Accession number
PML 63943
Creator
Young, Edward, 1683-1765.
Published
London, Printed by R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
Copy K
Illustratons hand-colored, possibly by Blake and his wife.
With the leaf of "Explanation."
Leaf size: 32.5 x 42.5 cm.
Contains only the first four "Nights."
The illustrations, designed and engraved by William Blake, are on the margins of 39 pages and of the four half-titles preceding "Nights."
Illustratons hand-colored, possibly by Blake and his wife.
With the leaf of "Explanation."
Leaf size: 32.5 x 42.5 cm.
Contains only the first four "Nights."
The illustrations, designed and engraved by William Blake, are on the margins of 39 pages and of the four half-titles preceding "Nights."
Description
viii, 95 p. illus. 43 cm.
Provenance
Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate); G. C. Smith, Jr. (his anonymous 1927 catalogue, lot 21, and his posthumous sale, Parke-Bernet, 2 Nov. 1938, lot 45) to Rosenbach (dealer); Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Green straight-grain morocco, gilt and tooled in blind; spine rebound (after 1938).
Classification
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