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Ballads. Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake.
Hayley, William. William Blake.

Chichester: J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (8), 212 pp. With 5 engraved plates by Blake after his own designs. Original drab gray boards, printed paper label, a very fine copy. Ink signature on front free endpaper of Norman Davey dated 1913. Bookplate. First edition, with all the plates in the first state. The only other copy I have ever seen in the original boards was sold in 1992 for £1200. Bentley, Blake Books, 465. Easson and Essick, William Blake Book Illustrator, VIII. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 403-407. (Item ID: 101100)

$10,500.00