Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 33

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BLAKE, WILLIAM. Songs of Experience by William Blake 1757-1827. Facsimile by Joseph Patrick Trumble, Sophia Elizabeth Muir and William Muir, From the Beaconsfield Original in the British Museum . . . 27 hand-colored facsimile plates. Small folio, original printed and stitched blue paper wrappers, spine defective, wrinkles and chip to fore edge.

one of 50 copies of the first edition, later state of the second muir facsimile of this title, with his manuscript colophon on inside front wrapper: "Made in Great Britain. No. 35. Wm. Muir" and another limitation printed on final leaf, but Signed and numbered again by Muir. Bentley 162. London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1927