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Genesis; verses from a manuscript of William Blake.

Accession number
PML 43418
Creator
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
Published
[Cummingtion, Mass.], [Cummington Press], [1951-1952]
Credit line
Purchased in 1952.
Notes
"170 copies printed at The Cummington Press from October 1951 into March 1952 by Wightman Williams, who cut the woodblocks, & Harry Duncan, who set the type."
"Translation, probably by Hayley, of the opening lines of Tasso's Le sette giornate del mondo creato ... Blake was merely the amanuensis."--G.E. Bentley. A Blake bibl. [1964] p. 48.
PML copy is no. 23 of 170 copies.
Description
xxviii pages 3 color illustrations 30 cm
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from P.C. Duschnes, May 1952.
Binding
Quarter leather with white paper sides.
Classification
Department