Item #107755 A Father’s Memoirs of His Child. William. Malkin Blake, Benjamin Heath.

A Father’s Memoirs of His Child.

1806. London: printed for Longman; by T. Bensley, 1806.

Single leaf, 200 x 130 mm, being the frontispiece by Blake engraved by Cromek. Trimmed to the image, recently cleaned, with a couple of almost invisible creases and an ink smudge on the child’s nose.

§ Frontispiece only. A sentimental commercial engraving. The child was Malkin’s son, apparently an infant prodigy who died at the age of seven. Bentley, Blake Books, p. 18 (a good note on the book) and #482. Item #107755

Price: $200.00

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