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Songs of experience

Blake, William, 1757-1827, Adam, Robert, 1833-1904, former owner, Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1831 · [London] 1794 [i.e. 1831?] · 3 pictures

William Blake's Songs of Experience, a collection of illustrated poems printed in London, with this edition dated 1831 though the original dates from 1794, and made for general readers of poetry and collectors of illuminated books. The pictures are pale, sketchy engravings with verse lettering woven around borders, showing thin linework, loose shading and figures in flowing drapery that a designer might borrow for hand-lettered text framed by decorative vines.

England · London

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