The Triumphs Of Temper. A Poem: in six Cantos. The twelfth edition, corrected. With New Original Designs, by Maria Flaxman.

Large 8vo (22. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Large 8vo (22.7 x 14.2 cm.), xii, 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt titled backstrip, marbled edges, minor rubbing to backstrip and corners, faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves, otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy, unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake’s engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations.Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley, Blake Books, 471A. Essick, William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations, XLIII. (Inventory #: 124149)