Catalogue of Drawings by William Blake the property of Captain Butts

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  • 1903
By Blake, William
1903. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 1903.

8vo, title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers, in later cloth-backed marbled boards.

ß A sale of the first order of importance, though only comprising 42 lots, of which 23 were from the Butts collection comprising 18 original drawings, 4 printed proofs, and a bill from Blake to Butts. The remaining lots were from the Gilchrist collection. Bentley, Blake Books, 598. A scarce catalogue.

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Catalogue of Drawings by William Blake the property of Captain Butts

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Blake, William

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1903


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