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370. William Blake Trust
William Blakes Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Illustrated by William Blake.
Paris: The Trianon Press, 1972
Thick Folio. Three + portfolio.

Limited Edition, 1 of 518. This being 1 of 12 in three volumes, full morocco, with an additional portfolio containing a series of progressives showing the stages in the hand-stencil colouring of a single plate, together with original guide-sheets and stencils and other material used in making the facsimile, presented in a matching box. Portfolio includes the complete series of hand-cut guide-sheets & stencils for plate 4 of "The Bard"; the complete series of collotype and hand-coloured progressive states of plate 4; finished colour plates for framing; early free-hand trials and correction proofs; collotype negatives corrected by hand; "Eton College Ode" and "The Progress of Poesy", the complete series before hand-colouring and other early proof plates; and miscellaneous notices and press material. Slipcase boxes made of hand-marbled paper and morocco with beveled edges.
Facsimiles of the 21 November 1971 "Observer" and the 8-12 December 1971 "Times Literary Supplement" as the invitation to the Private Viewing of The Tate Gallery exhibit laid in. One color illustrated leaf.

4000/6000     SOLD: $1,725.00

Condition: Very Good