Item #108789 To the Nightingale. With a Statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. William Blake, attrib.

To the Nightingale. With a Statement by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

1981. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981.

8vo, (20 pp), 3 with letterpress, the remainder blank, but one with Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s inscribed dedication of this copy to Terry Buckley. Near fine in original green calf over marble papered boards.

§ #59 of 100 copies in all, of a poem believed by Keynes to have been originally written by Blake for publication in Poetical Sketches. The attribution to Blake was made by Keynes in 1980, although it is not supported by some Blake scholars at present. Bentley, BBS, p140. Item #108789

Price: $125.00

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