*RARE - Night Thoughts - 43 ORIGINAL WILLIAM BLAKE ENGRAVINGS - MOROCCO - 1797*
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*RARE - Night Thoughts - 43 ORIGINAL WILLIAM BLAKE ENGRAVINGS - MOROCCO - 1797*:
$5100.00
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Blake (William).- Young (Edward) The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts,
Printed by R.Noble for R.Edwards, 1797 [watermarked J.Whatman 1794]. Folio 420 x 335.mm.
Handsome contemporary green straight-grained morocco with elaborately-tooled borders in gilt and blind, rubbed and stained, small worn patch at foot of upper board, skillfully rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, new marbled endpapers, some margins trimmed with loss of imprints, damp-stained at lower edge (mostly marginal) causing occasional small tears or fraying (repaired), lacking printed explanation leaf (as often).
First edition of Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Night Thoughts is a key work in the Blake canon, executed at a crucial point in his career. Sometime in 1795 or 1796 Blake was comissioned by the publisher Richard Edwards to undertake the illustration of each page of Young's bestseller 'Night Thoughts'. It was intended to publish the whole poem of nine nights in installments accompanied by engravings based on Blake's drawings, but Edwards went out of business after the first volume consisting of 4 Nights and the project was never completed. 'Blake has undertaken to make designs to encircle the letter press of each page of Young's Night Thoughts, Edwards the Bookseller, of Bond Street employed him and has had the letter press of each page laid down on a large half sheet of paper.
Bentley, Blake Books, 515. Easson and Essick, William Blake Book Illustrator, vol. 1, IV. Essick and LaBelle, Night Thoughts, Dover, 1975. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 357-379. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 3.
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*RARE - Night Thoughts - 43 ORIGINAL WILLIAM BLAKE ENGRAVINGS - MOROCCO - 1797*:
$5100.00