Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations, Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and form the Mind to Truth and Goodness. A New Edition

by Mary. Blake Wollstonecraft, William

$8,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

London: printed for J. Johnson, 1791. 12mo, xii, 177, 3,ads pp, with 6 plates by William Blake after his own designs, each signed by Blake. Old half red morocco scuffed but sound, some browning and rubbing. The Buxton Forman copy with his large bookplate and manuscript notes in pencil. Other illegible early notes partially erased. § First edition to contain William Blake’s characteristic illustrations, reminiscent in iconography to his designs for his

• Binding: Leather

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