Wood Engravings Of William Blake 17 Subjects Commissioned By Dr Robert Thornton For His Virgil Of

by William Bain Blake Iain

$12,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

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 copy unnumbered , 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

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