Songs of Innocence and of Experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul... edited and prefaced

by Richard Herne Sheperd by William Blake

$300 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Pickering, 1868. Small 8vo, xiv, 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth, red printed paper backstrip label darkened, some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition, taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes, including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had

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