WILLIAM BLAKE The Circle of the Corrupt Officials.
Engraving on chine-collé, 1827. 278x355 mm; 11x14 inches, full margins. Proof, before letters. From Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print, with significant burr on the figure group upper right and on the swirls lower right, characteristic of the earliest impressions of this print (see Essick, William Blake Printmaker, figures 231 and 232). Bindman 649.
