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    By Algernon Charles Swinburne
    London   John Camden Hotten
    9.5" by 6.5" 2-304, 16pp
    A lovely second edition of Swinburne's celebrated biography of artist and poet William Blake, analysing both his life and his works, and illustrated throughout.
    By Algernon Charles Swinburne

    1868 William Blake: A Critical Essay

    London   John Camden Hotten
    9.5" by 6.5" 2-304, 16pp
    A lovely second edition of Swinburne's celebrated biography of artist and poet William Blake, analysing both his life and his works, and illustrated throughout.
    £325.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 867F41
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Signed Binding

    The second edition of Swinburne's analysis of Blake's works, published in the same year as the first.

    Illustrated with nine facsimile plates of Blake's work, seven of which are in full colour. Collated, complete.

    The work is dedicated to Swinburne's Oxford friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who encouraged him to write the biography.

    With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear.

    In a signed full morocco binding by David Comstock of Seattle.

    Condition

    In a full morocco signed binding, with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with one gathering (pages 83-94) working loose. Pages a touch age toned, but generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot.

    Very Good

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