William Blake. A Critical Essay
London, John Camden Hotten, 1868 (second issue, with the title leaf, a cancel, bearing the legend 'Going to and fro in the Earth' beneath the vignette).
Octavo (230 × 155 mm), viii, 304, 16 (advertisements) pages plus 9 plates (7 of them hand-coloured).
Blue cloth; spine lettered and ruled in gilt; sides panelled in gilt; spine lightly sunned and marked; cloth lightly worn at the extremities, with a small hole in the rear hinge near the head; a few leaves carelessly opened, causing slight loss to the blank upper margins; overall a very good copy.
The plates are hand-coloured facsimiles reproducing pages from Blake's 'Jerusalem', 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell', and 'The Book of Thel'. With the small name-plate of Sir John William Downer (1843-1915), lawyer and politician (not least, one of the Fathers of Australian Federation).
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