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Blake, William
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- Songs of Innocence and Experience... London: W. Pickering, 1839.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (192 x 115 mm). Original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine title; spine faded, but internally fine. Cloth case.
Literature
Keynes p. 52; Bentley 171 and pp.23-4.
Catalogue Note
first edition, first issue of the first letterpress edition, preceded by the small number of copies printed from the original engravings and colored by Blake. Robert Browning's copy, inscribed to him on the title from his friend, the attorney W.A. Dow.
The present has the poem "The Little Vagabound" not as a cancel as has been suggested by Bentley, but as an integral part, on page 71 (of 76 pages total - Vagabond begins on the recto of F4).
A fine copy with excellent provenance.