The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton’s Virgil with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips. The Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1937.

Price: $350.00


About the item

Blake, William. One of 1000 copies, printed at the Curwen Press, this copy marked “out of series”. Illustrated with Blakes’s wood engravings. 36 pp., printed on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. White cloth with Italianate pattern in grey. With 17 electrotypes of the engravings printed on separate leaves in a blue folder inserted in rear pocket. Book label of Chicago collector Harry Hansen loosely inserted. Fine copy with original plain glassine wrapper. Dreyfus 110.

Item #315145

“17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake’s original proofs, all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype.” — Dreyfus.