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BLAKE, William.. The Poems of William Blake.. Basil Montagu Pickering, London, 1874.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: xx, 165 [1] pp. 16mo, old half red calf; cloth sides; t.e.g. A few scuffs to the calf; clean, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp xx, 166, uncut in original blin stamped drab cloth, spine lightly rubbed and faded, slight fraying to spine ends, but a very good sound clean copy, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION THUS; to some extent this printing was an attempt on the part of the editor, R H Shepherd to revive some commercial recompenses from his earlier Blake collections, collected here with a few minor unpublished poems; His own 'To Florence' poem of introduction from 1869 is also reprinted. His editing, scholarly as it was, did not supplant Rossetti's Aldine edition in lasting popularty. A plesing copy. Bentley 292.
Seller: J & S WILBRAHAM, LONDON, United Kingdom
Blake, William. The Poems of William Blake. Basil Montagu Pickering, London, 1874.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 165pp., erratum. Brown endpapers. Title page a little foxed and going brown. 'Comprising: songs of innocence and of experience together with poetical sketches and some copyright poems not in any other edition.' Blue cloth. "Pickering & Chatto" on spine a little rubbed, head of spine worn.
Seller: Leigh Gallery Books, LEIGH ON SEA, ESSEX, United Kingdom