Poetical Sketches.

by W.B. by William Blake

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Printed in the Year 1783. London: Noel Douglas, 1926 . 8vo, original paper over boards. Very good. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length, printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt, who owned a small print shop in the Strand, and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet, dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.