William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with plastic spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; incl. rear pocket; slight scuffs to dj; slight soiling to book block edges; first flyleaf has a few nicks and folds; otherwise, pages are nice.). Dark gray cloth, dark blue and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 207 text pp., plus 92 BW plate pages. The first full-length study of William Blake's eight sets of Milton illustrations: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus, the Nativity Ode, and Il Penseroso. They present the poet-artist's own vision of the world. "As such they emphasize the universal themes found (truncated) in his poetry: the lapse from grace; the spiritual, physiological, intellectual, and social consequences of this lapse, and the promise of redemption; and the relations between matter and spirit, between man and woman, and between man and God." (dj). (Inventory #: 157514)