BLAKE, William. The Poems. Comprising Songs of Innocence and Experience together with Poetical Sketches and some copyright poems not in any other edition. Basil Montagu Pickering. 1874
16pp cata. (1883). Orig. fine-diaper dark brown cloth, boards with central device & borders blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine chipped at head & tail, front board sl. marked.
¶Bentley 292A; a later issue of the first edition of this collection, with a catalogue dated 1883. Edited, and with an introduction by, R.H. Shepherd. With the ownership inscription of the Orientalist Elias J.W. Gibb, December 1887, and the later signature of Ruth Gollancz, wife of the publisher Victor Gollancz.
Stock #91120
£125
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