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Alexander Gilchrist - The Life of William Blake

Title: The Life of William Blake
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1880 . Cloth. The preferred second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's richly illustrated biography of William Blake, in the publisher's wonderfully decorative original cloth. The two volume second edition of this work. First published in 1863, this second edition is expanded, and is generally regarded as more desirable than the first edition, in part due to the binding.Volume I illustrated with fifty-six vignette, full page and mounted illustrations, with volume II illustrated with forty-one full plates and vignettes, including a number of prints from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of 'Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience', and Blake's Virgil woodcuts. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half titles.Alexander Gilchrist was an English author, known chiefly as a biographer for William Etty and William Blake. The work is considered the standard reference work on Blake, with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his brother William Michael Rossetti both offering contributions. Gilchrist spent many years compiling the material and interviewing Blake's surviving friends, although the work was originally left incomplete following Gilchrist's sudden death from Scarlet Fever in 1861. The work was first published two years later, having been complete by his wife Anne Gilchrist. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with extensive gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rear joint of volume I starting, with board a touch tender to the head, and the cloth at the joint fraying. Minor loss of cloth to centre of rear joint of volume II. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, with only the odd light handling mark or spot throughout. Very Good . Ill.: William Blake. Very Good .

Keywords: william blake songs of innocence and experience blake songs of innocence and experience William Blake

Price: GBP 975.00 = appr. US$ 1392.29 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 885F31

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