Accession number
PML 195562
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
Northampton [Mass.] : Gehenna Press, 1964.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Notes
Statement of responsibility from colophon.
Letter to Thomas Butts, dated at Felpham, Jan. 10, 1802 (i.e. 1803). Cf. Murray.
"Five hundred copies ... have been printed ... The woodengravings by Leonard Baskin have been printed from the blocks ... Harold McGrath was the pressman. Twenty-five copies have an additional suite of the wood engravings printed on Japanese Vellum and are signed by the artist. They are hand-bound in full Oasis Niger Morocco. These copies are numbered I-XXV"--Colophon.
Title printed in red.
One of 25 copies, with the additional suite of engravings enclosed in portfolio, bound in after p. [16].
Morgan copy lacks the t.p. engraving in the additional suite.
Letter and envelope addressed to Hugh McMillan from David Bourbeau on Thistle Bindery stationery laid in.
Letter to Thomas Butts, dated at Felpham, Jan. 10, 1802 (i.e. 1803). Cf. Murray.
"Five hundred copies ... have been printed ... The woodengravings by Leonard Baskin have been printed from the blocks ... Harold McGrath was the pressman. Twenty-five copies have an additional suite of the wood engravings printed on Japanese Vellum and are signed by the artist. They are hand-bound in full Oasis Niger Morocco. These copies are numbered I-XXV"--Colophon.
Title printed in red.
One of 25 copies, with the additional suite of engravings enclosed in portfolio, bound in after p. [16].
Morgan copy lacks the t.p. engraving in the additional suite.
Letter and envelope addressed to Hugh McMillan from David Bourbeau on Thistle Bindery stationery laid in.
Description
[15] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 16 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Unnumbered, marked in pencil in colophon in Leonard Baskin's hand: printer's copy.
Provenance
Hugh McMillan.
Binding
Bound in full Oasis Niger Morocco, gilt ; housed in a brown morocco clamshell box made by David Bourbeau, the Thistle Bindery; gilt title on clamshell box: A letter from Blake.
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