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Title: The Grave, A Poem
Author: Blair, Robert Description: xiv, 36, [4] pp. Illustrated with 12 copper-engraved plates including the added pictorial title-page after drawings by William Blake; frontispiece portrait of Blake after T. Phillips; all etched by L. Schiavonetti. Blank protective interleaves for the plates. (folio) 15½x12½, period half calf & boards, rebacked with modern calf, red morocco cover label. First Edition.Rare and sought-after folio edition - there was also a quarto edition published the same year, which is more common. Some of Blake's most characteristic work is presented here, a striking interpretation of Blair's poem. Contains the rare four-page prospectus at the end. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 6. Heading: (Blake, William)Place Published: London Publisher: T. Bensley Date Published: 1808 Condition reportBoards rubbed; some foxing and soiling within; frontispiece portrait inlaid to size, and is possible from another copy, perhaps of the quarto edition; title-leaf with paper reinforcements at fore and bottom margins, the fore-margin a little extended, paper reinforcements to the margins of the plates facing pp. 21, 28 & 30 (possibly for aesthetic framing purposes?), neat repairs in the margins of a few text leaves and plates, else good to very good.
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