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Keynes, Geoffrey. (editor)
The Letters of William Blake.
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, London;
Date of Publication: 1968
Stock Code: 13007
Second edition. Octavo, pp., 224. Thirteen illustrated plates including frontispiece. Publisher’s royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in publisher’s unclipped printed cream dust-jacket. Contents clean and bright with no annotations or inscriptions. Spine tail slightly bruised, with a few light creases to dust-jacket. The revised and amplified second edition, featuring correspondence discovered after the 1956 first edition. At the time of publication this version was believed to present a definitive text of all of the extant letters to or from Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake, including documents related to Blake’s more mundane affairs. £35.00