Blake (william) Illustrations Of The Book Of Job..., 6 Parts, New York, 1935 & Vala Or The Four - Mar 28, 2024 | Forum Auctions In London
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Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job..., 6 parts, New York, 1935 & Vala or the Four

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Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job..., 6 parts, New York, 1935 & Vala or the Four
Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job..., 6 parts, New York, 1935 & Vala or the Four
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Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job...Being all the Water-Colour Designs, Pencil Drawings and Engravings Reproduced in Facsimile, with an Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes, 6 parts, collotype plates, some colour, original cloth-backed wrappers, printed labels to upper covers, uncut, the first part with glacine wrapper (creased and slightly frayed at edges), together in original cloth drop-front box, rubbed, spine faded and upper joint worn & split, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935; Vala or The Four Zoas, edited by G.F.Bentley, full-page illustrations, original buckram, dust-jacket, rubbed and frayed at edges, portion of spine panel detached, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963, [Bentley 374 & 212], folio (2)*** The first is an excellent set of reproductions of Blake's work, including the watercolour versions for Thomas Butts, John Linnell and the New Zealand set, the drawings for the smaller set, and the proof issue of the first printing. The second item, Vala, is the only facsimile produced of this huge manuscript.
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Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job..., 6 parts, New York, 1935 & Vala or the Four

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