Author: GILCHRIST, ALEXANDER
Title: Life of William Blake, ''pictor Ignotus'' with Selections from His Poems and Other Writings
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1863, First Edition. Brown Pictorial Cloth, 240mm. x 160mm. Book, Publisher's brown cloth, gilt decorations and titling. Dark green endpapers, with binders label of Burn & Co. to rear pastedown in volume 1. Volume I: xiv. 389 pages, engraved frontis. portrait, 11 plates. Volume II: viii. 268 pages, fold-out frontis. 22 b/w & 16 sepia plates, in-text illustrations. Volume I: Some wear to covers, losses, small splits to spine, small cracks to front hinge, some spotting to half title and frontispiece, tissue, otherwise clean. Volume II: covers, spine similar to vol. I, some minor spotting throughout. Gift inscription dated 1876 to half title of both volumes. Laid-in is a 1945 Blackwells invoice and receipt, with price at 1 guinea. A very good set. [16852]. Very Good.

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