A New and Improved Roman History… The Second Edition embellished with four copper plates

by William. Allen Blake, Charles, separate plates

$1,250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

London: J. Johnson, 1798. All 4 full-page copperplate engravings after Fuseli signed by Blake as the engraver. Matted, good impressions of the plates, complete with the imprints untrimmed. § One of Blake’s scarcer works, seldom seen in the trade or at auction; there was also a volume on English history published in the same year. We have had one other copy in the last seven years, and one other separate set of the plates. The plates are strong and lively

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