The Writings of William Blake by Blake, William - 1925

London: Nonesuh, 1925. hardcover. very good. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Volumes 1 and 2 only (of 3 total). Short 4to, 1/2 vellum (vellum spines are discolored and scuffed, but the interior is fine), marbled boards, untrimmed edges. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Very good.<br/><br/>

Set of 3 Volumes, 1st Editions thus, Nonesuch Press, London, 1925 No. 584 of a limited edition of 1500 copies produced by Francis Meynell on Vidalon Handmade Paper; Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; 58 other plates, 1 double-page; 26 text tillustrations; Edited with a preface by Geoffrey Keynes; Hardbacks: quarter vellum decorated in gilt on marbled boards, large quartos; Vellum a little dirtied, corners rubbed, tissue-guard to frontispiece defective, a near fine set.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes, totalling over 1200 pages, with frontispiece portrait volume I, plus 58 plates (one double page), text illustrations, notes, index of first lines; impl. 8vo; qr. parchment, spines lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spines slightly soiled, with gilt dulled and extremities lightly bruised, fore-corners of boards lightly worn, the upper board of Volume I slightly soiled; uncut, partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. One of 1,500 numbered copies on Vidalon hand-made paper. McKitterick 24; Bentley 370A. *This collection includes for the first time all the variant readings, with Milton here printed in full for the first time, and the uncompleted Vala, Or the Four Zoas 'presented in a text prepared from the original manuscript' [McKitterick].

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited editions. I. The writings of William Blake in 3 volumes, with 60 colotype plates of the author's drawings and paintings. II. With 24 illustrations in colotype. Both works bound in quarter-white parchment with marbled boards. Printed at the Chiswick Press on mould-made paper. The first set limited to 1500 copies, the second limited to 1480 copies.