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Click to enlargeBlake’s Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray: With Complete Texts

William Blake
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486409449
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 11 5/8
In the early 19th century, Blake created this imaginative series of 116 watercolors to illustrate 13 poems by Thomas Gray. Includes such popular poems as "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with the complete text of the poems.

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