89 Lavish Limited Edition Facsimile Of Alternative Colored Versions Of The First 25 Plates Of Blake’s Jerusalem 126BLAKE, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Great Albion [facsimile]. London, 1974. Large quarto, original half tan morocco, slipcase. $1500 Fine Trianon Press limited edition facsimile, one of only 500 copies, of alternative colored versions of the first 25 plates of Blake’s Jerusalem. Blake’s epic poem Jerusalem, labeled by Robert Southey as “a perfectly mad poem,” calls the people of Albion [England] back to the true message of Christ; with its 100 engraved plates, it is the most extensive of Blake’s illuminated books. Only five complete copies of Jerusalem exist, and only one, the Stirling copy now at the Yale Center for British Art, is in color. Fine. “I Know Thee, I Have Found Thee, & I Will Not Let Thee Go” 127BLAKE, William. America: a Prophecy [facsimile]. London, 1963. Folio, original half navy morocco, slipcase. $1250 Fine Trianon Press limited edition facsimile of one of William Blake’s first illuminated books, one of 480 copies, finely reproducing in color the 18 leaves of Blake’s illustrated poem. “America a Prophecy, also dated 1793, was the first of Blake’s ‘Continental Prophecies’ that continued through Europe (1794) and concluded, somewhat diminished, in The Song of Los (1795), divided into sections entitled ‘Africa’ and ‘Asia’” (Wilson, The Life of William Blake, 81-82). Printed for The William Blake Trust from trustee Paul Mellon’s 1793 volume, one of only four colored copies extant. Fine. Beautiful Edition Of Browning’s Men And Women, One Of Only 75 Copies 128BROWNING, Robert. Men and Women. Westminster, 1899. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary full light tan morocco, gilt. $1500 A splendid two-volume edition of Browning’s classic series of poems, printed on Japanese vellum and limited to 75 copies, beautifully bound by Riviere. One of Browning’s most important poetical works and includes “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del Sarto” and “Love Among the Ruins.” Fine.
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