BLAKE WILLIAM Illustrations of Dante 1978

Sale 2217 - Lot 471

Price Realized: $ 840

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

BLAKE, WILLIAM. Illustrations of Dante. Seven bound plates, a modern restrike, and an extra set of the facsimile engravings. 2 volumes. Oblong folios, one in calf-backed linen boards, the other a linen portfolio holding the plates; both laid into calf-backed clamshell box, soiled and edgeworn, some scuffs to leather; internally fine; bookplate on inside front cover. London: Trianon Press, 1978

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number 11 of only 18 deluxe copies containing a restrike from one of the original copper plates in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of Art, an extra suite, and additional material showing the stages of the making of the facsimile. The total edition was 440.