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BLAKE, William (illustrator)--BLAIR, Robert. The Grave, London: for R.H. Cromek, 1808, 4, etched portrait frontispiece of Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, etched additional title and 11 etched plates by Sciavonetti after Blake, later tissue guards (variable light spotting on some plates, additional title trimmed just touching imprint), 19th-century crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet borders on boards surrounding gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins (spine a little faded, extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint partially cracked), t.e.g., bookplate of Henry Martin Gibbs 1891. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 688 QUARTO COPIES (cf. Bentley 207). Bentley 435B; Russell 40.
BLAKE, William (illustrator)--BLAIR, Robert. The Grave, London: for R.H. Cromek, 1808, 4, etched portrait frontispiece of Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, etched additional title and 11 etched plates by Sciavonetti after Blake, later tissue guards (variable light spotting on some plates, additional title trimmed just touching imprint), 19th-century crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet borders on boards surrounding gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins (spine a little faded, extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint partially cracked), t.e.g., bookplate of Henry Martin Gibbs 1891. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 688 QUARTO COPIES (cf. Bentley 207). Bentley 435B; Russell 40.

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BLAKE, William (illustrator)--BLAIR, Robert. The Grave, London: for R.H. Cromek, 1808, 4, etched portrait frontispiece of Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, etched additional title and 11 etched plates by Sciavonetti after Blake, later tissue guards (variable light spotting on some plates, additional title trimmed just touching imprint), 19th-century crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet borders on boards surrounding gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins (spine a little faded, extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint partially cracked), t.e.g., bookplate of Henry Martin Gibbs 1891. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 688 QUARTO COPIES (cf. Bentley 207). Bentley 435B; Russell 40.

BLAKE, William. Jerusalem, [London: Andrew Chatto, 1877], 4, 100 facsimile plates after Blake, uniformly-bound in 19th-century crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, original printed wrappers bound in (spine a little faded, extremities lightly rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate of Henry Martin Gibbs 1891. Bentley 76. (2)

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