Leonora. A Tale, Translated and altered from the German of Gottfried Augustus Burger

by William. Burger Blake, J. T., G. A. Stanley

$19,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: by S. Gosnell for William Miller, 1796. Slim 4to, xi, 16 pp. With a frontispiece and 2 illustrations headpiece and tailpiece designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. Later full red straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip, a fine copy with a faded inscription on the title-page Sophia Baillie . § First edition with Blake’s illustrations, ridiculed in the press upon publication. One of the rarest letterpress books to contain

• Binding: Leather

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