Bidspirit auction | Laurence Binyon “The Engraved Designs

Laurence Binyon “The Engraved Designs of William Blake”. Illust., 1st ed. 1926 London Ernest Benn, London, first UK edition, 1926., xiv, 140 pp, 82 plates (20 color, 62 collotype). Quarter cloth and illustrated boards, 29 x 23 cm, Each of the plates is accompanied by a guard sheet with brief descriptive text And the preceding catalogue gives a fuller commentary, Including an attempt to identify each of the figures illustrated. The catalogue is arranged in the following sections: Line Engravings; Lithograph; Wood Engravings; Relief Etchings (and Monotypes). Condition: cover worn, rubbed, stained, chipped to edges and corners Spine damaged to top and bottom ca. 1 cm. each side. Tears to hinges of spine: 16 cm. & 9 cm. Damping near spine to first pages ca 1/3 from lower edge Foxing to endpapers, first pages and several pages Yellow – brown paper (brown paper mainly to tissue guards Weight: 1870 gr.