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The Book of Thel / The author & printer Willm. Blake. 1789.

Accession number
PML 62441
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London : Author and printer, William Blake, ca. 1790]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1972.
Notes
Copy C.
No watermarks.
Relief etching, printed in raw umber with added watercolor.
Printed in 1789 and 1790.
Description
8 plates printed on 8 sheets; ill. 29 cm.
Provenance
Sotheby's sale 19 Dec. 1853, lot 300 to the dealer Kerslake (Bentley supplement); Thomas Gaisford (bookplate), sale of his books Sotheby's 23 April 1890, lot 185; Quaritch ("Collated & Perfect Aprl [sic] 24th 1890 J.T." on back flyleaf) for its Rough List 104 (May 1890), lot 456 and Rough List 109 (Feb. 1891), lot 91; "W.A. White, 20 March 1891" on front flyleaf; John W. Frothingham; his daughter Elizabeth W. Frothingham (presentation card laid in) gave it to White's daughter, Mrs. William Emerson; sold posthumously 19 May 1958, lot 1 at Sotheby's to Fleming; purchased by Mrs. Landon K. Thorne; given to Morgan Library.
Binding
Brown morocco by Rivière.
Classification
Department