frontispiece only to Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.

by Sir Brooke Boothby Bart by Henry Fuseli

$450 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

London: W. Bulmer, 1796. The frontispiece only, stained in the top margin. § First edition, the print from one of a tiny number of large-paper copies. Only one other copy has been located in the Essick collection, Fuseli’s own copy . The frontispiece is a stipple-engraving proof before all letters by Benedetti after the painting by Fuseli and is one of the largest book illustrations after Fuseli—it measures almost 12 x 7 inches. Weinglass 139. Item

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