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Songs of Innocence [with] Songs of Experience.
Blake, William

Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 2 vols., 4to, 34 and 30 plates hand-colored. Original printed wrappers, bound into quarter vellum, boards, backstrips lettered in gilt. Fine copies as issued, with the tissue guards present. Limited to 50 copies of each title. Innocence is copy no. 30 (unsigned); Experience is copy no. 13, signed by Muir. These are amongst the most alluring and successful of Muir’s facsimiles. Songs of Innocence is based on the Pearson copy (copy D, now in the Morgan Library); he is recorded at the end as the publisher in London in 1884 but his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience is based on copy U, the Beckford copy now at Princeton. The general title to both works is found at the end of Experience. Bentley, Blake Books, 249a and d. (Item ID: 101834)

$12,500.00