2 volumes. xxi, 431, ix 383. With 2 mounted frontispiece portraits on India paper and over 70 plates and facsimiles, including 3 original prints from Blake’s woodblocks of Virgil’s Pastorals printed on India paper and 16 electrotypes made from the original and only existing copperplates of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 9x6, original gilt decorated blue-green cloth in beautiful Art Nouveau style with angles on spines, floating angles under large flowers, etc. on covers, lettered in gilt, page edges untrimmed. Second Edition.

The preferred second edition, which is a much more beautiful and extensive production than the first edition of 1863. Contains new material from Blake including letters and illustrations. A lovely set of books and a great overview of Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680B. Engraved bookplate of Philip Sassoon and ownership signature dated Feb. 1887 in Volume I.