Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & Engraved

by William Blake by William Blake

$68,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Published by the Author, 1825 but 1826 . First edition of Blake's visionary interpretation of the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament. Folio. Engraved title and 21 engravings on drawing paper. Original buff paste board covers with publisher's printed label over quarter brown cloth; cloth perished at spine, rebacked. A beautiful copy retaining the original boards, housed in a custom clamshell case with

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