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BLAKE, William.

The Illustrations for Thornton's Virgil with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips.

The Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

Publisher: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937

Stock code: 68802

Price: £125 Currency Conversion

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. With the ownership signature of Ruthven Todd, poet, author, and the editor of the works of William Blake, to the front free endpaper.

Octavo. Original patterned cloth, titles to spine in brown. Illustrations throughout by William Blake, with the portfolio of 17 loose plates. Cloth very lightly rubbed, slightly darkened area to lower corner of upper board. An excellent copy.

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