A Biographical Dictionary Of The Living Authors Of Great Britain And Ireland Comprising Literary

by William Blake J Watkins F Shoberl

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First edition

London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo, viii, 449 pp. With 2 leaves of ads at the front, and another 2 at the back, dated 1818. Original boards, paper backstrip slightly rubbed with loss of label , some wear to boards, a very fine copy entirely uncut and in original state as issued. § First edition of a fascinating contemporary reference work. It includes one of the earliest biographical references to William Blake “an eccentric and very ingenious

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