“From the first, my great and abiding love was William Blake, my teacher in all things.” — Maurice Sendak
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Innocence

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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Innocence

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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Songs of Innocence
Printed by the author, 1789.

·One of the first five copies printed of William Blake’s first book of illuminated poems
·Blake's first major work of illuminated printing: the extraordinary, innovative synthesis of word and image
·21 plates printed in green ink and hand-colored by William Blake and his wife Catherine in distinctive, delicate pastels; the only green ink copy in private hands
·With distinguished provenance; not only Maurice Sendak’s personal copy but also from the collections of Edwin Grabhorn and of Abel Berland
來源
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 November 1899, lot 116 (sold to:)
Bernard Quaritch (Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands Part V, no. 3651, 1900)
Edward J. Shaw, Esq., of Walsall (Sotheby's, 29 July 1925, lot 159; sold to:)
Walter T. Spencer
American Art Association, 14 April 1926, lot 75 (sold to:)
W. Clarkson
Dr. John Wooster Robertson (1856-1941), Livermore, California, a physician, book collector, and early bibliographer of Edgar Allan Poe
Edwin E. Grabhorn (1889-1968), San Francisco, the son-in-law of the above, co-founder of the Grabhorn Press and a noted collector of Japanese prints (according to Warren Howell’s information, as provided to Blake bibliographer G.E. Bentley)
John Howell Books, Catalogue 34 English Literature, no. 98, 1963 (sold to:)
John E. du Pont (1938-2010), Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (see Blake in the Marketplace, 1978-1979)
John Howell Books, sold privately in 1978 to:
Abel Berland (1915-2010), Glencoe, Illinois (his sale, Christie’s New York, 9 October 2001; sold to Justin Schiller as agent for:)
Maurice Sendak

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Nathalie Ferneau
Nathalie Ferneau Head of Sale, Junior Specialist

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