[Rarebooks] FS: POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE, Publisher's Copy, with reproductions of Blake's designs

[Charles Agvent]

BLAKE, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE, Publisher's Copy. Cambridge: 
Limited Editions Club, 1973. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in quarter 
black morocco leather and mulberry-color linen boards with the front 
board embossed with a portrait of Blake, 340 pages. Selected, edited, 
and introduced by Aileen Ward; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated 
with twelve designs engraved and colored by Blake for the original 
editions of his poems faithfully reproduced from the originals. Of an 
edition of 1500 copies printed and bound at the University Printing 
House, this copy belonged to the publisher of the Club during most of 
the 1970s, Gordon Carroll, and is lettered "G. C." rather than numbered 
and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation 
copies. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a Fine 
slipcase. (#016228)        $200.00

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