1. "Remember Me!" Customs and Costumes of Blake's Gift Book.
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Bentley, Jr., G. E.
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GIFT books ,ILLUSTRATED books ,LITERARY criticism ,POETRY (Literary form) ,19TH century modern poetry ,HISTORY of books & reading ,BOOKBINDING ,LITERATURE & history ,BRITISH history, 1800-1837 ,NINETEENTH century - Abstract
The gift book "Remember Me!" with Blake's wonderful engraving of the 'Hiding of Moses' was more remarkable for its decorations than for its literary contents. Of the twenty-four copies recorded, each differs from the others in the pattern of binding, colour of fore-edges, endpapers, and the decorated sleeve-case. Despite this varied elegance, the work had only a modest sale, and the same sheets were re-issued in 1825 for the 1826 gift-giving season. This paucity of sales may be related to the fact that the publisher John Poole had little experience of book distribution. His speciality was as a maker of Marble Paper and Fancy Pocket-Books, not in selling them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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