Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake.
Printed in the UK. The Folio Society. 2013. Limited first edition. Leather and cloth over boards. Set of two volumes:
Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake
Hardcover 1/4 leather over pictorial cloth over boards. Folio. Unpaginated (116 pp). Facsimile of the original manuscript (c 1800); 116 full colour plates. Number 503 out of a limited print run of 1000 numbered (+20 lettered) copies. Title stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Gilt decorations on front board. Gold foil endpapers. Glue residue on front flyleaf from removed bookplate. Pages clean and bright. Binding strong and square. Boards and spine lightly worn. Near fine condition.
Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray
Hardcover blue cloth over boards. 8vo. xiv, 210 pp. Illustrated with a b/w plate frontispiece portrait of William Blake by John Flaxman (1804). Text taken from the 1971 first edition. Title and printer's device stamped in gilt on spine. Paper label with title and author pasted on front board. Gold foil endpapers. Glue residue on front flyleaf from removed bookplate. Pages clean and bright. Binding strong and square. Boards and spine lightly worn and rubbed. Near fine condition.
Both volumes housed within a brown buckram solander case. Leather label with gilt title pasted on spine. Lightly shelf worn. A near fine set overall. Near fine. Item #67607
Price: $1,000.00