Book Details
| Author: | Bishop, Morchard: |
| Title: | Blake's Hayley - The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley. |
| Published: | London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 21 - Biography |
| Description: | First edition. 372 pp. "To H-----[Haley] Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: Do be my enemy for friendship's sake". - Blake. 22 b/w photographic illustrations. A biography of Willam Hayley and his friendships with William Blake, Cowper, Romney, Gibbon, Anna Seward, Wright of Derby, Lady Hamilton, Mrs Opie - almost every interesting figure who flourished during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first two of the ninteenth. "This book will attract anyone interested in Blake and the period which, retrospectively, he dominates: in the by-ways of literature: and, more generally, in the whole pageant of English life". Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bottom corners lightly rubbed. A little foxing on front edge. Overall condition VG+. In Good+ dust wrapper - piece missing from top of spine. |
| Book Number: | #1712 |
| Price: | € 44.50 |
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