[Rarebooks] FS: Blake's Songs of innocence - Inscribed by Rosenwald

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today, this fine association copy:


66478.   Blake, William.   Songs of innocence.   [Clairvaux, The Trianon 
Press for the William Blake Trust, London, 1954]. Original quarter leather 
and brown paper boards (one of several bindings). Pastedowns and free 
endpapers lightly foxed, a few scuffs on the leather backstrip, otherwise 
fine in fine original box. The facsimile, in color, is followed by a 2-p. 
bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes. Of 1600 copies, one of 800 
numbered copies published by the Trianon Press and reserved for 
distribution in the United States. The facsimile was made from an original 
in the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald. Inscribed by Rosenwald on the 
front free endpaper to Elizabeth Mongan, his curator of prints, who played 
such an important role in the development of his collection:. "To M / With 
kindest regards. / Lessing J. Rosenwald / 2/15/55".   $400.00


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