Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings

by William Blake, Alexander Gilchrist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition, first printing. xiv, 2 , 389, 1 ; viii, 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two volumes. Near Fine with fading and slanting to spines, light rubbing to extremities, and slight

• Printing: first

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