The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces

by John Sampson by William Blake

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. 8vo, xxxvi, 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth, printed paper label. backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 300: “This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance, well informed, meticulously accurate, well-balanced and intelligent”. Item #100629

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