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Lot 144
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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Live / Chicago
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BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Works of William Blake Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, editors. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893.
3 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original green cloth elaborately gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to spine ends, otherwise bright.) Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 650. Yeats “marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric verse” (ODNB). A FINE COPY.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York