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.
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 b4, B2, B3, C2, D1, E3, F4.
Library's copy uncolored.
Etruscan style binding with classical palmette and gilding similar to Hobson 106, which is dated c. 1825.
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The grave : a poem / By Robert Blair. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed from original designs.
Accession number:
PML 152319
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. (engravings), port. ; 34 cm (4to)
Credit:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
Binding:
Etruscan style calf binding, all edges gilt, in case.
Provenance:
Unidentified library location label on inner board: A P N; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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