BRUCE, Harold. William Blake.

(London): Jonathan Cape, 1925.  First edition.  Hardcover.  v, 234 pages.  Frontispiece portrait of Blake, with 10 additional plates and one chart. Original blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A detailed biographical and interpretative study of William Blake’s life and art, placing his work within its literary, religious and historical context. Bruce examines Blake’s symbolism, philosophy, and poetic development with reference to contemporary criticism and sources then newly available.  A very good copy, some browning, offsetting to endpapers, in very good dust jacket, darkened at spine with wear to edges and corners.  Scarce in the dust jacket.