Three Excessively Rare and Scarce Books and Something of Their Author

by Willis Vickery

$95 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Cleveland: Printed for the Author, 1927. 8vo, 42 pages. Original linen-backed drab boards, printed cover label, a fine copy. § Bibliographical essay on William Blake, the “three excessively rare and scarce books” in the title referring to Poetical Sketches of 1783, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789 & 1794, and Descriptive Catalogue of 1809. All of these rarities were included in Vickery’s personal collection. Bentley, Blake Books,

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