Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in Facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in Photolithography; with a few of Blake's Original Plates

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Lot #33Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in Facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in Photolithography; with a few of Blake's Original Plates

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Title:

Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in Facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in Photolithography; with a few of Blake's Original Plates

Author:

Gilchrist, Alexander

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Macmillan & Co.

Date Published:

1863

Description:

2 volumes. xiv, [2], 389, [1]; viii, 268 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol. I, folding engraved frontispiece after Blake in Vol. II; facsimiles of his Illustrations of the Book of Job, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. 9x5¾, original gilt-pictorial cloth. First Edition.

First edition of the foremost 19th century biography of William Blake. Provenance: artist John Ferguson Weir, with his signature on the half-title of each volume.

Condition:

Fading to spines, ends frayed, rubbing to joints and extremities; contents shaken, some signatures sprung, occasional foxing, good to very good.

Item#:

204888

Headline:

Gilchrist's Life of Blake artist J.F. Weir's copy
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