Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints designed and Engraved

by William Blake by William. Hayley Blake, William

$6,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, 6 , 212, 1, index pp., with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Overall a clean and very pleasing copy in contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip and red label. Bookplate of Benjamin Dickinson, ink signature of J.W. Dickinson dated Oct. 9th 1824, later bookplate of Walter Hirst. § First edition, with plates 1-3 in the first state. An important book in the

• Printing: first

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