Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul de Blake, William Keynes, Sir Geoffrey - 1970-10-15

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982 (1970)* Publisher: Oxford University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers different to that illustrated. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Very light creases to spine with light dish. Seems lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG* Illustrations: Colour facsimile illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 155 pp. text.* Product Description:- Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretension and falsity in others. His ?Songs of Innocence? are products of this innocent imagination untainted by worldliness, while the ?Songs of Experience? resulted from his feelings of indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind. The Songs of Innocence and Experience , containing some of Blake's finest and best-loved poems, are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic aspirations. The fifty-four plates which Blake originallly etched and coloured by hand are faithfully reproduced with the same delicacy and dimensions as the artist created them.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear and very slight ageing reducing it to VG*