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ILLUSTRATIONS TO YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS DONE IN WATER-COLOUR BY WILLIAM BLAKE.
Blake, William

- Cambridge, MA : Fogg Museum of Art 1927 - folio - cloth portfolio with fold-in flaps and ties. - (20) pages + 30 plates. - ISBN none / Order Nr. 70129 - Price: $ 250.00

Printed for the Fogg Art Museum by the Harvard University Press in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies (Bentley 395). Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Thirty plates, five in color, selected from the 537 original water-colors in the library of William Augustus White. An excellent job of color facsimile, showing the glory of the original water-colors. Portfolio is faded.

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