Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate #8 “Let the Day Perish Wherein I was born.”

by William Blake

$2,950 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

1826. Folio, single sheet 16 1/4 x 11, image inc. platemark 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. § First edition, from the printing of 65 sets with the word “Proof” on French wove paper. A fine impression of one of the most affecting plates in this series, in which Job laments his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence Job 3:3 . Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book. “It

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