first edition leather_bound
1925 · London
by Blake, William
London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. full vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, yapp edges. Teg. Fine housed in a repaired slipcase. 3 Vols. Blake, William. xvii, 364/ vii, 397/ vii, 430 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy XXI of 75 on Oxford India paper from a total editions of 1575. With 58 monochrome lettered plates; produced under the supervision of Francis Meynell. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Notes. Index of First Lines. Keynes opted to arrange the material chronologically; however, he admits to the difficulty of such a precise arrangement, noting some of the dates assigned are necessarily conjectural. FREITAG 745. (truncated)