Accession number
PML 63944
Creator
Blair, Robert, 1699-1746.
Published
London : Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for the proprietor, R.H. Cromek, No 64, Newman Street; and sold by Cadell and Davies, J. Johnson, T. Payne, J. White, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, W. Miller, J. Murray, and Constable and Co. Edinburgh., 1808.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
First edition, second printing with Blake's illustrations, quarto issue.
Added title page, engraved and illustrated, reads: The grave, a poem. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake. 1808. At foot of plate: "Subscribers' Copy."
Frontispiece: portrait of Blake engraved by Schiavonetti after a painting by Thomas Phillips.
"Of the designs" (p. [33]-36) attributed to Benjamin Heath Malkin by Bentley and by Essick & Paley.
The engraved title is counted as one of the "twelve etchings"; the plates are not arranged in the order indicated by "Of the designs", and their placement may vary slightly from copy to copy.
Collation: 4to, [a]² b⁴ c1 B-F⁴ [$1 signed]; 27 leaves, pp. [i-xii] xiii-xiv [1] 2-32 [33] 34-36 [37-40].
Wove paper, untrimmed; no watermarks.
Library's copy uncolored.
Binding label: Blake's illustrations of Blair's Grave engraved by Schiavonetti. 13 Plates. -- Price 2ℓ. 12s. 6d.
Added title page, engraved and illustrated, reads: The grave, a poem. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake. 1808. At foot of plate: "Subscribers' Copy."
Frontispiece: portrait of Blake engraved by Schiavonetti after a painting by Thomas Phillips.
"Of the designs" (p. [33]-36) attributed to Benjamin Heath Malkin by Bentley and by Essick & Paley.
The engraved title is counted as one of the "twelve etchings"; the plates are not arranged in the order indicated by "Of the designs", and their placement may vary slightly from copy to copy.
Collation: 4to, [a]² b⁴ c1 B-F⁴ [$1 signed]; 27 leaves, pp. [i-xii] xiii-xiv [1] 2-32 [33] 34-36 [37-40].
Wove paper, untrimmed; no watermarks.
Library's copy uncolored.
Binding label: Blake's illustrations of Blair's Grave engraved by Schiavonetti. 13 Plates. -- Price 2ℓ. 12s. 6d.
Description
xiv, 36, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates (incl. engr. title) : ill. (engravings), port. ; 38 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Willis Vickery (bookplate) and sale, Anderson Gallery, March, 1933; from the collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Gray boards; original paper label; in PML case.
Classification
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