Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented and engraved

by William Blake by William Blake

$45,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Later straight-grained green morocco gilt with Riviere & Sons, spine gilt in compartments Blake's renowned engravings for the Book of Job: one of 150 proof sets on India Paper. The story which Blake called 'Job's Captivity' fascinated him all his life. He alluded to it throughout his drawings and writings, made a large separate print of Job in 1793, and then a series of twenty-one designs now in the Morgan Library for his faithful patron, Thomas Butts, about

• Binding: Leather

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