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Blake Studies: Notes on His Life and Works in Seventeen Chapters
by Keynes, Geoffrey [William Blake]
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. First Edition. 208+48pp. Quarto [26 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price clipped. Bookplate on front pastedown and name in ink on the front free endsheet. With 48 collotype plates at the rear. This work offers an elaboration of incidents and episodes in Blake's life with the occasional textual criticism of his works that is nicely illustrated.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8702
- Title
- Blake Studies: Notes on His Life and Works in Seventeen Chapters
- Author
- Keynes, Geoffrey [William Blake]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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