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Blake, William Trianon Press Keynes, Geoffrey Europe a Prophecy 1969

With the Celebrated Design The Ancient of Days BLAKE, William. Europe a Prophecy. London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1969.One of 480 numbered copies (this copy being No. 375), out of a total edition of 526 copies. Quarto (13 11/16 x 10 1/4 in; 345 x 260 mm). (48) pp. Seventeen color facsimile plates reproduced from the edition of 1794.Original quarter brown morocco over marbled boards. Fine. In the original marbled board slipcase.Includes the four stanza poetical preface telling how a Fairy sang a song to Blake abut the five senses of man, which Blake omitted from most copies. Foster Damon has suggested that Blake [did so] because he identified in it too plainly the sense of touch with sexual pleasure, even though he did not directly name it in the first stanza (Keynes).The illuminated pages were reproduced in Paris by the collotype and stencil process in the workshops of Trianon Press (France) and M. Crampe. The editorial matter was printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, and the binding was by Engel, Malakoff.With a description and bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes.

$US450

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