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The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil / with the first eclogue and the imitation by Ambrose Philips ; the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

Accession number
PML 130162
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
London : The Nonesuch Press, 1937.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Folder in pocket at end contains 17 prints on buff paper "taken direct from electrotypes of the wood-blocks," for comparison with the "photographic process reproductions of the blocks in their original state printed at the end of the text."
"This edition, printed at the Curwen Press is limited to one thousand copies."--T.p. verso.
Blank versos of 4 paged-in plates and entire leaf of 1 plate (after p. 38) not counted in printed pagination.
Final leaf is blank.
Description
38 [i.e. 44], [14] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 17 leaves of loose plates
Provenance
Formerly owned by Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
publisher's boards (facsimile of antique paste paper).
Classification
Department