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Blake, William.
Jerusalem.
Publisher: Trianon Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1952
Stock Code: 12657
Edition of 2,500 copies. Small quarto, pp. [8], 115, [3], 100. With frontispiece reproduced in colour-collotype, 10 full page illustrations, 45 half-page plates, 45 pages decorated with designs. With errata slip. Bound in the publisher’s burgundy cloth over boards, with gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Impeccably clean and crisp copy with miniscule wear to lower spine tip with corresponding chip to dust-jacket. A near fine copy. Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, this volume exquisitely reproduces the Linnell-Rinder copy of Jerusalem in deep etched engraving in black ink by Aulard of Paris. Accompanied by a typographical reprint of the text. With foreword by George Keynes. Keynes founded the William Blake Trust and was instrumental in establishing Blake as a central figure in the history of English art and literature. £95.00