The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson

  • 1905
By Blake, William
1905. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905.

8vo, xxxvi, 384 pages. Folding frontispiece facsimile manuscript. Original brick-red cloth, printed paper label, Dryburgh House, St. Bowells, N.B. bookplate, backstrip a little darkened; a very good copy.

ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 300: This is a work of pioneer scholarly importance, well informed, meticulously accurate, well-balanced and intelligent .

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The Poetical Works... A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals, with Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson

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Blake, William

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1905


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