Accession number
PML 145638
Creator
Blair, Robert, 1699-1746.
Published
London: : Printed by T. Bensley ... for the proprietor, R. Ackermann ... and sold by Cadell & Davies, J. Johnson, T. Payne ... [and 5 others], 1813.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Other booksellers from imprint: J. White, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, W. Miller, J. Murray, and Constable and Co. Edinburgh.
Added title page engraved and illustrated: 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 the painting by T. Phillips.
Watermark on p. [i], xxv, xxxv, xlix, [1], 21, 29, Edmeads & Co., 1811.
"List of subscribers"--P. [iii]-[x].
Advertisement by R.H. Cromek and remarks on the designs by Henry Fuseli. Biographical sketches of Blair, Schiavonetti and Cromek.
"T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street."--Colophon.
Collation: [a]² b⁴ c² d-h⁴ B-F⁴ G¹. 35.5 x 28.5 cm
Text on first page of poem measures 17.7 cm.
Added title page engraved and illustrated: 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 the painting by T. Phillips.
Watermark on p. [i], xxv, xxxv, xlix, [1], 21, 29, Edmeads & Co., 1811.
"List of subscribers"--P. [iii]-[x].
Advertisement by R.H. Cromek and remarks on the designs by Henry Fuseli. Biographical sketches of Blair, Schiavonetti and Cromek.
"T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street."--Colophon.
Collation: [a]² b⁴ c² d-h⁴ B-F⁴ G¹. 35.5 x 28.5 cm
Text on first page of poem measures 17.7 cm.
Description
[2], liv, 42 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (engraving); 37 cm.
Provenance
E.D. Bacon (bookplate with crest); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/4 calf.
Classification
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