“Calling Card” sometimes called a bookplate for George Cumberland. Pasted into a copy of English Poetry: a Descriptive Catalogue 1947 /

by William. Hayward Blake, John

$795 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

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N.p.: n.d. 8vo, 141pp. original printed blue wrappers with the Blake plate pasted in at the front. The image and plate mark as per Essick 3.1 x 7.8 cm., and 3.3 x 8.1 cm. respectively . Printed in black on wove India paper measuring 5 x 10 cm. § Enigmatic version of the famous Cumberland card , Blake’s last engraving, executed for one of his closest friends. It is lightly printed, and pasted into a copy of the Hayward catalogue: inscribed at the front

• Binding: Wrappers

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