Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 166

Unsold
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
HOGARTH, WILLIAM; and BLAKE, WILLIAM. The Beggar's Opera by Hogarth and Blake. A Portfolio Compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Philip Hofer. 11 plates (21 1/2x26 1/2 inches) reproducing Blake's seventh and final state of his plate, The Beggar's Opera, in Hogarth's Works of 1790: one of the original drawing, six after oil paintings, and 3 states of the engraving; the final plate is a print pulled from the original plate (then in the Hofer collection). Elephant folio, plates and text booklet laid into cloth portfolio, general wear, title foxed. Bentley, Blake Books, 475 I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965