Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision by Marsha Keith Schuchard - 2006

(London: Century, 2006) 0712620168. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xv + (i) + 448, incl. index; illustrations in text. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and a little nibbled to top edge. Very good condition. "Much has been written about the work of William Blake and some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, but there is a secret history which, until now, has been kept deep beneath the surface in the mystical underground of England in the eighteenth century. Here, leading Blake scholar Marsha Keith Schuchard reveals an altogether more intriguing and controversial picture of the poet and artist. The discovery of Blake family documents took Schuchard on a journey of detection that led her to a cast of radical characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf and the mystic Swedenborg, and to a world of waking visions, sexual-spiritual experimentation, kabbalistic magic, tantric sex and free love. Why Mrs Blake Cried offers a… Read More

Century, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book and dust jacket in unworn, unmarked condition.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London, Century 2006. (XV) 448 p. Bound in the publisher's black cloth with pictorial dustjacket (In good condition.)

Hardback. Very Good.

London : Century 2006 1st edition. hard cover, dust jacket, black cloth, 448pp including index, list of works cited, notes, appendix, black and white illustrated endpapers, black and white frontis. and other illustrations, all in excellent condition in excellent dust jacket. ISBN 0712620168

London : Century, 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 448 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 407-439. Subjects: Blake, William 1757-1827; Sex; Religion; Sexual behavior; Spiritualism; Marriage; Blake, Catherine Boucher; Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig Graf von 1700-1760 Influence; Swedenborg, Emanuel 1688-1772 Influence; Poets, English; Biography; Artists Great Britain; Poets, English 18th century; Sex Religious aspects; Spiritualism Great Britain; History 18th century.

London: Century, 2006. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Brand new/as issued, color illus. dust jacket now in mylar. xv,448 pp., illus. 1st ptg., complete number line..