The Book of Thel - A Facsimile and a Critical Text

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A facsimile and critical text edited by Nancy Bogen. The text of Blakes poem here reproduced is based on a collation of the seventeen extant copies of THEL engraved and printed by Blake himself. Facing this text the delicately hand-colored plates of the New York Public Library copy are reproduced with exceptional fidelity. With an extensive introduction by the editor a discussion of previous interpretations and her new interpretation of the poem notes appendices a bibliography and index. Dust jacket shelf-worn rubbed on spine. xiv 82 pages. quarter leatherette cloth-covered boards dust jacket.. 4to..