xxiv, 270, ii publisher’s booklist pp., with Blake’s engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design “The Graphic Muse.” Original blue-grey boards, spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition, a very scarce book, especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare, an early owner, on the title page and other

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