Blake, William. Laocoon. A Last Testament, 1/380 - Presentation Copy. Trianon Press, 1976.

Price: US$290.61 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Limited Edition thus, Trianon Press 1976 No. 207/380. Publisher's quarter brown morocco, signed and inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes to bookseller John Lawson. Fine copy.

Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom

BLAKE, William - KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey.. Laocoon. A Last Testament. With Related Works: On Homers' Poetry and On Virgil, The Ghost of Abel.. Clairvaux: Published by the Trianon Press, for the William Blake Trust, London, 1976, 1976.

Price: US$1130.15 + shipping

Description: First edition, number 11 of 380 copies thus, this copy inscribed on the limitation leaf by the publisher Arnold Fawcus, "For Raymond: Geoffrey's most recent and exciting contribution to Blake scholarship, warmest regards, Arnold", from a total edition of 438 copies. This Trianon production constitutes a finely illustrated disquisition by Keynes on Blake's artistic and philosophical obsession with the classical Laocoon sculpture. Quarto. Original brown quarter morocco, grey cloth sides, titles gilt to spine. Monochrome collotype plates. Fine.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom