William Blake: a Critical Essay with Illustrations from Blake's Designs in Facsimile, Coloured and Plain
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1868 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Rebound in blue cloth boards with title label on spine and new endpapers, 304 pages, hand colored frontis and title page and six other Blake illustrations(the illustration after page 208 is missing). Dark, inch wide stain affecting the bottom edges and margins of approximately 80 pages, lower front corner lightly rolled. Text is clean, binding good, but gently stressed in places. Earliest work of Blake criticism that belatedly rescued him from obscurity..
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- Title
- William Blake: a Critical Essay with Illustrations from Blake's Designs in Facsimile, Coloured and Plain
- Author
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1868
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