BLAKE, William & Catherine.
The Complete Portraiture. With an Essay and Iconography by Geoffrey Keynes Kt.
Quarto. Original brown quarter morocco, spine lettered gilt, grey cloth sides. With original grey cloth slipcase. Illustrated with 51 monochrome portraits of William and Catherine Blake. Very light sunning to spine, else a fine copy.
First edition, number 119 of 500 copies thus bound, from a total edition of 562.
Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982) was an academic, biographer, and the younger brother of John Maynard Keynes. He was a world authority on Blake, and was instrumental in the production of the Trianon facsimiles, writing the accompanying bibliographical texts and contributing material from his own collection.
From the library, though unmarked as such, of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), who served as chairman of the National Trust from 1945 to 1965, alongside serving as trustee of the Tate and National Galleries, the British Museum, and the National Library of Scotland.
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