The Art of William Blake. His Sketchbook. His Water-Colours. His Painted Books. with Numerous Illustrations

by Elizabeth Luther Cary

$45 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1907. 8vo, 56pp. plus 51 full-page plates, including frontispiece. Quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering, edges sun-faded. Some wear to edges. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, BB, 1349. An important early study of Blake’s art by a woman, preceded only by Irene Langridge’s study of 1904. Cary’s first article on Blake, apparently the first by any American woman, appeared in 1905. Item

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