Author: William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.]
Title: The Note-Book of William Blake Called the Rossetti Manuscript
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A first limited edition of William Blake's commonplace book, generally known as the Rossetti Manuscript, illustrated with facsimiles of Blake's handwriting and sketches. The first edition of this work.A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number thirty-one. Published by The Nonesuch Press.A collection of the poems found in William Blake's commonplace book, which he used from c.1787/c.1793 to 1918.Blake's commonplace book was formerly owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, hence it's common name of the 'Rossetti manuscript&apos.Illustrated with one-hundred and nineteen plates, showing the original manuscript, containing Blake's original handwriting and his charming sketches.Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, with boards exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: William Blake. Near Fine .

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