BLAKE WILLIAM Water Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas G

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BLAKE, WILLIAM. Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. Facsimile. Hundreds of Blake's watercolors reproduced in collotype and hand-stencil process; separate folder containing a copper plate of text, progressive plates, guide-sheets, stencils, and other material used in creating this facsimile. 2 volumes. Large folio, gilt-lettered full tan morocco; additional illustrated material in separate morocco portfolio; both laid into publisher's gilt-stamped morocco-backed marbled board clamshell box. Few surface scuffs, but overall, a bright set. London and Clairvaux: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1972

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copy number 1 of only 36 copies in this special binding, with the additional portfolio of the supplemental material. Produced, published, and bound at the Trianon offices at Château de Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura, and Paris, France.