Blake (William) Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, 3 vol., ONE OF 18 HORS COMMERCE COPIES, total edition of 518, 120 collotype and hand-stenciled plates, 116 coloured, text printed on pure rag laid paper, introduction by Geoffrey Keynes, 4-page supplement announcing publication, quarter morocco with gilt-lettered spine, slipcases, minor wear, folio, Trianon Press, 1972. *** Commissioned in 1797, Ann Flaxman went to great lengths to hide Blake’s watercolours prom the public due to their republican imagery. After being ‘rediscovered’ in the mid-20th century, this first facsimile edition required 18 craftsmen, with as many as 42 stencils for a single plate.
Blake (William) Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, 3 vol., ONE OF 18 HORS COMMERCE COPIES, total edition of 518, 120 collotype and hand-stenciled plates, 116 coloured, text printed on pure rag laid paper, introduction by Geoffrey Keynes, 4-page supplement announcing publication, quarter morocco with gilt-lettered spine, slipcases, minor wear, folio, Trianon Press, 1972. *** Commissioned in 1797, Ann Flaxman went to great lengths to hide Blake’s watercolours prom the public due to their republican imagery. After being ‘rediscovered’ in the mid-20th century, this first facsimile edition required 18 craftsmen, with as many as 42 stencils for a single plate.
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