Life of William Blake
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First edition · Signed
Publisher's green cloth Provenance: John Slocum inscribed to him by Albert Kornfeld on the front endpaper Lovely set of the first edition of this work by the founder of the Blake Society. Born in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, Thomas Wright was educated at Buxton College and founded Cowper School in Olney in 1882 at the age of 23. He was quite an eccentric scholar, as he had no further education past his boarding school years but spent considerable
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