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WILLIAM BLAKE The Circle of the Corrupt Officials.
Engraving and drypoint 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 burr on the figure group upper right and on the water swirls lower right, characteristic of the earliest impressions of this print (see Essick, William Blake Printmaker, figures 231 and 232). Bindman 649.
