1935 The Note-Book of William Blake Called the Rossetti Manuscript

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work.

A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered four-hundred and twenty-eight. Published by The Nonesuch Press.

In the original very scarce unclipped dustwrapper.

A collection of the poems found in William Blake's commonplace book, which he used from c.1787/c.1793 to 1918.

Blake's commonplace book was formerly owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, hence it's common name of the 'Rossetti manuscript'.

Illustrated with one-hundred and nineteen plates, showing the original manuscript, containing Blake's original handwriting and his charming sketches.

Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Bookplate of Charles Ballantyne to the front pastedown.