ABSTRACT:
"This first edition ... consists of 438 copies: 32 copies numbered I-XXXII, bound in full morocco, printed on Lana rag paper and signed by the author. 380 copies numbered 1 to 380, bound in half morocco. 26 copies numbered A to Z, reserved for the trustees of the William Blake Trust and the publishers"--p. [3]. Includes reproductions of Blake's engraving of the Laocoön group and of his relief etchings, On Homers' poetry and On Virgil, and The ghost of Abel.