THE BOOK OF AHANIA.
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. [22](last colophon), comprising coloured frontispiece and facsimile title page, 4 tinted facsimile text pages (the last of which includes a coloured tailpiece illustration), one black & white plate and 8 pages of editorial matter, including Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes; wide demy 4to; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the leather faintly scuffed; uncut; within matching marbled papered slipcase with morocco fore-corner tips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing (mainly of endpapers); published by the Trianon Press (France), for The William Blake Trust, London, 1973. One of 750 numbered copies thus bound (of a total edition of 808), printed on Arches pure rag paper. *Blake completed only one copy of The Book of Ahania, which continues the story of the Book of Urizen, and he never included it in any list of his productions. The paper for this edition was specially made to match that used by Blake, with the addition of his monogram as a watermark. Item #163833
Price: $500.00