Blake (William).- Hayley (William) The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, 4 vol. in
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Blake (William).- Hayley (William) The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, 4 vol. in 3 including supplement, second edition, 5 engraved portraits and plates, 4 engraved by William Blake after others and one engraved by Caroline Watson, engraved tail-piece designed and engraved by Blake, second state of the "Weatherhouse" engraving as usual (only a few copies known of the first state), vol.3 a little browned, engraved bookplate of Mrs. Gosling, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners a little worn, joints split, [Bentley 468], Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803-06 § Blair (Robert) The Grave, a Poem, engraved portrait of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T.Phillips and engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, tissue guards, list of subscribers, some light marginal soiling but generally a good clean copy, tissue guards a little browned, original blind-stamped black cloth, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Bentley 435E], T.Bensley for R. Ackermann, 1813 [but John Camden Hotten, 1870]; The Grave...transposed into Rhyme, by G.W.Bulkley, first edition of this version, signed and dated by Bulkley and with extensive ink manuscript corrections by him to the first four lines and a few others, book-label of J.O.Edwards, old blue cloth, cockled and lightly stained, spine faded, 1833, 4to & 8vo (5)
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Blake (William).- Hayley (William) The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, 4 vol. in
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