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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. NEAR FINE in like dust wrapper, free of remainder or any former owner marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 250 x 175 mm. xxxii, 327 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates [ISBN: 978-0520044715] Clothbound. A very good bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(-). xxxii, 327 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 26 cm. Contents: Introduction: Original Derivation. The Drawings. Critical Methodology. Blake and Critical Psychology. Ch. 1. Interpretation and Dissent. Hermeneutics and the Revisionary Imagination. Bunyan, Blake, and the Tradition of Dissent. Ch. 2. Blake's Bunyan. Interpreting the Interpreter's Parlor: Methodical Parody, Prophetic Critique. Emblem and Allegory: Blake's Use of Bunyan Before 1800. The Personal Reference: Bunyan, Christian, Cowper, Rose, and Hayley's Anxious Enthusiast. Bunyan's Vision and Blake's Doctrine of States. The Pilgrimage as Dream. Ch. 3. The Next Room of the Dream. The Tradition of Bunyan Illustration. A Reading of Blake's Pilgrim's Progress Designs. App. A. Influential Changes in the Established Iconography of Bunyan Illustrations. App. B. Five Popular Sets of Bunyan Illustrations Before Blake's: 1685-1788. Binding is mildly shaken and rolled yet still tight, else very good(-) in a very good(-) jacket now in archival mylar First ed., first printing (full number line).…

dj. First Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 8vo, 327 pp, with 28 color plates and 129 black and white illustrations. Original blue cloth and dust-jacket, slight shelf wear. § First Edition. The color plates reproduce Blake's watercolors previously reproduced in the 1941 edition published by the LEC. This is the first scholarly full-length study and is a beautifully produced book. Bentley, BB postscript, p.28.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book Condition — As New: An unread, unused book in almost perfect condition. Some faint marks across the dust jacket, but otherwise in excellent condition, free from blemishes, tears etc. Cloth binding remains mint. Clean text block with crisp page edges. Pages are tightly bound, clean and tidy throughout. A specialised and increasingly uncommon work of literary and art-historical criticism, valued by collectors for its focused examination of William Blake's visual interpretations and its appeal to scholars of Romantic literature, illustration, and symbolic art. This study offers a detailed and intellectually rigorous exploration of William Blake's illustrations for The Pilgrim's Progress, examining their visual language, symbolic complexity, and theological undercurrents. Through close analysis, the text situates Blake's imagery within both Bunyan's narrative and Blake's broader imaginative and artistic framework, illuminating the darker, more ambiguous aspects of his interpretive vision. Combining literary criticism with art history, the work appeals to readers interested in Romanticism, visual culture, and the intersection of text and image. A thoughtful and increasingly hard-to-find scholarly title with lasting relevance for collectors of Blake studies and illustrated literature.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages.