Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 150
BLAKE, William (1757?1827), illustrator. ?? BLAIR, Robert (...
Estimate: $300 - $500
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BLAKE, William (1757?1827), illustrator. ?? BLAIR, Robert (1699?1746). The Grave, A Poem. London: printed by T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, 1813 [i.e. 1870]. Small folio (357 x 279 mm). Frontispiece portrait of Blake after T. Phillips, 12 copper engraved plates including pictorial additional title after Blake drawings engraved by Schiavonetti; each with tissue guard. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, top edge dyed red, renewed endpapers. Third edition from the 1813 plates but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870 with very minute changes to plates and text. These designs by Blake are considered his best?known work and his ?most forcible and poetical thinking on the subject of death?. A BRIGHT COPY. Bentley, Blake Books, 435E.
