Wood Engravings Of William Blake 17 Subjects Commissioned By Dr Robert Thornton For His Virgil Of
$12,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian
London: BM Publications Ltd., 1977. 8vo, introductory pamphlet and 17 woodcuts on special paper, each in an individual folder, all contained in a brown cloth folding box with black leather gilt-lettered labels on upper cover and backstrip. As issued. § Limited to 150 sets, this superb reprinting of Blake’s only woodcuts from the original blocks was executed by Iain Bain the Bewick authority and sold out immediately. Very few sets have since come to
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