The grave, : a poem. / By Robert Blair. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed from original designs.

Accession number:

PML 145637

Author:

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.

Description:

xiv, 36, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates (incl. engr. title) : ill. (engraving), port. ; 34 cm

Credit:

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes:

First edition, second printing with Blake's illustrations, the 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.
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; watermark "Whatman 1808" on foredge of leaves b3, C4, D4, E1, F4.
Library's copy uncolored.

Binding:

Three-quarter brown polished calf.

Provenance:

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

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