Accession number
PML 84025
Creator
Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Published
London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins ..., 1806.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1980.
Notes
Based on Andrew Tooke's translation of François Antoine Pomey's book of mythology.
Baldwin is a pseudonym for William Godwin.
Verso of t.p.: Printed by B. M'Millan ...
Catalogue of books published by M.J. Godwin, 12 p. at end. Printed by Richard Taylor & Co, issued in 1812 or 1813. It contains reviews dated 1812, and by 1814 Taylor's company had changed its name.
Essick says none of these plates may be ascribed to William Blake.
Baldwin is a pseudonym for William Godwin.
Verso of t.p.: Printed by B. M'Millan ...
Catalogue of books published by M.J. Godwin, 12 p. at end. Printed by Richard Taylor & Co, issued in 1812 or 1813. It contains reviews dated 1812, and by 1814 Taylor's company had changed its name.
Essick says none of these plates may be ascribed to William Blake.
Description
xxvii, [1], 360, 12 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm
Provenance
Inscription: Ladies Cornwallis, Harriet Sinderby, 1824; bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.
Binding
Sheep, rebacked.
Classification
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