Life and Works of William Blake. - With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's own Works

London: Macmillan and Co, 1880. The sought after 2nd edition. Gilded Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. Macmillan and Co., London, 1880. Two volumes. 431; 383 pp. with engravings by C. H. Keens and W.J. Linton, and electrotype reproductions. Hardcovers, original blue cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs. The second UK printing published in 1880 (The first Printing having been in 1863) This is the more sought after edition and a high point of Victorian publishers' bindings.
Solid binding, expertly rebound with new endpapers, but using the full original illustrated cloth covers, Spine with new leather piece with gilded book title and original gilded decoration, minor loss to top of one wing on spine of vol II. Spines lightly faded, mild rubbing, shelfwear; Some minor tanning or foxing to plates from tissue protectors in vol II, uncut paper edges.
"Life and works of William Blake"--cover title;

CONTENTS: Vol. 1 Life of William Blake (xxi, 431 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates)-Vol. 2. Selections / edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ix, 383 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates). CONTENTS: Vol. 1 Life of William Blake (xxi, 431 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves of b&w or brown and white plates)-Vol. 2. Selections / edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ix, 383 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with unnumbered leaves or brown and white plates).