Blake (William).- William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair, edited by Martin Butlin and an Essay on the Poem by Morton D.Paley, number 8 of 36 special copies with a replica of the original portfolio, from an edition limited to 186, illustrations, some colour, original red calf-backed black silk moiré-covered boards, gilt-stamped calf label to upper cover, t.e.g., 19 facsimile watercolours, all but one mounted within framing lines on card, loose in card folder in original red calf wallet portfolio with tongue and strap, together in original black silk moiré slip-case, folio, William Blake Trust, 2009.*** Handsome reproduction of these superb watercolours by Blake, discovered in a portfolio in a Glasgow bookshop in 2001, having been considered lost since 1836. The portfolio contained an additional 7 watercolours to those engraved by Schiavonetti for the work published by Cromek in 1808. Despite an attempt by the Tate Gallery to purchase the portfolio it was tragically split up and the watercolours sold as individual lots at Sotheby's in New York in 2006.