Title: William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray Author: Blake, William Place: London Publisher: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust Date: 1972 Description: Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. 116 plates reproduced in color by collotype and hand-stencil. Text of Gray's poems printed on laid paper from copperplates, using three additional printings to reproduce paper tone and Blake's markings. 16½x12¾, unbound in the French style with wrappers, quarter morocco portfolio and matching box. First Edition. No. 356 of 518 sets. Fine copy of this first publication of Blake's drawings for Gray's poems. Paul Mellon allowed the original drawings to be sent to France for reproduction. Lot Amendments Condition: Two plates with very pale spotting to versos; else very fine. Item number: 154280
Title: William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray Author: Blake, William Place: London Publisher: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust Date: 1972 Description: Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. 116 plates reproduced in color by collotype and hand-stencil. Text of Gray's poems printed on laid paper from copperplates, using three additional printings to reproduce paper tone and Blake's markings. 16½x12¾, unbound in the French style with wrappers, quarter morocco portfolio and matching box. First Edition. No. 356 of 518 sets. Fine copy of this first publication of Blake's drawings for Gray's poems. Paul Mellon allowed the original drawings to be sent to France for reproduction. Lot Amendments Condition: Two plates with very pale spotting to versos; else very fine. Item number: 154280
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