WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Lot 30
10.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1422620
Lot 30 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
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$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Songs of Experience
Printed by the author, 1794 [but 1793].

· One of only four copies printed of the exceptionally rare first issue of Songs of Experience, one of only two copies still complete, and the only one in private hands
· The first of Blake’s works created using his newly developed method of color printing
· With provenance dating back to the painter and important Blake patron, Ozias Humphry
· With uncut sheets and its original buff paper wrappers, as it would have left Blake’s hands




Provenance

Ozias Humphry (1742-1810), English miniature painter and patron of William Blake (bequeathed to:)
William Upcott (1779-1845), English librarian and antiquary (his sale, Messrs. Evans, 15 June 1846, lot 65, to: Evans)
R. Sykes (inscription to upper cover)
Robert Arthington (1823-1900), English investor and philanthropist (his sale, Sotheby’s, 17 May 1866, lot 18, to: Pickering)
C.H. Jephcott, Cottingham, Yorkshire (Sotheby's, 28 December 1948, lot 98; acquired by:)
Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (sold by Quaritch in 1984 to:)
Justin Schiller (bookplate; sold in 1994 to Maurice Sendak).
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