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

  • 1803
By Blake, William. Hayley, William
1803. 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.

ß 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 by Maria Flaxman.
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.

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Title

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

Author

Blake, William. Hayley, William

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Date

1803


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