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[Northampton, Mass: Gehenna Press, 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 254), 16mo, pp. [16]; fine in original marbled wrappers; From the library of Kim Merker. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Baskin 37.
A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE by BLAKE, WILLIAM - 1964
by BLAKE, WILLIAM
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A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
by BLAKE, WILLIAM
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One of 500 numbered copies printed in Centaur type by Harold McGrath at Baskin's Gehenna Press. Six wood-engraved portraits of William Blake printed from the blocks on Japanese Moriki paper. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Brook 37.
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- Illustrator BASKIN, LEONARD
- Format/Binding Marbled paper wrappers over flexible boards, paper cover label.
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- Publisher Gehenna Press
- Place of Publication Northampton, MA:
- Date Published 1964
- Size 12mo
- Keywords William Blake, Literature, Art, Woodblock, Gehenna Press, Leonard Baskin, Limited editions
- Size 12mo
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A letter from William Blake
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A Letter from William Blake [to Thomas Butts, dated Jany. 10, 1802].
by Blake, William
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Slim 12mo. Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964. Slim 12mo, [16]pp. With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover, mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with a fine woodcut of a rooster, signed by Baskin in pencil. The company is still in business in Northampton. § Limited to 500 copies (but surely fewer than that) this is number 26. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear, that says I must not stay, I see a hand you cannot see, that beckons me away. Naked we came here, naked of Natural things, & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy, we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest…
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