A Father’s Memoirs of his Child

by Benjamin Heath Malkin

$1,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: printed for Longman by T. Bensley, 1806. 8vo, iv, xlviii, 172 pp. With a frontispiece by Blake engraved by Cromek, and three plates one folding . Original remainder? binding of pebbled dark green cloth, red label lettered in gilt. A little worn, upper joint neatly repaired, slight marginal soiling within. Very good. § First edition. Malkin knew Blake well and in the long preface he devotes 24 pages to an account of his friend’s life and genius,

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