book-aesthete:

BLAKE, WILLIAM. 1757-1827.
1. Songs of Innocence. London: James Pearson, 1884. No 9 of 50 copies.
2. Songs of Experience. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. Original wrappers bound in. No 40 of 50 copies, numbered as such on upper wrapper.
Both 4to. Lithographed and hand-colored throughout. Uniform vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Light offsetting to tissue guards, slightly bowed.

Elaborate facsimiles of Blake’s original editions, taken from the Flaxman copy and the Beckford-Quaritch copy respectively. On the lower wrapper of Songs of Experience, William Muir explains “My desire and intention is to produce ALL the important works by Wm. Blake that exist in book form … and this by methods of working as nearly the same as Blake himself used as the need of maintaining fidelity to his results will allow.”