Blake (William) William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, Introduction and Commentary by Geoffrey Keynes, number 25 of 28 special copies with additional material and signed by Geoffrey Keynes, 16 colour facsimile leaves, suites of progressive plates, illustrations, signed manuscript colophon leaf at beginning, original tan-morocco-backed marbled boards, spine slightly faded and with small stain, marbled board slip-case (rubbed at edges, one joint split), [Bentley 385], 4to, Trianon Press, 1971.*** Deluxe edition in reduced format of the trade version of the Gray issued by the Trianon Press in 1972 using 8-colour printing. The 116 watercolour illustrations to Thomas Gray's poems are among Blake's finest work. They were commissioned in 1797 by his friend, the sculptor John Flaxman, as a gift for his wife Ann, to whom Blake addressed the final poem.