Beschreibung:

The Triumphs of Temper. A Poem: in six cantos. By William Hayley, 12th edition, corrected. With New Original Designs, by Maria Flaxman, Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803, six engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman, minor spotting to plates, with light offsetting to adjacent leaf of text, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership signature of M. Tomkinson to verso of front endpaper, marbled endpapers, near-contemproary straight-grained light brown full morocco, rubbed, 8vo, together with Ballads, by William Hayley, Esq., founded on anecdotes relating to animals, with prints, designed and engraved by William Blake 1st edition, Chichester, J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips 1805, half-title present, 4 (of 5) engraved plates by Blake, lacking the engraved frontispiece, some light soiling to title and text, ownership presentation inscription to front endpaper, dated 1831, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow, contemporary quarter plain calf, worn with covers detached, vellum outer tips, 8vo, plus Aphorisms on Man: translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, printed for J. Johnson 1788, engraved frontispiece by Blake after Fuseli, presentation inscription to front endpaper from John Grundy of Lime Field to Ellis Cunliffe, dated 1799, with bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary calf, worn with covers near detached, and others relating to William Blake including Compositions from the Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by William Blake 1816-17, Gilchrist, Life of William Blake 2 volumes, new and enlarged edition, 1880, Paradise Lost by John Milton illustrations by William Blake 1906, Blake's Songs of Innocence, 1926 & Richard Garnett, William Blake Painter and Poet, 1895 Bentley 471A for the first work. (9)