Illustrations Initials Charles Ricketts (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed at the Ballantyne Press, London, UK. 1897. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece, borders and initials. Limited to 210 copies. Bound in blue paper covered cloth with paper titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably composed in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen-syllable line. It was preceded by Tiriel, which Blake left in manuscript. A few lines from Tiriel were incorporated into The Book of Thel. Most of the poem is in unrhymed verse. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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. Charles de Sousy Ricketts RA (2 October 1866 7 October 1931) was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas. EB; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.