May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BLAKE, WILLIAM. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Facsimile. Text by Geoffrey Keynes. Color reproductions of Blake's illustrations, an extra suite, and a stencil. Folio, gilt-lettered full tan morocco, some minor surface marks to leather; morocco-edged marbled board slipcase, some rubbing to tips of case. London: Trianon Press, (1974)

Additional Details

number 3 of only 32 deluxe copies on Arches rag paper watermarked with Blake's monogram. This edition contains an extra set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and stencil coloring process and includes a guide sheet and stencil. Total edition of 558 copies. The facsimile from the unique copy colored by Blake. It was the first publication by the Blake Trust set up by Keynes in 1949 and the artist's last and greatest illuminated poem.