Night Thoughts and a word or two on Grog
UK: THE PRINTED word and picture, rather than the familiar manuscript and ephemeral material, were to the fore in this smaller than usual Chichester sale, and just edging to the front of the price lists was a copy of the famous 1797 edition of Young’s ...Night Thoughts, as illustrated by William Blake.
Expensively rebound in the 19th century in full crushed maroon morocco gilt, it was internally dusty…