William Blake’s Designs for Edward Young’s Night Thoughts. A Complete Edition

by David V. Rose Erdman, John E., Edward J.

$1,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 2 volumes large folio, 548 pages full-colour facsimile & accompanying 362 pages commentary; as new in blue cloth, dust-jackets. In a blue cloth box, worn. A complete facsimile of all 537 watercolors from the original edition in the British Museum. As new. § William Blake was commissioned in 1795 to illustrate Night Thoughts for a major new edition of the poem to be published by Richard Edwards. Blake began by making a series of

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