William Blake Water-Color Drawings.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957.
8vo, (10), (50, including 33 illustrations of the holdings on display), pp. Gift inscription in ink on title page, dated January 3, 1969. Light shelf wear, wrappers toned with some sunning to backstrip, very good.
§ “Nine drawings for Paradise Lost, accompanied by a verse for each one; Eight drawings for the masque, Comus, accompanied by stage directions and script; Seven drawings of characters from Shakespeare's plays; and Nine drawings by the visionary Blake to illuminate his prophecy on the Scriptures.” Nicely printed by Meriden Gravure. Bentley, BB, 414: “only cursorily described”. Item #126798
Price: $10.00