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Easton Press PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON William Blake 76
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PARADISE LOST BY JOHN MILTON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM BLAKE AND WITH PREFACES BY PHILIP HOFER AND JOHN T. WINTERICH, THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, COLLECTOR’S EDITION, BOUND IN GENUINE LEATHER, The Easton Press Norwalk, Connecticut, 311 pages, 7” wide, 10” high, 1 1/2” deep, 1976. The book is in essentially mint condition except for a very, very, minor mark on the edge gilt which I only found by turning it sideways to the light. No bookplate. Beautiful tan silk moiré end pages. This book, and others we will be listing, came from a smoke free home and does not appear to have been read very heavily if at all. This is a very beautiful book as are all in this series. William Blake is a listed artist, see below for more information. Shipped via Media Mail. Pl ease note: Allow 7 to 10 days for shipping , as we are out finding new items during the week. One picture is worth a thousand words so please use the Larger option to examine the condition and content of this listing as the pictures are part of the description. Our shipping charges include postage, required insurance, plus handling e.g. packaging, materials and transportation and may be modified depending on w the winning bidder lives. I prefer Paypal. Shipping costs have gone up for flat and measured rate postage within the USA and just went up once again. If you have a concern with estimated postage charges we ask you to consider them before bidding. We know others hide their shipping charges in higher opening bids making them appear lower but you actually pay more, we do not. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet , painter , and printmaker . Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age . His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". [1] His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". [2] Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime, [3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced ' imagination ' as "the body of God", [4] or "Human existence itself". [5] Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", [6] for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England , Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions ,[7] as well as by such thinkers as Jacob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg .[8] Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," [9] and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors." [10]
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