ISBN10: 1856192784, ISBN13: 9781856192781, [publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson, London] Hardcover First Edition First impression of the true first edition - with colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine and corners of boards slightly creased. Top of fore-edge of page block slightly marked. Internally also very good, with a long gift inscription to the half-title page, otherwise pages clean. Dark forest-green endpapers. Top corners of a few pages very slightly creased. There is a small plain sticker affixed to the rear endpaper. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper. No chips or tears. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Rear flap of dustwrapper has a light corner crease. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***240mm x164mm. 339 pages including source notes, bibliography and index to rear. ***'Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier, Blake was one of England's most fascinating and original sons. Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, his was a radical spirit fired by genius. Yet his life has remained an enigma, with much of his poetry unknown to the general reader and his art only properly studied by scholars and art historians. Now Peter Ackroyd discloses the true nature of Blake's life and art. ***This is the first biography to reveal the true affinities between Blake's ...
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