Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints designed and Engraved

by William Blake by William Hayley

$6,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, 6 , 212, 1, index pp, with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Mild offsetting/spotting from plates as usual,but overall a clean and very pleasing copy in calf with neatly repaired gilt spine. § First edition, with plates 1-3 in first state. Bentley, BB, 465. Easson and Essick, William Blake Book Illustrator, VIII. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 403-407. Item #108732

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