Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$193.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Limited edition, No. 138 of 1550 copies. Printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. Half linen binding with paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Light tanning to endpapers. Leading blanks unopened. Very clean text and plates throughout. Included with the book is a card inscribed by the author: 'For John Lawson, with best wishes for 1969 from Geoffrey and Margaret Keynes.' Lawson was a renowned bookseller and lifelong friend of Keynes. . Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 9.25 x 11.75 inches (23 x 29.5 cm).
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Nonesuch Century, #43. Quarto. xvi, [192] pp. With eighty-two collotype plates reproducing BlakeÕs drawings. Plates and text printed on Arches paper at the Chiswick Press. Typeface is Caslon. Half canvas over beige paper-covered boards with title in black on spine. Minor soiling to binding. Edges untrimmed. Some light foxing to edges and some toning to endpapers. Pencil note on front flyleaf describes this as an Òadvance copy from binder.Ó A very good, overall clean presentation copy inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes for Stephen Gooden (dated 1927). One of 1,550 copies. ÒMost of the eighty-two drawings in this book have never been exhibited and were previously unknown even to BlakeÕs most studious admirersÓ (Nonesuch Century).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.