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Published by London: Oxford University Press, 1973
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Square quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: edge-tears, creasing & sunfading to DJ; inked name & date on 1st free endpaper; else very good in fair DJ.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Oxford, 1973. 4to, xv, 105 pages. Numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth. Sticker inside from "London Borough of Camden Public Libraries - Reference Library," and a sticker on the back inside, "Reference and Information Services. This book may not be removed from the library." A few bent page corners. Very good. § Revised edition of the 1935 printing. See Bentley A123: "of major importance." "What we now think of as Blake's Notebook was probably begun by his younger brother Robert for sketching and then preserved by William after Robert's early death in 1787. Used sporadically, first for sketches?among many others, the early illuminated bookSongs of Experience, the emblem bookGates of Paradise, and laterJerusalem?and then for more and more poems and prose, fromA Vision of the Last Judgmentto a projectedPublic Addresson the history and state of engraving to miscellaneous memoranda on his craft? He filled the book from front to back and then turned it around and filled it from the other direction" (The Blake Archive). After Blake's death the book passed from Catherine Blake to William Palmer, to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is now in the British Library.