Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

by William Blake

$27,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First letterpress edition, issue without “The Little Vagabond”. xxi, iii , 74 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green morocco gilt. Fine copy. Circular gilt vellum label of William Twopeny. Keynes 135; Bentley & Nurmi 161B; Bentley, Blake Books, 171. Item #368615 The first letterpress edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, preceded only by the small number of copies of the illuminated first edition

• Binding: Leather

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