410. Grant, Rose, Tolley & Erdman (eds.)
William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts

Illustrated by William Blake.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980
Thick Folio. Two Volume Set 362+.

Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dustjacket. With 537 watercolor drawings and 43 engravings reproduced in two volumes including over 80 color plates. Painted in 1795-97 at the age of 37, this is Blake's most extensive undertaking. In illustration and illumination of Young's "The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts", a religious meditative poem of almost 10,000 lines of blank verse, first published in 1745. The line, "Procrastination is the thief of time" is from this poem.

300/600     SOLD: $396.75

Condition: Fine in fine dustjacket and slipcase.