Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Blake, William

good. hardcover. cover and corner wear. no dust jacket. bent cover corners.

San Marino. 2008. November 2008. Huntington Library Press. 1st Printing of This Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket As Issued. 9780873282369. Edited by Robert N. Essick. 256 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration By William Blake. keywords: Poetry Art England Literature 18th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE are Blake's most familiar poems. A few examples, such as ‘The Tyger' and ‘The Chimney Sweeper,' frequently appear in anthologies of English literature, in which the poems are often printed without Blake's evocative engravings. But Blake made collections of his Songs, first the INNOCENCE group alone in 1789, and then EXPERIENCE in 1794, combining the two in that year to make up a single volume. This facsimile edition is based on a unique copy in the collection of the Huntington Library that shows how Blake used coloring style and pen and ink additions to make a unified book out of fifty-four individual engravings. Based on new… Read More

U.S.A.: HUntington, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A FINE FIRST IN hardcover.

Huntington Library Press, 2008-11-05. Hardcover. Good.

Huntington Library Press, 2008-11-05. hardcover. Very Good. ***Please Read*** small bumps on bottom edge of the cover - No marks on text - My shelf location 42-b-45