William Blake; Thomas Gray; Irene Tayler
A Collection of the Works of William Blake and Thomas Gray
London; New Jersey, Trianon Press; Princeton University Press, 1964-1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of first edition studies on the works of William Blake and Thomas Gray, with illustrations. Three volumes. A collection of studies on the life and works of William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. As well as the poetry of Thomas Gray, an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Blake famously illustrated Gray's poems, with these works considered a significant part of his artistic legacy, showcasing his unique visionary style. This collection contains: An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet, 1964. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Arranged by the William Blake Trust, with commentaries from Lessing J. Rosenwald and Geoffrey Keynes. Poems by Mr. Gray, 1971. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, facsimile title page, sixteen colour plates, and thirty-one black-and-white plates. Collated complete. A collection of the poetry of Thomas Gray, with the original illustrations of William Blake, arranged by the William Blake Trust. Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray, 1971. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and fifteen black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Written by Irene Tayler, an American scholar and expert on the works of Blake. In the original bindings, with volumes one and two in the original paper or card wraps and volume three in the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and sunning to the spines of those bound in paper or card. Original unclipped dust wrapper of volume three is also very smart with minor wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Near Fine . Ill.: William Blake. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Keywords: Blake Poet Painter Phrophet Poet Gray Illustrations William Blake