William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Mr Gray
by Keynes, Geoffrey Kt. (Introduction and Commentary by)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good Minus
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1972. This book includes 16 colour plates in 8-colour offset and all of Blake's 116 water-colours in monochrome, a Concordance of Blake's handwritten titles with an Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. The dust jacket is spotted and lightly rubbed along edges, the spine is browned and rear cover is spotted, price clipped with publisher's price label to inside flap, blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, lightly edgeworn, spotting to endpapers and title page, pp bright and clean, unmarked, binding sound.. Cloth Covered Boards. Good/Good Minus. Illus. by William Blake. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74815
- Title
- William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Mr Gray
- Author
- Keynes, Geoffrey Kt. (Introduction and Commentary by)
- Illustrator
- William Blake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Minus
- Publisher
- Eyre Methuen Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Gilt
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