Apr 18, 2002 - Sale 1932

Sale 1932 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
BLAKE, WILLIAM. America. 18 hand-colored lithographed plates. Folio, 392x280 mm, modern 1/2 calf. Lambeth: William Blake, 1793 [i. e., Edmonton: William Muir, 1887]

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Superb facsimile published in edition of only 50 copies, of which only a small number ("about six," according to Keynes) were hand-colored later; issued as part of Muir's painstakingly produced 1884-90 Edition of the Works of Wm. Blake. Bentley 249(j); Keynes (Blake) 217k.<