An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England

  • 1806
By Blake, William. Hoare, Prince
1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1806.

8vo, xxiv, 270, ii (publisher's booklist)pp., with Blake's engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design "The Graphic Muse." Original blue-grey boards, spine slightly darkened and worn at edges.

§ First edition, a very scarce book, especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George Goyder; there are also signatures of Sir Edward Hoare, an early owner, on the title page and other pages. Bentley, Blake Books 474. Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XLVIII.

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Title

An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England

Author

Blake, William. Hoare, Prince

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Date

1806


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