Life of William Blake, with Selections from his Poems and Other Writings

Alexander Gilchrist; William Blake

Verlag: Macmillan and Co, London, 1880

Beschreibung

An exceptional example of the preferred second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's richly illustrated biography of William Blake, in the publisher's wonderfully decorative original cloth. The two volume second edition of this work. First published in 1863, this second edition is expanded, and is generally regarded as more desirable than the first edition, in large part due to the binding.Volume I is illustrated with fifty-six vignette, full page and mounted illustrations, with volume II illustrated with forty-one full plates and vignettes, including a number of prints from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of 'Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience', and Blake's Virgil woodcuts. Retaining many of the original tissue guards.Collated, complete.Retaining the original half titles.Alexander Gilchrist was an English author, known chiefly as a biographer for William Etty and William Blake. The work is considered the standard reference work on Blake, with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his brother William Michael Rossetti both offering contributions. Gilchrist spent many years compiling the material and interviewing Blake's surviving friends, although the work was originally left incomplete following Gilchrist's sudden death from Scarlet Fever in 1861. The work was first published two years later, having been complete by his wife Anne Gilchrist. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally exceptional. Internally, firmly bound. Volume I exceptionally clean and bright. With areas of spotting and instances of light foxing to the first half of volume II. Very Good Indeed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 917F22

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Life of William Blake, with Selections from ...

Verlag: Macmillan and Co, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1880

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: William Blake

Zustand: Very Good Indeed

Art des Buches: book