William Blake a Critical Essay. With Illustrations from Blake’s Designs in facsimile coloured and plain

by A. C Swinburne

$285 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. 8vo, iv, 4 , 304, 16, ads pages. With a hand-colored frontispiece, hand-colored title and seven plates of which 5 are hand-colored. Original blue cloth, hinges weak. § Second edition of the first book of criticism on Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 2795B. See Paley, John Camden Hotten, A.C. Swinburne, and the Blake facsimiles of 1868, NYPL Bulletin 1976, for a fascinating account of the publication of these first color

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