The Book of Thel - A Facsimile and a Critical Text

A facsimile and critical text, edited by Nancy Bogen. The text of Blake's poem here reproduced is based on a collation of the seventeen extant copies of THEL engraved and printed by Blake himself. Facing this text, the delicately hand-colored plates of the New York Public Library copy are reproduced with exceptional fidelity. With an extensive introduction by the editor, a discussion of previous interpretations and her new interpretation of the poem, notes, appendices, a bibliography and index. Dust jacket shelf-worn, rubbed on spine. xiv, 82 pages. quarter leatherette, cloth-covered boards, dust jacket.. 4to..