Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Work

by William Blake, Robert R. Wark, Mark Crosby, Robert

$75 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2012. First edition thus. Large folio 17-1/2 x 12-3/4 . 8 pp. + 11 leaves of color facsimiles + 58pp. Index. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Some faint scratch marks on front cover, otherwise a fine copy. William Blake drew inspiration from the Bible throughout his life. Shortly before his death in 1827, he began an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Genesis,

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