The Lamb by Blake, William; Landers, Linda Anne (Designer and Printer) - 1998

London: Designed and printed by Linda Anne Landers at Spoon Print Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Landers, Linda Anne. Number 77 of 100 copies, duodecimo size, [12] unnumbered pp., signed by Linda Anne Landers. A lovely hand-printed edition of William Blake's "The Lamb," first published in "Songs of Innocence" in 1776. The colorful prints heighten the innocence of the poem, coming to a magnificent peak in a double-page illustration that incorporates a sculptural embossed ground for the three-color linocut depicting a tree. Linda Anne Landers printed a larger edition of this text in 2001, and has printed several editions of Blake's poems throughout her career.

___DESCRIPTION: Stitched white stiff wrappers with a pictorial title printed in three colours to the upper wrappers, text printed in brown (and green at colophon), seven wood engravings and engravings on plastic in colour (approx. 5 colours) including one two-page spread; duodecimo size (7" by 3 1/2"), [12] unnumbered pp., limited edition, number 77 of 100 copies, signed by Linda Anne Landers.

___CONDITION: A fine copy, clean and crisp; a hint of a bump to the tail of the spine, else like new.

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