BLAKE (WILLIAM) Milton. A Poem in 2 Books... Facsimiled at Edmonton, NUMBER 7 OF APPROXIMATELY 50 COPIES, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 3-page facsimile a letter (March 16, 1804) from Blake's to William Hayley at end, numbered copy "seven" in ink on title, later morocco, gilt lettered on upper cover and spine, 4to (290 x 218mm.), [Edmonton, William Muir 1886] Fußnoten In the preface William Muir records that this hand-coloured facsimile of Milton, made from an original in the British Museum, took two years to produce, and that "this is the most difficult of the Works of William Blake that has yet been reproduced under my care". Provenance: W.A. Caro, and by descent to the present owner.
BLAKE (WILLIAM) Milton. A Poem in 2 Books... Facsimiled at Edmonton, NUMBER 7 OF APPROXIMATELY 50 COPIES, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 3-page facsimile a letter (March 16, 1804) from Blake's to William Hayley at end, numbered copy "seven" in ink on title, later morocco, gilt lettered on upper cover and spine, 4to (290 x 218mm.), [Edmonton, William Muir 1886] Fußnoten In the preface William Muir records that this hand-coloured facsimile of Milton, made from an original in the British Museum, took two years to produce, and that "this is the most difficult of the Works of William Blake that has yet been reproduced under my care". Provenance: W.A. Caro, and by descent to the present owner.
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