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William BLAKE : The Book of Thel. Songs of Innocence. And Songs of Experience
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About the Item
London: Vale Press, 1897.
Charles Ricketts, illustrations. LIMITED EDITION
Crown 8vo, 8 x 5 inches (197 x 130 mm), lxxxi pp., printed in Vale type on thick hand-made paper with yapp edges. Original boards with paper ticket pasted on front cover and spine, toned. Border, frontispiece and three initials designed and engraved by Charles Ricketts, the initials exclusive to this book at the Vale press. Small bookseller ink stamp on upper corner of front cover. Free endpapers browned as usual, inside pages clean and unmarked, binding square.
Edition limited to 210 copies; printed at the Ballantyne Press.
A copy can be found in the collection of the Morgan Library (PML 143033)
[Ricketts xxi; Ransom, Vale 9, p. 435; Tomkinson, Vale 9, p. 165].
The Vale Press operated from 1896 to 1904, though its founder, Charles Ricketts, had worked as a book designer and illustrator for commercial publishers since the 1880's. The print shop for the Vale Press was in fact housed in one of these commercial establishments, the Ballantyne Press, where a hand press was set aside for Ricketts's exclusive use. Ricketts designed three typefaces – Vale, Avon, and King's – for the Vale Press, the costs being underwritten by his business partner Llewellyn Hacon. Ricketts ultimately threw the punches and matrices for these typefaces into the Thames and melted down the type itself, to keep it out of the hands of lesser book designers.
Condition: Near fine.
- Dimensions:Height: 7.76 in (19.7 cm)Width: 5.12 in (13 cm)Depth: 0.6 in (1.5 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1897
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Middletown, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: BH22411stDibs: LU8340247473912
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