THE BOOK OF LOS BY WILLIAM BLAKE 1976 LIMITED EDITION

THE BOOK OF LOS BY WILLIAM BLAKE 1976 LIMITED EDITION

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[BLAKE, WILLIAM]. The Book of Los. London: The Trianon Press, 1976.

First edition thus - limited edition, no. 176 of 480 copies so bound, from a total edition of 538 copies. Leather-bound in slip-case. Large quarto (310 x 240 x 20 mm). Unpaginated. English text. Printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake. Bound in original morocco-backed marbled boards, marbled board slip-case. 5 collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil. Condition: FINE. Collated complete. An immaculate copy without previous ownership markings. Scarce.

Notes: Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), the brother of John Maynard, provides a commentary and bibliographical history. "The Book of Los was the first of the two small books executed by Blake mainly as etchings on copper to be printed as ordinary intaglio plates. The Book of Ahania was the companion volume. The title-pages of both books were dated by Blake 1795, so that they were probably the last ones to be produced in his Lambeth house. Each book exists in only a single copy. The Book of Los. has been since 1866 in the British Museum" (Keynes). These beautifully produced facsimiles of Blake are now highly regarded in their own right.