Life and Works of William Blake, Alexander Gilchrist, 1880, 2 lovely volumes

Title: Life and Works of William Blake with Selections from His Poems and other Writings (in two volumes) Author: Alexander Gilchrist Publication: Macmillan and Co., London, 1880 A beautiful copy of this "New and Enlarged" edition, with illustrated cloth covers adapted from Blake by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who also edited the selection of poems in Volume 2. Condition is excellent, covers with hardly any wear, hinges and joints sound though the front hinge of Volume 1 is slightly open. Pages very clean, although the endpapers are foxed as usual and there is some slight tanning transferred to the plates from the tissue guards. Quarto, 16 x 24 cm, Volume 1 xxi, 431 pages and Volume 2 ix, 383 pages. Engravings by C. H. Keens and W.J. Linton, and electrotype reproductions. Please note that non-UK shipping quoted is for economy shipping outside Europe, which may take up to 8 weeks. Europe will be airmail (5-10 business days). If faster non-Europe shipping is required I can provide it but at further cost.