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William Blake.- Mora Medicationes Poeticas

Blake (William).- Mora (Jose Joaquin de) Medicationes Poeticas,

first edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional pictorial title (folded at bottom) and 11 plates, 1 plate with damp-staining to lower margin, text ff. browned, attractive contemporary red straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, red morocco label to upper cover, rubbed, preserved in a modern drop-back box, [Bentley, Blake Books, 484], small folio, R. Ackermann, 1826.

***Rare. An original work written to interpret the magnificent illustrations of William Blake (here called Guillermo Black [sic]). The plates are those used originally for Blair's The Grave, 1808, also published by Ackermann. .