Heading: (Blake, William - Trianon Press)
Author: Blake, William
Title: The Book of Thel
Place Published: London
Publisher:Trianon Press
Date Published: 1965
Description: 8 color facsimile leaves printed on rectos only plus [9] pp. explanatory text by Geoffrey Keynes. 27.7x21.5 cm (11x8½"), quarter morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 164 of 380 standard copies numbered in Arabic, from a total edition of 426 copies.Facsimile of the copy in the Rosenwald Collection in the U.S. Library of Congress; the illuminated pages were reproduced by the collotype and stencil process. "The Book of Thel was the first of the symbolic Illuminated Books to be completed after Blake had finished the plates of the Songs of Innocence and before the etching of most of the Songs of Experience...The mood of the poem agrees with that of Songs of Innocence, since it relates the history of a human soul in a state of innocence confronted by the problems of experience and recoiling in horrified refusal." - Geoffrey Keynes, Description and Bibliographical Statement. Return address label of previous owner on front pastedown.

Mild rubbing and soiling to slipcase; volume spine sunned a bit with a few minor abrasions; some pencil marginalia; about near fine in like slipcase.